These stupid vehicles and ones that are noisy for the sake of being noisy have one root element: attention. They’re designed to force you to pay attention to the owner. Admittedly it’s for negative attention, but still it’s a cry for help.

Too many people grow up where the only attention they can get is negative. Since humans crave any attention, they’ll seek it any way they know how. We’d rather get positive attention, but if you don’t have a source or tools to get it you’ll go negative in desperation.

I hate that these vehicles are designed to hurt people and they’re often on the road because the owner doesn’t know how to get attention any other way.

If he buys a longer truck, then maybe his dad will hug him just once.

Why does he keep coming back?

As the old joke goes: Emacs is great if you want to learn another OS.

I’m a barbarian vim user. Whenever I watch a real Emacs user operate a full dev environment inside of Emacs I’m always left stunned. It’s a whole universe of functionality, not just a refined line editor like vim.

That’s what I was taught at my first tech internship. It’s all they had on the UNIX system running the webserver in 1998.

I did write some web pages the pulled live data from the backend. I had the pleasure of writing them in C. I got the data binding to some kind of CORBA system using extern variables that were bound at compile time. All of the html (no js or css yet) was hand built and generated from the C code.

vi was the only editor on the system and there was no way to use arrow keys (the UNIX system didn’t have them on the keyboard at all).

I also had the displeasure of building a backup system on a floppy where I had to write a bat script that could manually load a token ring driver, bind a SMB share, load Ghost backup software and backup the local hard drive at under 2mb (yay coax thicknet). The tool used to query and write through the hostname for the backup? Copycon. Fucking copycon in DOS. That showed me how a terrible (but working) tool could be to work with.

Unless an editor can do reasonable vim emulation, I can’t take it seriously. You’re welcome to use it, but I won’t be able to get anything done in it quickly. The vi keys are too ground into my reflexes.

You should pay half for streaming services.

Use what works for you.

Develop what scratches your itch.

Don’t tell OSS devs who are volunteering unpaid labor what they should do for you.

If you want a solution that’s non-systemd go for it. If it doesn’t exist make it or pay someone to do so. Write from scratch or fork a project and get to work. That’s the way of the Bazaar.

I’ll be in my unenlightened “things work for me good enough” Linux world using what works. Systemd is fine and rarely gives me problems. Actually, I’m not even sure I can remember any.

Huge thank you’s to the devs who make this all possible. You rock!

It only happened in the last year, or even the last six months to truly be in effect. It was a huge position shift for the German government as part of their effort to increase skilled worker immigration and retention.

Even a toga is an option. It’s not “normal” most places, but if you wear reasonably covering clothing and get your work done anyone worth working for won’t really care.

No. Full stop NO.

It’s my computer and my family. Stop trying to justify yet more tracking us in our own homes and on our own devices. Get fucked.

One to change it and seven to file the paperwork.

OP is also complaining because he is trying to pirate the game. The process of stripping the DRM is better documented on Windows than on Linux, and somehow it’s the fault of the Linux ecosystem.

I don’t feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of “protecting the children with age verification” is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It’s the same war we’ve been fighting for 30 years now.

Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90’s. What’s old is new again.

I’m quite familiar with that one.

The worst one was the pre Raspberry Pi 3 boards. The early ones used an on board Ethernet chip set that was slaved directly to the USB controller. It was USB 2.0 so it could negotiate 100, but really run much less than that.

Then, if you put in a keyboard, mouse, and a USB thumb drive the USB host would multiplex over them and your bandwidth for data transfer would drop precipitously.

I was so happy when they moved to a real Ethernet chip instead of a USB adapter. The new limitation became the microSD… Of course they also introduced the grounding reset issue on the USB port, but just don’t plus or unplug anything and it’d be fine.

What if they’re external drives with their own power supplies? I’ve done things nearly this convoluted, but used self powered devices.

I know a degraded binary search tree when I see one. Stop inserting presorted data you yabbos! Otherwise, you’ll need to pull out a Red-Black tree and nobody’s got time for those kinds of rotations.

When we had flagpoles we had a pile of flags to fly. I’d get most of them on AliExpress for cheap.

Universities, states, cities, vikings, pirates, scifi, pride, peace, extinction rebellion, etc. I love flying something for larks more than anything else. Fly what you feel, it’s your flagpole.

Vertical spinning wheels to pick the hours suck donkey balls. WTF is up with those? You want to set it to 9 pm, so we get to spin the hour wheel up and down until we hit 9, then it always defaults to the current minute, so you get to spin it up and up and up and up until you get to 00 minutes, overshoot to 05, and then dial it back down.

There’s WAY better solutions for this available. Why use the ones invented 25 years ago?

I just pulled out a spare laptop to try some new distros to help advise someone about their options. I installed a few and gauged how easy/simple it would be for each one in regards to their needs.

It wasn’t distro hopping in that I wasn’t really using them beyond testing, but it was checking out options, settings, and tools. In the end, they’ll have to decide on what works best for them.

How can you even fit it into a single chunk? You’ve got to set the chunk size big enough to have the room for the whole Redstone network. I made a spot with some simple logic gates (a flip flop and an xor gate for controls) and it took up a lot of volume for even something that simple.

Even just an ALU is going to be physically massive.