Before this year, the thought of an entirely arbitrary block to things like American cloud services by America to its European allies would have seemed extremely unlikely. It would make no sense, the damage to America and it’s GDP would far outweigh any any political benefit.

All of those reasons still hold true, but I absolutely assure you, European governments and companies all over have that possibility firmly in their risk portfolio now. America tells microsoft to immediately not only stop selling products in Europe, but disable those already in use? Ditto Google. Ditto Apple. Ditto all the hundreds of IT hardware producers that are American. Want to cripple a foreign government that uses MS Office? Remotely disable it. job done. Sure, it would be illegal, but America’s government has no respect for law.

(Even before this, several European governments were using open source (Germany, France, Austria, Portugal - there’s a list but this is less about idealism and more about protecting themselves from the unpredictable as well as not trusting America with their data any more. Every thing like this can only be seen as non Americans distancing themselves from America every way they can, and with good reason.)

If you know, you know.

Known 35 years next month. Married 35 years in November.

after our kid was born she said I smelled differently and she was repulsed by me.

Oh, man, that’s brutal.

Because Musk has turned it into somewhere that hate speech is not only tolerated, but encouraged.

Lemmy is literally the antithesis of X, no wonder you’re being downvoted.

Why are you cross posting content from a hate site?

Thanks, but from context, it almost certainly is what they meant.

It’s not /just/ about colour. Plenty of white people are being detained illegally. The only way to be certain not to be illegally detained in the US is not to visit the US. Sadly, not an option for many people who are already there.

Debian for about two decades: It would take something pretty major to shift me - probably a hostile takeover, major policy shift or commercialisation, none of which is likely.

At worked we shifted from Centos to Rocky for the obvious reason, and are happy with the choice so far.

It’s dangerous. People are a 35 times more likely to be killed by guns than my country.

Good answer. Like a michelin chef working at McDonald’s and having a little secret area of his own.

That sounds like hell.

Sharing filesystems could be useful, I can see that.

I do that with target dev platforms anyway, using things like NFS, samba and sftp, but I do see that it could work well for this.

I too do that, working from a windows vm and writing code for linux - but I push it to a linux vm for testing. Never occurred to me to use WSL and have another environment to configure and maintain for dev that’s different to the target one.

But fair play if that suits you! Each to their own, and I’m sure I do things that make no sense to others.

Thanks - I can kind of see that, as docker on windows is majorly broken. I think I’d just run it in a linux vm, as I do with most of my developing, but I can see some might not want that overhead.

I do know what it is, I just don’t know why you’d use it instead of proper linux, or a vm.

I still don’t know what WSL is for.

Some people are just shittier than others. What they look like on the outside has no bearing on their inner beauty.

A perfect use for them - controlled environment, difficult conditions, repetitive and predictable workflow.

But I’m puzzled by the design - why have a cab? Wouldn’t a more efficient layout be a whole-bed platform with all systems underneath?

X, for all the reasons.