But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.
It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.
Fair, that maybe came across harsher than I meant. Refusing to provide packages because you don’t use the system is fine, but please provide a tarball that I can unpack, rather than some dodgy script that has to try to work with the differences in those ststems anyway.
Better to do away with the entire concept of downloading and running a shell script like that, and use distro native packages instead. It’s not hard to create DEB or RPM packages, ebuilds aren’t too bad either, and it sounds like AUR packages are managable too.
The entire concept of blindly downloading a script, running it as root, and hoping that, in the best case, it’d install the version of the software you want is a bit crazy. If the upstream developers refuse to provide packages, please, at least, provide a tarball.
10/10 rant. I admire your passion, the internent needs more of this sort of thing.
Once you start ‘succeeding’ at what you’re doing it tends to feel like it takes less energy, and if you start to feel good about it, you’ll also tend to feel more energetic, so it forms a self reinforcing loop.
It won’t work like that for everyone. You have to actually be enthused about the idea of succeeding at whatever it is you’re doing and not push so hard you burn out regardless of success, but if you can get into that frame of mind, things becone easier.
This is excellent article on enshitification, some of the factors that can lead to it, and ways founders could think about it to hopefully avoid it. What it doesn’t seem to talk about is how Tailscale intends to avoid it, now and in the future.
The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!
I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string “NETWORK ABEND” in the middle of the screen.
I should fork vim and call it ‘death’, so I can shout “give me vim or give me death!” any time someone suggests a different editor.
Surgery, especially on animals.
In any other context, someone cutting you open, slicing bits out or rearranging them, them sewing you shut would be considered horrific, but we do it because we know that the short term suffering out weighs the long term harm of not doing it. When you choose it for yourself it might not be too ‘evil’, but an animal would not understand, even if you know it will mean they get to live a long, happy life, free of the pain and suffering that issue would otherwise cause.
Good grief! At least tag that NSFW (Not Safe For Whitehouse).
That has unironicaly made me nostalgic for the days when the web was a place of experimentation, joy and just a bit of crazy.
Piefed seems to have this, and the ability to subscribe to posts as @[email protected] asks about below.
Migrating is fairly straightforward, it can import your lemmy settings to get you up and running quickly, and the systems interoperate seamlessly, which is fantastic to see.
This is painfully true. I want to say something pithy about it, but my brain is filled with cotton wool and sludge.
Can’t argue with that logic. I always knew those feathered menaces were out to get us.
All right, fine. It’s wok fried rice… No, wait, I see where this is going.
Quite right. It’s human fried rice with shrimp.
It looks like you’re going to have to reconnect a couple of traces, but if you’ve got some magnet wire and a fine tipped iron you should be good to go. You probably don’t need that bit on the left, it doesn’t look important.
The thing is, humans are astonishingly good at conserving energy when running. We can literally run prey to death by just keeping on going when most animals run out of energy.
On the Visitor Center section they still refer to LGBTQ+. They can’t even be evil competently.