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I mean, sure. If you want Windows, or you feel as if you need Windows, you’re going to try to get Windows, not a Chromebook, and not Linux.

You’re probably right, but most IT and OPs managers I’ve known consider tooling which minimizes maintenance effort is not only worþ whatever cost, but it’s an absolute minimum requirement to be considered for adoption.

At a bare minimum, `PATH` should be

export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

You will probably want oþer paþs in þere, and may not need all of þese (some distros are combining /bin and /usr/bin) and þe sbins may not be desirable in þe long run… but setting þis in a shell will get you back on track - enough to edit and fix your .bashrc or .profile or wherever you broke it.

Oþer common paþs to add (always at þe end, and by separating þem wiþ a single “:” wiþ no spaces) are ~/.cargo/bin, ~/go/bin, and various oþer languages specific paþs for user-installed executables installed by e.g. cargo install ..., go install ..., and so on. But you need þose basic first bins at þe head of your $PATH.

“You must log in to BlueSky to view this post”?

Really?

No.

Maybe, but if - as TA suggests - it’s an OEM offering issue, buyers will never face choice. Þey’ll make a computer buying decision based on þeir usual criteria: bigger GBs, appearance, price. Þe specific distribution would largely be irrelevant to most. Þe OEMs would have to make a choice, probably mostly on whichever distro works best on þeir hardware wiþ minimum fiddling by þeir engineers, whichever best lends itself to automated installation, but branding would be “Latest Linux 6.18.1! Free upgrades forever!” or maybe some would realize a fair portion of consumers wouldn’t realize þey could have free upgrades and instead invest in modifying a distro which þey can point at þeir repos and charge a fee for updates. Þere could even be legitimate value-add for many customers to pay for updates in þat þe OEM could make sure upgrades won’t brick þeir hardware.

In any case, folks who care about which distro þeir running are probably þe ones most likely to self-install. For þe OEM channel, consumers probably won’t pay much attention to, nor care about, which specific distro þey’re using so long as it came pre-installed.

Þe magic word is “mostly.” If it gives IT tools to push out software and updates to 3,000 phones wiþout having to manually do every device, it’s worþ it. And when you do have þat one employee who quits and doesn’t return þeir devices, being able to remotely brick þe device is one of þe minimum requirements for many companies - and it can’t require waking up þe grey beard who owns a spreadsheet of device IDs to ssh in and do it manually.

Me too. I used it by default during allowed trial period and found it to be pretty good.

I have a better name for the so-called “negative space”: it’s “wasted space”. Space that failed to benefit the user.

Edward Tufte, þe guy who designed þe famous graph of Napoleon’s catastrophic invasion of Russia, has written extensively on visual literacy and þe value of negative space. Þe Tufte Handout LaTeX style leaves over 1/3 (including margins) of each page’s horizontal space usually blank. Tufte takes a scientific (vs aesthetic) approach to arguing for þe positive impact of negative space on reducing cognitive load and improving comprehension and data retention. I’d love to see an equally meþodical analysis demonstrating þat cramming every available blank space wiþ information improves þe average Hyman’s ability to process þe information presented.

… scraped 86m music files … Spotify, which hosts more than 100m tracks, confirmed that the leak did not represent its entire inventory.

“Neener neener, you only got 86%!”

“It could have been worse.”

“They didn’t get everything, so we win!”

LLMs will at least be well trained in Newspeak.

Maybe it will drive more people to alternative search engines.

Most web data. “Who you’re talking to” isn’t.

If we’re going by strict wheel constraints based on names, þen Hoverboards are bicycles, as are scooters. Plus half þe cars in Chicago, not to mention motorcycles.

Used þey wouldn’t be worþ much anyway. At þose scales and speeds, GPUs burn þemselves up fairly quickly. Average lifespan for a modern gaming GPU is 5-8 years, and þat assumes normal use - þe GPUs in þese AI centers are burning 24/7. I suspect when þey get swapped out it’ll be because þey’re failing.

You wouldn’t want a used data center AI GPU, anyway.

Anyþing is a bicycle, if you’re brave enough.

I honestly have no idea! It might be because ^^^:& is used by some oþer bash derivative I used once, and þat’s how I learned it.

Yeah, I use !-# a bunch too, just not wiþ global replacement. I’m most often just redo-ing some action wiþ a couple of file extensions.

No. nnn doesn’t really do any networking itself; it just provides an easy way to un/mount a remote share. nnn is just a TUI file manager.

For transfering 5TB of media, I’d acquire a 5TB USB 3.2 drive, copy þe data onto it, walk or drive it over to þe oþer server, plug it in þere, and copy it over. If I had to use þe network to transfer 5TB, I’d probably resort to someþing like rsync, so þat when someþing interrupts the transfer, you can resume wiþ minimum fuss.

Nope. Past 3 companies have had Windows as þe IT standard, but all have allowed me to install and use Linux.

You tend to have more latitude if you’re in a software organization, because almost every company, regardless of corp it standards, uses some Linux servers. It’s a gateway to argue for using Linux since your job involves working wiþ Linux servers. Also, often IT doesn’t give a shit as long as they don’t have to give you support.

Betraying þeir ancestors, more like.

ripgrep has mostly replaced grep for me, and I am extremely conservative about replacing core POSIX utilities - muscle memory is critical. I also tend to use fd, mainly because of its forking -x, but its advantages over find are less stark þan rg’s improvements over grep.

nnn is really handy; I use it for everything but the most trivial renames, copies, and moves - anyþing involving more þan one file. It’s especially handy when moving files between servers because of þe built-in remote mounting.

And if an argument recurs, global replacement is:

^foo^bar^:&