I haven’t powered it up in several years, but I keep an old Windows XP machine with my DAW software on it. I just always ran it offline and moved files with a thumb drive. That said, I never did try a native Linux solution.

I might am absolutely going to steal some of those. I’ve got similar rules but they’re much less direct.

Eh, my last Asus ran Linux fine. Though until Ubuntu 18.04 came out, I had to patch the i2c driver and recompile the kernel in order to make the touchpad work lol.

I can respect and agree with that. I’m also not asking anyone to start buying Biden merch or waving flags or anything like that; just asking people to see the bigger picture here.

Personally, I don’t think he’s been a bad president, all things considered. I voted for him last time expecting him to be a seat filler that wouldn’t make things worse, but he’s genuinely surprised me with what he’s been able to get done, especially with the current Congress.

Would I like to see someone more progressive at the helm? Absolutely. But that’s sadly not the world we live in right now or a choice we have at the moment.

windows subsystem for Linux to work in my windows VM on my Linux machine.

Ignoring the blasphemy of that, the fact it doesn’t work may prove that we are, indeed, living in a simulated universe. lol

but I have a tendency to jump into a new game for like 3 weeks and then off to the next like the horrid ADHD having fuck that I am

That’s basically why I stopped gaming. Have saved so much money from not filling up my Steam library with games I’ll never finish. lol

Yeah I’m not as much of a fan of PopOS as I thought I’d be. I have it on my daily driver laptop, and every system update seems to introduce some wacky bug/glitch or another. Nothing major, just random small annoyances that usually get fixed in the next update.

It dual boots Pop and Debian, and Debian performs flawlessly. It’s a Thinkpad, so Linux support has always been fantastic. I’m thinking of just dropping the PopOS partition and going back to my original love, Debian.

I almost went back to Mint on my last rebuild, but ended up going with Debian + Cinnamon. So far so good.

Unless you run some really niche software or are a heavy gamer, you’ll likely have no problems and enjoy it. Most software that you need for daily use has a FOSS equivalent that’s equal or better. Usually those are also available straight from the package manager (if not there, then most likely Flatpak).

Just stick with a well supported distro like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, or PopOS, and it’ll be super easy.

I’m actually looking forward to the perfectly good Linux boxes that are bound to be popping up at yard sales or on ebay once that happens.

Republicans, who have already shown us their plans if they win, are unified behind Trump. That’s who they’re backing, they vote in droves, and put no further thought into it than cheering for their favorite sports team.

The other side, us, are splitting hairs, nitpicking, and generally letting perfect be the enemy of good at every turn.

All these accounts dredging up every article that fits their “Biden Bad” agenda (yes, agenda, based on post history) are not helping anything. They’re not suggesting any alternate candidate that can win. They’re not suggesting contacting elected representatives to support/oppose specific polices. They’re not doing anything other than spreading FUD.

Every time someone in the comments asks one of them to recommend a candidate that has a chance, they either go radio silent or move the goalposts.

The constant bombardment of “Biden Bad” posts (but adding “though I guess we should vote for him” in the fine print that no one reads) seem tone deaf at best and actively encouraging voter apathy at the worst. Whether the posters are actual trolls or misguided progressives is completely irrelevant.

And no, I’m not saying we can’t or shouldn’t criticize members of our side (that’s one of our defining characteristics versus the cult of the other side), but when it’s a constant drone of “vote uncommitted / third party” it’s hard to not see those as bad faith and working against the greater good.

Like it, understand it, or believe it or not, the reality of the situation is we have a two-party first past the post system, it’s pretty much already guaranteed to be Biden v Trump, and one of them has already laid out plans to be a dictator (cough not biden cough) . Those are our choices.

Pick a side or get out of the way. The opposition is unified, and we should be too.

Yep. I naively thought OP (and the similar accounts posting similar patterns) would shut up and get on board as we approach the general, but looks like they’re going to be banging the “tHiRd PaRTy” drum all the way to a Republican victory. And then all the things they’ve at least pretended to care so much about are going to get much, much worse.

Not FDIC insured and savings interest rates of -4.62%.

Well, they’re certainly in a legal pickle, now, aren’t they?

“My husband, Wesley, and I just watched President Biden’s State of the Union address from our living room…”

Considering she likely wrote that before he even gave the address, I doubt it would have mattered what he said or how he said it.

That was definitely my favorite one because I did not see it coming.

Yeah, she was and did (tried, anyway). I watched the whole roast a couple of weeks ago, and her set was just complete cringe and was met with boos.

Oh, no. Imagine all the havoc that could be wrought if the source code for an operating system was released onto the internet /s

That’s why you should never rely on security through obscurity.

– Sent from my Linux desktop

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Jack Black, Kyle Gass, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman…they all look so old.

(Looks in mirror)

😱 Oh…right.

Edit: Holy crap, James Hong looks amazing for at 95. Didn’t realize he was that up there.

As the NRA host body began to wither and die, the demon slug that had been animating it slithered out and moved into a new willing host. The cycle continues.