TimeSquirrel

What’s your distro?

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And make paperclips.

For what, may I ask? Can you give an example? I’m on Debian, arguably a less friendly distro than most, but I haven’t had to touch the terminal in two weeks. And it was just to ping a server somewhere, something you need to do on the command line in Windows as well.

It doesn’t just cost FPS. It straight up breaks some games that run fine on other distros.

Does it still have that feature that kills and restarts cinnamon when memory leaks start getting to be too much? I honestly had to laugh at that when that was introduced.

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It’s probably like the US military and their missile silos still using floppy disks. Better to keep a time-tested and very familiar system running a critical operation than a new one with a bunch of unknowns. Or like when you go to the bank, and the screen the teller is looking at is just a front end going through a dozen different layers with COBOL code written by long dead or retired people on a mainframe at the other end.

Us end users with very low risk can afford to continuously live on the bleeding edge.

I knew it was gonna be Adam Something, lol. That dude has the best Elon roasts.

Or a train. He realllly hates trains. If they’re not in stupid-ass evacuated tubes and separated into pods, that is.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/linux-hack-xz-utils-backdoor/

They’re usually always propping up their whole operation on a series of open source wooden carts they picked up off the Internet. Those carts are the foundation that makes everything work.

As we saw a couple months ago, a core part of how Internet security works had a giant hole in it, and it was all because one dude had some kind of mental breakdown and handed off development to an attacker.

I can imagine what they felt like. Like when you accidentally hit “reply all” and send a porn link that was in your clipboard to your entire company while you meant to paste something else.

And, no more tedious fuel calculations, just charge it all the way up, it doesn’t add any extra weight to do so.

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I’ve seen what’s inside the speed controllers and battery monitoring circuitry for Chinese EVs. I don’t think I want to be anywhere near them.

How do you feel about other tech-based tools making an artists life easier, like sequencers, VSTs, DAWs, and the like? I see it as maybe another tool to use.

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Is it still viable in 2024 to run a home email server? I used to have a personal Postfix box back in the day.

Fedora still feels like Redhat sort of to me (I’m old) and I wouldn’t have recommended Redhat in 2001 either, I would have told someone to use Mandrake or Suse. Redhat was the “corporate/govt” OS and I know it’s changed, but that’s why it’s usually not the first recommendation that comes to my mind. I still need to adapt.