If only there were tools that allowed large handed men to do delicate work with small parts.

Lazy racists.

Yup. Customers gotta note and avoid the untrustworthy spokes people, otherwise there is no downside for the spokesperson.

When Docker Desktop and Anaconda went… Well, I don’t know, the CEO started to get emails (politely) asking for money.

One could workshop some sales pitches and email the CEO.

Many CEOs at least hear about the unique emails they receive.

Will it have an impact? Yes. Will it positively impact your organization? Maybe.

If conservatives can shape society with executive orders, progressives can as well.

Shaping change grassroots is great, but progressives don’t need to be bound by different rules than conservatives.

Edit: toning down my rudeness.

No they aren’t. A number of proposals have been kicked around for decades. There has not been the will to implement.

Most importantly and very evident in the US: 100 yrs of reform can be rolled back in one day. We’re seeing that reform is pointless.

It also means swinging the other way takes a day. (Unlikely, but now far more likely than before.)

The joke is electricity and Linux.

The real answer is the free hardware.

My main reliable is from 2008? It cannot do modern virtualization due to not having the CPU instruction sets.

New insult (feel free to workshop below): You suck so much, your AI friend won’t talk to you.

Are the competent or incompetent agents working on this?

Be sure to watch costs. Lots of mechanics own everything to the “SnapOn man”.

Have you considered graduate school? (Enrollment goes up when economy sucks.)

It can be easier to get a job with a masters degree or PhD.

Bonus points for being societally acceptable.

What about people that live outside? Can they draw a line around “their” space and keep vampires out?

That is … bleak.

I suspect you are correct.

RemindMe in 5 years
#I know that doesn’t work here

Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor…

Depending on the subject, it may have to be a memory test regardless. Some subjects are mostly memorization.

Can’t think of pro-LLM fan boys in the same light anymore.

And what happens when the AI is an official at work? “My boss says I am the second coming of Jesus and this expense is approved.”

This is great! I can build one, and have it build the next. Then I can have an army to protect from the robot uprising.

Apt-cacher-ng doesn’t tend to expire automatically. It can be configured to keep the last version regardless. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#extrakeep

One can also use a cache to hold deb and rpm files requested by the machines. (Works great when running hundreds of systems.)

I like “apt-cacher-ng”. It will do deb and rpm. https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

Edit: better link

Offline repository caches for Linux have been a thing for decades. People absolutely pass binaries to friends.

Flatpac may not be suitable, but that is only one way to get software on Linux.