I just switched to a ublue distro (bluefin) and think it’s great. These are designed from the ground up to be an “install it for a family member or friend and never have to touch it again” experience. They are based on Fedora. Bluefin has been the most trouble-free install of linux I’ve ever tried. I can’t say enough good things about it.

I would go with Aurora (essentially bluefin but with KDE instead of Gnome), unless they do a lot of gaming, in which case Bazzite-kde would probably work best (bazzite is more up-to-date which can mean more instability).

These are set up to use flatpak with a software center, so all gui apps can be installed from there and is similar to windows. It updates everything automatically in the background and only requires rebooting whenever you want to switch to the updated system. Also the immutable nature makes it hard to break, but if something does go wrong it makes it easy to roll back to the previous working install. There are also GTS versions of bluefin and aurora available, which are pinned to more stable releases so there’s even less chance of breakage.

Live USB installs aren’t stable yet so that might be an issue if you want to make sure hardware works before install, but you can install to a usb harddrive and boot off of that to check it out that way.

“We fight to win. That means we lose… and lose, and lose, and lose. Until we’re ready.” - Luthen

That makes me feel better about losing all the time.

I liked Season 1 but thought Season 2 was great. Maybe I need to rewatch season 1.

Nothing ever happens gang is right again

Outside of this site I’m not seeing any of this being mentioned anywhere. Its wierd. To me.

Am I weird for being worried that two nuclear armed states are starting a war? Seems like it should be bigger news?

Not sure who’s reporting it, but it’s being reported somewhere according to someone… possibly.

I’ve been running bluefin for about a week and I agree. One of the best things about these different distros is they install and configure a lot of things for you. Bluefin installs with flatpak, homebrew, distrobox, podman/docker, devcontainers configured and running on install, good peripheral support, good desktop tweaks, and sensible but easily removable default apps. Bazzite does something similar for gaming installs. It’s great. If there are common apps or configs that their users want they try to implement it and get it set up and running on install, if possible. The most friction free linux install I’ve ever had.

I’m on the west coast, and there were murmers of a “cold from hell” going around in Nov/Dec of 2019 until covid was officially recognized in the US around March. One of the first known detections of it was during a flu study during that time. Researchers retested some samples and it showed up. I got hit with something that made me nearly suffocate during that time and it completely freaked me out, and then a month later my roommate who also got sick suffered major organ failure, and later on heart attacks and other relentless vascular problems.

The risk is lower outside because covid won’t build up in the air, but you can still get sick if you walk into someones exhaled breathe. Covid hangs in the air similar to smoke. Risk goes up if you are in a crowd, if there is no wind/stagnant air, or if there is a covid wave in your area.

I’ve seen quite a few people report getting covid by just stepping outside to talk with the neighbors, or going to the store and putting on a mask at the entrance.

I’ve found the head strap masks more comfortable than the ones that loop around the ears for long term wear (I wear one 8hrs a day at work), and they are more effective, but all masks cut down risk.

BTW, we are currently at historic lows for covid, and it will probably stay that way for another few weeks. If you want to track the risk JPweiland has been pretty accurate in predicting covid waves and current risk, although different regions can vary wildly at times. https://xcancel.com/JPWeiland - https://bsky.app/profile/jpweiland.bsky.social

I might leave a couple of copies of this in the break room

JFC. Are they really just falling overboard? Does this happen often? Or do they not want to admit they are getting shot down or being lost due to user error/malfunction?

Absolutely amazing use of HBO money.

I’m trying to explain the premise to people I know but I’m doing a terrible job at it and no one is giving it a chance.

Someone on his team should try to get him to build that oil rig prison thing from the movie Face/Off and then actually do the face-off procedure to infiltrate the mexican cartels.

Now do video games

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/india/researchers-find-coronavirus-was-circulating-in-italy-earlier-than-thought-idUSKBN27W1J1/

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-circulating-italy-earlier-thought.html

I remember those early detections being dismissed as false positives, but I think the reasoning was essentially “nah, c’mon, there’s no way it could have been covid.”

This seems to be a direct response to the us covid website turning into a wuhan lab leak conspiracy page.

Its not surprising that covid was first detected in a country that actually tested and was looking for SARS, and had previous outbreaks due to wildlife in the region carrying the virus. The US certainly wasn’t looking.

Covid was in the US earlier than officially recognized, but no one has bothered to try and determine how much earlier.

If a virus was going around killing people in retirement homes, and it wasn’t the flu, they would just shrug and go “old people just do that”. Its what they did in the later months of 2019, and its what they’ve been doing “after covid” too.

I guess the question is how long could covid be in a country before hospitals started getting flooded?

They were asking a rhetorical question. They agree with arresting runaway slaves.

I haven’t been sick in over two years, and I have a public facing job where people will lean over and breathe directly on me.

BREAKING: Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan arrested by the FBI for obstructing ICE arrest

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