Just a few more billions, it’ll work much better, you’ll see!

hot mess

Oi! Take that back!

I’m using Pi-hole for the DNS stuff and Nginx Proxy Manager for the proxying. Super easy to setup as docker containers, with lovely web GUIs for configuration. Works great.

The important stuff (my documents, my desktop settings) are in my user’s home folder. That’s what is important. The rest (the Linux distribution) is swappable and replaceable. I keep /etc (the global system configurations) because I sometimes make changes there that I like to keep when distro hopping.

I mostly backup /home and /etc on my home machines. Anything else I can recreate with configuration-as-code tools like Ansible.

Windows will not die so easily. Two reasons: 1. Too much money behind and around it. 2. Sheer corporate inertia. 3. As long as there is no competition to the AD/Entra ecosystem, companies will buy it. Ok, three reasons.

Me too, at work, on a dozen machines. ALL THIRTY TWO FLOPPY DISKS.

I can, I’m just lazy.

I remember Microsoft Bob.

I respectfully disagree. XFCE having the same experience is its main appeal.

AFAIK it’s a project that does not have many developers, so the pace is quite slow, but the reverse side is that there are no surprises. When running production systems you do not want surprises. You want a desktop that lets you work and gets out of the way. That is the reason why XFCE doesn’t get much press but has quite a few satisfied users.

Check powertop. See if the device is getting suspended.

You have much to learn about how things work in FLOSS.

Projects don’t die because you and your cool friends decided that they are old news. They will live on as long as there are users and developers interested in keeping them going. There are countless examples, I’m sure you can find some if you get past your short sightedness.

Wow, this timeline keeps getting stupider every day.

I used to be an adventurer like you, but I took an arrow to my knee…

ABS was the last good life-saving technology added to cars. That thing saved my dumb arse several times already.

Now I want to get a new car because the old one is getting too degraded, but I dread the fuckery I’ll find in new models. I just wanted a 3.5 cm audio jack and simple controls. I guess I won’t have much luck.

If this is paradise

I wish I had a lawnmower

Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

Moonlighting, IIRC.

It’s called Photic sneeze reflex. I experience that when leaving home on a sunny day.

I’ll go with Ra for aesthetics, but Hator and Ba’al are my favorite snakeheads.