Everyone remembers him for the kernel, many forget he also wrote git.

jr devs … AI slop… same code review over and over…time…slipping

They pay people to find the bugs and then ignore them!!

10 Get told to stop working on whatever I’m working on, some tech debt just became tech foreclosure.

20 Some new problem is now problem number 1

30 Get about 70% done fixing the problem (it’s functional but ugly, just need to wrap up this mess so it doesn’t become tech debt…)

40 GOTO 10

Hold my beer

I think it’s just hardware optimization. You get a ton more pain and risk replacing a drive in zfs vs raid10, but it’s more space efficient and flexible to use zfs. This is all academic, because the goal of these systems is a certain level of performance, availability, and data integrity, but not data safety. You need backups (preferably off-site and even off line) backups for that.

And people have done it for thousands of years and likely will continue to do so. Given that fact, I’d rather them do it in a sustainable way, wouldn’t you?

Normalizing doing recreational activities in the least impactful way benefits nature in the short term when people who care go out to enjoy it, but also I the long term as those people spread the new normal in the hobby. 20 years ago you’d be laughed off the beach for using a barbless hook, but i’ve witnessed seasoned fishermen in the past few years showing tourists how to cut the barbs off their hooks and release fish without harming them.

So yes, it would be better for the earth in general if humans weren’t here, but we are, and so we need to learn how to be here and lessen our impact at the same time, not by denying ourselves our humanity, but by improving what it means to be human.

This is why it’s encouraged to use barbless plain steel hooks. With no barb and steel that rusts, hooks like this will eventually fall out. Stainless, barbed hooks will kill the fish eventually, and the fish that eats it.

This is the most German possible English response.

SUSE is German Ubuntu, change my mind.

Pipewire is amazing.

MATE is a fork of gnome 2, made by people who did not like the paradigm gnome3 was heading towards. So, much like Ash’s pickachu which never evolves to Raichu, Mate remains “old”.

MATE is to GNOME as Ash’s Pickachu is to Raichu.

I’m not sure I have a point, but the analogy rings true I think.

ln -s downloads Downloads

or

ln -s Downloads downloads

depending on your situation.

It’s pronounced “Data”.

Absolutely. Grackles are like my hard wired “default bird size”, so when I saw what looked like a grackle the size of a dog, it short circuited the more logical, in charge of measuring things parts of my brain.

There’s a place in San Antonio called Cowboys Dance Hall that occasionally has live armadillo races. They’re adorable when they run.

that is a rare reference. Excellent game!

same, but I already knew