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I hope no finds out how easy it is to download software like lmstudio and 1click install DeepSeek-R1 or hundreds of other models to test at home on desktop hardware. It would be a terrible, possibly criminal, bit of information.

LLMs will replace the programmers right before they replace the satarists.

Some of us are IT admins who have been in the game since the 1990 and have seen this happen before. The chances of a good outcome wrt Threads are vanishingly small. Not zero for sure, but damn close.

Team Live Large and Kick Butt!

BTRFS is honestly really great and has been for the last few years. Dont take the word of random people on the interwebs, check out some modern sources of info on the subject. Some people love to complain about RAID5/6 but if you use BTRFS the BTRFS way then it is solid.

With that said, if you dont need snapshots, drive mirroring, sub volumes, bit rot protection etc then EXT4 is hard to beat for reliability.

Oh. My. Goo.

I worked for Interplay back in the 90s. It was pretty great for me, launching my IT career. Working in QA did temporarily ruin my ability to play games for fun though.

you commented :

why does KDE need a specific videoplayer?

I have not seen anything that indicates KDE requires a specific video player. So I was asking does it NEED a specific player or just have a default that it is installed with?

Does it NEED a specific player or just come with a default?

Seems more of an Arch platform…

Third. KDE is really amazing now.

Because they dont have to.

Are you saying it was The Best of Both Worlds?

Yggdrasil, Mandrake, Slackware (on floppy!) that takes me back…

For me it was pretty great. I was young, did not have many expenses and enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere and weird people. Play testing games got old really quick and it was rare that any game could continue to be fun after “playing” it all day every day. Carmaggedon was one of those few. It was not even a priority as it was part of a package deal that Interplay would publish it along with some other utterly forgettable game. Brian, the owner of the company, took notice of it when he came to QA one day and found a bunch of us playing a LAN game when we were supposed to be working on other titles. After a few years of game testing I was kind of burned out and was going to quit but got hired into the IT dept. Here I am almost 25 yrs later still doing IT, though not in the very volatile games business.

No regrets, it worked out well for me.

I QA tested Carmageddon when I worked at Interplay oh so many years ago. It was one of the only games I worked on that I could still play for fun after. I think I still have my boxed copy.

BeamNG is a blast. Utterly unforgiving.

WAT?

I can not make sense of this comment at all. Can you explain what it is you mean?

Probably all the new ad-blocking blocking, telemetry, and data harvesting.

Mint and pop are basically ubuntu

Which makes Ubuntu basically Debian right? So just install that!

For a user coming from Windows I recommend Mint Cinnamon as it will give them the best, most familiar experience. Yes a newbie could find and install Ubuntu Cinnamon but the default ISO on the downloads page will saddle them with Gnome.

Real “Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” energy