I tried FreeBSD for several months about 15-20 years ago. I really liked how clean the filesystem and environment felt, and have suggested it for many people over the years. In the end I couldn’t get around their license vs GPL.

I edited my config, and it changed the font size next time I opened kitty. I’m not sure what is happening to you, other than maybe having the config file not where it’s expected.

Did you remove the # at the start of the font_size setting?

I’m sure you’ve seen it many times, but I love Bill Hick’s take on marketing.

Become comfortable with the command line. Learn the when and whys of using sudo. If you aren’t willing to do that, you may not want to stick with Linux. It can have a little bit of a learning curve in the beginning (nothing like what it used to be), but you should get more comfortable in a short time.

The only one I ever used was https://ltsp.org/ , but it’s been years, so I have no idea how it’s doing now. It was great for thin clients.

LFS of course.

It’s been some time since I used it on an old laptop, but Puppy Linux was very responsive on shit hardware.

I wish they wouldn’t advertise days of battery life, when their “day” is 1/2 an hour. Just say how many hours the battery will run. The math for how long it’ll run for my use is not rocket science. It’s good to see color E Ink in a reasonable price range. I think I’ll wait for the size to increase while staying affordable.

I don’t think you’ll get anything that is a real drop in for Partiful.

Sounds interesting. I’d imagine it would make it easier to seal off the electronics and have a drink-proof keyboard.

When I have to. Either when Wayland does something that I can’t do with X11, or X stops being supported.

Gilles Castel (RIP) published a couple articles on taking math notes with Vim + LaTeX which I found eye-opening. In another article he posted about how he integrates Inkscape into the process. If you haven’t read the articles, they may be helpful for what you are doing.

I just stick with one because I’m boring. I’ve used it for a long time, it works, I haven’t really changed anything in years. I think it’s pretty cool to talk with people who are polydistroamorous though.

I remember first using Vim a good 25+ years ago at this point. I hated it. Then I learned it. Now everything else just feels like shit.

That said, try a bunch of different editors and see which one you like most. Try micro (you can probably just install it from your package manager), it might make you happy with your old Windows muscle memory.

I would just background the while loop, and then launch your ootaboogah.

Malthus

I don’t know how I’ve never heard of Malthus (or more likely at my age, just completely forgotten). As far as I can glean from my superficial perusal of his works, he seems to focus on human population vs quality of life. Dated, but I would think still a valid path of inquiry.

When I mentioned our “self-suffocating breeding issue”, I was thinking primarily of the ongoing ecological collapse and climate change caused by the impact and mere existence of billions of humans.

Says much less about innate violence in humans than our self-suffocating breeding issue.

It was added in a patch to 2.6.23

Notes from the coder:

The bonus feature in my patch series adds the magic file /sys/kernel/notes. Reading this gives you the binary contents of the ELF notes section built into the kernel. Here you can find the build ID of the running kernel. This gives a solution to a problem that has arisen for systemtap users, where nothing prevents them from using the kernel-debuginfo.i586 data to drive Systemtap’s probe details, but are actually running the kernel from the kernel.i686 rpm. This is a failure on many levels, but some simple sanity-checking at the bottom always helps. Now it is easy to verify you have the right debuginfo file for the kernel you are running.

This is incorporated upstream now.

Someone explain this rule to me please? I don’t know how she is, and Democratic Socialism most definitely isn’t anticapitalist.