There’s this idea I’ve been considering for a long time.
Imagine putting a remote controlled firework smoke bomb under the tailpipe, hidden from sight. At best a really stinky one that smells like burned rubber or something.
When someone follows to closely, just fake an engine issue or something by activating the smoke bomb and fill their AC air intake with the smell of burned rubber for weeks. Just to teach them to not follow too closely again.
That’s a fair assessment.
The Nigerian understanding of religion is fascinating. They just take what they need from any place they want. In the western world most people stick with the faith they were born in, or maybe switch once or twice in their lifetime. In Nigeria it’s common to switch very frequently, always taking the parts they like best and leaving behind the rest.
It’s a very open and interesting way to look at things, not so much tied to their own personal identity (“I am protestant, so I must hate catholics” as it used to be common in the west), but instead they build their own faith from all the best sources they can find.
The media shift is happening right now. It started about 3 weeks ago, and suddenly the media shifts from pro-israel to anti-israel. At least here in central europe this is what’s happening.
Well, you said you only have experience from the outside.
Again, support is not development. Experiences with support does not allow conclusions on development.
And having no experience in development doesn’t qualify you to make statements about development.
You can not change history for any published changes - like I said, doing so makes your repository incompatible with any other clone.
That’s the same on Git.
And what’s TCP/IP?
Looks like Mercurial can change the history just fine using the hg command. You just need to enable it first.
https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/changing-history.html
Git can also be configured to disable history rewrites.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2085871/strategy-for-preventing-or-catching-git-history-rewrite
So the difference between git and hg really just comes down to the defaults.
I got weirdly invested in this, and by the end I was kinda happy that it was “just” a bug in the tooling and not anything actually malicious.
Thanks for the warning. I am currently running Fedora (because “it just works”) and I’m drowning in bugs and incompatibilities.
I was considering Bazzite because of all the recommendations, but considering my luck (and probably my hardware combination) I’d probably end up just like you described.
It seems like you don’t have a very broad exposure to closed source development.
Probably not. 15 years is not that long, what do I know, I’m just on senior expert level.
Companies run skeleton crews on crap products that don’t make money. Stuff they give away for free or that’s only used by legacy customers. Stuff they can’t shutdown because of contracts or because it still making a bit of money.
You might notice if you get escalated to development enough that it’s always like the same guy or two. It’s because they might only have a couple of guys working on it.
This is where your lack of knowledge about products like that shines through. It’s common to only get the same guy or two, because that’s the people designated (or willing) to talk to customers.
In real life, OpenSSL was run by a single person. That’s not a skeletton crew, that’s abandonment.
From what you are writing you aren’t a programmer and you haven’t worked in a software corporation before, but instead just extrapolate from your experiences with customer support.
I’m perplexed.
Are they going to keep replacing whatever software they use?
OSS on the other side has the downside of being free.
That means it’s:
If stuff like OpenSSL was CSS, it would be at least a mid-sized company making lots of revenue (because it’s used everywhere, even small license fees would rack up lots of revenue), with dozens of specialists working there, and since it would go through procurement there would be SLAs and 3rd party security audits.
But since it’s FOSS, nobody cares, nobody donates and it was a singular developer working at it until heartbleed. Then some of the large corporations which based their whole internet security on this singular dude’s work realized that more funding was necessary and now it is a company with multiple people working there.
But there are hundreds of other similarly important FOSS projects that are still maintained by a solitary hero not even making minimum wage from it. Like as shown with the .xz near miss.
Just imagine that: nobody in their right mind would run a random company’s web app with just one developer working in their spare time. That would be stupid to do, even though really nothing depends on that app.
But most of our core infrastructure for FOSS OSes and internet security depends on hundreds of projects maintained by just a single person in their free time.
Looks really nice! I’ll check that out!
Could be the AMD CPU (had a few kernel issues with that CPU, for example on anything newer than 6.10 the laptop doesn’t wake from sleep, that’s a well-documented issue either with the CPU or the chipset), could be the mobile 4070, could be because I’m using Fedora (some of the issues I have like the one with performance randomly dropping to single-digit FPS and that not clearing up with a reboot are reported quite often on Fedora), could be something entirely different.
I’m on a budget gaming laptop (Lenovo LOQ), could be that they messed up something there, don’t know.
I haven’t even touched HDR so far, because the base function isn’t there.
Games on Steam don’t tend to give me trouble, for some reason it works better there, but I don’t have 300 or so free games on Steam.
That’s good to hear. The former is big news, the second option would be not nearly as relevant.
Yeah, but the wording is weird. “34% of cruise missile bombers in key Russian airbases”
Does that mean “34% of all Russian cruise missile bombers were destroyed by hitting those sitting in key Russian airbases” or does that mean “34% of the Russian cruise missile bombers that were currently present in these specific key Russian airbases were destroyed”?
That’s two very different statements with very different meanings.
Sad that you don’t read replies, because what you are saying makes a ton of sense, and I have questions.
I don’t really have the time to try out 20 distros. I used Kubuntu quite a lot before, but I had issues with it, so I wanted to switch away. I tried out Mint, PopOS and Fedora, due to common recommendations and Fedora is the only one that really caught my fancy.
But “tried out” means “installed it, ran one game on steam, done”. Don’t really have time for more. Since then I have regretted choosing Fedora.
What would be a good distro if I want to game, but I also need it as a general purpose distro? I don’t want to have to dual-boot between a gaming distro and my regular distro where I code and run all my regular stuff on.
I’d also like to have something that doesn’t update the kernel all that fast, since my laptop doesn’t wake from sleep on a kernel newer than 6.10 (at least on Fedora 41). It’s a documented bug that doesn’t have a fix yet, apparently.
90% of the things that Japan introduced according to comment sections on the internet never happened (or never made it past the prototype stage) and the rest was actually introduced in Korea, not in Japan.
The Japanophilia is strong with a lot of people on the internet.