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Cake day: September 1st, 2023

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  • The word “America” does not come from Amerigo Vespucci, but is likely an amalgamation of
    the Mayan word “Amerristiquiqque” for “land where the wind blows constantly”, which is the name of a mountain range in Nicaragua, and the Spanish word “Rica” for rich, like in “Costa Rica” (Rich Coast) as Spanish sailors would ask Carib Amerindians where their gold came from.




  • Have had both. Still have Sailfish because the phone is cheaper.
    Also I thought Ubuntu Touch would be discontinued and I no longer use Ubuntu on my desktop,
    but an Arch-based OS.
    Best thing you can do is buy a phone that’s most compatible to the OS.

    So Fairphone 5 or Pixel 3a for Ubuntu Touch,
    and Jolla 2 for the Sailfish.

    Do not buy Pine64.
    Pine64 is unusable.



  • Lab-grown meat can’t come fast enough.
    I’ve never seen it being sold in the supermarkets,
    but I agree with what one tv show host has said it best:
    “Why would anyone have more contanimation concerns of meat grown in a clean lab when this person eats meat cultivated in a dirty stall with poop on every wall?”

    For imitation meat, the stuff that’s cheaper is not better.
    It’s cheaper nonetheless.
    And the only better-than-the-real-thing imitation meat out there is a more expensive hamburger.












  • Is mid-forties old enough?
    I had a computer, just no internet.

    how did you learn to do something?

    You didn’t.
    It was trial and error, ending up with a half-baked solution
    and then thinking this was the best solution
    or just giving up and no longer bothering.
    I can see in older people’s other answers
    some romanticized version of their past,
    but this was the reality.

    Sure, there were books in libraries,
    but how many books would cover the exact thing that you were looking for of your particular situation?
    Very little.

    Did access to knowledge change your life, was a constraint lifted when you no longer depended on having found the right books or people to learn tips on how to cook a new dish, or how to fix a plumbing problem, or how to plant a garden?

    The big constraint that has been lifted is when you asked a semi-stranger for help,
    who were the only ones with that knowledge, you had a 5% chance that
    they either thought it was hilarious to just lie to you and keep feeding you with new lies
    when you came back and asked why it wasn’t working,
    and a 50% chance they would just flat out refuse to tell you,
    because “not caring is not sharing”.

    Was life more simple, did you have fewer problems to solve without technology in your life, or did technology make life easier?

    Yes. And it has forced people to be more honest to me and everyone else.
    I never want to go back to that time.




  • It seems that RHEL has been based on Fedora for over twenty years now 😅.

    I only used Fedora in college on shared college computers and that was over twenty years ago.
    It was brand new back then as they switched over from Solaris.
    I was under the impression back then that Fedora was a Red Hat Linux derative like Ubuntu was of Debian,
    Ubuntu being the OS I was using at that time and the Linux Distro Timeline implies as such, however…

    perhaps it was based on RHEL once upon a time, but it hasn’t been for a long time. Regardless, documentation on this event seems to be relatively sparse. As such, I wasn’t able to arrive at a definitive conclusion. Please feel free to complete my ‘research’ 😜!

    Businesses weren’t too keen about Red Hat’s six month release cycle, as the short time interpolation was too disruptive for them.
    Red Hat then decided to have a seperate OS with a long-term support cycle and call that Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
    At the same time, users were demanding a ‘Red Hat Community Edition’, so Fedora came into existance and that was then used as an upstream source for RHEL.

    Sorry, I didn’t quite get this. Do you mean that *“container app”*s will not succeed in decentralizing efforts and instead have the opposite effect?

    Yes. It’ll make some OSes more pointless. People will try out the distro in the distrobox, get what they need out of it and not bother installing it
    or jump ship to the better one.

    Perhaps you misunderstood me, but to be clear: Distrobox is basically available on every distro out there.

    No, it’s clear.

    Hmm…, I don’t quite understand why you think like that. There’s a lot that goes into making distros unique and deserving of their existence. Strictly limiting their appeal to the size of their respective (user) repos is honestly a disservice to the grandiose effort put out by our respected F(L)OSS developers.

    It’s a defining feature for me.
    I had to jump off Ubuntu and Parabola for this reason.
    For Ubuntu I needed the latest version of some package and for Parabola it was certain packages that were non-free.
    Distrobox did not exist back then.

    NixOS sounds very interesting, but the moment I tried to install the distro- package manager I noticed aws packages and I have an aversion of anything remotely Amazon. Guix peaks my interest even more now that you’ve mentioned Distrobox.

    I think I’ll take the jump.