Malgas

removed in, removed out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the removedtiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.

So crude, when you could use a butterfly.

It’s funny, I just switched to pulseaudio hoping it would fix some issues I’ve been having with pipewire. It did not.

Edit: I’m not on Mint, though, so best of luck.

It seems kind of disingenuous to compare enterprise support contracts for Linux to personal Windows licenses. Especially while also ignoring that you do pay for Windows, it’s just hidden in the cost of the device.

Though it is also true that Linux is gratis and Windows is not.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

Or DOS Shell.

This is much prettier, though.

We, the gamers, the geeks, the golems

What does ‘golem’ mean in this context?

Skyrim, which needed a FPS limiter to avoid glitching at the beginning.

And the opening of Skyrim has been known to glitch out on Windows, too.

Is that higher or lower than Level 5 veganism?

No, pictures like this belong in dataarebeautiful.