spauldo

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[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've never talked to an Arch user about Linux, so I dunno how toxic their community is. But I do read Arch documentation, and it's fantastic. Arch's documentation has (for me, anyway) taken the place that used to be held by the old HOWTOs back in the early days.

The kind of cooperation required to accomplish this doesn't speak of a toxic community to me. I didn't watch the video since I don't watch YouTube on my phone, but I'm guessing it's not the Arch community that has issues but annoying teenage "I'm more 1337 than you" jackwads that are the turd in the Linux punchbowl. Those little cretins are drawn to distros like Arch because they like feeling superior to the "normie" users.

I should know, I used to be like that thirty years ago. Most of us grow out of it after we start getting laid.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

They wouldn't be able to build it. It wasn't until the 16th or 17th century that metallurgy and machining were advanced enough to build atmospheric steam engines, much less high pressure ones.

You need a lot of tech to jump start an industrial revolution.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

So it did. That's interesting.

It was the fact that they used RPMs that made me think they were a Red Hat derivative. I didn't care for Red Hat (I ran Slackware back then, switching to Debian around Hamm) so I never gave them a chance. Pity.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It never caught on in the states.

IIRC it was originally based on Red Hat (back when Red Hat Linux was a thing), wasn't it?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Depends if the door was in the rear.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I paid for a car that I could drive halfway across the country in and be comfortable,not spend a fortune on fuel, and not worry too much about it stranding me on the side of the road. The smart screen just happened to come with it. So it seems to have worked out fine for me.

Are you naturally an asshole or are you making a special effort here?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bisexual folks don't want any confusion over what the "B" means.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Or just don't connect your phone to it. That's what I do. I've never touched the "smart" screen in my car except to adjust the air conditioner.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Except the ones that aren't.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If he votes too much with the Republicans he'll lose party support. There's a reason party members tend to vote the same. Without party support he'll have a hard time getting reelected in a red district unless he flips parties again.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds normal. The Linux kernel shipped by most distros detects (most of) the hardware automatically, and if you're using UUID mounts in fstab all your filesystems will be in the right place. Your network config is probably newly generated, but unless you're using wireless you probably won't notice.

You might check to see if Windows has deactivated itself.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I saw that as an adult and it fucked with me.

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