Not on my own, I’m technically only responsible for the network and cybersecurity, but not being able to log out of an education account on a public computer is a pretty serious threat. Fortunately I’m on good terms with the dean and he’s always been receptive to my concerns.

As a university sysadmin that spent half a fucking hour yesterday trying to log someone out of a classroom computer’s MS Office software (the “sign out” button did fuck all, go figure): fuck Microsoft, fuck Office, fuck Outlook, fuck Onedrive, fuck their SSO, and their mother too. Next semester I’m sanitizing the computers. Students will use LibreOffice and they’ll like it.

I might be a little angry.

Extremely frequently. Digital musical instruments generally don’t output production quality sounds – they output MIDI data that describes what note is being played, and an audio synthesizer device or software interprets it and generates the audio data.

It should be Neovim and Lua. Nobody should be subjected to the curse and torment of writing Elisp.

Well that’s not true. I live in a Soviet era house that had an entire second floor built on top of it. We’ve had to drill through the brick walls to replace the natural gas pipes with pipes that run outside the walls, we’ve had to dig under the foundation when we got connected to the city’s sewer system (again, Soviet-built), and again when the main water pipe burst and threatened to wash out the foundation. If the load-bearing walls had been constructed to the same “it works” standard as the things we’ve had to fix, we wouldn’t have a house anymore.

You should check out the tldr program. It’s a community-driven quick reference tool that lists common practical examples for commands.

Windows devs used to have fun.

Yeah, it’s actually impossible to have a job that you enjoy, or a profession that makes you feel like you’re doing something important. We’ve all been gaslit by the capitalist money machine, and the professional pride we feel when we complete a project is just a coping mechanism. The only reason we spend years training, often since childhood, is the constant crushing threat of starvation. Wake up, sheeple!

For some people, having a well-paying job or a career with advancement opportunities is a vital part of a fulfilling life. You can’t deny that.

Did you run out of punctuation or something? Here, use some of mine: .........,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!???

Despite what some simple minds may think, residential buildings are not restricted to being either high density commie blocks or American cookie cutter suburban hellscapes. Medium-density townhouses are all over Europe, but the regressive bigots in America created zoning laws that made them illegal to build.

timedelta marks time in days, seconds, and microseconds. It doesn’t take leap years into account because the concept of years is irrelevant to timedelta. If you need to account for leap years, you need a different API.

OOP’s bro might actually explode if he ever learns about the Khrushchovka, how concrete prefab buildings solved the housing crisis in 1960s Europe, and how similar mid-rise buildings could solve the suburban sprawl festering in current day North America.

“I’m going to the graphics building now, to render the scene. They’re going to want maximum quality. I don’t know if I can make visual fidelity better for you… but I can certainly make it worse.”

Dwight would be Artix. Michael would be Arch. Ryan, I think Manjaro, banished to the cupboard. The short-lived “I’m aware of the effect I have on women” manager would be Nix.

Jim is Debian, Pam is Mint, and (guy who was engaged to Pam and I can’t remember his name) is Ubuntu.

Judgemental and sanctimonious cat lady might be Guix or GNU/Hurd, always on the others’ ass about not being “free” enough. Kevin is either Gentoo or LFS.

And the warehouse staff, who actually get shit done, are the BSDs.

“How To Piss Off Two Fandoms At The Same Time”

Why does it have 1 and 0 keys when i and o would work just as well? Can’t stand this kind of bloat…

/s

Brown dwarfs are classified as substellar objects because they can’t fuse hydrogen into helium and don’t undergo the same lifecycle as stars. White dwarfs aren’t stars either, they are stellar remnants that don’t have enough mass to keep fusing heavier elements, usually stopping at carbon and oxygen.

Still waiting for the KDE Neutron Degenerate Matter release.

It’s a good thing there are other resources, then. You can read tldr-pages. You can look at various official and unofficial wikis. You can look at Stackoverflow. You can look at Youtube tutorials. You can ask other people. Hell, you can ask a chatbot.

If the average user is unwilling to do that, maybe it’s better that Linux does not see a wider adoption.

They’re provided by the faculties at the university’s expense, but the students have admin rights and very little supervision. Two fairly expensive laptops have been stolen by exchange students during the three years I’ve worked there – they simply never bothered to return them, and we only realized it during the yearly inventory check. But fixing the asset tracking system (or implementing one in the first place) is not what I’m getting paid for.

At this point, if a student brings in a laptop, explains what doesn’t work, and leaves me to diagnose and fix it, I consider it a good report because it means that the student didn’t get any overconfident ideas. If a student also explains what they were doing when a thing failed, I’m giving them preferential treatment.

Then there are comp-sci students who attempted something. I had one who disassembled their laptop and tore a ribbon cable. I had one who plugged in a random mis-matched RAM stick that turned out to be busted and wondered why Windows kept crashing. I had one who completely fucked up the registry. I had one who wanted to install Ubuntu for dual booting and accidentally wiped the entire SSD.

I would rather spend an hour babysitting their computers than an entire afternoon un-fucking something they thought they could handle. If it were up to me, I would restrict the crap out of their user accounts, but the faculty leaders insist, against empirical evidence, that they’re smart enough.