Yeah. This one felt exactly the expected amount of WTF to be real life, today.

The first thing I do to, if I need to get the size down, is swap out Gnome for one of the X11 Windows managers, usually XFCE.

I usually do this by starting from the minimal install and building up, as schizo already suggested.

That said, I guess I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that Linux Mint is an easy way to get Debian’s core with the XFCE window manager.

Looks like Mint starts at 3GB - 8GB, depending on options chosen?

Disclaimer: It’s honestly been awhile since I really paid attention to my own Linux install size, as long as it’s below 40GB.

the live disk won’t find my Wifi

Oof.

I’m case it helps: I have solved that problem for myself using a $9.00 USB Wifi dongle.

For whatever reason (other contributors facing the same issue?), I have found that every cheapo USB Wifi dongle I have tried has worked perfectly with the minimal Linux images.

I realize I might have just gotten really lucky a bunch of times, but it could be worth a try.

A couple thoughts:

• What would Mr Rogers do is terrific. He was calm and patient, but worked tirelessly to make life better for who he could.
• I’ve substituted “fuck this asshole” with - “I’m going to focus on outliving this asshole and having more impact on the world.”

Also, let’s not forget that a lot of this is in response to the United States having it’s first black president, and in that context…the people mobilized by it…they’re pathetic and pitiable. They’re still harmful! But like mosquitoes, ticks and leaches.

They need to be countered, and we can all do our best to do our part. Those who can, should learn just enough about them to isolate, counter, and clean up after them.

But other than useful tips for containment, all we need to know about them is that they are small, sad and disgusting.

I also didn’t read the original Ultimate universe, and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

Is…uh… Is That a real sticker or pin I could purchase somewhere?

Very nice.

I love the overall vibe, and the feeling of the space

Sweet.

You can have a website that scrapes all that noise everywhere else mushes it up into a flavorless paste

Perfect summary. Someone send this to Zuckerberg to use in his next press release.

Fuck everyone else that isn’t me!

Somehow as I read this sentence, stars and stripes and a bald eagle appeared behind it.

Wow. This really blew up.

Lol. Good point.

I’ve been enjoying these updates. Thanks.

Dang. Not a scrap of awareness of the irony, in the article.

I’ll bet substantial amounts of money that the claim of “advanced reasoning abilities” will be ruled to be outright fraud, if it ever goes to court.

It’s the same claim made by traveling freak shows about horses that solve algebra problems, and the technology is essentially the same, under all the abstractions - learning models are great at repetition, and don’t understand jack shit, today.

“We’re confident that the AI we sell can take care of everything…except anything we actually want to see get done correctly (such as selling it).”

Sounds like line-go-up bullshit, to me.

Amazing! Lol.

That’s a great point.

Unfortunately for me, inability to operate a printer was a byline in the gruesome pact I made with unholy dark forces from shadowy realms in order to gain mastery of Vim keystrokes.

Overall, it was a good deal, but I couldn’t print this comic out to save my life, or my soul.

They are solvable problems, and many have already been solved already in some countries.

This is a great point!

Yeah. At least until his yes-men high five him and slap him on the back on his way to board the deep space or deep sea vessel that he designed himself.

But losing 75% of population, I can see some nuclear war breaking out

Seems pretty likely (eventually). I take hope that I’ll be in the direct blast radius, and not a mutilated horribly scarred survivor.

I choose not to think about this one much because it’s well outside my circle of influence.