I think you’re looking for the term vulture capitalism.

You recognize the feelings of the author and relate to them personally with Charles Petzold’s writing from back when, and say they need to grow up?

I think it’s a little reductive to say the author just wants everything to be easy.

IBM providing 10 years for RHEL is doing most of the heavy lifting in the case of rocky linux

Isn’t that probably why they differentiated them in the sentence you quoted?

Nobody knows what you are using to browse Lemmy, it can be very different depending on the client.

It took many years and plenty of iteration to make it there. It feels like a fever dream remembering the days Sal’s realm and tip.it were king. Remember when the game map wasn’t even in game, they just had a image linked at the top of the webpage?

No pandering goes a long way

I used to love batch as a kid. One time I was feeling devious so I wrote out a little script that deletes system32 and I emailed it to a classmate. I immediately burst into tears after hitting send and called her to let her know to delete the email.