The games on those old computers were better, too, proving you can’t make something good just by throwing power at it. Emulators are popular for a reason.

If you frosted a muffin, would you call it a cupcake? What if you baked a really tiny sourdough loaf, with garlic and onions. If you frosted it, would it be a cupcake?

Completely different batter, so no. You would have a deconstructed cupcake.

That will drive so many people to IPFS and darknets like Freenet. And with population, businesses will come. You may never be able to access Wells Fargo from it, but there will be options.

Mastodon exploded with the Twitter drama. Lemmy’s grown substantially with Reddit fuckery. Neither are exactly mainstream, but you know what? I lived through the time when banks weren’t online, and shopping wasn’t online, and the internet and the web were much smaller: smaller is in many ways better. Sometimes having just enough, and not everything and everyone, is better.

Yay! Good for them. Great band.

Edit: Oh, man, that looks like a good show. Too bad I’ll probably have to travel out-country if I ever want to see them.

Nice color combination. We’re constantly fighting monochrome meals.

Also: I just figured out how to reliably sauté beautiful scallops, and I’ll say your’s are glorious.

It doesn’t. That’s why I said “what they’re not telling us”.

It was a joke.

Edit I haven’t tried this myself, but from what I can find the gparted part is not necessary. You can get rid of Windows and re-use it for Linux with a single command: btrfs device add / /dev/old_windows_partition. The rest of the considerations below still apply.

The answer to the question you asked is: make sure you know which partition it is and run dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<partition> bs=1024. Then you’ll probably want to find which boot loader you’re using and remove the Windows option. That will delete Windows.

To re-use the free space, which most folks are focusing on, might be far easier than all of the other comments.

Odds are decent that you’re using btrfs. Most reasonable Linux distros default to it, so unless you changed it, it’s probably btrfs. With btrfs, you can simply change the position type and add it to your existing filesystem.

1. Use the program gparted. You can do all of this on the command line with fdisk, but gparted is a GUI program and is easier if you’re more comfortable with GUIs. Find the Windows partition, make sure you now it’s the Windows partition and not the boot partition (the boot partition will be the really tiny one), click on the Windows partition and choose the “change partition type” function to switch it to a Linux partition. There will be warnings; heed them, double check, and then save and exit.
2. Add the old Windows partition to your existing filesystem with: btrfs device add / /dev/sdx2 . This adds the partition /dev/sdx2 to the filesystem mounted at / – your root partition. Replace /dev/sdx2 with whatever partition Windows used to be on.

That’s it. Now your Linux filesystem is using the old Windows partition. Without changing the boot options, when you reboot your system may still believe there’s a Windows to boot into. If you’re using EFI, it should just disappear, but with grub you’ll have to tell grub that Windows isn’t there anymore or else it’ll keep offering it to you at each boot.

You are almost certainly not using RAID, so you don’t need to worry about rebalancing.

Summary: it is very likely your distribution used btrfs for your Linux partition. In that case, the absolute easiest way to get rid of Windows and use it for Linux is to add the partition to your btrfs filesystem. No reformatting, repartitioning, reinstalling; just tell btrfs to use it and you’re done.

Time to defederate Feddit.org.

To bad. They weren’t that bad, IME. But denying criticism of a state actively carrying out a globally recognized genocide… that’s a strict rule I’ve adopted.

If midwest.social won’t defederate, I’ll have to block the whole instance.

What they’re not telling us is that, in all of the tests, the first thing they do is start organizing to eliminate the human race.

Every.

Single.

Time.

My sister was given my Grandmother’s middle name as her first.

But I don’t think those count. Many men are “Jr.” OP’s right, very few women are “Mom Jr.” What would the suffix be? Junior? Is junior non-gendered? I think of it as a masculine suffix.

Good shower thought.

Or, any of a dozen browsers in F-Droid. Each would require evaluation and research, but Android is certainly not restricted in choices.

It’s more likely hidden chips on the motherboard or in other circuits are sending data back to China. I, like you, doubt Apple is doing anything beyond the software level.

And? Are they going to take away my birthday? OP is already consisting just purging everything; it’s not like they have much they can do but lock him out. And if all he leaves being is AI garbage, I don’t see the downside.

I hear your frustration. It can be annoying. There’s a reason for it, and that’s because environment variables are limited in their use by scoping: they’re only inherited from the parent to children, and they’re pass-by-value. This means that, from a child process, you can’t influence the variables for any other sibling, or the parent. There’s no way to propagate environment variables to anyone except new children you fork.

This is a significant limitation. There is no work around using only environment variables. It’s a large part of why applications store scalar values in files: it’s (almost) the only environmentally agnostic way to propagate information to other processes.

Herbstluftwm has herbstclient getenv and setenv, because ostensibly every user process is a child of the window manager, and it’s a convenient way to communicate scalar changes between processes. tmux has similar commands; in both cases, the source of truth is the parent application, not the environment. gsettings is just Gnome’s version; KDE has it’s own version. I’d be surprised if Sway didn’t.

Environment variables are great, but they’re limited, and they are simply unsuitable for purposes. They’re also insecure: anyone with the right permissions can read them from /proc. The consequence is that it can be difficult to track down where settings are stored, especially if you’re still using some component of a desktop, which tend to manage all of their settings internally.

We do have a global solution for Linux: the kernel keyring. It’s secure, and global. It is not, however, automatically persisted, although desktops could easily persist and restore values from the keyring when they shut down or start up. Every desktop I know just keeps it’s own version of what’s essentially the Windows registry.

It’s a mess.

Maybe that’s it. All of our servers were Windows (except for a couple running other frameworks). The team didn’t have any reason to not use the frameworks, so they did.

Beauty? You don’t find women (people?) attractive if they’re not expressive; that’s fine. Everyone has their own aesthetics, and that’s great. A lot of people wouldn’t get laid if there was only one standard of beauty.

Hmmm.

How about deleting old content and then filling the timeline with AI gibberish?

I don’t have an account, and I’m not willing to create one just to do this, but it’s a golden situation: use an account you’re going to delete anyway to poison the well.

Ooo ooo ooo!

I’ve got giant meteor! Along with fascist dictator, budding violent revolution (8647), economic collapse, and developing global war (WWIII), that gives me…

BINGO

There’s always syndrome with a more particular, exotic, and “superior” brewing technique than your’s. Pour over has gotten that way, with people debating the superiority of the same brand of paper filter based on where it was made.

I have manual hand-press espresso machine I’ve had for years, but my daily go-to is a cold brew. My process is

• GRIND ALL THE COFFEE
• Dump ALL THE COFFEE into a big, plastic bucket
• Go to bed
• Wake up and decant the results into a big pitcher

Preparing the coffee for drinking is putting a kettle on, pouring a quarter cup of brewed into a cup and topping off with boiling water.

The prep is easy and I do it about once a week; the brewed concentrate is enough to last me that long, and the day-to-day preparing a cup is almost as easy and fast as a pod machine.

It’s funny that the process I used when I started with the espresso machine is far more involved and uses many more tools: scale; grinder; portafilter; newish little funnel attachment that’s really cleaned up filling the portafilter; newish little stirrer that’s improved the grounds distribution; tamper; rubber mat on which the tamping occurs; newish puck screen that dramatical improves keeping the head clean; espresso machine; knock box. What a laborious process, and it’s only gotten more steps and devices over the decades.

But now, my daily method is just cold brewed from the fridge and boiling water from the kettle. And the only tools are a scale, grinder, and an Oxo cold brewer.

In all seriousness, this is a conspiracy theory that is even harder to believe that people believe that flat Earthers. Like, do these people not have friends or family that use computers? Their existence alone is enough to disprove the pedantic version of Dead Internet, and if you even believe even a weak, watered down version (“most” content is bots), then you have to be younger than Millenials, because YouTube has been around for far longer than any convincing AI generated people videos.