If nails were standardised then yeah all this would be overkill. But new nails and heck, wood types are coming out all the time, and you definitely can’t build a spice rack with the wrong tools.

It really isn’t. I do agree that for most purposes a static network with some central public nodes is the answer, but I want something more dynamic

I love how Tobias immediately knows.

“The game? What game? Admire the sheer beauty of this bold and majestic man.”

For real. I just spent a decade in academia working dog hours with little pay keeping services running wondering how the true devs and sysadmins do it.

I recently switched to the corporate world and have peeked behind curtain of competency: headless chickens running around, patching failing products rather than spending time to properly fix them because immediate results are the only metric that counts.

Stability, scalability, reproducibility? Forget it, that’s someone else’s problem apparently.

Its also one you don’t have any agency over.

(I’m living under the dreamful pretence that the american people can hold their intelligence agencies at least somewhat in check)

My HP is genuinely a creepy laptop. In the BIOS is a an “HP remote setting” as well as 3 other remote modes all at the bios level asking to join my wifi, again, at the BIOS level.

I work from my home laptop. I have a small offline private network between my work laptop and home laptop that I send ansible jobs to (since the work laptop is a powerful machine), but that work laptop does not touch the internet.

My Adventures with Superman vibes, though from a LL perspective

Genuinely. Is crack what the upper classes do, or is that coke?

I was also wondering about this. Flatpaks apparently come with more libraries to interact with other Flatpaks, whereas AppImages tend be purely app-specific and their libraries are compressed for their usage only.

Its very easy to use and my goto image editor, but I say that from a position of familiarity of having learned where everything is and what all the keybindings are over many years.

In contrast, Krita seems like a far better image editor, but because the interface is bewildering to me, I’ve shied away from it.

I’m trying to show that the joke only works as a written premise, and falls apart immediately as a spoken premise as was presented initially.

He either said “two” (10) “one” (1) “zero” (0) “why are you still here” (because the guy is unfazed)
or he said “ten” (10) “one” (1) “zero” (0) “why are you still here” (because the guy is confused)

I’m guessing the second one occured

69 Quite Bitter Beings have been waiting for this for some time

“You literally said ‘ten’ and then ‘one’, why do you think I’m still here?”

I was going to write a snarky comment about how that can’t possibly be true… but then I tried it, and well, yep, really not ideal for non-tiling window managers. I liked the general look and feel, but the fullscreen by default does seem to be a big “no” from me.

I don’t think the sarcasm is warranted here, it offers a standard interface too but augments it with split browsing as an option

I’m in, take my money.

“And Lo, let us bless his holy vessel, for though his storage was finite and his time to seek was limited, he faithfully preserved our thoughts and feelings, and carried them up onto heaven in his ascension, where he reigns in the gilded halls of FAT12 on his 3.5inch throne.”

I like that. Creepiest thing about VLC is that it does that even after you’ve killed it