lengau

joined 9 months ago
[–] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

You're thinking of biathlon, with cross country skiing and rifle.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

The moment I can get a laptop-style RISC-V device with virtualisation support I'm doing it. Double bonus if I can actually use it as my daily driver.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would guess that they'll be sourcing a next-gen RISC-V processor ASAP, since those will enable virtualisation. If they stick one in a laptop shell I'd probably buy it pretty quickly. Doubly so if it has EFI.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure I'll get shouted down for this suggestion by the haters, but I'm going to make it anyway because it's actually really good:

Use an Ubuntu LTS flavour like Kubuntu. Then, add flatpak and for apps you want to keep up to date, install either the flatpak or the snap, depending on the particular app. In my personal experience, sometimes the flatpak is better and sometimes the snap is better. (I would add Nix to the mix, but I wouldn't call it particularly easy for beginners.)

This gets you:

  1. A reliable Debian-like base that you only have to upgrade to new releases every 2 years
  2. Up-to-date apps, including confinement for those apps
  3. New kernels every 6 months (if you choose - you don't have to, though)
[–] lengau@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Arch isn't exactly an easy install for beginners.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

Gotta give people their Two Minutes Hate or they might remember that voting for Democrats is, for most Americans, the actual least evil option on November 5.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

It's amazing how close they get to making good points before veering off into "Dems bad, do ."

[–] lengau@midwest.social 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This meme really doesn't fit the format. Given the standard form of the meme, you're implying that Israel are the reasonable, relatable ones here, that the warrants are unreasonable, and that someone other than the ICC has actually announced warrants.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because I didn't think it particularly important for countering this same old tired BS. But if you really want to know, it's Ann Arbor, MI and the mayor was Albert Wheeler.

(Edit and fun fact: I'm writing this from Wheeler Park right now ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Can confirm that it can do this fairly well.

Source: the time I grabbed a machine we were about to toss and made it a secondary domain controller for our site so we could nuke and pave our misbehaving Server 2012 DC.

(That other one was also a secondary DC - we just needed one on-site so we could prevent our T1 connection to another site from being the bottleneck.)

[–] lengau@midwest.social 66 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My city had ranked choice voting implemented by Democrats in the 1970s. They elected the first black mayor, who is still one of our most beloved mayors in the city's history, under RCV.

Then Republicans made it illegal at a state level when they had a trifecta. Democrats keep introducing bills at the state level to allow RCV, and Republicans take more and more drastic action against it. So yeah... I want more Democrats in my state government so we can have RCV.

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