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·20 godzin temu·discuss
Wait, being transported in an ambulance costs money? Man, every day I learn new things about how shitty the US health system is, and I'm more and more happy to not have to worry about deciding if I'd rather die or be broke in an emergency
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·6 dni temu·discuss
So you can easily get it to work in the browser, but the dozens of core developers can't get it to work properly on Wayland[1]? Something smells fishy...

[1] https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...
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·19 dni temu·discuss
Of course broadcom offers 24/7 enterprise support. You can debate on whether the experience is bad or good, of it it was better when VMware was still VMware, but it's still Enterprise support as for what the customers are concerned (with P1 cases and follow-the-sun case handling etc.)
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·19 dni temu·discuss
Yeah, I'm actually interested in that, and I think by now it should be very possible to build a Linux system without any GNU userland (by default).

Instead of building yet-another "no systemd here" distro, why does nobody build a "no GNU here" distro instead? :)
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·19 dni temu·discuss
doxxing and/or stalking the kids (minors) of the person you disagree with is still kind of a d*ck move though
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·19 dni temu·discuss
I think the title is missing a verb ...
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·20 dni temu·discuss
systemd is still GPL (LGPL to be exact) so if you truly want to get rid of the "GNU" in "GNU/Linux" you might want to take a look at the rust-coreutils for a starter
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·20 dni temu·discuss
because there are no real alternatives. Everything that could be considered an alternative has drawbacks or things that are missing. Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper enterprise support contracts, so you'd be stuck with a 3rd party.

Then there's training. you can't easily switch your admins and service desk techs to a different product. That alone takes months, of not years, and costs a lot. Rewrite all processes, etc.

Then there's 3rd party integration. Since VMware was basically the "default", most 3rd party products offered turnkey integration into VMware, and VMware only. Think backup applications or security etc. You don't switch backup vendors easily (for the same reasons - training, features, ...) and if you do consider it, it adds to the cost

This is why, for many companies that don't have 50-100 people or more in their IT department, it's more expensive to switch away from VMware so they grudgingly pay, while trying to move as much workload away from it as possible.
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·22 dni temu·discuss
Newer reactors produce much less long-lasting waste. A half-life of only 100 or 200 years makes a tremendous difference to the old reactors where half-life was measured in 1000s of years
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·22 dni temu·discuss
Tangentially related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhO1SNJRMQ

Highspeed Highway Halo
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Everything I know about trombones I know from the game Trombone Champ.

It's a good game for every aspiring trobonist (or people just remotely interested in music-related video games)
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Time to switch to Windows! yay! Where all of this stuff just works: HDR, remote desktop, gaming, Picture-in-Picture, ... all the stuff that Wayland devs are too stupid to get done correctly

/s (maybe?)
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
at least FreeBSD does already have Wayland. It has a few more hiccups and rough edges than on Linux (at least from my PoV on running it on an older laptop) but otherwise it works fine.

Here is a short setup guide on how to get it working rather nicely: https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/freebsdkdeplasma6wayland/
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
funny you say that, given that the SteamDeck (the largest/most popular Linux-based gaming console) runs on KDE on Wayland.....
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
crazy, I really did not know that. Do you happen to know if such boards also exist that take registered DDR3 RAM? None of them explicitly call out DDR3-R RAM so I assume they only take consumer RAM?
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Something doesn't add up here. As someone who has only recently built a home-server from an E5-26xx v2 on DDR3 RAM (because I have a sh*tload of 32g DDR3 DIMMs), I can confidently say that the newer cores (E5-26xx v3 and v4) only run on DDR4 memory...

So either you have a v2 instead of a v4 (and run on DDR3 memory), or you have a v4 but with DDR4 memory (not DDR3)

Everything else doesn't work
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
If malicious AI has replaced the sudo binary, then it can already run arbitrary code as root. No need to "collect your password" then
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
This is a recent trend in open-source though:

- people avoiding systemd like it's the plague

- people avoiding wayland because it is devil's work

- people avoiding rsync because someone used AI on the testcases

- ...
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Unions are not there to protect companies from mismanagement or simply failing/going bancrupt.
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·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I'm pretty sure you didn't design, assemble and field-terminate DAC cables. These are not regular RJ45 or DB25 serial cables, which you can assemble in the field.

I have never heard of the possibility to field-assemble DAC cables. Usually that's when you switch to fiber