And now those same bumpkins are saying originating countries “are gonna pay for the tariffs”.

Wow just when I thought Borderlands 4 couldn’t get any worse, they just keep piling on the disappointment. Thanks for giving me even more reasons to consider this franchise dead to me!

Windows 7 was a beautifully simple yet versatile OS capable of running on some really weak hardware with little overhead. Windows 11 by comparison is a bloated monster that demands too many resources for mandatory background processes and wants to get its tentacles into every facet of your privacy.

Gaming, simple office tasks, and web browsing work really well in Linux for the common layman. The next big hurdle is to offer some more niche programs that are easy to work with.

I spent my whole weekend trying and failing to set up ZoneMinder, Motion, Shinobi, then finally ContaCam through WINE in an effort to make a simple air gapped security camera system in Linux Mint installed on a 13 year old laptop. I struggled through countless command lines trying very hard to understand what each one does, Time shifted a dozen times through installation failures, and I still couldn’t get it done. The best I could do was unintentionally turn on my webcam after somehow managing to install Motion without then being able to access its functionality through a solely console based interface.

I wanted to gift this laptop to my tech illiterate mom and give her peace of mind that no one was sneaking around in front of her house. Linux failed me on this if I couldn’t even set up the software on my own, let alone my mom if she’d have to learn how to use a terminal to make it work. I wanted it to work so bad but the learning curve and difficulty to figure out why a PPA command failed after following an old and likely out of date guide had no workaround since support is so scarce. Old YouTube video guides with a couple hundred views offered no hints when a line I followed verbatim didn’t work in my setup. As midnight was fast approaching I finally threw in the towel and set up Windows 7 with ContaCam running in less than 2 hours.

Devs for Linux need to do better. If they want their OS of choice to get more mainstream then they need to develop for more mainstream users. A lot of these nittty gritty setup configurations need to be moved to the background with greater reliability and cross distro functionality. I get that there are things like Software Center that offer flatpaks have at least some ease of use when it comes to installing software, but the point is lost when some of that software doesn’t actually run or even appear anywhere after installing, like ZoneMinder.

That’s me alright. Not from lack of trying mind you but I’ve had to reinstall my OS a couple of times this weekend to make an install boot properly on an old laptop. I’mma have to reinstall again because I messed up a console install.

It’s power of Hydrogen. We should’ve been using Watts to measure it this whole time.

He’s not perfect but Newsom’s one of the few political figures resistance to the Trump regime can crystallize around. Yes I’m well aware he’s the type of guy who’d like to find common ground with these assholes but he’s at least willing to risk provoking Trump’s goons into overextending themselves.

Looks like AutoCAD. You can program coordinates to define the drawing in a lot of ways. I only ever used it for 2D drawings but did employ its coordinate system to speed up the process. I’m guessing a real power user could program some interesting models with it.

Seriously. We need mandatory federal voting holidays with democracy sausages being offered at every polling station.

Why bother improving our knowledge of the universe when we can already make even more nukes? FFS…

Canada, Greenland, Australia, and Japan should totally recognize Palestine. It’s not like they need to keep pleasing the US now that it’s actively spitting in their face.

Water is the Swiss army knife of materials.

Now that’s a glorious utensil.

Time to invest in funeral services!

Linux Mint runs pretty well on 8 gigs of ram on a T460.

It’s never enough for these assholes. Musk wants the whole world to bend to his will because he bought the government fair and square. Some uppity government employee shouldn’t tell him he doesn’t have the authority to install more puppets in these agencies.

This feels so satisfying to read now that FEMA won’t do much in the South. Will it fuck blue states over too? Yeah, but at least we have some money to fix it ourselves and have a better sense of community to help others.

Guess I’m not a real fan then.

Wouldn’t law enforcement be able to find a couple of receipts or something that could indicate who it was that threw all this away? It’d be so satisfying to issue a massive fine to the assholes who did this.

You wouldn’t want to keep such old equipment connected to a network anyway. That’s only inviting trouble down the line.

I wish I could. The only maga hat wearing fascist in my job site acts too nice and friendly so I’ll look like a raging hysterical idiot if I openly act like a dick to him. People around me either don’t care or only want to keep the peace in their immediate area. Every day we get more awful news from the administration, hear about how ICE abducts random people, and see how much we’ve alienated ourselves in the international community. Despite all this we still collectively act like everything’s fine. It’s maddening.