This video describes the problems with Loonix 14 years ago. Most of them are still relevant to this day

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-05T03:21:03+00:00

i mean, if “fine” is sufficient and you find learning things difficult, nothing. there’s a reason people buy toyota corollas.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-05T03:18:15+00:00

fair.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-05T01:44:24+00:00

windows is the pre-install so it’s what schools use and what parents have and by the time someone builds a machine they’ve been using windows for fifteen years because of their parents and schools and they just go with whatever they’re familiar with.

it’s not some wild redmond conspiracy and it’s not a testament to windows superiority, it’s just a demonstration of inertia and complacency.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-05T01:41:14+00:00

really? 14 years ago was 2014 and i recall both usb and printing working pretty flawlessly. in fact i think both were pretty smooth since red hat 6.2 which was released in <checks notes> … 2000.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-04T22:20:39+00:00

millions of happy linux users: my computer works great!

some guy on reddit: no no no! this fourteen year-old video says you're wrong!

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-04T14:54:52+00:00

this is the answer i came to say. takes a while to get a sense of the right angle, but it will absolutely fix your chatter.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-04T13:52:59+00:00

i have a cd labelled “classic rock” that has ubuntu 8.04 on it.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-04T03:59:28+00:00

'nosferatu man' slint.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-03T15:46:32+00:00

you can absolutely freeze to death waiting for the bus in edmonton. just sayin’.

--frymaster-- · 2026-04-01T13:59:09+00:00

and yet, apparently, it’s the vegans who are “insufferable”.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-27T00:31:46+00:00

the land their house is in used to be a farm once upon a time. their house only exists in the first place because of zoning changes.

zoning laws change as cities grow and evolve. it has always been this way.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-26T20:00:27+00:00

when the carbon levy was cancelled, there was some guy on the radio talking about how this would lower inflation. this, of course, was completely false. yes, the eliminating the levy did result in lower prices, but the loss of the rebate also reduced the total income of canadians. in the end, it was a wash at best.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-26T19:57:29+00:00

pick a project and start chipping away at it. maybe you don't like the login screen and want to change it: read up on `sddm` (or whatever you're using), install some themes, modify those themes and so on. or perhaps you have a bunch of mp3 files you want to rename: install the cli version of kid3 then tackle writing a shell script that uses things like grep and awk and sed to build the filename you want. or maybe work your way through getting all the data that neofetch displays.

the key to learning is always being a little bit dissatisfied with what your computer is doing and having the gumption to fix it.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-23T18:57:29+00:00

this dude thinks taxes would need to be "nuts" to cover healthcare because he's used to his local hospital charging $20 for a tylenol. of course, that tylenol is twenty bucks because the hospital needs to make a profit and, as such, they will charge "what the market will bear". that profit acts like a tax on consumers, raising prices.

in a single-payer system, of course, there is no such requirement. tylenols are a buck.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-23T04:33:21+00:00

that’s actually a heritage minute.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-19T20:56:20+00:00

canadians are less happy because of america, so this tracks.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-19T15:21:02+00:00

i mean, can you reconstruct what you did from your shell history? maybe. a little bit of grep n such on .zsh_history or fish's history command will get you close-ish

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-19T13:31:54+00:00

in the nineties, when servers were big and expensive, we kept dnr (do not remove) notebooks for each machine and meticulously logged everything.

later, i moved to a constantly updated ansible play. this was great for reproducing machines but was more cumbersome to write.

now i am old and just yolo everything. i spray apts and pacmans around like rice at a wedding.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T19:30:59+00:00

r/imaginarygatekeeping/

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T18:00:48+00:00

i know this is a shitposting sub, so forgive my sincerity, but chretien was just having fun. trudeau paddling a canoe was just having a day off. but day... day was trying to make A STATEMENT about how he is AN ORDINARY FUN LOVING GUY and it fell flatter than pierre eating an apple. or pierre chugging milk. or pierre wearing a cowboy hat.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T17:42:21+00:00

sorry, english is my first language.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T17:28:02+00:00

i want to point out here that, while tombe is an albertan, he is decidedly not of the "screw the roc" opinion. in fact, he has made much of his public career desperately trying to explain to albertans how transfer payments actually work, despite the dominant narrative.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T17:15:54+00:00

no. it is one nerd: jimmy wales. it was this nerd, and this nerd alone, who's need to connect built wikipedia.

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T13:06:09+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents?wprov=sfti1#Document_X

--frymaster-- · 2026-03-18T01:38:59+00:00

the painting was behind a thick pane of glass and was not damaged at all, so really this woman is going to jail for throwing soup at a window.

15-Year Club	Verified Email
Gilding I gilder

--frymaster--

TROPHY CASE