I accidentally hit it once and google replaced every single one of my images with a link to some cloud BS with no way to get them back in a way that allows other apps to pick them up where they left them.
We tried to get up there early in the morning to catch the sunrise. Turns out the estimated travel time of google maps was wildly inaccurate and we arrived like a quarter hour too late. It was still a beautiful sight though!
lol I hope he loses it all. But I’m sure he’ll just find another rich loop hole to kick the can with another company. He got lucky with spaceX. Found the right people; and the right people that don’t put up with his shit.
I think we should acknowledge his strengths. Inspiring and empowering smart people to prototype something audacious is something he is very good at. He didn’t get lucky with SpaceX, he did what he is good at.
What he is bad at is the next step. And because his ego doesn’t allow him to step away and let somebody else do the next step:,take a prototype and turn it into a business, his companies are doomed to be just fluff.
I’m worried SpaceX will suffer the same fate under his leadership. There’s no escape from a leader with bad leadership skills.
“Inspiring and empowering” aka he’s rich and gonna get richer, nothing unique to the man himself. Those smart people could do leauges better out of a coperate environment - he doesn’t even let non-teslas park in their parking lot as their Cali research locations. Lotta empowerment there
Tbh I’ve spend time thinking on this, and realistically the only solution I could find is through mathematical optimization - describing it through and example, we’ve definetly killed hundreds of Einstein’s in Africa simply working for the west - we have the ability to provide food to every single person in the world, and certainly the technology to educate them.
If we simply offered everyone an equal chance to learn, and the ability to focus on “thinking”, instead of starvation, bills, poverty etc. naturally the best would rise to the top and statistically we’d have insanely better odds of finding smart people than the essentially lottery we got going on now. (Look at yee old days, population directly correlates with technological innovation, never one person being “built different” )
In our current society you can see this isnt happening everywhere, everyone knows you got to ‘know someone’ to rise to the top. A great example of being the film infustry; well known actors are somehow able to pop out amazing acting children, entirely uncorrelated to their connections right?
Musk is a beautiful example of this, cause he can hardly stop himself bursting at the seems with cockyness - and he was risen like he was gods child, so understandably he believes that, but he’s simply hooked on the dopamine rush he gets from making obsene amounts of money, soley because the exponential growth of ones wealth (and take a wild guess at how hr got anywhere with PayPal; hint hint it’s genetic). I honestly see him as no better than a common crack addict, but for some reason we decided he should have the power of a small country, certainly a dangerous thing in an addicts hands.
Sorry this got a little long, but Tbh this is the society I hope for some day!
It is so nostalgic, although I struggle to see a good reason to use this as a daily driver other than if you need stability that might even exceed that of Debian Stable.
I need some tips on how the old-timers manage installation of packages without dependency management.
This is probably one the most Unix-like Linux-based operating systems ever. Gentoo probably comes next with Void being third in said list. If one didn’t want to run BSD but still wanted similarities with old Unix systems, this is probably it.
Thanks to the Slackware team for such a fantastic distribution.
I started with Linux using Slackware in the late 90s. I had to give up on it - first on the desktop around 2007, then on my server maybe 5 years ago. Dependency hell. For the server, the final straw was when I got some Ubiquiti equipment and needed to run the Unifi controller - I just did not want to deal with figuring out the dependencies and then worrying about them every time I updated.
The desktop and laptop run Kubuntu, and the server runs Debian. It’s so nice being able to update things without having to worry. And I haven’t noticed any effective difference in stability or anything like that. Just that much less time I spend maintaining things.
I wonder if the UnRaid team has figured out an easier method to take care of dependencies, considering they run a webserver with considerable assets on Slackware.
Slackware will always be a consideration for me since I do not like systemd (philosophical reasoning), but yes, managing dependencies manually is a pain and said pain grows with almost every package that one installs and then needs to upgrade. I wonder what was the motivation for the Slackware team to not include automatic dependency management to their distribution, which would likely have been my choice for lean and stable distribution over Debian if it had that feature.
If i remember right, it takes a lot of resources to maintain a package manager, and the focus on slackware is to be on the improving the distro overwall hence its superb stability. Community members have created sbopkg + sbotools to create a 3rd party package manager if you want to go that route on slackware. Sbotools would be the gui to take care of depenencies
From a server point of view, where it’s focused on a limited set of functions, with a limited group of packages, it’s not too bad. I can see it working fine for that purpose.
But a general purpose server that does several things in my house… It gets messy.
We don’t install packages without dependancy management, for the most part. We use one of the half-dozen or so pkgtools wrappers made by community members that interface with SBo and handles the dependencies for us (examples include slapt-get, slpkg, and sbotools). Also, Flatpak/Distrobox/Nix etc are all available and easy enough to install if slackbuilds.org doesn’t have what I need (rare tbh).
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