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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • it hadn’t occurred to me that someone would use their distro w/o the hardware.

    i bought from a system76 rival w their own distro too so that i can avoid situations like this and lemmy is teaching me how lazy and out of touch it’s made me; op’s smart to use a distro from a linux company that maintains its own distro with it’s own paid developers because there’s a stronger chance that there’s an answer in their forum, compared to some obscure distro maintained by volunteers with day jobs.















  • you can now use Nvidia cards with 80-90% as much ease as AMD users have on Linux

    i’ve got a couple of goals that i want to accomplish with my new build and i think that forcing myself to do it the hard way like i used to 20ish years ago would help with that; but if amd has gotten easy, i wonder if i should go with nvidia again.

    you’ve made me aware that i’ve missed the whole wayland/x11 situation by going with certified linux hardware and avoiding nvidia at all costs because of my experiences with it in the past. this endeavor has made me realize how disconnected i’ve made myself from the reality of 95% of linux users by sitting in my little bubble of certified linux hardware and only talking to other linux professionals instead of the general public.

    my conversations with those professionals are NOTHING like the ones here and you can tell when capitalism has sucked the passion out of it for them because it takes one to know one. i’m finding that jumping back in is rekindling it for me; i’ve spent a considerable about of times making plans for this build and i can’t remember how long it’s been since if felt any excitement about a linux-centric project.


  • i think that you have to make happiness and its ingredients depends on what makes you happy & healthy.

    it ends up becoming a bit like brewing beer in that you keep testing different combinations and different methods with those ingredients to brew your beer and sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don’t; but the more you keep at it the more often you get it right than wrong.

    at some point you start getting excited at the prospect of trying some new combination, method, or ingredient and i think that, if you reach that stage, it’ll become self fulfilling.


  • the calculations that go into figuring out mexican payrates are questionable at best and they’re tantamount to cooking the books.

    nevertheless; near shoring isn’t going to work. the mexican government is being strong armed by the american administration to grey rock near shoring as much as possible and i would expect verbiage to continue those grey rocking efforts to show up in the next usmca agreement in the near future.

    it’ll be yet another cash grab that serves a few hundred already rich people at the expense of the mexican workers; rural america; the environment; and our future political stability and it will cheered on by the people who claim to want to protect all of those things.