Laurel Raven

Zen browser is pretty interesting too

See also:

• wank panzer
• swasticar
• incel camino

Any recommendations on how to get started with that? I’ve been using it but without digging through a frankly intimidating list of configuration options, I’m not feeling like it’s really adding much value yet

Adding a bit more context, X.Org/X11 is often just called X for short

I think I’ll just shop elsewhere, thanks

Having just replaced a Maytag appliance only 4 years into its supposed 10 year warranty (that only covers the parts not likely to fail) because it would have cost as much as the machine did new to fix it, yeah… The Maytag is absolutely not better made and their “reputation” is just false advertising

I dunno, I think they make more from server and that tech stack is still likely to be proprietary as hell. And Linux doesn’t really have anything that could adequately take the place of Active Directory and group policy (I mean, you could, but it would be a ton of work getting it up and running at a similar level). They could also still sell their OS with the promise of everything working the same as people are used to out of the box.

But I don’t think they’ll go that direction, at least not for a while

I mean, to be fair to you, I thought it was pretty clearly satire

This is barely even satire at this point

Which makes the whole thing so transparent considering Trump literally couldn’t have done anything as he’s still not president yet… The whole thing was a stunt.

And even if you did get all of it, the experience would be awful trying to figure out which service has what you want to watch

They used different colored ink based on who you voted for? That sounds scary and dangerous even in parts of the US

Yeah, that’s kind of a crucial part of critical thinking, and can absolutely be done without shutting the kid up… You can critically analyze the question with them without discouraging asking questions

I think a big part of that is that they’re underfunded constantly, and it’s probably about to get way worse

It’s possible it was a joke, similar to the “Britain only has 12 actors” one… I would believe the FDA having more contractors than direct employees, but definitely more than ten

At least according to Wikipedia, as of 2022, they had 18,000 employees

I feel like they could have at least some success marketing machines with Linux preinstalled as “ad and spyware free” and get at least some people interested

Yep.

I use it as a command shell regularly and the verbosity isn’t an issue at all, between aliases and tab completion.

Honestly, having used both for years, PowerShell is actually easier in many respects just due to the object pipeline and dotnet, once you get to know them well enough. Being able to just toss output into a variable and mess around with it to understand its structure and contents is huge

Funnily enough, I use PowerShell as my daily driver and I rarely ever use the Format verb cmdlets and think they need to stop teaching people to use them as much as they do… They’re only meant to modify how things are displayed, but in doing so, they trash the objects that were on the pipeline and replace them with formatting commands, and cause confusion when people try to do something with what they output

The worst is using them to select properties, they should not have included that ability at all, that’s what the Select-Object cmdlet is for, which outputs usable objects

Anyway, sorry for the rant… I just think those overall teach new users bad habits.

Fully agreed

Huh, I think I didn’t know (or just forgot) that it was panned… I liked it, it was fun