I usually try out a couple of new distros whenever I am either setting up a new computer, or something happens with my current machine that requires a fresh OS anyway.

I’ve been married to Pop!_OS for a couple of years now. however, for the past couple of months I’ve been booting exclusively into KDE Plasma on my desktop computer; almost everything works really well for me in that environment, except the built-in Pop!_OS stuff itself, such as the pop shop, does not work very well. so I might end up switching to a distribution that’s built around KDE, such as KDE Neon.

I’m also pretty curious about the Nix package manager and the concept of immutable desktop systems, so I guess I might try NixOS at some point? I don’t know much about it yet.

I feel like the fragility is more of a concern than the weight. either console is sooo entertaining and nice to have on, like, a trainride or whatever that it more than pays for its weight burden in your pack; The risk of it getting its screen broken and needing to be fully replaced is a lot more daunting to me than the need to carry an additional 5 lb around. My steam deck came with a carrying case that I always really appreciate for just that reason.

well I mean are they drinking less than they used to do, or are they drinking less than the average person? (sorry, I know I could just read the article myself, putting kids to bed)

edit: they’re drinking less than they themselves used to do

let’s start by nationalizing Amazon.

let’s keep workshopping that, but yes they are authoritarian assholes and they need to go down.

that additional context is super interesting, but it doesn’t take away from the fundamental reality which is that when someone opens up to you about suicidal ideation, it’s not acceptable to merely do your best to dissuade them; it’s critical to get them to help they need, and there’s just no way for a LLM to do that.

this individual is an outlier in that his personal outcome was spectacularly bad, but his story seems familiar to me. I know a lot of people who seem to feel like they’re building real relationships with these bots.

just trying to help you understand our reading of the guy’s remark.

if an American conservative said “My kids are bottom of the college acceptance lists due to affirmative action; it’s bullshit, they don’t even know what slavery is,” what age would you infer that their children are?

I migrated to fish recently and at first I was really annoyed that I had to decompose my ~/.bash_aliases into 67 different script files inside ~/.config/fish/functions/, but (a) I was really impressed with the tools that fish gave me to quickly craft those script files (-

~> function serg
    sed -i -e "s/$1/$2/g" $(rg -l "$1")
end
~> funcsave serg
funcsave: wrote ~/.config/fish/functions/serg.fish

) - and (b) I realized it was something I ought to have done a while ago anyway.

Anyway, all this to say that fish ships with a lot of cool, sensible & interesting features, and one of those features is a built-in place for where your user scripts should live. (Mine is a symlink to ~/Dropbox/config/fish_functions so that I don’t need to migrate them across computers).

ding ding ding

it… it has, did you glance at the article or just vibing with the other commentators here that hadn’t heard of leadsafemama and yet are all experts on the topic?

yeah, kids toothpaste is especially worrisome if it contains toxins because kids can’t exactly spit out their toothpaste until they get to a certain age. they just consume it, so kids toothpaste is supposed to be safe to consume.

scientific proof like sending the toothpastes to a lab to independently verify leadsafemama’s results?

he produces content?

this is just a “planned” bill right now, so hopefully they’ll get to that.

oh geez, thanks for the correction there

of all the arguments against capital punishment this is not one that I understand. like, yes, someone does have to perform the act for the system to persist. good point? I don’t support capital punishment but I don’t think the executioner themselves is necessarily a crucial point in the argument.

there’s video, no one was doing anything to him. he got out of his SUV, started yelling at people, returned to the vehicle, got back out with the weapon at his side. self defense would have been (a) for literally anyone to have threatened him and (b) for him to simply leave the scene.

Stop it

Journalists do that to indicate that a term is quoted from a source’s word choice; it’s not for emphasis.