Laurel Raven

And everything it touches, it feels like it does differently just to be incompatible and extra, and like it goes out of its way to obfuscate everything to force you to use their programs to configure it rather than config files

If I remember correctly, BEFORE he was even inaugurated

On the flip side, errors in 3D graphics typically won’t cost a company millions, while errors in an SQL query very well might

Anyone who cannot stop working and live off their own wealth (and not rely on the working income of others) for the rest of their lives is, by definition, working class.

Not to mention, did we ever find out what happened to all the stuff that had been in the East Wing?

Hell, I heard that the Resolute Desk had been spotted at Mar A Lago…

I don’t even get the point to the flashy BIOS interface, the thing isn’t something you should be spending much of any time in. You get in, make the change you intend to make, burn a sacrifice as an offering to the gods, and hope that it works out right.

Well, more battery isn’t the only thing they could put in there… Like said, I’d love my fingerprint scanner on the back again (even if I’ve stopped using it to unlock my phone… Thanks, dystopian hellscape the US has turned into…)

The idea of needing to jailbreak a laptop you own is just insane to me

Sounds good to me, I think the camera bump is one of the dumbest design decisions modern phone designers have forced on us. Just make the thing a uniform thickness, gives them room to put back those things they removed in the quest for more thinness, which they never could have really done because of the optics.

I lost my fingerprint reader on the back because they wanted to go thinner and I’m stuck with the significantly worse screen reader, all so I could get a phone that’s more awkward to lay down without a case that effectively limits or eliminates the bump anyway, so nothing has been gained.

Because I went with Jellyfin and it worked well… I don’t know if I even checked out Emby, I’m not familiar with it, but I’ve had no reason yet to look for something else

I would say Flatpak is a good choice if you want or need features in the latest version of a package that isn’t in the version Mint runs, which is typically based on the current Ubuntu LTS version (or whichever one was current for the Mint version you’re on).

The main drawbacks are size on disk and the ability to work with other apps and the system, but neither issue is as bad as they’re typically made out to be… If you’re only installing one or two Flatpaks, they’ll seem massive compared to installing the version from apt repos, but that’s because they need to bring in supporting packages which are used by other Flatpaks, so if you use several of them, the space for each is a lot closer to the apt/direct installed version.

And the permissions, which can be annoying if you run into an issue with them, are typically defaulted to something that works correctly for each package, so you likely won’t need to worry about that hardly ever.

But otherwise… Yeah, if you don’t know why you’d want the Flatpak version and it’s in the Mint apt repos/system install, go with system install. Switch to Flatpak if you’re finding features you want missing that are in newer versions.

But they’re shouldn’t really be any reason to use Snaps on Mint.

And wake up in perfect makeup in a setting where having makeup on at all makes zero sense

I would be very surprised if they don’t go there eventually, and I’d even bet they’ll try at some point to force lifetime pass owners to switch to subscription

If you ever think you’ve found a corpo that can be trusted, no you haven’t

This has no impact on anyone that actually paid for Plex.

Yet.

They’re going down the pathway to enshittification and very few companies that start down that dark path turn away before they destroy everything good they’d made for everyone, free and paid alike. Maybe that won’t happen here, but from all of the times I’ve seen that same song and dance, I would be finding alternatives to switch to, personally. But, it’s obviously up to you to decide your own comfort level if you want to start now or wait to see how far they go

This makes me glad I went with Jellyfin for my home server

Yeah, those of us who’ve gotten familiar with the terminal often forget that it generally lacks discoverability and getting to the point of knowing how to find things in it can be painful and annoying.

Not enjoying the terminal isn’t a failing. GUIs exist for a reason.

How is the Union that gave its people the GDPR is the same Union pulling this?

That’s news to me, I’ve used it the last two years and never had an update completely brick my system, or even soft brick it, and I’ve never had to reinstall the graphics drivers like that

But there aren’t any political flags on there…

I both publicly and privately think it’s very plausible, maybe even likely, that he didn’t do it, or at the very least a lot of the evidence was planted.

I can still use his imagery and name because it’s a good rallying cry whether he did it or not: if he did do it, it was an act of defiance against an industry that’s harmed millions, and if he didn’t then he’s a symbol showing the system desperate to stamp out resistance to the rule of oligarchs. Actually… He’s that second one either way, too.

But anyway, he couldn’t have done it because he was at my place grilling that day.