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today's Funny Linux Moment: sometimes discord knows it can be updated before there's actually an update for it in whatever Arch repo you're using, so you have to go into the discord settings.json file (which is just like. there. in your home folder) and tell it "don't worry about updates. you don't get updated anymore" and THEN it'll launch. ????why is this manual...

#linuxes #does the 'thing that Does the updates' live inside discord while the 'thing that Gets the update' lives in the package manager or???

back on my virtual machine bullshit. today we're seeing what endeavourOS is like. so far very friend-shaped very bouba

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speaking of bein on the computer. found this channel a week or two ago & it made me feel pretty significantly less insane than usual.

I follow a lot of channels that do videos about hardware & programming & linuxes & obviously MOST TO ALL of them are hosted by men. lot of them are very cool! I learn a lot. but I also can't help but get tired of just. Constantly thinking "what are the women who DEFINITELY ARE INTERESTED IN THIS STUFF doing instead of wrangling youtube channels." as one does.

most of the videos on "veronica explains" are more scripted than this one (& those are good, too. I learn!!), but this is the kind of thing I'm Exactly interested in & try to research and play around with on my own time, so listening to a Real Live Adult Minnesotan Mom Type Individual talk through the setup process live was like. wow! she's literally me! & that's nice to have sometimes.

I don't think I'd like grapheneOS, but FIRST of all it's nice to know how low-fuss it seems to be, and SECONDLY this reminded me that I should really try to VM some smartphone OS-es in my free time so I can find one I do like!

just makes you feel a little more grounded in your own hobby, seeing Content (tm) from people who probably have life experiences that are a little more like your own. now I am starting a counter for "how long until a woman makes listenable videos about dwarf fortress." so far we have men from like half the countries on planet earth, and low-dialogue stream VODs from one vtuber with a robot voice. and mirakurutaimu but she stopped playing. so. my money's on "heat death of the universe," basically.

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mx linux has this thing called Quick System Info which is a thing that you click and it gives you a bunch of information about your computer that people on the forums who are smarter than you can use to help you troubleshoot* whatever insane linux problem you're having, right. with a "copy for forum" button and everything. what kernel you have what graphics drivers you're running, stuff like that.

*side note / tone setter for this post: stuff like this is all the evidence you need that mx is The distro for people who are new here. they have put so much work into Tools For Getting Help it's insane. mint does not have this. ubuntu is a nightmare hellscape. etc.

they update their tools and default desktop stuff all the time & usually I don't pay a whole lot of attention to those updates (no matter how many times lightdm or whatever updates I still have the exact same problem with it. who cares. it at least almost never breaks a new thing; debian lifestyle) but today on a whim I ran QSI after it showed up as one of today's 2 entire Things There's A New Thing For and omfg. At some point they made it so in addition to the VERY SIMPLE window w/ the basic system information in it, it has a sidebar with like. EVERY LOG.

^ this is but a fraction. Every timeshift log it hasn't deleted yet (~3mo worth?!) is here. Normally I would have to Go Look Up where these are stored and Go Find Them and then open them in featherpad by fuckin right-clicking (because this OS treats .rpy files and .txt / no extension files as the same type of file and I need it to open .rpy files in vscodium more consistently than I need it to open .txt files in featherpad even though having every .txt file open in a fucking IDE when I space out and double-click it is like my worst adhd brain nightmare come to life) and this tool just

A. puts them all right in front of me, where

B. I can click them and they will SHOW UP in the main window, OR

C. check the checkboxes and then SAVE?? THEM??? TO A LOCATION OF MY CHOICE????? ALL AT ONCE?

^^^ LOOK!!!!!

MX LINUX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#linuxes #life could be so beautiful. life could be dream #it's worth the default file association issue it's worth the visible text under icons on the desktop being like 6 characters long.#lightdm problem? worth it. printer drivers too much work to have figured out yet? bluetooth and wifi same? fucking worth it #someone on the mx team wants me to learn so much that they Convenienced all my fucking log files. computers are GOOD actually.

anytime I forget to update my system for more than like a week or whatever it gets the little system tray ⚠️help! watch out! help!🚨 icon & I go Yes okay hold on. I'm busy writing fanfiction or whatever can you give me another (checks the clock I slapped onto my desktop instead of putting it somewhere normal) 1 to 3 business weeks

& it says "ok." & sits quietly in its little system tray spot thereafter doing absolutely nothing. as god intended. and then when I finally tell it to go ahead it LEAPS into action slapping hundreds of upgrades in there rapid-fire like it's making a tall cartoon sandwich & when it's done 1 to 3 minutes later my user experience has changed literally 0%.

it's exactly what I always wanted. literally the Perfect antithesis to the EXACT shit I ditched windows to get away from. life can be dream and I proved it

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