Most importantly and very evident in the US: 100 yrs of reform can be rolled back in one day. We’re seeing that reform is pointless.

It also means swinging the other way takes a day. (Unlikely, but now far more likely than before.)

Is the redundancy used for bools? I mean in actual practice.

Yes, but Microsoft named it.

Apt-cacher-ng doesn’t tend to expire automatically. It can be configured to keep the last version regardless. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#extrakeep

One can also use a cache to hold deb and rpm files requested by the machines. (Works great when running hundreds of systems.)

I like “apt-cacher-ng”. It will do deb and rpm. https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

Edit: better link

Offline repository caches for Linux have been a thing for decades. People absolutely pass binaries to friends.

Flatpac may not be suitable, but that is only one way to get software on Linux.

I hate modern AI, but that is what we need it for. Maintaining old code bases, and not turning it into a text editor/AI API (unless that was the original intention).

Edit: I have to add more words. Maintaining code bases includes compling and testing the code on a variety of hardware. Running tests against that code. Responding to questions. It is a massive amount of work.

Get enough sleep and take care of yourself.

Everything is easier after that.

That budgets for households, businesses, and goverments have much to do with each other

Edit: fixed typo. ‘nd’ to ‘and’.

Phrasing.

A Linux maintainer wants to keep quality high. Objects to adding complexity to codebase.

Right or wrong, we want the maintainers focused on quality and maintainability.

Hose off the caustic with hot water

Wear eye protection if truly hosing. You don’t want that shit in your eye.

Debian and a BSD (FreeBSD is nice) can run for years without a reboot.

Certain activities will often push a machine to crash. 3D gaming, network drive mounts on an unstable network, and some drivers.

No distro is going to fix a true hardware problem.

I tend to buy two at a time. Some are months old, others three years old.

Professionally, I have seen drives over 10 years always on at low utilization without issue. (The data was easily replaceable.)

crammed in to my case in a hideous way

Heat is a killer. Check them regularly.

Serial is still a thing.
Get a cheap video card.
Or a usb to vga adapter.
A server class system with BMC.
Live CD.

There are options.

Learning where your money goes.

Fill your time with free things that you think are healthy. Walk. Invite friends over. Go to the library and get something for the night (book, movie, video game).

The more free things you do, the less time spending money.

Numbers are still coming in, but Trump is less than 50% currently.

We are. Just in opposing directions, imperfectly, and poorly.

Have you considered joining a group of like minded people with whom to coordinate? That might move the needle in your preferred direction.

Sure. Not as a regular thing, but as a fast meal before a long drive through an area with few options.

I wouldn’t suggest it daily.

What mass transit program is Musk trying to disrupt now? (As he did California’s high speed rail with the Hyperloop.)

The chart is interesting. Carter is rated higher than I expected.