I’m not saying there’s no people trying it, or that the actual number is negligible. I’m just saying I highly fucking doubt that 780,000 people have actually installed Zorin OS in the last month.

That “780,000 Windows users” number is just made up for the title as clickbait.

That number is never mentioned in the original blog post.

All they said is they have a million downloads and “over 78% of these downloads came from Windows”. At no fucking point did they imply that means 780k unique users. There’s no reason to assume that everyone who downloaded the ISO actually went on to install it.

They also want $48 for their Pro version which comes with a “professional-grade creative suite” consisting of… GIMP, Blender, Inkscape, Kdenlive, and… Audacity (?), going off the screenshots they show:

They’re shamelessly reselling free software as some sort of comprehensive package, and it’s not even their own distro. They’re just piggybacking on Ubuntu.

And their premium support only covers… installation?

But hey, they support this edition with updates until 2029!

Of course, pay no attention to the coincidence that the Ubuntu LTS version it’s based on also hits end-of-life around then:

So I’m not really sure what you’re actually getting out of this purchase besides some extra themes and some really formulaic desktop wallpapers, and a couple proprietary apps. They say they “contribute to upstream Open Source projects” but offer zero evidence; their site doesn’t even have any Github/Gitlab links.

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I know, after I posted that I was looking at their outages and worrying that my 1/month estimate too much of an exaggeration cause they hadn’t had a big one in a bit.

I wasn’t the original person that replied.

Could start with the fact that they go down about once a month now and take half the Internet with them.

If someone’s self-hosting, I’d be willing to bet they don’t have the same hardened config or isolation that a cloud provider would.

No VPN.

I’ve started noticing websites just to refuse to work on Linux:

• Xfinity
• Microsoft
• United Airlines
• American Airlines

It’s not like some weird script error either. It’s straight up a 403 Forbidden on certain routes. Works perfectly fine if I switch to my Windows laptop. It’s like it took one look at my user agent string and decided I was a bot.

No. Docker containers aren’t a full sandbox. There’s a number of exploits that can break out of a container and gain root access to the host.

Prions and population collapse aside, your cannibal population would eventually succumb to simple nutrient deficiency as the human body can’t synthesize a number of essential vitamins and amino and fatty acids. Without any outside food sources, those nutrients would eventually be completely exhausted.

So if you’re going to start eating people, only eat people who have been a fed a diverse, nutrient-rich diet.

I support the idea that the Rapture did indeed happen, but only like 5 people on Earth were good enough Christians to be taken so no one else noticed.

I’m a senior dev and I want nothing to do with AI. By the time I understand what I want well enough to describe it in a complete sentence or paragraph, I can just write the fucking code myself. I figure it out as I go.

The whole point of having devs under you that is to be able to trust them to get the job done and do it right. You want to be able to delegate tasks to them and not have to peek over their shoulder every five fucking minutes to be certain they’re not making a mess of things.

I seriously doubt AI will ever be able to replace that. Not until they figure out how to make it afraid of fucking up.

Big if true, but this unfortunately just seems like wild speculation.

There’s articles going back to before the election talking about how Trump hasn’t been seen in several days. I couldn’t find anything more recent than June. He apparently has a habit of flaking on commitments, which doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Tbh I just use it as a reminder to run a system upgrade, otherwise I’d constantly forget to do it.

What’s the number, OP

I really enjoyed fish but stick to bash as a daily driver because the fanciest, mostly highly personalozef ergonomic shell in the world is useless when you have to ssh into a VM or a Docker container that only has bash. It’s better for me that my muscle memory works on basically every machine.

Futurama s2e5: I Second that Emotion

“Heh, yeah well, good luck. You’d have to be some kinda genius to count all those rings.”

“… He’s five.”

I had to pull up the episode to verify the quote.