josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
@Moon In Rubens' times, the standard of beauty was fat chicks, as they were seen as healthy. In Heian Japan, it was powdered white face and black teeth (to make the white of the face stand out even more), probably related to an idea of purity and cleanliness. In China, very small feet were said to be sexy. In Latin America, the standard is big breasts and big asses. In 19th century's anglosaxon countries, maybe the standard was tuberculosis due to the influence of Romantic novels.
The point is, standards change depending on when and where one lives. There's no patriarchal conspiracy (are there not standards for men too, after all?) and their existence does not imply that there can't be alternative preferences.
@coolboymew I'd buy that and all the other country expansions. But not for PS4.
@X_net ¿Estáis a favor de los móviles en el aula? ¿En serio?
@jmacc I don't know, either, but I wonder if it could have an application in efficiently finding out if a number is prime or not.
It certainly looks like there's some kind of pattern in that plot.
@LibrosdeBabel Mi teoría es que la culpa es de Roberto Bolaño, que en _Los detectives salvajes_ tiene un fragmento en que, por boca de no sé qué personaje, viene a decir que la palabra poetisa es cursi y que hay que llamar poeta a todo el mundo. Los que lo leyeron se lo creyeron y el resto es historia.
En la resistencia nos quedamos solos Umbral y yo, y ahora sólo yo.
@mata_aimasho@the9thcircle.club Traditionally in Slackware we've had several bootloaders (lilo, elilo and GRUB), but, starting with the next stable version, only GRUB will be officially supported. (After all, resources are limited.) That's why I changed.
Limine was discussed, but discarded, precisely for that reason. Also, some people said it was too geared towards kernel development and, thus, not general-purpose enough.
Given that Slackware is _mostly_ a one-man operation and that the bootloader is a very important part of the installer, I guess it makes sense to try and reduce its number.
@Suiseiseki
> Sorry, but I'd just like to interject for a moment.
You may have manually typed that, but you weren't the first to think or write that. Maybe you should start thinking of copypasta in a less literal sense.
Well, first problem detected: for some (obviously stupid) reason GRUB decided that having NumLock on is too wasteful and turns it off for the planet's sake.
It's easy to modify rc.local to set it on again, but I didn't have to when I used lilo. And what if I wanted it on from the very start?
Also, if GRUB turns it off, shouldn't there be an option in GRUB to revert that? If it exists, I can't find it.
The reason I use Slackware is because I understand why everything happens. I could look at lilo.conf and understand what it did and modify it according to my needs. I can understand GRUB configuration, too, but then these things happen out of nowhere and I feel cheated.
@lohang While I personally don't think masks were ever necessary and I never saw covid as the Big Thing they made it out to be, I defend your right to wear one if you feel you should. The behaviours you denounce are completely unacceptable and disturbing, to say the least.
josemanuel
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More children have died in a single week due to Israeli bombing of Gaza than in almost eighteen months of war in Ukraine.
According to UNICEF spokesman James Elder, over 700 children have now died in Gaza.
According to the UN, 555 children have died in the Ukraine war.
Now remember back and think how western politicians and the media have spoken about both conflicts.
Sources:
https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/09/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-24-september-2023
@coolboymew They're absolutely right.
I know I am fucking idiot. If sometimes I may seem smart, it's only by comparison.
@LibrosdeBabel ¿De dónde viene que ya no se diga poetisa? Pregunto sin segundas.
So, today I went back to the relevant thread on LQ (https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/grub2-in-slackware-discussion-and-instruction-4175727986/), because I thought I could finally understand what they were talking about, and was amazed at the amount of spaghetti people write to solve what it turned out to be a very simple task.
I guess the moral of the story is: read the documentation. It really pays off.
@karolat Aren't they the same response, just worded differently?
josemanuel
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Esta noche, en el Wurlitzer Ballroom, calle Tres Cruces, Madrid. Apertura de puertas a 21:00 horas
@mata_aimasho@the9thcircle.club I am in one of my machines. In the other I had to create a BIOS partition.
Today marks the end of an era for me. I said goodbye to my beloved lilo (which never, ever gave me the slightest problem in almost 25 years of use) and installed GRUB, which doesn't feel as comfy, to be honest.
@romin ...poorly.
@freemo Do you know if there's anything preventing qoto from interacting with PeerTube instance fediverse.tv? They said we're not blocked, but I can't follow any of their channels. They told me to ask you about it. I can follow people from other PeerTube instances just fine.
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
