Have we ever considered not using really bad installer paradigms until they’re fixed? It seems like alternatives are right there, but still people are choosing the worst idea and running with it.

I say this as someone who worked Unix and Linux security for an OS vendor – better alternatives are there.

“ferroelectric fluid” sounds very sandpapery to plastic housings.

Mr Doctorov has a nice life where he needs to make no tough decisions. I envy a life without least-worse voting and other harm-reduction efforts, where one can write what he dreams and people will happily consume it.

That’s a very excellent response. Greetings, fellow greybeard. I miss apt-rpm.

I don’t use laptops.

I have some dell optiplex and poweredge in the home-lab.

These machines are ported through a KVM, and I’m using a desktop on proxmox where the GPU, mouse, keyboard, sound and cam are ported into the fedora VM via proxmox from there the KVM connects.

I play WoW and zero-k, but the voice chat isn’t working in WoW.

Ew. But, at they all statically linked and can’t share pages for libs in memory? They’re all boating their own space without any kind of sharing? Pardon me and how dumb I am about windows, as I’m intentionally just a reluctant pedestrian on it since 3.1 .

Shouldn’t Halifax Water have known ahead of time that the tank was approaching end of life and prepared for it?

We’ve both driven the roads. I’d joke that ‘planning’ isn’t really what they do there, but really it’s the population: low, spread out, and those two things kill infrastructure budgets.

So they probably knew about it and were magically hoping to find the money earlier.

I wonder if Microsoft will shift direction back to consumer friendlier practices if more people keep swapping

If Microsoft needs to now compete, I’d like to see them get competitive. But it’s been like 30+ years since they needed to actually compete, and I’m not sure they remember how.

It’s weird how supply chains work, and how design changes are at the very start of a very long process that makes changing the design now a very costly, risky thing.

Um, oh fuck no.

The reams of personally-identifiable information that will leak is insane.

We’re not allowed to have Siri and Alexa listening when we’re working, lest a stray word on a phone call from the home office risks a privacy breach.

Woo! The common wealth of Intel.

Honest opinion for developers; use Qt’s QML, ts highly portable, it can run in any Linux mobile base (Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS, and KDE use it as the UI library), best example is Amazfish, and Quickddit, you can also use any language you want, although if you want to be minimal, QML allows in-file JavaScript, but there are plenty of bindings for Qt.

Dude. Breathe. When you don’t write pauses - periods - into what you’re saying, all that comma splice can sound like the kid talking about his favourite kind of dinosaur.

Otherwise, an excellent opinion.

PCLinuxOS.

As a valid, working, systemd-free, SLSA-4-capable distro, it’s an important example of diversity and security.

I mean, maybe the baby didn’t understand the movement, so --yeet!–

Skippy is trying to save the world, you know.

If you still use microslop, you are part of the problem.

Me getting paid - and therefore eating and paying rent - requires me to use the mandated OS on the company-provided gear. It’s a great job, it has a great union retirement package that won’t leave me destitute like my folks and anyone else who went through abject poverty, and in all I accept that trade-off while working to modernize us out of M$. So maybe moderate that crusade a bit before you enter the workforce?

background services sucking up all the ram.

I love how the (mandated) Teams running on the (mandated) win11 work laptop is gobbling A GIGABYTE AND A HALF OF RAM all by itself. What the actual flapping fuck is that?

show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section

Actually, that’s fn brilliant.

The architect [that] designed Glen Frey’s mansion needs to terminate the copyright and take back ownership.

Taking back the rights doesn’t take back the units.

The arch who designed Glen Frey’s house can take back the rights to the plans, but can’t take the house itself – no more than Nickelback can demand the return of all 20 CDs sold in their lifetime even if they own the creative rights to the music on them.

The architect, though, can re-use those plans if Rick Astley wanted the identical mansion.

Knew he was a dipshit the moment he spelled “in fact” without a space.

OP’s post does not indicate that they’re violating the principle of least privilege in any way.

If I wasn’t sure whether that was a risk, I would have asked whether that’s what was going on. Oh, wait: I did, right? I used a question mark and everything.