What about a lightweight variant like Lubuntu or Xubuntu? 4Gb should be usable for a lot of things.

We can’t imagine anything but unfettered capitalism, so onward we go to our own destruction!

But our ignorant misconceptions are ubiquitous so they have become truth!

What problems with AMD Ryzen? I’ve been happy with them, except one that had excessive power drain on suspend.

My guess at the stance is I’d imagine it’s that switching away from snaps is switching away from Ubuntu’s support and security monitoring and updates to some less known/reliable/diligent third party?

Popey (Alan Pope) used to work for Canonical / Ubuntu, so he’s presumably not inclined to jump on the bandwagon of Canonical/Ubuntu/snap hate since he knows a lot of Canonical and Ubuntu people and their motivations and work. Not that there aren’t good reasons to criticize snap or other Canonical decisions, but it’s also plain that a lot of people just join a hate bandwagon and don’t even know what about it they object to. There is masses of wrong-headed criticism of Canonical out there e.g. I’ve frequently seen people criticize creating Upstart, saying Canonical should have used systemd, or bzr vs git! Presumably these people were annoyed at Canonical for not inventing a time machine.

So what, does the comment I replied to make sense to people? It has many upvotes but to me seems complete nonsense.

More neutral for me, bad for you. Frequent crashing and injury is not normal.

I would never tolerate falling down regularly. Studded tires work extremely well. I ride through blizzard and on ice and slush without any trouble. The only time I went down due to ice was riding on a frozen puddle where my tires gripped the ice but the ice didn’t grip the ground under it. That was a decade ago.

Breaking a wrist or collarbone (or worse) happens far too easily to just accept routine crashing.

Bicyclists scrape their knees and bruise their arms all the time, especially if you also use it in winter and fall

I’ve commuted by bike for decades and I have no idea what you’re talking about. How? What causes arm bruises or scraped knees?

Wut?

I know why they did it, as I said. It’s obvious. But it doesn’t really pay off in practice.

I have to say this is always my thought when I see those signs. “Road work ends” would convey what they mean in normal English.

Similarly the strange US habit of text on the ground being written bottom to top. I get what they intended, but I don’t get why, then they first saw the effect, they didn’t laugh and realize it didn’t work. There’s a road lane near me that says “BUSES NO” “TRUCKS NO” and I always picture someone disciplining a naughty bus.

They work better than cars do. Not long ago on my bike commute in a blizzard I had to keep getting off to help get stuck cars moving again, then if happily ride off…

And handling the cold is easier when riding than walking to and waiting for trains and buses because you generate your own heat. People ski in those conditions. It’s just a matter of the right clothes and equipment and not being soft as fuck.

It’s also been UK law for a long time.

Shush! Lennart might hear you!

Interesting post given auto placement is something I still haven’t got to grips with after 30 years. Definitely some good techniques to follow up on, along with motivation to up my embark and ace-window/avy game.

Well lvm makes a shit filesystem and btrfs is useless at volume management.

That was the point they were making. GitHub is to git as the snap store is to snap, albeit there are existing alternatives to GitHub.

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Conversely I’d find taking my hands from the keyboard to change workspaces for instance to be clunky and awkward. That’s why I use keyboard first, TrackPoint second, trackpad or mouse distant third.