Takes me back to my first Arch install in like 2008.

I used Arch btw

The irony is, unlike the old days - actually AMD (ATI) is recommend for Linux now because the drivers are better.

This is in stark contrast to the fglrx days where that driver was an absolute abortion and NVIDIA was really the only usable one.

Not sure when you started your Linux journey but I avoided AMD for years based on that.

Now the tables have turned but I didn't realize until after I purchased my NUC which has NVIDIA RTX graphics. So I guess I'm stuck on NVIDIA for the foreseeable future

unishittification, that's a new one.

I like it!

^ this guy corporates

Also, new manager would be part owner in a UX design firm of "experts" that conveniently, via their expert advice, convince management that a major redesign is needed and their firm is the only one that can do it (since everyone knows you can't get expert advice internally)

80% of the way through the project, the manager gets promoted and moves on, leaving a new manager with no vested interest in their predecessors project to try and clean up the steaming dumpster fire that is now 300x over budget

640 exabytes should be enough for anyone!

In a free market, aren't you free to collude with your competitors in order to fix prices?

When we were kids my brother spontaneously got a bleeding nose in the car and all my mother had on hand was a tampon.

She screwed him up real good

Ah, I misread. I thought they were saying acetone = acetic acid but actually they were just saying there was something worse

I believe you're mixing up acetone with acetic acid

Well, yeah. Anything less than 0 is freezing and anything greater than 0 isn't.

Ezpz

What are you talking about? TempleOS isn't a punishment, it's a reward

We cannot, Python explicitly doesn't do TCO.

http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1

In NZ, churches don't have to pay tax. This makes them extremely attractive to people with no skills who want to obtain wealth

RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit

No way, at least Gentoo is up to date

If you wanted to truly punish them, install Debian Stable

I just watched the 100m sprints and it looks like the black athletes have a natural advantage based on the fact that 90% of the competitors were black.

Hardly unfair though. Unfair advantage is men competing in women's boxing or men competing in women's weight lifting

Yeah, but, like, how many hours will it take for you to deliver 5 complexity points?

I hope this never happens to me but based on the Peter Principle I won't know when it happens.

Oh shit maybe it's already happened...

+1. I used to think it was just something that happened to old people, until it happened to me

Yeah eastern countries just don't have the same relationship with alcohol that the west does.

Gambling, however...

Purebred and inbred are synonyms

Why? All it's going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words

Have they fixed that 100% disk usage bug in Windows yet? Seems to disproportionately affect laptops with magnetic disk's and just chokes the whole system making it unusable

If you go far enough right, you buffer overflow around to the left.

If you go far enough left, you buffer underflow around to the right

No, he would become a martyr which would only strengthen the resolve of the MAGA people

It's not just you, I guarantee your cat doesn't give a damn about anyone

"politics"

Next in line are still elderly but they've been spending their whole life building up to this so they aren't going to put some young whippersnapper in charge and undo the years of bribery, corruption and arse-kissing that got them to where they are

even Valve told Ubuntu users to use the Flatpak for Steam instead of the Snap

Hahaha really? That's awesome. I wonder if Canonical will ever take the hint that nobody wants Snap when better, more open alternatives exist

Yeah, package manager is a big one. Many of us got burned by rpm's early on and just avoided all rpm-based distros since then.

Of course as you say that hasn't been a problem for over 10 years but the scars haven't gone away.

I'd only recommend Ubuntu to someone if I knew they knew some else using Ubuntu (so I could tell them to hassle that person instead of me when they have problems).

Otherwise, I'd absolutely recommend Fedora, because it's actually up to date unlike Debian. I use it myself because it tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer while not needing constant tweaking

And then managers go "why does shadow IT exist?"

...you have my condolences

As someone who works, flatpak's solve a bunch of problems, freeing me up to continue working.

Security issues are just a class of issue; no more or less important than other issues

It's fairly easy, here's the starter recipe that everyone does: Odin's Easy Gin

Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

But it's genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!

This isn't the still you start with if you're just wanting to try the hobby, this is the still you get when you realise your starter still is way too slow and you want to up your volumes :)

In terms of taste vs the grocery store - for rum, or any aged spirit really - grocery store wins every time unless you're buying the cheapest sh*t.

Producing distillate is easy. Producing distillate worth drinking is a lot harder. The hobby is more about the fun of making something rather than competing with commercial offerings.

However for unaged spirits like Gin you can make something on-par or better than the grocery store (for a fraction of the cost), it's why every new distillery makes gin for cashflow while they're waiting for their whiskey to age

Haha thanks. It's actually a BrewZilla for making beer (my other hobby) but you can get compatible distillation lids to use it as a boiler for a still.

The column itself is from AliExpress

It's more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.

It won't prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won't cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won't)

Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.

Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.

Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO

The first thing I noticed. I was confused, thinking maybe they had an old XP machine lying around to plug in after the main one failed, but then I read further and it was just a stunt