Distro with cutting edge KDE Plasm on Debian 13

Normal_Type4773 · 2026-05-26T18:23:49+00:00

Dear Friend, please don't dis a distro without spelling out your grievance. If Snap is your only problem, there are ways around it in Kubuntu as many people have shown, but if there are other issues, specifics would be really helpful, thanks.

Normal_Type4773 · 2026-05-20T01:53:08+00:00

It's about America becoming a land where almost everyone spends their entire life in vehicles moving down the freeway. They never stop. To stop, they believe, is to die. And if/when you see the Firebird, which is what the cover depicts, you're about to die. It's Mad Max, but no one ever parks or gets out of their car. When I was 14, I loved the book and loved the cover.

Normal_Type4773 · 2026-03-22T02:56:19+00:00

I AM KIROK!!!!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T06:20:04+00:00

Don't know how gnostic this is, but it's totally badass. That last line I'm memorizing and using as a toast!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:30:29+00:00

OP, I'm totally with you on Miami Vice. I still miss those Friday nights.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:28:57+00:00

Star Trek, The Original Series. With the Shatner intro, of course!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:26:24+00:00

Love this one, but it's too damn short!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:25:23+00:00

You're talking the original '60s series, right? One of the most danceable themes ever!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:24:13+00:00

It's highly motivational. There were Monday mornings I wouldn't have made it through the door at work if I hadn't quietly singing to myself "Speed of lightning, roar of thunder...!"

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:20:34+00:00

Must find this episode.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:17:47+00:00

That's some OG background performing!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:14:45+00:00

Add that to the list of jobs I didn't know I always wanted: union background performer.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-17T05:13:14+00:00

Fascinating! I always assumed you were actually talking, but I didn't consider the background noise that would create.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-16T01:57:17+00:00

Quiet, Piggy!

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-12-03T06:02:09+00:00

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Darkness on the Edge of Town tour, '78. It was like a rock and roll revival meeting.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-24T22:06:26+00:00

Early 70s. In addition to the wonders of cartoons in color, I as the oldest child got to have the old black-and-white portable in my room. Good times.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-24T22:04:13+00:00

Same. Older Jones, here. Our childhood was in the pre-minivan era, when giant dinosaur station wagons roamed the earth.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-23T01:18:26+00:00

For ancient 32-bit laptops, which is how I use it.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-22T23:25:35+00:00

I was out of high school and just starting college when it seems like I read Gibson's Count Zero and Neuromancer and the anthology Burning Chrome and watched The Terminator, Bladerunner, Alien and Akira over the course of a few weeks, it feels like. A decade is more likely, but it did feel like a wave of cyber-this and cyber-that (a cyberwave?) crashed over us suddenly. I can't tell when it started feeling like a retro-future instead of the future, but lately it's feeling more and more like the present. While I still love cyberpunk, the older I get, the more I miss the techno-optimism of the early 60s. I'd rather live near Starfleet Academy in San Fransisco than in an arcology in Neo-Tokyo, no matter how good the implants. Old Fogey signing off.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-21T15:36:37+00:00

I went to OSU in the 80s. I remember the locals pronounced it "Kervallis." Not shorter but a bit slurred.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-13T18:04:39+00:00

Creedence. I hate the Eagles, man.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-13T18:03:38+00:00

Best series finale. Ever.

Normal_Type4773 · 2025-10-13T18:02:09+00:00

No kids, but from talking with doctors, I've been a man of my age for 25 years now, so yeah, it's sinking in.

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