SeikoAlpinist @ SeikoAlpinist @slrpnk.net

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Every Linux user should try Slackware at some point.

If they are competent with computers, they can probably figure out Ubuntu and maintain it theirself.

I left Ubuntu for systems I manage because I'm not smart enough or willing to invest time learning snaps, and snaps kept breaking Firefox updates and generally made Firefox unusable. Since I've been around a while, I found it was just easier to migrate my fleet to Debian and set it to look like Ubuntu with the dock on the left. This has been fine since 2022.

If it's something you would be partially managing, and they didn't like Mint, have them try Pop!_OS.

If it's a super simple, low maintenance desktop, just go Fedora Silverblue and it will stay solid and up to date until the hardware dies.

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley was good because it started off with a lot of stuff I can relate to, but in a kind of neat Time Travel storyline set in the near future which is also great because I really only like Time Travel stories. Stuff like Khmer Rouge and refugee child growing up in the west and all that kind of stuff, all wrapped up in a strong female lead character. And then halfway through, the dude unzips his pants and it turns into a shitty Oxford Study romance where the strong protagonist is completely undone and turns into a colonizer worshipping story. Bullshit. I stopped reading and I'm still angry about it two months later. Fuck that story.

Also, Stations of the Tide was dry and I never finished it. I've tried 2-3 times. Swanwick is my favorite sorta-contemporary author but I don't know how that won so many awards. Am I missing something? It seems like everyone wants to herald that novel as great because they don't want to look dumb, but it's just all over the place compared to his later novels, much like Killing is My Business has a bunch of good riffs but is all over the place with no structure and nothing ever repeats so therefore it isn't as refined and memorable as Rust in Peace.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

A solar powered website about past and forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices

NFS and Minetest (Asuna) server.

Libre hardware:

• Turris Omnia router with their OpenWrt-based distro. Bought in 2017, upgraded to Wifi-6 in 2022. Great product.
• 3x system76 laptops with Coreboot and Debían
• The desktop is a system76 darter pro with a broken hinge, so it's connected to a widescreen monitor and external mouse, keyboard. Also Debían.

The non FOSS systems are:

• HP Dev One running proprietary UEFI, and Pop!_OS
• a couple of Pixel phones running stock OS
• an iPad Pro with keyboard from 2018
• X201 Thinkpad with AFFS upgrade running Debían. Connected to some AudioEngine speakers and Spotify, this is our media player.
• a Thinkpad T43p with XP for Age of Empires and Freecell
• an Apple TV.

I want AOC on the ticket.

Yes, I have done this several times for work. Digital nomad life that turned into starting a family that travels for work.

It's difficult every time and sometimes you just have to admit that it isn't going to work out in that country. Some countries have really strange attitudes or laws or systemic issues that you will not solve as an outsider. Sometimes people will just see you as a target or an opportunity for money and that's never going to change.

Also looking back gives perspective; I had a difficult time in xxx country, but that was my first time overseas and I didn't have quite a grasp of the language, and I was also unfairly comparing it to the USA. A decade later, I've been back a couple of times and now xxx is my favorite country. Five stages of grief and all. There's more backstory but I can blend in a lot of countries.

Conversely, I went to some countries and saw how they are still very colonized from centuries of oppression. And then I go back to the USA sometimes and see the same mentality. Really shifts your perspective.

I was a child of a refugee so I always thought whatever complaints I had were nothing compared to what my parents went through. Also I had swastikas spray painted on my house when I was young so I never really fit in anywhere. Kind of keeps me going.

I feel more comfortable in some countries than my own home country. The USA has changed as much as I have over the past decade.

Finally, one semi-related point: I really, really learned to hate American missionaries. In every single country. They're just the worst. I think they choose their countries and villages for some sort of confirmation bias to themselves that American Jesus is the best and only civilized way to live. They aren't learning anything, just reinforcing their world view and not teaching anything useful. It's just a way for middle aged white guys to get young girls from poor villages. They aren't helping anything.

Where’s Andrew Yang?

#YangGang is a glimpse into the reality of the Democratic Party's Asian American problem. (this isn't the appropriate venue to actually discuss those issues; a quick Google search will quite contemporary results showing the trend).

Yang has moved on and created the "Forward Party" which is working to gain ballot access at the local level in a handful of States.

Nice looking phone, within my budget.

No word on the pwm rate though. I know the 12 and 12R had high frequency pwm dimming; hopefully NotebookCheck does a review of this phone.

I saw this in a magazine and it was so cool looking. A few months later I got Linux on CD and never looked back. That 3D Motif/fvwm look was amazing.

Funny enough, my BIOS did not support booting from CD. I remember in DOS, I had to load MSCDEX from a floppy but I have no recollection on how I actually booted and installed Linux from CD.

Tetris

When it's still green and hard.

Shred it, make papaya salad.This is what I spent a lot of my holidays doing as a kid.

https://www.saengskitchen.com/laorecipes/laopapayasalad

I never knew people let it get soft until I moved to South America. I didn't even know the orange stuff was the same fruit.

Also, mangoes are best when still green and crunchy dipped in spicy powder.

It's about as fast as a Haswell desktop, but a fraction of the power usage. It will run any modern OS.

$1/day after discounts and rebates. Right now that is in the Pixel / Nord range.

Just the successor to pine. It works with IMAP and SMTP.

I've tried elm and mutt many years ago back in the 90s and pine was the easiest. So I guess I just stayed there and it works over my ssh connections too. To be honest, the number of personal emails that I've written over the past several years can be counted in the dozens so it's not that important to change any more.

alpine