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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Mint is FOSS and free of hardware restrictions, so if you don’t mind having to teach yourself how to fix the odd issue here and there, it’s probably the better option. That said, macOS is definitely a more seamless and full-featured experience (whether that matters to you is personal preference). I use it plenty at work, it’s pretty nice for the average user. Personally, I switched from Windows to Mint years ago, but now I’m on KDE Neon because I needed Wayland support and fell in love with KDE Plasma in the process. Mint/Cinnamon should be stable on Wayland within the next year or two though, so that’s cool.



  • The problem is asking a fundamentally subjective question in a way that presupposes it to be objective truth.

    If you instead asked,

    What are some advantages that Linux Mint and macOS have over each other?

    …you might get more useful answers—from people, that is. AI will just give you what you think you want to hear.







  • Okay cool, but what about reconsidering streets from a pedestrian’s perspective?

    Wouldn’t it be nice if they were narrower, had raised crosswalks, a rough surface that’s uncomfortable to drive on too quickly, and lines of trees/bollards/gargoyles/^(trees carved to look like gargoyles holding bollards) between the road and the sidewalk to protect pedestrians and provide a better speed reference for drivers?

    …come to think of it, the pedestrians (a.k.a. voting taxpayers) would probably rather not pay the taxes needed to finance all these upgrades, and would prefer the much cheaper solution of simply disallowing private automobiles on any street where that is possible. Though, more trees are always welcome. Just about everyone prefers more trees. (As long as the city plants trees of both sexes! Squirrels and allergy sufferers ^(including gargoyles) will thank you!)







  • For anyone reading this on a Debian-based system, you can get a good start without risking removing anything important like this:

    1. Run apt-mark showmanual, and copy any package names you don’t think you need into a list.
    2. Run apt-mark auto <pkg1> <pkg2> ...
    3. Run apt autoremove


  • KDE Neon on desktop. I want to be on the latest Wayland I can for feature support (and Waydroid), without being on the bleeding edge for stability, and it checks all those boxes. Based on Ubuntu LTS, with latest Wayland and KDE software.

    For my home servers I like to try out different distros. I have a thin client on openSUSE Tumbleweed running Portainer, a couple Armbian SBCs for reverse proxies, my main Unraid storage server, and a thin client running NixOS at my parents’ house for backup storage and remote troubleshooting access.