Quazatron

Looks like nobody can or is willing to do decent printers anymore. I’ll run my Laserjet 1100 till it dies, then I’m done with printing.

Everything you do or don’t do is a political statement. Do you think you can somehow exist in a bubble where politics is something that happens to someone else? How naive.

If Proton does not refer to the Steam’s Windows adapter layer for Linux, I don’t care.

Geany FTW!

Back the hell up. Seriously. I cannot overstate how peaceful life is when your ass is properly covered.

So they are marketing this to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum fans? It seems powerful enough, we only use 256x192 with 16 colors (two of which are black).

Good job, Microsoft!

I’m glad someone focuses on the important facts. The way they are sitting sideways to the TV will surely give them sore necks.

Holy rabbit hole, Batman! Very interesting article if you’re a typography geek.

Tradition. You can’t go around breaking traditions, now can you, minister?

A lot of man-hours went into engineering it. Very smart people from many distros went over it, kicked its tires and deemed it good enough to replace old SysV. We’ve been through this, if you don’t like it for some reason, use something else.

It’s just software, people, it’s not a frelling religion.

Believe me, it used to be so much worse than that.

Hardware vendors see the need to allocate their resources to support the majority of the users, so that means making drivers for all current flavors of Windows and Mac. Linux has a residual market margin, so no incentive there.

It usually is up to some talented person or persons somewhere out there to come up with support for dinner shiny new hardware, usually months or years after the shininess went away.

The path is clear: buy from vendors who support Linux, make yourself heard if they don’t, or put up the work to make it work if you have the capability.

Not a secret, but annoying as hell. I usually replace it with a Flatpak and uninstall Snap.

A Linux VirtualBox instance.

Can’t be bothered to work around WSL’s idiosyncrasies.

These greedy muthas can’t even name stuff without robbing someone else’s names.

Don’t.

Everybody hates preachers.

Lead by example.

I keep backups (regular, incremental, remote) to keep my data safe in case something happens to my local data. This protects me from things like theft, hardware failure, accidental deletion of some important files. Having multiple generations (daily, weekly, monthly) will protect me when I delete some files and only realize weeks later.

All of this is a separated issue to having encryption or not. I encrypt both local and backup copies, and store the keys in a password manager.

See what works for you, but don’t confuse the issues.

Encryption and backup are orthogonal domains. If you don’t understand why, I’m sure you’re not going to take a random strangers’ opinion on the subject.

Yes.

If my computers are stolen or lost with the luggage, or if I suddenly die (as one sometime does), I don’t want whoever goes through my computers to get hold of my ex-girlfriends nudes, my credentials for online banking or my porn habits.

That is a good reason to backup, but has nothing to do with encryption.

I’d just like to get back the time I spent installing the strong cypher pack for Java 7.