They gotta convince the shareholders that investing so much in AI wasn’t a completely idiotic idea. Especially when the majority of those investments are going to LLMs and other genAI, when the most tangible benefits will come from machine learning’s effects on R&D and data analysis…

Oh, that makes sense. I have EndeavourOS with KDE as my desktop environment, but I’m still learning what’s plasma vs. kwin vs. sddm vs. x11…

Like I get one’s the graphical shell, one’s the window manager, one’s the desktop manager, and one’s the compositor, but what each one does and how their responsibilities differ is still kinda foggy to me.

It makes sense that neon is the distro, though. That makes sense because I saw it listed as an option when I chose Endeavour.

A beer should be no more than $5…

A pint should cost its abv, basically

Ah, iconoclastic “traditionalists”: the oxymoronic morons of the century.

That sounds really cool! That’s exactly what I was hoping/expecting trillium to be, but I couldn’t find that one on the AUR so logseq it is then!

They also didn’t bother to consider maybe they might need some anti-drone technology before invading the country that manufacturers russia’s drones. You know, like that laser in arizona that shot down a party balloon or something…

What’s the difference between plasma and neon

and said the combined US-Israeli air campaign had hit more than 15,000 targets since the war began.

How many of those targets were schools, hospitals, cultural heritage sites, bazaars, cafes, and/or residential districts?

I used to think I hated computers, but once I tried linux I realized that I just hate windows (and macOS too, for that matter)

What does AI-booted mean? The boot process is deterministic. Why does it need AI?

I don’t want my bootloader to be creative or generate novel outputs. I want it to boot quickly, reliably, and the same way every time unless I change something I probably wasn’t supposed to.

What part of that could AI even be conceivably inserted into?

“Initializing gobbledygook— not just a process, but a the first of many processes which will activate in sequence to bring your computer from powered-down to ready-to-use! Beep boop.”

It’s what you do after inhaling cobras

A rug would really tie the whole room together

Your next place would become a disaster too. Stay with the disaster you know

Oh if I remember correctly, rsync needs an argument to keep ownership! You have to run it as root, but -o will keep owners and -g will keep groups. -a does both and also keeps permissions.

Hm, strange. I did rsync -aAxv if I remember correctly. I didn’t know what it meant, it’s just what I was told to use.

Maybe the problem was that some of the folders/files it copied were locked, so they couldn’t be deleted normally?

I use Endeavour, btw. I have yet to hear someone shit on it.

I’m already planning to use kup and vorta for backups.

It seems I can enter sleep mode from my login screen, but I have to be careful not to jiggle my mouse at all while clicking “sleep”. So I’m going to make a rule to disable mouse wakeup. And if I want to make it sleep from the lock screen I have to add a rule to polkit, which is kinda lame but whatever.

And I initially changed my username in the settings but I still had to run “sudo usermod -d newname -m newname” to update the /etc/passwd and home directory, which I had to do from an alternative admin account. Then I did a “groupmod” and “chown” to update my group name/ownership.

I almost panicked at first though cause all my folders were empty, but it was just a shell of my old directory. I had to manually edit the shortcut pathways to the new directory and all my files were there!

Then I did a “grep -i /home/oldname” to find any leftover places, but it was mostly present in .local/share/ for app configs, .cache/ for things like “recently used”, and my backups folder. Just a few places I need to look at today to make sure everything is fine.

Oh, and if you have any custom scripts, services, cronjobs, or symlinks containing absolute paths, you need to manually edit those too! But my system is still pretty fresh so I don’t…

Thanks!

I’m planning on installing some GUIs like Vorta and Kup. At first I was going to avoid the CLI altogether, but after a KDE update broke my system on day 1, I had to use the terminal and now I’m addicted! Learning how to use it is really opening my eyes to how the system works, so now I’ve decided I’ll do everything via CLI at least once before using a GUI.

Logseq looks interesting. How does that compare to Trullium?

Great idea, thank you!

Yeah, I actually spent days 4 and 5 troubleshooting errors in the bootlogs, and some problems with polkit not letting me put my computer to sleep.

Still haven’t fixed everything, but I did solve the main issue which was “failed to delete autoinstaller.sh” by adding an -f to the ExecStart line in systemd’s cleanup.service

But I also successfully changed my username, /home/directory, group name and ownership without breaking anything! Fortunately I decided to do it while my system was still fresh so I didn’t have many custom scripts to edit

I’m not usually one to talk nice about the PRC, but in this case it’s just the truth.

And if the US is turning into an authoritarian oligarchy surveillance state, then I might as well side with the authoritarian oligarchy surveillance state that’s at least converting to green energy. There’s literally no reason to side with the US against China anymore, and it’s the US’s own damn fault!

Those missiles could have gone to Ukraine to defend against russian tanks, but for some reason the current US administration said we couldn’t afford it…

Weird…