So sad that most computer museums don’t let you fuck touch the computers.

Another day volunteering at the computer museum. People keep asking me if they can fuck the big mainframe we have on display. Buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it.

I’ve been using Cohost to just dump random thoughts I’ve been having, or to go: “Isn’t this thing neat?”, and honestly, it’s been the most fun I’ve had on the internet in a while.

During the Mint upgrade, there was both a GUI app and a terminal open. When it was, for instance, updating the Apt cache, the GUI app only said “Updating apt cache” with a throbber of some kind. While in the terminal, you saw all this text zip by. It was actually kinda fun, to put the terminal in fullscreen mode, and watch all this text go by; things being downloaded, unzipped, installed, uninstalled &c.

Just upgraded to the latest Linux Mint! There aren’t that many changes, but it’s still good to be up to date, especially since you can choose whether or not to update. Haha, can you imagine using an OS that would try to force you to update with constant nagging reminders :^).
Anyways, so far here’s some changes and issuses I noticed:
·The Mint-Y themes now have a different maximizing button
·The Gpaste applet is broken, since it seems to rely on an older verison of Gpaste (the repository only has Gpaste-2¹
·The Cinnamon eye applet had weird colors, different from the ones I had picked, post update
·The software manager now loads faster (it also hides non-verified flatpaks by default now)
·Hyfetch was uninstalled after the update— luckily, there’s now a Hyfetch package in the repo
·Speaking of repos, Mint is now based on a much newer Ubuntu version! It now uses Kernel 6.8.0 (one number away from the funny number 😔), so it should support tons more newer hardware!
·The icons also got updated; funnily enough, the only change I noticed (I use the Papirus icon set) is the Xed icon having lines added to it, lol.
·The audio server is now Pipewire instead of Pulse Audio. I actually never had any issue with Pulse, like I had read some people often have.

Overall, not too much different, I mainly upgraded for the newer kernel (better hardware support, yay). I’m still perfectly happy with Mint! If you’re still on an older Mint version, check here to upgrade!

1. Note that this Applet wasn’t made by the Linux Mint team.

Also, during the install this happened. I think this was while it was installing the fonts, so makes sense why it’d get all weird (it later fixed itself, and the text in the upgrade program didn’t bork). This is supposed to say: “1, 2, 3, 4 — Second Workplace”.