One addition, in the past I’ve been forced to use Windows at previous jobs, but once we got WSL, that wasn’t too much of a pain either.
And once upon a time I worked at HP and we were allowed to run whatever we wanted on our workstations, but that was before laptops were commonplace for my kind of work.
Linux admin grey(ish) beard here, work provides a MacBook and I just use it as a web browser and terminal.
Internal chat, mail, etc are all browser based, Google Docs is the office suite of choice for anyone I have to work with.
I get a decent terminal (iterm2), together with ZSH, tmux and Python is all I really need. We do have a bunch of GNU core utils installed as well, although coming from a UNIX background, I don’t mind the BSD versions that ship on MacOS either.
Would I prefer Linux? Yes, I would. But at the same time, the M4 performance is awesome, the touchpad is glorious and I don’t have to foot the bill, so I’m not complaining!
Unless it’s really old, just return it.
They did put the power button on the keyboard though, which was pretty awesome
Loved every bit of it and still super bitter about it’s cancellation.
When I first played Duke Nukem 2, it completely blew my mind! https://youtu.be/_JQpxpR7XCk
That’s definitely on the low end, at my employer we spend around 20k per server, that’s for 256 cores, 2tb of ram and some nvme.
It’s not any one platform that is too complicated, it’s that none of it was standardized. So once you have support for one phone completely done, the next model is already released 6 months ago and you have to start almost from scratch again.
Pixel was one exception to this, because Google would release and document all the modifications needed to run Android. Unfortunately they stopped doing this as well.
Contrast this to the x86 PC and laptop market and everything basic, like how to discover hardware, how to boot is all a documented standard. Even though on PC, you still have to deal with drivers for specific hardware.
Another reason why PC is much easier for Linux is that much of the hardware is shared with servers and for servers, Linux is absolutely a first class operating system, which all but some extremely niche hardware manufacturers fully support.
Couldn’t agree more, it’s not exactly a faithful adaptation, but I feel they did a damn good job conveying the overall message and story.
Wikipedia defines car-free islands as “islands inhabited by humans which have legally restricted or eliminated vehicle traffic from their territories.”
Schiermonnikoog qualifies as car-free, since driving is prohibited unless one has been granted special dispensation.
That being said, although high on my list, I haven’t visited yet, so I can’t say how common cars really are.
There is a special place in hell for those fuckers
In Northern Ireland they load them with fuel
Kind of hard to see the scale, but the drive that this removable platter would go into, took the full width of a 19" rack.
It once held several megabytes, but now it’s a decoration in my office.
I recently made www.timedial.org, using mainly HTML 3.2. I tried HTML 2.0, but the lack of tables, fonts and even text alignment was a bit too much.
I had a few bitcoins back in the day, I remember trying to mine some, but I think someone just gave a bunch.
Either way, I long ago wiped the disks that they were on and I know for sure I would have sold them as soon as they would have been worth a nice pizza or similar anyway.
There is no way I would have believed it would ever become valuable, let alone this insane.
It was great to see that after all these years, and countless hours playing it, I still absolutely suck at it.
This is so relatable
The opposite also happens to me frequently, I distinctly remember storing it somewhere really smart, so I wouldn’t lose it. If only I could remember where…
Worst case of this was traveling solo and finding this really cool hidden pocket in my backpack that fit my passport exactly.
Two weeks later, I was certain I found a great place for it and nearly missed my plane looking for it.
Which country doesn’t charge VAT on services?
Nope, still the same old BSD utils, but you can install the GNU versions pretty easily.