Password recovery is itself a weakness in the system

And I did call myself paranoid for it…

This is why I switched to Bitwarden, will probably move it to self hosted at some point as well

I’ve started putting mine into my Bitwarden vault as well as Google auth, mainly because I’m a bit paranoid I’ll wind up locked out of something by trusting a second factor too much

Sure, but does that also cover accusing someone of inserting their politics into things when they suggest a change? Especially one that has nothing to do with politics at all?

Looking forward to it… Been meaning to switch to pipewire for a bit hoping it’ll fix some sound issues I’ve been having but never getting around it to, and wanting to try KDE 6+ to see if it improves running stability/crashes (and again, haven’t gotten myself around to doing it myself)

Probably even switch back to Cinnamon for a bit and see if it fixes the issues I was having with it

If you’ve got an external USB drive bigger than the laptop’s, and are willing to take the time, you could back it up by making a disk image with Clonezilla so you’re sure you have a backout option if you run into too much trouble getting Linux working

I believe it can do CLI, but that’s not always been the case and not a lot of CLI apps adopted it as a result

But for most of what the typical user, or even a lot of what a technical user, needs, it does a good job

Did Matt try putting the regular build on a newish machine? That’s what I did with my current and was struggling until I put the latest kernel on it, should have gone with Edge, but had little trouble after)

I don’t get them putting Mint down either, and I’ve built multiple Gentoo systems… I don’t need an easy distro but still use Mint and like it for what it brings (basically, it’s Green Ubuntu, what Ubuntu was supposed to be before they lost their way)

On your last point, there’s also Flatpak which is available right from the baked in software center… That’s not without its issues too, but they’ve been an overall smooth experience for me so far

What about peanut butter? Or are you more of a salted chocolate kind of person?

Oh nice. Googie once again deciding for the entire Internet what it should be using and forcing it down everyone’s throats.

I dunno, longer than 6 years, which is about how long it took for Skylake to go from brand new to not being supported by the new version of Windows?

And I honestly can’t think of a time that’s even happened before when you could get 10 running on 10+ year old processors as long as they were powerful enough. And the difference between a Core 2 Duo and a Skylake i7 is vastly more than between the Skylake i7 and the current generation.

The issue is not that the hardware stops getting support, either… It’s that the hardware is expressly and needlessly being blocked long before it’s no longer useful. My old Skylake is now 9 years old and more than capable of running as a moderate power machine on current workloads, other than being forcibly blocked to encourage me to put it in a landfill so I can continue the consumer march for more stuff to feed the corpos.

It’s wasteful. And for the most part, all that’s needed is for the old drivers to be allowed to function. And to make things like TPM 2 be optional, especially considering I don’t think you’re even required to actually use it for Windows 11, just have it.

Where at? Not finding any that low on Amazon

A lot easier than Gentoo

Now I’m kind of wanting to go mess with Gentoo again…

Never even bothered with stadia after they killed inbox

Hmm… If that’s the case, that’s news to me. I’ll admit I don’t do much with Fedora, I’ll have to take a closer look at them.

Fedora is not rolling at all, it just has a fast release cycle

I mean, that’s definitely a downside to long term stable distros. So, basically, the choice is between that and a rolling release which has the downside of the possibility of things breaking on update and never really having an easily reproducible build

Climate scientists: “do these things to fix climate change”
Everyone: “but that’s HAAARD and I don’t wanna!”
AI developers: create AI
Climate scientists: “AI is drawing massive power accelerating climate change, we need to stop that”
Everyone: “but it can tell us how to fix climate change so it’s going to be okay!”
AI climate model: “do these same things to fix climate change”
Everyone: “but that’s HAAARD and I don’t wanna!”

Yeah, I can’t see any way this could possibly fail…