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RIP Red ♥️
RIP Red ♥️
I wish we could just signed diffs and stop with the whole “make an account literally everywhere” mentality.
the email-list only folks are like 3/4s right; federation isn’t a solution to bring decentralization to an already decentralized system, it’s to just stop thinking that every saas has to “own” your stuff, and keep it behind auth and secrets and a big heavy database.
Interesting fact! If you’ve had an arch machine for a while, it’s possible you didn’t know that parallel download support is available, because it’s a config option hidden in pacman conf.pacnew
(I know I didn’t realize it until months after, lol).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads
muppets from space is both one of my favorites, and contains the travesty that is whatever happened to Fozzie’s writing.
gimme that black ICE
I hear you, but I think a lot of us just amortized that cost over time as we’ve gotten those devices, same as you will now, but at least it’s cheaper to start now than 5 years ago?
For a long time I mixed up deprecated (meaning, no longer supported) with depreciated (meaning, having lost value over time) because they can both kinda apply to the same situations, if you tilt your head the right way.
my 2c:
that we live in anything approaching an Adam Smith style capitalism at all. The scope of regulatory capture, anticompetitive behavior, cartel building et al in the current corporatist handwave means that prices can never go down, competition can’t really unseat incumbents and so on.
it’s a storyline thing :)