Yeah, sure. But I don’t run a shop anymore and just picked up an off the shelf machine from a retailer.

Turned it on, connected it to wifi, then it took forever to try and update itself, which failed, required another reboot, then made me sign in, which also failed, needed a reboot

I dont want a fucking ms account, I don’t want to wait for every update, just ask my name and take me to the desktop

I’ve been a full time dev since 2012 and needed a Mac, I had barely used windows over that time but beforehand ran a PC service business.

Anyway, Ive been using Linux as a daily driver for the past 6 months for reasons.

… The other day I got a new cheap laptop I needed to setup for run a single application.

Holy fuck what a shitshow.

It took me 2 hours just to get to the desktop. Shit didn’t work, bullshit login screens, ads everywhere.

It was a massive pile of dog shit.

After battling to get the system setup for the rest of the day I gave up, chucked Fedora Kinoite On it… Took 30 minutes from creating boot media to getting a desktop going, chucked the app I needed to run in a Flatpack, chucked it on a USB, and it was up and running.

No bullshit.

Just works.

Truly the year of the Linux desktop.

I’m a fan of AI, I know that’s unpopular here but I think it’s a cool tool.

But you need to know what you are doing and how to program. I’ve said before we are going to see sooo much of this

The reality is we will always need engineers. Certainly not ready yet, but we probably won’t always need “programmers” - which is a shame because I do get a kick out of solving a really complex problem in a super elegant way

Sucked in!

That’s exactly what’s happening, this is all just so he can invoke the insurrection act and mobilize MAGA as the militia

A little bit ago it flew under the radar that he put into place that he could raise a militia if there was a revolution. Can’t remember the act, not an American citizen.

But around then it was said that he would start this and it could happen around April.

The thing is that the act has some funky wording and the militia need not be the national guard, and he can mobilize MAGA to act as the militia.

So that’s probably the next step.

Not when everything smells of spent gunpowder

Does that hurt the journalist?

Twitter is different though - it’s just shouting into the void

I’m Australian and there NO way I would be going anywhere near the states any time soon.

My prediction is trump is going to mobilise Maga as a militia and you guys are headed for a full blown civil war

Oh I thought he got fully convicted but just dabbed, screeched yeet and became president

He’s been impeached it didn’t do squat

If you don’t support doge, then you will be the next to go

Might as well use it to just shoot up schools then

Honestly, one of the great uses for gen ai is “write me a script to diagnose this problem” and then pass the output back with “write me a script to fix it”

I don’t have the bandwidth in my life to diagnose and tinker for fun, and it’s really made a bunch of big annoying things easy.

I found KDE way more intuitive than gnome, even though I was last on a Mac before the switch. Perhaps pick a KDE distro.

Also maybe list here if you have any deal-breaker apps or workflows to the folks can say if it’s worth your effort.

And so it moves closer to the handmaids tale every day

“these lazy fucks in the government are using ai to come up with policy”

Also news outlet

“I am too lazy to do the laziest thing I’m angry about, even though it’s my literal job”

Fuck yeah. Pop some bottles in the ice

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