I can’t watch. It’s just so much “the pot isn’t boiling; it’s just a little warmer” bullshit - I’m tired, boss - that I need to know whether this guy’s gonna fail the intelligence test before I commit the time.

Please also consider mikrotik brand gear. I’ve been told they’re especially easy to manage as one moves from manual control to something declarative like terraform(opentofu).

weird grab bag

You don’t mention whether that is adherence to the FHS or denial of it.

One of those options is, to be clear, violating a standard.

The CI turned me off though. It’s like they saw how bad GitHub is for CI and said “no notes. Just like that”

And I use the CI config a huge amount.

So lennart personally blocked the revert? Fucking on-brand for all he’s wrecked in Linux.

Is he still working at Microsoft, or was he just too special for them too?

Wow. Every word of that is frightening.

I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me.

I second this.

Since about 2002, I’ve had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of yum-cron I’ve seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that’s it.

So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I’ve seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homelab) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That’s it.

natural gas

We can start just saying ‘methane’ now. We don’t need to ‘green-wash’ it like it’s not killing our air.

it is crazy that Poettering is even considering merging this

You’ve, uh, seen systemd, right? Cmon; this is just one more section for the cancer to eat.

Consider PCLinuxOS: they’re an RPM-based mandriva (mandrake/conectiva) derivative with really great and wide compatibility in stacks without the ‘modules’ shitfest RH started after no one remembered what ‘alternatives’ was for.

They don’t use systemd, but their installation is a bit shite as it’s a “live CD” installer – they pruned out the proper templatey install that mandriva has. But so far that’s the biggest issue. If they can get off networkManager we’ll be even better off, though.

there are complete ansible-repos

Ansible is toxic. Anything else?

There are many benefits to a siloed operation that all relate to preventing overwork and scope creep.

This example is part of the cost.

We use copy and paste a lot.

download the Flatpak build

How about no?

For sure. And their bumbling has made it harder to deactivate all the useless bloat and get the good web-editor back. And a host of other mind-numbingly short-sighted decisions that show they’re fully run by LostBoy coders who were never mentored and just don’t know better.

But tuning can come after. And their CI is way fucking better than forgejo’s facepalm of a GitHub clone. And that’s a thin reason, but, yeah.

It’s Atlassian, which we call Half-Assed-ian. They make Flatulence and Jeer-a.

It’s monstrous, but gitlab installs from one big RPM on a base box; and with one config file you’re up.

They forced an update that won’t run on my phone.

• can’t run the required version
• old version just tries to update

So I’m almost out anyway.

I like their chai lattes. I can’t get the same taste anywhere else, and if I try to make it it’s a “we have mcdonalds at home” result.

So about twice a year, now, I get a fucking c$6 latte as a treat. I miss 2019 with the many locations - one 80m away in my walkable block - and a really nice barista who made the effort to smile and chat directly. Now I have none of those things and this is like dia de los muertos.

The guy who wrote this is an idiot, but he became so in a world where “LoC” is a metric – one that Goodhart would love, but alas.

This is honestly the road to hell and the ~good intentions in one.

Mixing squishy people and big steel trucks will definitely impact one group a lot more than the other; and in ways not fixed by a painted line.

Good luck.

most of the world have Android

Heck, most of the Known Universe. This is how I say it to my fanboy sibling who moves those goalposts just so only America is in-frame and the numbers show a small advantage for the Home Team.