One time I had a dream in which OpenBSD had the same level of polish and user friendliness as Fedora or Mint, and were experimenting with some plan9 features. When I woke up and realized it wasn’t true, I was genuinely sad for a while.

Found Emil Ciorans lemmy account

It’s rare nowadays to see someone admit a mistake. We should all do it more.

how does it compare to k&r (2nd ed.)?

A bold claim. RHEL updates are mostly security patches, are they doing that due to lack of resources too? Is it that hard to imagine that enterprise distros don’t want surprises from changing functionality?

The word “stable” usually means unchanging through a release. I.e. functionality of one release is the same if you stay in that release even if you update (security and bug fixes mostly). The experience of the system not doing anything unexpected like crashing is reliability. A rolling distro is by that definition not stable, but it can be more or less bug free and crash free.

To me the issue is the people calling a system stable because it is reliable, even if it updates unpredictably to changing functionality.

Do you use your computer for things that rely on specific library versions and functionality?

Aha, thanks, just wondering. English isn’t my first language.

Is that (non)-(tech nerd) or (non-tech) (nerd) partner?

Vi and later editors added a lot of commands, but if you want to keep the spirit of ed(1) and bring it into a visual context, I’d say sam(1) is the true successor. It’s what Ken Thompson used after ed, and Brian Kernighan. There are some people who at least are interested in ed today, this book is good for example: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ed/

This is why my preferred way of communicating is to sit in darkness and construct one-time pad ciphers which I then put in a new safe that I don’t have the combination to unlock and is welded shut and dropped into the ocean. But other than that I like to use grapheneOS and matrix. I can’t be sure it’s 100% private, but I am 100% sure that facebook isn’t private, so I’d rather use matrix.

Button2 and while pressed, button3 to snarf.

From an ATM maybe, the actual bank offices don’t have cash. But the question is, what would I do with the cash, only a few stores like big chain grocery stores accept cash nowadays in Sweden. Small stores and cafés etc almost never accept cash as payment. Even beggars outside on the street often have a QR-code for their mobile app transfer because so few people carry actual money.

I literally don’t know what our money look like. I have a vague memory that the 20 krona bill was blue, but beyond that I don’t know.

The picture called “Upstream and Prism programs” has the old logotypes for Yahoo, Hotmail, etc, and the old garamond version of the google logo, they must have been doing this for a while.

No, my passport has my real name of course, with “å”. In the airport system and on the boarding pass my name was spelled with “aa”.

I had to convince people to let me on board a plane because my name contain a swedish letter (å). Their computer system translated it into “aa”, which then didn’t match my passport.

And after you have learned Linux, download any distro that lets you work on your projects with the least hassle and get work done without fiddling around in every aspect of the OS. At least that’s what I’ve observed among older users who see the OS as a tool and not a hobby in itself.

The torso is a tricky concept, there’s no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it’s hard to define with precision.