jdworrells

It's amazing what happens when you apply 60 year old solutions (water deluge).

I think what you are seeing is a sudden burst of poorly combusted and/or unburned fuel as the engines are cut off. The engine telemetry indicators in the bottom right of the screen show engines off shortly after the plume.

From a user on a small mastodon instance, no thank you. Admins of the smaller, more colorful, and technical instances are already getting ready to actively block and defederate as necessary. We don't want or need Meta bringing their digital typhoid to the fediverse.

The moral shaming needs to be directed to the employers who refuse to pay a living wage and shift the burden onto the customers.

Good grief! xwinman.org is still up? I remember referencing the materials there when I was first starting out with Linux in 1995. So many great memories tweaking my .fvwmrc...

Seconded. I’ve used Mint on and off for over a decade now. It’s stable and changes release to release are subtle. It’s boring and that’s why I keep coming back to it.

The early to mid 90's through the very early 2000's were a /real/ creative explosion, before the vultures descended on the Internet and took it in a revenue-seeking direction. Most netizens had personal webpages, chock full of their passions and sharing information. Now it's a vast wasteland of constantly regenerated rage-inducing content and vapid self-promotion and attention seeking. Our search engines have become ad businesses. Our "social media" only exists to siphon off our information and build dossiers on us to more precisely target ads to us and get us to buy worthless crap. There's been an explosion all right, but one more akin to a burst sewer pipe.

So many great memories. My first sysadmin job was a dev shop ruled by Sun Sparcstation 5, 10, and 20 pizza boxes. My mentor gifted me a Sun 3 workstation and I spent many hours installing and reinstalling SunOS 4 and later Solaris 2.x. Ahhh. I guess I have a project for next weekend!

Agreed. Tesla and SpaceX are succeeding despite his "leadership". He's bought his way into anything and actually innovated or created very little. He's a trust-fund shitposter with little to actually add to the world. Yes it takes all types but people who are a net negative to humanity should be shunned and not blindly admired. Nobody is going to be better off by worshiping the likes of Elon Musk.

I appreciate the tongue in cheek "AI" generated article but seriously, Brother isn't where it's at for home printers anymore. I had one of the mentioned printers and after a firmware update I couldn't use third party toners anymore. We moved to an Epson ink tank printer, so far so good.

In my opinion, there are two relatively recent events that help move more people towards using Linux as their daily driver. The first, as mentioned in this article, is the shift to online productivity suites - Microsoft 365/Google Workspace/iCloud. For the most part, you can access those platforms from any end device and be productive. The other is Steam and Proton. Proton has allowed me to play just about any game I want from Linux, with little to no performance hit.

We're getting closer to the Year of Linux on the Desktop, starting to increase the slope of that asymptotic curve!

I’ve used an OpenVPN server running on port 53 to bypass a number of restricted networks over the years. Seems like the network engineers are getting better at detecting and blocking the technique but it still works around half the time

My solution is MakeMKV. Allows me to rip DVD, Bluray, and 4K Bluray title to a MKV file, full bitrate. No menus, no FBI warning, no bs. I store the movies on a NAS and use a RPi running Kodi for playback.