On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.

My motorbike certainly doesn’t have OBD2.

Seems like VMT is the only sensible approach here. Gotta avoid Big Brother, though.

When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

I copied all my stuff out of drive several months ago and canceled my plan. But I only actually deleted the files a couple months ago, and they actually only got deleted about a month ago. And who knows if actually deleting files on Google does anything. I got to assume it’s all part of the data set at this point.

Edit: my chief regret at this point is that I didn’t write mountains of Star Trek porn fanfiction for their AI to consume.

My conclusions as of some time ago were that it would be absolutely best for Biden if there were no assassination attempts on Trump. If one did happen, it would be absolutely best for everyone if Trump survived. (And from an election standpoint, absolutely best for Trump who would instantly clinch the win.) If Trump had died… I can’t predict that response, but it seems likely it’s good for no one.

I think Trump is a massive danger to everyone, but anyone who wanted him to perish here I fear is not thinking even one move ahead, and might, I daresay, want to reexamine their moral stance, as well. The right way to defeat him was at the ballot box, not this psycho nutjob move.

Had the pleasure of doing this last year. Recommended!

“Every dependency is an asset. Every dependency is a liability.”

Yes! Happy for my state!

I’m a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁

IA is definitely on shaky legal ground here. But as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the right.

I definitely use them a lot, but I think “very” is too strong a word. It’s pretty easy to get confident, contradictory information from them. They’re a good place to start and brainstorm, but all the information has to be verified either by running and testing the code, or by finding a human source.

It’s about time. I remember finally getting my subscription canceled what must have been 7 years ago by now. That was a happy day. And those were the “good” days of this whole thing!

I hate to do this, but AI chatbots are typically pretty good at giving examples for things like this and you can learn from it.

I have 2000 Saturn with 220,000 on it. It has been amazingly solid and low TCO.

Of course, they don’t make them anymore, so your point stands. They don’t make them like they used to.

The one thing that would drive my parents over the edge is ads in Windows. They already use Firefox and Libreoffice.

Unix has been my favorite dev platform since I first used it 30 years ago. I’m typing this on a Mac, which also does just fine. But I’m happiest on my Linux box. Even WSL was OK, but the bloat of Windows overpowers the hardware. My Linux daily driver is a 9-year-old laptop that couldn’t handle Windows any longer.

I’m on the “OK but keep an eye on it” train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I’d really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

Since I moved my stuff off Google Drive, Libreoffice has been super useful. Great work.

Meta has had this feature for years.

On mobile:

1. Long press the Facebook icon.
2. Tap “uninstall”.

After that Facebook won’t control the political content on your feed.