Those two sentences just prove that the whole thing is made up. If he started coding in the 60s, he’d have to be over 80 now.

Or all your problems are actually easy to figure out, and therefore quick and easy to post about.

Except none of the answers in the meme are right or viable options to solve whatever problem, especially not for people trying to search up the answer later. Somebody might have given a useful answer once, but that one useful result gets drowned by these non-answers.

The people might be great if you’re chatting on discord or something, but if you’re just trying to Google the answer, results tend to get a lot of variations of these answers.

A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Wrong definition there bud.

It’s not arbitrary at all. In fact it’s the entire point.

Current tech layoffs are mostly a result of over hiring during the pandemic. Blaming AI is just the sales pitch to investors try to prove that the AI spending was worth it.

I’m thinking you might have been wrong. Even without AI, I don’t foresee demand for compute going down. Even if everything went over to ARM, I think that would have just slowed the rate of new builds.

Canals were at least solving a problem that actually existed and needed solving at the time when they were started. AI data centres are being built in anticipation of future demand, for use cases that haven’t been developed yet.

It also starts to depend on how you define what a given service actually is. Plex has shifted from being a self hosted media server to essentially a streaming service that you can hook your own library to.

I don’t like either of those things, but I think it may be the best answer, simply due to the huge install base. Just about every step by step tutorial and help article for anything a basic user is going to do has Ubuntu based commands included.

For some variety, I recently switched from x11 to Wayland and it fixed some problems I was having with game input.

I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

Kinda laughed at the Rockwell one. Most PLCs are wide open anyway with no network access at all.

I’m only ever using a command line text editor for changing the odd config file, so for me the benefits of vim or emacs has never outweighed the hassle of figuring them out. So I stick with nano.

Nope. Never bothered with a laptop until work provided me with one.

I don’t think I have anyone in my family that I hate quite that much.

Not if I’ve never bought a prebuilt PC.

I switched from bash to zsh a while ago, mostly just for shits and giggles. I really can’t see any reason to form a strong opinion on it one way or the other.