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I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
Ruby is just happy to be included
No that’s WFH jobs
That kinda makes sense. Putting all the partition sectors together would probably make it easier to resize. But as standard maintenance it’s like changing the oil on an electric car.
Most modern OSeses do defragmentation on the fly and you don’t really need to do it anymore.
Which makes me sad because I have so many memories of watching a disk defragmenter do its thing from my childhood.
I wouldn’t trust it unless I wrote it myself. And even then maybe not.
Pro tip: Defragmenting only works on spinning drives because it puts the data nearer to the spindle so seek times are shorter. Solid-state drives wear out faster if you defragment them, since every write involves a little bit of damage.
And what happens when DNS inevitably falls over and I need to fix it?
And when I’m watching IP addresses scroll by, IPv6 ones are a lot harder to read than v4
“IP address are four sets of numbers with dots in between AND THAT’S HOW I LIKES IT!” - Me, an old network guy
Honestly the fact that I can’t remember or type IPv6 addresses is a big reason I haven’t bothered figuring it out.
Like that time in Ireland when the banks closed to protest a law and life went on just fine without them.
If I can’t type the program into my TRS-80 from a computer magazine I don’t trust it.
The closed-source devs I’ve worked with also lack it.
This is why the humanities are important.
You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.
But it’s our job to try
Is this some GUI thing I’m too CLI to understand?
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When things go right: “WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!?”
When things go wrong: “WHAT ARE WE PAYING YOU FOR?!?”
Exactly, except like all computer metaphors they break down when you get into the details. I can’t put a document in more than one folder and update them at the same time IRL like I can do with a symlink.
Directory is the older term, but when they started making computers user friendly they needed a friendlier word for it. Folders make sense because people understand putting files in folders in real life.
good FOSS antiviruses
ClamAV is the Linux antivirus library I’m most familiar with.
Bring back beige boxes!