jjjalljs

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 6 days ago

Justin Humphrey should be removed from office.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It could maybe be useful information if the questions, answers, and test taking process are all public and non-binding.

Like, they get a pen and paper and a quiz appropriate for high school seniors. They're filmed taking it in a classroom, and the results are all public. Different institutions can grade each test.

If you want to vote for the guy who says "the president writes laws" then that's on you.

If conservatives try to make it like old timey literacy tests, it's non binding so it can't so much harm. Might even make them look bad, since it's all public.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 week ago

Lol, yeah. If I saw an account labeled “American Nazi Party” with a blue check mark, I wouldn’t think “wow, Bluesky endorses Nazis” - I’d think “wow, this isn’t a satire account, these are actual Nazis, imma block them.”

I'd think "wow they let Nazis on here. Like they know about them and are cool with that. This place is trash"

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yep. I've been during linux as my main desktop for maybe a year or two now, and it's been fine. I don't tinker with it. Most things just work.

The only thing that's been a little dicey is mods for games, but I think I just need to figure out how like wine and proton prefixes work. It's probably not hard, I just haven't had a need lately.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)
  • read Bandcamp's writeups. Sometimes they do a deep dive into a genre, city, or band. https://daily.bandcamp.com/
  • if you find something you like, scroll down and there's other users who bought it. Peek into their collections
  • if you scroll down further on an album, there will be more recommendations
  • you can search by genre or tag, too
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's not to my knowledge a good way to run/test GitHub actions locally. So if I want to verify my change uploads the coverage report after the end of the pipeline, I have to run the whole thing. And then I find an error because on the GitHub runner blah blah is different

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 2 weeks ago

Capitalism. The rich owner types don't like this sort of thing, and they have a lot of power. They don't really have coherent values except "in-group to protect, out-group to bind" and "no one tells me what to do. i tell you what to do."

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 weeks ago

I bought a couple things on epic early on because I thought competition would be good. But epic kind of sucks and has no Linux support, so I stopped.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 2 weeks ago

I tell people about lemmy and send them links. Mostly people don't care about anything. Abstract or remote things like "should a platform be owned by one asshole?" just doesn't even enter their brain.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've thought about switching. I do like the password saving and syncing between Android and desktop that Firefox does, and I'm not sure if the forks do that.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

No regrets on switching to Linux here. Almost all of the time I just use the GUI to launch steam or Firefox. No AI nagging me (aside from whatever nonsense Firefox is up to)

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 60 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't get one because it's too expensive.

Steam deck was a little pricey but it has a backlog of games going back like 50 years, and I already have a large library. Plus the games are cheaper.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

A friend of mine has an old macbook air. It still works, more or less, but the OS isn't getting any updates anymore, and updating to the latest OS seems dicey.

Has anyone had experience installing linux on an old macbook? From a quick internet search it looks like you can just make a bootable USB and have at it. Thinking mint because it's popular and my friend is a pretty basic user. The laptop will be mostly used for like youtube/netflix and basic web browsing.

Edit: a little extra context: I am moderately comfortable with Linux. I ran mint for a while on my desktop, and I've done software development for a job. I can install docker and start a python project fine, but I'd use a GUI for like partitioning a hard drive.

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