This image just hit too many reward centres in my brain wtf

Legacy hardware and operating systems are battle tested, having been extensively probed and patched during their heyday. The same can be said for software written for these platforms – they have been refined to the point that they can execute their intended tasks without incident. If it is ain't broke, don't fix it. One could also argue that dated platforms are less likely to be targeted by modern cybercriminals. Learning the ins and outs of a legacy system does not make sense when there are so few targets still using them. A hacker would be far better off to master something newer that millions of systems still use.

Tell me you know nothing about cybersecurity without telling me you know nothing about cybersecurity. Wtf is this drivel?

Loose!

Isn’t this basically the banana cultivation problem of computing? Linux has pretty good genetic diversity with mutations and speciation happening on the regular, MacOS doesn’t have that variety, but is a genetically engineered abomination that’s regularly gene-edited to patch problems out.

As for Windows, I’d say it’s the Cavendish banana of operating systems.

Here’s my answer to this same question from an old thread on Reddit:

My Ubuntu system always reserved a whopping 20% of my 32GB ram for no reason and I never bothered to know why. Later I uninstalled snapd because of boot time issues and guess what happened? Only 1.5 GB used after a fresh boot.

I had like 4 different JetBrains IDEs installed via snap with each totalling around 2GB of disk space. While removing snapd I discovered it kept back 2-3 previous versions of every package on your disk.

Uninstalling this bloat was the best thing I did to my ubuntu system. It was suddenly light as a feather and way more responsive like I just did a fresh system install.

Some time later I was installing something from apt and Ubuntu tried to install it from snap, thus sneakily installing snapd in the process. Looking for a solution, I felt like I was looking up how to disable Windows updates or some other shit.

I had a moment of clarity and wondered why the fuck did I have to put up with this kinda bullshit on Linux. I wiped that drive clean and switched to Fedora.

Data is written by two million laser beamlets that punch QR code-like nano-scale patterns into the surface of the media. The laser pulse is sharpened by a digital micromirror device, and shaped by microscope optics onto the surface of the data carrier. This process imprints holes – or no holes – onto the surface layer, which represents binary information.

It’s futuristic punchcards. We’ve come full circle.

“Maybe I was the problem?”

• Presses reply
• Types an insightful comment
• Looks at it. There’s something wrong with it. He just doesn’t know what.
• Erases it. Starts over.
• *Still doesn’t feel right *
• Hits cancel, discards the comment, and goes back to doom scrolling.

You guys don’t see what they’re scared shitless about? It’s the fear of an EU-based true open source Android fork/competitor.

Also when they say FOSS will not contribute to “economic growth”, they mean Alphabet’s. Greedy pigs.

Why does their admission sound prideful? Does anyone reading into it detect a “look at what our unreleased models can do” subtext?

Customer: Hey there, customer outreach person; how does it feel to repeat yourself over and over again?

Management response: As a large-language model, I am unable to experience feelings the way humans do. Moreover…

Yeah. I’m not buying another train from them ever again

He single-handedly changed a lot of people’s impression of Linux with a single video, and he did it gently enough to not intimidate and scare them away like many others did. I respect that.

Fuck. I dunno what to do with this

Edit: just cancelled my subscription to super Duolingo. Fuck them

And so cometh the foretold LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows)

Gotta dig in early before the pesky Americans wake up

Native Arabic speaker here. Can confirm.

Although it’s not always as easy as it sounds because many words and expressions from back then aren’t relevant/in-use. Also, reading poetry from the pre-Islamic era is significantly more difficult. We still have volumes of literature (specifically poetry) that predate Islam.

The reason the language is so resilient is the use of the Quran as a reference (all translations of it aren’t considered Quran, but commentaries), and the fact we have institutes dedicated to maintaining and standardising the language as part of the Arab League (ALECSO and its subsidiaries, etc). Also, all nations of the Arab League enforce a rule that stipulates that the governments, newspapers, media/TV, and academia are required to use Modern Standard Arabic for official business across all member countries.

Regional dialects are kind of hard to understand at first, but generally speaking, we do understand each other regardless of the dialect if the two parties communicating work at it long enough. The hardest dialects to understand are from them pesky Moroccans/Tunisians with their French-every-other-word bastardisation of the language, but we figure it out eventually.

Edit: and I’m not bashing Moroccans/Tunisians/Algerians. We love you guys! ❤️

Edit: spelling, grammar

salat

Found the Ger(wo)man.