Do you genuinely think that’s going to be soon?

Seem that I’ve been hearing about mainstream RISC being “just around the corner” for around three decades.

Good question.

26 years ago I was a volunteer community manager for a (at the time) huge fps for a big online gaming community. That involved effectively recruiting and managing a group of admins, developing a system of monitoring and anticheat reporting. In hindsight I put way too much time into that but I have difficulty limiting.

It was tiring. 4/5 hours every night after work. No social life. All my choice.

I don’t regret it. I did good, I think. With the team, we stopped a lot of really nasty racism and other abuse. Really helped inform and prevent aimbotting and similar cheating (went down a whole other rabbit hole and ended up writing several guides on the subject). Generally made the servers a nicer place to play. I was offered a job with the company, but I couldn’t take it - and they’ve since closed doors.

Downsides: Death threats, doxxing attempts, a long running issue with another admin who didn’t like me firing him. The charismatic cheaters who think they can charm their way around a ban with begging and promises. The entitled players who’ve never been told “No” before and get ridiculously angry. It can be a lot.

Now I try to help around the edges rather than be the main guy. I do manage a biggish facebook group, but it doesn’t need a lot of input.

It’s a lot of work, but if you’re feeling tired or overhwelmed and thinking negative thoughts about these releases - then don’t. It’s a good thing.

These are bugs that already exist and, in some cases, are almost certainly being actively exploited by criminals and government-backed organistions both.

Whilst we might ask that some are a little more responsible with their disclosures, overall this is a massive boost to computer security once we get over this hill of information.

It’s a positive thing, don’t be worried.

These vulns already existed. It’s possible the bad guys were already using them. This gets them out in the open and on their way to being resolved.

Just keep patches up to date with any modern and maintained distro and you’ll be grand.

fuck printers

Spoken like a professional.

SME here, moving around 300 vms from Rocky to Debian.

But your question is really too vague. Our workflows are quite traditional, but the world is a big place and there is no single right answer here.

/If/ he’s declining (I like spankinspinach’s answer) through dementia, then as someone who’s watched their very intelligent mother, their step-father and their uncle all decline with it - my answer to “how do you accept this?” is - you can’t.

Oh, you can be rational, and sympathetic, and take steps to protect them and get them the care they need - but emotionally? Dude, it’s fucking hard. Seeing someone go through their own denial in the early stages, how they try to trick you into thinking they’re okay. As it progresses and they have to surrender, then the oblivion that inevitably follows. Watching my own mother forget every single fact about our shared memories to the point she didn’t even know who I was, then worse, when she thought I was my father. Then her regression to a little girl. (That sounds linear but it isn’t)

If he is going down that route, then the only thing to do is try to prepare yourself for a whole world of hurt and anger. Be strong, be the parent for them, but die yourself inside.

Extended Warranties.

As in the pig from Charlotte’s Web?

Says the millennial, complainingly.

Dunno. I use Debian, so that stuff just works from day 1.

It’s about market share (“Your first hit is free…” marketing), but you’re probably seeing only one aspect.

They’re already charging very real money for subscription users, especially enterprise.

Uber spent $3.4bn, their entire budget for AI fees for 2026, within the first four months of this year - that’s real money by anyone’s definition.

We (not Uber) set up a monitoring portal (litellm) to manage this. Some users are burning through a surprising amount, hitting what we considered sane daily limits within their first hour. One person asked a single query that cost $30 .

Individual consumers of AI are riding free on this as the big AI players jostle for position and valuation.

Will that bubble burst or gradually deflate? Or keep growing longer? Nobody knows, or if they do they’re investing cleverly and keeping their mouth shut.

And also why tahler is seen in some old books, and those in well researched fantasy - some origin.

Turn the router off and see how long before your family notices.

I enjoy being a linux sysadmin. I still do some web full stack, but largely for my own team and I have full autonomy over what tools I use. Can’t be many other people writing websites in perl today.

Seriously, wtf Redhat?

Long term and by all accounts, valuable, employee makes a reasonable request for distance working and gets denied? What’s more, them leaving has landed them with a serious problem about maintaining key software.

I’ve not been a big fan of Redhat for some years now, but that’s a new IBM smelling low. Their best years are definitely behind them.

I don’t disagree that some are like that, and the only reason tax laws in many countries in particular are so complicated are because of politicians squeezing in exceptions that benefit them.

But it’s far, far from “all laws”. The quality of life and legality for average people has changed a huge amount for the better. Even in my lifetime in the UK. When I was a child, it was illegal to be homosexual. You were openly discriminated for being black, Irish, foreign, fat, old, young. Now there are laws to protect against that. My wife’s mother had to get her brother to sign the paperwork to buy a house because even in the 1950s, women couldn’t get a mortgage without a man guaranteeing it. Those are just a few examples.

If you’re American, then yeah, maybe your system is skewed far to the rich beyond what most countries do. It’s long been the case that justice in the US doesn’t apply to the rich, but the US is not everywhere and not everything, despite what the current news cycles might tell you.

I understand why someone might think that, but it’s not true, except perhaps in the most corrupt of countries.

This can’t be a surprise to anyone though, right?

I think he’s fairly credible, but it’s obvious he also likes talking and being the center of attention so I suspect will exaggerate for attention. Being Ex-CIA guy is also his business, so he has motive for continuing to appear interesting and relevant. I think it’s prudent to remain a little sceptical.