And less shit to deal with.

This is all I’ve run across on reverse engineering, so far but it is quite interesting.

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b

Guru Matt’s Total Breath Control: Enlightenment is Stored in the Balls

Boxerbrief gang.

You might like Tildes …

Totally agree.

Ok, folks, one of us needs to do a PR on this app to implement this fella’s feature request!

Doing better, you?

Been getting back on the exercise train. Working on some landscaping in the yard. Made ok progress. As I get in better shape that will improve of course.

Extra energy and motivation today so I am getting back on top of some household chores. It’s been a struggle for a while. I hope I can stay on top of things longer this time.

The most important result is that plants are the overwhelming winner in the “who weighs the most” contest, coming in at 450 gigatons. Microbes (which include bacteria, archaea, and most protists) come in next at around 81 gigatons. Animals (which includes insects, by the way), barely matter, weighing in at a mere 2 gigatons. It’s also worth noting that these plants are mostly on land. That means that the continents beat the oceans in terms of biospheric mass.

https://bigthink.com/13-8/earth-biomass-distribution/

Like anything, you can eat it at least once…

Ed- Despite the disgusting smell, octopus stinkhorn is not known to be poisonous to humans or pets.

htop because pretty colors and graphs.

Or top because it’s like muscle memory now.

Eternity? I’m not sure I could take a hundred more years of this bullshit.

I guess they will have to charge more since they won’t get a full lifetime out of customers.

FWIW it is doable :) since I have Fedora (37) and a separate /home and / device. Btrfs in my case.

How did you deal with the home sub volume?

I will edit this with hopefully useful info about my fstab etc. in a few min…

— okey dokey —

Here’s my fstab. I had to comment out the home subvol and mount /home

UUID=02b32afc-3e05-412b-8781-xxx /                       btrfs   subvol=root,compress=zstd:1 0 0
UUID=e82e80a8-b169-4127-90ad-xxx /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
UUID=D358-0ADF          /boot/efi               vfat    umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2
#UUID=02b32afc-3e05-412b-8781-xxx /home                   btrfs   subvol=home,compress=zstd:1 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7b194608-a407-4c2c-a0d8-xxx /home auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0

Permissions on /home mount point (before mounting device to mountpoint):

$ ls -la /home
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   0 Jan  5 20:47 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 1 root root 166 Feb 27 18:36 ..

$ sudo getfacl home
# file: home
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

Relevant output from df

$ df
Filesystem      1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3       998540288   5447260 991484436   1% /
/dev/nvme0n1p6 1248619684 932769256 258218276  79% /home

Home dir permissions

$ ls -ldZ /home/mes
drwxr-xr-x. 196 mes mes system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 12288 Feb 27 19:13 /home/mes

$ sudo getfacl /home/mes
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/mes
# owner: mes
# group: mes
user::rwx
group::r-x
other::r-x

Let me know if I can give any additional info.

Cool. I am going to give that a spin.

Unix like OS in 6502 assembly? Dang. I’m impressed. That’s seriously cool.

Gotcha. The difficulty in upgrading OS versions was my major gripe. Not that this is unique to Mint I’m guessing.

Second was unavailability of newer versions (or any versions) of some software. At the time, one example was FreeCAD being a couple years behind the current version.

And in fact this second issue made the first issue worse. I could’ve run an LTS longer. But from day one certain packages were pretty far behind and those packages didn’t get major version upgrades until I switched to the next Mint release.

Or else I would have to point to another repo. So at one point I had a bunch of different repos. Then one might go down and break the update and upgrade process.

And if not that approach I would have to find some other way to install but I still want to keep it updated semi automatically which isn’t possible in some cases.

Idk. I may switch to a rolling release distro at some point. But for now Fedora runs newer versions of the kernel and presumably(?) other software, or at least it hasn’t been an issue, thus far.

What is broken with Mint? My kid has been using it since she was like 10.

Like with any unfamiliar tech I find it is probably smoother to start small and work your way up.

So find a laptop that people have no issues running Linux on. Get one and then install just Linux on that and play with it.

The thing is, Linux has a small user base and so it probably isn’t realistic to expect it to support every conceivable hardware configuration on top of dual booting on every one with Windows. It’s way better than it used to be but sometimes people run into problems. Like me trying to get 5.19 kernel to work properly with my specific newer AMD GPU (any 6.x kernel is fine so like Fedora? No prob).

One of the things I try to do is research what network card chipsets, sound chipsets, and video card models work easily because some just don’t.

It sucks I know. Linux doesn’t have a gazillion dollar market behind it providing significant incentive for vendors to get their shit straight. Even so Linux does pretty well.

Anyway. When you’re fighting with several things at once it is easy to get overwhelmed and frustrated. Dual boot with windows, alone, can be iffy in my recent experience. Then add Nvidia, more headache. Then add some less common use cases like rdp… Etc.

Best of luck if you try again.

Like I said before, time loops suck.