I use dash to panel. I do recommend it.

They shat their pants so hard they shot down an airliner.

I’ve stuck with Ubuntu for 20 years. I like Debian’s way of doing things, but I prefer 6 month release cycles. Ubuntu is the only game in town for those requirements. All the others are really just customisations of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu’s default DE is built upon Gnome 3. All you should have to do upon install is install the gnome-desktop package, and switch to the Gnome session (instead of Ubuntu session) in GDM for a vanilla Gnome desktop. I think you can skip that step, but some of the Ubuntu extensions are insistent.

From there, you can use the gnome extension manager to customise it however you like. Dash to panel and ArcMenu are my must-haves for a more traditional desktop. But as mentioned, there’s many extensions to make it work exactly the way you want.

Gnome’s extension support is what keeps me on Gnome. It’s really powerful, and there’s some really good ones out there.

Belarus gave Poland advance notice, stating that EW activity caused several drones to become uncontrolled. It’s just more NATO war mongering.

I haven’t played it yet, but in a similar vein, Squad 22: ZOV is a recent Russian game that depicts the Ukraine war. The American response was also quite predictable. Although it is heartening to see a number of steam reviewers calling them out for review bombing it.

Immigration opponents say the crackdown will translate into more and better-paying jobs for native-born Americans.

As a native born of Turtle Island, I would like to wish all these native-born Americans a nice big “Fuck you.”

Chinese Spy submarine.

I’m not watching a 20 minute YouTube video. But I did a quick search, and I’m guessing it’s about Box64, which does static recompilation. I’m still going to say that it’s not going to be perfect or even good enough in many cases (and their website indicates as much). You can’t always directly translate what happens on one CPU to another. Neon/SSE for example. You can do some translation, but some things will need emulating in software, and that’s going to be slow. Even memory access is different. I’m sure any programmer who’s tried writing a lockless queue is going to know that what works on x86 probably doesn’t work on ARM without a lot of futzing with memory barriers and atomic flags. It’s hard. And it’s hard because in order to be fast, it has to be the right code for the job. If you just slap a memory barrier after every instruction, it’ll run correctly, but too slow to matter.

This is why emulators exist, and continue to exist.

I’m a bit out of the loop in the emulation scene. But the last time I was really involved, dynarec proved trickier than expected. I have my doubts that it’s that it’s working well enough to recompile an entire game without a whole lot of hand holding.

One day I really hope to make your dream a reality. There’s just never enough time in a day.

Yes, but the software has to be compiled for your architecture, or you have to emulate it. That’s fine for new games that want to market in China, but emulating every other game is going to get old really fast. Hell, I have an x86 Chromebook that I’m strongly considering dual booting Linux.

Still x86.

Yep. But PC video games are all x86. And I do like to escape.

I REALLY hope something comes of this. But at the same time, I’m not sure if I would buy one myself. Compatibility with x86 is massively important to me, and I can’t really divorce myself of it outside of portables. I just have too much investment in legacy software. Mostly video games to be fair. Which might be part of the reason for the push to RISC-V.

The United Fruit Company and East India Company?

Just had this conversation in real life. I’m so grateful for you all. My little corner of sanity in the world.

The problem is that they fundamentally believe that the US is a force of good. Anything bad it does is a simple misstep. If another country fights back against the US, they must be evil. Anything good they do are simple missteps.

I was largely referring to WW2, but leaving it open to Korea and Vietnam, as they are both arguable (but I agree it’s a stretch).

This is my favourite part of the article. Western logic distilled.

“The Russian army probably has more Javelins than the British Army now,” a British source said, adding that although he and his colleagues supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia, the effort to support Kyiv “was built around lies”.

But I’ve read a few articles about how NATO tactics just don’t work. It’s hilarious to me that after 3 years, they are still insisting that their methods are the best, even though Russia has proven very effective at dealing with western materiel. The sheer arrogance, even though they haven’t fought against a peer in well over half a century, much less won a major war.