No fair! I want my cookie.

I think you have to have a certain status with them. I visited, and my boss got a cookie, but I got nothing.

This huge meme’s an antique!

I had an internship 15 years ago where I was forced to write C++ with no internet access. I had to use a programming manual and man pages.

Unironically, yes. That’s not nearly as common sense as you may think. There’s no such thing as idiot-proof steps. To some you may very well be a pro from that alone.

I never understand this mindset because a person who is technically skilled like this is exactly the kind of person who wouldn’t struggle with Linux.

They’re already the kind of person who would be an excellent Linux user. I can only imagine that, for whatever reason, they’ve grown emotionally attached and are simply too stubborn to consider anything else.

Until the next re-bloating update where your settings get reverted and services re-installed.

Being good at de-bloating (as you may very well be to do that in a few minutes!) is an anti-skill that shouldn’t have to exist.

An iPhone 12, which I think is 5 years old at this point.

Can’t remember the last time it took my phone more than a minute to start. I would say typical for me is closer to about 20 seconds.

If I’m outside the house and pulling weeds and a vampire walks up and I told them to come on in and motion them in the house first can they go in?

There’s nowhere to pee in a rich man’s house except his face.

Seconds before disaster!

Me maintaining packages that depend on Java and discovering all the bizarre ways that you can install different versions of Java and have environment variables misconfigured or missing.

Not necessarily. You might be confusing it with a Tor exit node.

The Snowflake project provides people who live under an oppressive regime the ability to connect to the Tor network. You can’t observe their traffic and you are not an exit to the open Internet. Generally, you shouldn’t be able to connect the activities of any user with traffic on an exit relay.

Tor Snowflake proxy. Learn FreeBSD/pf which works great with those specifications. Try to overclock it and see how much you can get away with before failure. SSH honeypot. Low-spec server for a simple site. If you have bandwidth, you could contribute some to SyncThing by hosting a public relay.

Why the fuck would I want a browser with AI?

And here I am adopting abandoned ports on FreeBSD and packaging applications that I didn’t even write as a hobby.

Good point. Maybe it depends on what I want to happen when that load spike comes.

I was promised 15 years ago that cloud computing would avoid unexpected bills and provide consistent expenses that project managers love so much.

Total silence.