monk

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[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't call a supermarket a Cocacola distribution

Only because it's kinda unconventional to buy oneself some Coca-Cola by purchasing an entire supermarket.

I would still call a combo meal "a Coca-Cola distribution", and whoever sells it to me a "Coca-Cola distributor".

I can set up a computer with e.g. OpenBSD (with my own modifications to make it mine) that downloads an Ubuntu ISO from my server, then I load up that ISO into a virtual machine and now I magically turned OpenBSD into an Ubuntu distribution??

my server

You're now a distributor of Ubuntu (regardless of the OpenBSD-based thingie), and your version of OpenBSD is an Ubuntu distribution. If, however, your hypothetical OpenBSD-based distro pulled all the Ubuntu bits from ubuntu.com, it would've been just an distribution of an Ubuntu installer.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 2 years ago

For me, liliputing.com gives me the most value per time spent reading. It's also fun to see how notebookcheck occasionally reports the same stuff but worse, clearly after they've read it on liliputing. It's not a broad one though since it's focus is loosely centered at compact gadgets.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Windows distributes Linux, through its repositories, ergo Windows a Linux distribution.

What does it do with it then – acts as a hypervisor or sings its source aloud backwards – is an orthogonal question.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If it distributes Linux, it's a distro. Thus ChromeOS, Android, Windows are all Linux distros.

If you have a different definition, best you can do with it is go brighten up some lawyer's day, I guess.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 3 points 2 years ago

The idea is at least 100 years old.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 6 points 2 years ago

Fruit trees. There's a ton of them.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 2 years ago

It's really just a bad overused joke.

You've said that, not us =P

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Also: CSS Also: Java applets Also: Flash

The internet has basically gone moldy overnight.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 2 years ago

Newpipe Sponsorblock is an easy recommendation for everyone on Android. Two minutes of installing/configuring and it's just plain good: downloading, background playback, in-video ad skipping etc.

I, myself, convert YouTube channels into podcast feeds and play YouTube videos among my regular podcasts using AntennaPod, but that requires me to host a service.

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 1 points 2 years ago

... specify your instance URL (https://lemmy.world)?

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 2 points 2 years ago

And I want world peace and a unicorn.

I mean, who wins, digital fingerprinting or r/faxofafax?

[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 13 points 2 years ago

There's no place like localhost.

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