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how incompetent he was at trying Linux anything

I went off him a long long time ago. When he was building "servers" in the bathroom, balancing machines and generally being a useless hack. He is a home user, humping stuff together and never took the time back then to learn how to do it right. The excuse was always "you can't know everything at first" while never actually taking any time to learn, any time to explain what he was learning or any time to teach. So in the end, you get a poor uninformed opinion. It's interesting to see nothing has changed.

As I've developed my opinion on social media, it is a regular pattern. People want to glamorise having a rack server, they don't want to glamorise the time it takes to learn how to rack machines, wiring management, power management, heat dispersal, network interfaces, resource balancing and management. Planning skills, for power, storage, etc.

Hikers want to show amazing pictures of the top of mountains. Not the thousands of hours map reading, training, being exposed to weather.

Gym goers want to show the competition and the physique. Not the hours of sweat, eat, sweat, injury, recover, sweat.

Linus wants to show "wow LEDs dood" but not the time it actually takes to learn to build and use a computer to its best.

You've hit the nail on the head (from my perspective) and it was basically what I was going to say.

Umami is the big hit on flavour. So replacing with another Umami source. Mushroom ketchup, Marmite/Vegemite, (Vegan) Oyster sauce alternatives would all fit the bill. All of these are shelf stable for a long time, so can be bought in bulk and used repeatedly.

I am an IT bod with a mountain rescue team in the UK. Personally I would bin starlink in a heartbeat. I dislike Elon, I dislike the privatisation of satellite garbage. The impact it had on the night sky, on astronomy. I dislike the pettish for abuse from a fascist American oligarchy and government.

However... For now it is by far the single best option when cell communications are out of range.

It's a good start ... but ... if you've done what I think you've done, you've made the tip quite a wide angle.

In this first picture the secondary bevel is the "dark" grey section. At you get to where you've ground it, the secondary bevel gets a lot thinner. This means this part of the knife is "blunter" on the bevel. You might be able to get the same apex, but it wont cut as well.

I'd start at that tip and try and make the bevel even thickness the whole length of the blade.

Why would anyone have started a war with Iran?

  • Negotiations were in place for nuclear disarmament, that nobody was projecting failure on.
  • Hormuz was always a known entity to the intelligence communities.
  • Israel has long needed to be told to get back in its box.

"we" don't need it. Despite every large civilisation inventing it, small civilisation (150 person village) just doesn't. And can thrive quite happily without it.

It's when civilisation gets larger that we "need" money. You can't build the LHC or Artemis 2 without some form of intermediary currency. The problem is, to do that you end up with the issues of power imbalances.

Even then, not having to move your hands means not spending time... Moving your hands.

This is useful for people who want to spend time learning to be enforcement at what they do. In the same way that holding a Nintendo controller "weird" is useful for Tetris speed runners.

If you are as efficient as you need to be using a shower interface, then great. Other people need (or more likely want) to be more efficient than that.

Maybe I'm a luddite, but I still don't understand why people want to spend their time arguing with Claude code and fixing it's bugs. Rather than just learning to write productive coffee themselves. But, people do. That's their choice, and I let them to it.

If prefer to spend my time learning him and code, than Claude and idiosyncrasies, and then whatever to comes next, and next again.

Did the most damage... But I'm not sure he's villainous. Just competently dangerous. Happy to be corrected but I thought tmjr was trying to improve the world. He just got massively unlucky... Multiple times.

20+ years in industry as a UNIX and Linux admin. Informed but potentially biased.

Linux admins have tended in my career to be more expensive. They tend to be more week rounded as engineers. Linux by it's nature, especially in the past, required you to be a DBA, network admin, server admin, developer all in one. They can often fix problems quicker than the support engineer elsewhere can read the ticket.

That means you pay more per engineer, MBAs don't like this. This is a critical problem. You pay less overall in staff costs because you need less staff, MBAs don't understand this. MBAs like support contracts so they can offset blame.

A small, concise, tight nit, well payed admin team who have ownership and care about a product will be cheaper, and have more uptime than the alternatives. But they'll also be obstinate, high payed, entitled and ready to jump ship if you mistreat them. That means you need actual diplomacy and social skills to manage them well.

A small tight nit team with product ownership will need a kick up the arse at times to change "what ain't broke". So when product requirements need a radically different solution that can take time to change.

There is a reason that industry breaking startups in the early 2000s had their corporate backbones on Linux.

on we need more users · c/fediverse · 18 pts · 234d

This. So much of this.

I see the same with any federated platform. People are excited to explain how complicated and clever and different services and integrations and... Shut the fuck up.

App, sign-up, post, like, subscribe. Done.

People will learn the rest if it is important enough to them to master

Constrained supply

But there are empty properties now. There is supply. House prices are too high for all of the property to be affordable. That is because property as an appreciating investment is valuable. You can only live in one house, to buy multiple properties and have that appreciated investment, you are a landlord.

Low interest rates

allow you to buy a property. They allow people investing in housing to buy many. It results in the above.

Banks pushing bigger mortgages

Sure

Help to buy

Allows affordable housing to become an investment. See my first point.

Rich people were losing to much money

Yep, some of those people were landlords who were finding city prices dropping.

Clearly landlord culture isn't the "only" problem. But fuck me it's a big part of the issue.

Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.

Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.

I make nearly incomprehensible screeches ... is that a word

No (or at least it depends on your definition of a word). For being added to the Cambridge dictionary, it is not in general or widespread usage. Your random screech is not historically or socially worthy of being documented. It likely has no suitable examples for coinage. You screech has no linguistic staying power, it wont be used by you and others in a few years time.

English does not have an academy. It does not have a rulebook that defines exactly what it is. Unlike languages like French (as an example ... with all of the social linguistics that comes with that). The dictionary is a record of how the language is being used by a notable proportion of the population.

Skibidi is one of 6000 words being added, this year alone.

tradwife is a shortform, it’s not a word

There are lots of shortform, abbreviations and colloquialisms in the dictionary. If they are individually used/cited as words on their own basis then they can be listed in the dictionary.

Manure or rock, sure. I get that.

Plywood or sheet rock, standard sizes of sheet rock here in the UK for in a panel van and I have no worries about them getting wet out damaged en route.

Given the length limit of a truck bed, I can get much bigger things in a van then I could a truck.