unique_hemp @ unique_hemp @discuss.tchncs.de

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Sure, but it's nicer that I would stop using my phone because it's not worth repairing anymore rather than because it's not supported.

Those are the same type of people that moved from twitter to bluesky.

Wall Street, 2008 (colorised)

I mean, you probably already have electron compiled, no?

Nope, the article says that what is and is not a grapheme cluster changes between unicode versions each year :)

Import from OpenAPI, yes. Super useful if you use Swagger and it starts lagging :)

Have you tried gvim?

You overestimate most people. "KDE is bad. Admittedly last time I tried it was 15 years ago" is a real quote that I read.

Webpack takes 10 minutes to build the release bundle in a project at work...

More control? If you're speaking from the app developer's perspective, dynamic linking very much gives you less control of what is actually executed in the end.

Except with dynamic linking there is essentially an infinite amount of integration testing to do. Libraries change behaviour even when they shouldn't and cause bugs all the time, so testing everything packaged together once is overall much less work.

Thing is there will always be these sorts of features that are initially only supported on Windows as long as Linux is not a priority platform. So there will always be excuses to not switch :(

Late to the party, but I remembered this talk about maintaining a FreeBSD fork. If you want to get a more detailed description of what maintaining a customized OS entails, I encourage you to watch it: https://youtu.be/xddAX6L3iWc

Nice, glad to help!

As for the automatic restarting, the whole Docker container exits, if the main process (specified as CMD in the Dockerfile) exits (in this case the minecraft server) and Synology probably auto-restarts the containers on exit by default.

Check this out: https://stackoverflow.com/a/62142025

So adapted for your requirements:

    
echo '/stop' | socat EXEC:"docker attach mcbe-world",pty STDIN

  

AFAIK /stop is not just a shell command, it needs to be given to stdin of the minecraft process. The broader question here is how to pass something to stdin of a running process.

As I see it their options are:

1. Copy it without meaningfully changing anything, i.e. just redistributing Debian or Ubuntu with some logos and desktop backgrounds - there is no reason to install this on your own and no one will care. This is effectively the same thing as customized Windows installs that they ship.
2. Creating a custom Linux distribution. This is feasible and has already been done (System76 created Pop_OS! based on Ubuntu; Android and ChomeOS are essentially new Linux distributions built from the ground up, taking only the kernel and ignoring the existing ecosystem), but requires serious maintenance work to be any good and offer real advantages over existing distros.
3. Forking a kernel like Apple did. This has fairly limited purpose from the perspective of laptop and workstation OEMs that use regular off-the-shelf parts. This is usually done to provide support for custom hardware (Apple) or for proprietary software that requires deep integration with the kernel (VMware).

No one will think of option 1 as a serious competitor in the OS market, option 2 requires a ton of work and motivation, and option 3 is useless for these OEMs. Software just isn't their business and a cheap copy offers no real advantages over shipping an existing thing.

The name Linux is trademarked, so you cannot use it without permission, yes: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage

But other than renaming it for trademark reasons, there are no real requirements for making improvements or whatever.

The open source licences of Linux and the BSDs allow verbatim copying. That's kind of the point of OSS.

In fact, Mac OS is a verbatim copy of a BSD.

While Linus' handling of the situation is terrible, I agree there is nothing this waterblock could do to change that conclusion for the price that it costs, so the drama around that does seem silly to me.