It’s very weird for me to have been out of the loop on the linux/foss news fronts for so many years and then seeing this cropping up.
My first linux install was slackware back in (I think) 1994, when I downloaded 20-something high density 3.5” slackware floppies over my university’s dial up, which included dodging drops and busy signals. Linus at the time was seen as a kind of Woz sort of persona. He was all about the tech and very invested in the foss movement. There was the GNU/Linux drama, but that just looks quaint in hindsight.
There was an episode of (I think) The Other Two in which someone is dating tech executives. The billionaires are all Elon Musk-level weird, but she ends up meeting someone who is only a millionaire, and he’s pretty normal. In the middle of their date, he gets a phone call saying that his company is being acquired and he’s now a billionaire, and he then shaves his head and starts ranting while hanging from a balcony railing.
That’s what this feels like. Money can do really weird things to people.
This is Linus Sebastian, not Linus Torvalds. Has nothing to do with Linux. In fact, he tried running Linux a few months ago and made a huge mess of it.
Hahaha - okay, that makes a lot more sense. I had so completely lost track of the community and have just been getting back into it lately because of the fediverse community, and so when I heard “Linus Tech Tips,” I completely assumed it was Linus Torvalds. I had even talked to him on usenet (iirc) a couple of times, and couldn’t square the reports.
It’s very weird for me to have been out of the loop on the linux/foss news fronts for so many years and then seeing this cropping up.
My first linux install was slackware back in (I think) 1994, when I downloaded 20-something high density 3.5” slackware floppies over my university’s dial up, which included dodging drops and busy signals. Linus at the time was seen as a kind of Woz sort of persona. He was all about the tech and very invested in the foss movement. There was the GNU/Linux drama, but that just looks quaint in hindsight.
There was an episode of (I think) The Other Two in which someone is dating tech executives. The billionaires are all Elon Musk-level weird, but she ends up meeting someone who is only a millionaire, and he’s pretty normal. In the middle of their date, he gets a phone call saying that his company is being acquired and he’s now a billionaire, and he then shaves his head and starts ranting while hanging from a balcony railing.
That’s what this feels like. Money can do really weird things to people.
This is Linus Sebastian, not Linus Torvalds. Has nothing to do with Linux. In fact, he tried running Linux a few months ago and made a huge mess of it.
Hahaha - okay, that makes a lot more sense. I had so completely lost track of the community and have just been getting back into it lately because of the fediverse community, and so when I heard “Linus Tech Tips,” I completely assumed it was Linus Torvalds. I had even talked to him on usenet (iirc) a couple of times, and couldn’t square the reports.
Thanks for the clarification.
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