Distro-hopping is a valid hobby, but it’s not for everyone. If you aren’t specifically interested in distros and fiddling with packages, hopping around on your “daily driver” can be disruptive. If you just want something that works, there’s nothing wrong with figuring out which distros do what you need and using one of those for work and play. If something catastrophic happens to a distro to make it literally unusable, you can worry about that when it happens. There is usually something else which is almost the same. Few people will get much value from hopping between distros which are basically the same, just because the distros are put out by different companies or install different packages by default.

This wouldn’t surprise me, among the group buys on GeekHack over the years.

You’re right about so much old stuff, but some of it really surprises me. I think “I probably just liked this because I was inexperienced, and I probably want to re-experience it because of nostalgia” but then I realize, no, this is a real classic that is still amazing.

If I could live in a world where the TV played nothing but He-man and Thundercats and Mysterious Cities of Gold, I would…

As you know, that world wasn’t in the past, either. (“the 80s of my actual youth”) … You aren’t remembering your whole life in that era. You aren’t even remembering all your feelings about that TV show. You are only imagining a feeling you might had about that show at some specific time, perhaps a specific occasion. That feeling wasn’t nostalgia, so nostalgia will not replicate it. You can seek out nostalgia, but you can’t go back to the past. You wouldn’t actually want to.

Other people have these feelings who didn’t even live in those times, and can’t remember them. This isn’t about the actual past. It’s about aesthetics that you can find in your all-time favorites.

I felt like I was leading the vanguard of something genuinely new.

Now you can find that same feeling with other things that are new, and this is an aesthetic value. But you will actually live through the entirety of them, including when they are bad or boring. They won’t be your all-time favorites until you have picked over them and had enough experiences that some of them are peak experiences. Then, only in retrospect, will it appear that there was ever a world populated entirely by your favorites.

Everyone has their favorite things and their hobbies. If you loved concrete gnomes you could collect them, and this could be a source of satisfaction and relaxation to you. To draw a silly example, suppose you love concrete gnomes. If you want to start a concrete gnome blog, or a business where you repaint concrete gnomes, you can do that and spend more of your life dwelling on concrete gnomes, though in reality you will spend plenty of time focused on blogging or painting. At the end of the day, concrete gnomes (and everything else) have limited use, even to someone who loves them. They can’t possibly keep you permanently high or blissed out. As long as you understand that it’s an aesthetic, there’s nothing wrong with spending time on things you love, or looking for other things like them.

For this game specifically, the MT-32 really doesn’t sound as good (and there are few other games with specific support for Adlib Gold).

The post volume is still much lower, but that isn’t all bad, since the toxicity and quality isn’t as bad and unlimited scroll time isn’t healthy.

It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?

If I signed up to a mag on one instance, that doesn’t mean I want to sign up to it on a different instance.

Nobody is talking about banning users “the moment they mention anything more eastern than Norway.”

It stands for Marxism-Leninism, which other people would call Communism.

The issue is not whether there is some individual occasion where some individual person posts “conspiracy shit.”

The issue is whether admins act on user reports of blatant anti-semitism.

Why does nobody like Drop?

“There are no Linux gamers. It’s useless”

“Wow, look at all the Steam Deck users!!”

what you see as ads, they see as content.

You’re excusing Soviet atrocities by saying “what about the US.” Try doing the same trick to excuse Nazi atrocities.

Tankies are disgusting.

Who is “they” in phrases like “they control the narrative” and “they’re coming for the platforms”?

RTX 3060 12GB works great on Linux using the Nvidia drivers and CUDA. No reason why it wouldn’t.

Do you have any concrete criticism of the Orkney council? If their fundamental complaint is neglect (evidenced by low per-capita funding relative to other island governments) then it hardly makes sense to blame that on Orkney.

It’s a serious accusation which logically has a high standard of evidence that is hard to meet, requiring some knowledge of intent. A publication like the Economist cherishes its reputation, making it more risk-averse about making accusations it can’t back up. Until these people provide circumstantial information like doing something illegal and fleeing to Russia, it will be hard to make it stick.

Anyway, Russia doesn’t need to put most of these people on the payroll to make good use of them.

The creator of Lemmy, dessalines, is a tankie, and is also the main admin of lemmy.ml.