shrugs

Not my experience. I’m managing 6 different clients and around 200 servers with debian 11-13. Update problems are most of the times caused by incompatible packages / repos. Other then that and a few times some changes in configuration files with new options I hardly ever have problems.

I don’t think you have to reinstall your system every two years, you just need to be careful to not create a frankendebian by adding repos villy vanilly and you are good to go.

Nice analogy. I used this one in the past: “you can’t fix a full disk by deleting word documents”, but I like yours more

Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

Change my mind

Capitalism is a tool to maximize profit. Whoever thought it was a good idea to let capitalism have influence on laws so that they can maximize its profit was a big fool.

What do you expect? Capitalism, a tool, has by definition no morale. Let it decide politics to increase profit and you end up with that kind of shit society we have today.

Don’t blame the hammer, when you hit your thumb. Also, don’t let the hammer decide where to make the biggest dent.

Can we please start again focusing on the people? Without people there is no society, and there is no market to increase profits.

Start using capitalism and free markets like a tool. Want more renewable and clean energy? Make rules and see the magic of capitalism in making the best out of it.

Instead we let capitalism decide what should be done next and suffer the consequences. It’s as easy as that.

Unfortunately capitalism not only create the rules, they also decide what is news and influence societies views. And that’s why OPs picture is as it is.

Fuck socialism, am I right guys?!

SCNR if they were able to make good decisions, they would never have switched to chrome anyway. /s

tbh, i don’t get all the mozilla/firefox hate. even “the linux project” missed the mark by a mile with his firefox critique.

whatever mozilla does, it’s not even half as evil as google

oh boy, imagine this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

…was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement.

USA has become such a fucking joke…

Same for me, no TV for the last 15 years. All I consume is online and about topics I like.

TBs of data per day? You know how much text fits into 1tb? o.O

Anyway, we seem to enjoy a pretty similar type of entertainment. For me, it’s all about liking what I do. I can’t stand doing things I dislike at all.

Lemme ask you about ADHD?! I’m pretty sure I have it but don’t care. I am who I am. How about you?

I have a theory: information is best remembered if it is acquired solving a problem.

Play with the new tech, hit a roadblock, read and learn. That way you are motivated, know why you are reading the stuff and also only learn the stuff that isn’t intuitive.

Depending on experience many things are just like something you already know and easy to learn/remember, others are not. Don’t waste your time learning the first.

On the other hand, put me into a room with a teacher, who tries to teache me specifics about a tech I don’t care about and I will promise you, I will learn nothing. Even worse, I will start to hate that tech.

My trick to remember:

You can link to a target without giving a name to the link. ln will use the basename of the target file then. You can’t create a link without a target, so target has to go first since it’s not optional. Did it for me

There is a way with chmod in bash to change files and folders with files getting no execute bit and folder do (rwX instead of rwx). It’s in the man pages but good luck finding it via Google. Stackoverflow just suggests using find over and over again.

That did it for me.

non technical people are doing pretty well, because they don’t try to install photoshop or nvidia drivers downloaded from the nvidia drivers page.

The “windows power user” are the hardest demographic, because they expect to know what they are doing but the don’t if they are new to linux.

What did LTT write in the terminal again: “i know that this opperation will delete my gui and i am sure that i want that”, presses enter and wonders why his gui is gone. go figure

+1 for netbox

Tbh I’m astounded that politics in the past managed to get that thought reflected in law and constitution. Not guilty until proven otherwise. In dubio pro reo!

Nowadays, I would not expect that much rationality from most people.

A few years ago I went for a walk and in front of me two left leaning people were talking to each other: “I’m looking forward to Saturday” the girl said to the guy. “There is a big Nazi demo in the next big city and I can’t wait to punch an Nazi”…

So in what way are you better then the Nazi, I thought.

It always starts with dehumanizing the others… then you can do whatever you want to them, without thinking about the suffering you created

baader meinhof phenomenon!

If you think about it: have you ever gotten a picture of the spammer itself in an spam message

That’s the spirit. Reddit and all other social media died for me during the exodus 1 1/2 years ago. Since then i go to lemmy and I’m fine. Tbh I’m not really sure if more user will not also pull commercial interests into the fediverse and if that is something I’m looking forward to, but for now, everything seems like reddit around 2010, not too big but big enough to not being out of content after scrolling for 10 mins.

It sure is. Just don’t expose the management interface to the internet. And stop using the webserver for configuration, real man use ssh. Have fun

the more you know what you are doing the less impressed you are by ai. calling people that trust ai idiots is not a good start to a conversation though

Second that. AI these days: as if nobody here could create a screenshot from its steam library: like Berin@discuss.tchncs.de already did. I bet prompting AI even took longer to create that shitty version of a steam library.