Laurel Raven @ laurelraven @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I've long said that Kaiser is great, but should not be: the service they provide should be the baseline everyone gets, not exceptional by comparison.

Everyone deserves what they provide, or better. But it's nearly impossible to find anything in the US that's even as good as them without paying unholy amounts of money

Maybe they used him because it's a shit opinion?

For me, the Boost Lemmy app let me downvote even though my instance has it disabled... It just quietly failed and when I go back the downvote isn't there.

The Jerboa and Voyager apps, on the other hand, don't: Voyager let's you try but correctly shows an error, while Jerboa flat out doesn't offer it since I can't anyway

It's aliases all the way down

That shell reminds me a lot of PowerShell

Depending on the outcome of the coming election, could be next year

Sounds lovely.

You are aware that most of us in the US don't actually have options like that, correct? I'd dump my ISP in a heartbeat if those plans were available to me.

Can confirm, when I was doing that forever and a half ago, Comcast actually never gave us trouble when we called them, but anything having to do with at&t or Verizon was like pulling teeth

The worst was one site who was serviced by neither of them, but our last mile provider interlinked through one of them, who linked through the other (I don't remember the order of interlinks) to get to our actual ISP and into our datacenter/WAN. We had issues upon issues upon issues with that site's connection, and it was the interlink between those two that was the culprit. It was easy to narrow down, and easy to fix, but getting them to actually fix it took months of us screaming at our last mile to scream at them louder since we weren't their customers and they both refused to talk to us because of that.

It did get fixed but it took probably a year and a half of fighting before they finally updated the interlink.

I don't know how I would react to being told that other than staring at them incredulously and fighting my instinct to say something along the lines of "you're complaining that I'm doing my job TOO WELL???!?"

I wouldn't bet on that

I definitely recommend a beginner friendly distro to start with, but also encourage going through a Gentoo install at least once to get a better understanding of how the system works

Whether you succeed or fail at getting the install to boot and run or not, you'll learn something from the experience

I will say the solution to that IS to not play those games, but that only starts to work when enough people do that to hurt the bottom line of the devs

And we don't speak of NT 6.0

I'm struggling to think of what you'd even use that for

We have it, sort of, but those systems have all automatic updates disabled (they're part of a terminal server farm and need to be as close to identical as possible and our patching team for whatever reason have never been able to reliably and consistently update all of them at the same time)

It popped up in all of my 2022 servers, before even running updates, which means they can push things and change our production without our involvement at all

I'm beyond pissed

I mean... The kernel is called NT, not Windows, but okay

I used Sideberry for a while, but I tried out one called Tab Stash and I think it's much better overall than Sideberry personally

I don't think I've ever heard FreeBSD described as either "new" or "exotic"

Also, even when you actually get an error message (which you probably had to dig through the awful mess that is the event viewer... Seriously, the only update they've made to it in the last twenty years was to split a bunch of things into a ton of individual logs that are more than painful to dig through), it's cryptic (if it tells you anything at all) and pasting it into search gives you nothing relevant, and quoting it gives you nothing at all (even the part that's obviously the generic part of the error), or if it does, it's a couple hits with people asking for help and either getting no replies, unhelpful replies that misunderstand the issue, or tells them they're asking in the wrong Microsoft support forum

Like... Come on, Microsoft. You clearly coded this error in the operating system. Put at least one page in documents online with at least something useful about it...