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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Do feel it is designed to scare normal users though.

    Like how the GUI software updater now shows a list of security updates, and then “there are more security updates available with Ubuntu pro” in the list of updates…. the obvious implication is “you’re computer has other known vulnerabilities that can only be fixed if you pay up”.

    Liiittlle bit ransomey and let be honest that’s by design.

    Wouldn’t consider myself part of the anti canonical pitchfork crowd but that new behaviour did irk me somewhat.

    If Microsoft did that people would be up in arms. Appreciate canonical provide Ubuntu is free but normal users wouldn’t get that nuance as they don’t think they pay for windows.


  • Controversial but I was surprised at how well trump did for himself.

    He managed to dial down the lies and rhetoric from “how stupid does he think the audience is” to “obviously bullshit”.

    Well done to Harris of course, in particular for calling his playbook tactics out at the start, then repeatedly calling out the lies and dog whistling each time - the way to beat a manipulating bully is to shine a light on their behaviour plainly in public and she nailed it.

    Bonus points to Harris as well for laughing at him whilst maintaining class.






  • I can’t decide if this move is designed to overwhelm (or at least increase the workload of) the Wine team so that they can’t do as good a job reducing people’s dependence on Windows with their core product, or whether this is part of my prediction playing out - MS abandoning kernel/OS development in favour of a skinned Linux on which they can still harvest data and sell subscriptions.

    In any case charity from a corporation is never truly charitable!









  • I would recommend getting an adjustable angle oscillating desk fan, but one made of metal (not much difference in price tbh) when you can unclip the front guard to access the blades.

    That way you can wipe the dust off and give the spinning part a blast of WD40 once a year to keep it running nicely for a long time.

    Something like this

    For context about 30cm in diameter. Should cost around €25.

    If you need the height but lack the table space a similar floor fan should do though will probably cost a bit more.


  • The only thing holding me back from switching to Linux is gaming.

    Nowadays you can run windows games with proton just as well if not better than on windows.

    I’m thinking about tying Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu is garbage and canonical are pure evil for everything they’ve done. Snaps? Garbage you need flatpaks/debs/app images.

    Bro it’s easy just avoid any distro with systemd and gnome/goblin/plasma that’s why I use Trilby. It’s a molecular version of Susan.

    I installed Linux mint for my Granma if she can use it anyone can. Though personally I use arch btw.

    (I actually do use Linux, for anyone curious a bastardisation of Ubuntu + KDE wrangled to work on a MacBook that Apple are ditching support for… , btw)