Speaking of the 80s I got a C64 and a friend let me copy a few 90 minute tapes with a bunch of games.

Wow multi-terabyte in minutes! There are not many ISPs delivering 100Gbps and even fewer are delivering 1000Gbps.

Unless you live on top of a data center.

Cauldron 2 for C64 you start playing and find out you have no clue how to progress the game.

You have reached the pinnacle of Linux, every other distro you try from now on will seem bland. 🧗🏼

What happens when an immutable OS meets an unstoppable OS?

In grade 5-6 we had a course on typing, it was boring so instead I played NIBBLES.BAS and GORILLA.BAS started modifying the Basic code to give me more lives.

Some time later I got hold of Visual Basic 3.0 and made some small programs, after that I was told that the cool kids were programming in C++ so i got hold of Borland C++ Builder 1.0 and played with it.

The latest language I learned was Python, this was when Oracle brought Sun (2009) I was fond of Java but wanted a language that was not in the clutches of a corporation, and Python was already on the rise back in 2009.

I think starting with Python is a good idea, when you get better at the language you can then add more languages like C/C++ or whatever you feel for, because when you know one programming language its easier to learn another one.

Yep that’s all well and good, but what flatpack doesn’t do automatically is clean up unused libs/dependencies, over time you end up with several versions of the same libs. When the apps are upgraded they get the latest version of their dependency and leave the old behind.

10 out of 40 is 25%

10 out of 4000 is 0.25%

Great that you have 4tb on your root partition then by all means use flatpack.

I have 256Gb on my laptop, as I recall I provisioned about 40-50gigs to root.

I should have noted that I’ll compile myself when we are talking about something that should run as a service on a server.

Because it’s easier to use the version that’s in the distro, and why do I need an extra set of libraries filling up my disk.

I see flatpack as a last resort, where I trade disk space for convenience, because you end up with a whole OS worth of flatpack dependencies (10+ GB) on your disk after a few upgrade cycles.

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If I can choose between flatpack and distro package, distro wins hands down.

If the choice then is flatpack vs compile your own, I think I’ll generally compile it, but it depends on the circumstances.

Better avoid the whole of Europe to be safe.

The Dutch!

Ah yes now I remember, they were very annoying.

As I remember Vista had some areas that were hard or unintuitive to configure, Win7 cleaned up those parts.

Win7 also made the disk hungry background processes play nice, Vista would occasionally lock up with 100% CPU and disk usage while the os scanned something.

And I agree Win7 is just a reskinned Vista.

Is that a PC in your pocket or are you happy to see me.

I have used Jan Kruegers guide along with Sqouzen and Open Cola to find the correct ratios needed. Jan’s recipe was chosen because its sugar free and skips the step with making sugar syrup, and you end up with 257ml syrup that gives 45l cola.

I’m on the fourth 1/4 scale batch, and weigh everything because its more precise than measuring volume, and that have helped me dial in the correct amounts.

I found that it’s fun it is to tinker with all the ratios in a spreadsheet, while dialing in the recipe to my taste.

I’m not sure I would use a open source Linux version of Recall, I think it would be like always sharing/streaming your desktop, so I think .bash_history is enough recall for me.

I would also allow an open source version of Co-Pilot because the AI snooping only happens within a single program.