February 2026 – Homo Ludditus

Archives for February, 2026

Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend

February 3, 2026 Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend2026-02-03T23:41:48+01:00 No Comment AI, apocalypse, AppImages, apps, FreeBSD, Lenovo, Linux, longread, openSUSE, Ubuntu, XFCE, Xubuntu

There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…

Iar îmi desființez contul eMag

February 3, 2026 Iar îmi desființez contul eMag2026-02-03T22:09:01+01:00 No Comment electronics, eMag, idiocy, pe românește

Nu am scris pe blog când mi-am desființat prima oară contul eMag. Am scris doar despre cum vând ei falsuri ordinare nederanjați de nimeni. Dar povestea e că mi-am desființat…

The usual mental retard in Linux

February 2, 2026 The usual mental retard in Linux2026-02-02T23:55:12+01:00 No Comment apps, Debian, idiocy, Linux, Ubuntu

Nothing special, just the same old. Some “error while loading shared libraries” crap. Out of curiosity, I wanted to try 4K Video Downloader Plus under Debian 13. The download page…

Flopzilla is retarded

February 2, 2026 Flopzilla is retarded2026-02-02T18:19:58+01:00 2 Comments firefox, idiocy, Kimi

Yesterday, all of a sudden, Firefox 147.0.2 (64-bit) became fucked up under Windows 11. It wouldn't open certain sites, which Edge would open on the same laptop. The same version…

Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added SWR 4 BaWü; Smooth Jazz CD 101.9 New York, WCLK Jazz 91.9 Atlanta, and WCLK HD2 Mainstream/Classic Jazz; and…” Feb 3, 21:14
Gnomesucks on The magic of Fedora Linux: “https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaru-gtk-theme Who would have guessed that Arch has more normalcy than Fedora.” Feb 3, 17:39
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “I tried installing the same yaru-theme in the live session of the Fedora 43 XFCE spin. The results were similar:…” Feb 3, 00:49
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “I risk becoming Chinese if I keep using Kimi!” Feb 2, 20:53
nobody on Flopzilla is retarded: “Careful! You risk becoming retarded using too much AI 😉” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “I’m occasionally wrong, and I made a correction: sometimes, Ubuntu still maintains a package that was abandoned by Debian!” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links: “I mentioned Katie Harris here, Stefano Chiaromonte in another post, and the channel “Joy of Languages. Italian” in another comment.…” Feb 2, 16:10
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “While testing (in a live session) if the build of xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso from Jan. 26 is still not broken (it’s not)…” Jan 31, 21:54
Béranger on Wanderings around Debian: “While Linux Lite 7.8 Final has been released and it seems to bear quite some changes over Linux Lite 7.8-rc1…” Jan 31, 20:50
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “A note on the marvelous nature of snaps, from Joey Sneddon’s Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions:…” Jan 31, 13:55
Kai on The magic of Fedora Linux: “Recent Fedora releases are retarded. They broke LXQt spin for no reason, replacing X.org with Wayland, not caring about the…” Jan 31, 07:02
David on The magic of Fedora Linux: “You got gnomed 🙂” Jan 31, 06:03
HAL on The magic of Fedora Linux: “What? But that’s completely crazy! They’re nuts!” Jan 31, 02:31
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Unfortunately, I never used GoodSync, so I can’t have an opinion about it.” Jan 28, 18:03
Rosen Kolev on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Beyond Compare is indeed a great tool. Thank you for sharing how you use it! Those details will definitely help…” Jan 28, 17:34
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “You are completely retarded. I want COMPLETE CONTROL WITH MY OWN BRAIN’S SUPERVISION over my backups of: – e-books -…” Jan 28, 00:17
Eugen on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “manual backups? geez. how about rclone or rsync plus a bash script plus cron plus a 5$ vps?” Jan 28, 00:14
ng6333 on I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE: “It makes sense. LO/OO internal format (ODF) is not OOXML. The other office suites native format is closer to MSoft…” Jan 27, 13:16
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Indeed, its 3 predefined sync modes, “Two-way,” “Mirror to right,” and “Update right,” should cover everything. Obviously, actions can be…” Jan 27, 10:13
xwa on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “How about FreeFileSync? May not have such detailed settings, but it should be able to do all those mirror/update/left/right scenarios…” Jan 27, 09:49
Béranger on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “Nope.” Jan 24, 20:39
ng6333 on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “I tried a method that can restore some old apps or libraries; Add previous release(s) to apt sources: – unstable…” Jan 24, 04:28
xwa on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “I wonder who is going to use GNOME anymore… Do you think you are safe if you migrated to /…” Jan 23, 18:16
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Trump über alles! After the fabulous address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada (here, here, here, or here; official…” Jan 23, 11:33
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Not an official link: Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace.” Jan 22, 16:51
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a special address in Davos. His ~20+ minute speech (in English) can be watched here (with…” Jan 22, 12:14
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Trump’s speech at WEF 2026 in Davos is psychiatric material. Trump confused Greenland with Iceland several times, but he appeared…” Jan 21, 19:06
GnomeSucks on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “Ah, the good old Gnome lunatics are at it again… Doesn’t surprise me when you look at the bullshit they…” Jan 21, 13:34
Béranger on Nu, Nicușor Dan nu a rezolvat problema de clasa a patra! Actualizare: ba da!: “Pentru problema din 1988 și rezolvarea acesteia din 2020, rediscutată în 2026, vezi aici.” Jan 20, 22:49
Christian on The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE: “January 2026 and the bug is still there. Thanks you for writing this! Was driving me nuts.” Jan 19, 20:13
Ashtone on 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…: “Thank you.” Jan 16, 14:23
B. Stack on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “Thanks for the notice! Somehow, this is the first I’ve heard of it. I use Devuan Ceres (unstable, just like…” Jan 16, 02:03
Béranger on The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty: “I was aware of much of this. But the idea was that, as a non-insured person, the fees are absurd.…” Jan 15, 14:04
edel on The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty: “Forget the abominable costs, what I’d found most horrendous in American Health Plans is the impossibility to choose adequately, specially…” Jan 15, 13:59
edel on I don’t believe in Iran’s future: “Nice article! Just one thing to add; Israel would never tolerate any country to economically succeed in the area, unfriendly…” Jan 15, 12:31
edel on Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?: “Trump has within reach Greenland, that will give him the legacy he is so desperately to obtain, and Europe would…” Jan 15, 12:13
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “Three small updates: one regarding Xebian, another one regarding MX, and a third one regarding the customization of XFCE in…” Jan 15, 00:28
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “Euria was not in my short list. It’s basically Qwen.” Jan 14, 19:23
HAL on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “some are not worthwhile (Lumo) You forgot “the great” Euria from the equally “great” Infomaniak 😉 Worse than Lumo, better?” Jan 14, 19:20
Béranger on Happy Trump’s Kampf: “En qué estado está la industria petrolera venezolana y por qué recuperarla costará muchos millones: “Nunca pude imaginar que a…” Jan 13, 16:07
edel on We shouldn’t have forgotten Guantánamo: “Worse by number, is the number of “jihadists” arrested and convicted by online entrapment that in real life they would…” Jan 12, 19:57
Béranger on Fun and pain with a teardown—analogic radios are defunct: “UPDATE: A 10th chapter adds comments from Mistral on the ICs highlighted in this post, on old-style radio ICs, on…” Jan 11, 20:12
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added Romantic FM (at the end).” Jan 11, 19:16
Béranger on „Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian: “Service door of Crans-Montana bar where 40 died in fire was locked from inside, owner says: The French owner of…” Jan 11, 15:55
Béranger on Operation ‘Emperor of the World’: “FT: Nordics reject Trump’s claim of Chinese and Russian ships around Greenland: Nordic diplomats rejected US President Donald Trump’s claims…” Jan 11, 15:45
HMS on Stephan Pastis on a difference between AmE and BrE: “I thought the joke was that nobody cares about the UK anymore. I respect the history, but it’s a play…” Jan 10, 19:56
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Kiev sau Kyiv? La Radio Moldova, Dan Alexe înșiră o serie de argumente: O samă de cuvinte | Englezirea excesivă:…” Jan 10, 11:09
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added JazzRadio Berlin in the 10th position, between Europa Radio Jazz and TSF Jazz.” Jan 10, 03:52
HAL on Dedoimedo honored me!: “Oh 😀👍👏” Jan 10, 03:42
Béranger on „Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian: “Elemente de tâmpenie umană extrase din 68 de secunde. Reconstituirea tragediei din Elveția: ❶ După ce spuma a luat foc,…” Jan 10, 02:35
Johannes rexx on As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist: “When I told my brother that the three billion facebook users are all stupid idiots he refuted that so many…” Jan 10, 00:48
Béranger on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “At most with Putin.” Jan 9, 17:32
HMS on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “The past 100 years have been a headfake on the “rules based order” and “democracy.” Realism and Great Men have…” Jan 9, 17:21
Béranger on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “– The US Civil War was before they become civilized (so to speak). – Spain in 2004 was not in…” Jan 8, 21:45
edel on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “I understand, I said I give it a “pass” check. Exceptions as you mention are few, but they are. -…” Jan 8, 21:23
Béranger on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “Nope. (1) Missiles and drones are falling in Kyiv and other “free” cities, too. (2) No country on Earth has…” Jan 8, 20:46
edel on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “True, I understand it completely since 2022! As I consider 2024 Venezuela elections as contested/suspended under the less explosive, but…” Jan 8, 20:44
Béranger on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “Regarding Kyiv: Britain didn’t hold elections during the war. They did it right after the capitulation of the Third Reich,…” Jan 8, 20:14
edel on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: ““But the US will remain a threat for everyone, even if Trump disappears.” Now, like I have been saying since…” Jan 8, 20:10
Béranger on The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world: “Trump, on Truth Social: I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between…” Jan 8, 15:00