Not exactly “full of” - it was more like 3 classrooms with 30 each. Still a lot of Macs, but keep in mind this was a high school of 2000 students. Also, I’m pretty sure the Macs were paid for with grants for the visual arts programs rather than standard public funding.

In some ways this is true. However, I feel like in the case of Adobe, someone needs to take another shot at a good FOSS image editor. Adobe is really starting to mess itself with generative AI; knowing many artists, they hate generative AI image tech as a threat to their job, so I find it weird that Adobe is alienating one of their largest user bases. I find it weird how Inkscape is really good and has evolved (I actually switched to it from Adobe Illustrator and don´t regret it), while GIMP has barely changed in 10 years.

I get that some parts of an image editor are complex, but at some point, it’s just a chain of mathematical operations. Maybe I’m wrong, but when I get the time, it’s almost tempting to take a stab at the issue.

I think it depends. If a school has a laptop for each student, it is most certainly a Chromebook. However, a lot of schools also have a mix of systems. In elementary school, I was taught to use Microsoft Office on Windows, for instance. At my high school, all the students had Chromebooks, but there were also some labs with Windows machines; graphic design, photography, and film classes had labs full of 5K iMacs.

Mint’s fine. I might also recommend PopOS - it just seems to be less crappy Ubuntu.

When I exchange files between host and guest, I usually just go to the directory I want to share and run python3 -m http.server

I encrypt my disk with LVM on my Debian laptop. You’ll need to reinstall your operating system, as you have to do special partitioning. If your device has a TPM, you can use Clevis to set it to auto-decrypt.

You might be able to script something with Debootstrap. I tested Bcachefs on a spare device once and couldn’t get through the standard Debian install process, so I ended up using a live image to Debootstrap the drive. You should be able to give a list of packages to install and copy over configs to the partition.

Honestly, make an issue in the OpenRGB Gitlab.

I got a Roccat Pyro that didn’t work, and when I found that out, I was able to test someone’s pull requests before they were merged.

I’m aware of that. I was quite sure the author was joking, with the slightest bit of concern of them actually making the mistake.

With 48 MB, you can, though. That’s what I booted 5.17 on a Pentium II with once to get a basic busybox terminal. I think I did an experiment once with qemu and found the minimum to be somewhere in the high 30s or low 40s.

For one, AI datasets often break copyright law, frequently appropriating from artists. Executives are also trying to use it to eliminate the jobs of artists, and I feel it’s wrong to try and obsolete something people love doing.

In addition, they take a lot of power, not helping in the way of the needed changes to follow climate goals.

Clarification: Copyright laws can be annoying, and I don’t always agree with them. However, it also protects smaller artists. I think there are many cases where piracy is totally fine, though, like if a company vaults an animated streaming show and gets rid of all other ways to watch it.

Also, the use of AI-generated images on their website.

I compiled a minimal custom Buildroot once for a Pentium II to do some backups with USB support. Kerbel 5.17.

As an ex-Vegas resident, I have to ask: why were you moving stuff to Vegas?

Arrrrrr!

I’m guessing this is a joke, right?

It’s less about dd’s limits and more laughs the fact that it supports units that might take decades or more for us to read a unit that size.

If modern LTO drives weren’t so darn expensive…

Which desert? I’ve lived in the desert my entire life.

Well, at least they were being on-brand. 😅