the live disk won’t find my Wifi
Oof.
I’m case it helps: I have solved that problem for myself using a $9.00 USB Wifi dongle.
For whatever reason (other contributors facing the same issue?), I have found that every cheapo USB Wifi dongle I have tried has worked perfectly with the minimal Linux images.
I realize I might have just gotten really lucky a bunch of times, but it could be worth a try.
They are solvable problems, and many have already been solved already in some countries.
This is a great point!
Yeah. At least until his yes-men high five him and slap him on the back on his way to board the deep space or deep sea vessel that he designed himself.
But losing 75% of population, I can see some nuclear war breaking out
Seems pretty likely (eventually). I take hope that I’ll be in the direct blast radius, and not a mutilated horribly scarred survivor.
I choose not to think about this one much because it’s well outside my circle of influence.
The current trend sucks, obviously.
But historically, we used to be so much worse to each-other.
There’s reasons (data and practicality) to have faith that things will continue to improve.
But it won’t be enough, for many of us, in many of our lifetimes, so let’s all stay angry and active.
Lol.
“But honey, I left you a README file…”
I am unable to speak using contractions.
Same. I am anxious that the alien dopplegangers will figure this out, though.
You make some great points.
For anyone having trouble wrapping their head around doing this analysis for themselves, I’ll share mine:
I like to think my OpSec has kept foreign governments out of my affairs, but I’m honestly not sure. I know my government’s rules, because I read my local laws. There’s a lot of governments whose rules-of-engagement I don’t even know what are, and I’m confident that some of my “someone could probably” conspiracy theories are science fact somewhere in the world. Guessing which/how/when is a lot harder, than just suspecting/assuming I’ve missed something.
I’m confident that my OpSec is good enough that large corporations know that I exist, but are confused about me. I like it that way because I’m 90% sure they’re colluding to keep my salary lower, and that pisses me off. Thankfully big corporations aren’t motivated to do much more than make it inconvenient for me to evade their net.
I’m less confident about smaller businesses, honestly. Like anyone, I use a local dentist and barber. I didn’t choose my dentist or barber for their Cybersecurity practices.
It’s so great.
And the scene is even better on a rewatch.
Since the dealer is a cheater with their own motives, if I recall correctly.
Yeah. They do still sell Frisbees, though, at least.
Does “Breaking News” on Dropout.tv count…
“There’s no shortage of air!”
Yeah. This is such a better experience than past community tools I have used.
In particular, I hope we can attract the Do-It-Yourself repair community, before the current platforms lock all of that content away.
Yeah.
Annecdotaly, Dropout.tv has a good number of LGBTQ employees, seems conscious not to shit on people, and has a growing library of stand up.
I’m going to be switching to Linux before Win 10 is end of life, and there are so many more options than there were in the early 2000’s.
Fedora isn’t my distro of choice, but I can confirm it’s an excellent no-nonsense choice. It gets the job done with minimal fuss.
But one of those is a community of people banded together for mutual aid to protect their basic rights and the other…oh…I see what you did there.
Lol. Take my angry up vote.
More people should figure this out. Star Trek is essential to a healthy media diet.
I also recommend a regular dose of stand-up comedy.
The first thing I do to, if I need to get the size down, is swap out Gnome for one of the X11 Windows managers, usually XFCE.
I usually do this by starting from the minimal install and building up, as schizo already suggested.
That said, I guess I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that Linux Mint is an easy way to get Debian’s core with the XFCE window manager.
Looks like Mint starts at 3GB - 8GB, depending on options chosen?
Disclaimer: It’s honestly been awhile since I really paid attention to my own Linux install size, as long as it’s below 40GB.