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it seems so innocent, lol

Uh, Android is the alternative to Apple’s iOS. That’s your alternative. Android is much more customizable.

Which is kinda sad in its own way.

Azure don’t give a shit what it runs. Windows is on its own these days; if they succeed, good for them, but honestly I think the days of Microsoft just pretending to give a shit about Linux are long gone; it’s an important OS to them too.

I’ve worked for Microsoft for 12 years, still have lots of friends there so I get some of the vibe from that.

Friends don’t let friends use windows man. :p

Putting Red hat in the same group as Google and Microsoft is wild.

That’s because Red hat recently started doing some Microsoft and Google like shit.

It’s not that far fetched, Google used to have somehow the same philosophy as current IBM-RedHat.

While Microsoft and Google merely pretend to like open source but transparently hate it, it is (was) not quite as obvious that red hat wanted to capture the enterprise Linux market wholesale. What red hat has done is terrible for the ecosystem, much more so than Microsoft just throwing out worthless tokens of appreciation.

If you don’t like what they are doing with Linux, because it is free and open source, participate in people that are using it in ways that you do like that they do it, or do it yourself.

There is nothing stopping you

He was 22 years old. Pretty incredible.

I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.

I’m glad someone was able to donate a non-AT drive because Linus could not afford it :-(

“Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

Or wanted to appear non-threatening

“We will be in and out, 10 minutes”

Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

I love it™ (The nested parentheses are one of the greatest tools known to mankind (And to all other creatures))

To paraphrase an old tweet: “parentheses - for when every thought comes with bonus sub-thoughts”.

I always tell myself I am reading minds when I read inside parentheses

I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.

I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn’t seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text 2.

[1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.

Lemmy’s markdown does actually have footnotes!^[1]

they work like this: ^[text here] ↩︎

People like these? I do em all the time but always feel I’m overexplaining.

I’ve had a teacher in elementary school scream at me for doing so. (Nesting parentheses is forbidden. [You are supposed to use brackets.])

It’s wild seeing square brackets for something other than array indexing.

I had a teacher that screamed at me for “taking the lords name in vain…” They’re definitely wrong from time-to-time ;-)

I had a science teacher that told us, “If you sneeze three times and nobody blesses you, the devil takes your soul!”

It’s science.

What did the teacher say about apostrophes to indicate possession?

I once did double “parentheses” in speech when started doing streaming year ago, lol.

Some of those parens could’ve been replaced with commas and retain their meaning (that’s what I do to avoid nesting, so that it doesn’t get confusing).

Wait until you need nested commas, those lists won’t delineate themselves!

You have command of English grammar, clearly.

How’s your Finnish?

Not as good as my other primary languages, I have to admit. Finnish has too many consonants for my taste.

Or he could have used brackets.

I’ve never seen that being used, but it seems it’s a thing in English. What if you wanna best deeper? Do you go {}? Then <>? «»?

Thought I was the only one noticed abundance of the parenthesis

The amount of effort I do to try and avoid using double parentesis is trully herculean.

I think that stuff is the product of a completionist/perfectionist mindset - as one is writting, important details/context related to the main train of thought pop-up in one’s mind and as one is writting those, important details/context related to the other details/context pop-up in one’s mind (and the tendency is to keep going down the rabbit hole of details/context on details/context).

You get this very noticeably with people who during a conversation go out on a tangent and often even end up losing the train of thought of the main conversation (a tendecy I definitelly have) since one doesn’t get a chance to go back and re-read, reorganise and correct during a spoken conversation.

Personally I don’t think it’s an actual quality (sorry to all upvoters) as it indicates a disorganised mind. It is however the kind of thing one overcomes with experience and I bet Mr Torvalds himself is mostly beyond it by now.

perfectionist mindset - as one is writing,

I think an “M-Dash (perfectionist mindest— as one is writing,)” would be more appropriate than an “N-Dash” in your statement. No ‘nested’ parentheses needed (unless you’re looking to add non-essential (though insightful) info to your sentence); but the type of… “PAUSE” makes all the difference

that’s all I have :-(

aww

We should make a donation campaign, pretty sure somebody has a spare SATA drive around. This minix clone sounds good

A few years ago there was a fantastic video detailing thorvald’s PC and it is a beast, crazy how far we’ve come

I remember him saying his gpu was “just some random rx580” which was a current GPU at the time.

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