Installing tuned-ppd (I think I’ve got that right) fixes this for a lot of people

…Twelve yards long, two lanes wide, sixty five tons of American pride…

Oh wow, that must have been amazing. I only saw it when the BBC broadcast it. But I don’t think I’ve ever been so moved by a science documentary.

• The Farthest (about NASA’s Voyager missions)
• Hurt Locker Hero / The Deminer (about Fakhir Berwari, a bomb disposal expert who disarmed thousands of landmines in Iraq with just a pocket knife and a pair of wire clippers)
• The Devil We Know (tells the story of DuPont’s decades-long cover-up of the harm caused by chemicals used to make its popular non-stick Teflon products)

All three are very good, very moving documentaries.

I’ve never been banned from Reddit even temporarily, I just like Lemmy more

We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say

Janine, someone with your qualifications would have no trouble finding a top-flight job in either the food service or housekeeping industries.

Ghostbusters:

• Back off man - I’m a scientist

• Listen! You smell something?

• What about the Twinkie?

• Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

• Yes it’s true, this man has no dick

• Ok, so… she’s a dog

• When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say yes!

• Aim for the flat top!

• Cross the streams

…and much much more

#2

We’ve taken way too many things that don’t need to be plastic and made them plastic

• Just Cause 3
• Fallout 3
• Fallout 4
• Train Simulator Classic
• Gato Roboto
• Minit
• Cult Of The Lamb
• Divinity: Original Sin

I wanted to give OpenSuse Tumbleweed a go yesterday, but the live USB got stuck at “Loading basic drivers” so I couldn’t even get to being able to install it.

Leasehold is basically buying a property without actually truly owning it.

You “buy” a flat, but you’re actually only buying the lease to live there. Not that any single person ever lives long enough for this to happen, but technically if you lived there 99 years it would then revert to belonging to the freeholder and you’d be left with nothing.

In reality, anything below 80 years is seen as problematic and you have to renew the lease before then, at great cost.

If a lease does fall below 80 years, the costs for renewal get increasingly absurd.

I guess nothing’s changed then haha. I have a 2015 LCD Bravia. No longer my main TV, but it’s been awesome.

But the delay between turning it on and being able to switch inputs… Jesus.

Because it’s purely for learning / messing about, so nothing is of any real consequence.

This is all on my old, now spare and otherwise redundant 2012 MacBook Pro. My everyday computer is an M1 Pro 14”.

I had Mint running happily for ages, and basically knew everything I would need to know to rely on Mint if I ever needed to.

But with its HiDPI retina display I wanted to be 100% wayland, and I also wanted to use KDE Plasma… And also I own a Steam Deck, and wanted to be more familiar with Arch based distros because of that.

So to tick those boxes and learn something new I switched. There’s no photos, documents, music or anything on it so if it suddenly won’t boot one day it wouldn’t really matter.

The Ivy Bridge intel/Nvidia graphics on that Mac are an absolute nightmare for Linux though haha. On every distro I’ve ever tried up to and including this one…

Oh nice, thank you!

Yes, was literally just recommended this and looks useful!

I’ve been someone people would consider a “Mac expert” for years…

But giving Linux a go I realised how little I actually knew and understood about the underpinnings of operating systems.

Definitely interesting learning all the things that macOS was just doing for me or even hiding from me.

Interesting. I’ll check this out!

I should have guessed!

As obscure as stuff like that is, I do appreciate the quirky humour at the same time… once you know.

This is good to know, thanks.

So much of what you do early on is installing packages and updating. I guess it felt more different than it really is!