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Steve and @Leo talked about gaudy adverts in dystopian night-time city scenes, tracing them back to films like “Blade Runner”, but they fell short by quite a few decades. Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film “Metropolis” contains several night time shots of the city, with hundred-foot-tall neon signs and buildings illuminated by searchlights.
e.g. the heading picture here: Metropolis (1927) summary & plot - Spoiler Town
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I just had a chance to listen to the episode, and I wanted to bring Helium into the conversation about web browsers. It’s a new, de-Googled browser based on Chromium. It seems to be relatively lightweight; I’m currently using it as my secondary browser.
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As nice as Stacey’s letter was, it counts for nothing. Asking a business to choose the moral choice over the profitable one is admirable but naive.
Microsoft won’t blink. They’ll look you dead in the eye and tell you to upgrade. “Linux? Ok have fun with that.”
although yes, Linux! Tell your friends they have options.
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And while the commonest option recommended for non-Linux people is Linux Mint, this one one sounds interestingly complete out of the box, too. I may tinker with it at some point, especially for old systems that have to have 32-bit.
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My default recommendation is ChromeOS Flex. Chromebook simplicity and years of security updates. It’s the easiest transition and it’s easier to talk to an IT department if you need help with a Chromebook than with {insert distro flavor of the month here}
For the more technical I’d be curious about MX Linux, that’s new to me. These days I’m on Bazzite and have been blown away by how well it works!
Tomorrow’s the end times for Win10. I’m still not expecting Microsoft to blink. They’ll maybe make it easier to run 11 on older hardware but they’re still gonna force you to move forward, because that’s Microsoft now.
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Bazzite and the entire uBlue family is pretty incredible. It very much feels like the future of desktop Linux. I’ve had Bluefin on my Framework 13 for over a year now, which is by far the longest I’ve gone without blowing up a non-server Linux instance.
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