I never really had heroes. I did see some people are more trustworthy or credible but never another I ever gave hero status to. The entire idea seemed strange to me.
I will say I was right about Elon Musk. There was just something about him I couldn’t put my finger on that screamed monster and nobody believed me. I just had a weird ick feeling about him.
Jobs was an interesting man in that he’s a prime example of an environment creating a person. If you haven’t read the biography it’s a fascinating read. The TLDR is that personality didn’t appear in a vacuum.
I think we have that with dr Mike on youtube now. He’s still in the pre-enshittification stage where he’s responsibly saying “I know things but I’m a YouTuber. Please ask your actual doctor.”
But pressures change people over time so I have no doubt he’ll be shilling supplements eventually.
I literally just asked this. Right fucking there.
I went with Intel ARC since I don’t actually need GPU processing power so much as a decent media engine and VRAM for future projects and Intel has that ready to go under Linux. In the CPU side AMD is the only option that makes sense and for gaming AMDs GPUs have already been the practical option for years but their media engines are trash.
But we don’t need NVIDIA and we don’t even need high end GPUs as much as we think we do.
What if work was the friends we made on the train?
Retroarch disagrees. I don’t need your newfangled enshittified slop. I have megaman X and wine.
Ugh NVIDIA, just rip off that bandaid and get over it. And fedora is not terrible not has a sort of corporate feel I can’t explain and dislike, and selinux is the fucking devil, but it’s probably wise to learn it even if you end up not using it. DNF an absolute delight though, and the out of box ease reminds me of Ubuntu back in its heyday.
Totally agree. Arch is great but it’s not the right place for a beginner.
AMD can already beat nvidia at the price tiers most people actually buy at, and Intel is gaining ground way faster than anyone expected.
But outside of the GPU shakeup, I could give a shit about Intel. Let China kill us. We earned this.
Honestly I’ve found Kubuntu breaks in weird places for weird reasons. It’s always been that way. Neon was supposed to address this but it just broke in other places instead.
If KDE is your priority, I see only 2 top tier options. Fedora if you want it to just work out of the box, arch if you are okay arguing a little to make your point and have it work how you want.
Ubuntu is the starter distro. Start there. Figure out how this shit works and learn what you love and what you hate about it. Then you’ll be in a better position to find what you actually want.
Do not start with arch. That is not what it is for.
You don’t want kali. It solves a specific problem you do not have.
Avoid all immutable distros at first. They are great but add a layer of complexity that will fuck you if you don’t have the basics down first.
PLEASE DO NOT THE CAT
The behavior I described spans multiple Oracle products, not just virtual box. There are plenty of other sins they’d committed too.
which is almost everywhere. Their own constituents are turning on them.
Oracle is a shady company. They do this cute little trick where they give out free software, but if it ever appears in a corporate environment and phones home, that’s no longer free and they shake down the company the person they tricked works at. So Sharon in department X brings her laptop from home and hops on the company wifi and virtualbox phones home, now her employer is being sued. They do lot of other shit too but a general rule in the IT world is to stay the fuck away from oracle whenever possible.
Yea but not THAT many.
No this is Patrick
I got banned for making fun of Elon back when people were burning Teslas.