I’ll allow it.

I tighten both screws. With an impact driver. And a dab of LocTite for good measure.

MacBook Air club represent!

I love i3wm. Incredibly lightweight and minimalistic.

I used a Mac SE/30 running OS 7 quite a bit in the early 90’s. I remember it being incredibly reliable; in fact, I can’t even remember what a crash looked like on a Mac, whereas I can still picture the BSOD from Windows 3.1.

I don’t remember noticing much difference in snappiness or intuitiveness between Mac and Windows back then though. Both were pretty easy to learn, even for people with limited computer experience. Anything with a hard drive felt snappy at the time, because the previous generation of computers all ran on floppy disks which were slow as molasses.

I enjoy fixing things, even other people’s shit, so I categorize that time as entertainment instead of work. It’s time I’d otherwise be using to doomscroll on Lemmy.

It’s raining men by the weather girls.

I always pronounce it “fezzik” like Andre the Giant’s character from The Princess Bride.

LFS (Linux from Scratch)

Primal Fear (1996). It’s arguable whether or not the antagonist is truly evil though.

Get a load of this guy - he’s got ladies just coming up and talking to him.

I think I’d like my money back

The script just does all the actions that you would otherwise be manually typing in the terminal. When it’s finished, you have the same minimal environment as if you’d done it manually, but with less work.

Exactly. And the archinstall script makes it almost as easy as Ubuntu. I think this comic is obsolete.

You might want to check out the i3 tiling window manager. Shit’s under 50MB and makes every other DE I’ve ever used feel bloated and laggy.

Inspecting the file with a hex editor would give you lots of useful info in this case. If you know approximately what the data should look like, you can just see where the garbage (header) ends and the data starts. I’ve reverse engineered data files from an oscilloscope like this.

The main benefit is that when people get tired of distro flame wars, they can move on to init system flame wars.

I use a combination of both. Objects are declared const, all members are set in the constructor, all methods are const. It doesn’t really work for some types of programs (e.g. GUIs) but for stuff like number crunching it’s great.

My current and all-time favorite laptop is an older MacBook Air (Intel) running Arch Linux. The quality of Apple hardware combined with Linux is unbeatable. I can’t wait until we get a reliable Linux distro that runs on Apple silicon.