TimeSquirrel

“I didn’t want to play that game anyway.”

Just wait until they discover rm, mv, and mkdir!

I’m imagining a 30 year old Pentium Pro server grinding away in a broom closet somewhere. It’s next to the one still running the old Space Jam website.

surely SUSE gets twice the blame, Red Hat gets 19 times the blame and Google gets 180 times the blame? (Not to mention Amazon, Meta, NVIDIA, etc.

Well…yeah?

I’m also talking about people like this that almost never get recognition until something huge we all depend on becomes a huge problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Those “neckbeards in the basement” created the very thing Canonical is trying to make its own. It’s just another corporation trying to profit off the back of FOSS developer labor.

Maybe have a bit more respect for hardworking programmers that are keeping the world spinning, with many doing it for no compensation.

Most people these days get their hands on an Arduino or ESP32 to get started. Arduino is an entire ecosystem of C++ libraries and a framework that people have cobbled together to make programming microcontrollers easier on people not familiar with low level concepts. The IDE most people are using now is VS Code with the PlatformIO extension, since the Arduino IDE is kinda…bad.

I myself started in hardcore mode with a PIC microcontroller back in the late 2000s when it wasn’t as easy to get into it. Back then, if you needed a procedure or abstraction layer to talk to a sensor, you had to write it yourself and figure out SPI communication protocols and such. Nowadays, someone has probably already made it for you.

I discovered this when I started doing embedded baremetal programming with no OS and using SD cards. It hit me like an anvil from the sky when I realized dirs are just files pointing to other files. With no OS services you have to open the dir file directly in the program and scan it for file entries to get a list of them and pointers to their actual locations in the media. Navigating down and back up a subdirectory tree has to be done entirely in programming by keeping track of where you’ve been. There’s nothing in the filesystem itself that will do that for you. It just tells you where you can physically locate data.

ctrl-o, enter, ctrl-x

It’s alright, I program C++ and barely understand this shit either. Kernel/OS devs are a different breed.

Let it be. The people designing the OS most likely know better than you or anyone else in this thread. I know the urge to “tweak” things is strong, but some defaults are defaults for a good reason.

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That was it.

Redhat, back in 1999. Then Mandrake 2002. Then Suse 2003. Then Ubuntu 2006. Then Debian 2012-present.

But it’s funny I kept KDE since Mandrake. Same DE for over 20 years. For Redhat I was using this Win95 lookalike DE, I forgot what it was called.

Edit: I definitely did not order a couple dozen of Ubuntu’s free CD-ROMs back in the day and throw them at everyone I knew and didn’t know, including random kiosk people at the mall…

Good enough for MS-DOS, good enough for me.

https://youtu.be/2mzSV3uYbyY

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Now if they can fix the bug where once in a while I click to a tab and it doesn’t switch to it unless I minimize and maximize again, and needing a restart of the browser to get rid of that behavior…

Reminds me, back in like, 2007, Nine Inch Nails did a promotion for their new album where they left “mystery” USB drives with media from the “future”, themed from album, in public areas at their shows. People couldn’t wait to find them and jam them into their computers to piece the story all together.