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Yeah, recent versions of GCC have gotten a lot better. I suspect it’s actually because of languages like Rust raising the bar.

Yuuup… Debugging concurrent code is a bitch.

My first thought as well, lol.

I’ve used Ubuntu, Arch, and Void in the past. Ended up settling on Fedora Silverblue for the time being.

I don’t see a call to fork(), so there’s clearly no child here.

One of my favorite Hitchhiker quotes.

Honestly, in terms of the actual system architecture, I prefer NT’s object-based approach to the the file-based design that Linux (and other Unix systems) use.

The best part of Linux is the license. The OS can definitely be rough around the edges and have some maddening problems. But it still feels like something that is built and maintained by actual users rather than by a corporation that’s slowly trying to milk you for all you’re worth.

Probably because it’s likely made of the obscenity that is American buttercream.

The heating feature is actually a critical part of my workflow.

The trial in Chrono Trigger…

Then we can moralize.

I don’t think people are wrong to point out how wrong this is morally. I despise how ethics are seen as irrelevant when operating at a large scale. Everything is about the material cost and benefit to us.

The advantage of framing things this way, however, is that a significant portion of this country have demonstrated that they don’t give a shit about morality. So maybe arguments based solely on our own self-interest could convince them. Maybe…

This is just masturbation.

“What you’re about to see is canon to the Christverse.” – Max0r

El Psy Kongroo

The Japanese honorifics are what truly elevate this to abhorrence.

I think they know; They just don’t care.

A secure OS should account for dumb/malicious users and mitigate the damage they can do. If a user can be convinced to disable protections on Windows or Android, that same user could easily be convinced to download a script and run it with sudo.

I’ve had a hot take for a while now that Linux isn’t “more secure” than other operating systems like a lot of evangelists will claim. I think people get this impression because the user base for desktop Linux has been small enough that no one was writing malware targeted at us.

Unix’s security model was developed in a world where the primary concern was protecting the system from users and protecting users from each other. It wasn’t really designed for single-user systems where the main concern is protecting the user from their own applications.

I have a dual boot set up, and even I find it annoying to reboot into a different OS just to play an unsupported game. Especially since I use Windows so rarely now that the first thing it wants to do is install a dozen updates.

Glad to see someone had the same initial reaction to that headline.