Anything by Elvis Costello. Can’t stand that wanker’s music. Like 2 out of 5 for any of his songs would be horribly overrated to me.

Thanks! I’ll figure out how to set it to check monthly.

Thanks!

Fuck those boxes and the game. Steal the computer. Any computer that can predict individual human behavior with 99% accuracy would be worth billions. If such a thing existed and could be controlled, it’d be a total waste to have it running grad school human lab experiments. That’s actual god-tier power.

Thanks for reading through this. No Nvidia card. it’s AMD Ryzen 7 CPU with integrated Radeon Vega 10 GPU. 20 GB system memory with 2 GB allocated for the video card. I didn’t install anything for graphics, I just let Fedora do its defaults.

I looked up the codecs to get the specifics. This was the first thing I found when having Firefox + YouTube issues: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/openh264/

Installed that and it wasn’t any better. Then had to figure out how to remove it and try the rpmfusion stuff (whatever that is).

Here’s the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain:

The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character.
The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character.

graphical.target @12.832s

└─sddm.service @12.832s

  └─plymouth-quit.service @12.727s +98ms

    └─systemd-user-sessions.service @12.681s +20ms

      └─remote-fs.target @12.659s

        └─remote-fs-pre.target @8.131s

          └─nfs-client.target @8.130s

            └─gssproxy.service @8.044s +85ms

              └─network.target @8.037s

                └─wpa_supplicant.service @8.002s +33ms

                  └─basic.target @4.810s

                    └─dbus-broker.service @4.627s +137ms

                      └─dbus.socket @4.607s +1ms

                        └─sysinit.target @4.596s

                          └─systemd-resolved.service @4.452s +143ms

                            └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @3.827s +613ms

                              └─local-fs.target @3.814s

                                └─boot-efi.mount @3.692s +119ms

                                  └─boot.mount @3.552s +118ms

                                    └─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.service @3.206s +170ms

                                      └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.device

And here’s the output of systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg (had to covert to jpg to allow the upload):

I just switched from Win 10 & 11 to Fedora KDE, about 2 weeks ago. Total Linux newbie. Not looking to hack my OS or anything. I’m relatively computer literate, but not at all a programmer. I just want an OS that works and mostly gets out of the way. And obviously doesn’t spam me with ads or steal my data or lock me into a subscription.

So far: Fedora and Plasma have been wonderful. But…

• Computer feels slightly slower. I’m surprised by this.

• Fedora or Mint…“it just works” isn’t exactly true based on my experience. “Most stuff mostly works okay” is more like it.

• I had a service keep crashing upon boot: xwaylandvideobridge. Trying to read people’s reports and diagnose was frustrating. I ended up removing it (which I had to look up and figure out how to do). Not sure if I broke anything or not, but it seems like things are working.

• Boot time is definitely slower compared to Win11. Not slow, just slower. Like 35 seconds. I tried to figure this one out using stuff like “systemd-analyze” but that was also annoying / frustrating. Trying to interpret the output and then trying to interpret what the tech people are saying in the forums. Plus my specific output I was getting from those programs didn’t look right or make logical sense (like it was adding up a bunch of processes as 11 seconds, but then saying each of those processes itself took 11 seconds, which I guess is possible if they are running simultaneously, but not sure).

• Weird stuff with youtube / video codecs. Firefox would glitch/hang/freeze playing youtube, especially if god forbid you try and do something radical like scroll back in a video. I seriously thought my video card was self-immolating. I finally just figured this out after much suffering. I think there was something about cisco h.whatever codecs, which I installed. But those are apparently terrible. Then I followed this not newbie-friendly fix after trying to figure out how to remove the Cisco ones: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia?highlight=(\bCategoryHowto\b). Not sure why this kind of stuff doesn’t work out of the box. Having one of the biggest websites glitch using one of the biggest browsers is…not…great.

• HP printer: finally, some good news! I have an HP laser printer and had to print some stuff off last night (a PDF and Word doc). Plugged in the printer, it recognized it correctly, I added printer, it added itself smoothly. Then ctrl-p worked flawlessly.

< $12,000, 2019. And there’s plenty more cheaper.

https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/353048e4-7dcf-4efe-87ba-4e88fac918cf/

And I don’t think any of those other fees justify the $200k figure. Especially with a $12k car that uses $50/month of electricity.

https://www.seattle.gov/city-light/residential-services/billing-information/rates

Base service charge per day: $0.4103 Energy per kWh: $0.1392

Typical EV: 0.35 kWh per mile Typical monthly miles: 700

So ($0.4103 x 30 days) + (0.35 kWh x 700 miles x $.1392) = ~$46 per month

Yep, gotta earn at least $200k to pay that whopper. And since gas for ICE cost more, you gotta make $400k to buy gas.

Yes. No doubt the official DoD/State plan was, in its entirety,

“Pew pew, Amerika, Fuck Yeah!® Please ignore pedo files for a few days.”

Foresight/planning/introspection/hypotheticals aren’t exactly our strength when conducting dick wagging regime change.

How do you get a sensor data image from a camera?

Scroll down to the third image in the article. This sentence is saying the maroon bars for Democrats are much bigger, on average, than the maroon bars for Republicans.

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2024

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2023

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2022

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2021

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Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president’s unusual behavior in 2015

Buying from a reputable operation spares you from a lot of this. Amazon is all hot garbage across the board.

The delay means the White House is in apparent conflict with a law

That’s the thing. “Apparent” is actually too strong of a word here, because they aren’t in conflict with the law at all. Unenforced laws are meaningless laws.

I’m just listing what Congress could do.

Instead, they are likely to keep self-neutering themselves and only do stuff like “we might cut one tiny portion of your budget by a small amount.”

Congress could be a royal pain Hegseth’s side. Sigh.

Cut the budget, sure.

But also subpoena the video. And release it through Congress.

Also, don’t forget this:

The Constitution gives the House of Representatives “the sole Power of Impeachment” (Article I, Section 2) of federal officers and gives the Senate “the sole Power to try all Impeachments” (Article I, Section 3). In the constitutional procedure of impeachment and removal, the House serves in the role of a grand jury bringing charges against an officer suspected of “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” (Article II, Section 4).

Last, a criminal referral to the DoJ. DoJ will ignore it, but let’s get them on the record as ignoring it.

Right? Our cooking in summer months is like $3 of gas per month, plus all the fixed fees. The gas furnace in the winter months is like $150-200, each month, depending on how cold it is. And we cook at home a lot. The stove/oven usage is a rounding error.

I don’t in principle, disagree with you. But Russell 2000 is +50% in the last 5 years and I certainly wouldn’t characterize that as “stagnant.” S&P is +96% in the same period.

OS’s should be boring. Applications are the interesting part of the computer. Anytime you get an OS trying to be “interesting” it’s really just invasive/annoying. OS is the bass player in the band.

If you want this to stop, the city/county/state needs to bring felony breaking and entering + kidnapping charges to every individual who approved this and carried it out. And like tomorrow or as soon as humanly possible.

The kinds of people who carry these operations out do not have empathy and will only change their behavior by force. A big list of felony counts and lawyer’s fees might make them pause and reconsider.