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Patents Kill Patients (But Stupidity Kills Too)
No, this isn't about the “people in India wouldn't die if patents on vaccines were waived” mantra we discussed in great detail in a previous post (in sections NINETEEN, THIRTY-TWO,…
Linus 1, Anti-Vaxxers 0
There are issues on which I agree with Linus Torvalds, issues on which I have a different opinion than his, and issues I couldn't care less about. Here's one instance…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 6: The death of the scrollbar
Only an idiot would need proofs of the utmost idiocy that infested every single UI concept of the last ~10 years, but "the case of the missing scrollbars" needs a…
Everyone nowadays seems to be a fake expert
This pandemic revealed that many if not most “experts” in the fields of epidemiology, virology, public health, pharmacology, medicine are not much better than the snake oil salesmen from the…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 5: The gaiety of having the choice
As I mentioned recently, I don't recommend any Linux distro specifically, because someone's preferences are determined by their hardware and software needs, their tastes regarding UX or ergonomics, and other…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 4: NOT trying Rocky Linux, after all
That's the quickest one: despite being enticed by Dedoimedo's articles (1·Rocky Linux 8 - Phoenix Tux; 2·Rocky Linux 8 & how to get better font clarity; 3·How to turn Rocky…
The Alphabet of Our Death
No, it's not Alphabet Inc., the artificial superclass for Google, but the Greek Alphabet, which currently got incremented to Delta, the name of the Indian variant. Other variants are warming…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 3: The Mint 20.2 Beta Triptych
This shouldn't be interpreted as if I'd suggest, support, or recommend any flavor of Linux Mint. Based on how things are in Linux in the last 15 of its 30…
Half-Truths, Lies, Incompetence and Idiocy Continue to Prevent a True Debate on Vaccines
I'm so sick of the way the anti-vaxxers have hijacked most websites, social networks, forums, even some major news outlets, that I believe the world has irremediably gone beyond Idiocracy.…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 2: Subpixel idiocy
Dedoimedo is the only guy in the known Universe who's pickier than I, and who constantly complains about the lack of contrast, the 1-pixel misalignment, and any other similar usability…
Adventures in Linux Ep. 1: Et tu, Fedora?
Tidbits from my predicaments with Fedora 34 XFCE. Apparently, Fedora 34 is not a bad crop, but Linux being Linux, nothing is erm… perfect. Not always. Never, actually. Episode 1:…
Bitcoin’s evilness is more than Ransomware
I wanted to avoid writing about Bitcoin, for it's too ample a subject, and even a book wouldn't persuade some people on how many level Bitcoin is morally wrong and…
Linux philosophy: Twitter humour
Nothing to do with my recent post on how everything is increasingly containerized, so pretty soon nobody would care about the smoothness, lightness and usability of your preferred desktop environment.…
Bing, He Loves Me
It's a he, right? Like Jesus, huh. Because Bing loves me anyway, despite my feelings towards "him" being ambivalent. I use, depending on the mood, either of Google, DuckDuckGo, and…
Will we finally have the right to talk about hydroxychloroquine in good faith?
In almost all my posts regarding COVID-19, I mentioned the defamation campaign against the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Could we now conduct fair trials and stop censoring the truth? We finally got…
Fedora 34 XFCE: Are miracles still possible?
After a story from my times with Fedora, as Béranger, and after a previous hint at Fedora ("Maybe it’s time to rediscover Fedora and the RPM-land, after all these years…
The Freedom to Blame China
For reasons we might never find out, we're finally allowed to blame China and not be censored. Our Masters might pretend the three sick people of Wuhan in 2019 made…
From Memory’s Vault: My Times With Fedora, as Béranger
For what it's worth, I've been a distro hopper since forever. I'm not sure if there's any single distro that I have used as much as I used Win3·1, Win95,…
Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run
10-15 years ago, there were many more Linux distros, and a lot of enthusiasm around Linux. Vibrant communities, positive vibes, unlike today. And most people were still dual-booting with Windows,…
Here’s how Plasma screwed my system: like a Windows virus!
If I needed one more reason to run away from KDE 5, the fate just gave it to me. It might have to do with Arch and how their derivatives…