I mean I get the point you’re trying to make, but also maaaaybe don’t go that way too

Crowdstrike: “hello”

Oogles of googles

Google: furiously writing down cereal ideas

That’s just the section of the map for drift challenges

I don’t believe so, no

Though lack of research because you can’t read is a bit of a speed bump in the whole “doing research” process

Rant, but not at you.

Well I would use Debian, but the last two systems I tried to install it on hung at some point in the install process. I tried multiple times, multiple downloads, multiple versions (across multiple months!), and these are two separate machines from two different vendors.

Debian is fine on my server boxes, but fuck me it’s dogshit in a consumer environment. One of those laptops has - and is an absolute necessity to have working - WWAN. I tried over a dozen distros, from ‘easy and popular’ to ‘obscure and edge-case’. Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu, I like KDE) was literally the only distro to 1) boot, 2) install, and 3) have working WWAN (after fucking with the fcc-unlock shit and filling my carrier details). Nothing, literally nothing else could do this simple task.

Linux is great, they say. It’s easy. It’s simple to install and use. It puts you in control. These are ideas that the Linux community wants to believe, that I want to believe, but it’s just not. Given the right circumstances, with the right hardware, and the right use-case, it’s good. Stray anywhere off the beaten path and unless you’re a veteran *nix sysadmin who values their time as $0, sometimes you’re just fucked. I would know, I’ve been using various distros on and off for 20 years. It’s still bad. I don’t understand how, but here we are.

I don’t like Ubuntu for a few reasons, but in my experience, the situation sucks the least when you use it. Sometimes - see above WWAN bullshit - it’s the only thing that works.

And that’s fucking bullshit, but it’s a fact. And even interested users, who like to tinker, have a limit to what they will put up with before throwing in the towel and using what works.

Might reevaluate the “instant” part, then.

(I’ve been using docker for 7 years or so, and it’s always some bullshit like undocumented environment variables or bullshit password limitations or broken smtp implementations or the repo just assuming you are the actual dev and giving no fucking instructions at all or the container shitting itself for no motherfucking reason at random times and you try to fix it and it goes well and then you wake up and it’s restarted several times through the night…)

(eyes bulging, hyperventilating)

I have a ThinkServer with a similar Xeon, running proxmox -> Debian, so I was looking like “huh, interesting” until I saw the internals.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck all that. Damn it Dell, quit your weird bullshit. It’s just a motherboard, cpu, cooler, and ram. Slap in intake and exhaust fans. Figure it the fuck out.

E: and it better have a goddamn standard psu, too. Fuck yourself, Dell. I’ve seen your shit.

puts it in my butt

thumbs up

rises from the dead to blast dad with a shotgun

Next up, (cell) phone plans.

(though fuck landlines phones too)

And, since it’s a car and not a plane, also not so pilot.

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NAS running a bunch of docker containers; a ThinkServer running Proxmox, which is in turn running Debian, which in turn is running more docker containers; a VPN running Debian, running docker containers…

It’s docker containers all the way down.

Hello.

Well, yeah. They are all shit.

I’ll take “problems I want” for $1,000, alex

Oh, someone is thirsty…

“to avoid learning new things, just learn these new things instead and repeat as needed until it doesn’t work anymore! duh!”