MacBook Air club represent!

I enjoy fixing things, even other people’s shit, so I categorize that time as entertainment instead of work. It’s time I’d otherwise be using to doomscroll on Lemmy.

A sci-fi drama about a guy who develops a brain tumor. The tumor becomes sentient and can communicate with the man through their shared thoughts. Over time, they develop a kind of friendship. At the end, the man must undergo brain surgery to remove the tumor. Despite being able to prevent the surgery somehow (haven’t worked this part out yet), the tumor allows it to happen anyway, knowing that it must die in order for the man to live.

I think I would write this as a short story, but I’ve never written any fiction before and don’t even know how to start.

It’s raining men by the weather girls.

When I read “never used a computer with a keyboard and mouse” my first thought was “wow, they only ever used punched cards” until I realized you meant they only used touch screens.

Their format and style makes them highly meme-able.

I always pronounce it “fezzik” like Andre the Giant’s character from The Princess Bride.

LFS (Linux from Scratch)

If pirating it and saving to a thumb drive counts as physical media, then yeah, I guess.

Primal Fear (1996). It’s arguable whether or not the antagonist is truly evil though.

Get a load of this guy - he’s got ladies just coming up and talking to him.

I think I’d like my money back

The script just does all the actions that you would otherwise be manually typing in the terminal. When it’s finished, you have the same minimal environment as if you’d done it manually, but with less work.

Exactly. And the archinstall script makes it almost as easy as Ubuntu. I think this comic is obsolete.

You might want to check out the i3 tiling window manager. Shit’s under 50MB and makes every other DE I’ve ever used feel bloated and laggy.

Inspecting the file with a hex editor would give you lots of useful info in this case. If you know approximately what the data should look like, you can just see where the garbage (header) ends and the data starts. I’ve reverse engineered data files from an oscilloscope like this.

The main benefit is that when people get tired of distro flame wars, they can move on to init system flame wars.

I use a combination of both. Objects are declared const, all members are set in the constructor, all methods are const. It doesn’t really work for some types of programs (e.g. GUIs) but for stuff like number crunching it’s great.

My current and all-time favorite laptop is an older MacBook Air (Intel) running Arch Linux. The quality of Apple hardware combined with Linux is unbeatable. I can’t wait until we get a reliable Linux distro that runs on Apple silicon.

This is the trust-fall of Poe’s law.