

honestly just get rid of RTD. I mean yes, his first run with the show was amazing but his second run has just been…oof. Or bring my Moffat
Freelance/Consultant Web Dev, EVE Online Player, Linux/FOSS advocate.


honestly just get rid of RTD. I mean yes, his first run with the show was amazing but his second run has just been…oof. Or bring my Moffat


Because just like EVERY other judge that has done this in the past he’s getting a kick back.
“yahoo chat”
instantly thought of: https://michaelcharm.ytmnd.com/
A LOT of devs did. was either MySpace, Geocities, or LiveJournal.
I mean every web dev my age I know pretty much all started with geocities so this is valid. that’s how I started. I had a legal pad that was just full of html where I wrote down all the various tags and what they did. Even more devs I know got their start by modifying their MySpace pages.
I set up my own instance but…I don’t use it. I followed a bunch of other instances and channels and I’m not sure if I didn’t configure it correctly but i’m getting no live streams, no real good content, just nothing I want to watch.
I don’t know. I want to like it but there’s just not much decent on it that I can find.

Italian company that likes to buy up mediocre performing tech companies. They also own Vimeo, Meetup, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove, etc.


Codeberg I donate to once a month. If I find some repo or project/cli/tui or whatever that I enjoy using I’ll donate to their Ko-Fi.
Basically Codeberg is guaranteed and for anything else it’s whatever peaked my interest at that moment.


bingo. and this won’t be a one and done thing, he’s talking about a third term for real this time. this is all part of the plan. People won’t be eating in a matter of days, the administration is counting on riots, and marshal law will be very long lasting as will a “state of emergency” that will be sure to last for a third term and if something goes wrong health wise for trump another president will be “appointed”.


The same Carney that wants to pass a bill so the police can demand your ID willy nilly? the same Carney that in another bill wants to install backdoors to various Canadian networks for “surveillance” purposes? The same Carney that in ANOTHER bill wants to block refugee hearings and “stay the course” on Canadas current illegal drug policy which clearly isn’t working.
That Carney?


utilizing things like ReviOS or something, by passing the forced account creation, etc.


I think the appeal of it is more the fact that you pay a premium to get the software that these users would likely use right off the bat and one on one tech support. So your valid point of stability and ease of upgrade really, at this point, wouldn’t be a concern for these users.
Like say for example you’re not that tech savvy and you want to switch just because you’ve seen posts online about how switching to Linux will get more life out of your laptop. Being that you’ve only ever known Windows would you rather deal with like a ubuntu stackoverflow or Arch forum or whatever for support or pay the premium to get one on one support for the OS? That’s their demographic.
I would say the vast majority of Zorin users want something that “just works” and for them Zorin provides that. I’ve said previously I’m by no means a fan of the OS as I don’t like the fact that some of the features that you can get for free on other distros are locked behind a paywall but at the end of the day I get it.


there’s a reason these scammers target the elderly.


I recently slapped linux on an old (10 years or so) chromebook and you’re right. It’s a…process to say the least.
what’s it good for? not much. It flips around so you can use it as a tablet/touch screen but my god was that like almost a days worth of tinkering to get working correctly. if you flipped the screen over to make it a tablet the screen wouldn’t rotate correctly. lots of adjustments just to get it to work. Also you have to keep in mind the storage you have available. mine has all of 16gigs.
So what’s it good for? a glorified terminal station that can SSH into my server. I initially went with XFCE but after awhile I figured even THAT was overkill as all I was really using or could use was the terminal. So I slapped Cagebreak on it (honeslty could have just gone with Cage) and use it as a simple termnial station and a glorified jellyfin client via jftui.
Was it worth it? no, but it was more of a hobby project and nothing that I would ever consider as a daily driver at all. It’s just an old POS chrome book I can use while laying in bed to watch a movie or tv show from my server and mess around in the terminal.


I haven’t really seen it on my various instances but I believe their marketing have been pushing it elsewhere like twitter for example. I mean the demographic that Zorin would appeal to isn’t likely to be in the fediverse. they’ll be on platforms like twitter, bluesky, reddit, etc. These are Windows users that may not be the most tech savvy but don’t want to continue using Windows for various reasons.


I’m not a fan of Zorin, I don’t like the fact that one of their features for the paid version is a bunch of KDE Plasma themes you can download for free from the KDE store but for someone migrating from Windows I get it. I believe the access to one on one tech support is worth the price of admission alone for these users.


for assistance with contributions? fine, let the babies have their bottles.
But to also utilize LLM’s for the review process of said contributions? yeah good luck with that Fedora.
Don’t get me wrong I like fedora, it’s a good “noob” linux distro but some of the decisions these dudes make just make me scratch my head. Look at some of the spins for example, especially the Sway spin and you can’t help but think “why would they do that?”


I’m Canadian and pretty much every American I’ve met that came up here has been nice. Loud, but nice. but seriously, you guys are really loud.


yeah with the way things have been going this tracks.
I don’t care what anyone says RE0 is still my favourite in the series.