RickRussell_CA

Currently, PopOS although I’m not really that enthusiastic about it.

What? Why would you choose that over Baptist Church of Missouri SynodOS, you heretic?

He came for a slice of cake.

I mean, Keiko.

What, is this a Canadian assassin?

angryupvote

By M. Night Shamaladingdong

Corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior

(whispers) … Harambe …

I’ve been using Ubuntu for years and I literally had no idea. Admittedly, I don’t deal with servers or anything, so I guess some of the stuff coming from their package respositories could be “snap” format and I wouldn’t really notice.

What the hell is a snap?

Slackware circa 1996

Spectrum’s “deal” for my location was 500/10 mbps for $90/month “introductory price”. I asked what the price would be at the end of the introductory period, and they refused to tell me.

Meanwhile, Frontier gives me 2/2 gbps for $100/month, no price changes.

I have no interest in TV, I don’t even pay for streaming, so at the end of the day Internet performance is all I care about.

I was surprised that Stewart was so glib.

Yes, watching video on your phone, in short bites, is “like” TV, and arguably some of that content can come from full-fledged “TV shows” with diverse talent and production companies and cable distribution…

But surely it has not escaped Stewart’s notice that a shocking amount of eyeball time is now on video content that is not produced by mainstream media – instead made by small creators & online teams working from their homes. And if you doubt the impact of that, go down to Walmart or Target and spend some time on the toy aisle. The shelves are PACKED with Baby Shark, Cocomelon, Busy Beavers, Blippi… all of these streaming-first non-mainstream brands that are mostly famous because of Youtube.

It’s odd, because Stewart himself is the one who benefited when cable TV made “narrowcasting” a thing. And now that there are even narrower narrowcasts, he can’t seem to see that it’s an existential threat to his way of making content.

I am so, so, SO glad I’m now in a home with access to fiber Internet. Real, 2 gigabit symmetric fiber.

The cable company keeps sending me glossy ads in the mail - several per week - trying to get me to go back to 1/4 the bandwidth at the same price. Uhhhh… no.

If the ladies don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you up to your ears in optical cable in a Jeffries tube.

He’s got radioactive nuts.

Where did he get a squirrel-sized spider costume?

Did Squirrel Girl make it for him? DID SHE ALREADY HAVE ONE JUST IN CASE?

laughs in California

sometimes you have to make a point and you just have no other way of doing so

Well, that’s just an excuse for bad leadership.

It was never a question of being technically right or wrong. Linus’ realization was that his inflammatory language was viewed as permission by other people in the Linux community to be verbally abusive to their peers. People who had been valuable contributors to Linux projects explained to Linus how they had been berated by colleagues, and when challenged those colleagues cited Linus’ own language.

What Linus wants is working code, and you don’t get working code by giving tacit permission to your most aggressive & abrasive community members to attack others.