Different people are motivated differently. My work is meaningful but it's not enough to feel like I'm having fun every day. Some dopamine is basically critical for me to function. It's always a bit wild when people feel they can generalize their own experience and assume it must be the case for everyone else. This needs more I statements.
Many things in the list are niche concerns, counter to the design of Wayland or are actually solved today. But regardless the beauty of Linux is choice. I hope X11 and non-systemd distros stick around for the few that have those niche concerns. I think a lot of frustration from these folks come from the fact that they wished they weren't in a niche and better served by more maintainers, but that ship has sailed. For mainstream use-cases this has mostly been a good thing.
Web developers should be forced to use hardware that's roughly at the 10th percentile in performance of their user base, not the 90th. Alternatively, make performance a WCAG concern.
Absolutely, and this trend didn't start with the current AI boom. It started getting tough for people around ~2017 (with some exceptions in between). Before that you could likely get a job right out of a boot camp. Supply now has far outweighed demand on the junior level.
On Windows, doesn't this technically mean OP is running Linux inside a Linux VM inside Windows? From what I understand Docker is Linux tech and to use it anywhere else a (small) Linux VM is required. If true, I would just dispense with the extra layer and just run a Linux VM. Not to discourage experimentation though!
It's still an interesting post, because if true I'd still be curious how you'd get 20 million people to load anything.
But the title here is totally misleading because it sure sounds like someone took control of 9% of the ipv4 address space but the actual post starts with context.
One correction that I can't leave on the actual article (subscriber only!) is that I'm certain multi-screen support worked on Windows 98. Excellent article as usual though!
This article is probably the first time I 'get' why OS/2 was seen as the future and Windows 3 as a stop-gap, even without the GUI. The OS/2 GUI never really blew me away and every early non-GUI versions of OS/2 are mentioned it always seemed a bit dismissive.
But seeing it laid out as just the multi-tasking kernel that it is it seems more obvious now as a major foundational upgrade of MS-DOS.
Raspberry Pi OS is a derivative and not straight up debian. It's not a released yet. A beta exists and looks like this one will support an in-place update
Great idea, but pretty painful at the moment. I guess not everything uses this protocol yet, so I often can't find (for example) my password pops under other windows. Hoping this gets a bit better over time, it's one of the last remaining Wayland pains.
If anyone is looking to get started with a homelab at a good price, I can highly recommend checking ebay for a Dell Wyse 5070. They flooded the market for $50 and are likely powerful enough for many needs. They have a M.2 slot that support SATA. The 'extended' version also has space for a small pcie card and has a parallel and 2 serial ports for a blast to the past.
The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.
Gnome user, but for me one of the last major issues with Wayland is lack of focus stealing, including KeepassXC appearing under my browser when I need it
shutdowns can be done in software like 'sudo systemctl halt', so it doesn't need a line straight to the motherboard. That's the desired path because it lets running applications gracefully close and finish writing to disk.
This is less about what metaphors are under the hood, but the patterns used on top of them. You can get technical, but it's definitely possible to write primarily functional, imperative or object-oriented code in Python, irrespective of what the syntax is for dealing with primitives.
I just learned air-gapped includes private networks. I was under the impression this strictly meant isolated non-networked computers. Was this always the case or has the term diluted over time?
This is such an absurd argument. It's wild that you took the time to write this. But the next time you run into a problem like this, just ask a co-worker. I'm sure they can handle the logistics of giving something away for free.
Also thought that was quite wasteful. Even ethernet cables are cut. Why not just put them online for free pickup?
Also I can't help wondering if the switch to cloud makes sense for stack overflow now again because their traffic collapsed. I took the whole post as something that should be mourned a bit, not gleefully destroyed.