Piefedants.

no fallbacks is bad practice.

This is how you know they’re extra lazy – no “please enable javascript because we suck and have no noscript version”.

“nah bruh this site is considered broken for the mere fact that it uses JavaScript at all”

A little paraphrased, but that’s the gist.

Isn’t there an article just today that talks about CSS doing most of the heavy-lifting java is usually crutched to do?

I did webdev before the framework blight. It was manual php, it was ASP, it was soul-crushing. That’s the basis for my claim that javascript lamers are just lazy, and supply-chain splots waiting to manifest.

Same. This is the way.

You’ve never “taken a break” or “taken a time-out” or “taken a nap”?

It’s not like “taking a X” is a foreign construct.

In Canada, we have Medical Assistance In Dying. MAID.

In early COVID, my oncle was diagnosed with non-hodgekins lymphoma. It’s a cancer, I think. His blood transfusions got really frequent just as we were getting into COVID, and he knew he wouldn’t outlast it. And, every visit to the hospital in his condition would mean a deadly infection or virus that he could also bring home and afflict his wife or his girls or the granddaughter one was carrying.

So, on one random Tuesday, the family gathered and told stories and hugged. And the he hit the morphine button the nurse had set up. And he left shortly after 5.

It’s legal, but they’ll make you sit for a psyche first. It’s free. It’s humane.

Another uncle had cancer for 37 years. A model of modern medicine, he was the shell of a man but he’d lived a life. He got pneumonia one Christmas, and when the doctor asked what he thought, he refused care and asked for palliative. His care changed rapidly and he had a very comfy few days before departure.

I hope you’re living in northern Europe or Canada. MAID doesn’t stop suicides, but it makes them more humane.

Containers carry concerns around validation of container contents and, by extension, host contents. This has been well-discussed and is beyond the scope here.

But I do hope for an installation free of container mess.

Ration, action, motion, lotion, mention…

Are two-syllable words hard?

Two groups of people went to war over a difference of opinion.

1. New! Different! Change! Bad!

‘Change resistance’ was the standard gaslighting. No one said ‘different bad’, in a time when enterprise linux had just switched from sysVinit to upStart. What they said was “this is built bad and wants to do too much, poorly. We don’t like this.”

And the response was “you’re old, you hate change,” and similar fallacies.

2. Hey, this works better than the old way. Let’s use this instead.

I think you mean “I don’t know how to do this in the normal way, so I’ll try this other thing.”

systemd does a LOT of things

… incompletely …

that used to be individual jobs handled by separate things.

does everything and breaks unix philosophy, rather than a suite of tools that adhere to it

…for ‘itself’ versions of ‘it’.

Man, I sure hope they’re free of the container crutch.

Collect donations, host merch,

Like PBS and tote bags?

offer premium content

Instances are merely service providers. Will it paywall half your comments? Donations open up the letter H ?

It’s a typo. Bring a fork for the steamy buns. Fork those buns. For-k.

usecases

Not a word, my dude.

Dude, that’s vanilla bash.

You’re gonna love once you start

1. tagging your ffmpeg commands like do a thing # dothingname

2. Just !?dothingname later to recall it and run it.

Its a little easier to NOT accidentally !?alt and discover halt is matched first.

It was publicized as part of readline, I think.

…in like 1989.

ppl

I hate the kid-pidgin, but you make a really good point here:

it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.

I mean, this is always excellent.

Too often - you’ll see it in this comment thread - we go all out and show our own solution would fit OP’s case. And to them it must sound like “if you want a coke from the sev(7-eleven, like circle-k, Ted) you’re gonna need a van, a really big spring, a holocaust cloak and a wheelbarrow for sure.”

Considering OP’s situation, skill level, fuckery tolerance and perseverance is key. Resilio could be all they need, here – Not elegant, not D.R.Y, not pretty, but its fuckery is low (good g.o.l.f number), but it could be fire-and-forget.

Now, I’m not sure you’re not replying to a comment that says the same thing …just, not as well. Still good advice.

I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.

Popular isn’t always better. See: Betamax/VHS, Blu-ray vs HDDVD, skype/MSSkype, everything vs Teams, everything vs Outlook, everything vs Azure. Ansible is accessible like DUPLO is accessible, man, and with the payola like Blu-ray got and the pressuring like what shot systemd into the frame, of course it would appeal to the C-suite.

Throwing a few-thousand at Ansible/AAP and the jagged edges pop out – and we have a team of three that is dedicated to Nagios and AAP. And it’s never not glacially slow – orders of magnitude slower than absolutely everything.