martinb

@martinb@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t spot that one coming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to buy your marmite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🤣😂😪😥😢😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aspiring supervillan, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AM RGB 65 Mechanical Keyboard Takes Inspiration From A Nintendo Icon | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*doing my best google impression* Did you mean: turn in up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had been drinking coffee, you would have been required to pay my dry cleaning bill! 👏👏👏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I game on Linux. Go check protondb for compatibility with your favourite game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes!

  If you have a big enough hard drive then you can install Linux alongside Windows. You will get that option when installing. When you boot, you will be able to choose…

  Caveat, win11 requires secure boot which I haven’t dealt with, so you may have to research if that’s the case. There will be lots of info online though - it will depend upon your distro though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha. No worries. List of distributions…

  • Pop!_os Arch derivative. Popular. Quite easy
  • Debian One of the first distributions. Medium to hard difficulty
  • Ubuntu Very easy, but they are a bit corporate. Usually considered a good beginners distro
  • Slackware (beginners guide). One of the first distortion. Can be considered hard mode :)
  • Manjaro Arch derivative. Easy to medium
  • Arch Arch (not a) derivative. Hard mode
  • Redhat Enterprise mode

  I would try them out as either live usb tests or in virtual box first to see what tickles your fancy. In the mid to late 90’s I was using slack and Debian. Debian is generally used as a base in docker images for its stability, so getting to know that to get into herding containers can be a good thing.

  Many others out there, that’s just a small list off the top of my head.

  • List of distros

  • 'nother list

  • distrowatch used to be my go to when hunting fun distros.

  • Have fun!

  • Break shit!

  • Learn how to fix it (almost every catastrophe is recoverable)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything at all. I run on raspberry pis, old lenovo laptops, new gaming laptops, amd pc with 64 gig ram and nvidia 4070ti. Make a bootable usb and test it to see if you like it without installing to the drive (live mode), then if you want to make the plunge, install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Install mint (cinnamon). Very easy to use for starting. Will make computers fun again. As for games. Most work fine but ymmv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Personally only use it for work. Linux all the way on all my machines

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point being that he paid for the software and he shouldn’t have to get around if

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an advantage pro, original, but the rubber fn keys eventually gave up the ghost. Also needed something more portable for work, so have migrated to ergodox now. Still miss that keywell though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mercenary III - My First Open World Game | A video essay on the open-world Amiga/Atari ST game that was ahead of its time.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had totally forgotten about this game. Tyvm!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they meant Linux Mint, the Debian derivative. Very confused until I read the comments… perhaps I should read the article 😳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that’s a way to rapidly run out of spare universes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨emacs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Try Lunarvim, it’s neovim with a bunch of great Plugins and configuration settings out of the box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The proletarianization of tech workers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are others above who provide ~instructions~ warnings against bypassing paywalls (⌐■_■)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the works best editor Bram. :x!