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the news on regular tv last night was totally lopsided. tons of 'reaction' from the right and far-right, hardly anything from anyone else.

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these clowns have shifted so far to the right, they're in danger of falling off the edge of the earth.

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i half expect a hung jury. there's bound to be one maga on the jury that won't budge.

[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?

I’ve been using arch for a while now and I always used Flatpaks for proprietary software that might do some creepy shit because Flatpaks are supposed to be sandboxed (e.g. Steam). And Flatpaks always worked flawlessly OOTB for me. AUR for things I trust. I’ve read on the internet how people prefer AUR over Flatpaks. Why? And...

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on my arch-based systems, i use repos first, aur second. appimages third. i do also have a couple minor things (that are self-contained with no dependencies) that were just 'unzipped' into their own directories and links added to menus where appropriate. note that i don't game on these systems. i don't have a lot of aur packages installed, so updates and subsequent recompile time isn't an issue.

i have yet to run into anything i want or need that isn't available in those. so no flatpaks or snaps.

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i remember getting my first one. it was an amazing time. played a lot of games back then. not so much now. i just can't keep up with the upgrades, so i just play older ones every now and then.

a modern equivalent would be moving from an old pc with hdd to a new one with nvme ssd.

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hard drives are going to be slow af copying data to itself, or moving data to a different partition on it.

then you're also adding partition size manipulation to the mix, which will also be slow af when data has to be moved off the 'end' of partitions to 'make room' to enlarge or create another with a different fs.

your best option is to get another drive, even if it's also a hard drive instead of ssd. use that to move (copy, really, to preserve the original as a backup for the time being) all the data to that you want to preserve.

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small town, middle of nowhere in the upper midwest. an hour away from basically anything other than walmart and a few fast food joints, and more than our fair share of climate change-denying maga morons.

we have multiple locations with chargers.

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good

I’m sick of Windows, and especially what it’s become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I’ll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I’d like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I...

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definitely keep windows on it to begin with. once you're fully settled-in on linux and haven't even looked at windows for at least a couple weeks, make one last backup... then nuke it or repurpose it.

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upgrades have been working fine here, both linux and windows, for well over a decade.

only if a system is also being repurposed at the time of the 'upgrade', or if i'm changing the connection type of the boot drive (such as from sata to nvme, or switching an older system to ahci mode) do i install 'from scratch'.

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there's a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.

if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you're paying me 24/7--and providing the phone you want me to answer.

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raise your hand if you ever thought training 'ai' on the whole of the internet was a good idea.

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the scammers are already using 'ai'

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as real as artificial cheese.

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being a convicted felon would make him eminently more qualified to be a republican candidate for office.

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not to worry, it won't be long until "after almost 29 years..."

Republican bill aims to give Americans in Israeli military same benefits as US soldiers (www.middleeasteye.net)

Two Republican congressmen have introduced legislation that would provide the same employment and economic protections to Americans serving in the Israeli military as US citizens who get deployed to serve in the US military....

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easy there, we have enough climate problems without the sun going supernova on us.

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first boot: no i don't want a 365 trial.

still first boot: no i don't want 365 'basic', either.

(you should know this msa already has a one-off office license on it, you fuckwits)

and yea, still in first boot: no i don't want game pass trial.

then game pass notifications shortly after from the 'store'.

this was this past weekend setting up a new desktop with 11 pro.

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those were so long ago they're small enough that windows would still be able to format them fat32 even with its built-in limitations on formatting that filesystem.

what would be completely useless is scrolling through a larger flash drive' or card's files, one or two at a time.

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upgraded here. no problems. didn't even notice the version increment until i went looking for it.

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judge harold t. stone would have him in lockup for contempt before the first commercial break.

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another $1000, paid out of the minnesota event proceeds, for skipping the graduation ceremony he was granted a day off from court to attend.

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the consumer always loses when industries consolidate into relatively few players.

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this was gonna happen.

most of the 'conservative' far-right congregations in the u.s. broke-off from umc over the last several years.

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the moron majority sitting on bench do know exactly what they're doing. they just dgaf about ramifications of their idiotic rulings.

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Full autonomous vehicles, and particularly significant levels of adoption of them are decades away

the only way fully-autonomous vehicles will truly work and work as envisioned, is if user-operated ones are taken off the roads entirely. and yes, that is at least 'decades away'

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"decades" from now, autonomous vehicles will have their own roadways, designed for them and with the infrastructure needed for the tech at that future time.

the streets as we know them today will be for last-mile (literally) transport, pedestrians, bicycles, some forms of public transit, and what not.

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you mean debian, right?

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they count clicks on a distro's page on their site, not usage or anything else.

if they dared put hanna montana linux on there, it would be the perpetual #1 listing.

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meow meow not meow wrong. meeeoooowww!

What distro should I use on my potato?

I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...

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if it supports the basic hardware, there's nothing wrong with peppermint for basic stuff like your use case. after the base system is installed, add a browser and libreoffice and you'll have a nice little system for writing on.

if you want to keep using windows on it, you'll probably have to 'start over' with a plain install of windows (without hp's junk, and to a clean--partition table cleared--'hard drive'), uninstall the useless crud like candy crush that comes with the base windows install, ensure compactos is enabled (it should be automatically enabled with those specs), install your browser and word processor. you shouldn't have to do thing where you connect an external drive for 'working' space for updates (something i've only ever had to do twice on 32gb emmc models) anymore as long as updates stay relatively current.

but with only 2gb ram and a 10 year old 'atom' based cpu, i'd probably go straight for peppermint.

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and this is why i refused to give you my social back when i lived in your service area and had a land line installed.

gotta get a new printer

Greentings As youve seen from the the title, i want to get a new printer as a present for my parents. Sadly they are still windows peasants and my mom somehow thinks that the HP printer on her desk has been a good financial investment, even though it has costed us more than 300 bucks in ink over the past 2 years....

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samsung sold their printer business to hp in 2017.

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if they don't need a new printer, and if mom is happy with what she has.. don't fix what ain't broken (in mom's eyes). or just look for 3rd party ink for it. many and good reviews, reputable seller. it may take a couple tries to find some that work. hopefully mom hasn't allowed an hp firmware update that nixes that option and doesn't let you roll it back.

if you do replace the printer:

if they're low volume, can live without color, or are sporadic printer users, get a laser. a b/w brother with the features you want, that has 3rd party toners and drum kits available.

if they're higher volume and regular printer users (they don't not print for weeks or months at a time) and 'need' color, you could consider one of those 'tank-based' color inkjets. do not let it run out of ink and always leave it plugged in to the power (let it go into power-save on its own). they also usually have 3rd party ink available. you may want to see if and how the printheads themselves get replaced when needed and whether or not you can actually buy them (we're binning one here because the printer says it needs a new printhead---but you can't buy them!).

for photos, stick 'em on a flash drive and go to walmart or a drug store that has the self-service photo printing stations or use an online service that ships. it's much cheaper than printing photos at home.

read the box, and all its fine print. some printers (mostly, but not exclusively hp) are shipping with strict blocks on 3rd party consumables. hp had previously reserved the hardcore blocking to the first firmware update you'd get after setting it up (let that update come in, you were screwed. disabled firmware updates and you were 'ok')... but not anymore.

duplex printing (both sides, automatically) is something we use a lot. a sheet feeder (adf) on top for copies and scans is another feature we couldn't live without at the office. even though it might only be used occasionally--when it is needed, it saves so much time.

two other features that are often overlooked is a second input feed (even if it's 'manual'/one sheet at a time) for envelopes, letterhead or a sheet of labels.. and a main input tray with a decent capacity.. the one i'm using now only holds 50 sheets (about 30 in practice, because if you dare to fill it, it will misfeed frequently), and that's just not enough.

for printing from phones and tablets. look for that feature in the printer specs, then when you set it up at home, set it up as a wifi printer.

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messed around some with slack 0.99.

but first one to actually see some regular usage was buzz, which progressed over time through to potato.

and the first to get its own dedicated box long-term was woody.

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"Dad was so proud of being able to fill up almost as much of the tube as my thumb would have."

Donny Jr. same interview.

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i do edit photos and video on a 15 year old desktop. yea, it's not as fast. it even still only has mechanical hdd. it works. i really don't give a shit how long it takes to encode. it can sw encode hd h264 in 'real time' (sw giving better quality output and at a smaller file size than the faster gpu encoding), that's good enough for me. it does everything the much newer system i've been able to use recently at the office can do--it's just slower at some things.

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apple does 'support' their hw better, it's just that it's a pretty low bar to start with these days. they and their competitors could do better--much better, but zomg! someone has to think of the shareholders. they're far more important than users or the planet.

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erecting a firewall.

someone spycheck already, dammit!

MEDIC!!!!

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they're just trying to con people into using the new data harvesting mail app by calling it 'outlook'

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new ui is literal trash.

media formats it already does, and it is expected to support nearly everything. but as far as a front-end for whatever tf they're planning--there are plugins and extensions already, it should be there. not in the base code.

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you don't even need a player script; browsers today can play media on their own.

and scripts with added features is a very crowded market.

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surely they could have shaved-off 500 megabytes out of... what? 150 gigabytes... of game content and media just from better compression or optimization of those files.

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My toilet latrine posture is pristine you philistine

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"got mine, fuck you---and your children and children's children, too."

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if they had actual sales or revenue to brag about, they would have.

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"pull up to window 2 to pay the surg-arge applied after window 1"...

at the last window, "we need another $3.50 to give you your food"

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when i was a kid, drive-thru was 'new'. one place, instead of redoing the whole building to put in a drive-thru window and work area behind the counter, used a chain-driven basket to carry drive-thru orders that went up and over the dining area then down to a pick-up window.

8-year-old me thought that was just the coolest thing. they operated like that for a decade before finally rebuilding to reposition the building on the lot to better fit a drive-thru lane and pick-up windows.

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still is, and always has been. and that's not a bad thing.

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