That’s just systemd adding a birthdate field to their userdb. Doesn’t require that it be filled out or accurate

Whoosh.

The self-important creator of Systemd has personally blocked that PR, if I’m hearing correctly, which would suggest he or his employer Microsoft is all in on it.

Maybe this’ll take the shine off that wunderkinder mess and people will finally be free to choose something more reliable. I love how RH pushed this beta software so hard and my reboots are now just shite – unreliable and occasionally ridiculously delayed.

I’ll be glad to see the back of that metastatic shitball.

weird grab bag

You don’t mention whether that is adherence to the FHS or denial of it.

One of those options is, to be clear, violating a standard.

The CI turned me off though. It’s like they saw how bad GitHub is for CI and said “no notes. Just like that”

And I use the CI config a huge amount.

So lennart personally blocked the revert? Fucking on-brand for all he’s wrecked in Linux.

Is he still working at Microsoft, or was he just too special for them too?

Wow. Every word of that is frightening.

I left my union job when a toxic manager started becoming … toxic. The new dot-com job was a really great fit.

So I quit, hopped a plane, flew about 6 hours, found a hotel overnight, stayed at a really shitty AirB&B for a day because the first apartment was rented out from underneath me, found ANOTHER apartment, and thankfully close to work because, yes, it was a foot commute in December at -40c/-40f until the wife sold our place, paid movers, gathered the two cats and flew out.

Started work day one. They’d changed the job description while I was on a fucking plane. Those fuckers. But there I was, 4,000 km from home, no job, and while this was before the house sold, the job market back home was absolute shite. No going back.

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You’re represented by your words. It can cost you opportunities.

snaps aren’t the end of the world

System engineers all collectively shuddered at that thought. Then OS security nerds.

This is the “I tried heroin and it was good” story but for OSes

I’ve worked on suse as part of Unitedlinux.

No, I’d say it’s not forgotten. Just repressed.

Even if you ARE irreplaceable and crucial to success, the company will only realize it a month after you’re gone.

I get this like 6 times a year.

Wait. Are you my alt account?

I did non-profit work. If you wanna see absolute abuse of employees, go do non-profit. “You have to stay late (for free). Think of the children!”

They’re chronically understaffed while sometimes overstaffed with volunteers who don’t add to the expertise and still require experienced training every shift; but you can’t ignore their attempt to contribute because “the children” need them. So your day is trying to get routine things done amid relentless interruption for the same thing you told an unskilled empty-nester yesterday.

It makes one say things that sound really bad in the reading of, like the bit above. I promise it’s just experience and, while all effort is good, the least beneficial ones do stand out.

I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me.

I second this.

Since about 2002, I’ve had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of yum-cron I’ve seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that’s it.

So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I’ve seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homelab) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That’s it.

We have a LOT of work to do because our healthcare has been severely damaged by COVID antivaxers dying and then politicians trying to cheap out in the rebuild, and our infrastructure is frail as well, and we have a Serious problem with faux-ristocrats in the flatlands just wrecking everything they can…

But it’s not bad. I won’t go bankrupt from a bad car accident, I can walk to the metro or for most of my groceries, I work from home and love it, etc.

Yeah, it’s not perfect but we can fix it once we’re done confirming girls and boys can kiss one another, that education is valuable, non-white people are cool, immigrants aren’t the cause of a housing shortage, and all that which I’m sure many other countries have a subset of. But we’ll get there.

I just hope we continue to make least-worse choices at the polls. The longer Trump is in power and dribbling into a microphone to remind us what conservatism brings, the better we are.

Often the rj-12 handset cabling would not plug directly into the rj-11 jacks. If they did, I’d be surprised to learn they’d work on the wire as-is.

Indeed. It’s more like metastatic cancer, though.

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If you’re not writing, then I’m not reading. And I’m not sitting around for 5 minutes while the text of a (assumed) single paragraph pops onto the screen at a pace even the UN would say is slow.