I can relate. I have a natural aversion to “high level” languages that obfuscate a lot of the details from me.

I actually do know a lot about the low-level details of programming, how code interacts with hardware, etc. BUT - I didn’t start with that. I first learned BASIC (indeed - in the '80s). Then Pascal, then C. THEN I learned about assembly, computer architecture, etc.

Does knowing those low-level details make me a better programmer? Probably - but they’re certainly not necessary to get started or to even be effective. And if I started with them I may not have gone into programming.

I’ve learned to how to convince myself that “I will simply accept this as it is for now (and that’s okay) but I will let myself dive deep on it later”. A bit of a bargain to give me permission to “cheat” for the time-being. It’s helped when learning new frameworks which can be very complicated. And starting top-down can give you a better appreciation for the details underneath.

Oh did it? I hadn’t known it had difficult to open doors. Was it by design or just something to do with the gullwings?

You don’t tend to write a rule stating “passengers must be able to easily escape the vehicle in an emergency” until some tech bro makes it hard.

On the other hand, if you’re deathly allergic to something as common as onions, you probably shouldn’t rely on fast food workers to keep you alive.

If you’re serving food to the public you should probably be careful not to kill them.

You say “The Windows Memory Subsystem” not “The Windows Subsystem for Memory”.

Windows Linux Subsystem would likely be most clear.

It’s very annoying that the community hasn’t standardized on an approach for proxy settings.

Strictly speaking his job is administrative - he’s not an expert on health nor does he really need to be. He’s a political appointee charged with advising the president and enacting the president’s policies. The career bureaucrats and scientists in his employ are the experts.

It is, however, expected that he would at least understand and listen to those teams on what the correct science is and provide feedback from those teams upward to the president to ensure that the president’s goals align with good public health policy.

But he’s a whackjob conspiracy theorist who has no idea what he’s doing.

OP stated that a VM is not feasable because of ressources on the PC.

I very much doubt that is true. Most standard issue system these days should be able to run an emulator well enough to run iTunes.

“We could have just bought him a Big Mac…”

🤷‍♂️

I’m team bacteria on this one. C’mon little guys - do your thing!

Wut?

So bottom line. Start putting the non tech consumer first or we’ll forever be stuck in this “almost mainstream” category forever.

I’m okay with that.

“Mainstream” users are getting stupider. Even Windows is to difficult for them. They want the Apple walled garden with a subscription plan for their devices and no permissions to do anything that a corporation doesn’t want you to do.

Fuck. That.

The formats are “quasi-open”. There’s still a lot of proprietary stuff in them. Or undocumented or poorly documented things. MS didn’t really want it to be an open standard.

Being compatible with them requires a lot of work to reverse engineer the formats. Some companies make licensing deals with ms to get access to better docs but must keep their code closed. Something libreoffice can’t do.

That is… A big claim. Yeah, rust minimizes or removes some categories of vulnerabilities. This is true. BUT sudo has been well tested over decades.

we’re also sponsoring the uutils project to ensure that some key gaps are closed before we ship 25.10. The sponsorship will primarily cover the development of SELinux support for common commands such as mv, ls, cp, etc.

I didn’t think Ubuntu used SELinux.

I was close! I figured he’d just watched The Rock.

My only issue with my new car is that it doesn’t start.

Just so, so many things.

Meanwhile on Windows it has basic GPU drivers for the entire OS bakes in,

Wut? Linux bundles drivers for tons of things out-of-the-box literally built as part of the kernel and many distros (e.g. Pop_OS) even provide NVidia drivers out-of-the-box as well.