I like ext4 because it’s easy. If anything breaks, ANY live USB can fix it. I use fat32 for my removeable drives, because anything can read it. I don’t use journalling for anything manually, but I imagine it’s useful when my disk crashes because I let my laptop die

Depends on what you do. my daily driver is a $20 x200. works great for my needs. But I don’t game

Yeah, and blasters are pretty clumsy weapons

ah. I’ve been doing linux things, but maybe i’ll try out gridchat next time i’m on 9front

Are you on oftc?

Depends on the tech job. A lot of corporate IT support jobs care a lot more about troubleshooting windows because that’s what the employees use

It will never matter what your login shell, unless you have bash specific scripts in your login. chsh -s /bin/fish $(whoami) is fine.

That looks awesome! Having used fvwm, I’m a fan of the scrollable desktop

It’s too bad it’s UGLY because you’re RIGHT this was much easier to READ

too humanizing

This is true of other skills too. Sometimes I can remember how to do things only when I stop thinking

Because, it helps them justify living under an economic system which harms them and the world

also great for old windows disk recover. Testdisk is awesome

I think the most compelling theory is we mated them into our communities, while outcompeting for food

Killed off, but not necessarily by violence.

I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition… Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

Depends on what I’m doing. For most of my use cases, not really. For universal paperclips, I worry it’ll melt

exactly. failure of english, not math. Math allows fairly accurate descriptions of the universe, humans (and especially languages) evolved to adequately percieve the narrow band of qualia that have been relevant to survival