Bah. I accidentally invaded America during Basic training. The other side of that long swathe of clearing was cooler, so we walked there.

Wow, did we get in trouble when we all found out we actually invaded.

What you get is something with an acceptable warranty and maybe some support.

What you then realize is what you DON’T have on your consumer gear.

How do I even check which version of the Steam runtime I am running? The flatpak version of Steam is just 1.0.something.other.

#justFlatpakThings

Everybody’s hoping GRRM is already on the task.

The real religion behind GoT.

all you have to do is hire one obsessed nerd and run decisions by him

If it’s Henry Cavill, you’ve got your actor AND obsessed nerd in the same package!

Right? You can wear the badge, OR do what’s right. You can’t do both.

What’s the end goal? Have 99% of the American work force under the DHS?

And then what?

Historically

1. Get the brownshirts/sturmabteilung

2. Kristallnacht and pogrom

This is the history that ICE rhymes with .

I just checked out frigate, and I see it crutches on docker. Anything docker-free?

Its fantastic when you’re a few rungs up and already reaching back to help others.

Linux since 1.2.13, here.

Yes, self-hosters can be really focused on their own complex setups, and forget that they’ve become overcomplicated through years and iterations of rebuilds.

A new bucket to stash all those crabs, though, isn’t it.

Start the noobs a little lower on the complexity scale, so it doesn’t look like a mandelbrot just to get basic stuff. App installs on a basic host is totally okay, to start.

Teach and reinforce proper patching and maintenance. Teach man-pages at every turn: promote good ones and take a second look at the bad man-pages because, really, maybe they need updates. Reinforce the “look up before asking;then ask well” routine for discussions and seeking help. Be super-welcoming for good questions, even if the pre-work is “I checked the man page and it didn’t really make sense for that option”, and gently nudge toward a cursory search when even that’s missing.

We lost a LOT of mentorship after the dotcom bust, and we’ve not been great in the Lost Boy generations that followed. We need to make it easier to get help, and we need to encourage that walk-before-fly mentality.

And if apps can’t properly package their stuff so that the secure and safe usage is the easy usage, then we steer noobs around it. I’m looking at you, docker-fixated app ‘releases’ without adequate delivery and via channels that aren’t validated normally as part of the process. We need to be so much better at that.

Cultural appropriation.

Beautiful. I’d actually forgotten until I started watching The Bear TV series. It’s been decades.

Do we even have CSIS? Mr Harper defunded so many long-running projects for short-term cash grab and I’m sure all we had left at CSIS was two old guys and a typewriter with no ribbon.

It’s not like anyone after that could drop a penny on CSIS or people because of cons shrieking about costs and cutting into the trickle-down supply.

Every word of what you just said was wrong.

Stereotypes are so edgy.

“septic think tank.”

Nah, mate. ‘Septics’ is a name for people in another country altogether.

Scientists claim this is just a phase of the earth that has taken place many times in the past.

1. When it happened before, everything died off
2. This is the first one caused by its inhabitants
3. Climate science intends to prevent both of those.

So the scientists who claim so aren’t being genuine, not being truthful, and they’ve moved the goalposts. And probably are real dicks at parties.

Other than that, bang-on.

You found a solution and you are looking for a problem.

This is not the way it goes. You identify a problem, and if the solution involves self-hosting then you solve it with self-hosting.

does feel like Linux desktop environments like GNOME and Cinnamon got stuck in 2009 and never evolved past that

If you think desktops are way not shiny enough, you should see this hammer I have. I’ve had it for decades. It’s old. It’s still got the dumb wooden/metal layout that’s been common for a century or 5. It has no clock, no Ai, no Bluetooth. It’s a fucking relic.

Piece of stale shit, if you ask me.

And don’t get me started on this staedler pencil I have.

giving a murder equal say in his conviction at trial.

You guys don’t allow the accused a defence?