Colloidal, colloidal@programming.dev

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It’s the wrong old English letter. Thorn is used for the th in thorn. The th in the and this is Eth. I might be a pedant, but I’m a pedant with standards.



For lesbians, by lesbians, with lesbians.


No. Absolutely go with Mint. It’s sensible, stable, and familiar. Ubuntu has its weirdnesses. Mint has gone through LTS changes before. It was fine. More than fine. It’s one of the friendliest distributions around, and one I feel no reservations recommending to someone switching from Windoze.




Their github is licensed under AGPL. Hard to be more open than that.

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When the code your have to deal with is an ASP (not .NET) created by apes throwing shit in a wall, the kind of holistic bullshit an AI makes is an improvement.

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Those bastards must have managed to change the timeline! Someone must warn Sarah Connor!


Single function text prediction, class boilerplate, some refactoring.

It’s decent when you inherit outrageously bad legacy code and you want better comments and variable names than “A, x, i”, etc.

You do have to do it within an editor that highlights all changes so you can carefully review, though.

Not so much a productivity boost, but rather a bad intern you can delegate boring, easy tasks to. I’d rather review that kind of code than write it, but of you’re the other way around, it’s a punishment.

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You are mistaken, Skynet isn’t supposed to launch the T-1000 until 2029.


the system “functioned as intended,” […]
Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement

“We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student”, says the community elected school board. “We believe that’s what our racist constituents want”, they continued.






Mint installer uses Btrfs if present and defaults to two volumes. Suse Tumbleweed, cited by the author, defaults to Btrfs (and uses it expertly with each update, to allow rollbacks without affecting user data).


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Nice. Does it do projections with budgets? Like how is my savings account going to be in 6 months after putting in X$ every month?


The GParted project distributes their own disk recovery ISO which I blanket recommend to everyone.


  1. GParted is very reliable, but never do any disc operation without a tested backup in hand. Honestly the first and best self hosted thing you can do is a NAS backup.

  2. That Fedora default is a great default for any residential Linux install. You mentioned earlier wiping your NVMe for Linux. That is a sound choice.


Huh. Well that fucks with my current GNUCash workflow of having transactions months in advance. Does Firefly do budgets well?


No, you do the copying and resizing on Linux. Look for a live USB for GParted, put it on an actual usb drive. It’s a great recovery tool to have around.


1: for general computing, like storing your photos, documents, etc, just fine. I wouldn’t store a database or run programs from it.

2: always, even if not distro hopping. You can use a volume aware filesystem like Btrfs and have @ mounted on / and @home mounted on /home, so you don’t have to pre allocate space for one or another. Many distros will detect this setup and smartly use snapshots to revert upgrades without touching your home dir.



Firmware updates were a brute since I had to crack them open and use an external serial connection, but, still, I was willing to continue recommending them as entry level kits.

Bruh.




Open on your browser, see if there’s a cloud flare loading screen.


I need to have aptitude because the TUI is boss. Even if it had less features than apt, I’d still prefer it. It’s nice to know it’s ahead of the curve, though.


Just use aptitude and be happy.

Disclaimer: while aptitude was originally designed to replicate the apt CLI interface, I have never run the search command through it. The TUI is marvelous, though.





I know the developer got disenchanted with the project and is focusing on his games. Didn’t know there were technical issues. Is it easy to self host?