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Have they fixed that 100% disk usage bug in Windows yet? Seems to disproportionately affect laptops with magnetic disk's and just chokes the whole system making it unusable

If you go far enough right, you buffer overflow around to the left.

If you go far enough left, you buffer underflow around to the right

No, he would become a martyr which would only strengthen the resolve of the MAGA people

It's not just you, I guarantee your cat doesn't give a damn about anyone

"politics"

Next in line are still elderly but they've been spending their whole life building up to this so they aren't going to put some young whippersnapper in charge and undo the years of bribery, corruption and arse-kissing that got them to where they are

even Valve told Ubuntu users to use the Flatpak for Steam instead of the Snap

Hahaha really? That's awesome. I wonder if Canonical will ever take the hint that nobody wants Snap when better, more open alternatives exist

Yeah, package manager is a big one. Many of us got burned by rpm's early on and just avoided all rpm-based distros since then.

Of course as you say that hasn't been a problem for over 10 years but the scars haven't gone away.

I'd only recommend Ubuntu to someone if I knew they knew some else using Ubuntu (so I could tell them to hassle that person instead of me when they have problems).

Otherwise, I'd absolutely recommend Fedora, because it's actually up to date unlike Debian. I use it myself because it tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer while not needing constant tweaking

And then managers go "why does shadow IT exist?"

...you have my condolences

As someone who works, flatpak's solve a bunch of problems, freeing me up to continue working.

Security issues are just a class of issue; no more or less important than other issues

Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

But it's genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!