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As someone who works in a digital archives, let me tell you that the honest to god problem with old tape is that you have to find an old tape reader (drive) that works. Tape from those old IBM reals still works if its not exposed to the elements. But like the modern LTO stuff, finding a reader for that old stuff is the challenge.

Lets do Tahoma next.

I think this guy is my favorite web comic. I fucking loved Trash Bird and rarely feel like he's wasted his efforts. Thanks for sharing one I don't remember or haven't seen yet.

Steam's recent update to carve out a category for demo's is kinda what you are asking for. At least it is in the right direction, if devs follow it.

I never had to show a birth certificate in Washington State. I think when I did finally register it was through the DMV when I renewed my license. Basically just checked a box.

So if I understand correctly, Israel managed to get a bunch of people in Hezbollah to use pagers and walkie talkies that contained bombs.

Think about it like, there's one person who was able to tell the perpetrators of this that a big order of communication devices is being made.

Perpetrators are clearly sophisticated so it's fair to assume they can throw some skilled team at it.

This attack could be years in the making.

Think of it this way

There's your core of the system, the kernel part. It's the engine of the thing but basically its the package manager. This is what Ubuntu, Redhat, Arch, etc is. It's all interchangeable in some ways and also locked into a specific place you get your packages and updates. It could be any desktop and all of the desktop environments or just a command line.

So more often than not, the core will favor a specific desktop environment. You can always install multiple environments and they'll work but there's some things that are suited for one desktop environment over the other. Many of the basic apps don't work outside their environments. KDE apps don't always work in Gnome and vis versa.

So when you download Ubuntu, your basically says give me the package manager that points to the Ubuntu repositories that will understand your version of the core and give you prepackaged software that is meant to work with Gnome.

If you go with Kubuntu you'll get the same treatment but with the KDE desktop environment and all of its basic stuff.

But you can install KDE on Ubuntu and you can install Gnome on Kubuntu.

You can mix and match all the desktops if you want but at some point it does cause problems because the developers make different decisions and use different software that you're package manager has to deal with.

So some distros do things different, have different configurations and package managers. I use Arch which uses pacman (package manager) to give you core software that they keep up-to-date and test but it's limited in what it offers. So instead it has an AUR that can be accessed though many different sub package managers, like yay

I could go on but I hope this makes a little sense about the difference in distribution and desktop environments.

If you want a Windows 98 style desktop, look at KDE. It's a lot like how Windows works

One guy visited 6 times. He is HIV+

The last paragraph 💀

I feel so heartbroken for this person

LoL make them pay for their lack of effort!

Love it

We will not be able to go back in time and stop all the plastic from being created. We can't stop the motion of the ocean that puts it together in the current configuration.

We can't stop the human activity that causes plastic to end up in the ocean.

We can't stop the production of plastic.

We can't demand that governments force their population to behave in specific ways.

The issue is what it is. We can only deal with the situation as it is. The article details a plan and a possible conclusion in 10 years if everything works out. That doesn't make me feel like it's solved.

I would not have had the opinion that you are happy about the solution. Your reply is basically "not appreciate a larger situation, problem, etc., because one is considering only a few parts of it" (the origin). We cannot fix the reason the problem is there. IT IS. Fixing the problem is the only reality and now that is within reach. Complaining about the origin is missing the point.