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Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can’t be, either.

I can only use Xmonad as a window manager, so I’d like to avoid Wayland. But what Mozilla enables as default is fortunately not relevant.

Linux distributions compile stuff by themselves. No one uses vendor-provided software if there is a way to compile it.

Sooner or later everyone will find their way to Debian. It’s boring and it works.

(My opinion) No, you aren’t paranoid. I’m thinking a bit like you, but I also consider probabilities. You need to download the checksums from the official website and the ISO from mirrors. Two different sources would need to be hacked. This is where I say, it’s hard and secondly someone would notice that hack very quickly.

Signing the ISO or the checksums with a well-known signature is still important. I verify it, if a signature available. It’s just a couple of seconds and doesn’t cost anything.

Also to train Microsoft to be more annoying.

One simple rule to achieve peace and stability is diplomatic talk. You don’t use violence as answer.

Attacking civilians is also plain and simple terrorism. Hamas proved with this action they are not worth more than terrorists.

I get confused by non-modal text editors.

Of course, it’s better to use some frameworks for logging, especially because these verbose statements are often needed for assertions while unit testing the code. But it’s still equivalent to printf.

I use debugger sometimes. I actually like to load core dumps to take a look at the stack trace. But I usually don’t really need debugger interactively because when some error appears, I usually already have an idea what happened. And lots of embedded code needs timing in milliseconds, so debuggers won’t help.

Because if you invested a lot of time on carefully choosing the places where printf should be to get all the info you need, you just need to unset NDEBUG and voilà everything that you need is there again.

I don’t like systemd at all, but a boot routine that allows to load the plain kernel instead of an image and maybe choose other init systems than systemd would be nice. This is how most other Unix-like systems work.

I don’t know what you mean with Adobe. It’s a company not an application. Adobe Reader sucks and I don’t need Adobe Pro, because I am able to use LaTeX.

Why I need a real distribution instead of a naked operating system like Windows is that it comes with ten thousands of preconfigured packages.

Then the system is transparent. I know what it does and can analyze it easily. When something doesn’t work, I am able to find the cause. This is essential for me.

I don’t need any shady antinvirus that hooks into the kernel, making the computer overall insecure. I generally trust the OpenSource community more than I trust Microsoft.

I also don’t like ads on my system, except I subscribed to them. I pay for software and give devs money to keep projects running. But I don’t want to see unrelated ads.

Well,…

1. The swam over to us (that’s why “sea”)
2. They make squeeky sounds (that’s why “pig”)

Most of my text files are from Unix/Linux systems, because I don’t work much on Windows. So Wordpad is more important than Notepad for me, because the latter one does not handle end-of-lines correctly.

I need to go 40km to work. It’s 30min by car. And 90min by public transportation. I don’t want to waste 3 hours a day when I can waste 1 hour.

And the range is a problem, if your time is limited.

SysV init is crap, but so is systemd as init process. One example is that an admin needs to know why the system does not boot properly. In this case the kernel messages help. systemd is not helping here.

I’ve currently one problem that I need to solve, but I need 2 people, one to make a video, the other to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to capture an error message that appears for 0,1s after sending the key sequence, when my PC does not boot. This is crap! Why the hell it does not boot occasionally, I have no idea and I’ve been an Linux/Unix admin for 25 years now. Why I cannot find it? Of course because systemd doesn’t even log it!

This is brand new when systemd appeared. I loved to see the kernel messages to full extent…

My Arch broke when they changed to systemd. I couldn’t boot properly. Debian did it better.

No one says the devices are anti consumer, except for some that are intentionally made incompatible with common replacement parts (missing “apple logo”). The walled garden is.

Many popular things are crappy. It is not an ideology, unless you consider the scientists who invented the WWW to be some freaks.

Flash wasn’t really useful, because many people couldn’t display these websites. It was the exact opposite of WWW. WWW enabled people to use hypertext and provided accessibility.