On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.

When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

I copied all my stuff out of drive several months ago and canceled my plan. But I only actually deleted the files a couple months ago, and they actually only got deleted about a month ago. And who knows if actually deleting files on Google does anything. I got to assume it’s all part of the data set at this point.

Edit: my chief regret at this point is that I didn’t write mountains of Star Trek porn fanfiction for their AI to consume.

“Every dependency is an asset. Every dependency is a liability.”

I’m a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁

IA is definitely on shaky legal ground here. But as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the right.

I definitely use them a lot, but I think “very” is too strong a word. It’s pretty easy to get confident, contradictory information from them. They’re a good place to start and brainstorm, but all the information has to be verified either by running and testing the code, or by finding a human source.

It’s about time. I remember finally getting my subscription canceled what must have been 7 years ago by now. That was a happy day. And those were the “good” days of this whole thing!

I hate to do this, but AI chatbots are typically pretty good at giving examples for things like this and you can learn from it.

I have 2000 Saturn with 220,000 on it. It has been amazingly solid and low TCO.

Of course, they don’t make them anymore, so your point stands. They don’t make them like they used to.

The one thing that would drive my parents over the edge is ads in Windows. They already use Firefox and Libreoffice.

Unix has been my favorite dev platform since I first used it 30 years ago. I’m typing this on a Mac, which also does just fine. But I’m happiest on my Linux box. Even WSL was OK, but the bloat of Windows overpowers the hardware. My Linux daily driver is a 9-year-old laptop that couldn’t handle Windows any longer.

I’m on the “OK but keep an eye on it” train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I’d really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

Since I moved my stuff off Google Drive, Libreoffice has been super useful. Great work.

Meta has had this feature for years.

On mobile:

1. Long press the Facebook icon.
2. Tap “uninstall”.

After that Facebook won’t control the political content on your feed.

SERP = Search Engine Results Pages

In case you’re like me and didn’t know.

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

I’m sure it was possible, but I’m also sure my car doesn’t do that.

My 25-year-old car is certainly not transmitting anything.

I just went in there to make a new account, and they want real name and salary before you can do much. (I work for a public university, so my salary is public record, but even so I just quit out. Too invasive.)