Also 45, I have heard the name, but I don’t know who he is.

😆

BMI is kinda like IQ, certainly useful, but it doesn’t tell the full story.

If it is high, you may be fat, if it is really low, you are definitely underweight.

I moved mine over about 2 years ago.

Only issue was getting the printer to work… Took a few hours.

Not really, i first used Linux in 2001 or 3… It’s been some time. I think it was fedora 1. I was 21/3.

First installed Linux in 2008, Ubuntu 8.04 and started daily driving Ubuntu 10.04 in late 2010.

Since then I’ve used a lot of different distros, I’m now running mint.

In saying that, my son has only had Linux (and Chromebooks at school), I got him to help install his own system, he was 7 at the time.

It would depend on the tech.

Low tech: e.g. detect and destroy incoming weapons…if a single major power had this, it would bad. They maybe emboldened to use their weapons (both nuke and conventional), as their perfect defense would keep their assets (people, places, weapon systems) safe.

High tech: e.g. directed EMP type weapon that could eliminate any weapon world wide at launch, this would eliminate the MAD doctrine. No-one would be able to launch nukes at anyone. Conventional war would likely have the same driving factors that it does today. But also, it may not get “car bomb” nukes, so nuclear war still possible, just in a very different mode.

Super high tech: e.g. some crazy quantum detection and elimination of weapons that haven’t been fired. This would be terrible, basically the group/state that has this power eliminates its rivals ability to retaliate with a proportional response. They instantly become the major threat in the world, this would destabilize any alliances that they have, no one would believe them if they said that they also disabled their own nukes. This would put the world on the edge of WW3 in a heartbeat.

I think at this point XKCD should be a TLD.

I would join lemmy.xkcd in a heartbeat.

Or that keepass is free and you can use any number of sync methods

I only have one monitor so I didn’t have this issue when I upgraded my GPU a few weeks ago.

Shutdown -> remove/install GPU -> startup #JustWorks

In fairness, I did have to update to the latest kernel (6.14) to get all of the features of the GPU working.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250428132538/https://www.404media.co/the-age-of-realtime-deepfake-fraud-is-here/

A few years ago, I installed mint 21.1 on my mum’s old NUC; a 2013 model; was running Win7.

I said, it doesn’t meet the minimum for Win10, so it was either buy something new or try Linux.

Just got back from visiting them, I updated it to 21.3, still running fine. It still does everything they need.

Mum even said, “it always just works”. A great endorsement, as a non-technical user mum needs a no fuss distro, mint works so well in this regard.

I have a folder called backup and one called Backup shared over SMB… It is always Backup that gets opned.

Minor issue…NFS auto mount on most of my systems.

Weird, I have 100’s of thousands of files synced.

Been using it for years.

Linux, windows and Mac in the circuit. Never a problem that wasn’t user error.

All good now.

It is a problem with guake.

I started on Ubuntu, tried 8.04 and went back to windows XP, tried 10.04 and stayed.

20.04 was my last Ubuntu, bounced around for a while, but I have settled on Mint. Been running it for 3 years now.

Mint isn’t too fancy, it is just there and lets me get my work done, very much the way Ubuntu used to be.

I’m running the 6.14.2 kernel, to get the latest drivers for my RX 9070, I’m playing around with local AI… Mint isn’t fancy, but you can do almost anything you want.

that is exactly what Syncthing is, my desktop to my server to my laptop to my phone…

Syncthing!

I don’t even know what to compare it to, I have been using it so long.

I’m running Linux Mint, I installed eza, which is nice but the icons are not showing up correctly.

Do you know how to get them to show correctly, I installed ‘nerd fonts’ but I’m not sure I got the correct one.

Don’t worry. It works fine in the regular terminal, it is just quake that is giving me issues.

I tried Deepseek Coder 33b; it runs at around 2 words/second which is really slow.

Deepseek Coder V2 16b; seems to run as fast Gemma3

I don’t know, it is running much faster than I can read.

So I’m not sure why more performance would be needed, the only thing I was looking for was big VRAM, and AMD gives much more bang for you buck (especially in NZ). To get 16GB of VRAM on an NV card in NZ would have set me back an extra $800…not something I was willing to do.