Yup, but once you do that, it’ll run Linux just fine.

I actually audibly laughed when Raspberry Pi came out with an 8GB version because for anyone who thinks 4GB isn’t enough probably won’t be happy with 8 either.

Steam funding a Linux-based gaming OS became inevitable as soon as Microsoft started selling games in the Microsoft store. The message was clear from that point: If you stay stuck to a single OS, they can always shut you down whenever they feel like it.

When commas and semicolons aren’t allowed special characters

Or as I’ve recently started calling it, Linux + Linux.

Cable internet tends to stay online even if your power is out. You’d need a battery backup for your modem/router, but it is possible to stay online. Houses can be clever like that, almost all of your utilities will partially work, even when service is interrupted.

Security vulnerabilities are a big deal in the tech world, but no one really cares outside of that. The CrowdStrike bug was big because it was user-facing and shut down systems. The truth is we haven’t seen any user-facing bugs from open source software to compare CrowdStrike to.

C wears the pants of the family.

It’s so bad it’s almost artistic

This meme but unironically

Depending on how the windows network is set up, this may happen every time someone logs in

I would like to know more.

But in a moment of legal discovery, it was found that “GitLab Support Bot” always owns the repository since it creates the merge commit after CI runs.

I don’t think I’ve ever used -j without specifying as many cores as I have, so it sounds completely reasonable.

Ah yes, the file stabber, not to be confused with a file system tabulation, which it definitely is not.

“Our code is a buggy mess and no one so far has been able to fix it”

My god, the man made a copypasta from his own copypasta.

The Steam Deck runs Arch

Margot Robbie, I was about to agree with you and thought that was a very reasonable take, until you tried to argue that git merge is better than git rebase, then I simply had to disregard the whole thing.

This is why you use virtual machines, anyone can be root!