TLDR: the marketing is done by humans, the code isn’t

Thank you!

Care to share?

Theyr’re working on the federation too.

If the recall weren’t such a high bar I’d agree. At 75% though, not being recalled doesn’t represent a mandate from the users. It only means the person hasn’t openly and overwhelmingly offended everybody they’ve interacted with. If that’s going to be the bar, it would be good for the community to have some say up front.

Thinkpads are not what they once were. I finally gave up on them, moved over to a Framework, and haven’t regretted it.

I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.

The loophole is that while you own the car, you only license the software that allows it to run. They didn’t take the car away, “just” terminated the license 🤬

Daily driver here. Stable for servers, testing for workstations.

Debian Testing isn’t as stable as Stable, but has been far more reliable than anyone else’s desktop releases. I’m also not a fan of Fedora and others’ policy of ending support on the day of a new release.

If for some reason you decide to hold back on an upgrade of Testing, you’ve still got five years of patch support coming. And if I do want to live on the bleeding edge, there’s always Sid (also called Unstable). That’s where you’ll run into the kind of instability you can expect from a rolling release.

My favorite will probably always be Gentoo, but I don’t always have time for that hobby.

Steal? Microsoft and Apple are the bad guys!

Guinea fowl even more so

Lack of ground contact also deters termites.

That’s an easy one - no. You can look back to various periods during middle ages Europe for examples. An even stronger one would be China from about 400 CE-800 CE

Of course, those weren’t capitalist economies - but they were economies. Capitalism’s instability is what requires constant growth to maintain. The better (and harder) questions would be what to transition to that avoids the issues of feudalism and how to transition with a minimum of societal upheaval (violence and death).

Since people are posting games, I’ll throw in Realms of Despair

But it would not work on older non-GNU versions of tar.

GNU introduced the “–foo” style long options, and it was a long time before Unix versions began adopting them.

Not tipping only punishes the victim, not the employer.

Because it’s a shit job with minimal pay, physically demanding, and the hours are usually cut in the off-season.

That wasn’t luck - it was best practice backup strategy.

Probably by buying and then sitting on the patents

Tell me you’re bi without telling me you’re bi