I used Solaris today. I’ve never been on BSD.

If you lament the death of AT&T Unix, blame IBM.

I’m aghast: How can this be a solution?!? We slam Microsoft but at least their networking doesn’t go toes-up.

Tell me you had to do real work with Systemd and discovered what a steaming useless pile of millennial shite it is as a whole, without using those words. The only cure for lennart’s cancer is to cut it out.

chef’s kiss

…which no one uses in great quantity but it serves as a reason to divert attention to some idea of bloat and not to an editor without a fucking beep mode.

Tell me you understand the health risks with unnecessary touchscreen use.

I’m not here to influence things. I was in the thick of it for a bit, but I’m here now.

I love coding. I get to do it for money. It allows me a nice little apartment in a nice environment and with my wife chipping in her half we’re a little insulated from financial strife. A little.

That’s it. I code, I eat food and live with a beautiful girl who seems to care for me, and we occasionally get to go see family or a strange new place. I’m flying as close to the sun as I dare.

Find peace in your existence and enjoy what you’re doing, whether programming is the bread or it’s the butter. It’s all a means to an end of doing something you love for what little time we have here.

You’re asking for a distro to best fit certain criteria; what’s better for you.

What you’re going to get is everyone waving the flag of their favourite distro and selling you on it as a solution; what’s better for them.

NixOS locks you into systemd…

Okay! Nix is out until it fixes that. What a fucking mess systemd is.

Weird way to spell EndeavorOS

With the missing ‘U’? I know, right? But it’s not weird; it’s just American, so it rewrites its history.

errupts

\sigh

Oh Jesus. I forgot about that.

I choose that one too for “almost ruptured a spleen” laughing.

They can’t really say no to a free app

“No enterprise support” is actually scary for them. I did security, 'way back, but in Unix, and maybe that’s why we were more cool with OSS back then. Windows people love the black-box binaries and fear a lack of pricy support.

Absolutely true. We mimicked bad design out there for compatibility, but then it became comfy and now cannot be changed.

Having said that, the ribbon must die. Let’s not hold MSOffice (post-97) up as the ideal for anything at all, okay?

I’ve updated enterprise Linux machines automatically for decades. The score is tens of thousands of upgrades, 1 problem I caused, 1 packaging glitch.

You don’t need to take on risky drek like flatpaks to get there. It’s one command in enterprise and you’re kinda done forever.

Glad you like your setup. I hope it works for you and you never learn the risks of flatpaks.

need to proactively go out of your way to ensure a program is simple, minimal, and carefully constructed to avoid interactions potentially outside of a restricted security scope as a “security nightmare”.

You must fear hammers.

In linux, setuid is slowly being phased out by

… brittle resume-based non-unix neu tools designed to encourage quiet balkanization and vendor/dev lock-in after being pushed by vendor payola.

See:

• Systemd bag of festering wunderkinder shit,
• networkManager and its 6 different competing manager-manager tools, and
• anything else created in the dark post-mentor ages when “move fast and break things” was dreamed up by people who didn’t give a fuck about must-work tools because must-work wasn’t on their final exam at udemy.

My wife’s siblings and her all have the same weird trait: when things get stressful, they clam up and do this “shut up and let me save the world” thing. Her sister’s worked on it a lot because #fireman, but it’s a strong compulsion.

The “hmm, maybe if you’d talked to anyone instead of going missing-person” is extra fun when it’s a tech thing, as after the stress and the teeth-pulling contextual questions, it’s two mouse clicks and an object lesson.

And, when THAT fight’s over…

Yeah. We do it if we catch someone logged in and away from their desk.

You may want to ask a member of the cult of the subgenius the difference between “real” midnight and “conspiracy” midnight.