Honestly, fuck Bandcamp. I used that platform for years, purchased a huge library, supported artists even when I was about 90% sure that some of them were just resellers providing rips of the original artists music.

And then for no reason at all a few weeks ago, I was asked to verify my account via email. Despite using the correct autosaved password. That email never arrived. Never arrives no matter what I try. So I cannot get back in. Support is like check your spam folder like motherfucker you don’t think that’s the first place I went when I didn’t see the conformation email?

Fuck the new ownership. Fuck Bandcamp. Good luck with your upcoming job search.

As a sheltered dialup kid, I learned Turbo Pascal and later Delphi back in the late 90’s.

Imagine my surprise when I found out it wasn’t used anywhere at all.

The non-Catholic areas of Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia. Maybe Paraguay (I’ve never been there but heard good things).

Laos. There’s actually a sustainable tourism initiative I’m waiting to get more info on.

Some places in West Africa.

I run to work , thanks.

Neither.

I tell them about the ethical supply chain that produces my Fairphone.

Not just Linux; gcc was very important as well.

Did he resign from the position, or from Red Hat entirely?

I started with lemmy.ml because I didn’t know what other server to use.

Then I found out that SDF, which I’ve used since 2000 or so, was hosting its own Lemmy instance. Since I’ve already been in that community for decades, I migrated my lemmy there.

Beehaw is really nice as well, that is where my spouse, who has zero Fediverse time, joined.

Yes, the solution for me was to remove those ubuntu-* meta packages, reinstall what I needed by hand then update. Simple things like ftp, telnet, time, etc. had to be reinstalled.

I was kind of nervous on the reboot since a plymouth theme was removed in addition to adding a newer kernel with the amd microcode patch, but it came up fine.

Yet somehow, through only apt updates, it brought back LibreOffice, Firefox, and snapd.

IIRC, it was something to do with ubuntu-minimal or ubuntu-release meta packages, which I never intentionaly installed.

I’m probably the only person who uninstalls the Firefox and LibreOffice packages and replaces them with the flatpaks, but this seemed like an oversight and dependency hell that comes from using the derivative of a derivative distribution.

Agreed. It’s the best blend of keyboard driven window management and recognizing that users might also use the mouse from time to time. I got my wife to use and default to tiling with Pop!_OS.

The only problem is Pop!_OS is a shitshow of dependencies being built on Ubuntu. I had an update last night that reinstalled snapd and LibreOffice and Firefox even though I intentionally uninstalled them in favor of the flatpaks. Cosmic DE, and presumably re-basing Pop!_OS on nixOS (given a dev comment) can’t come soon enough.

Red Hat 5.2. 13 years old. Came from WFW 3.11. Used Red Hat for about six months, then switched to FreeBSD for the next decade.

Never went back to Windows. Windows has always been a thing that school and work computers use. My kids have never used it.

Debian stable + flatpaks.

I want to be on the latest Firefox and to have the latest LibreOffice and some other apps. I want the latest applications, but I don’t want them come at the expense of having my system randomly lose its Wifi at the next boot or some other trash.

FreeBSD had this figured out 25 years ago. Separate the base from the user apps. When I was a teenager, I built -current ports on top of -stable FreeBSD and it was fine.

Now we have the equivalent option in Linux, and it comes from a centrally managed repository i.e. I’m not downloading tarballs and managing my own packages. I’m too old for that crap.

How could I forget? Thanks. And Slackware, to date myself here.

If you can switch, switch.

If you can’t switch, wait until Fedora is forked to a new project, which is inevitable at this point given how dependent Fedora is on Red Hat for governance (source: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/), and it seems that Red Hat no longer wants Fedora (source: recent pivoting away from the community, and laying off the Fedora project lead in May and terminating the position).

I expect within a few years, you will be able to just change repositories and a signing key, and load whatever community-based Freedora replaces it.

I would avoid openSUSE which just wants to be another Red Hat (Aeon is just a shitty Silverblue and the project lead hates KDE) and SuSE in general has been hostile towards free software in the past and will likely do so again if they had to choose.

Arch, Debian, EndeavourOS, Solus, NixOS are community driven and unlikely to have some kind of corporate/hostile takeover.

14.4k that was more consistent as 9600. Packard Bell ISA modem.

Later I went 33.6 and went off to college with a 56k external modem that was supported by FreeBSD.

I think I used to be able to tell the different speeds by the handshake sound.

TIL that Netscape still put out a product in the iPhone era.

Oh cool, you picked a very unique first ThinkPad then. One of my favorite message board posts of all time was a decade ago, ajkula66 reminiscing over the heyday of the A31p:

https://www.forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=110218

I’m sure you have read it and if not, it’s a good time.

Enjoy your laptop!

ajkula66 would be proud.

I never used an A31p; I didn’t get into ThinkPads until the T41 was new.

My oldest current machine is a T43p running OpenBSD. It’s nice to boot up sometimes and run cwm and surf.

I love the notched corner, it was a cool design statement back then.

Did you get the sticker from Vath?

Cool, subscribed.