TimeSquirrel

If there’s only one physical ethernet port, I’m not sure why there are two wired connections. You try deleting the inactive one? Could have been a bug in an update script that hosed it.

Lemme tell you something, DO NOT learn BASIC as your first language. As a hobbyist, I avoided C/C++ for 25 years because I just didn’t get pointers and memory manipulation, and messed around with other languages like JS and PHP instead (also BASIC’s GOTO and GOSUB kinda ruined me as a programmer for a few years). But once it finally clicked a couple years ago, I now want to write EVERYTHING in C/C++.

I think plain C at least should be everybody’s first language. It literally reprograms your brain to think exactly like how a computer internally functions. I never got that with other languages, because they were so far removed from the actual machine.

Edit: also, after learning some of it, it’s pretty neat when you do stuff like look at parts of the Linux kernel source code and think “wow, I know what’s actually happening here now!”.

Linux and Windows are, I think, too different conceptually

That is correct. Linux is a UNIX variant/clone, one of many. UNIX isn’t just an OS, it’s an entire concept on how to build and organize an OS. People keep wanting it to be Windows, but it will never be Windows. I wish it could just stand on its own as a flexible, open, UNIX-like system with its own strengths, not just be a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop. Let’s make the UNIX way of doing things the normal, everyday way of doing things.

Because Wine and Proton exist. And they can run much more recent software, sometimes faster than on Windows. It’s a duplicated effort with not much benefit. Why limit yourself to just Windows programs when you can run Linux AND Windows programs on the same OS?

“I didn’t want to play that game anyway.”

Just wait until they discover rm, mv, and mkdir!

surely SUSE gets twice the blame, Red Hat gets 19 times the blame and Google gets 180 times the blame? (Not to mention Amazon, Meta, NVIDIA, etc.

Well…yeah?

I’m also talking about people like this that almost never get recognition until something huge we all depend on becomes a huge problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Those “neckbeards in the basement” created the very thing Canonical is trying to make its own. It’s just another corporation trying to profit off the back of FOSS developer labor.

Maybe have a bit more respect for hardworking programmers that are keeping the world spinning, with many doing it for no compensation.

It’s alright, I program C++ and barely understand this shit either. Kernel/OS devs are a different breed.

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Let it be. The people designing the OS most likely know better than you or anyone else in this thread. I know the urge to “tweak” things is strong, but some defaults are defaults for a good reason.

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According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.

Salt in the wound for VMware.

Firefox, GCC, VS Code (sorry, but Microsoft actually made something decent there, and yes, I do feel dirty using it).

https://youtu.be/2mzSV3uYbyY

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Now if they can fix the bug where once in a while I click to a tab and it doesn’t switch to it unless I minimize and maximize again, and needing a restart of the browser to get rid of that behavior…

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20 years ago:

“Hey I’ve got a great idea, let’s take all these little local decentralized things and put them all onto one centralized massive thing that needs 99.99999% uptime or the world’s fucked. Nothing will go wrong.”