Per capital or GTFO

The air quotes are really important here. Thanks for stressing that.

4 mass shootings this past Sunday; and 4 isn’t even a ‘record’ day by half.

setup

‘set up’, my dude. Two words, as a verb.

Ohhh, excellent example. That album is fantastic.

There’s an album for Simon and Garfunkel live at Madison square garden.

They did a benefit concert of some kind in Central Park, and it was all the TV picked up a few years later as my mom held me when I was sick as hell and we stayed up on the couch, in the dark, no picture but the sound on. It was hours, and I hated their music then as it wasn’t Tony Basil and had neither Huey nor any News. But It’s grown on me since I associate the two. I love the Disturbed cover of TSoS.

Thee One

Thou onanist.

The act of re-centering the hand on the mouse or the keyboard is costly in UI, even if we barely notice it. It can break Flow for sure.

scroll-click is basically a second copy buffer

For decades the middle button has been ‘paste what you picked up’.

Neither. Both have fundamental issues toward confident updates and validation of software, speaking as someone who used to run the security response for an Enterprise OS vendor.

I’m looking at CloudStack now, and it’s got some promise despite one odd glitch. I may try to stick with it .

Nice. I thought my 1991 was old but you’re doing very well.

I only do BSD, now.

I used to do GPL, and I still support free software and everyone’s ability to modify and extend projects for new and better purposes.

When some South Koreans were jailed for upholding my license terms when they spotted their employer violating them, and the FSF did little and less to help them avoid jail - which happens sometimes in Korea - I knew the GPL was still a good idea but in practice it exposes people to risk.

I can’t have that happen for my software again.

The Mierdas Touch.

Mods are always

Generalizations are fun, aren’t they?

the actual dumbest most power tripping little fuckers.

This is actually just straight up racist / xenophobic

No, more just anti-authoritarian like an ACAB teen. Racism would have been easy to spot if you’d called the mods a racial slur .

Flatpaks: How to reinvent RPMs poorly.

Containers carry concerns around validation of container contents and, by extension, host contents. This has been well-discussed and is beyond the scope here.

But I do hope for an installation free of container mess.

Man, I sure hope they’re free of the container crutch.

ppl

I hate the kid-pidgin, but you make a really good point here:

it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.

I mean, this is always excellent.

Too often - you’ll see it in this comment thread - we go all out and show our own solution would fit OP’s case. And to them it must sound like “if you want a coke from the sev(7-eleven, like circle-k, Ted) you’re gonna need a van, a really big spring, a holocaust cloak and a wheelbarrow for sure.”

Considering OP’s situation, skill level, fuckery tolerance and perseverance is key. Resilio could be all they need, here – Not elegant, not D.R.Y, not pretty, but its fuckery is low (good g.o.l.f number), but it could be fire-and-forget.

Now, I’m not sure you’re not replying to a comment that says the same thing …just, not as well. Still good advice.

I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

Popular isn’t always better. See: Betamax/VHS, Blu-ray vs HDDVD, skype/MSSkype, everything vs Teams, everything vs Outlook, everything vs Azure. Ansible is accessible like DUPLO is accessible, man, and with the payola like Blu-ray got and the pressuring like what shot systemd into the frame, of course it would appeal to the C-suite.

Throwing a few-thousand at Ansible/AAP and the jagged edges pop out – and we have a team of three that is dedicated to Nagios and AAP. And it’s never not glacially slow – orders of magnitude slower than absolutely everything.

have to learn MCL’s weird syntax

You skewer two apps for syntax, but not Ansible’s fucking YAML? Dood. I’m building out a layered declarative config at the day-job, and it’s just page after page with python’s indentation fixation and powershell’s bipolar expressions. This is better for you?