thehatfox

The war in Ukraine seems quite real, and so does America’s growing isolationism and taste for autocracy. In a visibly more unstable and divided world, a greater focus on defence is sensible.

How we are going to pay for it however is another question.

The new windowing system looks like a big improvement.

I think I remember running that on a Live CD that came with a Linux magazine.

Bloody hell I’m old.

I would also recommend openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’m usually a Debian/Debian-based person but I’ve been running Tumbleweed on my desktop for a few years now and it’s been great.

It has a few peculiarities like any distro but it’s been very stable, with few issues even with things like Nvidia drivers. Docs and community seem good too.

The owner’s phone:

I think most people are usually running to get away from King’s Lynn 😂

I think it will be fairly narrow in scope, with both sides of the Atlantic trying to spin it into a big win, which they both need right now.

However it wouldn’t surprise me if Keir has managed to create a deal to the UK’s detriment in a misguided effort at maintaining the “special relationship”.

It feels like both are waiting, or even relying on, for the other to implode.

The problem with microblogging platforms is they revolve around following users and not topics.

Mastodon has tried to change that by encouraging following hashtags but with limited success.

They are great platforms for people who are already (internet) famous and want a soapbox. But for ordinary folk tooting or tweeting or whatever else it’s called is just shouting into the void. There’s no discussion because nobody ever sees what others post.

I like Mastodon but it seems it can’t escape the inherent problems of the platform model itself.

These Mavicas could become popular again now as retro tech. There’s a lo-fi aesthetic growing in photo and video that’s all about compression artefacts and old image sensors. Physical media and its inconveniences is also having a moment as a novelty and maybe even a broader movement.

I think it’s uncertain for now. A majority of 6 votes is still a win but it’s also an incredibly unconfident win.

Runcorn is supposed to be the kind of place Reform keep being tipped to sweep but even in a byelection they’ve only managed a win by a hair’s breadth.

Reform seem to have a lot more work to do to win over voters to reliably take seats at a general election.

Of course, there’s still 4+ plus years for Labour to lose more voters also.

What kind of person leaves the crust? Pizza ain’t pizza without the crust.