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Mate, no advice here, just wanted to applaud you on your journey. There isn’t really an end goal, though. You look great—keep it. Cherish it. Love the good parts, and even the less-than-great bits of your body; it’s the only one you got. Keep healthy, keep limber, keep strong, and just enjoy the ride. You’re an inspiration to many.

The Billie Eilish

100x the sales revenue if it be listed on the art market rather than the property market.

Swap out Brave for Fennec (Firefox fork) to stay away from Chromium perhaps?

“The fundamental architecture of Linux prohibits age verification completely”…until the next law erodes that privilege altogether.

I hope you are right. And for all our sakes, I really hope I am wrong.

Thanks for the explanation. What you have described is not different to the manner in which I understand the situation as well.

My concern is that (despite your good intentions) your previous comment may have the unintended effect of making light of the situation we are all in.

The ‘field’ we have the privilege to ignore now id a mandatory requirement for a passport and iris scan tomorrow.

My first thought is to not sit still and accept the new law - rather, to empower everybody here to write to their legislators to block or reverse these gross violations of privacy. May Linux developers have already expressed willful non-compliance to the law. Show we not get behind these developers and organisations (like the EFF) and demand a repeal?

I however apologise if I have misunderstood your intent. But one thing is for sure, if we do not put up a fight at present, then the future is already lost.

…until it becomes a requirement to be filled.

If that is the case, explain why is it being implemented in the heat of mass age verification? What is the motive?

Thanks. This is what I concluded from my reading too. Just needed to jump an extra hoop or two to allocate for btrfs which I didnt know about but going back and redoing the zrsm swap was not difficult.

Begun, the clone war has…

Ha. Learnt something today. Thank you for the share. You are kind.

note: the term “virtual memory” I used in my response above refers to swap memory. I was having trouble recalling.

In the beginning it was that I wanted to try Gnome and Fedora. I was new to Linux then and experimenting was exciting.

But I guess the important point here (for me at least) is why I stayed on. Fedora

I realised the system packages for LibreOffice and some other apps were newer on Fedora.

Being able to run this laptop mostly on fairly current system packages meant more compatibility (eg. formatting cnsistency on LibreOffice) and not incurring resource overheads from running the same software on Flatpaks. I’ve not scientifically tested this but it does “feel” a lot snappier running system packaged apps.

I made the decision to move to Sway when Fedora 43 came out and that freed even more resources from not having to run Gnome.

Gnome was a good introduction to a keyboard driven workflow and moving to Sway was a lot easier because if my experience navigating via the keyboard on Gnome.

None of this was premeditated. Its just how things turned out for me. And with Linux, I’d probably optimise more as I go along.

My system just grew to adapt to my needs, preferences and limitations every step of the way. And I think that journey will continue to adapt as I go.

Will I recommend LinixMint to anyone? 100%!!! I cannot find any fault with it. Its super reliable, beautiful UI, decent customisations, etc. I’ve set up LMDE (the Debian variant of LinuxMint) for a few Windows-refugee friends of mine and they’ve been having a great time.

Will I go back to Mint? If I could run Sway on it, then perhaps. But I dont have a need to at this moment.

My daily driver is a 2014 i5 machine with 4GB RAM, running Fedora 43 Sway (riced but no animations).

It can simultaneously run Emacs, Librewolf 6-8 tabs (research), Helium 2-3 tabs (for email, calendar & cloud drive) and 1-2 desktop chat apps. If I flick on Freetube at this point, it’ll freeze up.

I’ve got a pretty minimalist approach to work so I don’t have too many things running most of the time. I use mostly system packages and Flatpaks sparingly. I can keep running this thing as my daily driver for a few more years.

Also stick a 27" display and a pair of 5" powered studio speakers into it in the evenings to enjoy some movie streaming.

ps: I’ve recently configured another 12GB of virtual memory (?) on the SSD to support the 4GB RAM on the machine and that has significantly helped with multitasking.

ps2: Sharing the above to encourage to try Linux out. I came to this with zero knowledge amd experience. Really amazing what’s possible.

ps3: May be also good to mention that if first ran Linux Mint (with no optimisations or modifications) on this machine and only moved to Fedora a year later. Both distros worked flawlessly. If anybody is keen to know why I moved from Linux Mint to Fedora, please ask and I will share my experience.

Good call with Angel Dust. King For a Day, Fool For A Lifetime completes the syllabus.

Miles Davis:

• Kind of Blue
• In a Silent Way
• Bitches Brew
• Tutu

Cornerstone records from which everything from the Headhunters, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and the great exploration of jazz, psychedelic, rock and everything else in between.

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And the link written this way works better methinks. https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was

I can vouch for this beauty. Used; t on a few different phones. Was my go to for my “del googled” devices. Really good project. For speech to text you can just use FUTO’s speech to text app. Ita also pretty good.

This one’s good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH05Csdahnk

Truth is, most of us feel the same way you do. You are not alone. What is being shared by the community is the “best options of what we have” at the moment.

This tyranny is by design. But this also means we can design ourselves out of it. Its just slow process.

We are starting to see new models of communication be develop, and in some cases we are seeing convergence of these efforts into very exciting solutions.

We’ll get there. Its a lot of work and we have to keep doing whatever we can in our capacity to help that process along.

Just know we all feel the same way you do, and this is the best we got for the time being. We have to stick together and keep talking all this.

Power to us!!