Unfortunately communities tend to be endangered species these days. Perhaps this issue and other seismic societal shifts will change that.

Becoming more politically active has been a massive source of community for me. And if community is already endangered (which isn't something I disagree with, by the way - so many people are inadequately supported), that's all the more reason we should find and build it.

I guess let’s say we also add Colorado to the growing list

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Young people are more into TikTok than CNN, and the Ellisons already control that in the U.S.

Looks like books.google.com

> Pair it with Debian

A KDE dev mentioned on a podcast that issues related to Debian Stable get closed automatically on their bug tracker because fixes don't get backported :/

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pneqp4/kde_dev_do_n...

My wife was complaining about Windows issues so I ended up installing Fedora with KDE on her laptop. I would have preferred Debian but using Testing (as suggested by the dev) doesn't some ideal.

Debian Testing isn't really unstable - the dev wasn't exaggerating. But I'd also suggest Kubuntu (you can remove snap and all of its packages, and install Firefox and Thunderbird .deb's from the Mozilla repo)

Debian testing is rolling release. More akin to Arch or Gentoo really.

You're thinking of Unstable (Sid). It's also not like Arch or Tumbleweed because it gets locked down during release freeze and then gets a ton of updates all at once.

There’s also notmuch with various frontends which will let you index and search colossal mail accounts

https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

While not a one-to-one situation, probably Blender and specifically Grease Pencil?

I thought that the blog's domain looked familiar. The author maintains an awesome and well maintained Emacs starter kit https://codeberg.org/ashton314/emacs-bedrock

Hey! Thanks for the kind words. :) I'm working on some updates for the upcoming release of Emacs 31. Should be good!

Rancher Desktop comes to mind. Maybe Podman Desktop https://podman-desktop.io/docs/migrating-from-docker

It's been ages since I used VirtualBox and reading the following didn't make me miss the experience at all:

> Eventually I found this GitHub issue. VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a regression that causes high CPU usage on idle guests.

The list of viable hypervisors for running VMs with 3D acceleration is probably short but I'd hope there are more options these days for running headless VMs. Incus (on Linux hosts) and Lima come to mind and both are alternatives to Vagrant as well.

I totally understand, Vagrant and VirtualBox are quite a blast from the past for me as well. But besides the what-are-the-odds bug, it's been smooth sailing.

> VMs with 3D acceleration

I think we don't even need 3D acceleration since Vagrant is running the VMs headless anyways and just ssh-ing in.

> Incus (on Linux hosts)

That looks interesting, though from a quick search it doesn't seem to have a "Vagrantfile" equivalent (is that correct?), but I guess a good old shell script could replace that, even if imperative can be more annoying than declarative.

And since it seems to have a full-VM mode, docker would also work without exposing the host docker socket.

Thanks for the tip, it looks promising, I need to try it out!

> though from a quick search it doesn't seem to have a "Vagrantfile" equivalent (is that correct?)

It's just YAML config for the VM's resources:

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/instances_...

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/inst...

And cloud-init for provisioning:

https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/jnt6/incus-config/-/blob/main/co...