ALiteralCabbage

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Bought my partner a belt drive. It's amazing. Really lovely bit of kit once you get the hang of the eccentric bottom bracket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Road.cc is chronic for that kind of thing. They have a "near miss of the week" section on their site - they thrive on being exactly the sort of irritating cyclists people get annoyed at.

Their primary product is rage bait and mediocre review content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

"I've seen this one before!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Thanks for actually explaining your position - I'm annoyed it got nixed because I actually wanted to read it properly!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You didn't know I was a moron, to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Turkey isn't in Cuba /s

(But I see your point).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Come on mods - it's fine for people to disagree/discuss/whatever.

Maybe I'm a moron and maybe this person is a tactless tankie.

I actually appreciated that there's some actual fucking discussion here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I mean, I'm being facetious, it's obviously shitty that people are being fed into a meat grinder, but from where I'm sitting it seems like Ukraine is being used as a fertile market for armements and whoever makes up the bunch I charge of Russia's nukes are using them as an attempt to stop interference in their efforts to annexe a neighbour.

What's the chapo traphouse/ML take on this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Is the correct narrative that poor old Russia is being pushed to use nukes by NATO operations which are attempting to stop the annexation of Ukraine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not really - there's plenty of use cases where running memory intensive stuff like that isn't an issue and running a small footprint distro makes more sense than, say, a maximalist, fully featured desktop distro.

I'm not trying to run a media centre or play games on my 11 year old MacBook!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (20 children)

I mean, they just want to sell missiles and make that moolah. It's the man in Moscow who keeps threatening nuclear winter...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Point taken!

I don't think the lite distros are to blame for performance drops in that case, are they? Unless it's down to a lack of system optimisation.

 

I have an old notebook which I've been toying with a few smaller distros on (typically easy to install, liveCD types), and while I enjoy the tinkering aspects of this, I had a thought that I've been mulling.

In the past I've run distributions based on larger, better supported, systems (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc.) and if or when they have folded, like crunchbang did, or PeppermintOS (however briefly), I just changed them out.

However, if I were to go back to peppermintOS, say, would it be feasible to 'convert' the system to the parent distribution? So, could I force peppermintOS to 'become' Debian, for example? Or is this overly simplistic? It's a level of engagement with my operating systems that I just haven't had!

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