PLEASE CRANK THE SILLY THING AROUND should not be as hilarious as it is

Skirt and programming socks. The skirt provides optimal airflow and the socks can be adjusted using a PID algorithm to achieve the desired thermal equilibrium.

Clanker equivalent of telling an angry spouse to stop overreacting.

storage: ZFS RAID2 array of three hundred free icloud accounts

I bet somebody’s been bored and/or psychotic enough to have done that, booted a Linux machine from it, and played DOOM on it.

Thigh-high socks

They’ve even put programmer socks behind subscriptions, world is a fuck

Stakeholders. Journalists. The market. The ignorant public. They’re constructing a narrative to shield themselves and minimize the hit to their reputation when they stop offering lifetime license plans. The announcement won’t look nearly as damning if it contains a reference to the falling number of new lifetime customers, even if it omits the context of why that number has been falling.

From a purely profit-oriented perspective, no. They’re setting up a pretext to eliminate the lifetime license plan due to a lack of interest. No sane person would pay that kind of lump sum for the service (and the insane ones will bring in triple the revenue), so they’ll claim that there is no market for it. After that, they’re free to crank up the periodic subscription prices.

Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by profiteering opportunism.

Today I had to build and install an application using Crates. It recursively pulled 700 other packages and gave me a gut feeling comparable to testicular torsion. I don’t care how paranoid the community is, it only takes one careless maintainer to node-ipc or left-pad an entire dependency tree.

Get in the timeout box.

XDG Desktop files are a mostly standardized way to integrate individual programs into the desktop. For example, a desktop file in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/share/applications can add programs to the application launcher, both desktop launcher menus and separate apps like dmenu-run; or they can be used to start applications when the desktop session starts by placing them in ~/.config/autostart.

Desktop files can also set properties related to an application. In this particular case, the MimeType field tells the desktop session what MIME types should be associated with the application. For example, my desktop file for Blender associates the application/x-blender MIME type with it, which causes Blender to show up in the Open with… dialog.

The MimeType field is a semicolon-separated list. One desktop file can define multiple associated MIME types for the same application. Krita instead creates a separate file for each association.

Holy FUCK, I’m going to use that so much.

If I have to install Windows on a machine (mostly work-related), I always use Chris Titus’ WinUtil to strip out the garbage bits and delay or completely stop updates. It’s basically a GUI wrapper around various Powershell commands.

You grossly overestimate the number of people who are both willing and able to deploy, secure, manage, and maintain this kind of infrastructure. You may not find any value in offloading these responsibilities to a service provider operated by trained professionals, but your outright refusal to acknowledge that other people might is nothing short of callous.

Not having to configure a separate utility is part of the user-friendliness

edit: this is way funnier with the original title: Your containers are leaking (and how to plug the holes)

Suckless shampoo is just a bucket of wood ash and pork tallow.

Take a look at Fiio’s wireless DACs. I use a BTR11 (costs like 25 EUR) and the quality is as good as I can reasonably expect at that price. Its output is a 3.5mm jack and it easily drives my 80-ohm Beyer.

If it uses a combustion engine, you could try putting something hydrocarbon-soluble in the fuel, like polystyrene. Some of it will get past the fuel filter and foul up the carburetor (and probably the spark plug) without causing permanent damage to the engine. Removing the blockage is trivial, all you need to do is soak and rinse the parts in fresh gasoline, but the diagnosis and disassembly requires some effort and technical knowledge.

Realistically, I don’t think any year will be the year when Linux for mobile takes off, ironically for the same reason why Windows Phone failed, and that is app availability, or the “will my banking app work on it?” problem.

Is 2026 going to be the year of the Linux handheld? /s

(No, Android is no more a Linux OS than the PlayStation is a BSD fork.)