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What happens when Linus dies/retires?

Everyone is making jokes but the thought has occurred to me: Yes, we have an organisation in place that is ready to replace him. But, from what I understand, he IS the benevolent dictator, and he has used his power a few times to stop some changes that otherwise would be in the kernel right now. And I think that's a good thing.

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If you think this is good for F1 you’re not a real F1 fan.

If you're a real F1 fan you know history is full of this kind of dominance.

So .. if you wonder who will win it's not worth watching.

I like to watch Albon doing well, Alonso doing amazing things, and hoping for Leclerc to get a result, Yuki keeping softs alive with some big guns behind him, while teams frantically try to get the best tactical moves while rain might drop now or in 20 minutes, and you don't know how much.

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Linux advocacy discussion (mastodon)

So why do so many people seem to think Linux needs to become bigger on Desktop?

Personally I am not looking forward to the consequences: capitalism will make sure there will be something on Linux to make money off. They will try to conquer it, introduce walled gardens, stores you will have to pay for, by watching ads.

Android was Open Source once until Google decided to mainstream it.

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Fuck it, give me your most OVERRATED Distros

I'm very critical of all the immutable distrubtions - as an old timer in tech I've seen so many things come and go. I'm also curious, ofcourse, and already tried out a VM with NixOS and everything seemed fine. But I'm going to wait it out before something like that becomes my main driver, I have a job to do (development, systems, stuff) and I cannot afford to say "sorry little to no progress today, my OS needs tinkering".

(Feel free to tell me I'm wrong :-) I love to tinker with new stuff).

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Do any of us host their own email?

Incoming mail is very doable.

Outgoing mail is hard because no one will your trust your server, the easy way is let someone else send your mail.

People get stressed about your receiving server being down sometimes, but this actually not a big deal. Mail senders typically will try for 48 hours or so to deliver mail, and if it doesn't get delivered it will be sent back to the sender with a "could not be delivered" message. Very little gets actually lost.

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Geloven jullie dat Nederlands eind van de eeuw nog gaat bestaan?

Ik maak mij niet zoveel zorgen. Een taal laten uitsterven is best wel een opgave.

En dat verengelsen.. dat is van alle tijden he? Als het kijkt naar het Nederlands van pakweg 50 jaar geleden dan is er al een hoop veranderd. Taal is een dynamisch ding, en er wordt continu geleend en gekopieerd.

Vraag bij de groenteboer maar eens om ooft. Of bij de kledingwinkel om een ceintuur. Grote kans op verbaasde gezichten :-)

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What OS are you using and why?

Debian.

It's stable. Everything has support for Debian. I'm comfortable with Debian. Also everything that is not available as a deb-package goes in a docker container.

I run a bunch of Minecraft servers, the *arr stack, and pihole on a single NUC.

I also have a VPS. Also Debian. It is my VPN gateway for my home network (tinc is nice) and everything that needs to be public facing (minecraft proxy+a website that I host for my sister).

My work laptop + gaming rig is LMDE which is also Debian.

I'm not so much a Debian fanboy but my tinkering days were in the past, if I would still have the time I would probably run something cool like Arch or NixOS. Now I just want something that works.

Oh yeah, my media player is a Pi with LibreElec. Write to SD card and you're done :)