Declarative is awesome.

Phew. Dodged a bullet just by adhering to SLSA.

Remember: if you leave your bank for this reason, make it known to them and to your friend circle. Encourage them to move to wherever you end up, and tell the bank why. Let’s make a pointless stink about it as we get our friends to safety.

When the enterprise OS company I worked for in 2k1 was considering forking a Linux distro to offer as a freemium product, they evaluated enterprise Linux and Debian.

Debian lost then as its package format had weaker validation and consistency guarantees. It’d’ve been harder to support.

The packaging in both hasn’t changed much, except RH forgot how to use /etc/alternatives properly and now has some ungodly rinkydink thing supplementing it like a colo bag on the side, but the validation difference is still there.

Maybe that was why. Both are riddled with fridge art - oh hi Systemd, network manager, et al - but both are generally similar other than packaging and pipeline.

“an overregulated economy, high energy costs, high labour costs, high taxes and a declining level of education and qualifications.”

Yeah. Because self-regulation and no taxes certainly worked for, for example, America’s skills and education level.

high maintenance costs of VLANs

Said no one ever, until now.

Corona has its place, man. I’ve had some excellent beachy days with corona on-hand. In the right environment that (or just a Modelo) is excellent.

I would never mix those 3 together…

I’m the idiot drinking from 4 cups in the zoom call. I’ve seriously had tea, fruit punch kool-aid, and a hazy IPA (p49 trash panda) on the desk at the same time.

I don’t mix them until they hit the stomach, but you know they’re gonna co-mingle when they get there, like seniors and freshmen and engineers drinking at the same college bar.

Nah. Lennart went home to Microsoft.

Yeah, but that’s like saying “blue. The kind of car I drive is blue.”

If you can get logged-in and issue an lspci it’ll help a lot.

Just take a pic of the output with your phone if you’re on the console. We’ll cope.

This. It’s really that easy, if you take it slow. Maybe grab a beer/soda/coffee on the way in

maybe ansible

I’ve done Ansible professionally for 3 years, now. I’ve used puppet, chef/cinc, I’ve played with mgmtconfig, and I’ve built entire ecosystems out of cron+make+rpm since 2002, 6 years before ‘devops’ had a name.

Don’t use Ansible. EVERYTHING ELSE is better. Please consider any option before it. Strongly consider mgmtconfig.

OSs

OSes

C’mon, man.

You laugh. I dream of this.

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People who proclaim others are Grammar Nazis generally may need to focus more on spelling and less on cheesy melodrama.

our insurance would not cover the operating system if there were ever a security breach, data loss, etc

This person was lying to you.

Wonderfully succinct. Thank you for caring about strangers representing themselves best and better.

Short-sighted kids are a little more common after we fired the mentors and documenters in our field: they don’t know how or why we did such dumb things before and thus can’t avoid them. It’s like how America fired all its inspectors and now suffer en masse from salmonella and explosive diarrhea from tainted food: causal.

I love the “just fork it” argument.

Look, Elon, maybe we can’t solo a project like that if we’re still using old hardware, okay?

Sorry if that made you frown behind your shades. Ask the poolside waiter for a other cocktail.

With an ifdef.