Maya S. Trojan

still certified Unix, tho.

I wouldn’t buy that for a dollar!

Yep, my Firefox mobile hasn’t updated yet either, gonna see if there’s an update I can grab.

That just dawned on me.

Oh of course, I’m not speaking about the average jabroni’s interpretation. Pretty sure Chuck Palahniuk didn’t intend Tyler to be read as a hero. Yet, here we are.

…while management did fuck all.

They even tap Peter for management material when he stops giving a shit, like it’s an expectation that you stop caring about things to be in charge.

I thought the whole point of Fight Club was the narrator realizing he was a terrible person, with or without Tyler.

I mean the film starts with him exploiting dying people so they will listen to him. Not recognizing that the only people open to listen are those dying, and he’s exploiting their openness to lie to them and get the “crying” he needs. He doesn’t give one flying fuck about what is happening to any of those dying people, he only barely stands up for Bob.

Sometimes, though, they make more sense than they used to.

When I originally saw the Matrix in theaters, I fucking hated Cypher and his willingness to exchange the comforts of the Matrix over reality.

Now… Fuck, give me that steak, Agent Smith. I’m with Cypher, I’m not wasting my life saving all these jagoffs who would rather live in the fucking Matrix anyway. Can’t beat em, join em.

Ah yes I’m sure the author intended for it to be clear that she’s just being an asshole and the guy definitely wasn’t listening to music. She’s not the main character of the strip or anything. Jesus christ. It’s a comic strip, it’s not that serious, grow up.

I think the point other people are making is that this can set precedent in German law and allow other people with similar issues to bring suit and win on merit and not have to fight as hard for their case to be considered. It could also end up inspiring similar cases in other countries using similar frameworks, adapted for local laws.

If suddenly Alphabet has thousands people taking to them to court in jurisdictions all over the world, that can indeed hurt them, although it will take longer than injunctions on Google now, I fully agree.

I absolutely love it when something in a Boomer Humor style is actually a good joke.

Were you trying to get the system logo to match your big bright red triangle hazard light button, or was that just a happy accident?

Jucika is the woman I aspire to be.

No heterosexual man will be able to tell you accurately what you have on, even though he just looked at you 10 seconds ago.

Yeesh, either you’re a terrible partner or you’ve had a string of terrible partners and are speaking from personal experience… but I mean I guess all that research that shows that men very much do care what women wear (especially women they aren’t dating, famous women even moreso) must mean nothing…

Look, I hate capitalism and fast fashion as much as the next woman, but socially we’re treated as if our value is within our looks, of which we all know are mostly outfits, hairdos, and makeup catered to the male gaze. So I mean, good for her, and who cares if it didn’t materially change her life for the better or change her habits. It’s quite possibly a whole ass outfit no less, top and skirt, not one whole piece. If it made her feel good and she likes it enough to be lounging around in it a week later, I don’t see the issue. I don’t know, let women have fun. (and that includes you, Stushona! let yourself have fun!)

Yeah, GPU passthrough is pretty tough to get with VMs as well, let alone something very tailored to graphics needs like that. So I can understand if you need that to work why it’s a turn off.

Well, VMs being slower than the host machine is just a real tradeoff that happens. You can try using less graphics/ram/cpu heavy systems like Xubuntu/Lubuntu (although to be fair even Kubuntu is pretty lightweight now). But part of it is how much RAM you give it. If you have the spare ram for it, give it as much as you can. I have 32gb of ram and yet rarely break using 10gb of it so if I am running a single VM I usually give it 12gb of ram at minimum. Also depending on what you’re using for your VM you could give the VM more cpu cores to use, but that will in turn speed it up (although depending on the load may also slow down your host as it loses access to cores). Giving it enough ram, enough cores, and putting it on the next M.2 (pulling the OS of an HDD is slow af) you get if there’s enough room. Those are all things that will bring up speed.

okay, well, your root directory is always / that’s where your system stuff lives like /usr/ /bin/ /etc/ et cetera. however, you also have in there alongside the system stuff a /home/ directory, which is where your user data lives. Think of /home/ as your C:\Users\ folder. It’s where whatever your username and its data is is going to live.

The thing is, when installing the OS, you can choose to set up (manually) to have your /home/ directory on another disk or disk partition, which separates it from the root / directory psychically or logically respectively.

It would be like if you could re-install windows entirely but never lose your C:\Users\ folder because it actually lived at D:\Users\ and Windows just always looked for your users folder upon install (which Ubuntu does) and allows you to re-use it if it finds it.

So:\ / = C:\
/home/ = C:\Users\

These aren’t 1 to 1 matches in terms of analogy, but it’s pretty close.

Possibly the best advice here re: the distro.

While it helps to have people give you suggestions, the person who it really needs to work for is you, the user. Don’t let popular opinion turn you away from what works for you, OP. Experiment and play. It costs nothing to put on a new system except some time and effort.

Also, if you put your home/ directory on its own partition, you can experiment with variations of the same types, like the all the variations of Ubuntu. I’m pretty sure modern installers even back up the dotfiles that exist in your current home/ directory for you, so you don’t even have to worry about old dotfiles breaking anything.

What are your PC specs outside of an Nvidia card?

Depending on your specs, it might make more sense to run it in a Virtual Machine than dual boot.

I started my process of going into Linux with dual-booting for several years while also running a small linux server on a raspberry pi 3B+.

The reality is I hardly ever booted into Linux unless I needed to do something over there. Several times I ignored the Linux side long enough that it was fully broken from not receiving updates for so long. (Literally slept on the upgrade window until the next upgrade was already out and the old upgrade window was gone…ooof. after that I went with LTS just to ensure that didn’t happen again).

Part of the reason I never booted into it is because turning it off and then on again… is actually more time consuming and interruptive than you initially think. I would just forget it was there on a normal day without any specific projects to work on.

I never really took it properly seriously until I fully removed Windows and made my Linux my daily driver. If I still need Windows, I run that in a Virtual Machine. However the amount of times I need it is steadily decreasing.

So, based on personal experience, if you have the specs, I strongly suggest a VM otherwise you might find yourself not even bothering to boot into Linux half the time because everything you do daily is still on Windows. Just a thought nugget to consider. Plenty of people told me I should be running mine in a VM that whole time, too. I was skeptical. Looking back, they were right, and it took me longer to acclimate than it would have if I had been consistently using it.