Ouiaboo Lite who knows nothing about tanks and artillery:

Mirage 2000 was better than F-16 pre-AMRAAM and LGBs. Rafale’s Electronic Warfare suite is on a similar level as F-35.

(I know the latter is unlikely but I still believe it)

Odd, I’ve never placed myself on a scale towards fascism before. Usually I’m on the other side.

There is a reason why NixOS was invented 21 years ago. Reproducible builds are not simple in most packaging build systems.

And at your next job, at an employer who sees the value of FOSS and a nerd with strong Linux-fu!

Warum the fuck nicht?

Honestly, k8s + GitOps at home is my project that I’m just starting this week. I found a community around it (on Discord 🤮) called Home Operations.

Docker Hub sucks and is VERY strict with rate limits. Try ghcr.io or the aws container registry.

GitOps + Renovate

Gives you:

• automation of updates
• smart notification of updates that are below a certain confidence that it won’t break stuff
• rollback: simply git revert
• the whole shebang

Some stacks that work well with GitOps are:

• k8s + Flux or ArgoCD
• Nix(OS)

Mixing them is a LOT of complexity though. Just pick whichever you are most comfortable with. If you want a declarative immutable OS just for running k8s, check Talos Linux.

If you don’t want to deal with GitOps, Nix or k8s, and you don’t need recent versions, just run Debian and set a cronjob for auto updates. Then only deal with potential breaking changes just once every 5(?) years or thereabouts.

How to call xargs is typically one of those things I always forget. The foreach alias is a great solution!

My current solution was to use tldr for all of these tools, but yeah if I find myself having to do a for each line, I’ll definitely make it an alias.

Luckily (knocks on wood) I almost exclusively work with yaml and json nowadays so I should just learn yq.

I think the Gripens are mostly good at operating in austere conditions. Snowy roads for runways, short distances, quick turnaround with one professional crew chief and a few conscripts, low operating cost per hour, etc.

You know, the most boring but most important part of warfare: logistics.

The French have (had?) a bit of a reputation in electronic warfare. I remember reading about (3rd gen) Mirage F1s (maybe it was Mirage 5) with Barrax jamming pods absolutely beating the shit out of fresh new 4th gen F-16A in the 80s in exercises, due to their jamming pods and BVR capabilities. Dassault still claim that their Rafale’s EW system is good enough to provide some sort of stealth.

But I don’t think anything made in Europe today gets close to what the US and Israel are doing in Electronic Warfare.

The closest to Mint in terms of:

• stability: only have breaking changes once every 6 months
• just-works-factor: shipping drivers and whatever proprietary code is necessary to have a smooth out of the box experience

That I know of, beside maybe OpenSUSE (have no experience with it) is Kubuntu 24.10. Yes apt will say weird things and you’ll want to uninstall snapd.

But Kubuntu 24.10, current latest, ships with Plasma 6.1. Current stable, Kubuntu 24.04 ships with Plasma 5 still.

But I assume you’re not a fan of the rolling release model like EndeavourOS (Archlinux based, KDE is the default). So if you want recent packages AND a versioned release model, that leaves only Fedora out of the distros I’m familiar with. They recently promoted the KDE version from a Spin to a full version beside the GNOME version.

But Fedora is much heavier on the FLOSS philosophy, and not as works-out-of-the-box as Mint or any Ubuntu flavor.

Debian isn’t, but it will take a long time for Plasma 6.3 to make it to Debian stable.

So yeah, I guess OpenSUSE may be your best bet EDIT: took a quick look, there’s a rolling release model of OpenSUSE called Tumbleweed. But you probably don’t like rolling release. And a versioned one called Leap. The current latest Leap version still ships Plasma 5 so that still isn’r nearly as recent as Fedora, which has had Plasma 6 in the last TWO versions.

Eurocanard fighter wants to go up -> canard pushes nose up like a boss

F-35 wants to go up -> elevator pushes tail down -> AoA increases -> nose goes up

Saab Gripen.

Not to be confused with the much more expensive twin-engined Eurocanards Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon

What is the F-35C doing in the popular club? The Canadians wanted an F-35 with a refuelling probe and a shorter landing roll, and they would sooner throw a chute and a probe on an F-35A than get a Charlie. Even the USN only got it because they were forced to, and clearly prefer their Super Hornets.

Nobody likes you, F-35C

Meanwhile Elf Ears has scored with Czech Republic, Hungary and Brazil. And the sexy but truly unbearably arrogant French gal has scored with Croatia, Egypt, Greece, India, Qatar.

Frømandskorpset sounds Danish. Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Are you aware of the Greenland news this week?

The 2 liter bottle of coke I once froze exploded with so much force that I found the freezer door open when I investigated the loud bang at 3am.

Top-tier sentence right there. Very well written, it just keeps getting better (or worse, for you)

It’s not just about speed, but also (battery) efficiency.

Even if you don’t notice the speed, if you are working on anything but a modern expensive laptop, you will notice the difference in battery draw between:

VS Code > NeoVim in traditional terminal > Neovim in Alacritty or Ghostty

After years of fighting pip and conda, I got a job where “we work with Python but also still have some .NET Framework apps”.

NuGet seemed just as bad.

People shit on JavaScript (for very good reasons) but npm is amazing compared to all these. You can have one dependency needing PackageX v1 and another dependency needing PackageX v3 and your project will just work!

A modern statically-linked language with a first-class package manager, like Rust or Go is ideal. No fighting the dependency manager, no issue with deploying on different systems, just “run this binary”.

Thanks for your feedback, I was guesstimating off the top of my head. On doing some research, I see meat cows are usually slaughtered at 18 months - 2 years old in the Netherlands.

5-6 years is the number I see for dairy cows.

Of course, something that eats cows that eat a shitton of plastic, will have even more plastic in it.

But that doesn’t mean that it’s healthy to eat an animal that has been fed (assuming they are slaughtered at 3 years, and ignoring the climate impact, the ethics of slaughtering an animal in its youth, etc)…

41 kg of plastic

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a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.

This is worth a lot though. It takes many people a few years of their life, a burnout and a lot of mental healthcare to get to this point.