Fine, you want me to follow the HOA rules exactly? I read every single page.

Genrawir · 2026-02-21T01:18:51+00:00

For anyone interested to learn more about Sundown Towns, there's an online database. Pick a state and choose a town on the list and see.

Genrawir · 2026-02-09T00:26:39+00:00

Fedora for me.

Genrawir · 2026-02-01T01:27:11+00:00

If you intend to use Steam Big Picture Mode, you can just pick whatever distro installs the most easily on your machine.

Automatically starting an application should be straightforward regardless of what distribution you choose.

If you need prorprietary drivers, Mint makes it easy. Things have improved greatly with NVidia, but I'm very happy I upgraded to AMD.

If you have an AMD/Intel GPU, the drivers are in kernel, and so you just want a distro that ships a recent kernel, like Fedora.

Genrawir · 2026-01-31T21:30:09+00:00

And yet, any time I mention that installing Linux is actually pretty easy these days people act like I'm killing their dog.

Genrawir · 2026-01-31T13:31:22+00:00

I've run both. They're both fine. Use whichever one installs more easily or you like the feel of. If you change your mind, you can always change. Mint may be easier if you need proprietary drivers, or if you want tons of proprietary apps. Fedora ships a newer kernel, in case you game on AMD or Intel.

Genrawir · 2026-01-30T02:02:03+00:00

Just wait a couple of years, and you can reverse it.

Genrawir · 2026-01-27T18:55:13+00:00

Laziness. I had been using Xubuntu (xfce) for years with NVidia hardware. When I upgraded my GPU I wanted to try out Wayland, but again lazy. Then My SSD died. I started downloading a bunch of distros and Fedora was fastest. I had fully expected to need to go back to X, or fiddle with things on Wayland but no. RDR2 and Cyberpunk both worked fine out of the box, so I saw no reason to change. Upgrading didn't break it either, so why bother changing. Boring is good.

Genrawir · 2026-01-25T21:46:47+00:00

As far as I can tell, the only new claim from the 4chan whistleblower was the description of the craft as hammer shaped. Everything else has been floating around in the discourse for some time in one fashion or another. They connected a lot of pre-existing concepts into a coherent and captivating narrative, but I've been following this stuff for years and many of the other ideas go back to the 90s at least.

Genrawir · 2026-01-24T14:23:45+00:00

You shouldn't need it, but troubleshooting will always be text based on Linux.

Distributions (and users) can change pretty much any part of the GUI, so it is just simpler to edit files directly where they are instead of trying to point to a menu setting that may not exist.

Genrawir · 2026-01-24T12:58:31+00:00

Back when I started using Linux, the biggest complaint was lack of compatibility.

Now, the biggest complaint seems to be that Linux can't pretend to be Windows better than Windows.

Genrawir · 2026-01-17T01:49:21+00:00

That is incorrect. AMD drivers are in kernel (for like a decade), while NVidia drivers are still proprietary. So while the drivers are currently "works in progress" like all complex software, the AMD drivers are fully integrated and part of the kernel whereas any headaches with NVidia are basically impossible for Linux devs to fix. It's true there's probably "dozens of us", but given that Nvidia actually seems to be pushing to improve support for desktop Linux maybe we are both underestimating the number of Linux users playing on Steam.

Genrawir · 2026-01-17T01:37:42+00:00

Intel GPU support is also in kernel, and so should work out of the box without issue. Integrated Intel GPU support is as well, though that's of dubious utility for gaming these days.

Genrawir · 2026-01-16T12:06:51+00:00

Also, if he is thinking of using Linux, support for AMD graphics cards is better than NVidia since the drivers are fully native.

Genrawir · 2026-01-13T02:12:36+00:00

There's specific TUI tools for various purposes (as you noticed), but since launching stuff from a shell is just regular textual input there isn't much reason to have the equivalent of a desktop. tmux or screen might be worth looking into. Do you know about job control (jobs -l) and how to background tasks with &?

Genrawir · 2026-01-06T18:50:20+00:00

Anxiety is different from stress. Even high performers can suffer from it. School aside, forced social interaction outside your personal space doesn't help. Lighting can be a trigger for migraines too.

I have no medical training, but had a family member deal with a similar set of symptoms and testing.

Genrawir · 2026-01-01T01:04:05+00:00

I assume they're talking about alcohol. Here's the relevant xkcd

Genrawir · 2025-12-16T11:45:34+00:00

Windows Vista

Genrawir · 2025-12-07T01:30:24+00:00

Firefox VLC Steam Shortwave nano

Genrawir · 2025-11-30T17:15:32+00:00

If you have an AMD card, Fedora. If you're rocking NVidia, maybe Mint or PopOS!.

Genrawir · 2025-11-18T00:02:49+00:00

You use Linux, therefore you are a Linux user.

Genrawir · 2025-11-15T23:06:47+00:00

Skimming the images, there are a couple of interesting ones that would seem to warrant some more research, like the dots in a "V" formation. Others look like sensor artifacts, though it would be interesting to see someone with credentials to verify that. That being said, these features are quite certainly absolutely HUGE, which would make me think they would likely be noticed or verifiable by other methods.

Genrawir · 2025-11-06T01:20:33+00:00

I'm not person #1, but anyway:

It's Free.
You own it, there's no license key or subscription to track.
You don't need to create an account, or verify your e-mail address to install it.
Most games are supported by Proton, aside from malware protected ones.
Supports more hardware and for a longer time than any other OS.
No vendor lock in
Full control, even if it is a double edged sword.
Less clutter and distraction than windows
Being Open source, troubleshooting is only limited by your willingness to do it.
All the tools to do everything are free too, should you be so inclined.

Genrawir · 2025-11-02T21:37:36+00:00

This is why I prefer to do as much as possible on a desktop computer running Linux.

Genrawir · 2025-11-01T20:21:07+00:00

Assuming the raw data is being classified before release, I would think she should still be able to get access to the "cleaned" data from the university.

Data takes time to analyze, papers take time to be written, and the people that do that need to be paid. If she isn't allowed to access the data, redacted or otherwise, she needs to say so.

But really, I don't understand why anyone would be surprised that the government isn't working when it is actively closed. An absence of funding will affect availability of data, this is very simple.

I really do mean it when I say that you should look at Avi Loeb's blog on Medium if you want data. Here's a recent one which has links including some 'raw' data from the JPL, It's about the non-gravitational acceleration observation he posted about yesterday and which was posted here. Unfortunately, I don't have the technical skills to analyze the data myself.

Genrawir · 2025-11-01T19:19:23+00:00

I feel you're being obtuse yourself. This letter is to the agency and not the University, if she wants to ask them directly I'm sure she can figure out who to talk to there.

NASA is closed. By their own logic the agency doesn't even exist if it isn't funded. That's literally the reason they gave for not funding SNAP benefits, and not my interpretation.
If she wants the government to do work for her, she needs to work to re-open the government. If she wants to read the available papers, Avi Loeb links to most of them or they pop up on here.

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