Same way we always have - trust. Reputation has always been a thing, there was a brief window where photographic or video evidemce was enough but it didn’t last all that long and tbh it’s always had its flaws.

Don’t know what you mean, plot makes perfect sense. Hard boiled Kung Fu detective fights nazi robots with dinosaurs

He also has a savant’s knack for higher mathematics!

This is how you end up with a 99.7% completed gzip of bob Dylan’s entire catalog and have to restart on a new, uncompressed stream that’s 10x larger

Fortunately the significantly improved download speed from the 6 heroic always-online seeders mitigated your concerns somewhat. But where were they before?

This is the way

Once your computer’s working to your satisfaction, pretty much all you’ll need to do is alias sudo packman -Syu and try to remember to run that every so often. The arch Linux wiki is second to none, and if you stick with the distro you should find it all feels very familiar in no time.

It was a glib joke that I wouldn’t have paid a creator to make $someRandomContentThatIWpuldntHaveSoughtOutAnyway. Honestly don’t care for AI art on aesthetic or ethical grounds tbqh, just a throwaway comment on the internet.

Yep very true. I actually intended my comment as an agreement but I guess something got lost in translation, lol

A cool glass of ‘this is no worse than that’, with a little ice cube that represents the stability of our ecosystems. Very cool, very mindful

I wouldn’t have paid an artist to make my furry porn fetish video tho’

Sounds like something an Emacs user would say

For the ‘I use … BTW’ meme to say something else.

No, actually, I can’t think of anything. I’m pretty comfortable with it at this point. Been running it since 2013…

Well that makes sense

Anyway never mind that. Back down the fat mines

. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter

Yes. This is the key

I don’t mind a bullshit meme, most memes are bullshit. Sometimes the bullshittery itself is the funny bit, or to put it another way, there are times like this where the absurdity of it is what’s funny to me. Like, Linux’s kill levels operate, as they must, as advice to the running process, because the os has no insight or capability as to how to gracefully close a process - nor should it. It’s an impossible task to know what safe cleanup looks like. But I like the image of the Linux penguin shooting Firefox tbqh

One task lifecycle management tool to bring them all, one tool to find them. One tool to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

They’re not though are they. Remember the pain of the last time you tried to write a portable sed then just gave up and used a `perl -pe’? That’s real. We’ve all been there.

Why is fzf, the best utility, relegated to the end? And why is ripgrep - a huge improvement over grep, especially if you want to search only on committed files in a git directory - not even mentioned? This list is outrageous. Even more so because I can’t pretend to have known about all of these before, and annoyingly now have to face the fact that some of these actually look pretty handy.

I know, right? It turns up on the sorrel in my garden every year