I started with PowerPPC back in the '90s (it did not even ship with a working X system). Then went to Debian a few years later, and it was great. I played around with Gentoo for a little while when it first came out, then ended up back on Debian after a couple months. Then I played around with Arch for a little when it showed up, then went back to Debian. After that I just said fuck it, and have stuck with Debian. I run testing/unstable unless it’s some side server I have, in that case I just run stable. I hear good things about OpenSUSE and Fedora, but at this point I’m old and don’t feel like trying something when I have no issues. Tiling WM and Vim. That’s about all I seem to need.

I tried FreeBSD for several months about 15-20 years ago. I really liked how clean the filesystem and environment felt, and have suggested it for many people over the years. In the end I couldn’t get around their license vs GPL.

When the Supreme Court loses all legitimacy, like it has, things get shittier much, much quicker.

All the Dems I know, which is just about every person I know, don’t’t have a problem with it.

Thomas Tusser in Five Hundred Pointes 
of Good Husbandrie, 1573:

  A foole & his money,
  be soone at debate:
  which after with sorow,
  repents him to late.

I also couldn’t find a better map on that link. The state itself is strikingly partisan, and I can’t imagine a map that wouldn’t reflect that. That could just be my lack of imagination though.

Corporate partners were brought on and more than $1.5 million was raised for the project. . . . No new home for animals was built, the main corporate partner pulled out and no one seems to be able to account for what happened to more than $300,000 that had been raised.

I wonder what happened to the $90,000, I mean if I was given and extra $2,000 I would know where it was. In fact, if this is a problem, I’ll just return the $17 bucks. Jeez.

Oh goodness.

I wish people would explain their downvotes for this post. It has more information and nuance than 99% of the posts on lemmy. I guess because it doesn’t fit whatever rage they are currently entertaining.

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I had to laugh at an earlier observation of a homeless guy being kicked out of the UCI encampment by the protestors.

EDIT: Hal Holbrook wasn’t wrong when he said the change in the audience over the years for his Mark Twain show was a quickly dwindling ability to appreciate satire.

You can look up the man page for date. I’m not sure if that’ll do, but it’s pretty easy. Something like date --set="1 MAY 18:00:00" as root.

Two authoritarian assholes spoon on international stage.

China’s neighbor’s brains: CHINA BAD

Well, “agreeing with the Texas AG” was not on my list of expected things today. Or this month. Or this year. But here I am.

I’ve spent the last few hours reading this. Fucking hell. I remember the news reports that came out about Elan, but this first hand account is really something else.

Jesus Christ. I feel like I’m back on reddit with a bunch of assholes. The original person was posting about tariffs being anti-free market. I made a post saying it’s not a fair comparison due to several issues. I never said the US was fantastic or some utopian paradise. Your reply is also an insincere comparison. Migrant workers in the US are often undocumented workers from a different country (Don’t try to say I’m excusing their treatment). The article I posted was about Chinese citizens being migrant workers in China. Even then, this dumb ass argument is a strawman to my original point. But for some reason, people on here have a weird hard on for China or the US. It’s fucking ridiculous.

BeOS on my old PowerPC blew my mind in the late 90s.

Unpaid wages are a chronic problem in China. Migrant workers are rarely given formal employment contracts. China’s state-run labour unions (independent ones are banned) often side with management in disputes. So companies are under little pressure to pay workers in a timely manner. Sometimes, when business is bad, they refuse to pay them at all. Tensions typically come to a head in the period before the Spring Festival, when migrant workers scramble to get months of back pay before going home. source

Now talk about environmental issues and state market manipulation.

Please show me where I said US was fantastic. Please. I would never say that. I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with people, but it has something to do with basic comprehension.