Tbh, people like him—the ones that thought racism and other bigotry were valid comedy tools—only helped normalize that stuff today. I lay part of the blame, for the rise of the hyper-masculine shock culture that’s currently worming its way through various societies and governments, at his and his collaborators’ feet.

So whether anyone thinks he’s a Nazi currently, in the past, or was/is just a stupid idiot, he’s still culpable for using his platform to help normalize hate. And in my mind, unless he’s used his platform to counter the bigotry he helped propagate, he’ll always be a bastard for it.

It depends what it is you expect out of it, from what I’ve understood from others. If you want touch to just be a replacement for a mouse, it will be fine. If you expect multitouch to work like most tablets or phones, you’ll be disappointed.

Feel free to refute that with your own experiences. I’m only speaking from second hand.

If you’re using Debian, do you really need to upgrade?

h/j

But seriously anything with an AMD CPU/GPU in it and an Intel wireless card is probably all you’ll need to be mindful of, provided it fits in your budget.

Also, don’t worry about touch-capable screens or HDR. The support for those is still a work in progress, and you’ll likely have a bad time with them if you’re using Debian.

Thanks!

Do you have any links to the alleged bad history? I couldn’t find anything, partly because the recent political theatre makes it hard to be informed.

You sure you’re not confusing TP-Link with D-Link? The latter has been the common attack surface I’m familiar with, and the former has been a staple for enthusiasts and as a tool for pentesters.

Kvantum is a common ricing tool to change Plasma (like window blur), but I’m unsure if it will work on Bazzite. Atomic distros sometimes resist visual customizations if they can’t be/aren’t stored in your home directory.

Try to change SDDM, and you’ll see what I mean (though somebody did make a tool to address that).

My company actually pushes referrals and even offers a bonus for a successful hire to whoever recommended them, but the candidate still has to pass a bunch of interview hurdles, so it’s rare that it all works out anyway.

I think referrals can work out, if your interview process is grueling to begin with.

You could absolutely rebase to Silverblue or Kinoite. Rebasing swaps out the core system files (basically, all the immutable stuff) and leaves /etc and /var untouched. So your home directory and other configs won’t change.

However, Universal Blue is not likely to shut down, since there’s many maintainers, and they have directions on how to create your own downstream distro, if you want. On top of that, BlueBuild has their own set of tools to roll your own distro downstream from the base Fedora Atomics.

So no matter what, the likelihood that you’ll be stranded is almost zero.

ETA: let me know if you want more details.

Fix the system so people don’t have to make money by stealing copper.

And yet, here we are with billionaires in charge—robber barons v2.0.

Person of the Year is Musk, and the cover is him sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/media/time-magazine-elon-musk-cover-trump/index.html

This has been my experience as well. Some people love it, but I’m not gonna rely on it for critical backup or recovery tools (also, there’s that whole binary blob thing, besides).

Fedora Writer is another one (also works on Windows and maybe Mac), and there’s also GLIM for multiboot, similar to Ventoy.

I bet they’re going to use it for AI.

I saw elsewhere that Signal has already addressed this problem and issued an update. If your app is up to date as of now, you should be good to go.

This is a very uninformed take. Giant corporations don’t “enjoy” making people mad any more than they enjoy making a product or offering a service. It’s about money, and the fact of the matter is, fascism makes a very small few very wealthy behind a facade of populism.

Also, companies didn’t follow “Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion” or “Environmental, Social and Governance” policies because they enjoyed it. They didn’t do it, because they enjoyed making misogynists, racists, and climate denialists mad. They did it because they would have faced punishment from the judiciary if they didn’t comply. Those kinds of initiatives aren’t profitable.

Now that the guardrails are gone and the wheels are off, they can profiteer and discriminate and otherwise abuse the rest of us with virtual impunity—all to “make the line go up.”

I read the article, because I’ve been trying to do better about not skimming headlines, and it’s money.

An interesting thing they said, though, has me a little frustrated, because they left out vital context.

Time magazine, co-owned by Benioff and his wife, crowned Trump Person of the Year for 2024.

Hitler was Person of the Year, too. It’s not about popularity, it’s about global effect and influence, and it’s no secret that most of the world has decided they want in on his brand of corporate-led fascism.

The FBI, before Trump and Musk got their grubby little claws into it, warned everyone in the US to switch to E2EE messaging, and they explicitly mentioned Signal by name as one of several options.

This was/is due to the still-ongoing Salt Typhoon hack, and if the government is telling people they need to hide their info—an entity with agencies and bills set up to spy on its citizens— it’s probably something everyone should be doing yesterday.

So yes, you should be using Signal, SimpleX, a Matrix client, etc.

You don’t think money is encouraging?

I didn’t say that. I said that some developers don’t want it. We shouldn’t assume money is the best way to encourage them.

in general I don’t think people should work for free. At all.

And that’s great you think that way. My goal here isn’t to gatekeep what valid encouragement is. If people feel strongly that it’s money or nothing, that’s their business, but I don’t want people who can’t donate to feel discouraged from participating in this endeavor.

Nice. That was kind of unexpected, but it makes sense, now, why Valve would choose KDE for the Steam Deck (which has a touchscreen).