Nobody would miss your port-scanning, spamming, and teenage pen-testing. Please please, show us how superior you are China, build your own Communist paradise Internet. I'm sure it'll be fine.
150 million years ago, that is. Still there was plenty of life on Earth, including mammals. At 3000 PPM, why didn't they all drop dead and get hit by massive "Day After Tomorrow" catastrophes? Yes, I'm seriously asking because 400PPM != 3000PPM bigtime.
Reasons why many don't care: 1. The US and EU are not Bangladesh. Catastrophic sea level rise would be a lot more catastrophic for people in 3rd world countries. 2. People living in 1st world countries aren't sympathetic to the fact that 3rd world countries didn't yet get their own Industrial Revolution. It's more like *shrug* "too bad" 3. A large number of people live in places that haven't suffered at a lick due to climate change (at least not that they can recognize) and in many cases will be better off. Greenland appears they will benefit quite a bit more than they will suffer, for example. 4. Multilateral carbon trading treaties started in failure, continued to fail, and are still failures. CO2 is over 400PPM and most folks recognize that *technology* not UN treaties are the solution. Otherwise you get the Paris accord result: even the people who designed the treaty hate the terms because they get fuel taxes shoved down their prole/plebeian/UN-enlightented throats by some infuriating elitist asshole who signed the treaty for them and get a little pissed off about it. Also, my personal favorite is "What about the fact that the Earth was at 3000PPM of CO2 150 years ago?" I've yet to see an honest/serious answer to that one besides "Dinosaurs must have needed less oxygen" (bullshit) or "Well, that'd still mean a lot of sea level rise." (probably not bullshit) and of course the most common abusive/insulting head-explosion of a far-left "environmentalist" (who probably has 3 kids, several cars, and thinks they are green because one car is a Prius and they just installed a NEST thermostat - now it's time to judge everyone else!)
I've worked with some z/OS boxes before and experienced their virtualization. I agree and haven't seen the same sprawl or crazy growth->neglect->stagnation->waste cycle that I've seen with VMware shops. However, the reasons aren't obvious. I'd say that the licensing costs are too high and the skillset too narrow so it simply doesn't get used to the same degree as more common VM solutions. Also, the "practices" are different for z/OS to some degree. However, it does have some things in common with VIOS on POWER. That's definitely a VM technology I've seen get overstuffed and under-engineered and that goes double when they eschew NPIV or dedicated HBAs and instead use vSCSI containers and FCoE/DCB for both networking and storage. In fact, some of the worst VM environs I've seen have been VIOS ones. It's not that they can't be done right, it's that most people aren't smart enough to say no to the "converged" (read: inferior shared bandwidth) cheap-out route, nor can they resist hiring no-nothing H1B sysadmins to ignore their problems for cheap. The latter tending to exacerbate over-subscription situations because they just don't give a damn as long as they keep their visa.
Show me a company that's been running VMs or containers for years and I'll likely show you a mess of orphaned guests or containers, oversubscribed hosts, and a management and IT group that's disconnected from their actual resources because they feel they can stretch them forever due to memory balloons, thin disks, HyperThreading||SMT, and other consolidation features that often have a very sharp double edge to them. I'm not saying VMs and containers have no place, I'm just saying they are often a roach motel and often very poorly understood and administered.
:-) Awww you meanie! Don't you know the truth hurts, is more boring, and is depressing to the 70% of folks living paycheck to paycheck so they can buy an iPhone 7? Plus, it doesn't sell ads on news networks (unacceptable!). How dare you suggest people should take responsibility for their own finances. You're gonna make Uncle Sam and the media powerful angry with talk like that. Next thing we know, you'll be suggesting that parents plan their pregnancies or pay for their own kids (since, ya know, they made them). Crraaaaazzzy Talk! Imagine the world we'd live in if big brother didn't take a third to half our wages to bicker like children and waste our money. I mean to quote Peter Venkman, "dead would come out of their graves, human sacrifice would ensue, and we'd have dogs and cats living together! "
Lots of things reduce risk of accidents or sickness. The question is do you want to live with those practices? Activities like eating, breathing, and fucking can all be very hazardous depending on your choices. They can shorten your life. They can even shorten the lives of others you might expose to your risky choices. The problem is that if you go around coercing the folks near you to change all the behaviors you know are risky and potentially risking others they will probably get tired of it in a hurry and decide they'd be *most* better off if they just didn't have *you* around. You love shaking your finger and telling people how to live, that's clear from your posting history. I'm guessing your head will end up in a basket with people just like you when the proles get tired of being fleeced for things like speed traps.
There is a big difference between "can" and "comes that way by default on the OS you use or support". As you may know, the default is to NOT use sysv scripts and NOT log to text files beyond a few simple/useless exceptions (journald steals & encodes it all into a binary opaque format). You are correct that I don't like other people running it. However, you fail to recognize the reason: I support Linux (and a half dozen other Unix variants) professionally, daily, and at a high level. When sysadmins, teams of sysadmins, or low-level developers are stumped, they send the problem to me as a backline engineer. So, yeah, I think I have pretty well informed reasons to dislike systemd and good reasons to actually care what others do with it, since the default is to suck pretty badly and since when it does suck badly for other people they call *me* to fix it for them. Plus, if folks took your suggestion, they'd basically be de-fanging sysadmind and neutering most of the poor design decisions in it. The question there is: why bother? If you are willing to change your systemd rig by re-writing all your unit files into sysv scripts and dumping or redirecting journald's logs text files you could just as easily dump systemd altogether. Most people aren't going to try because they've either already switch to a non-systemd OS distro (like BSD or Devuan on the Linux side) or the just flat don't know how and aren't wanting to bother. For the latter group, they are going to get the greasy end the systemd stick because they'll be getting bit by every little problem systemd has re-invented and probably come away simply thinking "Linux sucks" but not really being able to find the source of that anal pain and give it a name: systemd.
I won't argue. However, I'd like to point out that Red Hat is pretty much as corporate as it gets nowadays. I'd point out several negative trends for them. First, they just got bought by IBM. Second, did anyone besides me wonder why they waited until 7.0 to properly integrate XFS (yes, I know about the add-on RPMs for 6.x but they were not supported at install-time and came too late)? How about their failure to really fix/embrace BTRFS while ZFS just beats seven shades of snot out of anything Linux has in-tree (yes, I know about ZFS for linux, but it's hack-on that will never gain enough acceptance due to the license schism). Of course, then there is the fact that iptables syntax and features have done nothing but get uglier (especially when compared with PF or netfilter on other OSes). What about Red Hat intentionally dogging LVM2 updates even with giant bug-backlogs? How about RHEV and GlusterFS? Have those displaced VMware or has GlusterFS pushed Ceph out of the HPC space? No and nope. From where I sit Red Hat has been resting on their laurels (what little they've got) since about the RHEL5 days. It certainly always looked corporate and never very friendly to "enthusiasts" anyway. Even when I used to bother with Linux at home for fun (as opposed to holding my nose and learning the internals at work) in the pre-systemd days I'd turn to Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Arch, or something weird like GoboLinux or VectorLinux. Why waste time with RHEL? I have to use that all the time in corporate environments and it smells like an old gym sock. It's not that I don't know it or can't use it, it's just that it sucks a lot worse than most things. After systemd I only spend time with Linux during new releases to learn the changes. Then I bail out back to BSD where both the past and the future are very bright and one has fewer angry retards to contend with vis-a-vis Linux.
It really does just suck. It's not haters, it's not bias, it's not politics. It's also not only people resisting change, Systemd is just flat out technically inferior. Bad choices were made and the chickens definitely are coming home to roost. I get a *lot* of calls from frustrated/confused sysadmins who run into issue after issue with systemd. From subtle problems from malformed unit files to clear-as-mud dependency graph issues between units. Yes, they are fixable most of the time but systemd just throws obstacle after obstacle into your path. Want to know why something didn't work? Well, there's journald hording your logs as binary. Hope you have the magic decoder when your system crashes and journalctl pukes. I dug into systemd deeply because I support Linux and other systems professionally. I've studied a lot of the code to run down bugs or issues. I learned it quite well and it seems obvious that I know it's internals better than it's cheerleaders do. It shouldn't be this controversial. The only reason it is stems from the leadership folks not wanting to lose face and admit they made a serious mistake. Systemd sucks on it's own. It doesn't need fixing, it needs replacing. It's bad design that violates the "do one thing and do it well". It does a zillion things: all poorly.
Shitty windows-ini-style Unit files, binary logs, 12 different subsystems gobbled up and "integrated"... I mean did this kind of shit surprise someone? Really? After years of supporting Systemd and solving it's problems for others I can say with limited authority that, yes, it really is garbage. I know there were a few people who thought systemd was just "progress", but no it's a schism, a coup, a shitty revolution that left everyone worse than when they started. Linus and friends are too old and retarded now apparently to lose face and be critical of it because they stood by and shrugged while the Potterites and Fedora assholes ruined Linux. I mean BSD was always better, don't get me wrong. So, it's not as big a loss as some would frame it to be. However, it used to be fun, useful, and relatively untainted by anything this heinous but a few unenlightened windows folks came along and created this svchost.exe ripoff (systemd) for the purposes of enhancing GNOME and now you get this smelly mess that is now Linux. Ah well, it was (sorta) fun while it lasted. Back to my BSD boxes.
Not picking a fight here, but I'd like to point out that if any Libertarian wants zoning laws, then need to have their card pulled. Lots of robber baron types claim to be Libertarian while dumping benzene in the river (not a Libertarian thing to do since it has a profound negative impact on others downstream) or when they want to put in regulations to protect their wealth like zoning laws, which are distinctly not Libertarian, either. Those zoning laws coerce others by telling them what they can and cannot build on their own fucking property. That type of anti-freedom coercion is definitely not something I see as part of the Libertarian agenda, despite what those weasels call themselves.
I've encountered the same types. IMHO, marksmanship, like many skills, is well distributed in the population for multiple legitimate reasons. I'm believe competitive marksmen are the most accurate vs LEOs & soldiers. There is pressure & structure to build skill and it works. However, since I haven't had to use those skills shooting back at people trying to kill me, I acknowledge my total full-of-shitness on any martial use of firearms. I've only ever guiltily killed rabbits for food while camping when it comes to hurting something with a gun. I killed a squirrel and to this day it haunts me and I feel guilty.
What a cool picture, even if it is a bit fabricated. Also, thanks to whoever posted/accepted the article. This is much better than the latest political horror show and more reflective of "News for nerds, stuff that matters."
The parent post seemed pretty cogent to me. Who are you really Mr. Coward, some bitter English/Sociology/Polisci/History grad with a teaching certificate running a kindergarten and the truth hurts? Sorry man, you wasted your money. No need to get all aggro because you made the mistakes.
You are there to be fleeced, pay vulgar amounts for textbooks, buy overpriced parking spots & meal plans, and pay for safe spaces and other wasteful aggravating pointless finger-wagging politically correct bullshit. At least that's what my school was all about (and I was a CS major, not fucking "gender studies" or polisci). Then I found out the employers didn't really care if I had a degree anyway. They cared if a candidate going to burden & annoy their existing staff by not being able to carry water. University students are not likely to "learn life skills", "figure out how to think critically", or "acquire job skills". So, that debate is laughable and pointless because both sides are living in a fantasy-that-once-was-but-no-longer. Let's talk about actual universities not what a tenured professor thinks their school does while watching from his ivory tower or some new grad wants to rationalize after just dumping their parent's life savings into it. Unless there is some kind of regulatory requirement for education like with health care or certain types of mechanical engineering the cash spent on a college education usually would have gone a lot further getting private certifications or vocational training. Some research shows you'll have an easier time getting work, stay in school less time, not be forced to waste time because of someone's politically correct asshatism, and best of all make more money faster. My brother got his CCIE instead of college. Made $140k his first year and now @ around $190k in a nice town with low-priced real estate. He's loving it. No student debt, either. The whole episode, including is training in Singapore (because hey, why not?) was about a $15,000 exercise.
People with older 32-bit machines will use older distros and ones specialized for use on low-RAM and slower CPU performance. Lubuntu really wasn't ever "that guy" anyway. Distros like Slackware ain't gonna go 64-bit only I'd guess and neither would tinkerer distros like Gentoo. Of course, if you really want to have fun on 32bit machines, I'd endorse running NetBSD:-)
Thanks. You validate that there is at least one other human who finds fault with the idea: "Hey, I know you don't know us but here are 30 complex scripts that we'd like you to run on your machine. Sure, we have a lot of good reason to screw you and track you, but just ignore that and run them anyway." It's surprising to me how many people flame away with some kind of convenience-based argument.
Hell yes. Wikipedia forever. That's the shining city on the hill project that truly shows the best elements of the Internet. Openness, collaboration, non-greediness, and a respect for truth and knowledge.
That's an easy one. First, I'd rather be starving due to my own personal setbacks than due to some aristocrat's boot on my neck. Second, are you really seriously making the point that because a revolution didn't cure absolutely everybody's problems that it still didn't come out better for the common people of France? Plus, your reference to the USSR seems off-topic. What does that have to do with the French Revolution? Are you saying that because the Bolsheviks had a revolution to overthrow the Czars that's some kind of counter example? You think they'd have been better of with the Czars? I'll grant you that some revolutions come out much better than others. I can even think of a few that would have probably been better (again for common people) if they'd never happened. It's dicey business, for sure. The main problem is that the revolutionaries usually start in-fighting for power the minute it's clear they are going to get any. France was definitely no exception to that. Some revolutions get started specifically to put in power leftist regimes and those have a much less successful history (but still it's hit & miss). The bottom line is that when people start watching their children starve, they aren't going to stop for a second and say "Well, hell, if we start a revolution it might not end perfectly. Some people might not benefit." They think "FUCK THIS IT'S ON" and go from there. What matters in the end is if the revolution ends up putting more or less freedom and agency in the hands of normal people. That's the determining factor for it's overall utility and just like life there are no guarantees. As the saying goes it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
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Nobody would miss your port-scanning, spamming, and teenage pen-testing. Please please, show us how superior you are China, build your own Communist paradise Internet. I'm sure it'll be fine.
150 million years ago, that is. Still there was plenty of life on Earth, including mammals. At 3000 PPM, why didn't they all drop dead and get hit by massive "Day After Tomorrow" catastrophes? Yes, I'm seriously asking because 400PPM != 3000PPM bigtime.
Reasons why many don't care: 1. The US and EU are not Bangladesh. Catastrophic sea level rise would be a lot more catastrophic for people in 3rd world countries. 2. People living in 1st world countries aren't sympathetic to the fact that 3rd world countries didn't yet get their own Industrial Revolution. It's more like *shrug* "too bad" 3. A large number of people live in places that haven't suffered at a lick due to climate change (at least not that they can recognize) and in many cases will be better off. Greenland appears they will benefit quite a bit more than they will suffer, for example. 4. Multilateral carbon trading treaties started in failure, continued to fail, and are still failures. CO2 is over 400PPM and most folks recognize that *technology* not UN treaties are the solution. Otherwise you get the Paris accord result: even the people who designed the treaty hate the terms because they get fuel taxes shoved down their prole/plebeian/UN-enlightented throats by some infuriating elitist asshole who signed the treaty for them and get a little pissed off about it. Also, my personal favorite is "What about the fact that the Earth was at 3000PPM of CO2 150 years ago?" I've yet to see an honest/serious answer to that one besides "Dinosaurs must have needed less oxygen" (bullshit) or "Well, that'd still mean a lot of sea level rise." (probably not bullshit) and of course the most common abusive/insulting head-explosion of a far-left "environmentalist" (who probably has 3 kids, several cars, and thinks they are green because one car is a Prius and they just installed a NEST thermostat - now it's time to judge everyone else!)
I've worked with some z/OS boxes before and experienced their virtualization. I agree and haven't seen the same sprawl or crazy growth->neglect->stagnation->waste cycle that I've seen with VMware shops. However, the reasons aren't obvious. I'd say that the licensing costs are too high and the skillset too narrow so it simply doesn't get used to the same degree as more common VM solutions. Also, the "practices" are different for z/OS to some degree. However, it does have some things in common with VIOS on POWER. That's definitely a VM technology I've seen get overstuffed and under-engineered and that goes double when they eschew NPIV or dedicated HBAs and instead use vSCSI containers and FCoE/DCB for both networking and storage. In fact, some of the worst VM environs I've seen have been VIOS ones. It's not that they can't be done right, it's that most people aren't smart enough to say no to the "converged" (read: inferior shared bandwidth) cheap-out route, nor can they resist hiring no-nothing H1B sysadmins to ignore their problems for cheap. The latter tending to exacerbate over-subscription situations because they just don't give a damn as long as they keep their visa.
Show me a company that's been running VMs or containers for years and I'll likely show you a mess of orphaned guests or containers, oversubscribed hosts, and a management and IT group that's disconnected from their actual resources because they feel they can stretch them forever due to memory balloons, thin disks, HyperThreading||SMT, and other consolidation features that often have a very sharp double edge to them. I'm not saying VMs and containers have no place, I'm just saying they are often a roach motel and often very poorly understood and administered.
Spoken like an HOA president and PTA booster. I bet you are great fun at parties.
:-) Awww you meanie! Don't you know the truth hurts, is more boring, and is depressing to the 70% of folks living paycheck to paycheck so they can buy an iPhone 7? Plus, it doesn't sell ads on news networks (unacceptable!). How dare you suggest people should take responsibility for their own finances. You're gonna make Uncle Sam and the media powerful angry with talk like that. Next thing we know, you'll be suggesting that parents plan their pregnancies or pay for their own kids (since, ya know, they made them). Crraaaaazzzy Talk! Imagine the world we'd live in if big brother didn't take a third to half our wages to bicker like children and waste our money. I mean to quote Peter Venkman, "dead would come out of their graves, human sacrifice would ensue, and we'd have dogs and cats living together! "
Mr Coward, for once we agree 100% :-)
Lots of things reduce risk of accidents or sickness. The question is do you want to live with those practices? Activities like eating, breathing, and fucking can all be very hazardous depending on your choices. They can shorten your life. They can even shorten the lives of others you might expose to your risky choices. The problem is that if you go around coercing the folks near you to change all the behaviors you know are risky and potentially risking others they will probably get tired of it in a hurry and decide they'd be *most* better off if they just didn't have *you* around. You love shaking your finger and telling people how to live, that's clear from your posting history. I'm guessing your head will end up in a basket with people just like you when the proles get tired of being fleeced for things like speed traps.
There is a big difference between "can" and "comes that way by default on the OS you use or support". As you may know, the default is to NOT use sysv scripts and NOT log to text files beyond a few simple/useless exceptions (journald steals & encodes it all into a binary opaque format). You are correct that I don't like other people running it. However, you fail to recognize the reason: I support Linux (and a half dozen other Unix variants) professionally, daily, and at a high level. When sysadmins, teams of sysadmins, or low-level developers are stumped, they send the problem to me as a backline engineer. So, yeah, I think I have pretty well informed reasons to dislike systemd and good reasons to actually care what others do with it, since the default is to suck pretty badly and since when it does suck badly for other people they call *me* to fix it for them. Plus, if folks took your suggestion, they'd basically be de-fanging sysadmind and neutering most of the poor design decisions in it. The question there is: why bother? If you are willing to change your systemd rig by re-writing all your unit files into sysv scripts and dumping or redirecting journald's logs text files you could just as easily dump systemd altogether. Most people aren't going to try because they've either already switch to a non-systemd OS distro (like BSD or Devuan on the Linux side) or the just flat don't know how and aren't wanting to bother. For the latter group, they are going to get the greasy end the systemd stick because they'll be getting bit by every little problem systemd has re-invented and probably come away simply thinking "Linux sucks" but not really being able to find the source of that anal pain and give it a name: systemd.
I won't argue. However, I'd like to point out that Red Hat is pretty much as corporate as it gets nowadays. I'd point out several negative trends for them. First, they just got bought by IBM. Second, did anyone besides me wonder why they waited until 7.0 to properly integrate XFS (yes, I know about the add-on RPMs for 6.x but they were not supported at install-time and came too late)? How about their failure to really fix/embrace BTRFS while ZFS just beats seven shades of snot out of anything Linux has in-tree (yes, I know about ZFS for linux, but it's hack-on that will never gain enough acceptance due to the license schism). Of course, then there is the fact that iptables syntax and features have done nothing but get uglier (especially when compared with PF or netfilter on other OSes). What about Red Hat intentionally dogging LVM2 updates even with giant bug-backlogs? How about RHEV and GlusterFS? Have those displaced VMware or has GlusterFS pushed Ceph out of the HPC space? No and nope. From where I sit Red Hat has been resting on their laurels (what little they've got) since about the RHEL5 days. It certainly always looked corporate and never very friendly to "enthusiasts" anyway. Even when I used to bother with Linux at home for fun (as opposed to holding my nose and learning the internals at work) in the pre-systemd days I'd turn to Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Arch, or something weird like GoboLinux or VectorLinux. Why waste time with RHEL? I have to use that all the time in corporate environments and it smells like an old gym sock. It's not that I don't know it or can't use it, it's just that it sucks a lot worse than most things. After systemd I only spend time with Linux during new releases to learn the changes. Then I bail out back to BSD where both the past and the future are very bright and one has fewer angry retards to contend with vis-a-vis Linux.
It really does just suck. It's not haters, it's not bias, it's not politics. It's also not only people resisting change, Systemd is just flat out technically inferior. Bad choices were made and the chickens definitely are coming home to roost. I get a *lot* of calls from frustrated/confused sysadmins who run into issue after issue with systemd. From subtle problems from malformed unit files to clear-as-mud dependency graph issues between units. Yes, they are fixable most of the time but systemd just throws obstacle after obstacle into your path. Want to know why something didn't work? Well, there's journald hording your logs as binary. Hope you have the magic decoder when your system crashes and journalctl pukes. I dug into systemd deeply because I support Linux and other systems professionally. I've studied a lot of the code to run down bugs or issues. I learned it quite well and it seems obvious that I know it's internals better than it's cheerleaders do. It shouldn't be this controversial. The only reason it is stems from the leadership folks not wanting to lose face and admit they made a serious mistake. Systemd sucks on it's own. It doesn't need fixing, it needs replacing. It's bad design that violates the "do one thing and do it well". It does a zillion things: all poorly.
Shitty windows-ini-style Unit files, binary logs, 12 different subsystems gobbled up and "integrated" ... I mean did this kind of shit surprise someone? Really? After years of supporting Systemd and solving it's problems for others I can say with limited authority that, yes, it really is garbage. I know there were a few people who thought systemd was just "progress", but no it's a schism, a coup, a shitty revolution that left everyone worse than when they started. Linus and friends are too old and retarded now apparently to lose face and be critical of it because they stood by and shrugged while the Potterites and Fedora assholes ruined Linux. I mean BSD was always better, don't get me wrong. So, it's not as big a loss as some would frame it to be. However, it used to be fun, useful, and relatively untainted by anything this heinous but a few unenlightened windows folks came along and created this svchost.exe ripoff (systemd) for the purposes of enhancing GNOME and now you get this smelly mess that is now Linux. Ah well, it was (sorta) fun while it lasted. Back to my BSD boxes.
Not picking a fight here, but I'd like to point out that if any Libertarian wants zoning laws, then need to have their card pulled. Lots of robber baron types claim to be Libertarian while dumping benzene in the river (not a Libertarian thing to do since it has a profound negative impact on others downstream) or when they want to put in regulations to protect their wealth like zoning laws, which are distinctly not Libertarian, either. Those zoning laws coerce others by telling them what they can and cannot build on their own fucking property. That type of anti-freedom coercion is definitely not something I see as part of the Libertarian agenda, despite what those weasels call themselves.
Also, I should say, cops & soldiers often are or become competitive and you see that all the time. To have enough time & energy to both sounds tiring.
I've encountered the same types. IMHO, marksmanship, like many skills, is well distributed in the population for multiple legitimate reasons. I'm believe competitive marksmen are the most accurate vs LEOs & soldiers. There is pressure & structure to build skill and it works. However, since I haven't had to use those skills shooting back at people trying to kill me, I acknowledge my total full-of-shitness on any martial use of firearms. I've only ever guiltily killed rabbits for food while camping when it comes to hurting something with a gun. I killed a squirrel and to this day it haunts me and I feel guilty.
Good thing. Those shots of your mom dick-riding a orangutan were frighting. It's reassuring to know they were fabricated.
What a cool picture, even if it is a bit fabricated. Also, thanks to whoever posted/accepted the article. This is much better than the latest political horror show and more reflective of "News for nerds, stuff that matters."
The parent post seemed pretty cogent to me. Who are you really Mr. Coward, some bitter English/Sociology/Polisci/History grad with a teaching certificate running a kindergarten and the truth hurts? Sorry man, you wasted your money. No need to get all aggro because you made the mistakes.
You are there to be fleeced, pay vulgar amounts for textbooks, buy overpriced parking spots & meal plans, and pay for safe spaces and other wasteful aggravating pointless finger-wagging politically correct bullshit. At least that's what my school was all about (and I was a CS major, not fucking "gender studies" or polisci). Then I found out the employers didn't really care if I had a degree anyway. They cared if a candidate going to burden & annoy their existing staff by not being able to carry water. University students are not likely to "learn life skills", "figure out how to think critically", or "acquire job skills". So, that debate is laughable and pointless because both sides are living in a fantasy-that-once-was-but-no-longer. Let's talk about actual universities not what a tenured professor thinks their school does while watching from his ivory tower or some new grad wants to rationalize after just dumping their parent's life savings into it. Unless there is some kind of regulatory requirement for education like with health care or certain types of mechanical engineering the cash spent on a college education usually would have gone a lot further getting private certifications or vocational training. Some research shows you'll have an easier time getting work, stay in school less time, not be forced to waste time because of someone's politically correct asshatism, and best of all make more money faster. My brother got his CCIE instead of college. Made $140k his first year and now @ around $190k in a nice town with low-priced real estate. He's loving it. No student debt, either. The whole episode, including is training in Singapore (because hey, why not?) was about a $15,000 exercise.
People with older 32-bit machines will use older distros and ones specialized for use on low-RAM and slower CPU performance. Lubuntu really wasn't ever "that guy" anyway. Distros like Slackware ain't gonna go 64-bit only I'd guess and neither would tinkerer distros like Gentoo. Of course, if you really want to have fun on 32bit machines, I'd endorse running NetBSD :-)
Fuck you, too. I'll say what I like.
Thanks. You validate that there is at least one other human who finds fault with the idea: "Hey, I know you don't know us but here are 30 complex scripts that we'd like you to run on your machine. Sure, we have a lot of good reason to screw you and track you, but just ignore that and run them anyway." It's surprising to me how many people flame away with some kind of convenience-based argument.
Hell yes. Wikipedia forever. That's the shining city on the hill project that truly shows the best elements of the Internet. Openness, collaboration, non-greediness, and a respect for truth and knowledge.
That's an easy one. First, I'd rather be starving due to my own personal setbacks than due to some aristocrat's boot on my neck. Second, are you really seriously making the point that because a revolution didn't cure absolutely everybody's problems that it still didn't come out better for the common people of France? Plus, your reference to the USSR seems off-topic. What does that have to do with the French Revolution? Are you saying that because the Bolsheviks had a revolution to overthrow the Czars that's some kind of counter example? You think they'd have been better of with the Czars? I'll grant you that some revolutions come out much better than others. I can even think of a few that would have probably been better (again for common people) if they'd never happened. It's dicey business, for sure. The main problem is that the revolutionaries usually start in-fighting for power the minute it's clear they are going to get any. France was definitely no exception to that. Some revolutions get started specifically to put in power leftist regimes and those have a much less successful history (but still it's hit & miss). The bottom line is that when people start watching their children starve, they aren't going to stop for a second and say "Well, hell, if we start a revolution it might not end perfectly. Some people might not benefit." They think "FUCK THIS IT'S ON" and go from there. What matters in the end is if the revolution ends up putting more or less freedom and agency in the hands of normal people. That's the determining factor for it's overall utility and just like life there are no guarantees. As the saying goes it's better to die on your feet than live on your knees.