lproven

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by lproven 1y ago
> Here's what a completely uncustomized emacs looks like I think that the key thing you're missing here is that the contents of the menu matter as well as the visual presentation. Emacs's menus, in my (very) limited expe
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by lproven 1y ago
Not really ironic. The GNOME team are mostly paid by the same company as the Wayland team (and the Flatpak team and the OStree team and the systemd team) and that team wants to replace X.org with its own new tool.
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by lproven 1y ago
> So I'd still love to hear from someone who has the background to do a direct comparison Can do. > especially if they prefer WordStar. I don't. I dislike both WS and Vi. Vi (and its variants, I am covering all of them here)
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by lproven 1y ago
> TUIs are superior in many ways to GUIs and have a place in the ecosystem. There's another reason you don't mention. Consistent UI. TUI apps can (and in the Windows world usually do) use the same keyboard controls, derived fro
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by lproven 1y ago
> I gladly only start a terminal window when I have to. Exactly so. I am perfectly able to work entirely in a text/CLI world, and did for years. I don't becase I don't have to . I have better, richer alternative tools ava
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by lproven 1y ago
There were also software-defined modes. A very handy tool for awful early-1990s LCDs was Laptop Ultravision: https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute///issue138/124_Laptop... It ran the DOS text screen in
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by lproven 1y ago
> couldn't even figure out how to save a document 100% this. It is ( counts on fingers ) 43 years since I got my first computer of my own, and I've been using Unix-like OSes since just 6 years later in 1988... So, 37 years? Sti
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by lproven 1y ago
Fair enough. I never worked on HP/UX. AIX, Solaris, Xenix, and VMS, OS/400, and RSTS, but never HP. I wrote about containers being the next big thing in 2011: https://www.theregister.com/Print/2011/07&#x2
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by lproven 1y ago
> a way to contain the “splatter” style of installing applications Darwin is one way of looking at it, true. I just referred to the first publicly released version. NeXTstep became Mac OS X Server became OS X became macOS, iOS, iPadOS, w
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by lproven 1y ago
Money. Containers were around for a decade or more on FreeBSD and Solaris. They let you divvy up expensive big Unix iron. Same as VMs were around on mainframes from the late 1960s and expensive Unix RISC servers from the late 1980s. Linux d
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by lproven 1y ago
> I hope something like SEL4 can replace Linux for cloud server workloads eventually. Why not 9front and diskless Linux microVMs, Firecracker/Kata-containers style? Filesystem and process isolation in one, on an OS that's small
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by lproven 1y ago
George Santayana and Henry Spencer can tell you. Santayana in 1905: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Spencer in 1987: "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.&quo
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by lproven 1y ago
> UNIX could have done with a re-thinking of how you deal with software, but that never happened. I think it did, but the Unix world has an inherent bad case of "not invented here" syndrome, and a deep cultural reluctance to ad
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by lproven 1y ago
Do tell? Google got me nowhere...
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by lproven 1y ago
Thanks for that response. It's a balance. All of life is a balance. I worked at Red Hat very briefly, and for SUSE for longer than ever before. Both were good workplaces with a good atmosphere: RH is one of the friendliest places ever,
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by lproven 1y ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45562551
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by lproven 1y ago
Dupe of these... 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45566173 2. And, where there's some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558371
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by lproven 1y ago
Hi. My screen name is my real name, and my experience with Btrfs stems from the fact that I worked for SUSE for 4 years in the technical documentation department. What that means is I wrote the manual . Now, disclaimer, not that manual:
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by lproven 1y ago
To be fair, your statement could be edited as follows to increase its accuracy: > btrfs is quite infamous for eating your data. This is the reason for the slogan on the bcachefs website: "The COW filesystem for Linux that won't
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by lproven 1y ago
I haven't seen a machine shipped with firmware RAID in decades. It's still enabled in the firmware of some vendors' laptops -- ones deep in Microsoft's pockets, like Dell, who personally I would not touch unless the kit
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by lproven 1y ago
I was going to make the same recommendation.
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by lproven 1y ago
> Don't RAID these days. Software won rather drastically RAID does not mean or imply hardware RAID controllers, which you seem to incorrectly assume. Software RAID is still 100% RAID.
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by lproven 1y ago
No. None of this. > Are trivially easy to set up Done it. Been doing it for 25+ years. ZFS is easier. MUCH easier, and much quicker too. > expand As easy with ZFS. > or replace drives; Easier with XFS. > require no upkeep; Fal
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by lproven 1y ago
> I hope it eventually comes back once it is more stable. Yes, me too. > Would be great to have an in kernel alternative to ZFS Yes it would. > for parity RAID. No. Think of the Pareto Principle here. 80% of the people only use 20%
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by lproven 1y ago
IMHO the article doesn't make it very clear... The PowerPC 970 is what Apple badged as the "G5" and this seems to be IBM's take on a G5 workstation.
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by lproven 1y ago
Again: some chips have metal cases. There are well over a hundred comments on the article with people trading war stories of such events they've seen.
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by lproven 1y ago
Some chips have metal casings. Others you can bend the pins back to make them fit. Multiple suggestions in the comments of how this could happen.
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2025 is a mast year. That's an opportunity(bbc.co.uk)
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by lproven 1y ago
Across the northern hemisphere, the abnormally hot dry summer has resulted in bumper yields of many tree seeds. It also resulted in lots of forest fires. You can help. Gather acorns, chestnuts, horse chestnuts, & other big, easy-to-reco
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by lproven 1y ago
> I'm weary to try a new OS that has fewer users "Weary" means "very tired". I think you mean "wary" -- nervous, hesitant, scared. "I am wary of trying a new OS..."

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