Clearly you are not the target audience. For IT pros and tech enthusiasts regularly rebuilding machines and running numerous diagnostic tools from boot, the ability to quickly bootstrap a machines is a massive timesaver. dd is slower and may mean carrying around a lot of usb sticks, something these people all graduated from.

X86 configs were painful and fun. Knowing a wrong setting might destroy your monitor was the right amount of adrenaline.

Can’t wait for zztop

Isn’t macos a fork of BSD? Do they contribe back to the mainline?

Edit TIL:

https://thenewstack.io/apples-open-source-roots-the-bsd-heritage-behind-macos-and-ios/

Black mirror started hard.

I got so many recommendations from people to watch it. So I light it up during a full flight. Wasn’t sure how graphic the ending would be, turned it off, never watched it again.

The one I imagine where every right wing conservative is given a haymaker of justice.

The original tv Batman series was great growing up.

I’m too much of a nerd to understand - is this all a balatro reference?

There’s gonna be a murder at the bar tonight.

Ubuntu. Started in the Slackware days, tried a lot of distro’s. Got used to debian commands/layouts etc. still happy to move to Centos for security focused installs. I find Ubuntu has a ton of support and general updates that fix anything I can find broken.

If you are in the USA. The Walmart onn 4k (20$) and 4k pro (50$) are amazing for the price. The remotes are really good too.

Yeah this is just plastic washing.

Postgres errors be all

I found a problem, can you find it? I’m not telling you any more than that and I won’t start ever again until you fix it.