Ich hab meiner Mutter schon angedroht, dass sie das Gerät früher oder später in den Ruhestand schicken muss. Ist eh ein Wunder, dass noch alles tut. Aber so lange sie das noch ein bisschen rauszögern kann, ist sie glücklich.

Ich spiele immer wieder mal mit dem Gedanken, was aus dem X61T zu machen, das hier noch liegt.

Fühle ich. Ich habe gestern den 2012er Acer Laptop meiner Mutter (Intel Core i5 2450M, nachgerüstet mit 8 GB RAM und 750 GB SSD) dazu überredet, Windows 11 zu installieren. Und bevor jemand fragt, Linux war keine Option, ich bin froh, dass sie überhaupt Windows bedienen kann, ohne alle zwei Tage anzurufen.

Nächster Schritt: einem MacBook Pro von ca. 2010 eine SSD verpassen und Ubuntu drauf schmeißen, damit es seine letzten Jahre vor der Verschrottung als Heimautomatisierungsserver fristen kann.

I could go on for days about the problems with medical devices. I write software for one of those at my day job and as much as our team would love to port the software to something other than Windows, that would be a logistical nightmare.

The thunderbolt connection alone can break because of a thousand factors, even on the exact combination of hardware and operating system it was tested with. Processing of medical images is often very GPU-heavy which gives us the same problems as with CAD software.

Even if you get all the technical problems out of the way, medical devices need to be certified before you’re allowed to use them for diagnostics. This often includes an exact specification of the platform you run the software on. If you just take something that’s certified for “Windows 10 between 20H2 and 22H2, Intel or AMD CPU, device driver version 8.1.23” and try to run it on Wine, I would expect the American FDA, German TÜV and Chinese NMPA to fight over who gets to kick your door in first. It might be possible to get a certification for a Linux version but probably only for one specific combination of distribution, display server and desktop environment.

Kinda unironically: yes.

Linux is great for some use cases and at least decent for most others but what I’ve experienced in some Linux communities made me understand why people don’t feel welcome. In a thread literally titled “Help me like desktop Linux” that listed a few things I was struggling with, I got hit with a bunch of “you’re an idiot for not using the exact same distro that I like”, “works on my machine” and “you want the wrong things”. Even as someone who already had over a decade of Linux server experience, that almost made me turn around and walk away.

I think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe’s Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views.

Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn’t find a good way to phrase it.

One that I read on Mastodon:

Every bad thing about commercial software is the programmers’ fault. Even if it was something that management decided and the programmer fought against it and lost. They claimed you should rather risk losing your job than accepting an inconvenience for your user. Weird take but okay. Then they started comparing software engineers to soldiers “just following orders” during the holocaust. That’s where I blocked them. Cherry on top: they have “if you want to hire me as a software engineer, message me” in their bio. I wonder why nobody wants to hire them…

That using 100% free and open source software is more important than actually getting your work done.

In a thread about Affinity Photo where someone insisted that we should all use gimp and just not edit photos if gimp doesn’t have the features we need rather than asking Serif to port their software to Linux.

Also in several threads about migrating from Windows to Linux where every missing or complicated feature was brushed away with “just get used to not being able to do it, even if it’s critical to your workflow”.

How did you approach your wife to get that permission? How did she take it? Asking about opening a relationship can be hard enough and I imagine combining that with coming out as bi makes it even more difficult.

In Voyager you can block by linked domain. You could add youtube.com and youtu.be

On the default web client, blocking by domain isn’t implemented yet.

Ich fürchte, er wäre gerne beides gleichzeitig.

Falls es da war, wurde es wohl inzwischen gelöscht. Auf Instagram ist es aber noch: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJLMHzLskBj/

Bildquelle für alle, die lieber einen echten Jaffa für ihre Meimeis verwenden wollen, als einen falschen Wissenschaftler.

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Shush, let an old man dream.

Retired, so I finally have time to finish the dozens of personal projects that I’ve started in my first 36 years.

And at the same time, you rephrase it to imply something that was nowhere in the original sentence.

“Don’t make me ban you” doesn’t necessarily mean “Don’t say anything I don’t like” but maybe just “Don’t post anything illegal” or “Don’t make the experience worse for everyone else”. I fully agree that the original phrasing is too vague which is why I’ve provided a whole list of more specific suggestions.

You are the one who brought up censoring. The person you replied to just said “consequences”. Others not liking you and not wanting to talk to you anymore is a consequence.

Your comments in this thread sound a lot like you not wanting us to say anything you dislike. I respect your opinions and I would fight for you being allowed to share them. I just think they’re wrong and disingenuous.

Someone who disagrees with you and calls out your hate is not a censor.