People who write “until” as “till” have 30 years to go, so it’s conceivable.

what has meta done that was good

Facebook Portal TV. What a great device: “call mom” and it calls on her TV where she can see whom it is instead of her tiny phone screen. The cam was good, it panned and zoomed to focus on the speaker really well, and the sound was great. It’s a small unit that also does zoom and prime and Netflix and Plex. The M assistant is good, but it basically leverages a built-in Alexa for external control.

Then Cambridge analytica. Every new review is like “this is an amazing device, but don’t get it because fuck Facebook.”

Now it’s been orphaned: voice control is busted. No apps updated or installed. But if you had the apps installed they still work. TV calling still works if my mom can find and figure the remote.

And there’s been no replacement tech, which makes this unit that much better than everything else since it’s peerless.

There ya go. We bought 1 and then 3 more for family just before COVID.

Depends: did lennart poettering write it? If so, they’ll jam it down out throats.

few of my workplaces have made use of Linux unfortunately.

Without the right punctuation, this reads as if they specifically used Linux in an unfortunate way.

You should use Linux in a fortunate way.

Are you really saying “we the developers are going to build this however we see fit, and you the user can go fuck yourself, or else learn how to code and build it yourself”? Is that really the dynamic you’re trying to cultivate here? Seems very welcoming and productive.

Nope.

People will volunteer their time how they want, and you don’t get to tell them how to, unless you pay and also say please.

Your choice, when faced with devs spending their free time not helping your particular goals, is between

• pay someone to work on your stuff
• work on it yourself
• stay on Facebook to get facebook but suffer their dev decisions and be the product they’re selling to advertisers while you do
• go to another similar setup and hope the features are closer to what you want to trade yourself for.

None of this should be surprising, given the fediverse is very largely supported by great people donating a lot of time. And remember, they’re not doing it for you specifically, and they’re usually doing it for their own interest or goals.

You’re going to have to spend some time or money making your particular goals happen; or else suffer someone else’s goals, or be the product they sell, or both.

I hope you realize it’s not someone denying you stuff; that it’s someone doing what they want with their free time, and it’s only accidental that it impacts you badly.

Make it better.

Oh, surely.

Wait. Non-profits looking to shepherd the upstream used by a dozen derivatives; that’s BAD now?

Whoa whoa. Let’s pick up the build of Mozilla’s ditched namesake and confirm a future there, and then maybe consider their next discard. Wait; who’s got tbird? Can we rescue that first? Get their trash in ‘tip’ order, anyway.

That’s a pretty unfair kneejerk without receipts.

I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.

Except, I won’t wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.

Still requires docker?

Ah. So MM’s still in the sidelines and IBM still pulling strings, so little chance of ditching fucking systemd in Fedora, and thus RedHat. That’s the one good thing I can see from a regime change: improvement of the codebase by, for example, pruning pet projects when the pets leave for Microsoft.

If we can simply help Americans understand small-s socialism from small-c communism, we’d be in much better shape.

Because yes, my healthcare is already paid in advance by me and everyone else from our taxes; and my buddy’s emergency Sunday morning quintuple stent install after the widowmaker heart attack and two ambulances and a bed in one hospital before transfer (a third bus) to the regional trauma/cardiac center for the operation and 2 weeks of aftercare was free to him that day – and his only concern was not dying. And that’s not just normal but that’s the general expectation. No monthly subscription, no premium cost, no user fee, just paid-parking and vendor-machine food for visitors not coming in via the train.

Our upcoming election will gut that, though. Being bankrupt, losing retirement savings and mortgaged to the hilt at 61 is the American dream mr Polievre has for all Canadian plebes.

• xargs
• parallel
• PXE (ohai cobbler)
• tee
• task-spooler (ts aka tsp)
• rpm -V

Nothing new, just forgotten.

Aw jeez not this again.

emails

Look; If you can’t spell the word, I’m not going to assume you’re an expert in it.

You say “secede” funny.

I was raised Rural. I can confirm.

Temba, at rest.

This changed for blu-ray/HDDVD. It was payola that enabled Blu-ray to win.

Survey seems broken. JavaScript crutches?