maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

Oh, Magic 8-Ball, why is my customer not receiving that important email from Too Big To Fail Dot Com outsourcing mail delivery to Microsoft?

when i update software. i never notice anything changing in a good way. ever! like ive never seen software update and been like "thanks, thats a great new feature!" the exception of maybe twice, this has never happened? i don't think i've even noticed a bug fix either. i only ever see bad new updates to everything. annoying things they (re)moved. breaking changes. stuff no longer works. customizations i spent ages on no longer have any effect. settings get ignored. stuff breaks. updates are bad

TIL those flickering LED tealights are often made with music chips from old greeting cards as the source of "randomness" https://www.instructables.com/Listen-to-a-led-tea-light/

you: theres no such thing as a one true distro. Everybody has their own needs :) and everybody has their own requirements :) and everybody has their own preferences :)

me: what like "i want a computer that actually works and makes sense"

the problem is i think. if a linux distro was actually good enough, it would annihilate all the other distros. and that would go against the whole point of there being distros. so theyre not allowed to make a distro thats good. they're not allowed to be like "look we're actually gonna do it this time, we're gonna make the one true linux", they'd get tomatoes thrown at them. they can only make a distro thats "okay, but then in 5 years it Goes Wrong and everybody hops to the next popular distro"

q: if you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be?

a: you already are an animal

- douglas coupland, microserfs