I can still use a 2003 AMD Opteron with the newest builds of Linux. It’s an open standard. As long as the hardware still physically works. The only reason these pieces of hardware are EOL is because they chose to lock them down.

It’s had all the signs of a bubble for the last few years.

Only people running bleeding edge were affected.

It’s also worth mentioning that the VPN in question, Proton, offers one of the best free tiers of any VPN company.

As long as you have notepad, you’re good.

Gimp doesn’t suck as an image editor, it just sucks as a Photoshop clone, which it was never meant to be. It’s an amazing image editor.

Master gambit, Sir.

I’m not going to condone this, but also… haha.

That man is a hero.

I’m a YouTube creator, part of the partner program, and I also manually upload to TILvids. The videos I make generate about $100-$300 a year through the partner program, so I’m not a professional by any means. It feels like they’re trying to keep creators from leaving by putting up small roadblocks that limit our reach beyond the platform. Given PeerTube’s non-profit model, I see it as a potential future for content sharing. Though there are a few rock stars on YouTube, most of the creators on that platform make little to no money from publishing videos. There are more people like me than Linus Media Group.

Hot take: Good for them.

This will have zero impact on 99% of independent developers. Most small companies can move to an alternative or roll their own infrastructure. This will only really impact large corporations. I’m all for corporation-on-corporation violence. Let them fight.

I’ll check that out. Thanks.

My system is to duplicate to fresh media once in a while. It’s more hands on, but it’s the only option I have. My NAS will be cloned to new drives in the next few years.

Oh! So close, Honey. We’re looking for vim and dark-mode. But thanks for playing.

My laptop has two USBC ports. No logos of any kind. They are Thunderbolt 4. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I can make a file named COM1 on Linux. That’s on the forbidden list for Windows.

The forbidden list:

• CON
• PRN
• AUX
• CLOCK$
• NUL
• COM1
• COM2
• COM3
• COM4
• COM5
• COM6
• COM7
• COM8
• COM9
• LPT1
• LPT2
• LPT3
• LPT4
• LPT5
• LPT6
• LPT7
• LPT8
• LPT9

Maybe the solution has nothing to do with park benches. Maybe if people had homes, they wouldn’t have to sleep in the park.

MacBoo sounds so cute.

It’s becoming impossible to monitor. I have 5G Broadband Internet and I share a public IP address with everyone in my area. I look at https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com and it shows thousands of torrents that my neighbors have pulled downloaded.

Immutable and Declarative OS design is simply an option. I think it’s a damn good one, but right now, it’s not for me. That could easily change in the near future.

The idea excites me. A potential hardened OS that user-friendly could be a great option for Business and Academic computing.