Germany doesn’t do this, but the minimum, when all holidays fall on the worst possible days, is more than the number of holidays in the UK.

TIL. Makes sense, though.

/tmp is world-writable. If you get permission-errors, you should become suspicious.
Also, whenever you write “sudo rm -rf” you should quadruple-check if that’s really what you want to do.
Non-interactively deleting entire directories in root space isn’t something you should have to do normally.

Never send the Baltic Fleet into battle?

Slackware is a bearded old man trying to get it up, holding a picture of Lilo.

My need is to distro-hop.

With Slackware, you could probably just follow it step by step.

I didn’t know I need to know anything about SVG cursors.

There was a storm in the desert where they were filming which destroyed a lot of the equipment and almost doomed the film.
I think I remember reading that they had to use cheaper film stock in those scenes for that reason.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if the Unicode consortium had put those in the correct order – as an Easter egg.

Those other applications come from an external vendor, we only provide the VM to run them.
We hate those even more than you do.

Sorry, those rules come from our cybersecurity insurance, or some compliance rules.
We hate them as much as you do.

IT guy here. If we give one user special rights, that login will get passed around like a blunt at a festival to “save time”.
Users are dumb and lazy, and that includes devs.

More like:
“IT people when software people talk about their requirements”

No, we won’t whitelist your entire program folder in Endpoint Protection.

There’s nothing left from Russia anymore.

No, that some people’s way involves using snap, and that’s fine.

Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren’t just “Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit”?

look under the hood
They’re Gnome with extensions and a theme

Saddam Hussein, according to Human Rights Watch, is responsible for the deaths of 250000 people.
As a dead dictator, he is not the best, nor even a good choice, for rendering graphical applications on a computer screen.

But all things considered, he’s still better than X11.