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I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?

February 8, 2026 I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?2026-02-19T00:40:44+01:00 2 Comments Acer, Debian, DESERT, Lenovo, MX, Soplos, xebian

After the last iteration through my tables from The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM, I concocted another table, meant to help me really take a…

The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM

February 6, 2026 The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM2026-02-08T16:56:23+01:00 2 Comments Acer, AI, apocalypse, Lenovo

In a previous post, in the chapter “On RAM prices because of the AI madness,” I explored the possibility of purchasing a cheap laptop with 24 GB or 32 GB…

Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend

February 3, 2026 Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend2026-02-10T21:06:23+01:00 2 Comments Acer, AI, apocalypse, AppImages, apps, FreeBSD, Lenovo, Linux, longread, openSUSE, Soplos, 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…

A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?

October 27, 2025 A €20 Linux tax: cui et quantum prodest?2026-02-03T16:57:24+01:00 1 Comment Acer, fedora, idiocy, Lenovo, Linux, Lubuntu, MATE (desktop), NTFS, SPECIAL, ThinkPad, Win11

After 😾 30 Years Defending Linux — Until I Called It Quits and Linux: More Proof It’s a Pathetic Joke, the post 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu…

Béranger on Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora: “● We also have a never-ending systemd war. Comments from here: I’ve already spent 3 days fighting systemd trying to…” Feb 24, 22:48
ConEst on Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora: “That’s very concerning. I will avoid fedora default from now on I guess. I also remember seeing this post as…” Feb 24, 22:33
Béranger on Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora: “Btrfs and Bcachefs are the worst filesystems in the known universe. Read some of my comments from 2024: ❶ On…” Feb 24, 21:29
ConEst on Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora: “My major gripes with Fedora have always been no lts kernel support or a nice kernel manager – gui preferably…” Feb 24, 21:13
Aldus on Bolojan și oferta lui de nerefuzat: “Pe tema „legării de glie” a proaspeților medici merită citit acest articol.” Feb 23, 23:37
HAL on One year later, DWW is run by the same shitheads: “Same here. I noticed the last few times I posted a comment, it never appeared. Yet I’m less harsh than…” Feb 23, 16:03
Béranger on 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…: “I could not try this because I don’t have any flavor of Ubuntu installed, but the error “ldconfig failed, exit…” Feb 23, 00:05
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “At least, you cannot be embarazada 😉” Feb 22, 17:10
edel on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Proponer… You are right! Well, that is better than when I did not want to do a presentation in the…” Feb 22, 17:07
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “It was easy to dismiss Kubuntu Focus: with both Firefox and Chrome installed by default, and Chrome being set as…” Feb 22, 17:00
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “From proponer, right?” Feb 22, 16:02
edel on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “That is embarrassing… I’d been using Preposition/Proposition a lot as meaning “choice”… my gosh!!! I am done for today… need…” Feb 22, 16:00
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Preposition?! Proposition? You could try Kubuntu Focus 🙂 But the D/L is soo slow. I’ll try the live edition, just…” Feb 22, 15:44
edel on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “He should. I don’t like the Tuxedo OS preposition either, although different rationale than you. Yet, if they are preparing…” Feb 22, 15:42
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Hear, hear, younger bro.” Feb 22, 08:01
ConEst on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “5g plans are cheap here in India so I mostly use usb tethering only since it kills my battery less…” Feb 22, 07:55
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “On my Acer from 2023, CachyOS isn’t even able to boot. The ever famous distro has a highly praised kernel…” Feb 22, 07:21
ConEst on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “I don’t think I’ll ever be able to take opensuse seriously. They decided to blacklist rndis ffs. How am I…” Feb 22, 07:17
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “There are 2 KDE distros that I tried years ago, both promoted by laptop brands, and which, for one reason…” Feb 21, 21:34
edel on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “What is your take on Tuxedo OS? I put it a year ago in my kids’ devices and never had…” Feb 21, 19:45
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “It would be, but it won’t happen. I won’t be the one to solve the mystery of BT in Debian.” Feb 21, 14:13
ng6333 on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Testing has bluez (5.84-1) with identical requirements as per trixie 13. It would be interesting to see the result if…” Feb 21, 14:10
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “If they aren’t parasites anymore, why are they using Debian’s source packages? OK, Canonical does a lot, and I mean…” Feb 21, 10:04
Alex on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Didn’t you leave Linux? 😛 Gentoo has been ‘as good as dead’ for the last 20 years, yet it’s still…” Feb 21, 09:51
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “The kernel was not the problem.” Feb 21, 04:58
ng6333 on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Debian 13 xfce with newer kernel from backports/testing, Worth a shot? Package: linux-image-amd64 (6.18.5-1~bpo13+1) https://packages.debian.org/trixie-backports/linux-image-amd64” Feb 21, 04:30
Béranger on SPECIAL: It’s distro-hopping time! (Is this a happy ending?): “Barely posted, and already updated!” Feb 21, 03:24
Snae on Why is Linux attracting mentally retarded “experts” and users?: “@HAL It’s not mental deficiency. If you look at recent studies of hard-core computer enthusiasts, quite especially programmers, the researchers…” Feb 20, 13:50
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Oh, my, The Graystones Live at St. Frances Cabrini Carnival 2025! ❶ The Graystones LIVE: First Set (1 of 3),…” Feb 19, 23:36
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones last live show is still available… The Graystones LIVE: First Set (1 of 3), 10-11-25. In part 2,…” Feb 19, 23:29
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “If the parents of a former member of the group expressed “privacy claims,” this amounts to sabotaging the group and…” Feb 19, 10:41
kaasboer on AI and more on the Japanese note.com: “Hi, it seems Anthropic / Claude is in trouble because they don’t allow the use of their AI for the…” Feb 19, 10:12
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “A bunch of videos became unavailable on the same day due to a privacy claim. Issues with prior members? Evan…” Feb 19, 03:29
Béranger on Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu: “Să ne mai înspăimântăm o dată! Din zecile de discuții cu Armand Goșu pe care le-am urmărit în ultima vreme,…” Feb 18, 23:39
bob on SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too: “HDDs are significantly cheaper to purchase, too! In 99% of use cases, the speed difference between these drives is just…” Feb 18, 20:22
Béranger on They cancelled Sabine H. for calling the emperor naked!: “Sabine Hossenfelder: The Quantum Computer Dream is Falling Apart: The story of quantum computing is becoming increasingly clear, I think.…” Feb 18, 14:25
Béranger on Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO: “It makes sense as a theory, but I beg to differ. Sometimes, the same LLM that was keen to adopt…” Feb 17, 12:36
Aldus on Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO: “My intuition is that the stubbornness of some LLMs doesn’t stem from an inferiority in their reasoning process, but rather…” Feb 17, 12:33
Béranger on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “A Japanese blog post from Sept. 2, 2025, claims that this post of mine might be outdated: “Some of the…” Feb 16, 16:12
Béranger on E-book readers on Windows and Android: my 2 cents: “On Android, I uninstalled ReadEra and Readest, so I’m left with the original trio (eReader Prestigio + Lithium + Kindle),…” Feb 16, 01:16
Norbert Preining on Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI: “I am still alive, I just washed Debian down the gutter and moved on. I still praise Debian for its…” Feb 16, 00:35
Béranger on Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!: “Vous ne savez pas lire ? Janvier 2026 ! Et j’ai bien mentionné ces quatre systèmes.” Feb 15, 22:04
HAL on Nicolas Kovacs, aka Kiki Novak, finds refuge in Debian!: “Oooh ! Ce doit être assez récent, car encore le 30 juin 2025 : “J’ai donc décidé de me simplifier…” Feb 15, 22:02
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Perplexity’s willingness to create images was inconsistent back then. Now it would create an image, now it would say it…” Feb 13, 09:50
Aldus on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Claude, DeepSeek, and Perplexity cannot create images. Perplexity can – and I’ve used it for this in the past, but…” Feb 13, 09:45
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “I’ve read a lot of testimonials saying that ChatGPT is getting dumber and dumber. I’m still dumbfounded as to why…” Feb 13, 00:22
Aldus on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “And this is exactly one of the reasons why ChatGPT stays relevant: everyone uses it. That’s how you see the…” Feb 13, 00:20
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Every single idiot on Earth is using ChatGPT. Most of them never heard of any other chatbot. You have too…” Feb 13, 00:03
Aldus on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “No more Claude? Interesting. I think ChatGPT is still somewhat relevant because it sets the trends. And just the other…” Feb 13, 00:02
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Supposed to, but not necessarily so. But how could I pay for a service/product that does not impress?!” Feb 12, 14:45
HAL on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “Some major chatbots are getting worse. Yes, but also because you are using the free version rather than their more…” Feb 12, 14:43
Béranger on The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM: “I did that with the previous laptop in 2023. I’m not doing that again. Not these days, when you can’t…” Feb 12, 10:03
zugu on The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM: “I’ve always bought new laptops with minimal RAM & storage amounts, the upgraded them myself later. It was cheaper that…” Feb 12, 08:30
Béranger on Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend: “I found the reason of the bug in Soplos XFCE.” Feb 10, 21:07
nobody on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “Lumo. Under the guidelines of its set-up and Proton’s privacy policies, it literally won’t say anything about politics. I asked…” Feb 10, 18:49
Béranger on A Big Beautiful Bullshit List: “When shit trumps shit, and everything collapses: Fear of AI Replacing Software Makers Hits Stocks. Here’s What to Know. In…” Feb 10, 15:29
Béranger on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “Not all distros are born equal.” Feb 9, 17:51
HAL on I did say I’ll be back, didn’t I?: “If the installed system disconnects from the Wi-Fi by itself, it’s usually because of a too extreme power management policy…” Feb 9, 17:09
Béranger on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “The retard who keeps invoking the Dunning-Kruger effect commented on this post: “Someone has also never seen the original Debian…” Feb 9, 16:13
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “A complete shithead that kept calling me an idiot in a dozen comments that I couldn’t approve because there wasn’t…” Feb 9, 15:54