Happens with americans too… they seem to completely miss sarcasm sometimes. Humour is very cultural (and often plays into things a native of the country would know but someone outside sometimes wouldn’t).

Just before shutdown you’re at the terminal so something like this https://github.com/stolk/imcat on the image at the end of shutdown script might work.

Ads pay miniscule amounts per view… I’ve heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere… the more ads the better.

Which means people block the ads because they’re obnoxious, and they make nothing…

It looks to me like they were counting some windows variant as ‘Other’ for a time.

Holy shit… 1Tb drives too…

If only I had a use for them :/

Raid 0 on 3x500GB triples your failure rate (especially important on older drives, as I presume these are), and still won’t get anywhere near an SSD in speed.

You could just mount the 3 drives separately and have storage that way, which means if one fails you’ve still got the data on the other two… it’d still suck but not as bad as losing everything.

If it was me I’d wait until I could afford the SSD… it’ll be many times faster and newer.

Or actually do anything useful? No network, no filesystem… it’s a hello world app isn’t it…

There are some well known ones, like L4sbot, that copy everything but they’re upfront about it with bot in their name.

There are a few others more sneaky.

How am I going to fit my rackmount servers into it now?

If it’s fun, it’s not overkill!

You also have experience you can use in the workplace (even if it’s mostly experience of what happens if you f**k things up).

Or Fedilab…

So now you have to do that every time you install a flatpak.

Or just stick to a normal package manager, that does all that for you.

Used it once… it’s as annoying as shit since you can’t just run apps you have to type ‘flatpack run org.mozilla.firefox’ instead of just typing ‘firefox’ (and I had to google that because I just can’t remember the sequence). Also for some reason it’s slow… as you mentioned a 1 second delay before anything works. I can’t see myself using it again.

The system is broken. Wipe it and start again. I could imagine a system with no configured root but root only is just a security nightmare and not worth using as a starting point.

I really hope that machine isn’t exposed to the internet…

In theory a root application can drop capabilities when it starts up and remain root pid, but it’s not that common… it’s used for certain system apps that require root to increase security. It is not a replacement for unprivileged users.

I’m the same… I setup a VM but it was so much work just to setup a basic machine with ssh I gave up on it… I’m also no sure moving all the config out of /etc into a script is scaleable at all. I get that by copying the script from one machine to another you can duplicate configs… but we already have ansible for that.

What I’ve read looks good but it’s going to need a track record of reliability before I’d trust it.

TBH that doesn’t surprise me… I had a minor spat over the existence of a local supermarket, of all the stupid things… Wiki said it had been refused planning permission and never built. I had shopped in there many times, and could link to many articles about the fully built existing supermarket. I gave up after the second revert because it’s just not worth it.

It goes deeper than that. They encouraged Hamas.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

It’s derived from the old shugart interfaces IIRC. But yes not IDE. I’m sure a converter is possible but USB makes more sense these days, or if you must an FDD controller card (assuming no motherboard support).

That’s kind of used in apps everywhere… I can see why.

But not creating a symbolic link to ‘firefox’ when you install it, is a PITA. Apparently by design…