Huh. It turns out that Ubuntu 24 LTS distributes its firmware updater as a snap. So now I'm trying PopOS.
(This is not a veiled request for alternative low-effort Debian-based distros, but feel free to chime in anyway if you want.)
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Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers.
Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid).
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Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet. Joined 2017. White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode). Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers. Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid). Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion. This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here. # nobot
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Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet. Joined 2017. White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode). Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers. Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid). Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion. This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here. # nobot
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Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet. Joined 2017. White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode). Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers. Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid). Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion. This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here. # nobot
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Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet. Joined 2017. White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode). Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers. Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid). Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion. This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here. # nobot
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Crap! I'm probably going to have to try the crab-based AI thingy, aren't I?
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Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet. Joined 2017. White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode). Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers. Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid). Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion. This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here. # nobot
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You can tell if someone is a computering supergenius if their solution to a difficult problem looks like nothing.
Lisp is six functions. Forth is 200 bytes. Unix is just tiny programs and text files. The original web is just a hacked SMTP server sending SGML files. And yet, it does *that*.
The huge, complex stuff--Windows, Java, the modern web--is all the work of mediocre thinkers with big budgets and too little time.
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AAAHGH GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN I suddenly feel a compulsive need to write a thinly-disguised knock-off of Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about a dying billionaire who has his brain transplanted int
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@cstross@wandering.shop honestly I've been saying for years that it's time "I Will Fear No Evil" was written/copied by someone who knows what trans people are
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@foone@digipres.club Heinlein in the 60s was 100% identifying issues which would be hugely important in another few decades (this is where the best SF comes from!) but made a total dog's dinner of tac
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Lover, dreamer, codewarriorpoet. Joined 2017. White, cishet-presenting, male (aka Easy Mode). Tech nerd (NOT tech bro) about as old as Unix. I like reading about and making cool (non-capitalistic) things with computers. Canadian, leftish politics, opposed to all forms of bigotry (e.g. BLM, trans rights, your gender is valid). Christian (spiritually, not politically) but rarely discussed here; I CW religion. This account is a public place; I usually don't get very personal here. # nobot
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The valuable lesson *I* learned from Heinlein (after *far* too long) is that the folksy way he could present his opinions on things as being just obviously correct was a *writing skill* and not because he was actually correct.
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