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i assumed you were making a comment on the modern (fascist) administration. there's a difference between shitty politics and fascism. :P

the quote in question is over a decade old...

i'd assume this might be a drive issue rather than a distro / linux issue. iirc i installed debian from CD a few months back on a thinkpad because i was bored... hah, parties. you're funny. undervolting thinkpads while procrastinating finals. that's my kind of shit.

i really would like to run my own peertube instance, but until i get a symmetric connection, i just don't have the uplink. :(

i hate to be a pedant (who am i kidding, i love to be) but they didn't really invent electricity, so much as discover it and improve on existing technologies. ben franklin was writing about lightning rods a century before. also autoerotic asphyxiation. that's true, look it up.

you're evil. i love it.

on my campus, there's a stack of several dozen desktops just out in the open (in a basement)

plus a dumpster worth on monitors, peripherals, and at least one ipad with multiple bullet holes. the screen is fine -- somebody pulled the screen off, then shot the logic board. i have so many questions

i love backwards compatibility as much as the next guy, but at some point, if there isn't enough of a community to backport fixes, there probably aren't many using them. if a tree falls in the forest, you get the idea.

i mean, most of them are celled "display managers" -- lightDM, gDM, lxDM

rust compiles to native code, so barring some horrific implementation issues, i'd bet my money on it being roughly equivalent.

you're absolutely right about that last point. my fully-spec'd t440p (4910mq, 16GB, 1080p IPS, t450p trackpad, backlit, quectel eg25-g for WWAN, the whole 9 yards) cost me less than $300 to build -- a similar machine from minifree would've cost nearly double that for worse specs. though, it should be noted, that that price gets you more than silicon -- they offer support over IRC, some sort of warranty, and i think other shit too.