Fair point. Just because I have an opinion doesn’t mean people should listen to me. /srs

It might not actually be that bad, but I rarely like change. In my opinion, all software should have a sort of legacy UI mode.

EDIT: You don’t have to listen to my opinion.

Lookin’ good!

However, this guy has actually switched to Linux, and is willing to adapt and learn how to use it.

That’s some hardcore Linux there. Well done!

I haven’t touched my YouTube channel in over a year now, but at this rate I’m thinking of deleting it altogether. There doesn’t seem to be a PeerTube instance willing to host all of my content (it’s essentially an archive for old PSAs, with occasional top 10s), so I reckon I’ll download the entire channel with JDownloader and then wait until I can host an instance of PeerTube or MediaGoblin.

I’m daily driving it. Well, daily driving every other day. I have a few machines, so I’m not restricted to one OS, and I tend to use the one I feel most comfortable with. Right now, I’m using this machine the most.

What daily driving involves for me is mainly web and gemini browsing, some media playback, word processing, and some light gaming (although I am yet to install any games on this machine).

The reasons I chose OpenBSD are:

• Security - If it’s the most secure OS, I should probably be running it in some capacity. It’ll also impress people when I bring it to my first lecture in uni (I’ll be studying cybersecurity).
• Learning - It’s a different land with different rules, and I’m hungry for knowledge. Learning OpenBSD is the next logical step after I got to grips with FreeBSD.
• Performance - Surprisingly, I’m finding that OpenBSD actually runs faster and has vastly superior battery life than when I was running Linux or FreeBSD. However, as I said before, I haven’t yet tried gaming on it.
• unix_surrealism - I’d say that this comic was part of the reason I went for OpenBSD and not Linux or something like Haiku.

Additionally, you mentioned FreeBSD. I think it’s worth noting that, while two different Linux distributions can be very similar and cross-compatible, it’s a different story with BSD.

Unlike Linux, the BSDs are all more-or-less hard forks of one another. FreeBSD and NetBSD were forked from 386BSD back in the '90s, which was based on the original BSD from the '80s. OpenBSD was then forked from NetBSD 1.0, and DragonFly BSD was forked trom FreeBSD 4.8. Today, the big four BSDs (Free, Open, Net, and DragonFly) are very different from one another and not entirely cross-compatible compatible.

My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.

Well, I often just do a bank transfer or card payment. I’ve tried to use Monero, but I’ve had trouble getting ahold of any crypto without selling my soul to Guardarian.

The letter arrived yesterday.

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

Honestly no

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.

It was two days ago.

19th June

I have a few machines, which run:

• Raspbian Bookworm (arm64) with IceWM - Raspbian is the only desktop RPi distro that works out-of-the-box. I chose IceWM because it’s fast, light, customisable, and I can make it look like it’s 2004.
• openSUSE Tumbleweed with Xfce+Bspwm - I keep going back to openSUSE. It just works. As for the desktop, I wanted Xfce but with tiling.
• Mageia 9 with LXQt - I just needed something lighter than Fedora Xfce, as this machine only has 4GB of RAM.
• FreeBSD with i3 - Thought I’d give BSD a try. I was pleasantly surprised.
• Gentoo (WIP) - I’m just throwing random distros at my MacBook until something sticks. Gentoo is fast and can control the fan without me having to git clone and compile the drivers (ironically).
• crunchbang++ (i386) with Openbox - This is a mid-2000s MacBook, running one of the few Linux distros that actually boots on it.

Some distros I tried but did not like were Pop!_OS, Slackware, Zenwalk, Freespire, Redcore, Fedora Atomic, ArchBang, and antiX.

Sone distros I’d like to try are Qubes OS, Clear Linux, CRUX, Kwort, Paldo, Exherbo, NuTyX, T2, Chimera, Adélie, Frugalware (no new ISOs since 2016, but the packages are still updated), Dragora, Parabola, Hyperbola, PLD, KANOTIX, Calculate, ALT, ROSA, and AUSTRUMI.

The reasons I have not yet tried these are mostly down to my limited hardware and the complexity of some of the distros. With others, it’s often down to WiFi drivers not existing for my proprietary cards. And then there are also a couple of distros from Russia, which I feel I can’t trust at the moment.

It’s an old program that converts between .deb (Debian), .rpm (RedHat), .tgz (Slackware), .slp (Stampede), .pkg (Solaris), and LSB packages.

I don’t use it much, but it can be handy in a pinch for installing software that isn’t packaged for your distribution. Just don’t use it for anything low-level or that’s already packaged natively, or you’ll break stuff.

You could try running the .deb through alien(1p), although it can be hit-and-miss if the package has a lot of scripts or dependencies.

A user by the name of electro1 has just told me that apparently it now contains trackers. I had no idea. Sorry.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.onlyoffice.documents/latest

I’ll keep an eye out to see if anything else turns up that’s FOSS, but doesn’t spy.