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no. its Cunningham’s- ah shit, you fucker.

Or I just don’t want to get choked to death over twenty bucks.

makes sense. Apple started Darwin OS as a way to get people to develop macOS for them, and most microsoft cloud systems… run on linux…

Pretty sure most amazon AWS runs on linux too.

the official explanation is “marketing”. (there’s a few reasons for it. 9 is considered unlucky in japan, for example. they wanted branding with 10. etc)

The fun thing is that there was a version that should have come out between 8 and 10 and didn’t. they decided to abandon it in very very pre-alpha because it was just that bad. (No, that probably doesn’t explain the gap. but its fun to poke at.). Basically it was supposed to take all the stupid features like seamless phone OS integration and tablet stuff and become some sort of uber universal-operating system that sucks.

So awful that not even Microsoft would dare publish it?

I promise… it’s just enthusiasm!

even the linux-from-scratch snobs are usually pretty decent (really it’s only when it’s their first time out of the server room in too-long a time). I usually try to switch it up to something like "have you tried playing The Battle for Wesnoth. (it’s a turn based fantasy strategy game that’s… uhm. surprisingly good.)

mostly… I tell people who are using linux that I use linux, too.

The sudden moment of awkwardness when you realize they’re using ubuntu and might run back to microcrap because you came on to strong is real.

“It was a great learning experience” is how I describe working under the worst bosses in my life. Specifically, to people that I can’t be honest with and say how i truly felt.

One of them was just a straight up malignant asshole. The other was chronically absent. She may have had some good reasons for it, but when I had to stop bailing her out because it was getting to 20-30 hours extra entirely without a schedule… and she started lying (and spoofing texts to prove it was my fault…)

Well, suffice it to say “great learning experience” is the polite way of saying “absolute fucking hell”

I would have kept with the theme of the comic- fifth panel “Die bitch”

Pretty sure this is the command my dad used to test disaster recovery systems.

you know. to simulate the entire cluster going poof. He spoke of having to get somebody else to actually send it, because it just felt that wrong.

(pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Pretty sure when he was asked to test their disaster recovery for his org… his first thought was probably “i’ve never nuked an entire network before”)

…. No reward?

Then your top is doing it wrong; just saying.

Well one simple way is to place a direct-shock stun gun on a table and put them in the room with it.

Let them wait ten minutes, see if they get bored and shock themselves. You’d have to do something to make sure they don’t like it, though.

We tried that first. Wolves were still hungry.

There’s an easy way to solve the hungry wolf problem. Which also solves the other.

Feed the Linux bros to the wolves.

*I use BSD, btw.

(Link is to classic xkcd comic, not furry porn)

I am both disappointed and pleased.

Grew up in red hat- you know? Back when red hat wasn’t the enemy.

Endeavor is my flavor of the month. (Why pick one?)

now i want to fork something into a new distro called “Schroedinger Linux”…

“maybe it works. maybe it doesn’t. maybe it’s best just to leave it right there and not look at it.”

anything exciting?

Black holes eating stars? Aliens? something blow up?
hehe.

I’d say ‘be gentle’, but uh, brutality is kind of part of the formality, right?

What’s the thesis on?

And good luck!

Considering that the AUR is a repo of build packages that are managed by users, it’s mostly unsafe because of that- not being in manjaro (which also uses pacman, and as far as I know just a different flavor.)

If you really want to use the AUR, you just have to turn it on. As with any package builds, it’s safe to use if you check the build and see what it does- and you need to be doing that in arch too. (Or not. Fun times.)