@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!)
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
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 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.
@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.