TimeSquirrel

Headline: MAJOR EXPLOIT FOUND IN NEW LINUX KERNEL VERSION!

Debian: business as usual…

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Why call it a podcast? Digital audio interviews existed before the iPod. Just following your logic.

I guess my point it, why does it matter? We both know what it means. The language has accomplished its goal of communication.

Oh, looking for some lebensraum, are we?

Maybe I should keep it a hobby and not pursue a career. That kind of shit would mess with me. I tend to pour my heart and soul into my programming.

No better way to learn and get used to it than ripping off the bandage and being forced to deal with it. That’s what I did. Been Windows-free for ten years. If you still have a Windows partition around, it may be too tempting to just go back to it when things get a bit hairy.

As far as games, yeah, it sucks that I can’t play some games, but I’ve filled that time with more productive hobbies. I can program C and C++ now, self taught on Linux.

But the more people that jump ship, the more developers will target Linux, so it’s just a matter of time now before you can play anything again. It’s definitely a 1000x better environment now than when I switched back then.

First clue was the “ata” prefacing every error message. Then various things like “SCSI parity error” which indicates data corruption during transmission. “Parity” data is used to double check the integrity of the actual data.

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Welcome_to_the_GalliumOS_Wiki

Unfortunately, looks to be discontinued, I just checked. I guess I gotta check up on my mom’s laptop and get her something that’s still getting updates haha. That news totally slipped by me.

Not Windows, but I rooted/cracked an old Chromebook for my mother and put Gallium OS on it because newer ChromeOS wasn’t suported anymore. She was able to take care of affairs with it when my Dad passed and uses it daily still to keep in touch and manage her life. 90% of what she does takes place in Firefox, so as long as an OS has that and some basic utilities like a calc and text editor, she’s good to go.

A $150 laptop bought in 2013 still able to accomplish modern tasks. It makes me sick thinking of the throwaway society we have created. When I pass by the neighborhood dumpster and see an entire perfectly fine big screen LCD TV with just a couple bad capacitors in the power supply. When I see entire vapes with batteries littering the ground. When Microsoft decides to arbitrarily kill off an entire previous generation of PCs with TPM.

I plug in an external drive every so often and drag and drop parts of my home dir into it like it’s 1997. I’m not running a data center here. The boomer method is good enough and I don’t do anything important enough to warrant going all out with professional snapshot based backup solutions and stuff. And I only save personal documents, media, and custom config files. Everything else is replaceable.

I bought a copy of Corel Linux in 2001 at a USAF base exchange because I was a broke airman and was building my first homebuilt PC and didn’t want to shell out money for Windows, and I didn’t have Internet to pirate it in the dorms (this was the days of no wifi and pay as you go Internet cafes). I thought it’d be JUST like Windows, and I could get shit done, and the differences were just like those between Mac/PC. Just a different interface.

Boy was I wrong. It sucked balls. I didn’t pick up Linux again until Ubuntu in 2006. Now I daily drive Debian. Oh well, at least it came with an inflatable penguin.

I use KDE because it has a cute dragon instead of a stinky foot.

EMP harpoons, electrified nets, and thermite-dispensing Raspberry Pi powered smart drone swarms, get yer open source killer robot dog countermeasures on Tindie.com now, 25% off sale.

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Welcome back to 1985 I guess. Now you’re going to need a green phosphor CRT and a dot matrix printer.

The good news is that afterward, some redneck drunkard scientist with a spare Titan II missile somewhere in Montana will give us warp drive.

And then this thing on top of that, again. Over and over.

It kinda does matter if you want updated drivers and packages and stuff. I use Debian because I love its bare bones, generic approach and I’m used to it, but I’d never recommend it for anyone playing the latest games unless they like cruising five years in the past.