SeikoAlpinist

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[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The town of Chimney Rock is gone.

No hyperbole.

It's gone.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ubuntu was a successful attempt to make Debian user-friendly. If you don't remember Linux in 2003, it took a lot of time to configure.

Ubuntu came along and did everything automatically from first install. Some of the polish it had was things like smooth fonts, TrueType font support (remember old XFree86 Bitmap fonts?) a GUI installer, automatically detecting your monitor resolution, setting up sound automatically, and automatic downloading of firmware needed to make your hardware work. In just one reboot after install, you had a usable system that looked really nice, with smooth fonts.

In 2024, Debian already does all of this out of the box. The value add of Ubuntu is minimal. Ubuntu provides a theme, a splash screen when booting up, a custom font, and a modified version of the Dash to Dock extension that you can just download yourself from the Gnome extension site. That's it. One might argue that snaps make Ubuntu worse than Debian.

Just use Debian. If you want a somewhat more polished system (nice cursors, unique icons, easy to configure animations), there is Mint Debian edition.

It takes less time to just set up Debian to look and behave like Ubuntu (about 10 minutes) than it takes to continually fight against Ubuntu snaps.

Just use Debian.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

That thread is just the result of a search today to see if the situation has changed.

When I tried it, we were still trying to figure out how the two displays worked. It looks like that link has a solution. It would have been great to try back then, but I wouldn't go out and buy a 5k iMac or LG monitor just to try it out now.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I never got it to work at anything over 4k several years ago.

I went down the rabbit hole and ended up just selling. Apple only ever released the driver for macOS and for Windows 10 with Bootcamp.

Apparently it will work in X11 with a few setup changes per this thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6477626#post6477626

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

About 25 years ago, I used something called mlvwm which was designed to look like System 7.

I ran this on a 486 and later on a Duron system with something called "bochs" that let me run a full System 7 in a container.

A quick search shows that it is still around and has been forked by a couple of people.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago

Americans support climate reforms.

Mega donors don't.

That's why.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Deep Space Nine

Nova

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

LOTR: The Two Towers

Primer

Antitrust

Hackers

Star Trek: TMP

Scarface

Hot Tub Time Machine

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

X1 Nano:

  • narrower than the old 11.6 laptops and slightly taller.
  • Higher than 1080 screen due to the taller ratio.
  • IPS display
  • 0.97kg without charger.
  • Thinkpad keyboard and track point.
  • strong Linux support

Here is the PSREF for the first generation. They are up to Gen 3 of this line now.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I was too young for most of TNG but stuck with TNG sometime in season 6. I was a kid with single digit age when they destroyed the Enterprise D in the movie and it really messed with me. Then I grew up watching the entirety of DS9 and Voyager, and outgrew it by the end of VOY. Strange New Worlds pulled me back in as an adult.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Agree; Gnome on Fedora is just more polished in general than Gnome anywhere else. So sasy to add another language and that input language works everywhere including Flatpak apps Qt apps, etc. Fedora is winning me over in this regard and I've kind of been a Red Hat hater these days.

 

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