For some reason I got curious about the Cosmic desktop environment today, so I booted some live images for a quick look.
System76 offers it on their Ubuntu-based Pop_OS! or it can be had pre-rolled in other places like Fedora.
Cosmic is beautiful and modern. I've used Xfce for a long time, so I'll have a hard time changing to anything else.
It was just a quick look. Maybe I'll boot it again later. I'm real impatient with an unfamiliar desktop.
Considering a giant new mechanical hard drive (HDD) for backup storage. Everything I've got around here is real old and small. It takes 3 of the old ones to back up everything. They were removed from old desktops long ago.
Walmart has the best price on a big Western Digital by $30. I can't go to the local store, Intrex, anymore because it closed on Halloween. That's where I always got them before. There were some cutie geeks worked in there that I will miss. Microsoft pretty boys?
Saving that /home desktop directory to a separate drive today.
I do backups anyway but let it go long sometimes. The desktop mechanical drive is old, and I've been getting temperature warnings. Checking the temp with smartctl, I get a max of 41C (105.8F) during a massive active copy like I'm doing now. That doesn't seem like much. 🤷
The Microsoft outage reminded me to do all this. No effect for me at home except that employer e-mail stopped. Peaceful.
At first glance, I read the Pope's tweet as this:
"The Church is like a path leading us to communism"
I got all excited until I read it again. 🤣
RE: https://mastodon.world/@funhouseradio/117604997905240440
I wanted to crawl all over some Donny Osmond chest when I was a teenager.
I just read this one. Chris Hedges can often nail it. The system as it is now will not change.
The post mentions some I like and have studied for years: W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, Malcolm X, Ralph Nader.
I find reading books and things like this article to be stabilizing. Trying to get the big picture helps.
TFW I look up a name of a friend I recall from elementary school, get a hit from a search engine and some social media, and they look 110% dangerous.
I back away pleased that I didn't say, "haayy, how you?"
Just let 'er go.
I remember my mother said that the family looked a little crazy.
It's well time to get your wars on Christmas started. Don't let it pass you by.
Happy holidays MF. 🖕
tumblrina 🤣
It was a new memory of a memory of a memory. I've had those. 🤷 😁
I wasn't in the mood for a fishy timeshare.
I just registered for a free seminar in town for a topic relevant to me.
It makes me think of this:
Do I get a free rental car and lunch at the Mayan Princess for its grand opening?
We joke about the Mayan Princess in Cancun sometimes, because that place had a grand opening for 10 years that we know of. We used to go to Cancun a lot and would greet the same high-pressure guy each year that always tried to get us to go out there. He was real whiny, but sweet, when we declined each year.
At least that $4+ apple was too big to eat all at once. 🍏
RE: https://mastodon.art/@weirdsatellite/117586807892621813
Inverse Insect Anomaly
Snakes on a Plane (2006) just wasn't a believable movie.
One reason we like the Sqword crossword game is that it was once a theft target when several browser game portals took the game without permission and ran it behind their own ads for profit.
The developer responded by changing the code to detect that and display the famous Goatse image instead.
I thought that was cool, so we started playing.
We used to run our own webserver long ago and found similar hotlinking. We loaded 'em up some treats!
I just scored 2️⃣7️⃣ points in Sqword! https://www.sqword.com
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quad9dns/117580787264959184
Vote on the quad9 cat name.
A post by Elon Law about some Greensboro city officials, including the mayor, meeting with students is now up to 5 laughing emojis out of 23. 👍
True or made up? 🤷
That whole family was nice but weird. Taciturn, especially the old man. Never more then a couple of words.
They took so many supplements that I think it made the children sick sometimes.
The younger son died some years after high school. I heard leukemia.
It was said by a few that it was possibly related to the father's work decades before at Western Electric, working on secret Cold War shit. He probably came home dusted with radiation or had a can of pellets hidden away.