Who could have possibly known? It’s almost as if the <35 demographic showed up to every election every time then policies they support may become a priority. Who could have thunk it?

Write a couple of your own toy services as practice. Write a one-shot that fires at a particular time during boot, a normal service that would run a daemon and a mount service that fires after its dependencies are loaded (like, say, a bind mount that sets up a directory under /run/foo after the backing filesystem is mounted - I do this to make fast ext4 storage available in some parts of the VFS tree while using a btrfs filesystem for everything else.) You can also write file watcher services that fire after changes to a file or directory, I use one of those to mirror /boot/ to /.boot/ on another filesystem so it’s captured by my system snapshots.

I’d start by reading the docs so you have some ideas about what services can do, then you’ll find uses that you wouldn’t have thought of before.

Trump will make America great again by making sure our rivers are just as flammable as they were in the late 1960s.

iPod replacement, dedicated smart home device dashboard, dedicated navigation/entertainment system in the car, dedicated UI for something on your home network or weather info or headlines or whatever website you want to check regularly in one place

Please stop, I can only be so erect

+1, I used EndeavourOS

I had to set one of these up for my SO a couple of years ago. I dropped EndeavourOS on it, installed btrbk and configured automatic snapshots on a schedule and before package installation/update in case she managed to bork things by pip installing things into system python.

Fedora would probably work well too if you want a lower maintenance burden. I hesitate to suggest Ubuntu or Debian or their derivatives since you’ll probably want to be somewhat current with your Nvidia drivers.

I don’t have any Internet connected smart devices in my house and I keep a baseball bat handy in case my printer exhibits threatening behavior. Computers are not to be trusted.

I wrote simple hooks for my package manager to fire system snapshots before I install or update any package. It’s a nice safety belt that I’ve never actually needed to use, but if I do need it it’s there.

We usually find solutions or workarounds to Nvidia driver issues within a day or two in the Arch community. The absolute worst case handling I’ve had to do was fork the Nvidia dkms package at the prior version (think nvidia-dkms-550) and run that until Nvidia themselves released a fixed version. Still pretty straightforward.

The most helpful advice I can give to anyone running a distro maintained by folks with day jobs is “take system snapshots before updates” - do that and the worst case fix to any update problem like this is still really easy to handle, even if you’re 10 minutes out from a work call and an update just went wrong.

I call them Talibangelicals, or Y’all Qaeda

Well, yeah. Welcome to working for a tech billionaire.

What do you think about China’s Uighur genocide?

Emulators with upscaling are almost always the best way to do this. Bonus points if they support dumping textures so you can shovel them through an upscaling algorithm and build an HD texture pack.

I suspect that couch has taken plenty of shots in the face already

The public can have a little jingoism too, as a treat

“Don’t publish that or I’ll fire you” coming from the org’s owner is pretty good incentive not to publish

I think most of these folks you find on Lemmy are just useful idiots whose stupidity/ignorance/naiveté has been weaponized on other platforms.

I’m sure we’re on someone’s sentiment management radar by now but I’m not sure if we’re populated enough for a truly serious effort to be mounted. That’s coming at some point though, of that I have no doubt.

Those are in the Kamala threads doing what they’re paid to do