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Is that how it works? Like a file-o-fax made of mortadella?

Old man yells at cloud.

Carmageddon had a glove with the severed hand still in it. Just saying.

It’s also been said that with Pi to just four decimal places you can accurately send a spaceship to one of our nearest neighbouring stars and arrive within one kilometre of your intended target.

In fairness, that was said by me, and I do tend to be full of shit.

I took a rental offroading in Death Valley once. Covered in chips outside; inside drenched in powdery talc-like dust; and utterly, comprehensively, entirely fucked suspension. The staff at the rental office don’t give a shit as long as it drives and can be rinsed off.

Emergency brake for an unforgettable quenching experience.

In twenty years all new digital projectors will have ports for USB-C, power, network and VGA.

The fact you’re getting downvotes to fuck shows, I think, how unrealistic a lot of people here are. Proprietary or open, a service lives or dies based on it’s uptake. Uptake requires marketing, marketing requires money, money requires investors, investors who aren’t going to spend their money on something that isn’t profitable for them and it’s hard to see how giving users control of their data and giving them the tools to turn their backs on abusive monoliths leads to profit as compared to, say, the exact opposite.

One hundred percent go for USFF. Even the cheapest, most basic processor will smash server roles because it’s not having to power desktop applications, graphics, window managers, etc.

A personal favourite of Michael Gorbachev if the old urban legend is to be believed.

It’s easy. Just read the manual.

I can’t remember who said it, but:

“Hillary Clinton represents everything wrong with American politics. Donald Trump represents everything wrong with America.”

The rolling release thing isn’t for me, but I get why that model might appeal. Brave, though? Why?

This used to work when the guy worked for the restaurant and had, like, three pizzas to deliver and an empty backseat, but now they’ll have six different bags with food from nine takeaways organised with four different delivery apps and doing some realtime Travelling Salesman maths.

All this, plus the well-established legal notion of “informed consent”. If I rent a megaphone from a shop it would be utterly unreasonable for that shop to tell everyone I’d bought a megaphone - I wasn’t informed and wouldn’t reasonably assume that’s what they would do, so I couldn’t consent - but if I walk around using that megaphone to shout at people it would similarly be utterly unreasonable to argue that the shop is responsible for keeping my bellowings private.

UK. 30 days plus Bank Holidays as paid leave. Also, we have a flexible working system where we can work additional hours to accrue up to five days’ leave. Longest continuous period I’ve taken off was three weeks. It’s also WFH four days a week.

When I was applying for this job I was offered - and accepted - a job at an American company which paid a few thousand more but didn’t do flexi hours or WFH. It actually felt pretty good letting them know I wouldn’t be starting and why.

Yeah, that was the “oh, shit” moment for me too. I bought into the bullshit until that point.

Centralised, monolithic online services. Even when they were ‘good’, I was leery of services like YouTube, Facebook and WhatsApp because they made no attempt to be interoperable or peerable. Two GMail users will have a richer experience emailing with each-other than they would with someone on, say, Yahoo Email or an Exchange server, but it would always work, eventually, somehow. Obviously we now have the concept of the Fediverse, but federated peers forming ad-hoc connections using an lowest-common-denominator protocol is the basis of the whole Internet.

You can use NextCloud as the front end for an SMB share, which is what I do. I can access all my file shares using a protocol designed for intermittent Internet connections, I can sync any folder I want for offline use and, because NextCloud support file rehydration, I can even sync folders bigger than my local disk and it will stream in the files as I use them.