I’ve had a job where the whole thing was removing dirt and nails from demolished barn boards. Genuinely zero skill involved, just a lot of time spent doing the same thing.
I guess you need eyes and hands? And the ability to show up. Those don’t feel much like skills though.
If you didn’t learn anything from a TIL post, you can just keep scrolling. I didn’t know this fact and I was on Reddit for 6 years, until the API crap. Karma isn’t real; if you have a concern about the community’s quality, message a mod.
Are you only allowed to post a link once or something?
I have had a couple of instances where I updated a package through apt and those updates resulted in a binary which crashed on launch or a configuration/database error that prevented the binary from being launched, so it does happen.
The fix was relatively simple and I had it working again in minutes, but I think it’s still worth consideration as a potential point of friction, especially for users who don’t have the ability or desire to fix their own systems.
As an aside, I think you should want to know how to fix your system, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable for non-tech people to be able to install an OS they don’t have to periodically tinker with to get installed programs to launch correctly every time with no fuss.
For so many people, tinkering is like washing the dishes and they simply don’t want to do it; an immutable system is like the dishwasher of tech purely in the sense that using it means that less effort is required from the user. I wouldn’t expect my non-tech wife to think Linux From Scratch would be a fun learning project (like I do), we are all different.
Hope this comment isn’t too tangential, I’m trying as a person to be less rigid in my thinking about how people do things because I think it holds us back and, really, it’s a testament to the value of open source software that we have all of these options available. I wouldn’t want there only to be one way to run Linux.
I am thinking that they wouldn’t define that as a broken package, since I would consider that a bug that would need to be addressed in the next release. I would expect a broken package not to be able to run rather than simply to have a broken function.
Think about it like this: they just want a PB&J because it’s quick, simple, and works for them and you’re telling them to go out to the store and get ingredients to make a salad because it’s quick, simple, and works for you.
You’re both right. You can eat your salad and they can eat their PB&J and all will be well in Linuxland. That’s the beauty of it.
So a few podcast apps support a service called gPodder, which provides cross-device syncing of subscriptions and episode progress, but the gPodder servers are slow and often time out, rendering the service useless.
oPodSync is essentially a drop-in replacement for gPodder. My use case is that I listen to podcasts on both my desktop and my phone, and I want episodes to be seamlessly accessible on both devices without having to manually do anything.
It’s very resource-light, so if you have any interest in podcasts at all it’s another piece of cool tech that gives you more control over your data. I used to use Player.FM, which is still a cool app, but I was paying them $13/year for a small handful of premium features I didn’t really think were worth that much.
Yeah, no worries if they’re not all useful to you. I still do the actual updates manually, Diun just tells me when to do them so I don’t have to routinely check project pages or follow an RSS feed.
Ah, cool. Thanks for the additional info. I never kept up with Watchtower since Diun fit my needs. I’ll check out Degoog; I don’t mind several hundred line config files though, I usually go through all of the config/env settings prior to setting up a new service.
You could look into:
Thanks for posting, I gotta add the random facts to my Glance dashboard now.
Overpromise, underdeliver. Looks good from my house!
I can give you an anecdote to answer your question, but it’s in the inverse: I recently moved from a 2-storey apartment in a sprawling city block 10 minutes from downtown to an 8-storey building near a farm in the same city.
The level of ambient summer heat that I deal with now is drastically lower in comparison (probably close to 3-5°C) because of the increase in airflow and that helps to reduce thermal loading and urban heat trapping, which result from the effects of convection and radiation on the buildings in the area.
For some background, thermal load is basically the amount of heat energy present in a given area or object and urban heat trapping is essentially when a high thermal load in an urban area has an overall warming effect.
I’m not convinced that landlords’ collusion to fix the cost of rent is the “careful calculation” that you’re describing. From my perspective, it’s quite the easy choice for them to extract more money instead of less money.
I only potentially benefit from an overall market reduction in rent (which rarely occurs) if I move to a new apartment because they refuse to negotiate a lease renewal at a lower rate.
I actually prefer XMPP. It’s also less of a hassle to set up than Matrix and the protocol is much more mature. There are still issues, but it’s rather functional for audio and video calls (if you’re using a supported client).
Edit: For clients, I use Cheogram on Android and Profanity (which is a TUI) or DinoX (for calls) on Linux.
It’s both. Is it that hard to believe that the second-rate students might need something the first-rste students don’t have (like English proficiency or knowledge of American industry) in order to stay competitive?