Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

If you're installing Linux for a friend this weekend, think about asking:

"Hey, do you have an old laptop you're not using any more?"

Try making *that* useful. Keeps your friend calm because their main system is fine. Keeps you calm because you're not worried about your friend. And, you reduce some e-waste.

Nintendo uncensored the fact that Vivian is canonically trans in the Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door remaster. This was originally censored out of the western release of the original GameCube version but is back now on Switch

Source: https://mynintendonews.com/2024/05/21/review-paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-for-nintendo-switch/
(thanks @lycanmatriarch )

I heard the good news about the upcoming Thousand Year Door remake, and decided to stop drawing my regularly scheduled trans girls to draw some different trans girls for a while. Congrats on finally getting to be yourself, Vivian! ^_^

Now back to drawing MY trans girls. XD

OK #Linux community, listen up.

MS have done it again and people are looking for a way out.

DON'T TREAT NEWBIES LIKE SHIT.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR ASKING QUESTIONS.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR HAVING PROBLEMS.

DON'T TELL PEOPLE TO "GOOGLE IT" WHEN THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT TO SEARCH FOR, OR HOW TO INTERPRET THE RESULTS THEY'D FIND.

DON'T BE A DICK.

You know which one I drink :3

does anyone know what kind of dog this is

The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything.
They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately.

Tek Jr just texted me those words every parent wants to hear:

"Dad, can you help me install Linux?"

I think I'm crying.

Here is the church..
Here is the steeple..
Open the doors..
EAT ALL THE PEOPLE

Making myself available as a resource for anyone leaving Windows for Linux due to Recall (as if the ads and other built-in spyware weren't enough...).

#Recall #Windows #Linux #Microsoft #FreeSoftware #Freedom #Privacy #Security #LinuxOfficeHour

Adding my name to the hat.

I use #Linux Mint, a version based on the widely-used and -supported Ubuntu. It's pretty easy to use out of the box; I like it a lot.

If you try using it and have an issue, I'm willing to see if we can find a solution. No guarantees on solving every problem, but I won't make you feel silly for asking.

[Paper Mario: TTYD]

Here's the original Japanese for this Vivian line.

それに　じつは　アタイ・・・
体は　オトコのコだけど
ココロは　カワイイ　オンナのコなの

"The thing is... I...
I have a boy's body, but my heart is a cute girl's!"

(using feminine first person pronouns)

🐦 https://twitter.com/SuperMarioOOC85/status/1792909768723427797

Two sides of the same #minneapolis freeway. On one side, behind a college dormitory, people have attached small colorful birdhouses along the barrier wall concealing 10 lanes of I-94 traffic. Close to the Mississippi River, the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is on a migratory route, and lots of bird species call the city home.

Directly across from the freeway is a different scene: angered by poor human residents attempting to survival camp on some of the last green space in the neighborhood they hadn't already been chased off of or fenced out of, the MN Department of Transportation littered dozens of jersey barriers to prevent any tents from being set up.

Not far away, at a similar site, people started sleeping in between the barriers, so MNDOT poured rocks and concrete rubble there as well. Half a mile down, MNDOT has permanently closed a bicycle path adjacent to the "wall of forgotten natives", a former survival encampment along Highway 55, now fenced off and filled with rubble.

Whatever you do, do not linger on the thought of humans trying to survive. Think of the birds, to cheer you up.