• for most people, use whatever your distro ships with and installs for you
• choosing desktop environments still starts heated discussions – high end, it’s a choice between Gnome and KDE – mid-tier has Xfce, LXQt, Mate, Cinnamon, and more – limited hardware go for IceWM, JWM, FLWM, or similar – want to get your hands dirty? go for a tiling window manager
• X11 is (effectively) abandonware at this point – it’s still getting security patches, but the devs left and started Wayland 17-ish years ago
• XLibre is more political than technical – and I’ll leave it at that

I’ve had a couple systems that started with nothing more than vi, but rather more that started with nano (don’t think I’ve come across any that started with vim) – that being said, I’ll tolerate vi long enough to get micro installed

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

—Hannah Arendt

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

—Captain G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947)

(now if AppImages would work on musl systems …)

Anthony Bourdain

• it gave them an excuse to kill Skype
• they weren’t willing to let Zoom hog the spotlight

ImageMagick really is a Swiss Army Knife of usefulness …

the not ELI5 version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

solve your bad breath with a floor cleaner and gonorrhea cure

so … the same accuracy as our “precision drone strikes” then …

skip the DSA and go straight for IWW

source: the myth of the good tech giant

TIL: there are people who don’t sort by “New”

(paraphrased) “The user of the illegal service may fund the activities of criminal organisations, says Executive Director Jaana Pihkala from the copyright organisation TTVK.”

as opposed to paying the even more criminal publishers scalping the rights and screwing the creators

start with something simple that’ll teach the basics of Linux – like LFS

depending on preferences, alternatives could include UwUntu or Nyarch

7E1 in a 8N1 world

there are MANY types of horror and fear – at best, horror games might desensitize you to jump scares … but not a heck of a lot beyond that

(sidetrack: crontab guru helps you make sense of the first part of each crontab line)

yet