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As a long time NY style preferrer, I was basically 100% certain that I’d hate Detroit style. Surprisingly, I loved it. It’s the only way I make pizza now. It’s so fucked up. How did they completely fuck up pizza yet make it so good? The sauce goes on top? What the fuck?

Anyways, I’ll probably burn out on it before long (eating a Detroit style pizza is a commitment) but it blew my mind when I finally tried it last year.

I mean, yeah. I want the communities here to hit a certain level of engagement before I drop reddit entirely. I’m trying to participate more here and simply read over there.

Creating a ChatGPT bot so it can be used to referree the veracity of Lemmy posts is the funniest thing I’ve read all week

Vitalentum’s API key got revoked :/

The only real argument I’d make is that most manufacturers only push out security updates for a given model for a couple of years, but different companies have different support timelines.

Even at the time Novell’s decision to pay out the protection money made sense from a business perspective. They could have been sued for liabilities that couldn’t even be guesstimated up front. Microsoft was being deliberately vague about which several hundred patents they claimed Linux was infringing. Even if Novell were in the right, it’s still generally the smartest idea for a company to stay out of court. Winning in court can still be extremely expensive. And they might not necessarily win even if they’re “right.”

And, as mentioned, SUSE had different ownership at the time, so it’s not terribly clear what bearing this history has on SUSE today.

Everyone freaked out at the time because it looked like it set a bad precedent that was going to ruin Linux, but it didn’t happen. It just didn’t. Steve Ballmer finally retired and Microsoft stopped acting like it was run by a sweaty gym coach and, like you said, MS eventually gave up the patent portfolio.

In the end, it turned out Red Hat were the bad guys because they eventually turned around and sold to IBM who are now actually trying to make their business model as proprietary as possible.

This notion that they didn’t batten down for a legal battle that could have conceivably destroyed the ability of Linux to be distributed at all and just paid the money was some kind of cOnSpiRaCy is just… systemd-hater level weird.

I would have been mad about it, but I forgot most of it immediately after leaving the theater. That’s how badly it failed to leave an impression on me.

There was a movement to make /bin /sbin etc symlinks to /usr a few back. I honestly don’t remember the rationale, but here’s Debian’s page about the change: https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge. If I hadn’t been following the distros at the exact moment they did the changeover it probably would have thrown me for a loop too.

I think it had to do with the fact that these days relatively few people need /usr on a separate partiton and so it very rarely happens and something about system binaries being easier to manage if they’re actually all in one place. People are ready for some tweaks to the FHS, I guess.

As a person who studied history… it’s better for future historians to have more garbage to wade through than less. Some future historian might make their PhD proving something weird about our time based on three frames in the bugs bunny poop review.

You didn’t mention why you’re trying to bind-mount your /data volume from your initramfs environment, but the only reason I can even guess at is that you’re trying to use it as part of your recovery environment. In which case, you’d probably be better served by doing the recovery from an Ubuntu live usb rather than try to cobble together a working environment from the shrapnel you left scattered across your drive.

This process should literally look like – boot, mount drives, rsync /usr back to root volume, clean up fstab/any other config changes, reboot, try again later after you’ve done more reading.

They tried to yoink the youtube-dl source a year or so ago with a DMCA claim. Ultimately it was restored because archivists and historians are actually using it for archival purposes and Google would look like jerks if they pushed too hard against that. I think they hate it but aren’t in a position to come for it yet.

Yes. It’s a pleasant fiction that Fedora is meaningfully independent from Red Hat. I literally spoke with a Red Hatter about this in like 2006-7 and what they told me was, in effect, it was pragmatic to let Fedora be independent (it increased community interest, meaning more users, meaning more community contributions) and that as long as they were able to get them to take up things RH eventually wanted to incorporate into RHEL it didn’t matter if they didn’t exactly dance to Red Hat’s tune.

To Red Hat’s credit, they mostly stuck to that arrangement up until this day. However, after the sale to IBM, Red Hat completely changed its orientation to the community. The upheaval with CentOS and now them trying to kill off all derivatives is proof positive of that. So yeah, that arrangement is obviously now in question.

I don’t necessarily expect them to do anything in particular with Fedora, but then again, I didn’t necessarily expect them to do anything in particular with CentOS and then the larger community of derivative OS’s, and here we are. I wouldn’t gamble on Fedora continuing to be what it is for much longer, personally.

I’ve been interested in alternatives to docker for a while now, but considering the way everything is going, tbh, I feel like I’d be more likely to just finally learn kubernetes.