Yardy Sardley

Sterling Archer.

I thought Mark Kurlansky sounded familiar so I just looked and yup, he wrote Salt: a World History. I adore that book, but I haven’t really looked into any of his other work yet. What else would you recommend by him?

We used internet comments as one of the ingredients.

To add a tiny bit of technical detail here, vanilla Arch enforces support for x86_64 v1, meaning all software available in the Arch repos is built to not use any cpu feature that didn’t exist in v1. Not a bad thing since it allows for support of older (64 bit) hardware, but it does leave like 20 years of microarchitecture advancement on the table.

According to the CachyOS website, they have repos with software built for v3 and v4 which can apparently juice your rig for an extra 20% performance.

All of this seems impossible to enforce in the FOSS ecosystem. People can just fork the software and remove any restriction they don’t like. That’s kind of the whole point of free software. Users are free to use their devices however they like, including in ways that are not intended by the devloper.

And the address space is big enough you can choose a new random address between every connection to avoid tracking.

Subscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there’s any drama going on.

Sometimes I’ll hit All/Scaled when I’m really desperate.

I’m getting an “owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome” vibe

Maybe it’s a form of male birth control? I don’t imagine an array of IR lasers delicately roasting your nuts would benefit fertility.

Maybe not fraudulent since you are getting what you pay for most of the time. But I do agree, 99% of commerce is bullshit in some way or another.

I recently came across a term that describes my feelings on the matter pretty well: it’s landfill-core. Our economy depends on people buying new shit, but in order to have that happen without people’s homes turning into mountains of useless clutter, we have to constantly be throwing away old shit. So it seems to me the purpose of this whole economy thing is to expend tons of energy producing and transporting all kinds of shit, so that it can take a brief detour through somebody’s home on the way to the landfill.

Like, the majority of human productivity goes into extracting resources that just get buried again somewhere else, if not immediately set on fire.

If you’re not part of the solution…

In my cursory search of the web, it does not appear that gnome-software is available on mint, unless you fancy mucking around with PPAs and such. But there is good news!

Mint uses a desktop environment called Cinnamon, which is installable on arch-based systems and should be listed as an option in the CachyOS installer. And you can install the gnome-software package on top as well.

The whole project just seems kinda pointless to me as a fedizen. Canadian fediverse instances already exceed the vision of gander. The only principle differentiating this thing from the rest of corporate social media is the maple-flavoured nationalism.

I suppose it’s good that they dodged a couple of VC bullets, but, like, why do they need that much funding to spin up a fork of bluesky, y’know?

The joke being the word used to describe people who only speak one language is an abomination composed of both greek and latin. Definitely used as an insult, but it’s a clever one.

Although I seriously doubt OOP made that choice on purpose, so the secondary joke here is how they included a massive language blunder in the same comment as they were being a snob about languages.

I rarely use planes, but I usually see them flying overhead multiple times a day.

Planes are a good answer. Commercial jets normally fly at about 900km/h.

Also satellites. Something in low earth orbit like the ISS or a starlink node would be going about 8km per second.

Poor monolinguals

I’m choosing to take this as a really clever etymology joke

I mean, you would think after the first day of getting a $250 ticket, the family would’ve done a little problem solving on their driveway situation.

Letting tickets pile up for over four years before checking to see if they stand up in court is a level of overconfidence that honestly makes it hard to have much sympathy.

Hell yeah, feed an LLM enough fairy tales and abra cadabra, rhyming becomes a form of magic irl.

Liessocial (love the name) is, believe it or not, a jacked up Mastodon instance. So in theory, you should be able to just add .rss to the end of a given url to get a feed of that page.