You should check out recent articles from The Onion. They have absolutely pulled out all the stops and gone full-IDGAF.

If someone uses your name to justify cruelty, no matter how insignificant the person may be, it’s always worth speaking up.

It’s going to take an eternity for God and his son to get caught up on this.

Bruh.

One of us! One of us!

Although I think having to fix a borked bootloader is a good bit of experience, it’s probably not something you are always going to want to spend time on. I have used boot-repair only once, but it was like magic. Just throwing it out there for your future use and a general recommendation. :)

https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/

Huh, that’s interesting! A difference I wouldn’t have expected.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

;-)

Sorry, it didn’t even occur to me that it might be kbin specific - it was like that at reddit too, needing to escape the slash

This is on my desktop browser…

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Edit: You have to do it like this to get the left arm to look right, just FYI.

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I do see your point, but it’s out there now. How many thousands of people just grabbed it, or will, because of the article?

Just like PGP, decss, and countless other things, it will be kicking around at the usual places for anyone who wants it for long time, probably well past the point where anyone cares anymore.

I am so glad that nothing I do in life will ever cause this problem to matter to me.

The way I was taught in school, the answer is clearly 1, but I did read the blog post and I understand why that’s actually ambiguous.

Fortunately, I don’t have to care, so will sleep well knowing the answer is 1, and that I’m as correct as anyone else. :-p

I really thought I was glued to any and all events related to George Floyd and the protests in 2020, but somehow I missed BlueLeaks.

For anyone else interested:

https://www.wired.com/story/blueleaks-anonymous-law-enforcement-hack/

https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/BlueLeaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueLeaks

This has just led me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out why this meme exists.

So far, I have failed.

Glad it’s not just me.

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When I bought my laptop i was using windows and didn’t research Linux compatibility :(

I apologize for my general grumpiness this morning. Totally reasonable. :-)

And yup. A decade ago was when Linux turned a corner on the wifi driver front, 11 years ago was hell

I lol’d. :-)

I mean, if you buy broadcom you reap what you sow. And 2012 was 11 years ago. ;-)

Ah, a very common use case.

I don’t think I have for more than a decade and I’m kinda amazed at how many upvotes this meme got.

It’s a really simple problem to avoid, and IMO has been for years. It’s been at least 10 years since I’ve bought something without intel wifi so maybe I’m out of touch, but I’m kind of astounded there are so many upvotes to the meme.

My rule for a very long time has been: Get something with intel wifi, or even atheros wifi, and you will almost certainly not have a problem. Get broadcom wifi and your problem will directly relate to how much effort your distro has put into trying to make broadcom not be shit. Stay the fuck way from realtek and mediatek.

That’s it. I literally can’t recall a time since about 2010 when I had a wifi problem with Linux on any device I owned.

I keep two of these in my bag for instant wifi on any device I might happen to be working on that doesn’t have it. Most recently popped one into an old desktop I picked up for my youngest son, and have used it previously as a workaround for someone who had a laptop where the onboard wifi worked but would not come back from sleep. (That was broadcom, IIRC)

Nothing specific. When I first jumped from gnome I spent probably more than a year going “damn that was thoughtful” or “wow, that’s super convenient” as I discovered different features. As I said, I was an earlyish adopter of Plasma 5, and it was enjoyable just to watch it take shape.

I like what the KDE team does, and I like seeing Plasma continue to get better, so I’m just looking forward to a fresh new release, and discovering all the little niceties.

And bringing back the compiz style cube is pretty nice too. 😁

That’s good to know, thanks!