Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

@carnage4life Yeah, but how long can Google continue to offer it for free as customers continue to leave due to enshittification?

@ryanfb Yeah, but we require food and sleep and encouragement, and even then we argue and complain. Computers don't.

@tedherman Yeah, I remember that! Somewhere around here I still have an old slackware distro spread across 7 CD-ROMs, lol.

In my case now, though, it installs just fine, but starts failing after I log into the installation.

@kegill Yes, all of that is true. But it doesn't mean we should rush to blame them for problems that aren't their fault.

@kegill Non-Boeing airplanes aren't immune to turbulence either.

In this case, the plane and its manufacturer are irrelevant. The weather is at fault.

And the "rapid descent" was intentional, to get out of the rough air, not a second problem.

@tedherman It just gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor. 🤷‍♂️

@idropyou Yeah, this was pretty much what I ran into the last time I made a serious foray into Linux (about ten years ago). Although, I am glad to say, I had to do a *lot* less console work this time around to get the basics done.

My guess about the hitch is that I've got a custom-built PC (which isn't too crazy; Intel/Nvidia) but I've also got 5 monitors (2 of which are 4K; 2 of which are portrait orientation). Windows handles that fine, but it's not exactly standard.

Final log:

I tried downloading #Fedora straight from the website and even that failed validation during installation, so I guess Fedora is just screwed atm.

Then, I tried #Ubuntu finally, which I was trying to avoid. It installed okay, but as soon as I log in, it goes straight to an "Uh oh something went wrong" crash screen.

For all the shit it takes, I haven't had any such problem with #Windows on this same hardware (at least not since the 95/98 days).

I don't know how #Linux can ever truly take off while such fundamental issues persist. But I also don't know how I can remain with Windows as they push ads and spyware into their OS.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, I guess I'll just procrastinate on this issue until I build out my next rig.

Just saw a car with bumper stickers "let me merge lanes or I'll cry" and "normalize hitting the curb" and all I could think in response was "normalize learning how to fucking drive."

Continued misadventures with trying and failing to install #Linux:

I re-downloaded the Fedora image and it still failed to validate before installation.

I tried the latest bleeding edge version of LinuxMint and it only shows up on one monitor (even though the desktop covers the others). Once I update the graphics driver, it stops showing up at all, and all I get after login is a black screen with a frozen mouse.

PopOS installed easily enough, but whenever I tried to adjust the display settings, I'd lose all displays and have to reboot. Also, running apt-get upgrade caused the whole OS to crash.

Anyone got any other suggestions for distros that might actually work for a dev machine with a 3080?

A #VideoGame version of Calvinball that merges cards, dice, D&D, and other games with a frenetically dynamic rule system would be:

@weilawei@mastodon.online Yep, same. Why would I waste a perfectly good decision paralysis on a game? 😆

I will never understand people who enjoy grinding in video games.

What, your day job isn't monotonous enough?

@AeonCypher As a law prof I follow pointed out: this is not a new frontier and this right is already well-protected.

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@jvagle/112476134261761636

Performance sucks? Can't find anywhere worthwhile to optimize?

Time to jump off the multi-threading cliff!

#SoftwareEngineering

Just wait until someone starts incubating human gene sequences that were assembled by an LLM.