There’s literally no good reason to replace it with a shell script on a website.
I fully agree that a package manager repository with all those tools would be preferable, but it doesn't exist, does it? I mean... content is king. If the only way to get a certain program or functionality is a shell script on a website, then of course that's what is going to be used.
On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.
Huh, "sailors" indeed. I can honestly say that I hadn't noticed this was about boats up until now.
apples aren’t notorious for large quantities of it anyway.
Yeah, I'll concede that.
But again, long storage is not just feasible but relatively trivial - a cool basement, harvest before ripe, many months of apples to be had. Maybe it depends on the cultivar? Either way, for most of human existence in seasonally cold climates, storage simply was the only way for having access to fruit during winter and early spring.
Your body only needs tiny amounts of Vitamin C and you can easily store fruit like apples for more than half a year without refrigeration.
or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…
Isn't that just GPS in reverse? I mean, same equation, different dependent variable 😁
2024-01.zim is unfortunately still the most current en_all_maxi Wikipedia version :(
Still obviously a recommendation though. I've been running it on my phone for a while now. Not requiring internet access and being able to still look up basically anything is pretty amazing.
Well, I didn't regret reading the article, I'll probably even recommend it to others...
It would be strange if we were having a big national conversation about limiting YouTube watching or never buying books or avoiding uploading more than 30 photos to social media at once for the sake of the climate.
... but I'm certainly a bit amused over how often the author just stumbles into a natural segue to an anti-consumerism rant and then just... takes a U-turn 🤦
On an only vaguely related note: Gravelines is a beautiful little fortress city, definitely worth a visit!
Thank you kindly, stranger! It wouldn’t surprise me though if we shared one view or another, I’m aware that corporations and rich people either find a way out of paying fines or that those fines are a set amount instead of a percentage of their wealth, which will always be devastating to poor folks and barely a scratch to the financially unchallenged.
Well, we'd be agreeing on that as well then. But don't thank me for just barely adhering to baseline discourse ettiquette, I'd say that sets the wrong expectation :P
I know a lot of people like buying used drives but the ones for sale are usually loud enterprise edition drives which won’t work for me. Should I buy the drives now or wait until BF for a possibly better sale?
HDD prices haven't really moved in any meaningful way over the course of the past years and I don't recall them ever moving significantly even during special promotions (short of pricing errors). I strongly suggest to treat high-capacity hard drives as the luxury consumables that they are and just buy them as needed. Unless you particularly enjoy bargain hunting as a passtime I really don't think it's worth the effort and opportunity costs in this particular context.
Fair, I guess.
Whether there's a setup wizard doesn't have anything to do with whether the tool comes from a package manager or not. Run "apt install ddclient", for example, it'll immediately guide you through all configuration steps for the program instead of just dumping a binary and some config text files in /etc/.
So that's not the bottleneck or contradiction here. It's just very unfortunate that setup wizards are not very popular as soon as you leave Windows and OSX ecosystems.