freewheel

joined 2 years ago
[–] freewheel 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let's be real. For Biden it was nothing more than thumbing his nose at Trump, because he knew that Trump would act like a 13-year-old and try to reverse everything his predecessor did.

[–] freewheel 73 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Musk sent a powerful message to all Tesla owners with this stunt. I hope everyone's listening.

[–] freewheel 1 points 2 months ago

Probably true, but Arch being what it is, there's still the option to install sysvinit or whatever. The question remains - how important is NOT using systemd to the admin in question?

[–] freewheel 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My team unanimously dumped various jetbrains products a couple of years ago when a particular event started, on the urging of just one QA engineer. Made no utilitarian sense whatsoever, but it made them feel warm and cozy.

[–] freewheel 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gentoo, Arch, and their derivatives still exist. How important is a legacy init system to you?

[–] freewheel 5 points 2 months ago

Best practices change. For example, no one is still recommending manually editing the CHS start of a boot partition on your spinning rust device in order to optimize throughput.

[–] freewheel 19 points 2 months ago

Legal eagle on YouTube and nebula has a recent video on this very subject. Short form? It's over.

[–] freewheel 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that should be obvious to even the most casual observer. In practice however it doesn't matter. There will always be layers to any bureaucracy. The need is to start peeling back the layers.

For the record, this sort of rhetoric does not help. All you're achieving (perhaps your goal) is to push people away from the fight.

[–] freewheel 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Vote as if there weren't two full sets of electors insulating you from the actual outcome.

[–] freewheel 5 points 3 months ago

Funny thing is, I did neither of those things the last time I had need to install; the script handled it for me.

[–] freewheel 1 points 3 months ago

Where, precisely, did I say it was? No system is secure. Some attempt to promote security by design and practice, and some make it all too easy to give up security in the name of entertainment.

[–] freewheel 2 points 3 months ago

Today I learned that simply allowing somebody else to be and look like they want to is privilege. Pray tell, kind being, how does one avoid this sort of privilege? Should I be pushing my opinion on everything with ears?

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