They made it unaffordable to run Windows 11, and that’s how we get the Year of Linux on the Desktop?
Of course. No matter how good not-windows-operating-system is, only people interested, capable and willing to make the switch will migrate on their own. Others will wait until it becomes unbearable to stay or for someone to do it for them (pre-installs when a new computer is bought)
Wow. Idiots being idiots. The guy tried to play with legal rules and - surprise - lost. I am glad you got out of there in time
Oh yeah. It takes experience and clear head to remember to account for all the inevitables that are going to happen besides actual dev-hours-to-create-this. A hard lesson I am still learning
Ooh yeah, my favourite “I will vibe code it” route :)
Made me want to become that notorious software architect, just to be the reason that “X is going to take Y days. Want faster? Change your fucking expectations/scope of X”
That makes more of us. Educated - of course, but also allowed.
Come on. Am I dreaming?
Being half a world away from Americas is pretty easy, don’t ya think?
To be fair, I am bit split on this. On one hand, name and shame is an effective strategy and should be used. On the other hand, “put age verification into Linux” is a hilarious stretch. And yes, it feels strange that I have yet to see any kind of response from other systemd maintainers and managers - after all, the man authored a pull-request, not merged into into upstream. I have not been looking for that kind of response myself though, which also serves your point: putting all the blame and anger on this one man (I purposefully omit name) is too much
I care. One thing is “you know, fields with this name have been around since before you were born”, another thing is “some idiots passed the law half the globe away, now we are preparing your system to comply. Someone has to ©”. The field is not the danger, the thinking, attitude and act is
Edit: some local law, for fuck’s sake
So maybe next time when someone sees a pull-request like this, they think before merging it?
*provided no one gets hurt. I sympathise with the uproar, but physically hurting the guy is definitely too much
Uhm, wat. Had to implement, worldwide? Da fuck are you talking about?
Stored “because law”, right?
Sadly, that’s a lesson I’ve already learned from war in Ukraine. Before it I had "hope"s and "might"s about civilization. Now I have a substantial amount less
So he is not even in Israel. How new and fresh
When do we as humanity burn the fucking authoritarian playbook to the ground along with anyone following it?
Oh, I have one solution in mind. Two, actually:
Wakie-wakie, or how it is properly written
No shit, Sherlock ©
Waiting for another news. Like water is wet and education should function well
Lot less a failure than oh so many. Also who said there is a manual to being human
What a show of willful misunderstanding in comments. Thank you, and I am rooting for you too