propter_hog [any, any]

A few on this machine, mostly the usual “plug-n-play” suspects: openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, etc. I’ve narrowed it down to needing a specific driver which will have to be installed after the install, but I don’t have an extra thumb drive for it since the one external drive I do have will have the os on it, and I just haven’t been arsed to make it work on a single drive by modifying the partition to add a second one and put the driver there. It’s just a pain in the ass.

Yeah, mine was a pain in the ass. Haven’t sorted it yet. Must be a different chip set.

What did you do to get the keyboard and mouse to work?

Good thing we don’t have a Planck Cruncher ;-)

Can’t be him; he’s clearly facing the wrong way. We’re still waiting on the prophesied bear messiah.

I usually pick usernames and email addresses with diceware. Unless I’ve got a zinger in mind like with the propter hog one.

Zypper is by far the best package manager available, providing atomic and reversible updates, and their open build service makes reproducible builds. Those two are by far the best things about openSUSE. It’s not without its faults, which is why I have switched away at times, but I always come back after using the crap available in other distros.

“Front, towards dust bunnies”

openSUSE is the best os in general, in my experience. I’ve kept coming back to it time and again for decades.

I thought the problem was my browser add-ons, glad to know it’s not just me

Testers are a godsend

*comments

Wild garlic, maybe?

Get a government job; everybody leaves at 5pm

This is a common misconception, but 9/11 isn’t America’s birthday, it’s world independence day.

Oh I definitely agree with you there. I just think GPL is close but not close enough.

That’s why the current state of open source licenses doesn’t work. Commercial use should be forbidden for free users. You could dual license the work, with a single, main license applying to everyone, and a second addendum license that just contains the clause for that specific use, be it personal or corporate. Corporate use of any kind requires supporting the project financially.

Cracker

Obligatory “systemd was a mistake, they played us for absolute fools, yadda yadda yadda”

You mentioned PGP already, but this is exactly what that technology was designed for. You can sign the post with your private key, meaning anyone with the public key can verify its authenticity, and sites such as GitLab make use of this for signing code commits to prove it came from the author listed on the commit. A scaffolding utilizing PGP for blogging may already exist. You’d have to enter your PGP passphrase to seal the post. In fact, you may be able to take advantage of the exact mechanism GitLab and others are already using by publishing by way of a signed git commit, and displaying like a green lock or something on blog posts that are authenticated.