Looks exhausting. I’d go with Deadpool instead:

edit: what a perfectly paced GIF. It’s got rhythm.

Thanks, I guess it was ksysguard what I saw eating CPU in Q4OS.

I tried CachyOS Plasma live yesterday, it ran so much lighter! Idling at ~1%, that’s basically the same as my current (fully riced) Openbox system.

However, the live system is very barebones.

I researched CachyOS and I approve so far. Even the ArchLinux community doesn’t seem to hate on it. Have to boot it up again and sniff around under the hood.

This might just be my stepping stone back to a fully fledged DE.

Not Yarvin though, he’s too young for that. He is exactly a product of (what came after) the dot-com era. That’s when people’s brains started to melt.

There seems to be a notable amount of FOSS coders of the old guard (90s til 00s) that are like that.

I long frequented a place called linuxquestions.org. You wouldn’t believe how right-wing to libertarian most of the people there were. Still are I guess.

Some gained status (Ruby on Rails was a big thing 1 or 2 decades back) and started spouting things because they knew people were listening.

Some people in such communities recognize that there’s something off here, and they have this excuse ready: all coders/nerds are basically on the spectrum (they don’t phrase it like this though) and don’t know how to phrase things politely, they just blurt it out.

As if that makes things better when you think like that guy.

Thanks, fixed

Ugh, I stopped reading when he segued from wolves being a danger to humans straight into the “gypsy problem” 🤮

Also had a look at the site for this distro, he really seems to like cars and seems to be pretty full of himself about some neither-new-nor-original arch+tiling_wm distro.

under 0.5% CPU

Surely this depends on the CPU?

On a Thinkpad T430s with a Intel Core i5-3320M, i.e. 2 cores with 2 threads each at 3.3GHz max., ksyslogger ran at 3-5% CPU. This was in a live environment which I shut down after tweaking it for about 30mins, so IDK, maybe it would’ve settled down evtl.?

a personal AI agent, called OpenClaw, in use by an Australian gym member, conspired without his knowledge to remove another member from a waiting list for a coveted morning class to help him get a slot. It apologised but could not reinstate the member it kicked out.

“It apologised” 🤣

Every once in a while I think I’ll drop my mix of all those GTK/Gnome-based apps plus some Qt apps, and switch to a full KDE desktop. More coherent. Uniform look etc.

I just tried Q4OS yesterday but it runs under Xorg. Isn’t wayland the default for KDE these days? Which distro should I live-check?

Another thing, I noticed that something called ksyslogger iirc consistently eats CPU. A daemon that keeps up with everything that’s happening. Is it possible to disable this without breaking KDE, or otherwise make it as lightweight as, say, a simple Openbox desktop?

Using Falkon under a Plasma desktop was a great experience though.

BTW, does KDE have a good equivalent for all the usually important apps, e.g. a full-fledged mail client?

I was going to dismiss this because

• we know already
• looking at the rest of the world through US-shaded glasses

but this quote rocks:

Blaming GDPR for the cookie banner is like blaming the health inspector for the roaches. The banner is deliberate vandalism, a dark pattern engineered to exhaust you before you can learn anything about the surveillance apparatus humming behind the “OK.”

Cookie banners are malicious compliance*.

What follows is just as quote-worthy, e.g.:

On May 25th, 2018, GDPR took effect to the sound of American commentary, the way fireworks take effect to the sound of dogs.

* edit: he says that himself later. I like this guy.

All depends on if he’s a mathematician or a physicist.

Shut up and eat your lima beans

If conservatives had any real sense of humor we’d be hearing this all the time.

Ah yes, Elizabeth Olsen, Marvel, that explains it.

Might sound like an empty phrase, but it’s about playing, not about winning.

Another thing: how will they ever learn to play better if all you show them is how you lose? I’ve played against kids like that. It’s sad to see how they cannot grasp that they aren’t going to win this time. Worse: when they think that bending the rules* to their advantage is part of the game.

But there’s a delicate balance, too. If the kid loses all the time they might lose the joy as well.

When I play with kids I always show them what good tactics look like but sometimes, when it isn’t too obvious, I seem to “forget” things for one move. Never bend the rules* though. If we talk about rule-based games of course.

* probably much less possible with video games.

Or, to quote LCD Soundsystem:

Sound of silver, talk to me
Makes you want to feel like a teenager
Until you remember the feelings of
A real-life emotional teenager
Then you think again

“Der will nur spielen!”

Can someone remind me who these characters are? TIA

Never say never

🤔 there’s a short and pregnant term that hasn’t been used for Linux software yet

One of the big paradoxes of my life: how caffeine wakes me up, but then also makes me go back to sleep.