i quite like the out-of-the-box experience of debian13 running gnome, but i had to do quite a bit of tinkering to get my nvidia card running. it is running now, and i basically feel like i have a brand new computer.

I have a filter in emacs called “dotfiles.org”

I use the tangle feature to write them out

you’d still have to boot from cd, but i do recall one of the early versions happily moving everything from your old windows install. i’m still moving around my wife’s files from her xp install every time i need to set up a new /home part for her.

With the laws of supply and demand, simply reducing our collective demand makes the industry smaller.

this simply isn’t true.

this is the second day of Christmas. I got 10 more

throwing ordnances at matt walsh

kolektiva did not mean to give it up. it was poor security practice: keeping old drives unencrypted, and getting busted on other charges

sunshine isn’t an anarchist, they are an instigator

anarchism is socialist. it’s often called libertarian socialist.

exarcheia, and the Paris commune

why make an unsupported claim?

people have free will. their actions can only be said to be caused by their own will.

none of that is causal.

a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. dismissing that claim is not the same as making a claim.

eating meat doesn’t cause an animal to have suffered.

an event in the future cannot cause an event in the past. eating the meat doesn’t cause it to have been produced.

none of this makes eating meat cause pain or suffering. these are all problems with production, not consumption.

you are splitting hairs

I’m not the one making a positive claim.

all of that can be true without necessitating veganism