I find that straight Debian takes a bit more work to get to daily driver territory than some other distros, but I do like the balance of Linux Mint Debian Edition. Plus, I had a weirdo problem with LMDE once, and Clem actually responded himself with a fix, so thumbs up there!

I think a lot of the hate is snaps. Ubuntu has pushed a technology on the users that is unpopular before (Unity) and largely ignored the criticism, which is a Windows-like behavior. I can attest that snaps really sucked on old hardware when they first rolled out. I haven’t really used Ubuntu since 22.04, so I can’t comment on the current state of snaps, other than to say that a buddy swears they are way faster now. It’s a rock and a hard place situation for Canonical though, because if Firefox from apt crashes, Ubuntu gets hate, not Firefox.

I went to high school with a guy we called Yukon Jan. (Jan is pronounced Yawn.) I wonder how he’s doing…

I am! I’m guy from all of Canada! I haven’t been to Yukon.

Platforms themselves are self-selecting. I’m speaking for myself here. I am on Lemmy because I dislike the power that big tech has gotten to control content, policy, news, and global perceptions. As such, I self host and use federated technologies where possible. The vast majority of AI tools are controlled by the same centrally controlled big tech companies that I’m here to avoid. There are self-hosted AI tools or there, but basically every AI tool was trained using scraped data, and, for instance, my Searx-ng instance was flooded by so many bots that I had to make it harder to use for myself just to keep the bots out. My blog? Constantly scraped, killing my bandwidth. A lot of foss projects used to have bug bounty programs and accepted code from any contributor to wander in, but are now closing off due to AI slop code contributions. So, the type of person you’ll find here probably hates AI if they’re like me. Also, I work in tech and have to bite my tongue every time a co-worker “helpfully” sends me a Copilot Slop answer to a question when I was asking for a judgment call or an opinion.

I was coming to say this. Say hi to Electra and Demeter for me!

As a Canadian on Lemmy, I keep running in to the same couple of people… Hi, lady from Calgary, and guy from Ottawa! Nice to see you again!

Video! The ONLY thing I miss about Reddit is the Awoo videos!

AI “art” isn’t art, it’s theft. Your model was trained on other people’s data writ large, and did massive environmental damage in the process. You then spam post, only this, over and over to a bunch of forums on a platform that is openly hostile to big data and the harms that it causes. You also don’t punctuate, which leads me to believe that you are either ignorant or a troll, hoping for hate clicks. I am blocking you. And no, I didn’t watch it.

I’ve been running Mint Cinnamon on one for years, and it does just fine. I can’t imagine you’d have any trouble.

Yup.

So, I’m running a rando Chinese eGPU on a ThinkPad t15 gen… (Whatever an 11th Gen Intel is.) I had to spend a bit too get a nice long thunderbolt 4 cable, and I had to fart around with getting it to sleep and wake up reliably in Fedora… And my cat crashed my system totally by unplugging it mid-game in an attempt to chew on the cable. Otherwise, once I got it working, very happy with it. Had to go over all the settings when I went from Fedora 43 to 44 though. Edit: spelling.

I had that after my Lasik for about three months. That said, it was twenty one years ago, and I needed lenses so thick they couldn’t do glass, and I now may need reading glasses because of age and a totally unrelated retina issue. Been 20/20 for twenty years.

I like wiggle. If you wiggle the mouse, it gets big. Old eyes.

I’ve been running mine for a while now. I have meat hands, so I typo fairly often. The speaker is quiet, the camera is poor, but it’s a real, honest-to-good, working phone. It juuuust fits in the change purse of my jeans.

Could you mean the IP address of the DNS server? I think of DNS like a phone book. It’s a list of all the domain names like canadiancancersociety.org and their corresponding IP addresses like 209.15.37.6. the DNS server would basically be “where’s the phone book?” The most common ones being 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1, Google and CloudFlare. I use 9.9.9.9!

The Gambler by Kenny Rogers takes place on a train… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo&t=15

Train Train by the Blue Hearts, if no one already mentioned it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSkLe-EOq5U&t=8

Today I learned that Jellyfin does music. Had Jellyfin and Navidrome both for years, never even tried sticking my music library into Jellyfin. I use Substreamer on my Androids.

This! I also have an old GPU in it, passed through to whichever VM I want to game on! Total pain to set up, but then also a pain to use! I forget why I did it…

Blaster bomb at two places: Miss!