IMO Debian is already pretty far middle-ground. The packages are new enough for my personal usage.

Can anyone enlighten me: What is the advantage of IRC over say Matrix, Email, etc…

RT systems are all about responsibility.

When you’re driving a vehicle, the vehicle has a lot of CPUs inside that help the steering.

When these CPUs pause - for even 0.4 seconds - something bad can happen. Somebody can get seriously injured, or even killed. So it is very important that these systems never freeze or pause for any reason. That is what RT is all about.

It’s only a matter of time until Google Maps will enshittify, too.

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Except the teapot. The teapot is highly valuable.

HTTP I’m a teapot

explanation

Computer programmers are the wizards of the present.

more like a power button

bottom dom sounds interesting 🤔

Well, if you have asymmetric cables, there’s always one clearly-defined host and the other one is the slave.

it works like sex: with usb-c, both devices more or less kinda have ti “negotiate” who’s dom and who’s sub. that takes extra negotiation effort and makes the protocol more complicated. and therefore more expensive imo.

Also, what does “a computer” mean?

Smartphone? Tablet? Laptop? what about in-airplane displays? what about cashier tablets? what about computers without a display? what about ATMs?

The easiest thing would be to mount a remote network storage as a local directory. This way you can easily access it to read and write through normal software.

I support this proposal.