snargwomble.bsky.social
An odd boffin with years in the unix realm. Long time gamer, video and tabletop.
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Linux is a living community and entity. Like any ecosystem, it is messy. But particularly this can be its greatest strength. It evolves.
If I do not like some component, I am free to write something better, publish it, and have it taken upstream.
Great example is pulseaudio and pipewire.
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For instance, if MS decrees that my data is now to be harvested, or they will be running an AI service that will monitor me on that computer, the most right I have is to ask permission to refuse. Even an opt out option is something MS must implement into their product.
OTOH...
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🧵Interesting POV. I will give powershell another try. But here is the thing
And maybe this comes from my past working on monolithic monsters from the past (AKA mainframes)
Windows is a product. The cohesion you like I see as a weakness. The powerful stakeholders can make terrible decisions.
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Please, let me hear your case. I am interested and open to persuasion in either direction.
My current limited experience with Powershell hasn't been amazing, but nor has it been so terrible my dislike has become concrete.
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I could probably be persuaded that Powershell was an intentional attempt to make a cli as frustrating and slow to use as a GUI 😂
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I honestly immediately heard the word as Wil Wheaton would narrate it. Perfection.
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Will it load? Yeah. But you are gonna have a bad time most likely. Zfs gets ram hungry pretty fast and that 4gb will not stretch far. Also it runs noticeably better under 80% used, due to the COW block allocation algorithm. Noting because a toy system is often small.
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For work, I build to www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/re.... It has them broke out :)
For home use, yeah I usually break out the filesystems. Generally because of dealing with full / in the past. When a less critical bit goes ro, it can be a much easier fix.
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I do not entirely grok why studies keep trying to compare an analog, evolving network of interacting nodes that is in constant flux, to a digital computer. It just seems like nit the best frame to consider our skull sugar furnaces.
Btw, analog computers are dope and can graph perfect curves.
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Pop!_os is pretty good for ease of gaming.
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Maybe. See, when a system is an unbootable mess, it's easier to justify a wipe and restore. Doing /etc does plenty of damage, but leaves the system in a state where you have to think about the next step, and trying to repair it isn't simply impractical.
In some ways that is worse 😆
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What's your budget? If sky's the limit I would try a Herman Miller Embody or Aeron.
Going down the scale there is the Steelcase Gesture or the Ergohuman line of chairs.
I have used chairs from all three of those companies and can confirm they are comfy and durable.
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If the they that should lose are the banks bringing the suit or the federal reserve bank? I have seen plenty of people bashing both in the past, so not sure which way you meant!
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Anyone else remember when it was all about the blockchain and nfts? I just note the same company is reaping massive profits from the "AI" wave.
Which, coincidentally swelled just as people started twigging onto that crypto might not be entirely what it was sold as.
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I am sorry but after the last few year's news about the Texas power grid, they have a LOT of work ahead of themselves to make an attractive offering.
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Merry Christmas!
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Could you clarify? This has banks on both sides.
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Ilona Andrew's Kate Daniels. Ands down she would have no problem tossing that ring like she was at a carnival.
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Congrats! I don't wanna harsh your vibe for this, but just be aware hardware might be one of the big inflaters if a trade war happens: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...
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Ok, we are doing this. Here is a couple of words. Explain to me, please, how the ideas they represent are unhurtful: "institutionalized racism".
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Some people can not for the life of them understand that other points of view can be valid too. They can be. I'm glad you enjoy what you enjoy!
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I don't get this adage. It is patently false. Words are expressions of ideas, and ideas absolutely can hurt people. Badly.
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Ill be fascinated to see which vehicle lines merge or get abandoned, also if they will keep both luxury lines alive in Acura and Infiniti
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I never engaged on a platform like this one before now. Did not feel "safe." So far the moderation tools here have me feeling it is pretty cool, which makes me happy.
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Ugh, I am sorry you had to deal with that. It is such an ignorant position, and patently false to boot: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_H...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lov...
Women are absolutely equal in the potential for tech. It saddens me culture gets in the way.
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Allow me to recommend a mode of conveyance: fuel for it is abundant most of the time, it is capable of covering more types of terrain than an ev or bicycle, it has self-regenerative properties. Top speed is a bit slow but given time and opportunity it makes more of itself.
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Oh, I had this one dev, you could tell he was PREPARED to explain, that he had REHEARSED and thought carefully of ways to look like he was bringing clarity while cleverly misdirecting and sewing confusion.
And of course to non technical management in the room, it looked so very helpful 😵
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There's a whole generation of coders out there who learned the best path to job security was to make code so arcane, obtuse, and inscrutable that only they could have any hope of maintaining it.
I've seen multiple critical apps done in this style, and the grinning wizened goblins who wrote 'em.
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There's a whole generation of coders out there who learned the best path to job security was to make code so arcane, obtuse, and inscrutable that only they could have any hope of maintaining it.
I've seen multiple critical apps done in this style, and the grinning wizened goblins who wrote 'em.
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Regular expressions are wonderful things.