Phanatik

I’m so sorry

Looks great, I’ll give it a bash

One of the simplest ways to safeguard against breakage is to have your /home on a separate partition. I realised I wouldn’t need to backup and reformat it from the beginning, I just need to wipe the root drive and reinstall again.

It’s made even easier by writing an installation script. Simply put, you can pipe a list of packages into packstrap and use a little convenience package for pulling a partition scheme out of a file.

I like to tinker and I’m aware that things will break so I have these tools that let me rebuild the system again in as short a time as possible.

He died in 1982 but his works are hugely influential:
Philip K Dick.

What’s the full title?

Wayland isn’t trying to be X12 and since X11 has been around, there haven’t been plans for there to be an X12 either. You want to discourage people from using Wayland but don’t encourage people to contribute to X11. You’re so hellbent on taking Wayland down, rather than further convincing people that X11 is superior and it’s easier to improve.

The comment I replied to suggested the opposite, that whatever decisions Apple makes, Android follows behind which isn’t the case in reality.

I understand your point though. It’s weird that people who use iPhones have this mentality that iPhones are at the forefront of innovation. I know some people who are aware that Apple is behind but the phone does what they require of it so they have no need to ask more.

I don’t think that’s true. Android has had more features than Apple for over a decade. People forget that iPhones didn’t used to have a proper file manager and the only way to put songs on them was through iTunes. iOS has been trailing behind Android in that respect while maintaining their walled garden.

I felt this with one of the laptops I put KDE Neon on. It had all manner of issues that never got a resolution.

They may be dramatised but the Linux stuff he does by typing commands into the terminal is real.

Why, what? Why is the goal important to me? I just feel like there needs to be a goal beyond just collecting for the sake of collecting.

Pretty much, yeah. Shoes have some utility which varies between the type of shoe it is but that’s typically not a reason to collect shoes, it’s just how I see them. I don’t feel the need to have more than one type of shoe for the task I need them for.

Action figures I can see from the perspective of nostalgia, I guess. My friend collects Godzilla/Kaiju/80s Sci-Fi figures and I can get that they look nice on a shelf. But if we compare that to say Warhammer miniatures then it’s a different ballgame. Warhammer miniatures need to be assembled and then painted which is a time-consuming process especially for a beginner like me. Some people like assembling and painting miniatures others like the tabletop they’re used for so one group can cater to the other. Some people like doing both.

I mentioned my PS3 and abandonware titles but I’m not collecting them just because I want to own them. I back up the data from the discs onto my PC for preservation/emulation purposes.

So yeah, the goal is important to me.

I collect PS3/abandonware games and even I look at the shoe-collectors wondering what the goal is.

The Craft Legacy.

I’ve watched some movies that cranked the social justice meter all the way up and it would be fun to laugh at the cringe, for example, Mulan 2020.

And then there was The Craft Legacy; a sequel-remake to The Craft from like the 90s about a coven of witches brought to you by the bright minds at Blumhouse. What made this movie bad wasn’t just the social justice elements, this movie is actively hostile. I’ve never felt hated by a movie before but this was it.

I’ve watched Mulan 2020 three times to date and I’d watch it again because it’s hilarious. With the Craft Legacy, I can only sit through it once.

Yeah, same. I only needed to install Lutris which for some reason was installed with an old version from the Discover store.

If you unlock the root partition, you can install CUPS and whatever else you want. Steam would prefer that you use the Discover store though. Also, if there’s an update, the partition will be locked again.

As much as people like to crow on and on about having choices, they don’t actually like making choices. It’s been the same with Linux, there’s so much you can configure and change that you have to be proactive with your choices. It’s why people gravitate to Apple simple interface where every decision has been made for you and the answer to wanting to change how the system works is met with “go fuck yourself”.

I work in marketing and it legitimately has no downside to a business other than having one team to make sure it works and the other to make it look good. It makes sense to not have to pay Google or Adobe or whatever other tech company that charges for web usage and ad tracking. At the same time, it allows companies a direct connection to you through push notifications.

I’m not sure how you arrived at “noble freedom fighters” from what I said. The evidence is clear that they aren’t. Hamas has existed for almost as long as this conflict has and formed when Palestinian protests were met with violence. Hamas’s solution is to use violence against Israel which makes Israel respond with more violence. At the centre of all this are Palestinians who remain oppressed and now are in the crossfire.

Hamas exists because Israel have been oppressing Palestine for so long. It doesn’t mean they’re “the good guys”, just a reaction to violent oppression but with more violence.