A good thing in general, maybe this will help improve compatibility with old stuff and its old bugs, cause it’ll be simpler to emulate those bugs with cleaner code.

BTW, has anyone managed to run Rogue Squadron 3D under Wine? I’m just interested, I’m having that menu input bug not allowing to do anything.

FVWM.

Same as any ports system. Though yes, for Linux the alternatives may seem less convenient like Portage or less extensive like Pkgsrc.

I just listen to the “Enclave Sublevel” track (more rarely others) from KotOR II OST, or sometimes “Bastila Shan” track (more rarely others) from KotOR OST, or “Polyhedrons” track (same) from Disco Elysium OST, or theme 2 (same) from Ascendancy OST,

“Would” happen? That’s literally what initially happened. They just hoped for something impossible.

From what I can tell, the rebuilders are not adding any kind of value to the situation.

They are adding popularity. Enterprise is slow to change in some ways, but I can totally see the trend of moving to Debian. RH seems to have forgotten their own history and how they’ve started with one Red Hat Linux, with paid support for those who wanted it, and that’s what gave them the popularity to be profitable.

They don’t seem to want to artificially increase the difficulty of rebuilding RHEL sources, just to stop actively spending money making it easier when that work doesn’t return any money for the effort. Which is… Totally fair.

They are, in fact, going to reduce their revenue. Which is the main criterion for a business, no?

I mean, just like humans wither and die with time, so do companies.

Nobody and nothing living forever is one of the reasons centralization is bad. But humans sadly like to flock.

RH is approaching the end of its life cycle. First they were hackers. Then they became a useful and aspiring business. Then RPM-based distributions were what made Linux not marginal anymore (though probably this also has something to do with Mandrake’s success). Then they became something in the center of things, connected to everything happening with Linux and other Unix-like systems (at least on desktop). Then they realized that and started milking that slowly. Then they became arrogant.

No, it’s a different OS not intended as an alternative to Windows in any other sense that it’s a desktop OS too.

But it won’t be hard if you start with something common, like openSUSE or Debian.

You mean that RH hates ergonomics? Agreed here.

About the function of systemd (or docker, or pulseaudio, or gnome 3, or wayland) - well, I don’t need it, but I understand the usual arguments of its proponents. It does solve problems other init systems don’t. Only it’s such a PITA to use that I’m a Void Linux user.

Especially sad considering that this was entirely different in the Gnome 2 times.

That’s to be free of discrimination by the state, which usually will treat your obligations independently of your rights.

While private discrimination is always something in the grey area. By private discrimination I mean both a banner saying “<any grouping at all> are not welcome here” and having face control (something quite normal for night clubs, and you’ll also pick your tenants if you rent out).

RH is the maintainer\developer of great many things. Of course it’d be nice for them to have good competition (like what Canonical was), so that they wouldn’t use that power for evil.

Still them becoming weaker is not a case for optimism.

I’d really like something like Gentoo with official binary packages (and relevant tree), so that building from source would be an option and installing a binary package the usual way. Well, also simpler installation maybe.

I mean, Calculate Linux does that, but I think it’s a Russian small-business oriented distribution, so not exactly my use case.

The whole idea of some things being protected and some not is very wrong. Rights should be a wildcard. That’s the right of private discrimination as ancaps see it.

No, such daily stuff doesn’t harm you, and even has the virtue of people you’d not want to depend on being more likely to show their true colors.

Maybe systemd gets grouped with wayland and xorg with other init systems simply because of usability?

I mean, I got used to the thought that what I prefer is less usable, because some pretentious UX designers say so, and we Unix nerds use inconvenient things because we are all perverts.

But when I read about industrial design and ergonomics, it seems that my preferences are consistent with what I read, and all those UX designers and managers should just be fired for incompetence and malice.

Back to wayland/xorg and runit/systemd (for example), same reason FreeBSD may seem easier to set up and use than an “advanced” Linux distribution - there’s less confusion.

Living in Russia, I have mixed feelings about this slow controlled collapse TBF.

For Russia itself, maybe things being over after a couple of months (or years) of civil war starting in 1999 would be better.

But for everybody else, of course, there are bigger risks associated with that. Not really something nuclear even, just economically less pleasant.

I mean, collapse of Russia is something very much expected in Russia by many people since 1993.

What makes it less expected is that it hasn’t happened in 30 years, though.

Why would it be funny?

Having a plan for an unlikely event is not funny if having such a plan is your job. There are plenty of people who should do exactly that.

Because not having a plan for an unlikely event that bloody happens is, eh, negatively funny.

As others have said, lack of privacy is what makes BitTorrent not the best tool.

Other things may be inconvenient (like good old XDCC or using Google Disk for piracy), or “invisible Joe” (like ed2k, gnutella and Usenet, due to all of these just not being sufficiently monitored by law enforcement or neighbors interested in your porn taste) cases.

And Freenet, I2P (with iMule and what else there is, there was some sharing thing similar to ed2k in experience), RetroShare are not sufficiently popular.

In general good things are not popular.

My point is, let’s wait for Locutus and whether it succeeds in transforming the Web.

That’s why they should make becoming an ISP something much more achievable legally, and not try to pay existing ISPs for something “universal”. Then the problem is going to be solved really quick, almost as quick as laying cables.

Supply and demand are real, because they provide motivation for both sides, the consumer and the provider. Not the case with such bills.

I know this feels like mockery from a person with GPON to the door, but people like you still existing may be the reason the Web hasn’t gone completely apeshit in bandwidth usage.