200G of packages is 200G I can’t use for games and media.

Business continuity plan testing day.

I wish this wasn’t so true.

Arch. Not even once.

For reals though, it’s my favorite distro because it taught me a bunch and also, once I understood that bit, it really is the only one that just worked on all my machines at the time, 15 years ago.

It’s promotion-driven development at its finest.

I use Linux because of compiz fusion cube desktop. We are not the same.

I usually think TurboTax is tracking me and selling my data to Google and others.

LMAO we really have Lemmy cliques?

Is there a language that anyone would say really does fare well for continued development or is it just that few people enjoy maintaining code? I’ve maintained some pretty old Go programs I wrote and didn’t mind it at all. I’ve inherited some brand new ones and wanted to rage quit immediately. I’ve also hated my own code too, so it’s not just whether or not I wrote it.

I have found maintainability is vastly more about the abstractions and architecture (modules and cohesive design etc) chosen than it is about the language.

Yeah, this is pretty textbook selection bias.

The stupidest system is always the one I didn’t build myself. 😤

I say this in the engineering sense. I didn’t build capitalism please don’t hate me.

Yeah, for sure. And it’s already been forked. I have a feeling/hope that this might drive forks for some of the other popular software like consul.

Yeah, I think they meant IaC. IoC I’ve usually seen as “inversion of control” which is something else.

I think it was big for easy local dev setups in a VM. But I think docker has pretty much taken over a lot of those use cases since a build can happen in a container pretty trivially across platforms these days. Plus be ready to deploy with the same tools, which Vagrant didn’t cover.

Formerly open source company with a few really great projects. Terraform being one of the best known. Vault is probably the second most popular unless you go back when vagrant was bigger.

I’m definitely about to deploy it at home and replace vault just to be ready.

I think they’re just trying to take over. But yes.

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck for this person, but product market fit is a thing for open source too. If people need it they’ll use it and contribute until something better comes along. If not, your idea wasn’t the one. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Nearly my whole life runs on open source software, so it’s pretty clearly sustainable.

over the years, using “open source” has become an excuse to avoid paying for software

Um. Yes. And to be blunt: obviously. And in return, I give away software I create for free whether people need it or not, and try to give back in the form of contributions too. But I’ve never once given up my day job for it. Would that be nice? Maybe. But open source software is more frequently sustained by passionate people using and expanding it for their own projects and not by expecting people to pay you for your efforts when you’re likely not paying (nodejs, github, ahem) for the software you’re building it on anyway.

3DMark or some other benchmark utility might help next time.

Can we joke about log4shell? Maybe heartbleed?