Doesn’t surprise me that a developer from Microsoft doesn’t understand this. To this day, when I select “Update and Shut Down” in Windows, it only actually shuts the computer down about half the time.

There are some tasks that only can be done when the majority of the system is not in use. Windows prepares the files, reboots, does its thing in a preboot environment, then it actually shuts down.

Before that, we need to talk about the latent heat and the refrigeration cycle

His mother must be very proud

Also wouldn’t that pull in major antitrust violation cases especially in the EU?

Better still they had actually taken it and put in into production in place of the code that CTO had written, and which was the basis of the “correct” solution.

The test was just a set-up for free work.

I’m tempted to flood our Kconfig files with tabs just to prove a point, but let’s not make a mess where it’s not needed. However, if this idiocy persists, don’t be surprised if I start tabbing everything in sight.

This is genius.

I see no output regarding to ram corruption

*GNU\NT

Not going to help a lot but may point to a motherboard issue - I’ve experienced this under Windows and a reboot has solved it.

Actually the original is from StackOverflow

The thinklight was the spotlight embedded into the top of the screen that lightened up the keyboard (before backlight keyboards were a thing)

Good luck!

I have incompatible hardware.

Look up the difference between WSL1 and WSL2. If you’re using 2 just make sure you’re writing into /anything other than /mnt/driveletter, that should be ext4. For 1 it’s directly mounted on the ntfs filesystem and you’ll always have performance problems.

Lion (mountain variant)

The thing you call a “mountain lion” over there in the US isn’t a lion. It’s a cougar.

Domestic housecat -> all big cats (like Eevee)

Where’s the catch?

It’s like people still hating on Sony for their music division’s CD rootkit scandal from… 2005 I think?

• apt will brick itself if it gets interrupted mid transaction with no clear recourse apart from a total reinstall, so try not to get greedy and Ctrl+C if it looks like dpkg is hung

You can dpkg -r the package you tried to install then apt won’t complain about missing dependency packages for your app as it won’t be marked for to be installed

trying to install any software that isn’t already packaged explicitly for Ubuntu is a nightmare because there is no equivalent of the AUR for people to push build steps to and you’re quite often left guessing what dependencies you need to install to get something to compile

There isn’t a big global community repo per say like aur but anyone can host their own repos with PPAs, you just need to add them to your lists

Most apt quirks are there with Debian too, not just an Ubuntu thing. The rest of the things you mentioned are fair.

Ah. For me it’s not the search bar only but also if I select text and press Ctrl+C/press context menu Copy as well.
Interestingly, if sites put something in the clipboard (eg. Mastodon toot Copy link button) it works anywhere else.