Killswitch Engage’s Atonement album has some excellent tracks with RATM-esque lyrics incl Crownsless King

Yeah, nothing at all against the ppl, just their slimy govt & propaganda (in fact, all slimy govt & propaganda, regardless of nationality)

Who said anything about govt? :p

Can we not just silent ban Russia from the entire Internet? Let them think they’re posting shit but no one outside their region can actually see it!? (/s… but also not)

Not sure if this will work for you, I had a problem with waking from sleep first few days, found a forum post that worked for me:

Set a color profile in the display settings - doesn’t matter which one, it just wanted one selected. Been solid-as a rock since.

So far, so good but I haven’t really thought about it since. It may not suit a purist, hardcore or someone who tweaks their system endlessly but for someone like me, I don’t want to spend me free time fiddling, breaking, then fixing my home gear.

Until Win10, I never liked to “upgrade” any OS, preferring a clean slate approach and from what I understand, that’s what I’ll get here. A clean new OS with each upgrade that eliminates any gradual degradation due to a build up of clutter and abandoned packages. All while the flat packs and my data/config reside safely in the use partition (anyone, let me know if I’ve got this wrong!)

Thanks! I’m genuinely encouraged by learning Linux. That’s why I’ve been documenting things here, to share with those like me who have tried before or hesitant to make the jump.

Agree - software is the greatest blocker these days. My recent software restriction was simply a tool I was only using for study.

I was still skeptical that it would be so easy as I’ve been burnt before by Linux on YouTube or articles that exclaim just how easy it is but I usually run into at least a couple of major issues that become a pain to overcome. Not so this time! Every PC I’ve cut over during this process has been painless.

Literally the only issue I’ve had to date was my monitor not waking from sleep - a minor fault that was fixed by selecting any colour profile that wasn’t the default.

As long as you are domain joined, group policy will get rid of all that BS (I think that’s the requirement, I’ve been out of ops for a couple of years now and the memories are fading fast!). These days, that’s the only way to make Win11 somewhat decent.

Definitely no hate for Arch, just me being a smart arse ;)

It could become as normal as talking about dancing:

"I went to dance class last night, only my second week so I still get nervous but it’s good fun and great exercise!

They taught the newer students a new dance and we had to partner up with someone we hadn’t danced with before. I got a lovely older lady and OMG - she was so agile she almost broke MY hip! I’m soo sore but going back tomorrow!"

See the much faster leak really messing with the valve stem provides? This would be even faster if snipped rather than just removing the stem core

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbpz-JHFtO0

If you snip the stem off, the tyres will be flat very quickly, they will immediately notice this when pulling away unless they’re completely clueless and ignore the car handling like shit

Yes, yes it is. The tyre is at a higher pressure than the atmosphere so any hole will allow the air to equalize but the difference is how that air comes out:

Stab the sidewall (big hole, rapidly) air rushes out with a big bang.

Snip the stem, smaller hole, air rushes out slower but still very quick. Likely flat in under a minute. Different structure/strength that sidewall which is why it doesn’t pop/explode.

If you get a puncture, the reason it doesn’t leak as fast as snipping the stem (nor pop) - usually the nail/screw is still in the tyre, keeping it plugged somewhat, the distortion of the tyre under weight means this hole can open and close as the car rolls letting out a little at a time.

Source: have had punctures that take hrs to run flat, have watched tyre techs clip stems on an old tyres, seen videos of tyres being stabbed.

The air is like a flock of sheep - as soon as one finds a way out, they all immediately rush out too.

Even a tiny nick on the stem, the tyre would be flat before they’ve fastened their seatbelts.

MS know who butters their bread. Businesses get given the tools to control windows properly. Even without needing to resort to LTSC versions, domain joined with group policy, you can manage all the shitty parts of windows to make it behave as you wish - even down to control over when you receive the updates

Good point - my thought is to go through that pain now while I’m still learning to use Linux properly. I’m not tied into anything yet so I can always swap something out if it doesn’t play with Wayland and gets too troublesome.

Began moving all my hardware to Linux this year since none of them will run win11 without fk-about-ing - and I just don’t want to. So my server, media box and laptop are all cut over, only my main desktop left on windows a bit longer but it’s goose is cooked too.

I’ve tried dozens of distros over the years but I’ve settled on Fedora KDE.

The why:

• Skipping x11 and head straight into Wayland so I don’t have to worry about that in the future.
• I wanted something more up to date than debian-based and less cutting edge then Arch-based.
• Stability and support of being in the RHEL family
• Flatpaks
• Tried to get on with gnome to get away from the ‘start menu’ paradigm but ended up getting on with kde better.

And a formatting-stripping tool

Lord of War: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/

Too little, too late!