Much needed with the deprecation of ClamTK.

My only gripe is the choice of GNOME / GTK4 / Adwaita, because I really hate the direction GNOME have gone with all that. Anyway, I look forward to this being a standard package in Debians starting 2030 or so.

Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.

(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)

doesn’t care how many die

He’d have to understand in order to care. I don’t think he’s capable of fully understanding the harm he does. Anything that doesn’t harm him is incomprehensible to him.

A large percentage of the world finds Donald Trump being president of the USA unacceptable.

I still think they should have bumped the version to 26. They have a yearly release schedule for version bumps, at least two other major pieces of software have already done this and it would have skipped any potential confusion with Windows 11.

FOMO and FOOPMO

(Fear of other people missing out (on what they have to say.))

As long as it’s not Kekistan.

One of my biggest shocks of recent years was when an Internet acquaintance in Trinidad came out as a Trump supporter.

I was like “You’re brown. He’d hate you.”

Except I didn’t actually say that. I did the internet equivalent of walking backwards slowly and carefully while smiling and quietly blocked them.

I guess my former acquaintance’s sentiments extend to the government there.

An elderly person I know got it in their head that the people coming across the Channel in boats were a serious problem.

“Thirty thousand a year!” they complained. “It’s an invasion!”

So I said “The population of Britain is 70 million people. At 40,000 a year for the next 25 years, ignoring all other increases in population by people already here, do you know what the population would be? 71 million. You don’t need to worry about it. And stop talking about an invasion. If it was an invasion, they’d have guns and we’d shoot them first. Most of them are trying to get away from guns.”

(This is not to say that there isn’t a heavy humanitarian and financial burden involved with dealing with those people, only that it’s not the problem some people think (or want us to believe) it is.)

“But they don’t live like we do.”

“I don’t live like you do. I eat foods you won’t touch and spend all my life on a computer. Where are you going to deport me to?”

Either I’m getting through to them or they know not to bring it up around me any more.

You really think there’s anywhere that’s far enough away?

Ah. There it is. The distinction you’re making that wasn’t clear. You don’t take what they say seriously, but you take them seriously otherwise.

Well, let me tell you, when a despot says they’re going to do something despicable, it doesn’t matter whether they’re wearing clown makeup when they do so.

Sounds an awful lot like you’re taking Batman, a person you said was a clown, seriously.

I mean, I get you. Bruce Wayne is a capitalist, but depending on the writers, his philanthropy is incredibly deep and he’s doing the best he can, crazy as he is.

But you (deliberately?) missed the surface level message I was going for. You don’t turn your back on the Joker and you take him seriously.

And even if Bats is also a clown, are you saying you wouldn’t take him seriously if he started causing havoc?

Tell that to Batman.

There is a legit criminal in the White House, clown or otherwise, and we should be taking it as seriously as Bats does the Joker.

He’s the leader of a “country” that exists in the hearts and minds of every Catholic as well as the Vatican proper. There are bound to be people who love him and those who hate him within that “country” the same way it works with any country and as such, his office has influence.

Is it any more than if he was merely the leader of another city state? I’d say so.

Tell me, without looking it up, who the leader of San Marino, the other Italian city state, is. (And if you can, how many other people, especially outside Italy, could do the same?)

I never thought I’d be on the side opposing the US in WWIII, but hey ho, here we go.

(And this might even mean I’m on the side opposite my own government depending on how things progress here in the meantime.)

Many things can be done using the GUI in Mint, but because there’s a lot of different ways of doing things at the GUI level, and no two desktop environments are exactly the same, the command line is often the best fallback, and so instructions for that are generally what’s found (out of date or otherwise) in online guides.

And as you’ve noticed - and it is somewhat annoying - technology continues apace and things often move around so that old guides don’t quite match up with how distros are now.

As for the graphics card, I’m guessing you probably want the proprietary legacy Nvidia driver if the default Nouveau one doesn’t get the best out of it. (I had a GTS450 and it was a sad day when that got moved to the legacy driver. Still worked fine afterwards though.)

It’s worse than that. They don’t want the Palestinians to die. They want them to suffer.

This is going to vary by program and no solution is guaranteed to be perfect even if tailored for a specific time-sink program (TSP henceforth).

Would you be OK with the TSP being force-closed and potentially losing all progress and/or work, like a grumpy parent yanking a power cord?

What’s to stop you from simply re-opening the TSP again? Or opening the TSP outside the control of whatever’s supposed to tell you “no more”? (Related to “snooze” and “don’t even bother setting the alarm” hacks for more regular alarm clocks!)

Russia are never going to agree to this…

Russia won’t agree to anything that isn’t the complete capitulation of Ukraine and Zelenskyy being replaced with a Russia-friendly puppet leader.

Having a plan out there in public isn’t just about the plan, it’s also a message to Russia that Ukraine (and Zelenskyy) aren’t making it up as they go along and that this is what they intend to do if the Russians don’t idit’ na h-y go home.