This is the right strategy. Storage space costs nothing these days. Why not just clone and go? That’s what I always say.

Why, you can just ‘inherit’ some code by copying a block, pasting it, then making a few small changes. No thinking, no problem.

Ok, I’m off to copy of my code folder for the next release.

7. N-deep loops mixed with gotos, throws, multiple returns, and mixed memory management contracts.

#include “globals.h”

// please help

Microsoft, a sponsor of the new White House ball room.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891yxgj44ko

^^^ Look at this absolute asshole!, ^^^

<— also this one

Around 2021, I regularly ran into this problem with the Firefox snap. It had various runtime issues, so I preferred the traditional deb package. I’d uninstall the snap then install the deb. Then, some days later, I’d find the snap was somehow installed again. This happened a few times before I realized that the deb was just installing the snap. Imo, that’s not a good design. Debs should be debs and snaps should be snaps.

Anyhow, I use Arch now, btw. Much more consistent experience.

Very true, but the graphics and performance aren’t nearly as good as the PC version.

In 2003, it was my dream to play FF7 in Linux. In 2019, my dream came true. Thanks Proton, Codeweavers, Wine, Valve, et al for helping me finally put down Sephiroth right.

You can ZZ any time you like, but you can never leave.

I respectfully disagree. Vim is an excellent editor and is the centerpiece of my dev tools. Counting out the newer features in Neovim like language server and treesitter support, traditional Vim is still a powerful modal text editor with robust features like text objects, macros, sed-like search and replace, rich syntax highlighting, code folding, online help, endless customizability through scripting, and multiple ways to exit. It is an acquired taste though, and I understand it’s not for everyone.

If we keep doubling, will I eventually be a person on the tracks? There are a finite number of people, so eventually I would be, right? So, passing the buck would be equivalent to handing my fate to a stranger.

OTOH, if there are an infinite number of people, then this thought experiment is creating people out of thin air. Do these imaginary people’s rhetorical lives even matter?

Either way, it seems better to kill 1 person at the start.

I’ve admired this logo for 20 years. Debian has the best logo.

Many years ago I ran Gentoo as well. Switching to Arch was a considerable upgrade. I admit I’ve been running Ubuntu since Lucid (aside a brief stint of Fedora). It’s nice that things mostly just work. It allows me to focus on life and not wifi drivers. Man, that sounds like such a cop out.

Anyhow, there’s part of me that would love to play with those cosmic distros again some day.

I don’t often hear it called libre software, but I like it. Better than open source or free software. I’m glad this kind of discussion is back again. It’s more important than ever with the increasingly clear unfolding corporate takeover of the Internet.

Yeah, definitely fried in extra jpeg sauce

I remember this one. Good taste IMHO