A local hero was saving women from Windows by installing fresh Linux distros on their dated machines. I wanted this superpower.

In working through the installation I was the least disappointed I’ve ever been with an OS. The result was something I truly liked. If I nail down every single problem it could be my all time favourite machine.

Arch is great, but it needs longer explanations considering the user needs to do a lot more. Sometimes you find them, but other times you find a snarky superuser with zero people skills.

It’s a shame they aren’t government standard, so I could take a local course to become a snarky superuser too.

Most of it involves everyday Linux usages, but some of it is specific to Arch and it breaks so hard. It’s not a great thing when you’re stupid busy and don’t have the headroom to get to the bottom of it. Sometimes all you get is vague theories on how a fix might occur. After that you’re playing shell games trying to debug your problems.

Definitely recommend for pro-Linux people that have a breakable laptop that can go on the backburner.

This looks interesting, thanks!

It’s a new management objective.

Last I checked, a military coup is being invaded by your own military, and it’s not even over yet. Rebels are cast as horrible bush people that keep trying to gain a foothold.

But, that nation was a member of ASEAN. If ASEAN had put together a security force to restore the people to sovereignty I’m pretty sure the only country that would cry foul would be China.

The biggest problem being that no amount of diplomacy will ever matter. ASEAN believing diplomacy will work is either being an accomplice or a joke.

There’s nothing said here means anything but business as usual for an ongoing military onslaught in Myanmar.

ASEAN stands in the way of any regional condemnation that means anything actionable to the people of Myanmar. Diplomacy, fuck! What a joke! ASEAN is just a hegemony manager.

Did nothing at the ASEAN level though. The whole world waited for ASEAN to undo the coup, but apparently that’s not their mission. 50 million people suddenly oppressed by their own military, and ASEAN does nothing?

If ASEAN does nothing it’s unlikely the UN or anyone else will step in.

They didn’t seem to care much when they were the same ASEAN that did nothing to help the people of Myanmar! (Sorry, still butthurt about that).

Open source isn’t struggling. It’s a struggle. People have high expectations, and expectations go awry in open source and profit models.

The test is usually whether someone is defending the indefensible, or going to absurdity in misdirection.

Like defending some small irrelevant claim that has no bearing on the discussion.

• The Difference Between “Whataboutism” and Calling Out Hypocrisy
• Whataboutism Is A Nonsense Word That Defends Hypocrisy

I’m fairly sure I’m calling them hypocrites without defending atrocities. The UAE were kinda already on this shit list and don’t readily admit it, AFAIK. That Israel is on the list is a no brainer too.

Hypocrisy.

Same UAE that’s a major gun supplier in Africa? Some of these critical nations are weirdly hypocritical. There are plenty of children in the Horn of Africa and Yemen that want their lives back.

Sounds a lot like that claptrap about brown people uniting to take over the world before 9/11. Afterwards the entire world helped in hunting down the groups that had taken it to a level of terrorism.

These world domination plans rarely pan out.

It’s funny because people describe PowerShell as powerful, but really they mean it’s also a hammer to mash everything with. “Powerfull!”

I had the same outcome with my HP 2 in 1, with one minor problem. I have to log in via keyboard because there’s no virtual keyboard option for the log in with the Fedora distro I used.

You get dragged back to Windows by a lot of employers and schools. Nobody has time to fight the system when everything depends on your Windows based outputs.

Microsoft specifically engages and sponsors technology in governments around the world for this reason. Their whole schtick is ‘embrace’.

They are destroying rivers of the sky, and don’t even care about the consequences. Mad men!

The guy on Codeberg or Forgejo might have less resources to hide something, and probably wouldn’t dare. The bigger the companies, the more people involved with the resources to make tracking software look like regular data requirements.

If you employ something with hundreds of hours of code you’re less likely to see backdoors. Look at a simple program and any kind of odd insertion stands out immediately.

Can anybody push back against the embrace?