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A not-so-boring talk on #ubuntu touch at #openalt

I used to recommend #Ubuntu, and as of 2024, I started recommending #LinuxMint, especially #LMDE to the many (almost no people) who ask me for

Great deconstruction of both Superman movies & why Zack Snyder's Man of Steel feels unrelatable.
▶️ Superman vs Man of Steel: One Scene That Shows Why One Worked - SCENE FI...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=78sapSaT-v8&si=uV04w0Ma9DFyoiFU

Friday was an adventure in tech futility. Started with a gifted laptop, Dell Latitude, and the simple task of wiping its poor excuse for an OS and installing something sensible.
#Ubuntu wasn't it. OMG Ubuntu, what HAVE you done?! Tried first #UbuntuStudio then stock Ubuntu, 24.04, 25.04, 25.11, all the installers simply hung, no log, no journalctl, CPU chugging but nada detectable action, even hours later, just "Preparing…"
Net advice is old, of course, but points to the snap bootstrap service, fix has no effect but Kee-riced look at the mount table?! Snaps crackle and pop all over! Wtf, why? 🤯
And it is tedious. These 'DVD' iso files are 7GB, so, after 6 hours frustration, I thought, let's try something smaller to cut the turnaround time. #Debian13 simple bare-bones net-install seemed a good candidate …
And it was. Seemless install. 😊

What's up with #Remmina on #Ubuntu? I have weird typing issues (duplicate characters, etc.). Switched to plain #FreeRDP and then all is well.
It did take me a while to find out what the command line is…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Ubuntu-Installation läuft. Tschüss Windows 10

A federal judge could soon decide whether tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Texas could lose their ability to work in the US legally under the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) immigration program
– prompting fears of upheaval and heartbreak.
As part of the years-long legal battle over Daca,
US district court judge Andrew Hanen is set to rule on competing proposals for the future of the Obama-era program.
One of those proposals, submitted …

Ubuntu Touch is an important project for a freer future for mobile platforms, but current alternative operating systems are simpler to use at the moment.
https://theprivacydad.com/using-ubuntu-touch-on-a-pixel-3a-phone/

AMC is now Open Access!
As of January 1, 2026, all ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, discoverable, and reusable.
#AMC