Is ChatGPT still the worst of the three? We use it at work and Chad is an idiot.

The fact I can see your comment makes me think I’m not on your block list yet, and that’s a great thing. Yay!

If the Presidential election was held today he’d lose to a moldy sandwich.

He - a 34-times elitist felon with no clue about anything - won, over a career prosecutor and community leader with experience in the job, who was unfortunately a woman with the wrong pigmentation and unable to disagree with the policies of her current boss until she was in a position to change them.

I strongly doubt he’d lose to even the best candidate. If they could or can, foreign money making bank on this halfwit’s whims would bankroll another sketchy victory time and time again.

Not being a farmer, I need to go to a place and buy my food from that place. I’m sorry to derail your cause.

Or it’s in a locked cabinet and no one has a key and a care.

I fell this in my yesterday, when I went to the freakin’ WAL*MART for something they had but no one else did in the area – and yes, this means I supported the local staff at a local store working for a local manager who eventually pays something to a guy living far away who never lived here, vs supporting local staff at a local store working for a local owner who lives far away in a sunny place. Fuck me, right?

Anyway, they had it. It was under glass. I couldn’t find anyone with a key and a desire to help. I left. But, yeah, on the way out, I was hyper-aware that I’d browsed for a bit, I was wearing a backpack, and I didn’t have a receipt for anything. I was expecting to be challenged every moment until I’d left.

I hate that thieves have made them paranoid, and we’re accustomed to expecting a hassle in response.

I see are always like “I make no money off of this” while the tenant pays off their loan for the house for them

I took a cab ride the other day, in a car the driver probably has bought via a loan, to a pick up an item from a store in commercial space they’re probably leasing, brought in via money they borrowed short-term to finance the purchase of goods to be sold. Tell me which of these CoGS fees they were correct to collect from my payment, and which of these you would rabidly avoid because of the filthy lies.

My region has legal language called the Landlord and Tenant Act, which prohibits the landlord from raising the rent by more than 2% per year. When one vacates, the new tenant of course will have their rent start at ‘market rate’, but at least while living there one’s rent is protected. As well, if removicted, the tenant must be given similar space for similar rent once renos are complete.

This falls down a bit, as transgressors get to go against an adjudication panel, and that sometimes goes all-in for the landlords. But mostly it keeps the dickishness down.

After that it’ll be roughly TEN rounds of interviews, the final one being with Mark Shuttleworth himself who may very well be a dick and decide he simply doesn’t like you.

A dear friend of mine went through this hiring process for a very senior spot. She’s been out of high-school for 35 years, has obtained 2 degrees since, and has run a hemisphere for a very nerdy storage-adjacent pro-serve company for a decade; but still needed to talk about her English marks in secondary school. I met her when we started our own company in '97.

She suffered 14 interviews, with the prep, interview - panel, group, or solo - taking a lot of her daytime. It was grueling. She met Mark, and it went very well. Her new boss and reports were making all kinds of positive noises about starting work soon.

A sub-stellar response from some French guy from Interview #3 torpedoed it. The rejection after all the essays, questions, prepared interviews and research was absolutely crushing and almost derailed the MBA programme she was on.

Reactos has you covered.

This is gonna go really well when people find out the only way to safely store health and justice data is in a specialized building.

Thankfully Systemd is chatty like a kid talking about dinosaurs and so there’s lots of ASCII spooge on the screen, usually vomited to console. It’s half simplistically beautiful and half utter professional embarrassment.

Wait. She got like 12 months with an ankle monitor. That’s the lamest form of incarceration ever. People can just go by and egg her house if they want to, and people tell me that’s wrong.

Overnight in the darker months, you could use a huge battery to change your power draw to overnight while charging for use in the daytime.

The canonical method was with a kickstart, and if it looks like too complex, remember you should have one stashed in /root already that you just need to mod.

Normally a kickstart is a bit much, otherwise, though. I use a suite of tools but the best one I used was a simple virtual package to bring in the ot8her, drop configs in and start daemons. We did this in like 2001 to great effect.

Kill it with fire.

America has 300 different answers for “what language do you speak at home with family”.

Three hundred.

You could have 6 different languages per state, with no overlap, just by shuffling people around.

I ditched slackwate in 98 after the validation issue became starkly problematic.

SLSA.dev .

Fedora is corporate? I nearly spat my coffee ;-)

I’m flashing back to working with suse on unitedlinux and the challenges we had. If you want a very Corporate distro, it’s right there.

Never again.

I worry that permitting slop in the kernel is a lot of risk.

But it’s his project. If I see him I’ll have that debate but I gotta go with the Dictator part and hope the Benevolent part comes through or he realizes when it doesn’t and changes tack. Fingers crossed.