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If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?

I distro-hopped every few years until about 2015. Since then I’ve been trending toward Debian for everything.

That’s the one I use, too. Works fine.

I’m not certain this is a “leopards ate my face” scenario, as I doubt many had illusions about their survival rate in the first place. Getting out alive would be a nice outcome if it happens:

…signing bonuses of up to $50,000 — life-changing money in a country where average monthly wages remain below $1,000. The incentives go beyond cash, with pledges of debt relief and free childcare for soldiers’ families and guaranteed university places for their children. Criminal records, illness and even HIV are no longer automatic disqualifiers. For many men with little to lose, the front has become an employer of last resort. – source

[emphasis added]

Personal note: my enlistment bonus + GI bill benefits from the 80s would be ~$88k in 2026 money. I wasn’t as desperate as the Russian recruits are but I was, as noted philosopher K. Rock once remarked, “straight out the trailuh”. We weren’t worried about normal shooting war stuff (we were surrounded by and protected by infantry) although there were other scenarios where we’d stop existing rather suddenly. A common remark in the unit was “It doesn’t matter; we’d be vaporized anyhow”. I mention this to illustrate that people can choose paths that others might think of as leopardy. The difference is the leopard folks had illusions to begin with.

By ICE’s logic it would have been allowable to put rounds through the windshield.

I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

So for now I’ve swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium’s RAM usage stays sane.

to give a more local public group and mute LongFast, etc?

Our local MT longfast channel was infested with traffic from abandoned nodes. One of them was relaying MQTT traffic from other continents. We ended up going to MC but I suspect making a local channel would have worked fine also.

Hegseth reminds me of the first sergeant in my unit that was

A) a jerk; and B) a drunk

One day he abused a guard (yet again) while leaving our compound in his POV – the guard called the MPs to report a DUI with car description and plate number. Top was caught, busted, and was apparently reassigned elsewhere. Or maybe retired.

for the first time someone has contributed to the code. This may seem trivial, but it is important to me

I’d definitely feel good about that!

Seems like self-deportation to a faraway island would be a win-win. Thrive, die, they can do whatever they like with minimal impact on the rest of society.

I don’t know what the rumors were in the 70s, but in the late 80s it was AIDS.

and satanic panic

Can’t wait for 9/11 2 Electric Boogaloo

America refuses to learn the lessons of blowback, no matter how many times it is demonstrated.

I just don’t make a habit of visiting any particular website to read it. That’s what the threadiverse is for.

Alternatively: that’s what RSS is for.

last king something something last priest

some of those that join forces / are the same that burn crosses

Loving the e-ink screen

My favorite node is an e-ink e290 (heltec). Unfortunately

1. it’s not supported on MC yet, and my local mesh recently switched to MC
2. cases are effectively nonexistent – might have to rent a printer at a makerspace or library and make one

I’m a noob and I prefer… Debian?

The beauty of linux is you get to run whatever you prefer. Have fun and be productive in the way you like. :-)

In the past I’ve mainly used XFCE or openbox because of my old hardware. A couple years ago I picked a Debian+MATE image to install on a fresh box and have been using it by default since then.

None of that “touchscreen UI uber alles” BS.

Aaron Reitz vows to “destroy the left” if elected Texas attorney general

Translation: I will be a partisan enforcer/thug. The American experiment has gone wildly off the rails, and a plurality of voters are here for it.

sociopaths hijack the empathy of others for their own purposes

If the citizen placed his hand on a gun during the interaction the LEO would have immediately started fEaRing fur muh life!!! and started blasting.

Rules for thee but not for me.