“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
Human, curious; designer, usability advocate, oss fangirl; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork. #nobot#noindex
@BlackAzizAnansi I can tell you that you will cry. You will cry a lot. You will need to learn about "distros" and how to solve problems in BASH. It will rarely "just work." Everything will always be a little harder.
About half the software will be from open source projects (and have crap usability), so you will have to know to "Go find Gnome File Manager" or "CUPS" to print from, instead of just "printer" or "files."
@BlackAzizAnansi Linux ecosystems do nothing "native." All our controls and settings on Macs and PCs, are part of our OS. In Linuxland, you get the double-edged sword of "choice." Which is important for sexual health, and a downright pain in the ass for a laptop you depend on.
You will also need to update the drivers of hardware components—and core apps you use to browse files with, the one that manages your "desktop" environment (which is separate from your OS), etc.
@BlackAzizAnansi All of which is to say, that is also why I deeply resent Apple and Microsoft turning the personal computing space, into a luxury market.
People of all economic abilities, cultures, and physical or cognitive abilities, should be able to use a computer as a simple tool, in 2024. Linux is a lifestyle commitment—much moreso in North America, where it's a very niche lifestyle. At least in the Global South, everyone else also uses it, so it feels less alienating.
(also, I don't even know how much of that you actually knew, and were just openly musing—or if you're a developer—so for however much of it you totally already knew, my bad!)
Last week after Trump's conviction these 42 Democrats proudly proclaimed "no one is above the law," and this week in response to the ICC seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu they proudly proclaim "just kidding."
Brazen hypocrisy on full display for the world to see.
@QasimRashid Few American legislators seem to have much regard for the ICJ, the ICC, or international law, in general. Biden just violated every UN policy on asylum, with his new border policy.
I would have preferred to address our issues at the border through bipartisan legislation because that’s the only way to actually fix our broken system –
But Republicans in Congress have left me no choice.
So today, I’m announcing actions that bar migrants who cross our southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum – unless they seek it after entering through established lawful processes.
@slcw That "lawful" process is lawful only by American standards. It is not lawful by International standards. It's both inhumane, while also denies the life/death realities that asylum seekers are living in. @wbpeckham@potus
@slcw The UN charter? Almost every document they've produced, on asylum? By being both a member nation AND a member of the Security Council, the US agrees to all that. @wbpeckham@potus
I don’t know how else to describe this, but parts of downtown St. Louis smell distinctly like a used bookstore. Like a room stuffed full of musty aging books and yellowing magazines.
@adam@andybaio +1 to this. I used to live behind Anchor Steam brewery, and the smell of beer making at scale is... well, odd. Hopps boiling, yeast, all of it.
I asked the Munchkin an hour ago if she did any homework tonight, the answer was no. I told her she needs to get on that. It's now 10:30 and she's playing Stairway to Heaven on the ukulele.
It's telling that most AI voices are modeled on young American or British women with heteronormative, "affluent cultured" voice characteristics.
Has any AI product come out with a Black American male voiced assistant? A young/white techbro voiced assistant? Were LeVar Burton or Zuck sought by OpenAI? An Asian or indigenous accented man?
There's reasons why the latter are avoided, and the first, produced almost exclusively. We're not talking about any of that, though—so the problems persist.
@ai6yr I want to say this makes me happy—so that all the doubters calling those of us seeing Nazi parallels "hyperbolic," can now clearly see that we are not—and vote for the other guy, instead.
@ai6yr I used to poo-poo it, as I felt it obscured and erased the horrors of the actual Nazis. But then Trump really stepped his shit up in recent years, and—well, it just isn't hyperbole. He really does want ethnic cleansing. Nobody remembers Slobodan Milosovic or knows the names other ethnic cleansing oligarchs, so Hitler, it is.
I really just read a local Sheriff candidate's website statement, outlining his vision for a "Sheriff's Posse (that) will be a highly trained, voluntary force to be activated in the general service of the public or in any case of natural disaster, public emergency, or any situation that exceeds that sheriff’s office ability to deploy adequate services to conserve the peace." #fascism
Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials
Researchers had been testing a sprayer that could one day be used to push a salty mist skyward, cooling the Earth. Officials stopped the work, citing health questions.
The experiment, conducted by researchers from the University of Washington, involved spraying tiny sea-salt particles across the flight deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Hornet, docked in Alameda
New floor officially broken-in, by cat peeing AND pooping on it, this AM, to protest being locked-in my office while the crews finished the last room. Aluminum Oxide hardwood finish is officially THEE BEST!! No damage, no remaining odor. ✨
