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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Consider PCLinuxOS. ‘PLOS’ has the same look and feel of the ent Linuxes, but

    • as a child of mageia/mandriva from mandrake and conectiva, it’s derivation from RH is super long ago so it’s closer to rhel5 for well-built well-tested tools.

    • it has maaaaassive lib/app support range, like Axel Rose’s vocal range compared to EL’s Bruce Springsteen. No stream or other crap shenanigans aside from etc/alternatives.

    • No systemd. Weird how startups are fast and reliable

    It can yum cron like a badass.

    Caveats:

    • if you liked building vagrants on mageia, you need to help them on pclos. They have no clue there, and the skillet seems to be fading fast.
    • people who support sysv startup are getting more lazy and ditching it.
    • people who support last week’s version of anything are no more prevalent in pclos, so there’s no magical fix for “10 second tom” devs here either.




  • There’s clearly a value and a route toward companies hosting their own federated comms. It’s like how email became self-hosted in the '90s: first the bitnets and aols, and unis and orgs, and finally, thanks to Outlook tasting email on the way in, email viruses.

    The same progression will probably repeat for Lemmy and mastodon. Consolidation and self-archiving and all that are valuable, and once HPe finds out how to link ChatGPT to a Lemmy or mastodon, they’ll be all in with something suiting their current quality trend.

    Ideally we’ll have gone crypto by then for private messaging, and go farther for privacy than email and fbchat seems to be able, and that’ll be nice.



  • work with headphones in. So I wouldn’t contribute to the collaboration that is claimed to take place.

    In the new cramped environment with low visual privacy and especially no audio privacy, we all just end up with earpods in. We need the noise isolation to f’n THINK!

    So the boss oozes his way over and ‘hums’ and ‘haws’ trying to get our attention before waving and doing that “hey pull out your earbuds so I can talk” gesture that resembles yokels trying to pick up someone in an elevator or on the bus and not.getting.it .

    Because he doesn’t.

    So that is the life of people I left at the old job, and it’s repeated a thousand times over.

    Learn to also say on the phone “this environment has no audio privacy. Can you book meeting and a conference room? Thanks”, if you get too many desk calls.



  • I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.

    You don’t; and you know this already.

    I quit my union job when the new hotshot manager started mandating RTO into a newly compressed, hot, bright, loud environment; being able to actually see asses in chairs was his jam, despite the work impact. What a tool.

    Found a job with another unionized IT shop, paid for it with a 3% pay cut but got an extra week of vacation (net loss: 3 days pay/yr) and a really great crew and 100% remote written into the contract. Thanks, ya tool.



  • Sure. Okay. No argument.

    Stallman is also his own worst enemy. Feet-picking aside, coat-tailing Linux with this whiny “but ack-shually, gnu is a big part of it so we want equal billing” is just weak and arrogant and has been for decades.

    … and if stallman can’t see that without Linux he’d be just a hippie with other issues, he begs for the same trivialization of his own role.

    Call it Torvalds/tridgell/baumel/Bourne/Ritchie/Linux before GNU/Linux or gtfo. And if we call it gnu/Linux, we should say chisel/David or Mussolini/UN because, like GNU, they were in the right place at the right time to have a completely fungible sidecar role in what actually happened to catalyze actual work.

    Stallman made emacs. Cool. I use it daily. GNU is great but not vital. Without Edison, we’d have a Marconi somewhere.







  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mll literally did this a few hours ago
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    While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.

    There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.

    • Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
    • regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.

    And the big one

    • now they’re not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money

    They’re set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.