palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.social

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet; Seen a lot of it and occasionally regurgitate it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4.

Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Now I'm here.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

Spammers have woken up and are back in force. It was nice while it lasted.

palordrolap,

fedia.io had disabled sign-ups when I last looked. Ended up on kbin.run instead. Despite the name, it's also an Mbin instance.

palordrolap,

Linux Musk sounds like the evil counterpart to Mint. A fork of Red Star OS, etc.

palordrolap,

You know what they say about stopped clocks.

palordrolap,

Reminds me of a TV ad, older than this comic, for a frosted cereal (probably not the first one that comes to mind) and the adult about to consume them has the inner dialogue "What about fat?!" "Wimp!"

(I always heard it as "Wamp!", so to this day I'm not completely sure if it was an early example of a spoken sad trombone, but "Wimp!" is more likely.)

They don't make ads like that any more.

palordrolap,

Some Linux packages have WebKit as a dependency and that often has something called MiniBrowser installed as, well, precisely what it says it is. Not sure if it's available on Windows, but it's OK in a pinch.

There are a few other lesser known browsers, not in the main families, that are currently in development too.

palordrolap,

GNOME and its applications have been headed in that direction for a while now, but I'm not sure Canonical are behind those changes. If they were, I'm sure they would have done something about GNOME apps looking alien on Xubuntu, for example.

Source

As that link suggests, the Mint team are looking to produce apps that run on any desktop environment, forking GNOME apps that don't comply with that. Hopefully that keeps the momentum going for that sort of thing.

palordrolap,

Well there was a game on the C64 called Quake Minus One...

palordrolap,

Important: The article mentions that they are being replaced not that the SAC is being done away with completely.

On the other hand:

Twitch declined to comment on whether the [new council members] would be paid.

The text I replaced there is "ambassadors", that is, Twitch ambassadors, people given a title that means nothing outside of Twitch, but is the only payment these people will be getting, outside, perhaps, a sense of pride and accomplishment.

palordrolap,

This has bell curve meme vibes. I'm just not sure what the middle guy would be saying.

palordrolap,

It's not about whether it works, it's about proving that they're keeping pace with the trends in technology that they're not directly driving.

They're afraid that if they don't give that impression, their stockholders will pull their money and give it to someone who does, and since that's what their stockholders also fear about all the other stockholders, that's what will happen.

AI funding is so far up it's own backside I'm not sure they'll hear the cry of the small child pointing out that this Emperor has no clothes.

palordrolap,

I never said that the way they've gone about it is the best way to have gone about it.

Frankly, I'm not even sure what that would be, only that this ain't it.

palordrolap,

Gonna guess people who missed the memo about Mint until well after they installed Ubuntu. They haven't had the time or energy to switch distros yet, but did manage the time and/or energy to install Cinnamon.

Maybe a couple of others who have unknown reasons for avoiding Mint. No idea what those reasons are, but there's always someone with a different take.

palordrolap,

Set one up when I used a different handle but literally never used it. Thought I had a short ID number but, for reasons I'm not sure of, the piddly scrap of paper I wrote the number down on has always been in a particular place (and has been there for well over a decade), and it was 9 digits.

Must have been thinking of that handle's Slashdot ID. That was 6 digits.

... and technically still is. Wow. The account is apparently still there. Not sure I'm going back there any time soon, but took this opportunity to reset the password just in case.

palordrolap,

"I don't have a life or a job"

"FR me too"

"I thought you were a therapist"

~head shrunk into shoulders, sweating~

palordrolap,

Had to check. It looks like the comic actually only ceased production last year after the passing of the (second) artist.

Chris Browne took on Hägar after his father Dik - who drew the linked comic - died, but today I learned that Chris died last year.

As an extra kicker, I also learned that his brother Chance died a couple of months back. He didn't draw Hägar but had taken on another of their father's strips, Hi and Lois.

My denial about getting older can only take so much of this.

palordrolap,

Pretty sure Cinnamon panels are designed to fit to the width (or height if they're attached to the side) of the screen and can't be altered. (The depth/breadth/"thickness" of the panel can be changed, but that's not particularly relevant here.)

The same may also be true of panel-like features in XFCE and MATE too, but I can't easily confirm.

My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux

I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...

palordrolap,

You need to lay at least some blame on Logitech for that one.

They've sold drivers to Microsoft, but since no-one writing Linux would give them any money, they wouldn't provide drivers for their proprietary hardware.

This then lead to early Linux adopters buying non-Logitech devices and not seeing a use-case for rolling a reverse-engineered driver into the kernel.

Logitech still haven't written their own Linux driver. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the money from Microsoft is so that they don't.

palordrolap,

Me? I'd be the muggliest of muggles except for certain knowledge a witch implanted in my brain. And it's since transpired that she was the one who should not be named all along.

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