It’s not their fault the average consumer doesn’t have a sizeable media library

This is what GPT was invented for

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I guess it just boils down to how much you accept a company to push you around. For me, the writing was on the wall with Windows Vista, even though I did have a Windows 7 machine/ partition later that actually worked well.

I also gave Windows 8 a chance when it came preinstalled on the notebook I bought, but I hated it. So I finally fully switched there, and no Windows since then (excluding the machines my employers provide, IDGAF about them since I get paid to use them and don’t have to administrate those). There is way less need for Windows nowadays, back in the Windows 7 days, you could basically only play Linux native and OpenGL titles, PulseAudio was iffy, Vulkan and by extension DXVK didn’t exist, AMD drivers weren’t great (AMD had just begun releasing documentation late 2007 and fglrx was a pain), so there were a lot of things that just wouldn’t work, and yet switching was possible.

As the author notes, there are way fewer blockers nowadays, and most people are just looking to excuse their complacency. And I think it’s fine to be ok with Windows, but then you shouldn’t complain too much. Microsoft under Nadella only cares about numbers.

It’s Ford’s Quantum Computer, it will factor any number you want, as long as it’s 15.

Almost, as I said, arch-chroot didn’t exist back then, and while the official method is still manual, archinstall is part of the official ISO, while back then, no helper was provided, so you had to do it manually.

archinstall?

Back in my day, we needed to do all of that by hand, and there wasn’t even arch-chroot, no, we had to bind mount dev, proc and and sys manually as well!

Though in fairness, before that, there was the AIF, which I also used, but that doesn’t sound so manly.

Scarcity breeds innovation /s

Today is 11827 September 1993

https://kilyig.github.io/eternal-september-calendar/

50000 Goroutine! Holy fuck that’s a lot of Goroutine.

It really is dumb AI slop

It’s a cool shell, I use it as a daily driver (though I’m keeping a close eye on elvish which syntactically is even further away from classic shell), but the comments read like fish is basically zsh. And while zsh is pretty close to bash, fish isn’t.

Be aware that fish isn’t a POSIX-compatible shell enough, so you have to adjust syntax.

There are plenty nowadays from what I remember.

1. They save on the ARM licensing fees. I’m not sure about the details, but I believe it’s both a flat fee and cost per chip produced
2. They can freely add proprietary vendor extensions, which I’m not sure ARM allows
3. They’re less restricted in general chip design (I think ARM has restricted options in the last years, Apple has some special privileges as a founding member)

Fat fuck trying really hard to sound like a tough mafioso gangster

Remember when during the 2021 winter storm, he worked his ass off to make sure his constituents didn’t freeze to death?

If you do, you should schedule an appointment with your doctor because bitch boy here flew to Cancun to not deal with the outfall of what he was responsible for (among others). A real American hero.

If there’s anything American I’d aspire nowadays, Ted Cruz is the antithesis to that. He is an opportunistic, lying fat piece of shit.

Go fuck yourself.

pacman is very fast and handy. The (in)famous pacman -Syu had you system completely up to date in record time.

Sometimes I miss its speed and simplicity

I mean peertube exists, and it actually integrates into the fediverse…

Well, at least for nginx, you can specify the root (or alias if required) directive; to me, it makes very little sense to rely on defaults, you need to specify your servers / virtual hosts anyways, might as well make the configuration more self-documenting…

There’s also https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/linux_file_system_hierarchy/ nowadays, which aims to build on the FHS.

Well, /var/www is in fact not part of the FHS, not even optional… it doesn’t exist on my machines either. I think the better choice would be /srv/www which is an example given at https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s17.html

Is /var really such a mystery? I always understood it as the non-volatile system directory that can be written into. Like log files, databases, cache etc. /var/tmp it’s somewhat weird because a non-volatile temporary folder for me is just cache, and /var/lib is named somewhat weird because it doesn’t hold what I’d usually call libraries.