How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/spilling_drink_on_c...

And - for the record - with darkness Barney may start playing peekaboo on his own:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030220095843/http://support.mic...

TBH, this line is more likely to said by Apple these days.

lightctl --user --room # command

Per room session otherwise you'll control all the lighting and annoy other users.

Why not go all the way to Tibet. (Acknowledging the exclusive western perspective here. I fail to think of an analogy for the west...)

There is an opportunity missed pointing out the ignored complexity of related implied conditionals (like flying across the globe), which were consequently not exploded onto the described stack. That is, within the narrative. Missed, because the scope of conditional complexity is pretty much arbitrary (point in the reader's resonance); "importance" is mostly a matter of subjective perception merely experienced as rational thoughts. Every egosyntonic thought is experienced as rational.

Internal task prioritization is part of executive functioning and e.g. broken in ADHD (everything feels important). However, it's perceived as consistent with the internal model of reality and not foreign (aka egosyntonic; "rational") no matter the expression and functional applicability.

There is the problem. It's not a question of better thinking or simple rules for analysing a problem, it's a problem asking for an hypervisor, who cares about time management/energy expenditure, not reasonability. For some people an instance can be internalized, or even just works out-of-the-box; for others it needs to be externalized.

But in Hals case he simply discovers other problems and gets distracted, e.g. He could still change the bulb before he fixes the shelf.

1 person who will protest against PHP and will write it in Node.js, bringing a hundred miles of wire along with it

  (riddles)
  %
  Q:      How many Californians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  A:      Five.  One to screw in the light bulb and four to share the
                  experience.  (Actually, Californians don't screw in
                  light bulbs, they screw in hot tubs.)
  
  Q:      How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  A:      Three.  One to screw in the light bulb and two to fend off all
                  those Californians trying to share the experience.
  %
  Q:      How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  A:      One.  He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem
          to the earlier joke.
  %
  (ethnic)
  %
  Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus?
  Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe.
  %
  To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he
  is allowed to drive a taxi in New York.  For New York cabbies, honesty and
  stopping at red lights are both optional.
                  -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
  %
  To a Californian, all New Yorkers are cold; even in heat they rarely go
  above fifty-eight degrees.  If you collapse on a street in New York, plan
  to spend a few days there.
                  -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
  %
  To a New Yorker, all Californians are blond, even the blacks.  There are,
  in fact, whole neighborhoods that are zoned only for blond people.  The
  only way to tell the difference between California and Sweden is that the
  Swedes speak better English."
                  -- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts

The startup puts a full suite of smart bulbs/switches in your house for free, and then charges you a monthly subscription fee (flat fee + a per-candela-second rate). Sure, there's a large up-front cost for the startup followed by a long amortization period before you start actually making money, but that's what VC is for.

Sure, the Sun is free now, but that will change once they figure out how to monetize it.

That second part is the key - so much stuff is designed "cloud first" and that introduces lots of delays and errors when the Internet isn't working perfectly.

Same with other things. I would buy those things.

And if they really are good they can become a mass market product.

Yet, we only get a phone or something and that's it.

Linux is a kernel, the rest are just a programs.

Should I refer to my system as gnu/i3/systemd/Mozilla/Linux?

It's easier to refer to modular systems using the one guaranteed common element, in this case, the kernel. It's not necessary to specify every major user-space program.

Seems a bit of a stretch to say that providing a bunch of command line utilities gives operating system naming rights.

I'm playing with voidlinux/musl in a virtual machine and it's pretty neat. Just found a couple of non-posix-isms in my programs thanks to that.

I've been considering using Alpine Linux or Void Linux as my main driver, though I haven't had a chance to investigate if it's a viable option.

It also depends heavily on the machine; if you use GNOME then you've got another big chunk of GNU in there, but in my case the only major part that I actually use frequently is GNU libc, a subset of the GNU coreutils (which I'd very much like to replace with something better by the way), and maybe a few others libraries left or right used by some applications.

But beyond that it's just occasional stuff (GIMP for example).

On my Alpine Linux servers I'm not sure if there's any GNU.