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…
I had forgotten why I shouldn’t trust Ubuntu… but neither many other distros!
Security, security, security! Patches, patches, patches! This happened to me before, but poor me, I forgot about it, for it's been years since I wasn't into Ubuntu anymore. Updated with…
Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments?
After many explorations, hesitations and tribulations; and after having thought that an Arch derivative with KDE is the way; and after having later considered that more desktop stability would be…
A Community Experiment in Two Linux Distros
Master of Disaster or not, I have a history of making Open-Source developers, fans, or just users call me names on forums, on social networks, or elsewhere. I know that…
How the Internet Age Has Bent Some People’s Minds
If I still needed an example of how the Internet made people stupid, even the smartest of them, today I was just served with one of the best examples. It…
Try not to get depressed these days!
Even before the pandemic, the number of ways the world is broken would have justified a moderate depression, but now things seem utterly unbearable. I was about to start writing…
Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?
Before trying to explain the question, I can already tell you that the answer is negative. The so-called midway was possible when people were using Win98, WinXP or Win7. Nowadays,…
Quick Experiment in “Improving” Linux Lite
Even at its iteration , Linux Lite is based on Ubuntu 20·04 LTS, and therefore, just like Mint, only has XFCE 4·14. It's stupid to wait until after April 2025…
Watching “old guys” playing with Linux on YouTube
Since the pandemic, I noticed more and more YouTube channels of people likely to be 50+, 60+, or even older, who rant about Linux (not all the time, but still).…