Oof. I consider myself a fairly decent Linux Sysadmin (~15 years experience ~10 years professionally) but I actually didn’t know about that. :/

Any recommendations? Played around with that for a bit bit haven’t found a good one yet.

While i would generally agree I’ve fiddle with htpc and stuff for solo long. Then I broke down a few years ago and bought a cheap TV with GoogleTV (version 10 or something) on it. I removed some bloat via ADB but it still is GoogleTV do I get some ads on the home screen. However I installed SmartTube, Kodi, Jellyfin but also Netflix and Amazon Prime since those are the two services I still subscribed to. And I have to admit I’m a happy camper. I got used to ignoring the ads on the home screen and being able to directly play Netflix/YouTube … whatever without setting up a browser or something on top of Kodi or whatever is just such a breeze.

OK I guess the people here don’t like to run their Install on AxeMurdererFS

If you want him to wear a condom, he wears a condom. If he wants to wear a condom, he wears a condom. Its that easy.

But specifically for hookups/people you font know that well its proper etiquette to always wear a condom unless discussed otherwise (if you’re both fine with it, and have discussed your health/have recently been tested)

Oh do I feel you. I’ve been into IT most of my life and using Linux for about 15 years now. Professional Sysadmin for ~10 years.

I loathed crypto but AI is really the Band oft my existance. While everyone around me (not in technical fields) has been toying/working with ChatGPT and the like I’ve never actually touched an LLM (except for automatically through Gemini and the like) but it’s getting impossible to ignore.

My hope is that the AI bubble will eventually burst and while LLMs as tools (like assistant for writing documents/mails etc.) will probably be here to stay the “Now with AI” buzzword bingo will hopefully end?

As for keeping the Joy I am so lucky as to work in a Field where we still do most things manually and Provisioning Laptops or the Occasional server still is done free from any AI. For my own projects I also focus on what I need and can provide on my on infrastructure. I self host a Nextcloud and have a little Jellyfin Server which always are an opportunity for some improvements/maintenance which is after still a hobby of mine. But in the end they simply fulfill a function.

"I’m sitting on the railway station got a ticket to my destination … " 🎵

Well, Breaking Bad is already on here and its really good. But to me Better Call Saul is one of, it not the best shows out there. Also doing the whole chronology:
Better Call Saul till the middle of S6 > Breaking Bad > Rest of Better Call Saul > El Camino
Really slaps.

Other than that The Leftovers is quite an underappreciated piece of Television. It simply delivers 3 Season increasingly weird and intriguing and then its just finished.

I also really enjoyed Station 11 bit of a different take on a Post Apocalyptic World and a great miniseries

Honestly. I used to always keep my window open* over the night. This winter was the first I have regularly not opened my window and just opened it for a bit during the day (yes stoßlüften), which I of course did before as well, since I’m German 😅

* when I say “open” I mean my window would usually be tilted open (“gekippt”) not fully opened wide

Phone far too offen. I wouldn’t even need to get up to watch in my TV just turn around in Bed. But often I watch quick videos, or finish a video I’ve started while cooking, on my phone my TV just over there on the Wall. Often I’ll turn off the TV to sleep and just grab my phone and watch half an hour of shorts

Been using GNOME since ~ 3.8/3.10 (so i guess a while now) and out of the box it mostly just works for me. I have maybe 3-4 extensions none of which I desperately rely on (although TopIcons is clutch) and I agree with most design choices. I’ve thought about switching some times but I think all I would do is try to replicate my GNOME workflow elswhere so why bother?

I’m sorry what? Ctrl+Alt+t is bound to opening a terminal emulator (whichever I fancy ATM) on any system I use. I know it’s a Ubuntu binding but I got so used to it if I’m ever on a system that doesn’t have it I just hammer it 15 times till I gather that it’s not set up there so this would never work for me 😅

I would argue:

2022 was the year of the Linux Handheld 2026 will be the year of the Linux Console (putting my hopes on SteamMachine)

Now the year of the Linux Desktop is a finicky definition by tradition. To me its a personal distinction. Whenever Linux replaced* your previous desktop OS is YOUR year of the Linux Desktop.

* replaced is also not discreet but more of when you felt you replaced your Desktop

Naja die Kontokündigung der Roten Hilfe kam am 23. das sollte wohl im Weihnachtstrubel untergehen und macht’s wahrscheinlich auch schwer zu reagieren aber ich bin mir sicher ein praktische Reaktion (über ein Statement hinaus) wird bald kommen. GLS Kundinnen und Genossenschaftsmitgliederinnen organisieren sich bereits, da wird es sicher zu entsprechenden Reaktionen kommen.

I had used duckdns for a while back in the day. Always worked great.

These days I have a domain at namecheap which provides a DynDNS feature as well so I’m using that.

And around here a lot of leftist spaces enable you to have fun while spending little to nothing. Dirty punk concerts for a low cover charge and beer almost as cheap as in the store. And most of not all of those prices are “pay less if you can’t afford it”.

Other than that if agree with other commenters. Knowing spaces/people to hang at/with. I’m perfectly fine spending time in my one bedroom if I’m not alone all the time there so having some friends over, even if it might be crammed, and just shooting the shit is a simple and affordable way to have a good time

No.

I’m an anarchist. I organize with Anti-authoritarian Communist though since most anarchist here are batshit 😅

Let me tell you:

I’ve been using Linux exclusively since ~2010 and moved my mum over back when XP got canned. Printers always have been and still are the bane of my existence. From what I know from other people working in IT printers are always bad, however of course the driver support situation in Linux is so much worse. My mum used to have a Samsung mfp that would print in Linux (most of the time) but I could not for the life of me figure out how to get it to scan reliably. In the end I’ve set her up with a dual boot with a simple “click here to switch to Windows” button so she could scan in there (saving the scans to a NAS)

From my experience printers mostly either work or don’t work in Linux. If you are looking for a new printer I’ve only had food experiences with Brother. If you already have a printer and it’s not working right I can recommend sxouring through forums for that one wisdom of the ancients that can help (and possibly sacrificing a goat)

I bow also have a Canon printer (it was a gift) and with the official Linux drivers it worked for years. Recently it just wouldn’t print from Linux anymore till I switched the drivers to the generic “Guteprint” now it’s printing fine again …

Tl;dr: printers are evil and Linux drivers are sometimes making them worse

The […] train […] left Sankt Poelten on time but arrived in Vienna with a seven minute delay

They had a 7 minute delay after performing an emergency stop and pulling someone inside.

Deutsche Bahn trains are 7 minutes delayed if everything works as planned

My first thought seeing this headline was “who cares I’m using Linux anyway” … My second thought was "Well I’m probably gonna start working in a mixed environment again soon and I’ll be the one who’ll have to disable Recall for the Users … So good to know