If you’re comfortable running Docker, check out net probe. It comes with an all in one logging/graphing stack that will probe your internet quality based on lag and packet loss. Default configs is good enough to get you going and you can tinker to your heart’s content from there. Probably won’t play Black Sabbath automatically though unfortunately!

You will probably hear a lot of hate about Manjaro but I absolutely love it. I have an AMD/nvidia laptop (possibly one of the worst combinations to have according to legend) and Manjaro ended up being the most stable distro for me. It is Arch adjacent but comes with sane defaults. Then I found my-laptop specific kernels and now I am in heaven. Uptime is at 21 days but still buttery smooth 165Hz KDE6 Wayland goodness every time I use it.

I felt the exact same how you do now, once I got it up and running how I liked it, I (almost) never booted Windows again.

Only use TeamCity professionally but the licence model is transparent and a doddle. No bloated loaders, wanky arbitrary rule or ridiculous gotchas, and the software is yours to keep (minus support) thereafter. They even recently released CVE mitigation patches for 2016 versions recently. I didn’t resent paying them money at all.

Today’s lucky 10,000

seriously, make aws look like documentation kings

brain dead take.

tf does age have to do with any of this? you’re here replying too, how old are you? how are you pigeon holing the cartoon according to your own limited interpretation?

Only one way to find out.

Have you ever come across thalidomide? Or asbestos? Or smoking? Or a laundry list of other such, some even genuinely well intentioned interventions, that have caused a small benefit yet a great harm which was only discovered half a generation later at times. I’m not even talking about the known harms caused in the name of profit.

With this, it would be kinda silly to say we haven’t been wrong at all for the past 120 years. I’m not knocking being wrong either, we can often learn much more from failures, especially failures of others if we are really smart. Science (of all kinds) has, does and always will progress in a trial and error, haphazard fashion despite all grand standing to otherwise. To deny others that same opportunity is hypocritical and ignorant.

/Ted talk

That is exactly how most research works and has always worked. Most major discoveries were not the direct result of tackling a problem head on but in fact a side effect of unrelated tinkering or discovering new uses for older research gathering dust. No one has a monopoly on the unpredictable nature of it and I find the sneering, gate keeping attitudes (portrayed in op) nauseating.

This is literally what researchers do and this is literally how civilisation has always progressed. Feel free to blindly suck dick at the altar of science like a momo but there are far too many examples of world renowned “experts” either missing the blindingly obvious or being entirely incorrect for me to take their word for it.

Reminds me of the time I had a nvidia GPU laptop and was distro hopping like a rabbit on crack trying to find something stable. Surprisingly enough it was Arch that proved to be the most stable and what I ended up sticking to.

What like all the people in Gaza? Damn those sneaky Palestinian women and children!

Too much soy clogging up the brain.

I would gladly go to a local slaughterhouse but alas all I have is factory meat around me.

So cattle eat things that humans cannot and convert them into things we can. They poop and urinate to fertilise the place, graze in places not suitable for crops, churn the soil as they move about and it turns out plants needs to be grazed. All this is easily searchable information. Bear in mind I am not talking about factory cattle, which is a cruel and awful practice that probably should be banned.

This article lays out the argument pretty well for example.

Nor is vegan eating consequence free for life. Factory farming, much like factory meat in some ways, obliterates vast amounts and variety of life that previously resided in that given field. It is also contributing to rapid worldwide top soil decline, something no one seems to give a shit about. Ecological cattle raising could be a mitigation to both issues but some people have too much soy clogging up the brain to do their own thinking.

Beards are makeup for men, change my mind.

Even if it crashes and burns people like these should have statues made in their honour.