tmux - makes managing remote SSH sessions a breeze.

tomb - A little FOSS encryption utility that runs in the CLI. Easy, cute, effective. Tomb Utility

Cognitive bias, for every hardcore drug addict/chain smoker who makes it into their 80’s, there are hundreds who have long since died.

But I think there might also be something to the whole, “too mean to die” thing. Some people seem to use the energy they get from spite and rage to continue fighting off death.

Round two?

Richard Dawkins, the only man with the balls to say what nobody else is thinking.

Cringe as usual, I never liked the guy. A pretentious old windbag imo.

Default terminal -> Kitty

I’ve really been enjoying Fish on my personal laptop.

No rivalry, both projects serve a different crowd with different use cases and preferences. Some people like both, some people like neither, that’s the beauty of Linux and FOSS, there’s something for everyone.

Filthy, janky, lovely! Merry Christmas and happy holidays you stinky lil’ penguin! 🎄🎉🎁☃️❄️

I love it. I run Mint on my business laptop and my personal laptop, it’s so solid. And Cinnamon has been the most stable desktop environment I’ve ever used.

Linux Mint. I’m a pretty hardcore Linux person, used a dozen different distros, Mint is by far the closest I’ve experienced to #JustWorks.

It’s reliable and simple enough that earlier this year I switched my tech-illiterate parents from Windows to Mint. Works great for them so far.

Well at least Bitcoin is very decentralized and not subject to powerful wealthy groups that control…oh whoops.

Well at least it is anonymous and protects its users from spying and cyber crime…oh whoops.

Well at least almost all the power used to mine it is renewable so the environmental impact isn’t…oh whoops.

Well at least there are a ton of businesses and organizations that accept and use Bitcoin…oh whoops.

Well at least the crypto community is famously rational, friendly, and very generous…oh whoops.

Can I just get a goddamned monitor? Like, please can my TV just be a damn 70" monitor with hookups for whatever actual tech I want to use to watch stuff?

Is that too much to ask? My TV has to have its own shitty, unintuitive, slow, buggy OS stuffed with ungodly amounts of bloatware and bullshit?

Just picked up 20 TB of storage on a black Friday deal.

Doing a huge upgrade from my 2TB NAS. I’m starting my personal media archive, music, movies, shows, anime, Ebooks, games, YouTube content.

It’s the only defense against the scumbag corpos. The will continue to take more content away without warning, and make what they allow us to still have, worse quality and more expensive to watch.

Storage is cheap, libraries are your friend, fight the power. ✊

Awesome if that ends up happening.

In my ideal world, IP and copyright wouldn’t exist at all, but obviously that won’t happen in my lifetime.

Neither would my suggestion of releasing any defunct software as GPL, sadly.

The codebase the would be a great start, even if it previously ran on proprietary tech, having the codebase at least allows engineers to pull out the proprietary hooks and rebuild them to work with something open source.

We need a right to repair but for software, sadly that also is a pipe dream in our current environment.

All companies should be required to release their entire codebase under the GPL if the product is no longer going to be maintained by them.

That way a community of people who actually care can maintain and improve it.

I play several games that run on 20+ year old engines, long since abandoned by their original creators. The community reverse engineered the games and server infrastructure so they can still be run and enjoyed today. Same for all the folks who develop emulators and the entire ecosystem of ROM dumpers, readers, and handhelds that surround them.

Capitalism is a cancer. So amazing that, at least in certain parts of the software world, we have something better.

This is also a friendly reminder to donate to and support your favorite FOSS projects! they need all the help they can get. ❤️

I know, right.

“People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

The penguin is merciful.