ipacialsection

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[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Memes go in !risa, fan theories go in !DaystromInstitute, and Star Trek related off-topic discussion go in !Quarks, otherwise, I don't see why not.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is, for me, noise cancelling often either isn't enough, or creates a much bigger sensory problem when I inevitably have to take the headphones off.

And the settings with a big enough loudness problem to justify noise-cancelling tend to be ones where having to turn it off is inevitable before the noise dies down (to talk to someone)... so I usually don't bother.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is weirdly common, from what I've heard. You'd think it would be obvious that a disorder (or neurotype, or whatever you call autism) requires accommodation, which requires self-advocacy, which requires being allowed to know what's going on with you.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes and no. X11 is the old window system for Linux (and most Unixes), but it was very much not designed with security in mind, and has become difficult to maintain to the point that the only new updates made to it are to help with Wayland backwards-compatibility. Wayland is its de facto successor, and most new Linux desktop development is based on Wayland rather than X11.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" comes to mind.

James T. Kirk acted as if the Temporal Prime Directive didn't exist. Kathryn Janeway knew it existed but actively didn't give a fuck.

You're basically describing the Linux Standard Base, which was abandoned back in 2015 and the way it was handled was somewhat controversial.

But there is a lot of informal standardization between Linuxes, nonetheless.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think "one unified distro", or even an "official distro", is possible without taking critical parts of Linux private and closed-source. As long as the freedom exists people will make their own "versions" of (GNU/)Linux.

[–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I haven't tried this myself, but do you happen to know exactly which model of MacBook you have?

I did some searching and found a (very old) Debian Wiki article saying that the MacBook 1,1 and 2,1 require 32-bit UEFI, and in the case of the 2,1, this is despite the CPU being 64-bit. Though that's unlikely to be the case here given that those Ubuntu variants reach the boot screen.

Do NOT let it near other cats.

Ah okay, that makes more sense.

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