It doesn’t matter to my perspective. The history of religion is for sub groups to spilt off over inconsequential differences, make up different doctrines and eventually go to war over them. It’s an expression of Authoritarians and cult behavior, and what leads to some of the greatest suffering that mankind has ever inflicted upon itself.

These families wanted to filter themselves to a sub group that’s a distinction without a difference.

But that’s the wrong kind of religious.

This post feels like a bot wrote it as pro Microsoft spam.

Also don’t use more than a few words or I get bored and need a Tik Tok video to keep me focused between sentences.

Or… Drive fewer cars and run fewer gas motors!!!

AWS is mostly built on AWS.

Yes, DNS started failing to properly fill name lookups. So, DynamoDB started failing. That started making security and other AWS services fail. Which in turn made higher level services fail.

It truly was a house of cards kind of moment.

We’re both self defeating and stupid. Also, we don’t feel that our nation should work to our benefit. It’s really a long term 1D chess strat to die early because our nation is a hellhole of our own devising.

Oh, but we also are basically poor while we do it. We’re #1! {According to us}

This kind of tech has been floating around the research world of smart home tech for over a decade now. Various forms of EM deflection and field deviation modeling have been used to be headcount sensors, gesture sensors, and body position modeling. Yup, it’s out there. Normally, it takes multiple antennas in particular positions to work, so it’s still a more controlled space kind of thing than the whole world. That said, it’s possible to do, so head’s up, we’re in for a rough ride going forward on the privacy and monitoring fronts.

They’ve left dual citizenship and the five year normal path to citizenship intact… for now.

“fascists seek to ally with fascists now that US fascists are publicly out as fascists”

Windows 95/98 sucked shit. I liked the games, but the kernels were terrible.

I dual booted or ran two machines Linux (RedHat 5.2 to 6.2, wtf was up with 7?), then whatever worked (usually Debian based) for a while. Mostly used Linux alone for years, but used Win7 for a bit. That one was okay, but Microsoft can’t build dev tools on their own OS to save their lives.

It’s been Linux Mint for a long time now on desktops and Debian/Armbian on servers.

Basically, I’ve been mainlining Linux since about '97 and it’s doing me just fine. Works great for my kids and wife. We’re a mostly Linux household. It saves me a ton of headaches. Easy to install, patch, and almost no other maintenance.

Show me an ad in my own kitchen and that screen is going to be broken.

I moved to Germany. It’s been an experience because the tech status dialed back about 15 years. One area I don’t miss is the ever pervasive drive to have screens with ads on every surface.

The Linux Mint GUI updater is an interesting bit of code, or at least it was about 5 years ago. I looked at updating it a bit with a status bar for a stage I thought could use it.

I opened up the code…Python that just uses a shell call to apt. No muss, no library calls. Okay, that’ll do.

It was a functional wrapper on the command line calls, exactly as you’d hope for a tool.

It was just about a asinine as you would assume.

I’ve been trying the cheaper stuff. Some of it is great. Don’t be afraid to try the bottom shelf items these days.

Germany’s government is also pointing out that the nation needs 100’s of thousands of skilled workers to fill jobs. The local training services aren’t seeking the enrollments needed to fill the jobs, so where do they come from?

The usual suspects are in huge demand (MSTEM fields), but also anyone skilled in the trades is in high demand.

That’s not the same as asylum seekers in general, but with falling birthrates, the EU must import people or the current models must change away from oligarchy-oriented capitalism. Given how the rich people move the decision making, but those same people push right wing populism to oppress populations, they end up in a cleft fork: not enough local workers to feed the baby crushing machine, while requiring xenophobia to maintain their power base. Once the situation becomes untenable, they turn to fascism to maintain their power.

Tough times ahead, just like usual.

Anything except dealing with the problem itself.

I left the US and took my kids. We no longer have to deal with active shooter drills and school shootings are a national tragedy here, with about one per decade.

Have your cyberpunk drones and children terror drills, but make sure you can still have your guns!

Come to the Open Source community for ideology, stay for the better life. It’s a learning curve to get in. After that it’ll open more doors and be much more relaxing to run OSS operating environments than you think.

The real fun is when you’ve been on Linux for a few years and are forced to do some tasks on a Windows machine. It’s amazing how bad the Windows UI and tooling is, but it’s hard to see until you can look with some perspective.

I usually start a desktop on Mint since it’s got at least some new drivers and a few more tools with Cinnamon desktop.

If the hardware is finicky or there’s odd devices a distro doesn’t handle, I often just try a different distro instead of driver hacking. It’s a very big hammer, but I’d rather have things work with the distro configs instead of maintaining it myself.

Servers? Debian.

Desktops? Mint (prettier Debian out of the box)

Otherwise? Use what works with the least effort.

The answer is: badly and inefficiently. It’s the American way!