I make a backup of my project on an external hard drive twice-ish a week and pacman-Syu twice-ish a month. If anything serious happens, I’ll just reinstall and restore.

I could keep an up-to-date install USB ready, tho - but I have enough other options at the moment.

Thanks for the concern.

Yeah, and the small part of the the news that can affect me and/or I have input about is what the news summary should be about - thinks like Chat Control, climate change, or AI deepfakes.

It works well enough for now. Some things were surprisingly simpler than I expected them to be (e.g. gaming thanks to Heroic Launcher and Steam).

Note for the Linux-curious potentially reading this: I had sufficient experience with Linux Mint and Ubuntu as well as test runs of Arch before committing to it. DO NOT SWITCH DIRECTLY TO ARCH LINUX FROM WINDOWS. Try Mint first (or Bazzite, I hear that one is great for gaming but have yet to try it myself), and preferably using VirtualBox before committing to a switch.

I’ve largely stopped actively following news because

• most of it is stuff we knew already
• I already find out all that I need to know and more involuntarily through occasional social media visits

I’d like to read summaries of a given week’s news on the world, EU, national, and maybe local level once a week, tho. I’ll check if there’s anything like this for the world and EU scale and report back here if there is.

“Task Manager, my beloved”

“I’m System Monitor now” (Arch+KDE)

“Apologies. System Monitor, my beloved”

Also, the bottom bar with icons and stuff is called “Task Manager” on KDE, which is mildly confusing

Funny idea: what if Republicans are making these ultimately inconsequential blunders to divert attention from the greater problems?

That said, the green pool and UFC are good meme template materials to use to raise awareness of said problems.

I’m not sure. Southern hemisphere countries might flush differently. Better not risk it, though.

Please don’t try to flush Portugal.

That’s one of fediverse’s most underused selling points. Karma farming is impossible here.

AI slop and far-right liars: a match made in hell

Oh okay, that makes more sense, thanks.

Modest proposal: EBT should be able to be used on Epstein’s clients, cooked or not

We won’t go extinct, but we will make things way harder for us than they reasonably need to be, which is a shame.

Good point. Can you recommend some comics that offer constructive opinions instead?

Me when the fancy autocomplete acts like a fancy autocomplete:

“CT scanners are woke” - Trump supporters, probably

Glad to help!

Sorry, I added the title as alt text by mistake. Fixed now, and also added it in the body just in case.

I thought I added alt text. Will check

Whoops, forgot to clarify. I’m using YY/MM/DD with the Unix epoch for the year (years since 1970). So this is 20th of May, 56th year of the Unix era (that is, 2026)