I’m not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

FUD

But then they can’t force you to watch claim that you watched the ad at the start of the video for that sweet advertiser revenue.

It was literally the tag line for Windows 98 I think!

The gag was that it just (barely) works.

No-one who buys a PC with windows preinstalled gets any choice at all… and had the preinstalled malware cme with it.

DFQOH

I can’t work out what this an acronym for. Please help!

Yes it is. Pick a newbie friendly distribution. Say Ubuntu.

IMHO Windows is only “user friendly” because it’s preinstalled on most PC’s.

User friendliness comes with experience.

adequate: of a quality that is acceptable but not better than acceptable

The default theme is also adequate for my needs. I don’t even change the wallpaper from the default.

Themes apparently require better than “adequate”.

GNOME is entirely adequate for my professional needs, which is… entirely adequate.

;-)

But the OS crashing as a result of that systemic failure may actually be the most reasonable desirable outcome compared to any other possible outcome.

In which case this should’ve been documented behaviour and probably configurable.

Hmmmm.

More like standing there and loudly shitting your pants and spreading it around the stage.

Except “freak out” could have various manifestations.

In this case it was “burn down the venue”.

It should have been “I’m sorry, there’s been an issue, let’s move on to the next speaker”

Poorly written code can’t.

In this case:

1. Load config data
2. If data is valid:
   1. Use config data
3. If data is invalid:
   1. Crash entire OS

Is just poor code.

If anything, it’s probably calmed P’n’S down a bit…

Used to be an LVM group using the LVM docker volume driver. So every container volume became its own LV.

Now just a bunch of devices behind a btrfs volume mounted on /var/lib/docker or wherever.

In the past I’ve tended towards /srv/* as most mounts end up being application specific storage.

Though now it is all mounted as container volume storage.

Eeeh, if anything, systemd is Microsoft’s contribution.

/s sort of

I haven’t wanted an Intel processor for years. Their “innovation” is driven by marketing rather than technical prowess.

The latest batch of 13900k and again with 14900k power envelope microcode bullshit was the final “last” straw.

They were more interested in something they could brand as a competitor to ryzen. Then left everyone who bought one (and I bought three at work) holding the bag.

We’ve not made the same mistake again.

Intel dying and its corpse being consumed by its competitors is a fairy tale ending.

Thinking about it, the SoC idea could stop at the southern boundary of the chipset in x86 systems.

Include DDR memory controller, PCI controller, USB controllers, iGPU’s etc. most of those have migrated into x86 CPU’s now anyway (I remember having north and south bridge chipsets!)

Leave the rest of the system: NIC’s, dGPU’s, etc on the relevant busses.

NVIDIA spent many many years doing a very very poor job of providing drivers for Linux.

Many people have not forgiven them for that.