mickotron

13-14".

My favourite laptop design of all time has been my macbook pro 2011. I never feel like it needs to be bigger, the keyboard feels natural and typing is easy, and it is portable.

I will be getting a Framework laptop soon, which has very similar proportions.

Buying one as soon as preorders are available in Australia.

Solus Linux is rolling release. No worries for me.

I quit my job over it. There were some other considerations, but that was a bit part of my decision.

Updates are few and very far between.

No, you can upgrade the entire main board (with CPU) in future. And the "old" main board can function as a standalone PC outside the chassis.

Once it is available for pre order in Australia, I am buying one.

Australia doesn't have an independent foreign policy. This deal just shows who is in who's pocket. Australia has no choice because it can't defend itself. It has no military capability to defend against any enemy.

It means we Australians are destined to follow the US again into whatever conflict the US finds itself in. Because if we don't, we're on our own, and a very big (geographically) and soft target.

I really do not want MS office anywhere near my Linux machine.

I wish that Microsoft's products fully supported open document formats and standards.

Just do it already, MS. Replace Windows/NT kernel with Linux, and make Windows another Linux distro. Seems like you're kinda heading that way.

Much love to Daniel and GrapheOS contributors.

Just buy a Pixel and install yourself, cut the middleman.

I run a windows VM in my Linux host for work every single day. When I leave that org, I just delete the VM and its files.

I stopped writing to my federal member Jim Chalmers about the shitty legislation. I never get a response, I doubt his office even reads them.

Not everyone can afford to live where all the jobs are. Not all of us are on inflated SV wages.

Some of us put up with 2-3h commute round trip time a day for many years cause it was the only way. Now with remote, that commute is not necessary.

Of course people will choose not to do the hellish commute, if they have the choice.

I tried the same in OpenSUSE, I was horrified.

GrapheneOS is my daily driver and immensely happy with it. Never been more satisfied with a mobile experience. On a Pixel 4a

They make the premise so innocuous that it would seem unreasonable to object, eg who would object to keeping kids safe?

However it's what comes after this, the slippery slope of what to enforce and not. The genie doesn't go back in the bottle.

My country (Australia) has botched their rollout.

I wanted to get vaccinated, registered my "interest" to get vaccinated months ago, then waited for the invitation to book an appointment, booked my first, then second appointment.

This process took months, amid shortages in Pfizer, waiting times of more than an hour on the phone to book appointments, their online booking system simply not working during high demand.

What I'm saying is, as a person highly motivated to get vaccinated, it wasn't easy.

Our gov and officials tell us how lazy we are to not be vaccinated, but I can understand why a lot of people aren't. In some cases it is made too hard to jump through all the hoops.

That includes me. Hard to be a huge advocate for Firefox when they continually don't deliver. Brave is my browser for the time being.

Yes they are a 100% remote company, even pre-covid

Me too. I am voting with my feet and taking my labour somewhere else.

So a matter of "don't trust them, but trust us"? I love DDG but this move seems a little creepy.

Yep, "dir /s /b | findstr x" is way quicker than searching for files in explorer.

Solus is my distro. After using Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, Solus has been stable and reliable for many years. My daily driver on desktop and laptop.

Water is wet

These are emergency powers assumed under a pandemic, settle down now.

Yeah nah.

I will criticise the government and their laws, be skeptical, be very vocal about my privacy rights etc.

But when it comes to covid, the restrictions make sense, and I agree with the goal for which they are deployed to meet, which is reduce spread, hospitalisation, and death.

So do I like rules? No. Do I want to stop the spread? Yes. It's that simple.

I come from a testing QA background, and I will steal this quote, it is marvelous: "That's the problem with software; there is one happy path and an infinite number of unhappy ones."

My PCs at home run linux. I run a Windows 10 VM on qemu/KVM for work, and that has worked for me for 16 months of remote work.

The crazy hardware requirements for windows 11 won't apply to VMs apparently. And my work will provide me with a Microsoft account, so that is fine. Plus it's a work-only machine, clear segregation.

Had a script that managed disk space on windows servers. The config file was xml, and Powershell did not treat the commented child element as nothing, it imported a blank child element in the PSObject.

So when it ran it looked in blank directory (default c:\windows\system32), for blank conditions. Zip filetype matching blank. Delete files over blank age.

These servers were rebuilt over a weekend, and the script was scheduled again, and broke these servers again, requiring another rebuild.

When I came in on Monday, I was told that the script had caused this carnage. I didn't believe them until I read the debug logs in horror.

Luckily the config was specific yo a subset of servers, but they happened to be servers that were responsible for police GPS radios to function.

Suffice to say it now has a lot of defensive programming in it to test the config file and resulting config object before doing anything.