What’s up with the Rust hate?

The Rust community keeps trying to rewrite key pieces of Linux that aren’t broken.

They probably have the right idea, in the long run, but it’s still fun to give them a hard time about it.

Good info, thanks!

I route my email through my domain names, and so I can reroute emails at the DNS level, but I can see this being important to some folks.

Tuta deletes free accounts that have not been logged into for 6 months.

This, and I heard that some legitimate newly registered free accounts have been wiped a couple days later by anti-bot automation. So I guess one would want to age their Tuta account (or you know, just pay for it) before they trust it with too much.

I’ve had a free Tuta account for some time without any issues.

I see Proton and Tuta recommended here, often.

I also see complaints about both (Proton’s politics and Tuta’s tendency to lock and clean free accounts).

Both seem better than Google, who seem to be tightening their grip on those unable to walk away.

I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately.

I’m sure it is.

It’s been interesting to see people not really getting angry about it, yet.

Simon’s Puzzles is what i use when I’m trying to reduce my own doom scrolling.

Luanti (a very nice free Minecraft clone) is also great for a few minutes (…or hours) here and there.

Edit:

What the hey, here’s a few more!

Burger Party - Like that pizza game, but burgers

Breakout 71 - Breakout as a Rogue-lite

Endless Sky - Space Trader Simulator

Gridle (Crosswords-Like Wordle)

Gurgle (Wordle)

Mindustry - Mobile Factorio-like

Pixel Dungeon - Rogue revisited and constantly updated

Roboyard - Slide robots to their goals

Super Tux Kart

Where do you get once every 2 years? Do you never reboot your machine?

I’m hearing you like to reboot your machine unusually often.

The reason I can think of where clicking would be a huge pain in the ass is an automatic task. I have some of those, but I put them on machines that I treat as servers, and the time between reboots is genuinely counted in years, for those machines.

At this point you must be missing the point on purpose.

I wasn’t before, but now I am.

I find your argument distasteful. If you want a server, use a server. But there’s no need to shout to the world that servers require command line use. That’s normal in 2025.

If you treat your laptop like a server, that’s okay. No one is judging. But my grandma isn’t doing that, and it rings hollow to complain so loudly about it in a thread about average users enjoying Linux Mint.

An average user will never even notice the issue you have been complaining about, while enjoying the product for free.

I don’t normally tell people to go open a pull request, but you should do so, if only to get a better understanding of what the community has already given you for free.

Yes. I guess that’s fair though. Most people don’t like change.

So you’re complaining that you have to click on it - once every two years - when you reboot…

That’s rough, buddy.

I joke. But also, I guess if you feel that strongly about wasting my a click, Linux is definitely the OS for you.

In contrast, I set my nephew up with Linux Mint, and he is now slowly converting the rest of his family to open source solutions.

My understanding is that they keep having conversations about privacy news, and he keeps knowing a solution, which sometimes is Android or Linux based. So now his parents will ask me “Is it true the XY protects against YZ and is free?”

It’s been a pretty cool thing to watch.

I find Garyjay helps with this, by mingling videos from other services.

Sometimes by the time I’ve tried one of the first videos to load from other services, the PeerTube results have loaded for me.

Yes.

At this rate, we will be having a “local files are hard for the average user” debate, here, in another decade.

Which, maybe it will be, at that point.

It’s often the ones we most suspected.

Haha!

But…yeah. This is how I make friends in real life, though.

Edit: Now I am checking timestamps to see if my needlessly using the word “cromulent” in another thread comment might have helped inspire this delight…

Edit 2: Just a coincidence. And evidence that I live this meme, too.

It feels like everything is vibe coded, now.

I need to start a vintage software hobby.

Oof. Hopefully a security professional will slap some sense into someone before it gets out of beta.

Damn.

Pinkertons on Wikipedia

Wow. Damn.

Yes. Starfinder has planets, and some planets have caves.

so what’s the fucking point?

I’ve heard that covering up abhorrent crimes takes special amounts of money.

But maybe they’ll release the Epstein files any day now to prove that rumor wrong, and we can all relax.

Did you try being born ultra rich? I’ve heard it helps. I wish someone told me sooner.