EulerOS, a Linux distro, was certified UNIX.

But OS X, macOS, and at least one Linux distro are/were UNIX certified.

Add to that photo editing (as much as GIMP is great…). I would guess DAW and video editing would fall under that category, too…and good luck finding many AAA open source games.

IIRC Torvalds uses Fedora.

(Debian for me.)

Imagine I have two choices: end world hunger, or end world hunger and kick a puppy. If I choose to end world hunger but also kick a puppy…well I’m kinda a dick, right? Ultimately I did a very good thing ending word hunger, so on balance, my actions are “net positive.” But the choice I actually made was to kick a puppy.

Now, I need to eat. So I have a choice: eat yummy food and don’t kill an animal, or eat yummier food and do kill and animal. The choice I’m effectively faced with is, “kill an animal for better taste.”

It’s totally up to you to decide if that is a good choice for you personally.

If course it’s not always so simple, and there are financial, cultural, and health reasons that complicate this. But for some folks (like myself) that’s kinda how I view it.

Property can take a while to close — offer to title in under 30 days is on the quick side.

Of course, you could probably close very fast if you offered 100M cash on a 10M property…

I just got one of the cheap Chromecast+Google TV things and I’m pleasantly surprised by the Jellyfin app.

UI is definitely sluggish on home screen.

Mitch Approved™

The next crowdstrike mistake could happen at any time…

Sounds like the tagline to an action movie.

Oh for their cloud services absolutely, you’re right.

“…today is opposite day.”

Colloquially, I’d use it to mean “requires physical access to fix.”

protected

Um, about that…

Yeah, something this big is absolutely not one engineer’s fault. Even if that engineer maliciously pushed an update, it’s not their fault — it was a complete failure of the organization, and one person having the ability to wreck havoc like this is the failure.

And I actually have some amount of hope that, in this case, it is being recognized as such.

Can you program some keyboard-presenting device to automate this? Still requires plugging in something of course…what a mess.

As much as it pains me to say it, it’s not really Microsoft at fault here, it’s CrowdStrike.

My Debian system was bricked when it “upgraded” to systemd.

Required attaching a monitor to a normally headless server to fix. (Turns out systemd treats fstab differently and can hang booting if USB drive isn’t attached.)

Steam, a 3rd party program, has nuked the home directory of users who didn’t really do anything wrong.

Programs have huge abilities to bork systems, be it Windows or Linux…

Probably coincidence? It sounds (???) like this is a pretty simple fix on Windows.

The number of times I have borked my Linux machines so they wouldn’t boot is, well, greater than zero for sure. Any operating system can be bricked to the point of requiring manual intervention by software with elevated privileges.

*The data do not lie

(I know, it’s acceptable to use it as is done in the title, but the cartoon dude seemed to me the sort of fellow who might have opinions about the Latin roots of words and whatnot.)