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YOO

https://linuxiac.com/opensuses-zypper-package-manager-gets-an-exciting-new-feature/

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I'm on arch, it's a wonderful os/hobby, because I enjoy "its broken so I'm gonna spend an afternoon reading documentation and get a system that is just a bit more adapted to me once I fix this and that I now have more in-depth knowledge about". it is NOT for everyone, it can be intimidating rather than fun if that much DIY is just not what someone is looking for or if they are overwhelmed by how much learning arch requires (I switched from another linux to arch and it still involved a lot of learning to switch. in part because I did a manual install). this can be overwhelming to newbies, please pick your distro based on what works for you not on elitism bs. I want you to have a good time with linux. and hey, maybe you are one of the bunch of people who have a great time starting linux with arch, but it's ok if you're not

I'm getting a decent pc in two weeks or less and decided to switch to linux but idk which distro is better (or what they are tbh) any tips? I'm mostly worried bout programs running like mods for games, foobar and such

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damn I should continue reading house of leaves. I started and then I started reading discworld and I really gotta get back to reading house of leaves though

All my friends are really fucking annoyed with me that I won't stop recommending the house of leaves. but you know? I know of other books, anyways if you really don't want to read the house of leaves you should at least read The Navidson Record, it is this beautifully told romance between award-winning photographer and his ex-actor wife called Helen who are stuck in failing toxic marriage and despite that are still really in love. It makes so many allegories to Greek mythology and history (which I know you all love) and is a beautiful romantic story. It also got turned into a movie if you can find a copy although its not on netflix

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before it gets bad I'm just gonna tell y'all certain rich people have literally only recently noticed Open Source software availability compromises the bottom line of their proprietary investments so if you see little chickadees on this website talking about the dangers of Open Source software all of a sudden it's cuz they accidentally sipped some koolaid mixed up by the far right yacht people to fuck with peoples software sovereignty and right to repair, modify, and redistribute robust codebases that become a problem when 30% of your portfolio is in, oh, say, adobe or openai.

This is your unfriendly neighborhood computer fucker telling you not to fall for it and to demand your right to digital sovereignty rather than trusting companies to make correct choices about what to do with the parts of your life they would very much like to have in the cloud to continue improving their products.

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Windows users are masochistic freaks, just use Linux like the rest of us

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If people like :3 so much, I'm gonna make something better.

Introducing :4

-- Companies that don't understand their target audience

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⍩⍩⍩ there's also ⍥ and its smaller sibling ⍤ ⍨⍢ and ⍣ are also noteworthy neighbors of ⍩

If people like :3 so much, I'm gonna make something better.

Introducing :4

-- Companies that don't understand their target audience

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it is so versatile. it is just pure chaos, nay, it is just whatever emotion it so perfectly encapsulates and the sound it makes in my mind (like a weird kinda quiet bird scream except not a proper bird scream either). also a bit of an opossum photo kind of chaos

also I can remember how to type it because in hexadecimal its character 2369. like the funny internet number

actually in its versatility it is a bit toki-pona-esque because it is just one piece of meaning without being further specified by "it only means this when it also means a second thing, otherwise there's no meaning that isnt highly contextual"

If people like :3 so much, I'm gonna make something better.

Introducing :4

-- Companies that don't understand their target audience

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I was more thinking the wonderful artwork of the board game root (theres some gloriously ⍩ pieces and artworks in some of the additional things) taso, nimi kijetesantakalu li pona a tawa sitelen ⍩ (but kijetesantakalu is a great word towards ⍩)

If people like :3 so much, I'm gonna make something better.

Introducing :4

-- Companies that don't understand their target audience

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hear me out: ⍩ it is wonderful, isn't it

⍩ ⍩ ever since I found it today in a unicode code chart I just wanted to share its glory

If people like :3 so much, I'm gonna make something better.

Introducing :4

-- Companies that don't understand their target audience

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I had to (briefly) explain to a friend recently that linux does not run "on windows". it runs on what can run windows. it even runs on some stuff that can't run windows.

like microsoft and preinstalled windows keeps people super clueless and its so horrible. people don't even know they can be independent of microsoft. like ew how horrible is that shitty corporation

also to the people who want steamOS for desktop, that isnt how having more than just one distribution of an OS works :) you don't need steam to make steamOS for desktop you can try other distros, I hear bazzite is good for linux desktop gaming :)

and of in doubt you can try linux in a virtual machine

and for a more general purpose distro that has much if not all working right away theres Linux Mint and LMDE; and my time using opensuse has also been great

windows users love complaining about microsoft to me and when i suggest linux they're all like nooo installing it is too harddddd and when i offer helping them going through this process that is as easy as installing windows (while having none of the drawbacks) they're all like. but im scareddddd

of what? actually owning your computer???

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it is MY moral code and i will NOT share it!

fun thing about herding and/or generally neurotic breeds: they are really good at following rules you have instituted, but they will also make their own Dog Rules they will follow stringently whether or not you like it

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THSI CANT KEEP HAPPENING

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time loop where you dont notice after the first 10, 100, 1000 loops, that you are still aging. The people around you note you look tired, you look older, do you have laugh lines, when did those happen? The panic of knowing you only have so long to undo what's been done before your lifespan is spent in a day. The worry and increasing distress from your friends and family as your mother notices a gray hair on what should be her young adult child, the decay of teeth unbrushed because what's the point, nothing changes but you anyways. How did your hair get so long overnight, this shirt just fit you yesterday, what do you mean you can't stand your favorite cereal anymore? What happened to you?

good lord.

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instead of warthogs they should call them cancerpigs

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with how much time loop stuff I'm reblogging I'm reminded of how I played around with the concept a bit. there's a minecraft mod (MoCap) that can be used to essentially live in a time loop, and I had adapted tombino's datapack for that to have the loop be one minecraft day long, and I'd also had a waypoint mod and a mod that would display the time (like 6am at in-game sunrise).

I had reasoned that I should build my infrastrucutre early during the loop so I would have it the longest, and that it was better to only build smaller parts per loop so more of me could work on it at the same time so it would be finished faster; I'd prepare later in the loop and then wait at the little house until I could aid the other mes in its construction; working off memory to build what still needed doing where it needed to be built.

materials were easy to come by once I had enough for a placeable and mineable block; my actions could affect future loops but not past ones. if I placed something and piced it back up that would also happen in later loops; if in a later loop I picked it up faster past me would still also get it. my actions didn't change the "past", even if it was currently the present (they couldn't due to the technical limitation of it not involving any actual time travel. any changes made to past mes would have unpredictable effects outside of the scope of a silly little block game's ability to figure out)

now here's where the other two mods become relevant: I'd also spent some time building a little mineshaft. I didn't need many of a resource to have an infinite supply, but I still needed these initial first bits. I made a waypoint of where my ladder was so I could find it again. I looked at the time to know when I could find it and noted that down too.

I'd started thinking of daytime as just one more component of where I was, a place to get to not by mining or walking but by waiting. time does not usually feel that way, but it was intersting to somewhat have my experience gradually match the descriptions of spacetime I'd learned about in one of my physics lectures, of time as one of the four components of where something is — because in-game I'd become able to traverse it more freely, to not just be at the same location at two different times but to also be able to be at the same time at two different locations.

the concept of time as a qunatifiable coordiante/distance had become separate from the concept of time derived from experience because that only existed outside of the game now and in the way I couldn't see or interact with future loops of myself (again, a technical limitation of it not involving actual time travel). the mathematical beauty of how things work under the hood was now free of the experience of the inacessibility of past and future, of the limitations of being human that bring their own strange perspective on time.

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first day in the time loop it is not a loop yet. i go about my day and its a pretty good day and when i make my evening cup of tea i wish all days were like this