I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.

I don’t WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

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What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?

I don’t know, but the amount of USB drives I’ve seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉

I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.

That’d make it highly file system dependent with no way of updating the firmware. All these drives stopped working after the FAT32->ExFAT switch.

Sorry. Wife’s Christmas present. She wanted to surprise me. Gotta make do.

Circuit City

Warning: trigger activated, loading and playing long lost childhood memory:

🎵 “WELCOME TO CIRCUIT CITY, WHERE SERVICE IS STATE OF THE ART” 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWRWg83Zvs

Sorry for the confusion. I should probably start using emojis to convey playfulness in nonserious comments.

You know jokes and sarcasm are a thing, right?

Do any of you people actually use your OS, or do you just distro-hop and tweak things all day?

Thank god macros and functions are different colors in my IDE.

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We used to do that a lot, in the 90s and early 2000s. We determined that that’s not a good idea. People even ran DEs under root.

Ubuntu is basically dead

It’s dead for hardcore nerds that care about such things as snaps and such. But in the corporate world, it’s very much alive. I literally just got done installing an Ubuntu-based NVR from Wisenet for a store’s CCTV system.

Isn’t that still in system RAM at this stage in the boot process?

Libraries and APIs are a moving target. Eventually it won’t run on modern systems anymore without modification.

Neofetch is only dead if y’all let it die. Same as Hexchat.

By “a lot of people”, I meant “a great many of them” compared to neurotypicals. Not all.

It often takes a special kind of person to be able to absorb reams of dry technical knowledge in a narrow field and spit it out like it’s a second language.

It’s easy to recognize in people like RMS, Steve Wozniak, and Torvalds if you are afflicted with it too (although technically none have been officially diagnosed). Even Elon Musk exhibits traits of it (as much as I don’t want to be associated with him) I can still recognize the complete social ineptitude and obsessive behaviors that are often associated with it.

being autistic

Easy there, a lot of people on the spectrum built everything you’re using to talk to me right now.

Server consoles. Admins need some tunes in the data room while they’re migrating DBs.

My question is, how can you look at whitespace in a filename and not have your eyelid twitch?