Laurel Raven

Because different servers would have different rules and moderators so if one becomes toxic like that you could block the instance and stick to ones that are actually helpful

Gotta love finding the exact issue you’re having being asked, and closed as duplicate, and what they say it’s a duplicate of isn’t even the same issue and doesn’t apply to you…

One thing I really dislike about Python is the double underscore thing, just really looks ugly to me and feels excessive. Just give me my flow control characters that aren’t whitespace

The times I think about switching back, I just think back to the first month on Linux full time when I realized I was no longer constantly pissed off at everything my system was doing I didn’t want it to do or not doing that I did want. And a lot of it wasn’t even conscious anymore, like just realizing that a constant background radiation was just … Not there anymore.

Of course, having to use it at work every day still helps remind me… But I’m working on at least making my workstation into a Linux box, even if the servers are still going to be Windows.

Not hot and trending, they’ve been calling gay people that for a long time

You did say “I don’t use Windows” which sounded like you were saying you didn’t know if what they were saying was technically plausible or reasonable, and without knowing what you do or don’t know about Windows or DOS, figured I’d respond with the presumption that it’s possible you’re only really familiar with *NIX systems (which is not a judgement).

I find it kludgey and unnecessary to shut down that way, but it’s not exactly a bad idea, and it does not require admin rights.

And there’s no reason it wouldn’t be supported: when you run the file, it opens it in a terminal window, it’s exactly like if you manually opened it and typed it from a technical point of view.

And if someone malicious has the ability to edit a file on your desktop, they could do a lot more dangerous things, pretty much anything you could put in the batch file, more or less directly.

Really, the only issue here is that you’d always be force closing your programs when you shut down which increases the odds that eventually they might corrupt one of their files… Not a huge risk, but non-zero.

I can’t speak for them if they’re joking or not but it’s something you can absolutely do. *.bat files (short for “batch”, as in a batch of commands to execute in sequence) are the script files for the Windows command line, and can be executed by double clicking on them

Probably just habit on their part, it’s no different than just putting 0

No, but most of us would be sceptical of how he’ll implement it, if it ever comes to pass at all… He’s announced a number of things I’ve actually agreed with and I can’t think of a single time he’s not found some way to fuck it up

I’m all in favor of this, though he’ll find some way to fuck it up, if it happens at all and isn’t just a way to siphon money out of the government for his buddies

Sysadmins too

Not to mention the power requirements for transferring funds digitally

Was going to say this exactly

Mid second quarter even

I’d take it a step further that by “by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts”, they’re really meaning “it’s for the elites”. They like that it’s hard, they had to work to learn it and they’ll be damned if anyone should get it easier, and also it’s a way to flex on people.

I may be overstating this person’s take on it and reading more into it than is there, but that’s my general view of this enthusiast (elitist) mindset, and really, it isn’t doing anyone any favors.

Regular joes can’t really hurt the direction of this ecosystem; corpos are limited in the influence they have over it, and anyone can exclude their contributions (even systemd can be left out still). But more people using it means more resources available to improve things and more interest in that happening. It also means more direct support for mainstream programs rather than just a hodge podge of companies throwing out minimally usable versions as a proof of concept and not bothering to go further with the work of Wine, Valve through Proton and Steam Deck, and CodeWeavers, to pick up the slack and try to get things to mostly work right.

Anyway, tl;dr, I agree with you… The Gentoos and Arches aren’t going away just because there’s more mainstream interest, if anything they’ll get more enthusiasts to join because they got the itch from the easier distros, much like a gateway drug.

While I agree with you that reluctance to use the terminal for literally anything is way too high, regular users shouldn’t have to. And some distros make that easy for them to never have to stick a toe into the terminal, and this is not a bad thing.

Or isn’t deleted but either has no replies or replies that didn’t help them either

You’re welcome to believe that was permission, I can’t stop you

😜

You’re welcome to continue believing that, I can’t stop you

The part where it doesn’t happen, but even with people moving in front of you, you’re still in control of your following distance and speed. If they move in front of me, so what? They’ll be at the following distance I’m maintaining because they’re continuing to move faster.

And even then I’m probably still at or above the speed limit.

So, not only would someone have to cut in front of me, they would then have to match my speed, and then progressively slow down more than me to keep me at an unsafe following distance, and eventually we’ll be stopped on the freeway.

But if the driver keeps going, then I’m still where I need to be.

(Note: I still have no problem doing this while maintaining the speed of the general traffic around me)

I’ve heard your arguments about people cutting in front of you, many, many times, and to this day, having driven in many different locations in many different types of traffic, I’ve yet to have that happen when doing the things I’m talking about. So you can go on saying how it’s not possible and I’ll go on doing exactly what you think isn’t possible anyway, without issue.

(Btw, my adaptive cruise maintains an even longer following distance at its max setting than I do, and even using that I’ve not had people do what you’ve said)