I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that nobody at Microsoft registered that short URL for the lulz or the resulting destination for short URLs that don’t get found.

Maybe something like OpenStack?

Everything on the system, including the desktop, kernel, and CUPS, can be installed by snap.

Turns out hosting a bunch of files is very cheap.

Yummy!

I love Lemmy.

I was wondering whether I was going to have to explain that rule to a crowd of angry zealots, furious that I could possibly oppose the Great and Mighty Apple like that.

I’m not opposed to having macs in my collection (though as it so happens right now I don’t have any), because it’s not about hating Apple and entirely about whether I can do something useful with the hardware.

A majority of the ARM hardware I have is old Android phones booting a pretty standard Linux distro with custom kernels. Most of them have drivers missing for various pieces of hardware, but as long as they can boot, connect to my homelab network over USB and run containers, they make excellent build/test devices.

Discourse, not Discord. The accounts are managed through the same SSO that manages Launchpad accounts, so the devs who will use this already have an account.

Yeah this is basically what I do. People like giving me their stuff because I’m transparent about the deal:

1. If at all possible, I will wipe it for you.
2. If it’s usable, I will either add it to my TrashCloud™ or (especially for laptops) set it up for a kid.
3. Parts/devices that I cannot get working I will take to electronics recycling.
4. No iPhones/iPads.

Another win for Linux!

I don’t care if they’re selling computers to fascist psychos.

I do care that they’re using their soapbox to promote those fascist psychos.

This is essentially Google moving to do what I always thought was Apple’s malicious compliance on the DMA, but which European courts seem to have accepted as just fine. I’m pretty miffed at Google for sinking to Apple’s level on this.

One of the biggest downsides of the fact that my social circle is mostly techies is that I can no longer get free 3-4 year old “junk” computers.

Yes.

I’m just enjoying how much Ubuntu’s decision to experiment with a different coreutils has resulted in people paying attention to all the stuff the FSF does.

I have Linux running on a machine with 256 MB of RAM and a single core 700 MHz ARM11 CPU.

I also have it running on a machine with 128 multi-gigahertz cores and a terabyte of RAM. That flexibility is part of why I use Linux.

IIRC Gentoo was designed to be a successor to Slackware.

Because it gets out of my way and lets me focus on the things I really want to do.

As far as I understand, Tailscale (being a Wireguard network) doesn’t need you to flip it off and on - if you’re connecting to the relevant endpoint it gets routed through that, otherwise it just goes the normal way.

Not gonna pretend that means the setup is trivial to nomies, but you could probably set it up for them and not have to worry about it.

Snap and KDE. Best of both worlds IMO.

Kubuntu.