Imposter Syndrome is an emergent property

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-m not going insane.

Same buddy, same

I could never find a serial crossover cable or an adapter. I had to use IPX/SPX direct connect over a dial-up connection (or LAN when LAN partying).

Look at ZFS, it’s a bit more intelligent about using the space. They’ll be part of a pool of drives that you create ‘datasets’(basically virtual drives) from and you can choose your level of redundancy (including none at all if you want to roll the dice there).

I have a 20TB array, 16TB available. It’s already saved me from a lost disk. Using Seagate 5x 4TB 5400s also, with a NVME drive for the ZIL (speeds up writes). I have a 32GB ARC (a ZFS cache in RAM) so, even though the drives are slow the RAM and NVME drives ensure that it always feels snappy.

You can use zfs-send to clone the data to a new system without them having to have an exact copy of your original setup (if you’re using drive images). It is a copy on write filesystem so it supports snapshotting (creating backups of the block level diffs, so it is very space efficient as it only stores the block-level changes to the file).

Back in the days of Dinosaurs and AOL CDs, you could just go to Best Buy and buy a CD with the Windows software and a key was printed on a scratch-off panel.

You could even just buy a key electronically from some grey market websites.

For the new guys, you’ll notice a lot of this kind of thing because developers think recursion is clever.

For example, GNU stands for “GNU’s Not Unix”

They also give a lot of money to Codeweavers, the developers of WINE, so that WINE can have enough developers to support it.

Back in my day we only had community servers, and we liked it!

/get off my lawn

Helldivers 1 and 2 are platinum and gold rated on ProtonDB with recent reports on both confirming they work well.

For a more recent report:

I’m literally playing Helldivers 2 right now, on Wayland with HDR, and an Nvidia graphics card.

I just assume games work now and rarely need to check protondb. All of the games with kernel Anticheat are just as scummy as Microsoft with their microtransactions and FOMO systems intended to manipulate their players… so, I don’t care to play them anyway.

Ahhh! Laws, my only weakness…

Oh no, thank you for your intetest in our course, unfortunately we’re ransomware and not a University. Haha.

Plz send butcoin to 0x2fa4u8008 or i delete you computer

Honestly, this is the best way to learn almost anything: Start a project. When you don’t know how to do something, look it up. Repeat until you die.

Hello, I’ve been trying to reach you about our Online University where we Teach Hammer 4 You. Plz run this executable and click ok on all the popups.

How do you know that this instance isn’t running on AWS?

Any link that you click on which takes you to an external website has a large probability of taking you to an AWS datacenter.

Just hold up a picture, they’ll show up to tell you why they think it’s generated

You’d be fighting against the combined ‘mass’ of everyone else. We’re hard wired to pay attention to things that scare us, so the algorithms just scare us and make us angry and disgusted (which are probably the 2nd and 3rd most primate things to pay attention to).

Until Zuck decides he is tired of poisoning the discourse of the entire planet for ad revenue, we’re stuck with it.

Stable? Where’s the fun in that?

yay -S nvidia-open-git-nightly

No, you’re exactly right.

We’ve known for quite some time that engagement maximizing algorithms eventually learn that hatred, outrage and anger are the path to maximum engagement.

Unfortunately, the owners of the tech companies have made the decision that they would rather the entire world tear itself apart in a mass of anger and hatred than to earn 6% less next quarter.

This isn’t the first time that US tech companies have supplied the technology to enable genocide. IBM famously supplied the Nazis with the punchcard technology which allowed census data to be processed at scale in order to locate Jews and Romani.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Microsoft Azure has enabled massive surveillance of an entire population, enabling war crimes and the killing of civilians.

They’ll probably face zero consequences.

The first rule of Linux is that you always picked the wrong distro and here is why mine is better.

If it works for you then it’s good enough. Just focus on learning what you’re on and a lot of that knowledge will transfer to any other distro if you want to try others.