In addition to other comments,read about Ada Lovelace. She was brilliant, she wrote the first program, and done so before we had computers!

I really don’t get it, I moved to NixOS some years ago. Okay, first few months I had to fiddle with configurations and add some packages that were missing. Everything past those early months was a blast.

Replacing a dead laptop? The most time consuming part (for me) is making a bootable USB. After that I can push my already ready made configuration and just back to where I was (backs ups are important).

Working on different versions of Python? No problem, a small nix script for each environment.

Working with different versions of GCC? Same as Python.

Everything just works. And if I fuck around I can revert the change. I can easily experiment in a way that will no fuck affect my ability to work.

At work we have Ubuntu, and I got the conclusion that nuking Canonical’s offices will be a blessing on humanity. They manage to deliver broken packages for years, even packages that work well on Debian.

If I’m reading their CEOspeak right, their objective is to fire the very experienced people, that costs a lot of money, and replace them with people that costs less.

I never worked at Google, so I don’t know for sure, but it sounds like the Python team is important and that this will backfire. As the people that costs less will also be less skilled, and Python is an important piece for AI/ML research, where Google is already lagging behind. The AI people in Google will get lower quality help with Python, and Google will lag even further behind.

That what happens when the CEO is an MBA and not an engineer.

My highly non-technical SO cursed Microsoft when they pushed that shit into her computer. She didn’t need to understand what AI means, it took space on her task bar and showed useless notifications. Making her annoyed by the space taken, disturb her focus and slow her computer.

She is stuck on Windows due to a tool she is dependent upon. Already asked me to install Linux on her computer once she have a replacement that will work on Linux.

tl;dr: non technical people are too pissed at MS.

You can easily load PDFs into kobo readers, at-least into mine. However, most PDFs will be unreadable. To reads PDFs properly on a e-reader you need a screen that is at-least as big as their render size. Meaning, that if the PDF was built for A4, your experience will be, in most cases, lacking on any screen smaller than A4.

I have no experience using such big eink and can’t comment on their quality.

Bought a math book from them, they refunded it with no questions, after I read a lot of it, because some of the equations were unreadable.

I did not know you could do that! My trick was to connect while parents were hussy, then distracting them from the phone the whole evening.

We had hopes for the future and internet connections made sounds.

DNA free

Ubuntu is really buggy. Including bug reports that has a simple fix and stay open for years.

Just look how they handled Graphviz

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphviz/+bug/1409280

They somehow manage to break packages that just work everywhere else.

On top of that they add shity homemade solutions such as snap cus they have to reinvent the wheel. They than discard them a few years later and use proper solution created by more capable people (upstart lol).

NixOS or Debian. Don’t install Ubuntu or Arch on your work computer.

Function

I don’t own a yoga mat

The ride of life doesn’t stop. Enjoy or suffer, the ride continues.

Shouting near someone may cause damage to the hears. Don’t do that. Capital letters let me understand you are emotional, but cause no earing loss.

Sir, email is text based communication, no yelling was involved.

Mistakes in the Linux kernel can cause damages that are measured in millions and even get people killed.

If you can’t be bothered to focus on your work and get criticism when you fuck up, work on something else.

Linus’ message here isn’t personal, his criticism is limited to the product created by the person. Something that any mentally healthy adult should have no problem with.

What’s the effect of having rust in the kernel?

If you don’t see how unaligned the numbers are, you are drunk.

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I’m happy with NixOS for my self. But it may help get less technical people free from Ubuntu.