I know I’m old because I saw 56k and immediately wondered why they were doing this over dialup.

3D Printing and Modeling

Meshtastic

Learning to fix things (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, automotive, etc)

These are my latest or ongoing hyperfixations.

There is nothing wrong with nuclear energy. The problem is we haven’t invested in making smaller, cheaper reactors. The cost runaway of nuclear reactors and nuclear waste disposal are the biggest problems with it. We need to be able to spin up a reactor for the cost of a solar field, but we still are using 1960s technology in our current reactors with little to no advancement.

Solar doesn’t work during the evening hours without battery storage that we don’t have. Wind depends on…well…the wind. Tidal is consistently OK, but situational in location. Same for geothermal.

Nuclear has the advantage of being a consistent, steady output all the time and can be put pretty much everywhere. Given the choice between Natural Gas fired plants to make up deficits and Nuclear, I’ll choose Nukes every time.

Glad they optimized it. Last time I tried it the RAM usage was atrocious.

I mean GNOME is…fine. I don’t use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I’d just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.

This is Linux. It’s all about choice. Run what you like. It’s your goddamn computer. And that’s what we all love together.

Thank you. That is much more wholesome than I was afraid of.

What’s a foamer? Do I want to know?

They only need to open source the kernel. They can build whatever proprietary stuff they want on top of the Linux kernel.

What’s that? More AI? -Microsoft-

Or just Linux. Why even bother with BSD?

The first two…I’ll graciously call them “sentences”… I got the context of…once I got to the third one, my brain was like “I haven’t partaken in enough brain rot to understand this new form of damaged English language”.

And this is pre-LED bulb days. They didn’t even have compact florescents. Imagine the power bill from incandescent bulbs running for several days.

Maybe not, fucktard, but it SHOULD be.

Anything with Cinnamon Desktop or KDE Plasma is going to be the most ‘Windows-like’ in how the UI works.

If they’re coming from Windows, but they prefer macOS-like interfaces, GNOME or COSMIC fit that bill.

It doesn’t matter what distro you select, for the most part, as Linux is Linux. The only differences are immutable or not, desktop environment, and package management type, for the most part.

That said, Mint, an Ubuntu flavor, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE…all good options.

How dare they…checks notes…teach reading, kindness, report news impartially, and try to inform people.

Got damn Libruls!

Year of the Linux desktop!

Careful. You’re going to get tetanus from sucking off clankers.

Ugh YES. I have to literally make remembering birthdays a math problem to remember it. Or some other pattern recognition.

“X person’s birthday is on the same day as Y person and the same month as Z person”.

Shit like that.

I think I developed a brain bleed reading this

Pretty sure Russia has a surplus of oil because of sanctions (not to mention they’re already funding their own war right now) and China is trying to significantly electrify.

Neither has a financial incentive to help an oil producing country like Venezuela, so they’re not interested.