Well, unless this is an offer to buy me a replacement Quest or Pico (all of which, work on Linux) “yes, I’m going to stay with Windows 10” (and/or maybe dual boot).

… because I have a Samsung Odyssey+ VR headsets, which needs “Windows Mixed Reality” (Windows VR) and was gutted/removed from Windows 11 (and doesn’t work on Linux).

I’m sorry this happened, but it seems rather reckless of the author to be running “Malicious PoCs” on their “daily driver” (re: the PC they use for everything).

If I was in the habit of running “Malicious PoCs”, you can be certain it would be isolated from the rest of my system. This could be in a sandbox or a vm. Heck, just created a dedicated (one time use) “new user” would have been better than "Hey, let me just download and run some random shell script. Oh, it needs root? No problem!

I have mixed feelings about this.

On one hand, I agree with the technical merits. Having an automated process to renew short lived tls certs is “a good thing” and I think services like Let’s Encrypt have demonstrated such automation is viable (at large scale).

But, there are reasons why people pay money for tls Certs rather than use free (short lived) Certs. For example, there’s a mom-and-pop webhosting company that allows you to upload your tls Certs (they cost < $25 / year) or you can pay them $95 / year to use their Certs (and they just use Let’s Encrypt - lol)

The nearly 4x markup is their “convenience fee” or “dumb tax”. Regardless, once the 45 day tls Certs are enforced, I’ll have no choice in either paying their 4x markup or migrating to another platform.

… Having a choice is not always a bad thing…

Of course it won’t. Bring manufacturing is not the goal. The goal of the tarrifs is for the American People to pay the government more (which I’m sure the current administration will spend responsibly /s).

I’d spent some time in Central America and I’m getting flashbacks, when I hear Trump talking about these tarrifs. I don’t want to insult other countries by what I observed, but one place in particular had a weak infrastructure. Roads, especially, were poorly maintained. Potholes (sometimes the size of the hood of a car) were everywhere - even on the (few) highways. The resulting traffic and congestion were the norm (even outside the big cities in the rural areas).

The strange thing was, everything cost as-much or more than North American prices. Especially for things like food/groceries. I was told that the locals often ate beans and rice, as it was affordable.

I was surprised to see, that even with the high prices for groceries _the locals were still shopping there. _ So, this wasn’t a “front” for the tourists. I found this odd as I was thinking “with the prices of everything here, someone is making bank! Where is that money going?”

Then, I’d drive past the frequent police check point along the roads and highways. The police had many nice Hummers and SUVs, I saw female officers brandishing assault rifles, everyone dressed very well.

I heard that the country charges a high tax on imported goods, but nothing on domestic goods. This, in theory, is to promote “local manufacturing”, but the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to support it. And (I’m guessing) the government isn’t interested in creating the necessary infrastructure, because it would mean giving up their cash cow. So, the government gets rich, while the people suffer.

This is the dystopian future of the U.S. Pay attention to see how much importance the current administration puts into maintaining and improving the existing infrastructure. How’s that rural high speed internet coming along? /s :(

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Homer: "… I’m in flavor country. "

https://youtu.be/H8s93B67mpQ

This is a very cool concept, but has anyone actually gotten this to read as a qr code?

I’ve tried a bunch of apps without any luck.

Yeah, bring back Usenet! (rabble, rabble, rabble) /s

Who would have guessed that “Weekend at Bernie’s” was a documentary.

I totally agree. Season 1 and season 2 were the apex of the series - exactly for the reasons you mentioned.

Season 3 and 4 lost a lot of the magic. Season 5 and beyond, I’ve cherry picked a few episodes and always ended up asking myself “meh, why did I watch this?” I expect nothing more from the upcoming season.

I really wonder if they just ran out of innovative ideas.

Not the Fediverse Chick?

…that last step will be a doozy.

I don’t know if you tried it or not, but I’d suggest that you install the latest release from their Download Page, as opposed to other sources.

I’ve noticed on Android, that the F-Droid Version is not “quickly” updated and frequently breaks due to breaking changes from Google.

(I’ve also just upgraded to v4.0 on my android phone and it’s working - good luck!)

Spotube: It’s not the greatest UX, but will read your Spotify Playlists and supports offline mode.

I just laughed and said oh well that’s what you get when you moved from on prem to cloud.

Our Techs said that you couldn’t buy on-perm exchange anymore. You needed to go with the cloud subscription, which “includes” all the crap you don’t want: like Teams.

Atleast, they said didn’t make financial sense to pay for Google Workspace + Slack + Cloud Exchange, when MS offered their (lesser) services as a bundle (but the human suffering is real) :(

What?!? Actually, read the article? What is this, Reddit? /s

Seriously, though - let me spin the question around: what, in your mind, overlaps with what Greg said?

(plus, OP was just interested in people opinions - not whether they align/contradict with Greg, Linus, etc)

Oh absolutely, but you could argue the same for learning lisp or mastering any functional programming language (list comprehensions, etc). It will improve your design patterns when you go back to an object oriented language with some elements of functional programming.

In my mind, introducing Rust would only make sense if:

1. There was a serious lack of current kernel developers (which I don’t think there is)
2. New hardware and tech was evolving at a rate that the Linux Kernel could not keep up (again, I don’t think this is am issue)
3. The end goal is to migrate the entire Kernel to Rust.

Regarding point 3, having both C and Rust really only makes sense as a transition phase (measured in years) - as it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust, or would force developers to stay within whatever domains were implemented in C or Rust.

It does add a different interpretation to: “All for one” [… and we can skip the rest of the quote]

Musk-eteers