Sam Rockwell is an awesome Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy.

This is looking like a boys only club, so I’ll go with Tilda Swinton.

I bought “Dummy” on CD format this week. Wonderful album from start to finish.

The amounts of copium that Windows users are willing to swallow to avoid changing are reaching stratospheric levels. Inertia is one hell of a drug.

“To err is human, but it takes a computer to really fuck things up”

First time using Microsoft products, is it?

You’re right. One of them enjoys a cigar and shooting bad guys with a machine gun (even if he never hits anything but scenery) and the other loves a nice Chianti with grilled brains. I was of course refering to the former.

Here are the ones that don’t get uninstalled from my potato box:

• Sable

• Ion Fury

• Torchlight

• Ziggurat

• Baba Is You

• Edritch

• Fez

• Plunge

• Valley

• Into The Breach

• Journey

(Disclaimer: some are very old, some may not be indie, eh, I did my best.)

The one that loved it when a plan comes together.

It’s always darker just before it goes pitch black. – John “Hannibal” Smith

Don’t switch based on hype.

Put your chosen distro on a USB pen and boot from that. Try to do the activities you usually do, see if it works for you.

If you feel comfortable, make the switch. If you have any doubts, get a second disk and install Linux in it so you can have a fall back plan.

Mr. T.

My 73 year old mother never had a computer before when she asked me for one, so she could talk online with her friends.

I installed Xubuntu and it has been working wonderfully for her. She just browses the web, types some poems using Libre Office and plays solitaire.

I just have to do a system update every year or so.

She’s now 87.

Save Ferris’ cover of Come On Eileen, by Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

I’ll have a look at those, thanks.

If you played around with local small LLMs you know that it still needs a few hundred megs at least.

I don’t really care about the space, I just don’t want it in my systems.

I know that. Nobody is forcing me to use it.

But now I’ll have a browser with a large, useless, disabled binary blob attached. Do I want this in my system?

I recommend creating 3 partitions. One for UEFI, one for /boot and one for LVM.

Inside the LVM you can assign volumes with complete flexibility. You can expand and shrink volumes. You can leave space unallocated and allocate it when the need presents itself. You can combine multiple disks in a single volume. You can do RAID over LVM or the other way around.

Or you can go with ZFS or BTRFS, they have subvolumes and other nice features built in.

What you don’t have is to be stuck with fixed layout partitions anymore.

It blows my mind that we had multiple modern ways to setup volumes in Linux (LVM, ZFS, BTRFS) for decades, yet people keep using partitions like it’s 1990.

I have been running Firefox since before 1.0. I was using it when it was called Firebird. I was using it when it was called Netscape Navigator. I always supported it, even when performance was lagging behind IE or Chrome. I don’t know if I can go on much longer if Mozilla keeps trying to shove AI crap down my throat. Sad.