You haven’t seen the best part yet. They’re holding back security updates, if you don’t do this whole Pro-shit. I really don’t know how much pot their executives smoked to get that awful idea.
And like, to be fair, for personal use, you can get Pro for free, so you ‘just’ need to create an account to get a secure OS.
But yeah, you basically don’t really hear people complaining, because we simply don’t use Ubuntu. Plenty better Linux distros to choose from. I only know this shit, because my work laptop unfortunately comes with it and I’m not necessarily allowed to change it.
Security updates for packages that are so old that they aged out of official support.
Who determines how old a package needs to be before they start charging money for it?
Well they do, of course.
Tune in next year when they turn off free Snap patches.
Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.
Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team
It was the only way I could get my monitors connected to my standing desk. Now I only need to figure out if subjecting hard drives to motor vibrations is risky, or if they can handle a bit of shaking when switching between sitting and standing.
Yeah man! I have a wifi receiver/repeater, UPS, audio mic amplifier, and the PC mounted under. I move every 6 months and this lets me simplify having a workspace. I like being able to wheel the desk around.
Probably not bad. If I could have memorized the entire dotnet framework documentation, I would. Until then I will keep googling, and I will usually recognize if the solution is sound. Probably the same with doctors and health.
Agreed, I’m simply pointing out that the comic makes it seem like programming is something you can always just Google the answers for, instead of a skill that requires honing and a basal foundation, similar to medical science or law.
Not much different to a doctor reading through clinical trials and then recommending the best treatment based on the use case. They didn’t design, develop or manufacture the treatment. They were not involved in the trials. The majority are just expected to know enough to make an educated decision based on specific, individual circumstances.
I want my doctors to use tried and tested treatments. Not reinvent the wheel. A good doctor is one who has a high success rate.
Yet the industry acts as though you’re not a good dev if you can’t reinvented the wheel from scratch… coz… Ignorance? Ego? Delusions of grandeur?
This holds true no matter how well you try to make it simple, modular (so changes only have to touch the small relevant piece instead of understanding the whole thing), documented by good code comments and multiple external docs for different audiences.
Drives me up a wall. Would be so much easier to just slap-dash whack it together, but I’ve been the one to come back to something a year later with no clue too many times.
Unfortunately I got it at a thrift shop and there are no stickers. Googling for “pulley lamp” shows me one that looks very similar: “Carbon Loft Tirith Industrial Farmhouse Table Lamp with Pulley System”
Ummmm… how about 2 vertical monitors above each other?
That’s how I got this long ass screenshot, for example: https://i.imgur.com/2AOYktQ.png
I don’t know how else to do that, so I fixed it with hardware ʘ‿ʘ
You can tell xrandr anything, it doesn’t have to be physically connected. So you could get 3960x1080 virtual screen space for a single vertical HD screen. If you move your mouse to the edge of the screen it will scroll what is visible. I discovered it in my triple monitor setup. I turn off screens I don’t need (they waste like 30W!), but the script I wrote to notify X11 of these changes doesn’t work as reliably as I would like, lol. Also duplicate polybar sometimes, haha.
Not sure how useful this is, because while the application thinks it has all this screen space available you can’t actually see all of it at once.
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