Papamousse @ Frederic @beehaw.org

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favorite? I like BeOS it was so nice!!

In what country? USA? Canada? France?

oh, all of them! right!

I think it works here between my MX Linux and a Dell 4K display, via HDMI

    
[    12.255] (**) AMDGPU(0): Option "DRI" "3"
[    12.255] (**) AMDGPU(0): Option "TearFree" "true"
[    12.255] (**) AMDGPU(0): Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
[    12.413] (**) AMDGPU(0): TearFree property default: on
[    12.413] (**) AMDGPU(0): VariableRefresh: enabled

  

I'm like you, started Linux with v0.99, downloading on floppies at university, installing on 486, installing X11, drivers, etc. It was fun at the beginning, I was young, had time, I was a "LFS" guy, always recompiling everything and all, and it was time consuming, and boring, and slow at the time!!! Then I basically use Debian (Ubuntu, Mint, now MX for 6 years at least) for 20 years... it works, I'm ok with it.

Yes I tried Arch, the low level install, it reminded me of my LFS time, but now I'm an old coot and I don't have time for this shit 😆

IIRC years ago Tim Hortons stop buying the coffee beans that was good, to buy cheap disgusting ones. And McDonalds then started to buy the good one, so the McDo coffee is what was the good old Tim ones.

I prefer McDo cofffee than Tim. I rarely go to Tim, maybe once a year.

Exactly the same in Canada, the black metal bar stool, light, fixture, black brick, wood, etc. It is a starter pack for burger restaurant.

Imagine in Canada, where real news media like TV, newspaper, etc, cannot be used by Meta (FB, IG, etc). So in a Canadian facebook feed, you only have conspiracy and right-wing false info, that's it. For the people who took their info from FB, they are flooded by fake/alarming news.

Yes

Something else, gardening, cleaning up basement, etc. When I watch entertainment it is mostly tv/streaming.

I am the target audience, 50yo, grown up reading comics in the 70s/80s, love Star Wars, am nerd, computer geek, played zillions RPG, saw all the SW, goonies, ET, BTTF, mad max, terminator and all shwarzy movies in theater, etc. Seriously, MCU movies are somewhat bad, dull, some characters looks like impersonator, heroes in thigh, actors lack credibility, too often bad CGI, stories are empty, I realized comics from the 70s/80s are really story for kids. They are actions movies, but uninsteresting. At 50yo I prefer to do something else during those 2 hours.

true, a simple:

sudo nala install

In the last 10 years maybe, yes, lots of new condo towers downtown! Unfortunately Montréal now has a lot of homeless people, drugs, gunshots, dirty places, etc :-(

Same in Montréal, maybe thousands of brand new condo, small, and too expensive.

Pretty sure you have it as a snap package :-(

I only use native .deb and never a snap, for everything

I have MX (Debian based), I had kind of the same problem, my DELL monitor didn't sleep. To fix it, I had to go in the monitor settings and set the input mode to "HDMI1" instead of Auto. It looks like the auto mode was maybe sending message or something that prevented it from sleeping.

Always has been, e.g. forums from last century like slashdot.org is US centric since 25+ years even if it's open to the world, like usenet was. Every forum using english language have a majority of users from the US, talking about US "celebrities" and US politics.

I also need some old app working only in Windows, I spent hours on wine trying to make them work, but no. So in the end, I installed Linux only, then set up a simple QEMU of WinXP SP3 image, just to install those programs (they need serial ports, and I can redirect the ttyUSB0 to QEMU as a COM1) and that's it, no more *real windows.

Can you check your server log to see if the browser really request /favicon.ico ?

you shout in COBOL ;-)

I learnt COBOL (I'm old) it's a very easy language, you basically talk, for instance to do c=a*b you write:

MULTIPLY A TO B GIVING C

and everything is tabbed, but in a good editor like emacs, it's done automatically pretty well.