With xfce, since op doesn’t want plasma or gnome

In addition to all the good suggestions already here, consider installing early-oom and configure it to kill the stuff you care less, maybe one of those heavy electron-based clients.

It’s been some time… Before Xorg there was Xfree86, and before that the various implementations by the other Unix vendors. Does that make sense?

This is one of the most useful things in Xorg, and prior to that in X11. If you (generic you, not anyone in particular here) don’t know about it it’s because you come from too long time on “my users are stupid” operating systems. It’s one of those things that once you have it in muscle memory you use it without even thinking about it.

Have I mis-pasted things? Yes. Have l pasted my password in an IRC channel? Yes. Would I stop using it because once every few months I make a mistake? Not at all.

Make it configurable, if you must, but leave us old timers work the way we have done for 30 years or more. There are already some software/ toolkits that disable it, so it is likely doable on a per-app basis.

Gratuitous “old man yells at clouds” rant: people should be forced to use a VT52 for one year before being granted GUI privileges, especially if you work with network hardware.

I’ll crawl back in my cave now.

Small form factor, or something like that . Little motherboard possibly fanless, space for one or maybe 2 2.5 hd. The little thing you can use for a nice video player at home or the cash register at work

Great advice in the comments already, I’ll just recommend that you familiarise yourself with the rescue boot of a live disc of your distro.

If things go weird with thr move you can boot the live in rescue mode, mount your disks and fix fstab, or even redo the initrd . Don’t wait until you need it

The first thing I thought about was “there’s suddenly going to be lot of 2N2222 available”

404 brain not found. Sorry:)

Linux kernel has had support for 64 bit time for years. On Debian, packages for the upcoming release were updated to 64 bit time earlier this year. I’m fairly sure the other distributions have done or are doing the same. So basically you now have 2 years to upgrade your OS and to pester the vendors of commercial software to do the same.

Like someone else said, it will be 2 very busy years, but we can survive this.

In the eyes of the board of directors, sure . Plantings a billion worth of trees would probably have been too green

It’s SEO all over again, but worse.

It’s distracting.

Is it possible that you have not been driving for the last 35 years seeing a solid block of flashing light, so your brain is not yet hardwired to recognise that and only that?

I find them distracting. There are useful innovations, and there are pointless gimmicks.

Good.

Next please go after the animated indicator lights that take way too much time to realise the car in front of you is turning and not playing snake. Fuck you, Audi, and all the others tha copied this absolute bullshit of an idea.

They can respectfully choke on my massive GDPR

It’s more likely that my wife replaces my face if I touch that

I have one specific light fixture that kills led lamps with no mercy. They don’t fully die though, just decrease luminosity over time till they are useless. Tried with brand and non brand lamps. I think because it’s basically upside down glass cups with no vents at the top.

Can you check in a terminal? If you can see them in the terminal and not in the desktop you’re missing a font. If you can’t see them in the terminal then you’ve somehow mangled them. What was the OS and filesystems you copied from?

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