I can think of only one concrete example where the lead dev walked away - rightfully IIRC - and the community was able to pick it up, fork it, and actually maintain and continue to develop new features.

Sadly, that’s not often the case.

For my use cases at workstation level, Manjaro makes it really easy to work with whatever tooling I need - but I’m comfortable on CLI and aware of the risks/benefits.

Wouldn’t suggest it to a noob, ofc, but for me it’s a good middle ground where I can get things done, and also easily work with edge cases.

Not that I can’t build whatever I need to in the deb world, but I prefer to work with instead of against a distro’s packaging.

I also did not make the connection, after a 12 pack this lovely Friday night. OP is not wrong - even as someone who sometimes dashes for extra cash and hates people just like OP - but was thinking I missed some cultural reference.

K so I read that as suggesting I should let apple know about my sexual proclivities- yeah, no.

How about a headline that’s not pure clickbait.

Two very pissed off cats.

First, Roger Rabbit in a theatre. I was probably fourish.

More interestingly, at maybe eight, Pet Semetary. Kid me didn’t sleep for a good long time after…

From where I sit, not a lot of reason to do it. It’s a bigger pain to deal with your own CA than to just use LE.

How high is the consumption of the devices? Probably better to invest in multiple powered hubs for this use case. Not that it couldn’t work, but you’re certainly increasing the odds of intermittent and damned difficult to troubleshoot problems by doing it as you described.

My official work machine is eventually going to get forced to 11. But thanks to corporate America being relatively slow to respond (thanks, leadership!), that will be sometime in 2024Q4 or later.

Everything else, including the machines I use to get most of my work actually done, is non-MS.

Thanks for the PSA, the threat is real.

You are a good person.

When Borat was fresh, I was in a new hire class for a major telecom you’ve heard of if you’re in the US.

Somehow, the chatter came around to Borat, and someone challenged me on the existence of Kazakhstan.

I’m not always great with people , so I did a double take - they were serious. I shipped them a GMaps link via chat…

…and they proceeded to argue with me that said country couldn’t possibly actually exist.

Once in a while, I wonder where that person ended up - no Ill will towards the misinformed, but I’m certainly curious.

I know exactly what modern Java looks like, and it could be beautiful. But… legacy cruft and lazy devs make it painful. And tech debt, let’s be honest.

I’d view a greenfield project rather differently, but those are unicorns.

Hang out with folks who are at least nominally more intelligent than you. Never be the most ignorant person in the room, nor the most intelligent / expressive.

That holds pretty true no matter your industry - and if you can identify the actual thought leaders in adjacent biz areas, so much the better.

Read. As much as possible. And then think about it, find the takeaways. The takeaways will be crap at first, but will improve rapidly.

Know your limits, but also know your cheat codes. Use the latter to gain admission to progressively more challenging circles.

There is no one on earth, and no series of events, from whom/which you cannot learn something. It might not be life changing, but it’s still worth searching for the worthwhile content.

Or you’ll get murdered because now that evil song is stuck in their head until next June…

Ironically, one of the Scandinavian countries basically does exactly that - it’s prison, but without the risk of assault/death, and without the total lack of amenities.

Still stuck there, ofc, but not dehumanized as a result.

Most people dont’ want much - safety, medical care, somewhere tolerable to sit, and something to do makes a world of difference vs the US system. See comparative recidivism rates…

Not per se necessary to prevent it - either listen to the on-site rep from MT, who raised concerns in OTL that were disregarded, or make that day warmer. All other things being equal, without the crisis, we would have learned a great deal - but not at the cost of several lives.

It haunts me to this day that an improved version of STS would likely still be an option for launches, if only McDonald had been listened to.

I can fault the company, but he made a good faith effort to stop it because testing hadn’t been done at the current temperatures, AIUI.

On the ohter hand, those lives vs [GHWB | Dukakis | anyone else] directly impacts OTL - Arguably, we’d never have a Trump presidency, but Duke is simply a gentler, faster version of the same.

Not sure we wouldn’t still get Bushes, or Gulf War, but certainly what we ended up with would be more tempered, and there’s a real benefit to that. All these years on, perhaps we’d still have the ‘old school’ Republican party instead of the “I’m not a fascist, I swear!” Republican party.

Perhaps one day soon, it will just be X, formerly

Doesn’t exactly seem newsworthy to me - without knowing the dynamics of his marriage, I find it hard to condemn - or even care - that a) he spent some money, b) on a company run by his alleged girlfriend, c) while married. None of those things are by definition incompatible with each other.

And no doubt for a bunch of off-brand internet-connected cameras. Or, those are just totally open to the whole world. Glad to see Shodan is still up… Though I’d hoped some mfg would change their practices once it became obvious no one changes the default.