I managed to bork my first Linux mint install by not paying attention to my permissions I was setting for a usb drive and basically locked myself out of the system and prevented it from booting into the desktop environment. Lesson learned, don't copy/paste commands from StackOverflow and run them without thinking about what you're trying to do
kryllic
joined 2 years ago
The real question is do the fans still smell good when they kick on for the first time? Mine lost its new-factory smell
Google is an ad company first, and as long as that gravy train is flowing they'll be fine. Their dominance as a search engine is just to maintain their monopoly on internet ads, not give customers a good searching experience, hence why sponsored links are the first thing to appear and count as a view in their analytics
NetBoot: "rather than offer you then illusion of free choice, I have taken the liberty of choosing for you"
If you throw away the trash can from your house, you still have to put the garbage somewhere. If a program is outputting errors or logs, it still needs to put them somewhere, so no more /dev/null means no more default trashcan for the system to send its trash, as far as I understand it
They will eventually, they just won't be as brazen about it
Ubuntu I feel is a necessary stepping stone for newbie Linux users, myself included. It's a starting point that some may never leave, but as the user gets more comfortable I would hope they'd branch out to a different distro that better suits their needs. Sometimes it's Ubuntu, many realize they should just run Debian with their wm of choice. Regardless of where they land, at least they aren't using Windows
Yall remember that scene in Inception where the old people go to someone's basement and dream all day with that machine?
Wasn't there a basketball coach that got fired for saying basically this, albeit not as...elegantly?
Dilly dilly, Mullvad is great. I prefer it over ProtonVPN just for how lightweight and simple it is
Bingo,I think people forget Valve went out of their way to make their profit margin razor thin, or at a slight loss because they know the benefit of having a device that basically assures a new paying user will be added in their Steam ecosystem. It's based on Nintendo's walled garden philosophy after all, just refined really well on PC.
G'day