high maintenance costs of VLANs

Said no one ever, until now.

and Party On, dude.

carried by gorgeous visuals

She sure did.

Yes! I can’t find that Thompson Twins mix on streaming any more. I may have to actually self-host just to play my own rip of it.

I dubbed it into a blank and then cut it into a loop so it’d repeat forever, and used that as tunes when I need to walk somewhere really far. It’s etched into my brain.

Loved it for the memes, but now I’m coming back for the tunes.

Later: Wait. I already have every Offspring album. ;-)

So, anyone got any of those “28% above MSRP” priced GPUs?

You go get unanimous agreement, and then we’ll talk.

I have two $5 bills in my hand. That’s impossible!

Ooh, nice catch.

Where did it strike then?

the earth, somewhere ;-)

Dude, even when it’s obviously idiotic, you should still tag your stuff with a sarcasm tag. Some people may believe that bullshit and, while it’s fun to laugh at that sometimes, it’s the wrong kind of laughter. Still, I like your deadpan humour; and I almost believed it was serious but the spelling was too good.

Hey Bruce Banner! Hulking out is definitely your super-power, but ya gotta temper that a bit. Learn to bring on the chemical dump without the hangover and self-hate.

When my buddy starts getting expressive, hand-wavy and amplified, we know it’s the situation and not him or anything else. He’s gonna be legendary in like 5 minutes, talk too fast for human parsing, and lay down code or rescue a cat or macGuyver something awesome; then he’s gonna get emo and regretful and think we judge him for it, as the chemical dump purges.

It’s all good.

again

Did prices normalize and I missed my chance? It seems GPUs, RAM and SSDs haven’t left the stratosphere in a year. The boeing space ship didn’t stay up that long, and it was a boeing and thus not flight-worthy for most of its service period.

I looked at .deb as well and boy are there weird things there.

There are many similarities between RPM and pkgbuild for Arch, so I could easily copy almost entire pkgbuilds from AUR and merely adapt a few variables but whatever the inventors of .deb concocted is crazy.

That build method dates back super-far, and probably mirrors unix packaging of the day. This is not a good thing, in that it did miss out on some validation features that RPM and NIX have, and that’s a problem that hasn’t been fixed (in unix or debian) even now (25+ years after we noticed it in the enterprise OS company I worked at, and which invalidated debian even then as a product we wanted to support alongside unix).

What I’m trying to say, is that when people said “just use nix”, they probably really mean to use nix as a platform to build other packages withouth doing extra work.

What you should be saying is something that recognizes that not all systems adhere to FHS. It needs to account for the non-compliant ones, and that includes Lennart’s delightful deviations when he obviously just knew better than the Industry.

This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.

Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn’t share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.

At best it’s XKCD 927.

I’m pretty sure that, with a bit of fiddling, you could even put them on a github pages site.

Harbottle does this. It’s very well-done.

The user adds the repository to the list of repositories their package manager is using,

Fun fact: when we were doing devops as config management, we distributed repository configs AS packages … which we updated as required.

and the packages in that repository appear as normal packages for them to select. When the author publishes a new version of their package it’ll appear as an update in all users package managers.

So easy.

These days, with CI, ya berge your patch and the fix is built and sent to testing immediately, ready to be assessed for promotion, which then signs and pushes the artifact into the pipeline for synchronization and application everywhere.

Aside from the actual smarts to build a good package, the tooling makes every other part of is zero-friction.

that defeats the purpose of a package manager

I suspect you’re confusing the package manager with the supply chain. This should always be separate, lest we get some systemd-like spongiform blob with no ability to swap out and improve parts without discarding the whole.

Unless you’re Lennart, it’s a bad idea.

Well, that sounds really immature.

Heckling introduces stress, providing incentive for improvement if the misbehaving member has that potential; otherwise shunning.