The Ubuntu story is exactly what happened to me.

OpenSUSE Table weed is what got Linux to stick for me though. Once I learnt enough with that to get started and my OS needed a reinstall, I ended up going with CachyOS too eventually.

The RTS genre is sorely lacking. Even if they don’t make a successor to the competitive multiplayer success of SC2, I would be happy with a good campaign.

Also: in the context of this meme, it will put my son out of touch with his generation. None of his peers are going to have heard of this.

Converting a baby’s diet from entirely milk diet, to introducing increasing amounts of solid foods.

Shit this is what I’m doing. My kids are nuts about the niche indie games I play. My son has crazy good skills for Super Meat Boy and Super Hexagon.

The other one loves Mario games from the 3DS.

Meme is actually just a single unit of information.

The way the image macro jokes are made now have come about from the way social media is laid out and needing quick consumption. They’re aldo easily made by anyone. Otherwise there was a time when Flash videos were the preferred medium for internet jokes.

Tom Nichols did a good video on an unrelated subject, but he covers a good and relevant point. That communities want to clarify who is part of the “in-crowd” and who is not. This is a role that inside jokes have always had. If you’re part of a group, then you have inside jokes that no one else understands, and there’s a feeling of community in that. Memes do this. My wife sees me laughing and asks why; then I find it difficult to explain 3 layers of reference in a meme (you have to know about the videogame and the political issue they’re referencing, as well as the fact that the meme is a variation of another meme…try explaining a derivative of a derivative of a “loss” meme and why that’s funny and why this story of miscarriage is funny).

Similarly the jokes look to exclude the undesirables. Boomer conservative memes do really well on Facebook and have no value in youth and liberal spaces. People do a lot of virtue signalling and display of values through memes.

We all love our memes, but essentially they’re all a bunch of dumb inside jokes. And the deeper you get inside a community, the more convoluted and weird the jokes get.

Look at the desktop environment first. KDE is like Windows. GNOME is like MacOS.

Then look at some videos about how to get your GPU working on a distro you’re interested in if you have an Nvidia card. AMD GPU works out of the box.

I would recommend OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Excellent implementation of KDE, GUI tools to do advanced things, rolling release (i.e. constantly up to date) but also thoroughly tested. Rolls back easily if something gets messed up. This gave me the least problems starting and I stuck with it for over a year. It was great.

For home LAN use on the Steam Deck, the built in Steam streaming is very usable now and much much better than it used to be.

Just remember to aim your jump exactly… Or die floating in the void.

Noob opinion: they’re all the same, you’re just choosing from the minor differences in the quirks one has over another and it would be easy enough to work around those if you were motivated to.

The real difference is the DE, how quickly updates are pushed, good GUI on a package manager and if it is immutable or not.

For noobs like me it also helps if it has a lot of users so I can find forum posts about my specific problem. Vetrans keep saying that online documentation is enough, but I wouldn’t even know where to start with applying generic instructions to my installation (e.g. how is a wiki going to be able to tell me that my low framerates in Street Fighter 6 are because of split lock protections on my CPU). How would I diagnose the problem to know where to look? This is the major appeal of Debian based systems.

Thanks, I hate it.

The British Medical Journal has a Christmas issue in which they publish lighthearted, amusing “evidence”. That really fucks with AI.

Have you ever seen a picture of God? Checkmate theists.

Zealand died unexpectedly and we had to rush out and replace it quickly before the kids got home from school. Don’t tell them.

You’re not screwed. Depends on how much you enjoy tinkering and troubleshooting.

My main advice would be to keep your data backed up and completely disconnected from the PC. And make sure your machine is not critical (i.e. for working from home or something). Other than that you do what you want. If you want to dive deep in Arch then that’s fine.

One thing to know is that the important part relevant to you is: the desktop environment (KDE) and the Linux distro (Arch) are different things. The far more important thing for you is to have KDE… the distro underneath just needs to not get in the way.

If you’ve got Arch up and running then stick with it until it gives you trouble. I naturally ended up distro hopping in the beginning because I would catastrophically break something I couldn’t repair and could change distros naturally when reinstalling.

Good options for easy distros with KDE would be:

1. Tuxedo OS (or Kubuntu) - easiest and there’s lots of support online.

2. Fredora - rock solid and highly recommend. Although I would recommend OpenSUSE Tumbleweed instead, this got me hooked on Linux and was the least problematic for a bleeding edge updated distro, where I happily used Discover for installing and updating.

3. CachyOS - good option for sticking with Arch.

I personally consider the risk of being robbed to be very very low in my city/country. And if it’s the kind of person who would rob you, then I don’t think that will change on the basis of how you respond.

Homeless people endure constant hardship, abuse and dehumanising behaviour. I might not give money, but I’m careful to avoid dehumanising them.

1. You can carry around smaller denominations if you do want to give something.

2. If they’re close to a convenience store then I offer to go in and buy something for them (tell them a budget and ask about and preferences or restrictions).

3. If I’m not going to give anything, I still make eye contact, try to have a sympathetic smile on my face and say something like “I’m sorry, do take care”. I don’t know if this is dumb or patronising, but I’m trying to avoid being dehumanising as the constant response they get is for people to avoid eye contact, walk around with a wide gap or ignore completely. I want to try to at least acknowledge and respond.

Mastercard on their way to cancel superhero comics

Were you expecting it to be smooth like plastic? The top layer is basically a bunch of dead skin cells that keep flaking away from the top layer and building up again from the lower layers.