welcome traveler

this reminded me of when i visited my uncle at his job. he worked as an upper manager at a small natural foods packaging company and when i made a joke about their "tamper proof" packaging also being "customer proof" he got really fucking mad and defensive about it

hal-monitor

✨⚾️ BASEBALL YURI ⚾️✨

Hey. So. Bad day for my Linux advocacy.

I've been having this periodic issue with Ubuntu where, seemingly at random, some of my drivers just.... Break. My ethernet stops working, my wifi adapter stops working, my secondary display stops working, my framerate is stuck at 60hz in a 144hz monitor, and probably other stuff too.

So the core of it seems to be internet and display drivers fucking up simultaneously.

My secondary windows boot is "working", but since it's windows it sucks ass and is stupidly slow and annoying about everything.

This has happened like... Monthly? For the past few months. The other times, I've been able to fix it by tethering my android to it, and the moment it sees an internet connection of any kind, it seems to fix. Either that, or an apt update will do it.

But without an Internet connection, it's EXTREMELY annoying to fix.

It just happened, and now even tethering is broken. There's probably a way to fix it, but tbh this has been an annoying enough periodic troubleshooting exercise that I'm thinking about switching distros.

I know I'm going to start a REALLY bad discussion here, but I used Ubuntu bc it was a "it just works" system that I didn't think about much or touch. This is the first major troubleshooting problem I've had with with.

So.

What's the best "idiot friendly" alternative? I've heard good things about mint, and that's probably my strongest contender atm.

Does kubuntu have the same set of drivers and update system as Ubuntu itself? If so, I'm gonna avoid it. Don't wanna run into these same problems :/

Sort of yes. The desktop environment handles more driver stuff than you would expect. However, two things on this:

1. I dont think the drivers in question (network drivers) will be affected by which DE you use.

2. KUbuntu LTS 24.04 is in a really bad place. Weird issues with the version of KDE it is pinned to, that will almost definitely be fixed with LTS 26.04, but for now you should use rolling-release non-lts KUbuntu and while I personally have had 0 issues with it on my laptop... I dunno if you want "just works" it may not be what you want.

3. Mint is downstream of Ubuntu so it *also* may not fix your problems but it is worth a shot. Short of really learning another distro or going to base Debian from scratch I dont have a great "it just works out of the box" distro suggestion.

I'd try the following things in this order:

1. Switching from LTS to rolling release Ubuntu if you haven't already. If you are on LTS you are pinned to old software and kernel versions until the next LTS comes around; that will be 26.04 but you won't auto update until 26.09 comes out in September.

2. If that persists, try Mint. Mint has some of the most extensive documentation I have seen outside of Arch and is obviously far more user friendly. It's been my goto for new linuxeers for a few years now (I have Issues with Ubuntu but I won't bore you here) and I have mostly gotten solid reviews from friends who have made the jump.

3. My next suggestion is try a different distro that *is not* Debian downstream. Fedora KDE is probably your bet. It isn't quite as non-techie friendly as ubuntu/mint but it's not terribly bad once you are at the desktop. The documentation is pretty good as well.

I think what I'm gonna do at this point is try mint, but not overcommit to it quite yet. Thanks for the info!

Godspeed you! Linux user

Hey. So. Bad day for my Linux advocacy.

I've been having this periodic issue with Ubuntu where, seemingly at random, some of my drivers just.... Break. My ethernet stops working, my wifi adapter stops working, my secondary display stops working, my framerate is stuck at 60hz in a 144hz monitor, and probably other stuff too.

So the core of it seems to be internet and display drivers fucking up simultaneously.

My secondary windows boot is "working", but since it's windows it sucks ass and is stupidly slow and annoying about everything.

This has happened like... Monthly? For the past few months. The other times, I've been able to fix it by tethering my android to it, and the moment it sees an internet connection of any kind, it seems to fix. Either that, or an apt update will do it.

But without an Internet connection, it's EXTREMELY annoying to fix.

It just happened, and now even tethering is broken. There's probably a way to fix it, but tbh this has been an annoying enough periodic troubleshooting exercise that I'm thinking about switching distros.

I know I'm going to start a REALLY bad discussion here, but I used Ubuntu bc it was a "it just works" system that I didn't think about much or touch. This is the first major troubleshooting problem I've had with with.

So.

What's the best "idiot friendly" alternative? I've heard good things about mint, and that's probably my strongest contender atm.

Does kubuntu have the same set of drivers and update system as Ubuntu itself? If so, I'm gonna avoid it. Don't wanna run into these same problems :/

Sort of yes. The desktop environment handles more driver stuff than you would expect. However, two things on this:

1. I dont think the drivers in question (network drivers) will be affected by which DE you use.

2. KUbuntu LTS 24.04 is in a really bad place. Weird issues with the version of KDE it is pinned to, that will almost definitely be fixed with LTS 26.04, but for now you should use rolling-release non-lts KUbuntu and while I personally have had 0 issues with it on my laptop... I dunno if you want "just works" it may not be what you want.

3. Mint is downstream of Ubuntu so it *also* may not fix your problems but it is worth a shot. Short of really learning another distro or going to base Debian from scratch I dont have a great "it just works out of the box" distro suggestion.

I'd try the following things in this order:

1. Switching from LTS to rolling release Ubuntu if you haven't already. If you are on LTS you are pinned to old software and kernel versions until the next LTS comes around; that will be 26.04 but you won't auto update until 26.09 comes out in September.

2. If that persists, try Mint. Mint has some of the most extensive documentation I have seen outside of Arch and is obviously far more user friendly. It's been my goto for new linuxeers for a few years now (I have Issues with Ubuntu but I won't bore you here) and I have mostly gotten solid reviews from friends who have made the jump.

3. My next suggestion is try a different distro that *is not* Debian downstream. Fedora KDE is probably your bet. It isn't quite as non-techie friendly as ubuntu/mint but it's not terribly bad once you are at the desktop. The documentation is pretty good as well.

Hey so I still see people utterly baffled by how religious fundies (still a majority in America and moreso its senate) react on certain issues so uhhh is it actually not common knowledge what the antichrist is all about? You guys know his defining characteristic is ending war, right? That he’s foretold to unite the world under his leadership by preaching global peace and solving basically every single problem in the world? So you know when you try to talk to these people about equality and togetherness they literally believe that’s what makes you an agent of the devil right???

parfstar

im sorry what. so. ok im assuming they think that this is all like. to gain trust and then take over or something? because.

Yes, he’s called the “antichrist” because he’s an imposter Jesus and the majority of the world will love him when he ends all class divides and erases all borders, creating one world government with him at the top. That’s the “new world order” they’re terrified of. But they think he’ll oppress true Christian believers who see through his ruse, which is why they’re constantly looking for signs that they’re being discriminated against and panic when they lose any control over government. This is why they fear diversity, immigration, socialized anything. The less religious right are pretty clearly still running on the same logic; they might drop some of the spiritual lore but this is where they get the idea that all progressivism leads to the “real” fascism. Some believe the antichrist isn’t a literal person either but just that entire set of beliefs, so everyone protesting against war and trying to feed the hungry is a *collective* antichrist.

So from the notes it turns out people are MUCH less familiar with all this than I suspected and that’s honestly kind of alarming, guys, you should really really pay attention to things that affect so much of this country. No these are absolutely not obscure or fringe beliefs, these are MAINSTREAM with megachurches, Trump voters, the GOP and a vast proportion of the wealthy. Alex Jones and multiple Fox News hosts openly believe word for word what I described here.

And yeah as several people pointed out it isn’t even explicitly in the bible, but something some radicals pieced together in maybe only the last century. My uncles all believe it to the letter and they all believe it’s what the Bible is “supposed” to be communicating.

A lot of people are also confused as to why they would believe the peace and unity are villainous things and what the difference even is then between the “antichrist” and actual Jesus, which brings me to another thing I realize some folks CRITICALLY overlook about American Christianity, which is that they do not believe in good or bad deeds. They believe the same deed can be right or wrong strictly according to whether or not it’s performed by a believer with God’s stamp of approval. Like, they KNOW the Satanic Church and Witch Covens do community service or donate to cancer research and they are not confused, surprised, bitter or embarrassed by that at all. It’s exactly what they’re taught to expect. They believe the forces of Satan do primarily “good” things so people will think he’s just as good or better than God. So if a pastor heals a sick child with a prayer then that’s good, but if a “witch” heals the same sick child with “magic” (not something I believe exists, but they do) then that’s a false miracle from the devil and the child was better off dying because now everyone involved is a sinner who deserves hell. They’re taught to view you as a ridiculous fool if you don’t grasp this difference, and every single argument you might make is a part of the satanic trickery.

After all, they think our entire existence on this Earth is an insignificant speck in the grand scheme of things. The suffering in the world isn’t a bug to them, but a feature that God set up to test everyone’s worthiness, teach them lessons and filter out the faithless, so they actively do not believe it’s always morally right in itself to help people or save lives. Rather, certain people are just intended to suffer and die and it can be MORE wrong to help them.

Sorry to put this big ass thing on your dashboards again but I’m downright awestruck by the notes. There’s 15,500 of them at the time of this reblog and almost zero disagreement, just hundreds of people expressing absolute terror that they didn’t realize they were living under the thumb of a doomsday cult, and I’m really really sorry for that because I really did not expect to be the bearer of that news to so many. If you haven’t looked at the notes for yourself though, they’re pretty eye opening even to me, especially the next most common type of response on it:

….And something I’ve heard before but still neglected to mention:

…..so that’s all pretty nightmarish confirmation of how pervasive this mindset is around here, but you know, if the majority of reactions to this information have been either “what the fuck are you talking about?” or “yeah I WAS taught this and I’m better now,” maybe that’s a sign that it’s slowly but consistently fading with every generation?

I actually wasn’t raised religious AT ALL, and it was still impossible for me to not hear this shit constantly in the 80′s and 90′s from basically everyone outside my immediate family. It’d even crop up on television and radio stations that weren’t even supposed to be christian-oriented. Just boom, there’s an evangelist suddenly talking about how Only God is Allowed to End War and Satan Takes the Form of Kindness, like these were just normal banal perspectives to toss in between a relationship advice segment and the latest movie reviews. I’m really proud of every person saying they escaped from that indoctrination and actually feel much better and more hopeful about the whole thing. It might not be fixed completely in our lifetimes but clearly it is fixable.

Bringing back my most viral post because:

saintjosie

here is the truth of christianity:

1. jesus died on the cross for our sins. we must give thanks to god through constant worship and sharing of the gospel. (1 corinthians 15:3, matthew 28:19-20)

2. always be wary of and question worldly teachings and temper them by studying the word of god. (1 john 4:1-3)

3. you must study the word of god so that you can know sin and those who revel in it. followers of jesus must strive to be set apart and holy. (2 timothy 3:16-17, 1 peter 1:15-16)

4. there is none more powerful than god. (ephesians 1:19-21)

5. men must be godly so as to represent jesus and women must follow so as to represent his church. (ephesians 5:22-24, colossians 3:18, 1 peter 3:1)

6. be wary of what you see in the media because secular media teaches sinful and worldly beliefs. the holiest of god’s chosen people abstain from sinful content. (romans 12:2)

7. do not be tempted into sin by following the way of sinners. you must be constantly vigilant because satan will always try to tempt you through the ways of the world. (ephesians 5:6-11, 2 timothy 2:22, galatians 5:16-21)

8. godly leaders are those who lead by following his word for there is no higher calling than to be a godly man who leads his people. you should vote for godly leaders so that more can receive the truth of his gospel and turn away from sin. (romans 3:19-20)

9. those who dutifully live out their lives in the service of god receive the greatest reward in heaven and also will receive blessings while on earth. being a part of a church led by a holy man of god and having fellowship with other believers is crucial to building a strong faith. (colossians 3:23-24)

10. it is the role of god’s anointed to lead his people like the shepherd leads the flock. believers must be like sheep and receive the word of god through his anointed. (1 peter 5:2-4, hebrews 13:17, 1 thessalonians 5:12-13)

11. god’s word is the only truth you need. secular art can lead to sinful beliefs and weakening of faith. (colossians 2:8-10)

12. the wages of sin is death for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god. you must repent from your sin or face god’s wrath and eternal damnation in the fires of hell. (romans 6:23, romans 3:23)

13. church elders and ministers should be above reproach and keep each other accountable. (1 timothy 3:2, james 3:1-2)

14. the church should identify the most holy among the congregation to lead as elders of the church. (titus 1:7-9)

read all that? good. if you are an evangelical christian that probably sounded pretty good to you.

now look up the 14 characteristics of facism. read them? good. see any similarities?

christianity is the cornerstone of facism. it always was and it forever will be.

valtsv

growing up by the sea really makes you understand why sailors were Like That back in the day. yeah the sea is the love of my life and i'm nothing to her but my heart belongs to her and her alone. she's a cruel, uncaring temptress and she wants to steal me away and eat me alive but to die in her cold, dark abyssal embrace would be such a wonderful way to die.

valtsv

and there be Creatures in there

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stunningly beautiful woman who kissed me told me to play a game that won't work on ubuntu bc of anticheat so here i am setting up a windows dualboot like the pathetic gay mess i am

Game is infinity Nikki, yes I KNOW anticheat is horrific, and in my defense I've been wanting a windows sideboot for a couple things for a bit now and I'm keeping it as minimal as possible

Gonna use this for a few games and maybe streaming. Nothing else. Productivity still happens in Ubuntu, I'm still crunching numbers from grad school and have my environment set up how I like so that's not changing anytime soon.

Dual boot runs smoother plus allows future flexibility for potential future streaming and basic video editing

You can probably set up an Ubuntu partition with probably less time and effort than it takes to install a single new program on Windows and I'm not even exaggerating

Regarding the VM thing, you also can't share a GPU between two OSes, so if you wanted to play games in a VM you would need a second GPU that you specifically configured to only be accessible to the VM (which, having done this, is an annoying pain in the ass).

It's doable but i would only recommend it to the hardest of hardcore retro gamers that want to run games from the weird early 2000s era when windows was so janky that programmers would use the jank and now their games are unplayable on modern hardware (and that can't use Wine for the same, Wine/Proton are surprisingly good at running games from old versions of windows better than windows 10/11 can)

procyonv

vehk <3

sanshofox

I am so confused right now and would like to hear some advice or recommendation from someone who knows about computers and safe backups etc. So I am trying here in case someone sees and might be able to help me. I make a collection of every info I can get to make a final decision.

So here‘s the thing: I recently bought a 4TB sandisk external ssd. A few years prior I already got a 1TB and later a 2TB one for all my 2D and 3D art files and backups, that worked just fine and everyone else I knew used sandisk, so I saw no problem. Now through coincidence I found out that since 2022 you should never ever buy a sandisk since they’re now faulty to begin with. And low and behold I checked and saw that my new sandisk is one of those faulty ones. On this 4TB is my whole dvd/bluray backup and I planned on connecting it to my TV, so I can revert to using it when watching smth that is not on streaming services or even when canceling streaming services.

I now need to spend a lot of money again on another external backup device and I don’t know which one. I want to make the right choice. I see forums recommending the samsung T7 ssd. Though I did some research and computer experts recommend hdd in general. I always thought ssd have at least the same longevity as hdd but are faster so I always chose ssd. But now I am reading that ssd always need to be „charged“ unlike hdd and have quicker wearout. Especially when you’re storing them in a drawer instead of constantly connected to a computer. Data starts to deteriorate faster. And hdd is fine with being stored in a drawer if not needed.

My first ssd was from 2019 I think (which also has important files on it) my second was from 2021 I guess. So I need to switch those soon too I guess. So what to do?

I need to store all my art stuff, my books, my backups, and separately my movies backup that is connected to a tv. Hdd? Ssd?

EDIT: I have my data stored on several external devices. That is one thing I learned from the past to store everything on at least two external devices.

EDIT2: I need a new setup. I will probably rely on online recommendations from experts to buy a samsung T7 or T9 ssd and a hdd one. Though I still need to figure out which one would be best. I often see seagate desktop expansion and toshiba canvio. Maybe one of those?

EDIT3: Now I hear from several sources that samsung ssds have a shorter lifespan than the others and are known for spontaneous death. My gawd what to choose now??

ms-demeanor

Samsung and Sandisk are both, generally speaking, reliable brands. Failure rates in drives as a whole are low, and for the most part as long as you're getting something from a reliable manufacturer it'll have a reasonable lifespan backed by a reasonable warranty, but I wouldn't count on it much longer than the warranty.

The primary limitation with SSD longevity is that they have a limited number of read/write cycles; once you hit that number you can't read data from the drive and you can't write data to it, and at that point it's just a useless piece of plastic. The goal is to replace SSDs before they get to that point in their lifespan.

SSDs don't have very predictable failure rates because when they fail is based on how much they are used; if you're using them a lot they'll fail faster, whereas if they mostly sit in a drawer they'll probably last longer.

All that said: the only advantage that SSDs have over HDDs is speed. Lifespan, cost, and predictability are all way, WAY better on HDDs, and data recovery on an HDD is cheaper and more likely to be successful.

So I'd say go with one HDD for backups and possibly an SSD for media, but even then video delivery doesn't have to be super fast and you'd probably be fine with an HDD? (I don't understand home media servers the same way I don't understand gaming rigs, my area of expertise is enterprise computing, but my buddies who have set up home media servers all use HDDs because SSDs aren't worth the cost but they're also storing like 12TB of movies)

Western Digital makes extremely reliable external HDDs for backups that have 3-5 year warranties depending on the model. The My Passport series is about $120 for a 5TB 2.5" external and is what I use for my backups; we recently got a 26TB 3.5" external WD for a client and it was around $500.

I think your use case is perfectly fine for HDD.

#FUCK chocolate guy and his creepy empty smile

ms-demeanor is absolutely right here and I might add:

- Diskprices.com is incredibly useful for finding price per TB best value drives.

https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new

- Backblaze is a cloud storage provider that uses thousands of hard drives in their infrastructure. They put a quarterly report out about the number of drive failures they've had with all kinds of data. Below are stats for Q1 2025. Aside from a couple specific models, none of their drives have a failure rate higher than about 2% (lifetime). Hard drives are incredibly reliable long term!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2025/

*Note that the backblaze reports are all internal drives, externals work a little bit different but ultimately failure rates are very similar; usually an external drive is just an internal one in a USB enclosure. folks will even "shuck" cheap external drives that use the same hardware as pricier internal ones, pulling the drive out of the enclosure to put in their servers.

All this said, it pays to have redundancy. I have two Western Digital 5tb externals that are mostly clones of one another, in case one takes a header at the worst possible time. If you can put one offsite (I leave mine at a relative's house and just swap them out when I go up there every couple months) it's even safer in case your home floods or burns down.

miss-wizard

its starting to get quite hard to view amaury gauchon's work through any lens other than that of imperialism

miss-wizard

yeah no hes been part of the “working” bourgeois since day 1, he makes chocolate sculptures for rich people ffs. a luxury famously stolen from non-white people and made almost exclusively through exploitation, AND any food that is a statement piece is in a place that is and made by and for people who are actively hostile to poor and unhoused people

@catgirlcockunions tags hitting the nail on the head

miss-wizard

he's the only person ever visible in the footage, which leans into cultural values of artisanalism and auteur exceptionalism. and his workplace is always entirely clean and sterile, with heavy emphasis put on his "personal" methods of production as opposed to any of the prior production required to, say, produce chocolate.

the use of complex machinery is kept to a minimum, even when a work requires dozens of the exact same item. everything is kept intimate, solely focused on guichon; it's not the sculptures themselves that are the main appeal or main focus of the videos, but rather the process itself.

guichon's videos, either intentionally or not, contribute to the imperial "sterilisation" of the chocolate industry by presenting his works as a product comprised solely of french culinary talent, rather than a long and bloodied chain of economic abuse.

My ideal societal treatment of transitioning is that its like, finding a new, better job and/or moving cities

It's a big, positive life event, but it happens to people all the time. It's often celebrated casually. It just happens sometimes, though. Maybe people at your old job change their relationship with you, and maybe you fortify your relationship with people elsewhere. You can mention where you used to work casually without it being a huge deal. You can joke about people quitting their jobs and becoming a goat farmer without it being a huge deal.

Like. I should be able to quip "have you tried estrogen?" to cis guys and have it laughed off with the same intensity as my jokes about "just quit and become a baker". I should be able to talk about my experiences as a guy like I talk about my experiences in my hometown that was kinda shitty. I might bond with other trans people more based on that shared experience but should still be welcomed into the gender I am, again, like you would treat someone who just isn't from around here and might need to settle in.

Its a big event, but I don't want it to be an unusual event. I should be able to say that Jim from high school is Joanne now with the same punch as saying she moved to LA.