NixOS as the first Linux distro is an interesting choice, definitely not bad, but probably not what most people would go for

Sorry if I sound dumb, but which kind of program would be the one to display the output of text based interfaces, also called terminal applications, if not a terminal?

The Chinese numbers regarding economical growth can’t be trusted anyways, I’m not saying they won’t be able to withstand the tariffs, but their numbers are as good as Xi wants them to be.

Doesn’t apply because Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions states that “A mercenary shall not have the right to be a combatant or a prisoner of war”, with a mercenary being defined as a person joining the conflict for personal gain, which these individuals seem to be from their own accounts.

Time to sell Tesla to xAI

Do programmers actually like bash?

I’m not a programmer and I really don’t like bash. Not because I don’t like shell. In fact I do like fish as a shell. But bash always feels super weird. Unfortunately that’s kind of the compatibility baseline on Linux (I don’t think any relevant system needs strict sh compatibility). But better bash’s weird arrays than none at all, plus process substitution is handy.

Most bash scripts are nasty, except for the most simple ones.

In its defense, it’s not a programming language.

I only had Windows 8 on a notebook that I bought and wanted to give it a try again, however I switched the machine over once I learned that it couldn’t be updated to 8.1 through normal updates, but that you had to use the store, because they were really trying to push the store. Also my NAS used NFS back then, which my home edition of Windows didn’t support, I think you need professional.

These two things pushed me to migrate the notebook as well

Does that mean I shouldn’t have switched in 2007 and instead waited eight more years?

But then I’d have had to use Windows 8

Not an option in France

Wheel got you covered

And there’s no record that they did. Talk about missing a great opportunity

Okay, that sucks. Yeah, I bought a refurbished business device

Then the “avoid at all costs” like Dell

Must have gotten lucky then. Bought a used Dell about one and a half years ago. Everything worked out of the box

Which was the whole point of the thread: it doesn’t matter by which power you get exploited, China doesn’t give a fuck about other countries either and they’ll happily fuck up other countries’ environments.

Funny because they didn’t actually invent those stories, but rather went around and collected them (which, at the time, was a huge effort). So these weren’t original stories by them in the first place.

Yes, :q! in normal mode to exit without saving changes.

Tariffs in my opinion can be a way to protect a given national industry against price dumping, especially when subsidies are involved, or if you have a specific capability in mind that you want to build nationally, but then I think subsidies are a better way, maybe in combination. But putting blanket tariffs against countries is in most cases not the best idea

Well, not really. Twitter was his own private property that he bought with borrowed money secured against his Tesla shares. xAI on the other hand is financed by investors whose money he used to bail himself out at a price he made up himself since Twitter is no longer publicly traded. So this is, in my opinion, misuse of investor funds; the picture would be true if xAI used how own money to do this, but no.

On one hand,I think this is serious fraud. On the other, my understanding for anyone investing into his companies is very limited, there are so many red flags on so many levels.

But it’s geared for the convenience and privacy of the average user not military security.

Military security (or military grade whatever) is a buzzword that makes sense in some contexts. In a lot of them, it doesn’t.

For example, for a lot of military-grade products you can have assumptions that are not always given for a platform that messenger operate on. Like that the device is always stored in a secure location. That it’s administered by trained personnel. That the device operator has received training on proper usage etc. In fact, a lot of military systems probably couldn’t be operated securely in a John Doe context b because of environmental security requirements. In that regard, messengers have to be more secure.