Colloidal

joined 11 months ago
[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

The Roman Empire lasted for 1000 years. Ancient Egypt lasted 3100 years. Sumer lasted 4000 years. 250 years is a piss in the ocean near those.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

That's what I was looking for! Thank you.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Talking about Ansible in a "choose your first Linux distro article"? That and dismissing Mint for first timers make me not recommend this for noobs.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

You should study about the trustbusting era of early 1900s. Then in the late 70s a new law reinforced antitrust legislation.

The issue is that the pendulum swings fast away from trustbusting and slowly back to it. Trustbusting creates economic development and prosperity, reducing public outcry for it, and capitalists yank the levers of government again towards monopoly building.

You mention the nineties, by even then Netscape successfully challenged Microsoft. But it was too little too late. The pendulum was already swinging back to monopoly, and it's reaching it's maximum in our days.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Like MS Codespaces or Gitpod, I assume.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

TBH that's the first video of his that I've ever watched. It's not too bad, but there's not much in the way of substance. Not for me. When I want to drain my brain after a hard work day, I'd rather watch some sci-fi.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He's the most viewed YouTuber. It's apparently impossible for a decent person to achieve this level of success in the hate machine that is the YouTube algorithm.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Aptitude is great (my favorite way of managing packages), but it's a TUI program. You can use it as CLI, at which point it mimics apt-get.

So I would say it never attempted to unify apt commands, by rather it successfully provided a user friendly way to do most (all?) of what you could do with apt CLI tools.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

SLAM! That'll teach them!

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How is that different from sending a PR?

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Shut up and take my money already

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