I agree. People are people. The racist tone of the original question and the judging of history by modern standards just underlines that.

but remember the Greeks and Swedes didn’t sail around the world killing natives for the craic.

The Vikings had a fair go at it - and they came from what is now Norway, Denmark and… Sweden.

I moved my wife’s laptop to Debian with Cinnamon as a desktop. She loves it and is as technophobic a person as I know…

Auto login, automated-updates set up, remote backups. She just has to open the lid and firefox is there, which is 95% of what she wants. Libre office is around for the remaining 5%.

This is someone who used to get angry at Windows forced updates and reboots, so not having any of that improved her quality of life.

You can’t properly hate somewhere until you’ve lived there…

If you think you’ll be safe, then go. Travel broadens the mind, even if you go with preconceived ideas.

Just built a new pc, the first for a few years but probably the 20th or so I’ve made in total. This one’s a home server, replacing an HP ML110 Gen 9. It’s running proxmox with a dozen linux vms and is performing very well so far.

• Ryzen 5700X
• ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS, AMD B550 (Full linux compatibility)
• 48gb of ddr4 (32 new, 16 re-used)
• 2tb nvram (I have a nas for bigger storage)

Cheap PSU, half a case nailed to a wall (seriously. I keep it in a cupboard). A fanless gpu just to get it booting. Stock cpu fan and that’s about it. Idles at around 50 watts, which is less than half of the ML, and is almost silent.

Not sick, no. But if I know it’s AI, it does have less value to me. It can still be an amusing distraction if it was cleverly prompted, but there’s no thought gone into the generation.

Real art reflects not only the technical skill of the artist, but the effort they put in, their life experiences that made them look at something in a particular way, and their soul. No matter how good AI gets technically, it’ll never have that. But maybe it will be able to fake something that’s almost indistiguishable, like how lab grown diamonds can only be told from natural diamonds by someone with many years of experience.

Why do you view it with such horror? Do you see it as the start of AI taking over everything and the end of humanity?

I’m not a developer at any of these sites, but a couple of guesses:

1. They genuinely think relative dates are a more user friendly experience.

2. They know they serve old content, but want it to appear relevant. I’ve seen social media do this on several platforms where they obscure the date entirely on content that is not very fresh. This can be frustrating when you’re searching for an answer to a technical question and do find advice, to only find out after trying it that it refers to a version of the software that’s now very out of date.

3. SEO. Tricks like this might help the page rank higher in search engines. (I don’t know, I’m not an expert and SEO annoys me, but it feels like something designers might do to trick the engines)

Neither is a technical reason, it’s going to be about design, marketing and aesthetics.

Ublock will block what’s displayed, but not show you the actual. Something like UserScripts would allow you to extract the dates from the html and display them, or perhaps some css tweaks to change how things are displayed. But these would need tailoring for every single site you want and be liable to break if they change anything on their end.

Alternatively, you may wish to search sites for their Accessibility settings, or explore software that tries to do this for you - or even contact the sites and ask them to make the dates more readable on accessibility grounds.

No one said ‘different bad’,

Plenty of people did. “What’s the point of change?” “I’m happy with Sys-V” “I don’t like Poettering”, “Lennart is too powerfull” and a lot more irrelevant and personal attacks.

Please don’t accuse me of gaslighting whilst gaslighting me in return. I was there, I lived through the worst of the Debian wars and saw some great people leave the project, and a side of some friends that I really didn’t like. But that war is done and I have zero interest in continuing it so I’ll leave this here.

Fair, and representative of some opinions certainly.

But change, change is constant. Resist it and end up poorer and more bitter.

Two groups of people went to war over a difference of opinion.

1. New! Different! Change! Bad!

2. Hey, this works better than the old way. Let’s use this instead.

Was that in the 60s/70s, Irish / UK?

Hard disagree. Resizing partitions is dangerous and difficult for most computer users.

(I’m a sysadmin who does this stuff multiple times a day, so this isn’t negative bias)

Symlinking is quick, easy, totally safe. It’s one of the best things about linux filesystems. Use it.

It’s fine, I’m don’t know why you’re trying to generate shade with this post and comments.

We run self-hosted versions of both Gitlab (ce and enterprise versions) and Gitea.

They’re very different things, but broadly what you say is correct. Gitea is lighter, it comes as a single binary and is really fast in operation. For most people, most of Gitlab’s featureset will never be used.

Keeping them up to date:

Gitlab has repos for most distros, so updating is really just letting it update alongside the OS. But it does that every two weeks and is very noisy about reminding all users the second that a new release has dropped. (So I get a bunch of emails about this critical new release) Features seem to change quite often.

Gitea has no repos, and doesn’t self-update. However, I’ve written a script that checks and if it’s a new version, then it’ll download the new version and replace the single binary.

Both are pretty reliable at not introducing breaking changes when updating, I’ve not had many issues.

The other commenter is right, my work desktop has access to my home server so I can remotely monitor on my breaks, as well as my password manager.

Well, that’s your own fault and poor opsec. That’s also a likely breach of your employer’s acceptable use policy in using their equipment for your personal things.

I know you’re going to say “They don’t care” and that’s probably true - right up until the point when they suddenly do care, or are looking for reasons. It doesn’t matter if your IT are in-house or a MSP, they’re still paid by your employers and so answer to them.

I started unplugging the Ethernet cable when I leave for work so IT can’t do any behind the scenes when I’m away.

It’s not your computer, why do you care?

All that’s going to do is make you an annoyance and potentially end up with you being called into a special meeting.

Back up everything before you start playing with partitions.

No, seriously, do it.

Same. I bought a second hand set of Wahl clippers for £4 from a charity shop after spending two hours and £5 having a bad haircut done professionally.

That was in about 1992.

They’re still going strong and I’ve not paid for another haircut since, nor wasted a second travelling to or waiting around for one.

Profits before ethics.

Shame, I expected better of them.

I do it with my wife. For us, it’s a way of:

• Learning about the other’s day and what they do - whether that’s work or pleasure. I think that’s a big part of being in a relationship.
• If something’s happened that has made one of us happy/sad, sharing that helps us support the other. It also lets them know when there’s something going on that might affect our relationship. Even if they can’t help, it’s good to know there’s a problem so they don’t think it’s about them when I’m unduly quiet or down.
• As someone who sometimes doesn’t understand things obvious to others, it can be handy for a second opinion, or ask what they thought was meant. It also helps me post-process the day’s events and square them away.

If I didn’t have an SO, I’d probably do the same with my dog; although it might be a bit more one sided.