I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Finding driver’s and IRQ settings for my Creative Labs Soundblaster. I fought with OSS, ALSA, and Jack to enable real-time audio. I heard my audio get garbled, unfixable without a reboot. All those moments will be lost in time, like using Subversion for source control. Time to reinstall.

You haven’t been using Linux for long enough.

I remember when you literally couldn’t install it on a laptop. I remember having to download wireless driver binary blobs in order to get only a select few WiFi adapters to work. I remember printing being a roll of the dice. I remember hardware graphics acceleration being non existent. I remember when gaming on Linux was Doom, Quake, any of the various Tux games, and Battle of Wesnoth. I remember when webcams just straight up weren’t supported. Installing Linux? Prepare to download “disk sets” that were lettered and numbered based on what software you wanted, and each one would go on individual floppy disks.

I used to have to look up hardware that Linux supported and make purchases based on that.

I know things are far from perfect nowadays, but I just wanted to point out that we stand on the shoulders of giants. I bought my kids some Lenovo Ryzen based laptops for Christmas, was able to boot Linux from a USB drive, install it, install steam, put their favorite games on there and it all just worked. Not a single hiccup.

Just wanted to lend some perspective.

Hot take: I’m fine with Bethesda taking their time to release a game if that means it’ll be higher quality. There are thousands of games released a week. Hi play something else in the meantime.

When is musk going to fight zuck? We never got that cage match.

To co-sign on the stupidity of embedded washing machine firmware, if we lose power, the next time you start the washing machine you’re presented with an error message saying the power has failed. Like, no duh. You have to acknowledge the error message before you can start a new load.

That’s the real problem with historians. They always talk about the past and not the future.

No shit.

I honestly had no idea that Spain was still a monarchy.

Finally!

Man this guy just won’t die. He keeps coming back to fuck up politics over and over again.

Could?

Yup.

Wait until you hear he was the janitor on News Radio.

Decades late, but I’ll take it. Do Monsanto next.

We learned nothing from the Roman empire.

They have, and that’s part of the problem.

I wonder if there is any place to buy it in America. We have a Wegmans nearby that has a decent selection of international food.

Thanks for sharing this delicious looking food!

Do you have a link to the recipe? That looks delicious!

Ed Zitron is amazing. That dude just says it like it is.