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So it’s only a War No-No, then?

Do you mean libertarian?

Consider PCLinuxOS. ‘PLOS’ has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

• as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it’s derivation from RH is super long ago so it’s closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

• it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose’s vocal range compared to EL’s Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

• No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

It can yum cron like a badass.

Caveats:

• if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
• people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
• people who support last week’s version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there’s no magical fix for “10 second tom” devs here either.

That’s funny. When the maintainer of AT&T unix’s perf group was looking at a distro to clone and support, RPM>Deb was 90% why debs were excluded.

Maybe something changed dramatically since then.

I think some of my units are on the ‘lgtm’ update plan too. ;-)

I’m aware I’m jinxing myself when I suggest that I’ve had very different experience. We’re mostly WDReds though.

There’s clearly a value and a route toward companies hosting their own federated comms. It’s like how email became self-hosted in the '90s: first the bitnets and aols, and unis and orgs, and finally, thanks to Outlook tasting email on the way in, email viruses.

The same progression will probably repeat for Lemmy and mastodon. Consolidation and self-archiving and all that are valuable, and once HPe finds out how to link ChatGPT to a Lemmy or mastodon, they’ll be all in with something suiting their current quality trend.

Ideally we’ll have gone crypto by then for private messaging, and go farther for privacy than email and fbchat seems to be able, and that’ll be nice.

Sure. Okay. No argument.

Stallman is also his own worst enemy. Feet-picking aside, coat-tailing Linux with this whiny “but ack-shually, gnu is a big part of it so we want equal billing” is just weak and arrogant and has been for decades.

… and if stallman can’t see that without Linux he’d be just a hippie with other issues, he begs for the same trivialization of his own role.

Call it Torvalds/tridgell/baumel/Bourne/Ritchie/Linux before GNU/Linux or gtfo. And if we call it gnu/Linux, we should say chisel/David or Mussolini/UN because, like GNU, they were in the right place at the right time to have a completely fungible sidecar role in what actually happened to catalyze actual work.

Stallman made emacs. Cool. I use it daily. GNU is great but not vital. Without Edison, we’d have a Marconi somewhere.

They surrender their passport on arriving.

They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.

They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.

They die.

God bot, but fix that comma-splice.

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

– randy pausch, the last lecture

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you

ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.

https://youtu.be/j7zzQpvoYcQ

Please don’t humour stallman any more than necessary.

Soon as I see the ‘literally’ I usually predict how it’s going to go.

While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.

There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.

• Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
• regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.

And the big one

• now they’re not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money

They’re set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.

Kinda orthogonal but I will say it’s weird that we can still vote with our wallets.

the data only goes back to 1979 and has not yet been verified by NOAA which has data going back to 1880.

There’s a whole hot world outside of America who don’t need to wait for its underfunded organizations to get around to validating the data.

But I get it. The news is dire. It’s neat to cling to uncertainty in times like this unless you lived in Lytton

Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations’ 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I’m doing my 0.0000001% part!

Thanks. I’m sorry it’s yet another science project, though.

I’m plenty technical, with a few C contributions to projects in the web and VPN space. But with two jobs and three ageing parents, I’m tapped out!

Sister’s vet office is now offline again for COVID. Docs sick, most of the tech staff, most of the admin staff. When it hits, it runs through like a forest fire. One vet left because F the angry pet owners who think it’s a personal insult they can’t get special treatment, and he replaced one of the two who killed themselves (stress) last year.

They may institute a mask mandate again

• to keep the remaining staff healthy on return
• to filter their customers further because of high correlation of shitbaggery
• because docs are always masked so lower risk is now a work perq for them.

Me, I quit my job when they mandated return to work and I joined a union shop with 100% remote in the contract. I should mask up when I go to the store but I’m a dumb boy and always forget. I’m so vaxed it’s like a bad hangover, but I don’t have time for even that mess.