The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
I fixed it, based on info that you and @cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone provided. Thanks you both for pointing this out!
(The misconception is actually outdated info. LMDE 1 lasted a really long time, and it was Testing-based.)
I cannot find a first party source for this, only third party
I found info in the Linux Mint forums about this. Not quite first party source as it’s just user discussion, but still closer.
I think that it’s partially due to Debian’s focus on stability. If they call it “stable” it’s rock solid; if they call it “unstable” it’s still fairly usable, it’s just the 0.1% odds that it’ll evoke Cthulhu in the process.
In my Sid times I managed to break it, but to be fair it was more like a Frankendebian at that point.
Yeah, using Testing directly is a bad idea. Instead pick a distro based on Testing - like LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition); or if you really need bleeding edge use Sid instead, but be aware that it was named after the child who breaks toys for a reason.
EDIT - as the comments say LMDE is based on Stable. In my defence when I used it it was still based on Testing. (And it was a rolling release. Yup, LMDE “1” times.)
I can’t believe I’m considering moving away from Ubuntu after 20 years…
The good news is that all distros are pretty much similar to each other, so you can transpose most of those two decades of experience to any other distro that you might want to use. Typically the key differences are
The problem is that Ubuntu overuses snaps, even when there are completely acceptable .deb alternatives, that will perform consistently better; typically distros using appimage and flatpak don’t do the same.
That said if this isn’t a big deal for you Ubuntu might be still an option. As the saying goes, better the devil that we know.
Since your main priority is stability, I’d suggest either Debian Stable or Mint. Debian Stable is rock solid, but the software is ancient; Mint is a good compromise. They both have a nice package selection.
The reason why I don’t recommend Ubuntu itself is snaps. Huge downloads with lots of wasted disk space, wasted memory, less user control, mismatching themes, larger loading times… urgh.
Desktop environment is such a personal matter that it’s hard to say which one would be the best for you. I’m a big fan of MATE - it’s small, it’s nice, you can reasonably customise it without new extensions or applets. Xfce would be also a good performance-focused choice.
The text says “several”, but it mentions only four components (gdebi, apturl, aptdaemon and mintcommon-aptdaemon) merged into two (captain, aptkit). It doesn’t look like much, and typically the Mint project is responsible to not claim to maintain more than it can maintain¹.
In special, I remember gdebi being broken for quite a while², so this hints that Mint’s goal is to get properly maintained replacements.
Rumors that Valve was working on a portable gaming unit had emerged in May 2021
Perhaps. The timing fits considerably better than the other alternatives mentioned until now.
I don’t rule out the possibility that COVID made some people think further on how they interact with software, and that indirectly promoted some Linux usage. However, I don’t think that it would create continuous pressure encouraging adoption, that keeps going on four years later.
Another reason why I don’t think that COVID is the cause is the timing: the “bulk” of the social impact happened in early 2020, but the slope seems to start near the end of 2020, almost early 2021.
I don’t think that it’s due to COVID, as it’s an upwards slope instead of just a spike, or spike + plateau.
What happened around '20?
I’m asking that because, the way that I’m reading this graph, there’s a plateau between '15 and '20, and then a slope upwards.
Alright. Sounds fair. Instead of taking dangerous actions, I’ll make it create a report instead.
Thank you! Frankly, if done this way I’d be excited to use it ASAP.
Automod is just a tool, indeed, but how a tool is designed dictates or at least encourages its usage.
Trying to automate things and decrease mod burden is great, so I don’t oppose OP’s idea on general grounds. My issues are with two specific points:
- Punish content authors or take action on content via word blacklist/regex
- Ban members of communities by their usernames/bios via word blacklist or regex
Instead of those two I think that a better use of regex would be an automated reporting system, bringing potentially problematic users/pieces of content to the attention of human mods.
Mozilla’s apparent “ooh shiny!” syndrome is a direct result of the organisation not deciding what it should be, and how to achieve it.
All that babble about compromising with the ad mafia boils down to “whoever pays the dinner chooses the dish”. Mozilla’s dinner is paid by an advertisement company called Google.
And, since Google was declared a search monopoly, Mozilla knows that that money is going to run dry.
Chambers believes that the power of the Firefox brand and what it stands for will help carry it forward.
Brands are not the omnipotent tools that some people believe to be. They might make a customer try your product, or avoid it; but they won’t retain the customer. And Mozilla’s fall boils down to their only relevant product being unable to retain the customers.
In addition to focus development on Firefox, if Mozilla genuinely cares about its users, it should be going all out against the ad mafia. If this is going to take bread off their tables, let them eat cake.
This means that it should be looking for revenue sources that are not Google, and go all out with Firefox’ “we protect you from targetted advertisement/harassment/marketing”.
We’re talking about the worst dev, right? “No, chrust me. I have a vizhun about how the tea bag should be.”
Incidentally it’s the same answer that he’d give to people annoyed who neither need nor want the chicken wire ball.
That’s all covered by “non-standard” - because the standard of a language dictates what’s to be taken as informal/vulgar/archaic, dialectal, slang, different words or the same word, etc. And while there are exceptions most of the time when people learn a non-native language they learn the standard, in detriment of other varieties.
(Sorry for nerding out about this, I just love this sort of topic.)
for lack of a better word
Usages of non-standard grammar.
This one poses me (ETL) no problem, but my brain always tilts when the natives mix subject/verb contractions (you’re, it’s, they’re) with the possessives (your, its, their).
Huge waste of material on the label.
Since the labels are larger, the boxes for those tea bags will need to be larger too. That incurs in additional waste of material and storage space.
People working in markets selling those tea bags will complain. Now their boxes don’t fit in the aisle alongside boxes with tea bags of other brands.
Customers will find it clunky and convoluted. Some will understand why the dev did it, and get angry - because from their PoV it’ll sound like the dev is saying “I assume that you’re a muppet, unable to distinguish the label from the bag”.
And some will still do like others said: use a larger pot, fold the label, etc. Defeating the purpose of the change.
There are plenty situations where you can be smart. This is not one of them, stick to standards and document it properly. “This is the bag, it goes in. This is the label, it goes out.”
(Not that it changes much for me. I’m still ripping the tea bag apart and mixing the contents with my yerba mate. Unexpected use case!)
In other words it’s the result of mashing Finnish and Portuguese words together. (Lua language is the word for “Moon”. Cue to the logo.)
Intended pronunciation is probably around ['luɐ̯n.ti], although the diphthong doesn’t exist in Finnish. I think that you can get close enough of that in English by saying “Loo an tea”.
Now, if you can only convince some Lemmy users to not say “play
minetestluanti lol” once others ask something about Minecraft, even contextually unrelated… some at least have the decency to point out a specific Minetest→Luanti modpack. Plenty don’t even.Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Luanti, and I have quite a few things against Microsoft. My issue is exactly what the blog editors are highlighting - it is not a libre Minecraft clone dammit, it’s its own thing. And in certain aspects it might become an even bigger thing, as a platform for voxel games in general.
And overall I think that it’s a good sign that the project is getting its own name instead of being named after something else.