if you are on debian stable, there would not be updates to 300 packages (unless there were 300 packages with some security issue that needed a fix)

if you then decide to upgrade to the next version of debian, THEN you would have hundreds of packages to update

They are reconsidering this because libreoffice raised their hand and said they are still using secure transport

edit: source: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/113827199452572961

Pretty normal if you’ve never used debian.

Debian is the cure to distro hopping

Private entities have the right to decide what is or is not acceptable content on their platforms

Exactly. Not sure why people have this expectation that facebook is some kind of serious platform that should be held to some high journalistic standard

It was a website for rating girls. It’s always been a joke website. People should be free to post whatever offensive and non-factual nonsense they want there (and its related subsidiaries)

If your entire life is so deeply entwined with facebook that you cant leave, and you demand that they only allow nice content, that’s a YOU problem.

This is not a defense of facebook. This is me saying facebook is shit, it’s ALWAYS been shit. Just walk away

Watch out. Crows remember their enemies, share that info with the rest of the group, and can pass that information down to the next generation.

I always verbally greet crows politely.

serious question. is it pretentious to use the “real” name of a place instead of it’s english name? i’m not talking about pronunciation, but when english people decide to come up with a completely different, name for foreign places

like, “i visited milano, torino, and firenze this summer” instead of “milan, turin, and florence”

U.S. drivers “lost” time to traffic… as if they were some innocent bystanders sucked into an evil black hole of traffic…

drivers are not stuck in traffic… they ARE the traffic…

Is that where the irish exit came from?

Omg… I have the EXACT same goal. Qnap and make a better offsite backup process… Been procrastinating for years now

I’m thinking a diy NAS running openmediavault.

Currently doing encrypted backups to google storage archive tier. Very cheap to store, expensive to retrieve.

Thinking maybe i can set up a small box at a family members house for nightly backups

Debian all day…

All these shiny new distros promising to make things easier and better… But nothing is easier and better than 30 years of rock solid stability and support.

Depending on how new the laptop is, it might not work on debian stable. Check your compatibility

From personal experience with a new laptop, the intel meteor lake platform didnt work well with debian stable

I’m a bandcamp user and buy stuff regularly there, only because they are the lesser of all evils… but what is their current status? I thought they went bankrupt and owned by tencent?

Are they still fighting the good fight? Or heading toward enshittification?

Geez, that still exists too??? Is sharebear still around? Limewire? Kazaa???

awesome! i’ll check this out!

sorry for the n00b question, but why do i need to self host a persistent daemon and then connect to it using a webUI? can’t i just use a soulseek client on my local machine? i’m not really familiar with the architecture of soulseek.

Cool!

Is there any good content on soulseek? The last time i downloaded music from that era, it was all 96kbps realplayer audio files totally mislabelled with the wrong artist

My internet connection is over 100x faster than 20yrs ago, but pages still load slower…

One of the developers got sick of the UX issues and forked DT.

https://ansel.photos/

I only use this stuff occasionally. Is there really a big improvement in ansel over darktable? Or is the ansel dev just super angry for no reason?

apropos - command to list relevant commands tldr [command] - shows the most commonly used flags/options for that program

apropos comes installed by default (on debian at least), tldr needs to be installed with your package manager

As someone who cannot even remember tar flags (inser xkcd here), tldr is very helpful

Your 45 mins becomes 5 mins now. Hope that helps

Nooooo… Wtf…

Please levar burton, dont fuck up the rest of my childhood memories

Some of us enjoy the taste of the chilis. Also a bit of enjoyment of the pain and tears