They could have totally made a VCR without inputs, though. There are audio tape players like that.

Wanna feel old?

We weren’t even born in the 80s! Or the 90s!

– Frost

🎶 The head bone’s connected to the neck bone… 🎶

(the top one anyway)

– Frost

Honestly, we use stable on our laptop because we just don’t care about it having the latest everything.

Our desktop gets testing+unstable, though.

yeah, mixing stable and testing is something you’ve gotta be really careful with.

Now, running entirely testing, or well, more likely testing+unstable? Way less likely to break. So if you want the Rolling Debian Experience, just upgrade to testing. :3

– Frost

By “shipped with the kernel”, do you mean by the kernel people? Or just by distros?

Because I don’t think the kernel people ship anything proprietary. Distros do, because distros are in the business of actually putting together a functional operating system, but that doesn’t make the kernel nonfree any more than some distros shipping Steam by default makes the kernel nonfree. (Personally I like that our distro of choice doesn’t ship Steam preinstalled, but I like having nonfree wifi firmware on the install disc because it’s really hard to get wifi drivers when you don’t have working wifi.)

– Frost

To expand on this, for Linux, most of the drivers are actually open source!

For the other stuff, there are “kernel modules”, that the kernel loads and runs in kernel space (just like how user programs can load libraries to do stuff). So they’re part of the kernel in that sense, but not necessarily open source. But that doesn’t mean the kernel isn’t open source at all, just that it might, optionally, be running other code that’s proprietary.

(Most kernel modules are open source, too. It’s only a few weird ones like Nvidia’s proprietary driver that aren’t.)

I wish Congress were wolves. They’d be a lot cuter, more fluffy and less evil.

– Topaz

We don’t, personally.

For android, look to see if your phone can install an alternative Android build like Lineage. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ You can get apps from F-Droid, which is a different appstore that only has open source apps and doesn’t even have accounts at all.

– Frost

It may not be on YOUR keyboard. Ours has it on alt -, or shift-alt - for an em dash instead of an en dash!

– Frost

Bagels. And a toaster oven. Don’t cut the bagel, just pop it in the toaster oven whole for about 3-4 minutes (on ‘toast’) (at least that’s what it is for ours, your oven may vary, adjust to taste).

Warm bready goodness with basically no work and no cleanup whatsoever.

Oh yeah, hz and fps are the same thing here! I mostly said 24fps because you can display a 24fps movie on a higher refresh rate display and it’ll still be 24fps (hz is more usual when talking about what the display itself does, fps for the content it’s showing).

And yeah, I’m more targeting “minimum to look like motion” than I am “perfectly smooth looks”, heh. :3

To be fair, movies are 24fps!

So movies might be too low framerate for a chicken, but 60+ fps game footage’d probably be alright.

Debian.

It’s pretty great for desktop stuff these days. Basically Ubuntu minus the shit. Any desktop you want, it’s got live installers now (several different ones with different desktops), it’s got nonfree firmware on the disc, they’ve really upped their game.

(And if the recent systemd stuff skeeves you out, you can toss out systemd, even. It’s not for the faint of heart though.)

– Frost

Zelda Ocarina of Time is probably a solid contender.

Played it on our 3DS and it just felt like a worse Twilight Princess.

– Frost

Finally, we’re not just the Crazy Weirdos anymore!

It’d be awesome to get alternate init systems on, say, Debian hammered out into a more user-friendly shape. It’s already fairly decent but feels a tad precarious and the initial setup is way too involved. (We’re running OpenRC personally.)

– Frost

yes please! We’re using OpenRC on Debian right now, it’s very nice. Way less annoying than systemd.

– Frost

It totally does! We used to use it on Mac, back before we switched to Linux.

– Frost

Xboxen!

Ah yes, the literal embodiment of “announcing the new OpenTormentNexus!”.