What the heck is going on in Sweden? For the last few years, most of the news coming out of it seems pretty weird.

I worry about the people who need to be told things like this. How did they survive childhood without signs warning them not to breathe water or drink the contents of thermometers?

Something about packing heat, too.

Finally, some quality content!

Do you have the fwupdmgr app? On Lenovo laptops, I think you can just use sudo fwupdmgr update.

The best thing about this is that it’s also on the x-axis.

That’s a lot more clever than actually building this grotesque idea.

Headline and all content clearly generated by AI, and entirely lacking in substance.

Yep. I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but when they reveal themselves to be actual proud bigots, the likelihood that they’ll bring interesting and engaging conversation to the table drops to zero.

Plus, I don’t want to moderate a community that tolerates that crap. You know the Nazi bar thing? I don’t want to run a Nazi bar.

Dude’s banned now. Once I saw the “NPC” shit (common term from white supremacists) I realized just removing his crap wasn’t going to be enough.

You run Arch and move on.

(Am I doing this right?)

Holy shit, he actually said that.

This, right here, is a prime example of a political headline that looks like it comes from The Onion.

There are also hosting concerns and costs, but basically, yeah. This isn’t a hard technical problem. There are even pre-written dev libraries for reading epub books, like this one for Flutter.

(Source: Am software developer. Could probably write a PoC for this in a few weeks.)

Someday, a large corporation is going to finally figure out that firing the people who make their products work results in shitty products no one buys. And instead of firing those people, they’ll fire the bean counters and outside consultants who promised that this quarter’s revenue will look great if they stop employing people to make their stuff.

But today is not that day.

I’d say that depends a lot on what you want it to do. Are you looking for a very simple and easy desktop experience? Go with Ubuntu or one of its many derivatives. Do you pine for the glory days of RedHat? Go with fedora. Do you want maximal control over every facet of your computer? Arch.

I’ve never even heard of it. They sure weren’t putting their VPN front and center.

I mean, yeah, a few, but there are plenty with Windows too, and the overwhelming majority of games I’ve tried it with work fine.

Well, of course. I mean it’s not like you paid for a Microsoft Windows license when you bought your computer, so obviously they have to advertise to financially support it. If you’re getting something for free, you’re the product.

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Wait, I’m being told that when people buy computers with Windows installed, they are, in fact, paying for a Windows license, too.

So this is actually Microsoft trying to turn products they’ve already sold into continuous revenue streams at the cost of usability and customer happiness.

In other news, apropos of nothing in particular, Steam on Linux is working really well these days, with lots of AAA titles running just fine via Proton. Make of that what you will…

If it can be done, someone out there is doing it. Better safe than sorry.

I simply will not buy a washing machine where some of the options for its regular use require an internet connection. I can see adding Bluetooth to it for things like remote control and phone notifications, or even WLAN support for connecting to some kind of smarthome hub that is internet-connected so you can get those notifications remotely. But the idea that smart == device-level internet connection is terrible. Appliances for basic living requirements, like laundry, should not require an internet connection of their own to function.