bizarroland

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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Which is fair. Fedora never called itself red hat. CentOS never called itself red hat.

Suse is a pretty good company and deserves the right to their intellectual property and trademarks. OpenSuse shouldn't make a big deal out of simply changing their name.

They could rename themselves to OpenSusame and keep rolling without any issues whatsoever.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

I agree. It's not that I expect Linux to be like windows. It's not and that's a good thing. I'm just thinking for when I encounter people and they ask me, "Hey, I was thinking about trying a Linux. What should I do? Which one should I pick?"

I'm going to recommend Kubuntu.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Kubuntu.

The prevailing wisdom used to be that if somebody is tired of Windows and wants to switch you would send them to Ubuntu. Having used Ubuntu and Debian and Mint and Pop! OS and CentOS and Red Hat and Fedora and Kubuntu, Kubuntu with the new KDE plasma desktop seems to be the most Windows like while still retaining the Linux flavor OS that I have used so far.

Ubuntu by comparison is slow and convoluted and those are huge turn offs for neophyte Linux users who want to get away from Windows.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 26 points 2 months ago

Exactly. Plus the common use of mastering at the time was to optimize the recorded audio for printing on a vinyl disc, and if the grooves were too deep or the transitions too sharp it could cause the needle to skip out of the track.

If your average listener is going to be listening on a mono device then a smart thing to do would be to pan one thing consistently to one side and the other to the other as the mono needle isn't going to care where it's getting its vibrations from. That would give you more resolution and more depth for the cut, as long as the final disc was only played in mono.

I'm not saying that's the case for every recording but I'm pretty sure it has happened quite a few times back then while they were still figuring everything out.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

The easiest starting point into those things is the Apocrypha.

It tells a lot of interesting stories that are temporally relevant to the New testament, but we're chosen to not be a part of it by the King James commission for one reason or another.

They should also be available somewhere online to read for free.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I'll be Jesus, if you'll be my Judas and betray me, so I am not forgotten, so my story will live on.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

I recommend cruising your local thrift stores until you find a dark brown brother laser printer for about $6.99.

The market is replete with second hand toner and fusers and repair parts and it will just print what you need it to print.

Many of them should have Network compatibility with an ethernet cable, but if not you can purchase a very cheap older raspberry pi and run CUPS on it and network it that way.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 0 points 2 months ago

I did that in my last job.

The computer they gave me was a piece of crap so I brought an older home computer to work.

And I did all of my work on that computer.

And at the end of the day I used that computer to mine cryptocurrency.

Made about 6,000 extra dollars.

Unethical? Yes. But me needing to use my own equipment to accomplish my work requirements was also unethical so I feel like it balances out.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's not even a difficult law to pass, "if a cloud service goes out of business, its software becomes public domain. If the company is acquired, the sale must include a promise to keep the services operational for the full lifetime of the product unless the software is public domained"

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 74 points 2 months ago (33 children)

I'm looking forward to the "how to hack your Tesla to 100% operational functionality using a raspberry pi 9 and this dongle, run your car with your phone!" youtube videos (or whatever streaming service steps over its flaming corpse to replace) it in the next few decades

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