Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.

I just went through this. LMDE: Linux Mint Debian Edition. It’s Mint without Ubuntu and it’s pretty great.

One of our vehicles is a full-size pickup truck and in certain parking lots I have to find a spot on the outer edge and back in so it doesn’t stick out too much. It keeps inattentive drivers from gouging their cars on the trailer hitch. And if there’s anything interesting loaded in the back, it keeps it out of sight of curious persons with hand-wavy concepts of personal property.

Our other car is a little hatchback, and its reverse camera gets a good 180 degree view, far better than any driver pulling forward out of the space. I never park it backwards because I’m not silly.

“We”. Not sure why. I guess it’s me and the person I’m talking to (who is also me)

I used Ubuntu for years and snaps have driven me crazy. Recently I switched to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and I really like it.

I just got finished fixing some weird oozing problems. All the settings I tweaked, the best I could get still had stringing and blobbing at the end of every layer.

Turned out my hotend had fragments of bowden tube clogging it. I don’t know how, but assume I had the heat cranked too high at some point. There’s no real cleaning that out, and I ended up replacing the entire hotend.

I also had a clog or damage or something causing heavy resistance in the pull-tube going from my spool to the extruder. Replaced that too and everything is printing beautifully again.

The purpose of life is not served by fretting about what its purpose is.

It’s a bit like sitting on a roller coaster rubbing your chin and wondering how to monetize the experience. Just put your hands up and scream. It’s nice.

I mean that’s what “Generation X” means. We were forgotten from the beginning, forced into the long shadow of the Baby Boomers.

Gen X checking in here. I’m actually happy to be left out of the memes. Carry on.

Never one penny to Rowling. Not one.

If your code can’t handle a sig9 then your code is weak

I used to say this. And I believed it. It’s a lie people tell themselves because they’re voting for terrible things and don’t want to take credit for half of it.

“I kill the poor but I’m sad about it” gtfo

This probably doesn’t help immediately, but I’ve been working on a platform that does federated search (among other things) for the last year. It’s in private friends-and-family testing and won’t be available for general use for at least a couple more months.

I haven’t even decided on a name yet, but I promise to make a lot of noise about it once it’s in public beta