Of course if you do find yourself in need of a single char wildcard or by extenaion a fixed length wildcard, you just don’t have that in fish.

I used Ubuntu for a long time. It was a pretty grounded concept, 6 month cycles to mostly snapshot debian testing with a nice installer and “I just want stuff to work” approach to non-free codecs and drivers.

When they went Unity as default, it was pretty dumb but no matter, switching desktop environments was no huge deal, or starting with a different spin like Kubuntu.

They added snap, and initially, no huge deal, since if there was something that won’t work with the snap, then I generally could just use apt.

Then they made the ‘dpkg’ firefox just force snap, breaking some interop I used, with the snap isolation just being too much. The guides all involved all sorts of big PITA of the sort that ran counter of my whole “I just don’t want to have to think about it and fight my distribution”. So I went to Fedora, which at least has seemed to gotten mostly more practical about making non-free easier, and the presence of flatpak remains quite optional and can use it when it makes sense, or ignore it and still have a solid experience without thinking.

Also makes bitlocker and Tpm secured Luks encryption more straightforward if you don’t possibly incur one platforms bootloader before the other.

One of the most useless coworkers I ever had got a job at Canonical. He also seemed like just the guy to be hyped to take about his high school friends despite being in his late thirties at the time.

He was one of three people I ever knew to actually get fired from that company, and that was only after he just casually stole about 20 thousand dollars of equipment from work. He returned most of it and they agreed to not call the cops just fire him.

Anyway, guess I’m just saying I don’t trust their ability to correctly select good employees. Also some of their work is amateur hour.

The main two things they got right:

• Debian testing was a better basis for a good balance of current yet workable software.
• Making it super easy to install Nvidia drivers, ultimately making then the favored choice of the Nvidia centric ai market.

Their actual technical developments have been underwhelming or actively against what I would want to see.

Yeah, my parents were about to throw out an oven that would keep shutting off. I pull it away from the wall and boom, wiring diagram. Take out the ohm meter, figure out that the resistance across the temperature probe went to near zero when steam intruded through a gap in the crimp. 5 dollar part and it was good to go for years to come (the new part was crimped in a simpler, more robust way).

A couple of things that IPv6 does better for local networks is link local addressing (fe80::). and multicasting.

In IPv4, they kind of hacked something out of 169.254, but if you have more than one NIC, it pretty much becomes useless.

If you have a service designed explicitly never to be accessed over a router, then you can live in fe80:: a lot more easily than trying to do the same thing with 169.254.

All we’ve got to do is forget how it went down and ask Grok to tell us instead…

I think Jobs had his issues, but I do have to consider it fair for folks to claim him to be a visionary.

There was a presentation back in '97 where someone a bilt salty about Apple abandoning OpenDoc for Java and Jobs had a pretty solid response with insight.

Not so sure about post-iPod Jobs, but once upon a time he certainly seemed a respectable business leader with good product focus.

His initial lottery ticket of a business Zip2 I think he was fairly a founder.

I know next to nothing about it because no one ever heard of it before Compaq had a huge case of dot-com FOMO and paid $300 million for it, where it promptly went nowhere like it already was.

Oh, but Elon is a founder, he paid enough to retcon himself as such, so he is.

Can’t argue him being a ‘visionary’ though, unless you count ambitions that are vague enough so they are not actually actionable and obvious enough that pretty much any random person would be predicting the same thing.

Applying the usual context to this scenario, the usual meaning would hold if the well-guy was a Windows person. Usually it’s someone who thinks the whining is overblown, and the person in whining without really meaning it.

I think usually the well guy in this case is a person that has switched away. They may fail to understand how the person is stuck, but they at least walked the walk and sincerely think the other person should too, rather than just mocking them.

On the one hand you have people being overly dismissive of app and game compatibility concerns, on the other hand you get to hear a community fighting against the current to keep their platform acceptable rather than doing anything that might penalize Windows for their choices as a platform.

If someone never had and is not looking for a tenant and is actively waiting for someone to buy their property, they are not a landlord.

Usually they have moved into their new home and have their uninhabited house on the market trying to get rid of it.

Maybe I’m missing implication in another culture, but around me landlord specifically refers to someone owning a home that is being actively rented/leased by another. If you haven’t had tenants, you aren’t considered a landlord

Based on my experience, a house on the market is usally being sold by someone who lived in it. The seller being a landlord is plausible, but I’d usually just generically refer to that party as ‘the seller’.

Landlords tend to hold on to their revenue streams harder than a person holds on to their own residence.

That is unfortunate.

Old guy or younger guy? If this is their retirement income, they would probably be better off selling it and putting the proceeds into a nice account.

Of course those accounts also profit off of the inconvenience of others, but with social security all messed up, some form of screwing with the active working generation is needed to model retirement of the older generation, and a financial account is less egregious than sitting on potentially available housing stock.

My first landlord sucked, my second landlord was ok, but I suspect most wouldn’t be. They repaired everything in a timely fashion, and waived my rent for three months when I got laid off to let me get back on my feet. Still only made sense because I was in college and wasn’t sticking around that area long enough to justify buying then selling a property, but for the context acceptable landlords can exist.

But what if they can afford it, but just don’t like seeing reasonable housing go to waste? Not enough to try to exactly right-size their housing and move everything they own, but enough to offer it up for rent.

It’s certainly a niche that isn’t the typical story, but renting out portions of your house is a scenario that could make sense.

My in-laws have a house with one of the bedrooms with it’s own bath and it’s own external entrance, you have to walk outside to get to that bedroom.

There are companies that would do the maintenance for you, so I think if that was your concern, you could roll the dice with those while still actually owning the house.

But I will say if you aren’t going to be somewhere more than 2 years anyway (university or a work assignment), renting could make sense.

Bought a house, but there was a landlord?