Manjaro manages to do just about everything wrong for one reason or another. They’re trying to be the Canonical of the Arch ecosystem and they’re not even close to competent enough to pull it off.

I’m sure they’ll find some way to DDOS something with their own telemetry sooner or later.

Anyone want to place bets on how much of their “AI” medical advice was just medical students and low cost doctors overseas answering questions?

It would be nice if instances automatically maintained a new and low connection count user feed so that people could browse it occasionally and help people find others to connect with.

That could be done either as part of the instance software or via a bot that runs through the instance user list and updates the feed every so often.

The compile times are abusive on older hardware for sure

Just one more petroleum derivative fuel bro, one more and I promise we’ll be off of it for good trust me bro just one more

That’s almost as good as this one I got months back

It’s not that hard, just read the install guides and instructions. My first Arch install was like 8y ago and I expected it to be difficult - it wasn’t.

Because we keep emitting?

There’s no mystery to this, there’s too much money in petroleum for too many people for us to just stop using it.

Friends don’t let friends use Manjaro

Use EndeavourOS or another Arch derivative instead.

You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

I read this as preparation for round two of the USA’s China tariff boogaloo

Don’t just look at sdb hits in the log. Open up that entire session in journalctl kernel mode (journalctl -k -bN where N is the session number in session history) and find the context surrounding the drive dropping and reconnecting.

You’ll probably find that something caused a USB bus reset or a similar event before the drive dropped and reconnected. if you find nothing like that try switching power supplies for the HDD and/or switching USB ports until you can move the drive to a different USB root port. Use lsusb -t and swap ports until the drive is attached beneath a different root port. You might have a neighboring USB device attached to the bus that’s causing issues for other devices attached to the same root port (it happens, USB devices or drivers sometimes behave badly.)

Always look at the context of the event when you’re troubleshooting a failure like this, don’t just drill down on the device messages. Most of the time the real cause of the issue preceded the symptom by a bit of time.

Well duh. That’s the whole point of carbon credits at this point.

I didn’t hear much of anything about social spending, creating a ton of jobs or any plan at all for the federal govt to help the bottom 80% outside of “we’ll help families buy their first house” from the Kamala campaign. When we rolled into the last month and I still hadn’t heard about the big economic plan I knew we were cooked.

First houses are great and all but what about people who can’t afford their own place to live, or healthcare, or enough food? Folks have been living with parents since the pandemic, food banks are seeing record use right now and they campaigned on neoliberal business as usual with more growth for Wall St? “We’re very proud of Bidenomics”? Bidenomics did great pulling us out of the pandemic slump but then inflation happened and we never pivoted to giving folks any help getting back to where they were before the pandemic happened. Nor did we make a show of going after corporate profiteering, we just let that happen without a peep. What about mass layoffs over the last couple of years followed by record setting stock buybacks, dividend payouts and corporate profits?!

Your usual base of well off educated voters who see the long term stability and overall growth benefit Dems bring showed up of course but everyone else stayed home because more neoliberalism after 30y of that plan leaving 80% of us behind simply doesn’t inspire hope or excitement. Meanwhile you had the other guy shouting “I’ll break laws to change things!” Guess which of those is more popular right now?

Yes! This is it right here, this is how you grow the fediverse. Props to UoG for figuring this out early! Here’s to hoping that other universities catch on that providing Mastodon hosting to their employees and students has more value than offloading all of that discussion onto Twitter or Facebook where it can be shaped by a potentially hostile corporate owner.

Lemmy and Mastodon have an equal amount of shitposting and meme content in my experience

Lemmy, I like the simple post structure with all related commentary under the original submission.

Mastodon is fine for people who like it but it’s hard to follow the thread of replies as every reply is its own individual post.

I guess the twatter format makes sense for dashing off quick messages but I find it hard to follow and it’s difficult to find communities and topics of interest without also including a shit-ton of noise along with the signal.

200% markup doesn’t matter when you’re billing it straight to the client anyway 🍻

They’ve done it more than once now