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  • Did you have somebody overwhelming you with the minutiae of research and “things you have to understand” when you got into PC building?

    I just kinda started plugging shit in where it fit. This was in the days of the ISA bus and mobo DIP switches. All my technical knowledge was learned through breaking something and trying to fix it.

  • This argument was settled with electronic music in the 80s/90s. Samples and remixes taken directly from other bits of music to create a new piece aren't plagiarism.

  • Seems to work just fine on my 2022 Gigabyte brand mobo with a 12-core AM5 socket Ryzen and Nvidia 3070ti GPU. Maybe it has trouble on things like laptops, which often have weird shit put in by their manufacturers? Or are you defining "very new" as "just released this month"?

  • Don't disrespect Skynet by comparing it with our trash pattern-storing-and-matching "AI". It figured out time travel all on it's own after all.

  • I'm gaming on Debian stable just fine. I don't get what everyone's thing with bleeding edge software all the time is. To me, "bleeding edge" means "higher chance for something to break and blow up in your face".

    I'll wait until the bleeding edge distro users got hit with all the bugs first. My preferences were just justified by the recent xz backdoor stuff.

  • They are in denial about it too when I moved to Baltimore and found out other regions don't have 24/7 parking lots instead of roads, and then mentioned this fact on a forum full of Northern Virginians. Everybody started bringing up 495 around Bethesda, but like, yeah, that's technically still the DC metro region even though its MD, not VA. The further you get from DC, the more normal traffic becomes.

    I fucking dread it when I have a jobsite in VA, because then I always have to add an hour and a half to a trip that should take 45 minutes.

    I think in 20 years we are going to see some detrimental effects on the local economy of that place if nobody can get anywhere anymore in a reasonable amount of time in a place where public transportation is absolutely shit. The Metro needs to extend down to Fredericksburg and out west all the way to Manassas, but that'll never happen. Some people deal with up to 3 hour commutes, that's fucking bananas.

  • I knew a pretty well off dude who used a flip-phone...in 2018. If he wanted to do computer-type stuff, he just used a computer.

  • Seems like a trivial programming task even my junior noob ass can handle.

  • There are two tunnels that carry 95 through the center of the city, and the other side of the 695 beltway that takes you around the city on the opposite side of the bridge. That bridge was mainly used by shipping companies from all the distribution centers and warehouses on the southeast side, so now they'll all have to go an extra several dozen miles around the other way and making normal traffic a nightmare.

  • There's nothing wrong with charging for your FOSS. You can't, however, force anybody who gets it from you to also charge the people they end up distributing it to like some sort of Ponzi scheme. The transactional relationship between you, your software, and another party ends at the first level.

  • Lol, that's what makes me hate GNOME. If I wanted the bare minimum I'd just start a raw display server with only 1 program in it.

    But my brain has no issue with dozens of things happening at once (ADHD).

  • You know, the room inside your monitor full of little hamsters with tiny paintbrushes that speed paint everything onto the screen from the inside. They used to have a lot more room, but we had to breed the hamsters way smaller.

  • I live in Baltimore. If one more automated website algorithm smashes the news of this bridge into my face I'm gonna scream out loud. I have to constantly click "not interested" on my YT front page. "Oh, this dude lives in BMore, I bet he wants to know about the fucking tangled wreck he can literally see every day from his house 24/7".

    Not because of you, OP, you're cool.

  • In my experience, it probably will. I've learned to just leave stuff alone and let the distro people handle it all. They know their own distro way better than me.

  • It does mean free of cost if the person downstream from you decides to not charge for it after getting it from you and forking it. That's why you're not finding a FOSS license that allows this. Because again, that's not FOSS.

  • This is not FOSS then. FOSS puts no restrictions on downstream use of your software other than that you acknowledge and credit the original authors.. This is "Open Source" with strings attached. It's no different than being forced to sign an NDA to see your code.

    You either make it free for everybody, or then it isn't free software.

  • Anyone up for some D&D?

  • This isn't new. I remember them talking about glassing Afghanistan and Iraq back in the "turrerists hate our freedumb" days.