Don’t tap Jia Tan…

Install Fedora in a VM if you can?

They’re great devices.

Recently, my partner’s 18yo nephew asked her if she had any iPods (she doesn’t). I took a photo of the eight or so different models that I still have in storage and sent it to him just to gloat. I’m a monster.

C’mon now. You’re not nearly rich or influential enough to get away with that and you know it. Rules are for regular people, not the rich or mighty. Sheesh.

/s

It’s finally the year of Desktop Linux, about fifteen (or more) years after people thought it would happen. I’m happy for all the nerds who are finally vindicated. (I like Linux, but I’m an Apple guy.)

I’ll say it again: We need to disenfranchise older people from voting. They have no stakes in long-term decisions and they’re hurting us. Yes, my mom is a racist piece of shit who voted for Trump three times. Yes, she’s hurting us. Yes, I cut her off for doing so.

You would have really liked the comedian we saw last night. Epstein files were the main topic. Sammy Obeid. Good stuff.

This was my first outloud-laugh of the day. I love it.

That was my reaction when I read about them pulling copilot and such. I think it’s probably the reaction of every software nerd.

It seems like we’re at a real turning point for Linux adoption. I’m an Apple nerd, but I love seeing people switch to Linux and write about what a (mostly) positive experience it is. Cheers to my fellow nerds getting off the screaming pile of garbage MS if forcing on people who just want a computer that works.

Oh shit, did he just make me respect him more than I already did?

Oh, that would be a shame. Not like I was already planning on buying a new computer this year and the idea of over-paying due to RAM shortages and other bs has made me mad at them. After already being mad at them for a lot of reasons that were more abstract in how they harmed me. Fuck 'em.

Hey, you know that Microsoft guy in a high position who pissed off devs on Twitter by saying their code would be replaced by AI and then a lot of the internet called him on his shit? Maybe I can work for him (because I’m certainly not talented enough to get hired directly under ass-face here).

That explains it. All the mystical, mythological stories in the past weren’t fanciful fairytales after all. Turns out that ancient people had sophisticated science that we still don’t understand. Holy shit, all those history channel shows about ancient aliens or whatever were right!

Oh dear, Tim. I guess you just told us your future.

Well, I put in a bunch of personal info and then it rejected two 2FA codes that it sent to my phone so I couldn’t submit at the end. Sigh.

“What else can we do that’s hostile to our customers?”

The next move will be bringing back Clippy and then a full-screen ad that you have to dismiss every ten seconds.

Exactly. I’ve been doing it for so long (because otherwise my cats would splash the water) that I find it gross when people leave them open to flush.

Worked on my Mac. Might be because I have the StopTheMadness extension. It specifically tries to prevent such bullshit.

Virtualbox is free. I hate it, but it definitely works at no cost. VMware Workstation is also free.

Edit: without double-checking to make sure I’m saying it correctly, you probably want to avoid a bridged network and assign one of the other types of network adapters for separation of network devices, but you’ll have to search the terminology to find details.

I’m a Proxmox user and this is the wrong use of it. Proxmox is for hosting multiple VMs, not a solution for needing one.