The most stable system is one that is out of support. No updates == No breakage! 😄

I wasn’t clear and that seems to have cause some confusion. I was talking about the Linux kernel itself, and only the Linux kernel.

There are two sides to the Linux kernel: internal exposed to drivers and such, external syscalls exposed to the public. That’s what I was talking about.

All bets are off with 3rd party software. That’s just a general problem in software development. It’s not specific to Linux, and it’s why vendoring libraries is recommended.

This is why all the 3rd party software is frozen at a point-in-time with fixes backported in distros like Debian or RHEL. It fixes the problems of devs being mercurial. The distro is the SDK. It creates a stable base, and it works rather well.

Unfortunately, most software relies on libc and a compiler. Both of which can be problems, and both of which are external to the Linux kernel. There’s not much which relies on only kernel syscalls.

Basically. Out-of-tree drivers are annoying without an LTS kernel.

There are also out-of-tree drivers which don’t get mainlined for one reason or another even though they are FOSS. OpenZFS has this problem, and now so does bcachefs.

1. The user land API/ABI is stable to a fault in Linux. The kernel API/ABI is unstable.

2. Companies are cheap. They hired web devs then tasked them with building a desktop application rather then hiring people to write native apps. They had a hammer and used it to fix every problem they had.

3. macOS is just as affected by electron apps as a Linux is.

4. Electron is horrible, but it does bring apps to many an OS once Chromium is ported.

5. Open protocols or open APIs from the company would fix the non-native app problem.

It is. It’s just not particularly good outside of a X11/Wayland environment.

I think this being worked on though.

How is this applicable to the comment? Companies never figured out how to charge rent for those.

Devs see home computers as a free resource, and the burden is on the consumer to buy a computer which runs their software.

Nah. Web devs will create even more bloated web pages to keep home computing in business.

For real though, most people don’t need that much computing power, and we reached the plateau 12 years ago. That’s why we’re seeing crypto and AI grifts happen. They recentralize decentralized systems. The elites are striking back.

You know the saying“information wants to be free; information wants to be expensive”? This is the expensive part where people try to horde knowledge by making it inaccessible to everyday people.

Awesome! Previously, Evolution was the only Linux client which supported Exchange, and Evolution is… well…. 😕

That’s going on the list. My heart says I don’t need this, but my brain says I do.

A-series would already be at a disadvantage due to being designed for iPhones and the design parameters that entails compared to the M-series.

The M-series Mac Pro was always for companies which were going to rack them and use them in render farms. Normal people was never its intended market. It was more of an Xserve successor.

Apple would need to design a different CPU for the Mac Pro, and the limited market doesn’t make it feasible. Descending the M-series CPUs from the A-series limits what the designs can do.

There are rumors of a CPU split in the Apple lineup. iPhone, iPad, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook get the A-series, and MacBook Pro, Mac Studio. Mac Pro get the M-series. That would make sense, and might give them some room to expand the “Pro” procs.

I’m getting $40 worth of joy looking at that, so fair. 😃

One nit to pick for anyone who reads this later.

/srv is probably a more appropriate location than /mnt. /srv is for local data services are going to serve.

Yeah, it’s not hard to rehab a cast iron skillet after messing it up. 🙂 I still got a cheap stainless skillet after some sauces experiences though.

I do this too, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem most of the time. 🙂

I also regularly cook fatty meat or fry things in it, so it gets some nice work inbetween, which probably helps.

Acidic stuff will eat into the seasoning on cast iron, so that be careful with those.

The old cast iron skillets might have lead.

This is why god made humans. He gave us free will as an experiment in chaos. We are the millions of monkeys typing on typewriters.

Qualcomm is pretty dumb. Even if this were true, they’d still be leaving Linux support to the community.

The universe is just being restored from backups. It took 7 days to fond a backup which would boot, and the Time to Restore was wildly inaccurate.