Those things were great. You could make a phone call from almost anywhere without having to carry around a radio tracking device all the time.

xAI and X’s futures are intertwined — they will fall together into the howling void of pain, madness, and leveraged buyout debt, leaving Elon with only his $45 billion dollars for consolation.

Doritos come from a plant? Far out, man.

• XXX WARNING EXTREME DANGER XXX — Marijuana can make you feel good, but may temporarily impair your ability to safely operate heavy machinery. [illustration of a forklift plunging into the abyss, the driver looking relaxed and happy; it hits the ground and explodes]

• MARIJUANA CAN MAKE YOU HIGH [bored teenagers at a party, one young man clearly enjoying himself too much sitting near the TV laughing at The Flintstones]

• WARNING: MARIJUANA MIGHT NOT GIVE YOU A HANGOVER — It might feel like you’re getting away with something but that just makes it TOO EASY to do it AGAIN [dude with a 420 T-shirt looking smug amidst some still-comatose alcohol drinkers]

For $5000 in advance from the DEA I’ll develop any one of these premises into a professional-quality educational video.

I’m sort of tired of articles describing some catastrophe that happened ten years ago and saying “it’s worrying.”

One more idea… If you’re willing to temporarily add the Debian testing “deb-src” repository to your sources.list, which should be slightly safer, then there’s a chance that this might work: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

Seems not completely crazy, unless MX has its own way to do that.

Yeah, I see that MX test is not based on current debian testing (trixie) but also bookworm. So I guess you’ll not find the package in MX repos until it makes it into AHS. Apparently there’s a PPA that some people use, that might work.

Ok, it didn’t seem clear if you were on Debian 12 or MX. I’m not sure what the relationship between them is, but mesa 25 seems to be in trixie only since 13 march.

Maybe you could use that package from debian testing on the MX version of testing if you wanted to live dangerously.

At this point in the debian release cycle your easiest course of action would probably be to switch over to debian testing. It’s quite easy to do if you’re in debian 12 and wanting newer packages is a legit reason to do it. It should be getting reasonably close to being stable by now I would guess.

You’ll need a newer kernel than is currently in debian stable as well, but that is actually quite easy to build and install. Building mesa I don’t know about, but it will have many more dependencies and could be a lot of work.

Huh. I learned about the potholes when I was a kid and saw a couple of them, but had no idea there was such a big region named for them.

“not that bad” — a very comfortable and well-decorated prison. But you can’t blame pixelfed for every poor choice its users might make in their lives.

If enacted, I’m guessing the main effect of this would be to make “meow” the new standard greeting among a large fraction of the student population in Texas high schools.

Good luck GNOME users! If Xfce ever added a donation button I would not be donating again.

Oh yeah, I remember debian’s Firefox used to be called something else for trademark reasons some years ago. I wonder how much linux market share firefox lost as a result. Not sure what changed, I guess in that case Mozilla must’ve come to their senses. I was mostly an ubuntu user in those days.

… lwn has the story: https://lwn.net/Articles/676799/

Telemetry can be turned off without modifying the code. I don’t know about the legality of it, maybe in the case of Firefox the other things they do are also at most build options rather than code changes. But generally distros are allowed to make changes to the packages they distribute, that is how free software works.

I wonder if mine would’ve been counted there. Even before I switched to Librewolf, Debian disables most of the telemetry.

Reading in general is of course quite easy compared to reading the Washington Times (my fingers automatically typed “Washington Post” there, a publication slightly more like a real newspaper) which most people would understandably prefer to avoid. In this case there’s no need, the illustration alone conveys the message well enough.

The symbol in the image, which appears conspicuously above the Washington Times article that was linked to, is no more offensive than the text of the article beneath it.

WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE

the standard basically just looks better

Place your bets everyone, has OP ever looked at either standard?