Republicans took to the streets in adult diapers when it was revealed that their geriatric rapist felon wannabe god had to use diapers, with the rallying cry “REAL MEN WEAR DIAPERS”. Never assume that their degeneracy has an upper limit because they’ll prove you wrong the next day.

They’ve let TLS certs expire on multiple occasions. They’ve made the decision to enable the AUR in the default installation, which can cause conflicts with out-of-date dependencies because of the delayed release schedule compared to Arch. They’ve shipped software on their stable branch that included unmerged upstream code. One of their developers temporarily broke Asahi Linux.

I don’t hate the project, but I can’t trust the developers and management.

It’s all about trust. Manjaro has given me reasons to distrust them.

Where Linux?

(I might be open to allowing all memes related to the F/LOSS world even if not directly related to Linux… but you’ll have to convince me.)

It has an i9 10980, so about 4-5 years old. It was built before I was hired.

It was also supposed to be an all-in-one recording/streaming computer for university events, and they had to use the budget for something. It ended up being used as a proxmox host for a while, then it was handed off to me. Now the most resource-intensive thing it runs is a Windows 11 VM that I torture mercilessly use for experiments. It rarely gets to 10% memory utilization.

Try realizing ten thousand mesh instances in Blender and watch that sucker eat the rest of your RAM like it’s got a pebble in its shoe.

I did that on my work PC with 128 GB memory (originally built for esports shit) and it still wasn’t enough.

Self-hosters:

The wonders of running everything synchronously in the UI event loop…

Ah yes, “the devs”. What percentage of the profit do you think goes to the gameplay developers, the backend developers, the designers, the character artists, the environment artists, the QA team, the writers, the voice talent, the localization teams, and the other roles too numerous to list but too important to ignore, that actually create the game? In contrast, how much do the executives, managers, and parasites shareholders pocket?

Even if you assume a fair division between all people, just look at how long the credits list is. The average developer employee won’t go hungry because a couple hundred players stop buying gamble coins.

Thanks, but that’s the same one that I found. It removes the power button from the start menu and disables the shutdown command, but the computer still responds to ACPI and even the keyboard’s power-off button.

Recall is not mandatory after all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBqIUkmVel8

Recall and the new file explorer share a dependency, except the file explorer doesn’t mark it as a dependency, so when Recall is removed, it is removed as well. Good job, Microsoft.

There are use-cases where a computer should not be turned off by its user for the purpose of remote management. I’m dealing with one just as I’m writing this comment.

There’s an exam in a classroom. In 20 minutes I’ll have to run an ansible script to remove this group’s work, clean up the project directory, and rollback two VMs to the prepared snapshot to get ready for the next group. I’ve put a big-ass banner on the wallpaper telling the students not to shut down the computer, and already half of them are off.

Unacceptable: “You look submissive and enslaveable.”

Acceptable: “You look just like an elf.”

Mainly because our students are idiots and will complain if the computer doesn’t turn off. Or worse, take independent action and hold the power button, or actually yank the power cable. Maybe I should just lean into it and convince them that the monitor is the computer.

Jokes aside, how could I implement such a policy? I’ve only found one that hides the power buttons from the start menu, but Windows still responds to ACPI.

I don’t know if clean ZSH does it, but if you have the zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin, it tests if the path you’re typing exists every time you edit the line.

As another IT guy at a university, having to manually turn on 30 computers in a classroom for updates or whatever is already a pain in the ass. Wake on LAN is not a reliable solution. Havin to manually flip over every box, then putting them down, and then fixing the cables that got yanked… I’d throw those fuckers in the trash.

The Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro’s form factor is perfectly tiny without compromising user comfort.

Ah yes.

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The floor is made of floor.

Students here usually get Mondays off when the next Tuesday is a holiday. As a university sysadmin, I cherish those days because that’s when we can get actual work done without having to work around the chaotic classroom reservations or work in ten-minute bursts during breaks. It’s also when we can implement changes to the network and update the servers because the office workers don’t tend to come in.

The last time that happened, all of us sysadmins did about three months’ worth of actual work in a few hours, then used the smaller lecture hall as a cinema for the rest of the day.

That says more about your ignorance than anything about AI or Linux.