Rob Bos

Lotta small businesses out there.

If it was sold at a loss, businesses would scrape the whole supply and pave them for windows desktops.

Nebula is pretty great.

Yeah, actually. The proprietary drivers unfortunately.

Consider not responding with all the reasons someone’s lived experience is impossible in future.

I’m glad you’re here to tell me how my experience the last 30 years was. Thank you for enlightening me as to how my choices were wrong and how I was silently suffering.

I gamed on Debian. I was so wrong.

Bit of selection bias.

Car shops are full of cars that have problems. Why would you be at a shop if you didn’t? Same with forums.

News to me. I’m running GloriousEggroll with proton 10…

That really was not my experience. I didn’t game much. WoW mostly. Some StarCraft. Minecraft. Online games. Debian unstable worked fine and I don’t think I had to compile my own kernel (for gaming) at any point past 2005 or so.

I’ve always enjoyed the tinkering. My gaming habits pretty much grew up with WINE. DXVK was very exciting!

Never been a stranger to compiling my own kernel or mucking about with DLL overrides.

Consistent branding over multiple decades!

I’m okay with it.

Debian since 1998. No reason to change.

If this were Facebook I would say this is a bot harvesting user locations for advertising profiles…

Unless you use zram. Compressing pages is pretty useful as an intermediate stage.

I don’t think that applies since /* will just glob out to all the filenames in /

Market cap? Which stock symbol is it? 😉

I’ve noticed that every different social media medium/site has its own Eternal September moment. I think, optimistically, that we’re still before that point. If we get popular and the general population arrives, it’ll also attract the predatory ecosystem of state actors and corporate bullshit.

I think Lemmy and the Fediverse in general is resistant to that, but not immune. I expect an effort to create One Big Instance that most people use, or an oligarchy of large instances working together, like Microsoft and Gmail and co do with email.

At one point I rebuilt a server by fully abandoning the package database and reinstalling everything as overwrites. Converted a slackware install into a Debian install in situ by cannibalizing it from the inside out. Pretty proud of that one, even 20 years later.

edit: oh gods… more like 24.

Debian stable, I guess, has both people sleeping on cruise control. Fine until it stops being fine, and then a flurry of activity.

Edit: or maybe a train. Boring, except for updates and dist upgrades.