There is slightly more openness to androids layers than the win32 layers as well.

I still remember symlinking to binaries in my windows system folder back in the late 90s to be able to run office 95 under Linux. (The MSFT system files permitted some things to work properly that just didn’t with the wine provided libraries back then)

I do exactly this, and use Keepass2Android on my phone and have nextcloud-KeeWeb installed.

Tangentally related - For anyone looking to take over a project, KeeWeb is looking for a new maintainer!

You can use version numbers, but it’s on you to change them when new point releases drop.

https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian12.6/

I guess it’s a good thing the Debian releases all have version numbers then.

It’s good for bragging rights, but a u2955 Celeron Chromebook is better value for money.

I duct taped a RPi4 to the back of a Motorola Lapdock and used custom cables to make the combo into the worst laptop ever. If yours counts, mine does too. This is what the Lapdock looks like:

I’ve got a 500mhz Celeron from the P3 days, it runs OS/2 and has an ISA EPROM burner card in it.

My last year of uni I was broke. The previous year the parking passes had red letters, that year purple. That was the only difference. The colour. I traced over all the letters of my previous parking pass with a blue sharpie and parked for free all year.

I think it’s best to not defend kiddie porn, unless you have a republican senator in your pocket.

I think the latter.

The last time my community found a PID.0 in our midst, he was beaten downtown in broad daylight by over a dozen assailants, no witnesses.

Sounds like they’ve stayed much the same.

There was a time when I enjoyed that kind of effort. Now I have a job in I.T. and a toddler that I want to spend my free time with. When I use my personal/private computer, I just want my software to work and I want to be able to keep it patched with minimal effort.

In a way I’m glad Slackware has kept to the original ideals. I enjoyed using it from the 3 series through 7 at least. I remember people getting their knickers in a twist when he jumped version numbers. In those days I had a custom kernel that I wove patches into. Big O scheduler, usb support, agpart support, some other stuff I can’t remember. I remember wanting low latency because MP3s skipped otherwise.

It was fun, but back then hacking on Linux kernel patches and building things from source was my hobby. I remember loading Linux into a powermac 4400 because I could, and I used it as my always-on IRC machine.

Ahhh Slackware.

Serious question - does Slackware offer any special features that make it more attractive?

I stopped using Slackware back when Corel Linux released, and when CL died I switched to Debian and never looked back.

So you think we should negotiate with terrorists? Give them something to make them stop what they’re doing today, and they definitely won’t commit more terrorism later in the hope of getting more things later.

Maybe just stick to eating ass, Adam.

I’ve run Minecraft: Bedrock on Linux/amd64 using a wrapper that repackaged the android distro. I was able to log in to my MS account and play on servers requiring the online authentication crap.

His SSD might be slightly damaged because of you.

Wow, you are full of poop.

I don’t think that a post on Lemmy is going to do much to reveal much, but

• the population made up of Whites has decreased from 16% at the end of apartheid to 8% today
• the government is actively implementing racist policies against white people instead of trying to create a level playing field - eg, BBE, PPR, used the NEF to withhold funds from business which were majority white-owned during covid lockdown
• the government Has a report that shows Whites make up a greater percentage of the homeless population (10%) than general population (8%)

And yet, the suburbs outlying, for example, Cape town, are largely populated by white people who would be considered working/middle class by European standards.

The generation of black leaders that are coming up now are the first generation that had even the remotest shot at a real education and such, so I would expect to see the balance tip significantly further in the coming two decades.

What I do see - independent of skin color - in South Africa is massive separation of economic classes. The minimum wage is something like usd2/hr, maybe worse - but cars cost the same as in the western world, and home prices are largely similar as well.

There is almost no hope for someone born into poverty to ever be able to own their own car, as they can’t afford to stop scraping for food from the moment they are old enough to walk.

That doesn’t change based on skin color.

Last year in Cape Town I had the pleasure and privilege of working with a lovely and skilled gentleman. He was born into near-poverty and managed to get himself into a reasonably decent I.T. job. He told me that legally he is ‘coloured’ but he grew up in a ‘black’ area. (Visually he looks very similar in skin tone to Wesley Snipes) He said the first thing he did when he got his first I.T. job was move to a ‘white’ neighborhood which “was pretty much all coloureds anyway” - I asked him to explain this to me, and long story short, he said that it wasn’t about skin tone, but the level of violence and risk to property. He then showed me his stab wounds which he alleges he got “just for walking in a black neighborhood.”

So there is definitely a perception among the population that race is connected to status/economic advantage/etc. - but it doesn’t necessarily represent today’s reality.

I stayed in a reasonably upscale hotel during that stay, and based on hotel breakfast attendance, I have no doubt that the race makeup of hotel guests was representative of the race makeup of the general population.

There’s no doubt in my mind that historically, white South Africans held all the cards, but for people born after the 80’s that doesn’t seem to be the case any more. The next couple of generations will see that flip completely, I think, but the wealth gap is so severe that the ‘walking-dead-poor’ class will continue for generations to come.

All of this to say that disadvantaging Whites today because they were winning during apartheid isn’t helping anyone except those at the top of the economic ladder.

I’ve spent about 6 months there over the past 5 years, it’s more complex than what would lend itself to supporting your statement.