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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • Yes, until they lock down the software by pushing out the smaller people via certification requirements, specific signing methods, and branded closed-source apps while gating the open source repositories however they can try.

    I’m not saying all this to deter adoption btw, this is just how it seems to go: the public puts work into something to make it good it gets co-opted by corps and they enshittify whilst marketing it to the world, so everyone gets in with 1 idea and it changes to the same old mess.






  • Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it’s branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.

    I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people’s hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying “up”.

    Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking…






  • Without rigging or a gantry you would likely not be able to do it yourself. Think of what you would want were you constructing this out of long thin toothpicks outside: a gust of wind would move things out of alignment and you would have to leave your current spot to go readjust, that would still happen with the thin aluminum stilts/arches/siding.

    That being said if you approach it with that in mind and are prepared to make hangman-style small gantrys or arms to hold things in place while you get to the spot to secure them then you could probably do it on your own over a few days.

    If you don’t have the instructions don’t try to build it from nothing, go look for the same model online and find instructions so you can tell which bolts go where, and to get an idea of what brackets, holding arms, and loose tie-downs you would have to make and use to align things while you move yourself, tools, and ladder around the structure.








  • If only biden & his pick for doj and his immunity from prosecution as president and his knowledge of politics from 3+decades of experience had enabled him to prosecute and jail the child fucker ring.

    If only he knew of the american media beast that lives in Washington that somehow he was not able to evade or play like an instrument given his 3+ decades of experience and lived world and access to any and all of the best marketers and strategic advisors by don’t of his being president and a household name.

    Were these things different, perhaps the one side could produce effects to demonstrate in the minds of even the least news-watching simpleton thst they are, indeed, different. Alas.