Appreciate the suggestions.

I have to run Ubuntu for our security software (Vanta), and I did thr upgrade early mostly hoping they’d finally ironed out the issues with the ipu7 camera on the Dell XPS 13 (9350).

It’s otherwise fine (although I get a touch irrational about snaps…)

Reinstalled my work laptop earlier today.

1. IPU7 camera still doesn’t work out of the box. Hoping there’s an OEM driver released at some point.
2. Switching away from snap-based Firefox means a firefox that won’t start up. I’m now stuck with Firefox in a Snap, which can’t manage gnome extensions. Annoying paper cut requiring installing (ironically) a flatpak to manage extensions.
3. They removed the “Software and Updates” package from the default install, making for a worse experience for new users trying to fix driver issues
4. The dash-to-dock plugin that Cannonical default installs overrides some keyboard shortcuts (particularly super+q - my preferred shortcut for closing programs)
5. ptyxis is fine as a terminal, but all configs only go through dconf, so any changes you want require a pile of searching
6. sudo -E doesn’t actually bring in environment vars, breaking at least some scripts.

Some of these come from Cannonical switching away from GNU userland tools. Some of these may be more Gnome choices. And some just suck.

If I wasn’t stuck with Ubuntu because of software requirements, I would use nearly anything else.

Salt water is bad for most tech. These orbs that have risen out of the ocean must be impressive…

(Also this idea is stupid and distopian)

Is that media star and Alex Jones friend Bobby Barnes?!

Another? How many legs do you have in your glove box?

This album is the best of AC/DC, and I love this riff. Also, it’s almost the same as the riff in Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well” (from back when they were a blues band).

Way back in the early 2000s, we used to re-fill toner cartridges. If you overfilled them, it kinda looked like this.

It’s retro!

That is something I didn’t know. It’s also a bummer.

I had forgotten portions of years exist. Thanks for clearing that up.

I know it’s not the point, but is anyone else confused by a 23 year old serving more than 5 years in the military?

I assume it’s just a typo/bad editing or something…

Wild how much that looks like MSP, too.

I believe you’re never fully out of the woods…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicular_torsion

Agreed. I explained more in a sibling comment, but this always confused me…

The “they want to be even” explanation is what I remeber being told by the urologist who untwisted me. I was, to be fair, young and in pain, so I don’t know that I remember clearly.

(Also, it was around 25-30 years ago, so I get to be wrong about this.)

Apparently (and this is from memory, so caveat emptor) when young the balls can be uneven. During puberty, one might say “Oh no! I must become even!” and twist up on itself.

This is resovled (at least in my case) with a local anesthetic and manual untwisting. Followed by a procedure where they sew your balls to your sack so they can’t try it again.

I had this as a teenager. Would not recommend.

Where does “two comedians listen to and critically analyze Alex Jones” fit?

Off the top of my head, no. I’m just pointing out that there’s time to respond before things get shitty. This isn’t Redis rug-pulling their license. The community can be considered. Thoughtful.

This does suck, but there’s time. I doubt the actual legal hand over has happened yet, and OpenAI is (likely, I don’t actually know) an absolute mess, HR/structure-wise, internally. If the aquisitions I’ve been a part of in the past are any indication, there’s a 1-2 year ramp before things really start to go to shit within Astral (assuming there isn’t an immediate massive exodous of talent). Or I’m totally wrong!