queerlilhayseed

however you see yourself, you come off like a not-very-creative troll in this thread. needling people about grammar is maybe the oldest troll bullshit on the internet and it was never funny. There are venues where adhering to a formal style is important (arguably), but a random thread on a forum ain’t it. It’s ok to show up in your linguistic sweatpants sometimes.

are you suggesting that people maybe shouldn’t invest so much of their time and attention on things that ultimately maybe don’t matter all that much?

I find my little joys in my little jokes. I don’t know how much it helps, but I do enjoy it.

I did not bother to check if it actually exists, I actually don’t know if they would allow that specific bet. But, they are ghouls that profit off the exploitation of the powerless so I’m sure they’re working on it.

can’t wait to see who wins the “first sitting governor to be arrested by the Trump admin” bet on polymarket.

I think they all see the knives in the shadows, but they all think they’re cunning enough to take more advantage than is taken of them.

This may be unwarranted optimism but my hope is that, while Roberts is a world-class douchebag, he is at least a smart douchebag, and he knows that this ruling would be bad for the people who pay his bribes. Trump and co, while they share his passion for grinding the poor into the dirt, are also genuinely morons who don’t think through the consequences of their actions. c.f. Iran. Roberts (I think and hope) knows that this is a bridge too far, so he’s publicly squaring with the president to give the illusion of judicial independence.

Roberts replied: “It’s a new world. It’s the same Constitution.”

There’s the Chief I know. Originalist in the streets, textualist in the sheets.

The mission is to flood the zone in the hopes that some of their bullshit slips through. The more of it that fails, the better. I don’t think losing this ruling is a mortal blow for MAGA in any sense, but it will be better for Americans if this is one of the ones that fails.

They ruled that the lower court had to apply strict scrutiny to the case and tossed the case back down, so the case hasn’t been decided yet. Still bullshit, since we’re talking about medical treatments by licensed professionals and not the rights of ordinary citizens, but as far as I can tell they didn’t offer an opinion as to whether Chiles’ practice is lawful or unlawful.

Unfortunately, state legislators largely don’t face any consequences for losing in court. The damages are paid by the state, and they get fodder for the “The courts are all liberal deep-staters determined to corrupt the children” propaganda machine that raises money for their next election. Whenever they enact legislation that does pass judicial scrutiny, people start feeling its effects and, shockingly, get pissed about it. Much simpler to just endlessly pass unconstitutional bills that get shot down in court and complain that government doesn’t work and keep the culture war stoked. It’s a great system I really love it here 😑

😆 This thread was what made me realize I’m at the 20 year mark. Funny how the milestones keep sneaking up. You’d think after doing it for so long getting older would feel more familiar.

I think the ideal is to have some people who gravitate toward the bleeding edge, and some people who gravitate toward the stable center. I think, when the system works well, each group benefits the other. For example, I like debian for my servers because I like my servers to be as stable and low-maintenance as possible, but I am also really fascinated by NixOS and its approach to system administration. Personally I still need to play with it some more before I trust it with a production service, but I could see running a Nix-based distro at some point. And I appreciate all the brave testers out there right now, finding problems and fixing them. What they do makes my life as a simple server manager a lot easier.

Agreed. I found a pleasure in using openbox that I have not found in other DEs. Working with such constrained and frankly crappy hardware made it worth the investment to get the UI as light and functional as it could be, and I’m pleased with the performance I got out of that little machine. It was fun to use. Then it got stolen and I had to start from scratch as I had no backups because I had nothing to back up to, and the task of replicating it all over again seemed daunting, so I decided it was worth getting comfortable with a DE that worked more or less how I wanted it to out of the box. There is something to be said for the ease of defaults, but I’ve never gotten a machine that “just so” , before or since.

How do you like it? I’ve seen it around but never installed it to play with it. Is it helpful in your creative endeavors?

I don’t use the ArchWiki as much as I used to, but I have been in awe of it for a while. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen another wiki of similar scope that well put together. It’s quite an achievement in my opinion.

That’s how it should work, I think. All the downstream distros do their crazy experiments, the community identifies what it likes and doesn’t like, and what it likes makes its way upstream to spawn. The further upstream it gets, the wider its influence is felt. Debian is what makes it that far upstream.

The day I stop distrohopping will be the day I die.

The first linux distro I remember using was Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake), so I’m just about at 20 years, maybe a bit less than that; I think it had been released for a while before I decided to give it a go. I tend to stick with debian-based distros, though I’ve used arch variants off and on for my daily driver for years at a time. Still got it kicking around on some machines now, though not any of my daily drivers. Servers are a mix of Debian and Ubuntu Server, machines with UI are either Ubuntu or Mint, or some resource-light version of Ubuntu, depending on the device and the mood when I last reformatted them. I have used Fedora/RedHat/CentOS at various points, but usually because someone was paying me to do so. Same story with OpenSUSE, but even less commonly. I have a few devices running variously dated versions of PostmarketOS, Lineage OS, even one device that still runs CyanogenMod (it does not get internet privileges). I have a few Raspberry PIs that all run Raspbian (or whatever it’s called now).

EDIT: Just remembered I used to use CrunchBang Linux for a long time. I bought the only computer I could afford (a “netbook” with Win 10 Starter), put crunchbang on it (after experimenting with a few distros), and really kinda fell in love with OpenBox. I don’t use it anymore because I don’t like the default settings and haven’t been bothered to set it up properly lately, but I had that netbook set up just so and it worked really well. it was my main and only computer for several years.

Goosebumps is high praise, thank you for saying so 🥰