They were probably trying to run out the warranty period. (for legal reasons, this is speculation)

Not exactly. It splits the terminal into multiple tiles and each one contains a different Hacker screen. Anything from Matrix-style falling characters to echoing a random manpage to a filesystem tree to a character graphic world map.

I use Linux because the Windows normies recoil from my computer in fear whenever I open the terminal, like a school of fish around a shark. Sometimes I even open htop if I want the office to myself.

a lot of younger devs like it and thus it will attract their contributions.

You get it! That is probably the biggest “soft” factor for why I want to see Rust proliferate. Nobody wants to learn C! It’s an ancient, cumbersome language that is difficult to use in a secure way. I’ve been both a student and an employee at a university with many programming-related classes, and beyond the absolute basics of memory management, nobody does anything in C, or even C++. It’s almost always C#, Java, Javascript, or Python. No Rust yet because most of our teachers are also geriatrics.

Linux (and FOSS in general) has an age issue. Prolific older developers are leaving their projects or transitioning to less code-focused tasks, and the ranks are not being filled. Prospective young developers simply bounce off projects because of steep entry requirements, and the active resistance of anti-Rust evangelists (the likes of Christoph Hellwig for example) doesn’t help either.

Some of their 13th and 14th generation CPUs have manufacturing defects that resulted in oxidation. In some use cases (servers and such), failure rates sometimes reached 50%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs

who are very loud

Most of the “should we or should we not” discourses/dramas I’ve read about were initiated or escalated by the anti-Rust crowd. They seem to be a lot more vocal (not to mention impolite) about their opinions than actual Rust developers.

The bane of Intel CPUs, and a trigger word for C geriatrics.

s/oh say can you see/союз нерушимый/

Skelly is rapidly approaching your location.

tl;dr: some applications (like Bottles) are designed to run only in sandboxed environments. Flatpak is a robust way to ensure that an application has the correct dependencies and conditions for proper functionality.

I’m using a monospace font, am I a hacker yet?

Modern stem cell research isn’t even done using embryonic stem cells. It uses stem cells harvested from bone marrow or adipose tissue, but people are idiots and freak out when they read “stem cell”.

The y stands for “yoink the database”.

/s

I think they either just ran out of letters, or y was seen as reinforcing the action (as in “yes, download the database too”), with yy being an even stronger action (“yes, download the database even if there’s nothing to update”).

Arch presumes that the user has some familiarity with CLI tools and can read documentation. You couldn’t even install it without using the terminal until archinstall became a thing. If it’s an issue, Arch is the wrong OS for you.

Besides:

• pacman -S - synchronises packages between the remote and local repo.
• pacman -Q - queries the local repo.
• pacman -R - removes packages.
• pacman -F - queries the files of a package.

Et cetera.

1. Because it’s a photo editing tool, not a painter. Different priorities.
2. Because a shape tool requires non-destructive vector layers.
3. …and implementing that would require a fundamental overhaul of the current vector backend from 2006.

The development of 3.0 was focused on GEGL and non-destructive editing. Working on the shape tool in parallel would’ve taken away resources and pushed back the release date even further.

Ah, I see you’ve got the new hardware implementation of netcat.

$ sudo touch woman
You are not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

The reason shape tools don’t exist yet is because they would require the implementation of non-destructive vector layers, and a fundamental overhaul of the vector back-end. More: https://developer.gimp.org/core/roadmap/#development-focus

But how will Americans justify their private arsenals if they don’t have 30-50 feral hogs running into their yards while their small kids play?

Hopefully with a Mythbusters-style remote control setup in case it explodes.

The styrofoam wall had a pre-cut hole to weaken it, and some people are using it as a gotcha proving the video was faked. It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.