Yes, technically it’s still on the tiny screen of your phone with a really bad ux to make it go, sure. But you see how ‘went away’ is both true for web and effectively true for phone app? You do see that, right?

Well, now it’s recycling, right?

Okay. NEXT COUNTRY , you’re up. Levy those fines.

I worked at a company run by a SWEngineer.

He was code-smart for code, but really bad for business.

You need to get a real CEO who does management, but keep that person in firm check by mandating half the board be stacked by engineers. Even as advisory roles, like if your company makes widgets you should have some Serious Fucking widget people dominating the board for big decisions.

“You make one thing” is like “you had one job.”

(And if you make two things so disparate, spin one off into a sub)

There is – jabber and jingle. And for a ver-ry brief few weeks, Google’s jabber/jingle worked openly with Facebook’s, and everyone could message each other. And then BOTH arbitrarily broke it with some sparkle-junkie resume-bait software 'up’grade and neither worked with anything else after that.

It was glorious.

“explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.

Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.

When in office, you at least have the stress of many loud people around to distract you from that.

You hear yourself and you can spot the issue, right?

It’s the first time I hear systemd […] were spelling the death of […] linux

Where’ve you been? We’ve been expressing concern about its badly-built badly-architected metastatic creep for a decade of dwindling choice and competition as it slowly forced out dissent and clued concern.

Now it’s eaten autofs, DNS, cron, NTPd, and replaced them with shitty clones, and has carefully eroded our ability to recover from this mess.

System service managers like systemd, OpenRC, runit, or SysVinit often come down to user preference.

And coding best-practice. And a philosophy borne of bad luck and bad software that aims to resist monoculture.

But that lennart kid is cool for a Microsoft employee.

1. How it looks
2. What it looks like

Ya gotta pick a lane, dude!

You’re not wrong. The gangly stacks of orchestrated black-box containers at a pubcloud beholden to shareholder whim is going to be a huge factor. Sorry grandma can’t get her pills, but - phew - the number will still go up.

I know someone at a company that built and sold a Linux phone 19 years ago.

You’re not upset you can’t find a Linux phone: you’re upset you can’t find one anymore.

Due to target fixation, I bet they were already hit more often.

Trolltech made a great phone, apparently.

Phone books from outside my region were available at the library; that place where they store a consolidated collection of books for just anyone to sign out and use.

And I’m sure as fuck never going to pick up the phone for an unknown number.

You’ve gotta be diligent: if you do business with something, like a project or an appointment, you need to drop their number into your contact list. Every time. Yeah, it’s neat if you need to reach out to them, which will be never because it’s on the phone, but it’s primarily so they can call you and not be unknown.

I’d love a QR code with the org’s phone/mail/blah number on it at the front desk, because I do in-person a lot because fuck the phone.

I had a phone set up as a tablet. It couldn’t send or receive SMS or calls. It was a beautiful decade.

Then microsoft killed skype-in and skype-out, because they worked really well and the glitter-junkies who’ve shat something new and broken and slow onto the public needed less competition with working apps. Had to get a new plan with a number that worked. Received a shit call and it went to voicemail on the way from the store to the train.

I had voicemail enabled for 10 minutes and it was hell.

Emotional? No. Rational.

Use of Ai is showing as a bad idea for so many reasons that have been raised by people who study this kind of thing. There’s nothing I can tell you that has any more validity than the experts’ opinions. Go see.

backup

That’s a noun, my dude. The space bar is right there.

sudo su -

Fun fact. There HAS been a sploit based on the brief moment you’ve elevated to root before backing down to another account. This should be avoided, and those using it need ridicule for social correction. It’s like people who say ‘emails’ or ‘the ask’: just remind them how dumb they are and maybe they’ll stop.