Puppy has saved my ass multiple times. Love that tiny dog.

Speaking of Tails, a security minded user can also try out Qubes as well. It uses virtualization to separate different contexts like Work, Personal, Social, etc. You can have your Work profile connect to your workplace VPN while your Personal profile is on a torified connection in parallel. It does have its drawbacks, however. You need more system resources, and anything that requires direct access to GPU like videogames is not officially supported.

So we’ll have to say GNU/Linux/SystemD soon?

No problems running on the AMD graphics?

Let’s wait until 2050s.

I’ve made the switch over a decade ago. Ubuntu was the gateway drug. I have to use windows at work, but that’s it.

I’m guessing there’s a reduced pool of desktop pc users, thus Linux users are now slightly bigger in proportion? There has been big advances regarding Linux adoption, too.

Similar here. I have switched to xfce after struggling with gnome and kde.

There’s a conlang introducing phonemic hats, so why the hell not?

This is why I dread working with anything ‘too consumer friendly’.

Wasn’t it a few years ago that scientists working on human genes renamed something because excel was chaging it every time?

I used Opera when it used Presto instead of becoming a yet another chromium. I miss that one.

Are those USB naming schemes, or edgy usernames from 2000s like xXx_31Gen3x1HardCore_xXx?

My workplace insists on using dot net classic to recreate a twenty years old VB app that should be able to drink, vote, and drive.

Please send help. SQL queries are a spaghetti mess and all the original devs are probably gone or dead.

I am so sorry, man. No one deserves this.

And this is why alcoholism is rampant. Please free me from this insanity.

I scream silently everytime.

And then there’s .net classic and .net core. Making up two entirely separate names shouldn’t be difficult for marketing executives.

I still think YYYY-MM-DD should be more apt for an international release.

Remember that banking and finance is full of regulations, and have moving speed of snail. Opposite of IT. When asked for something like this (open source or cross compatibility or anything nerdy) the first question is “who will be liable for losses and damages when something breaks?”.

Liability is probably the biggest factor. When something isn’t working properly, they want to be able to point fingers at someone and blame them. The vendor then blames someone else. Open source tends to be the polar opposite, which means huge red flags - hippie stuff, no payment, no liability, no pointy-blaming game.

Or so I’ve heard from people working in that sector. For places as conservative as them to deploy FOSS solutions, you’ll need the government branches cooperating with clearly worded laws and regulations, dragging them kicking and screaming into adoption.

And that’s assuming no one will lobby against in the process.

Its very ingrained on me that a proper business should be able to spare a few on a domain for themselves, as I remember it before the dot-com bubble.

Now? Websites have been displaced by social media altogether and many small business simply prefer having an Instagram profile, for example.

Yeah, that’s what happens, something cool but that’s it. It would be nice if l could use it for something else other than a glorified online resume.

I also bought a cheap domain for experimenting around, so that’s where all my “not so professional” stuff goes.