Nice! I’m still too impatient with my sharpening, so it is sloppy and short lived.

I’m single, but like doing trips around the state. I’ve been slowly convincing myself to get one. Gas mileage is about the same as a common suv.

This is a dull club, so we probably shouldn’t discuss opinions about pre washing.

Did you at least get it on sale?

AI summary:

The author, Jack Wallen, makes several optimistic predictions about the future of Linux by 2025. He believes Linux will continue to grow, especially with increasing adoption in enterprise environments, as well as in the consumer space. Key trends he anticipates include:

1. Increased Linux Use in Enterprise: Linux is expected to dominate server environments, with more organizations choosing Linux for cloud, DevOps, and container-based technologies.

2. Greater Consumer Adoption: Linux desktops will become more appealing to non-technical users, driven by improved hardware compatibility, user-friendly distributions, and better gaming support.

3. Wider Support for Linux on Mobile: The rise of Linux-based mobile operating systems, like PinePhone and Ubuntu Touch, will continue to develop, offering more alternatives to Android and iOS.

4. Growth in the Linux Gaming Ecosystem: The Steam Deck and tools like Proton are expected to drive Linux to the forefront of gaming, offering a better gaming experience on Linux systems.

5. Improved Desktop Environments and Applications: As Linux evolves, user interfaces and applications will become more polished, ensuring a smoother experience for users, making it more mainstream.

Overall, Wallen predicts that Linux will solidify its presence across various sectors and become a more accessible, reliable, and versatile choice for both businesses and individual users by 2025.

Yes. That stood out to me, too.

Really can’t trust their software if they flat out lie like that.

If you don’t know you don’t need to reply.

What’s the purpose of making fun of someone for asking a question to try to learn?

Yeah, it did get me to stop also a dual boot with Linux. I’m mostly Windows, so I’ve just used Linux in VMs.

What bugs has it made?

Sorry about the negativity from so many people.

You do what works for you.

Ouch!

I do get a billing error about every 2 or 3 years. Usually something like they double bill a month, or the price for just 1 month is suddenly 2x - 3x the normal price.

I’ve used them for probably 2 decades, getter in because of the $1/month for a year deal.

I think I’m on the top, or 2nd from the top, tier. Has unlimited disk space, but it’s not open access from the start. Every so many tens of GB you have to call to get the soft limit raised. They are trying to keep a bot from just filling the space up.

I use their hosted WordPress, so that they handle the upgrading.

I also have run a few wiki sites on there. Those install and run fine.

I wish I could figure out if I could install OwnCloud or such on there. I’m not great with Linux. You don’t have rights to the OS, but anything you access through a webpage or FTP you can put there. You should have access to chron jobs, but my skills aren’t there yet.

I mainly use them to host my own email domain, that I then access from gMail.

Biggest problem I’ve had with them is they will charge extra if you use a phased-out version of Python. So you have to make sure you keep anything using Python updated.

Sorry about the rude responses from some people.

Exciting! Enjoy the upgrade!

They killed Clippy! Those bastards!

Think of all the Russian jobs spreading misinformation on Tik Tok that will be lost!

Better question: Will the world rejoice in having a social media network without Americans?

We could keep the 0 hour as the “middle” of the night and 12 being the “middle” of the day (though I’m not sure if that’s really the sun’s high spot for the day for any places).

But with fully controlled mirrors, we could make it exactly 12 hours, so we could just then switch to the 0 hour being when the sun comes up.