Quazatron

Ah, Aperture Science Psychoacoustic Laboratories, one of my favorite bands.

Lenovo ThinkPads are quite compatible.

They are also easy to get into, just undo some screws and you’re in. Just make sure the insides have expandability in case you want to plug in another SSD or more RAM (in this economy?! 😉).

Use whatever feels comfortable. Both are fine. People are complaining about micro annoyances that should not really affect you at first.

When you get comfortable with Linux, you’ll also get to pick sides in micro battles like KDE vs Gnome, vi vs emacs, systemd vs sysv, flatpak vs snap and all the other wonderful my-side-is-better-than-yours fights.

Dump this job, it’s making you miserable.

“Lanche” is completely separate entity from “jantar” (dinner).

When mixed, we call it a “lanche ajantarado” (dinnery lanche).

After that we can have “ceia” which is a late, after dinner meal.

Maybe that’s the one. I have to re-read it.

I’m pretty sure I read a sci-fi novel that had that idea or something similar. I can’t remember which book it was. Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, maybe?

So are most religions, but here we are.

Millions of people are dead and lands are carved up because of some imaginary sky friends.

Being John Malkovich.

I really hope so, because if we can’t count on the young to loudly oppose all this bullshit, the alternative is very scary indeed.

I was expecting that the Brexit consequences would bring about a music revolution like the punk in the 70s. Maybe not rock, but hip-hop or something.

I guess it’s just not coming. Kids are too busy scrolling and fighting strangers online.

I thought this would be an article about the old TV series depicting the life of Basil Fawlty, but no, it’s another comment on LLMs. Oh well.

Those episodes never existed. You would be wise to drop any further inquiries into this matter.

Just a few more billions, it’ll work much better, you’ll see!

hot mess

Oi! Take that back!

The important stuff (my documents, my desktop settings) are in my user’s home folder. That’s what is important. The rest (the Linux distribution) is swappable and replaceable. I keep /etc (the global system configurations) because I sometimes make changes there that I like to keep when distro hopping.

I mostly backup /home and /etc on my home machines. Anything else I can recreate with configuration-as-code tools like Ansible.

Windows will not die so easily. Two reasons: 1. Too much money behind and around it. 2. Sheer corporate inertia. 3. As long as there is no competition to the AD/Entra ecosystem, companies will buy it. Ok, three reasons.

Me too, at work, on a dozen machines. ALL THIRTY TWO FLOPPY DISKS.

I can, I’m just lazy.