Posts by very cowardly anonymous 13 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2021
In my extended range of acquaintances, which is several hundred of peoples, I am the only one who does photography as a hobby.
I do not use photoshop.
I do not use lightroom.
I use darktable.
I am subscribed to the school that the picture should be as close to perfect right out of the camera. So apart from lens corrections, some contrast, light level and black level stuff, I have no need to turn a camera picture into a photoshop painting.
I also know noone who uses Canon printers anymore. Because those that tried, got burned.
If I want to have a print of one of my photos, I order it. A3 or bigger.
Most people, really MOST use their boxes for:
youtube, instragram, facebook, netflix or amazon prime video, spotify, some puzzles and general browsing.
That's it.
And they do not need windows for that.
nah, I know not a single millenial who could write a bind config. With failover. Or deduce the reasons why a network is bombing out. The GenX and Boomers? They do.
Millenials know windows. And nothing else. GenZs know how to claw on smartphone screens. And nothing else. GenA can't even read more than three words in a row - and none must be longer than 8 characters - or they are in trouble.
AmigaBasic was imho very nice. And guess what it did not have: line numbers.
I always hated line numbers such an idiotic concept and waste of my time.
AmigaBasic had labels of course. But it does not fit your single minded agenda, so you chose to ignore it. A full, line number free basic on a 16/32 bit computer....
well, that again works in theory. And then in practice you have Program A needing libWTF.1.1, Program B needing libWTF.1.2. and Program C hard depending in libWTF.1.1.25-rc3-git0123456 which program A can not use because of a slight change in behaviour...
and so you load all three in your ram anyway.
and all this because of dynamic linking.
Why are we even doing it? It is a waste of ressources, a waste of time, it lowers security.
I know why it was introduced, but does it really have any benefits?
And don't start with 'oh, but with static linked you have to recompile everything' - so what? With dynamic linked execs you still have to recompile plenty of times - and with garbage like snap, flatpack, containers, you rebuilt THAT crap anyway. So what is heavier on a system? A container/snap/flatpak or a static linked exec? If you have to rebuild have of your apps anyway - why not static link in the first place? No dll hell. No linker leaks&hacks, faster startup, no ressource wastage on loading the same lib a gazillion times, because every snap/flatpak/container started brings its own copy...
Slackware was my second distribution.
Started with Suse 6.2 from a magazine cover. Then BOUGHT 6.2. The handbook was heavy and amazing.
Did some updates and around 7 I switched over to Slackware - out of curiosity mostly. But also Suse came with a lot of stuff I really did not want to have installed. And slackware didn't.
And I loved it.
Back then I was using a K6-2 400. On Suse building my own kernel made watching mpeg-2 bearable. On Slackware it was mostly fine.
But there was something that made it great: some group (swiss IIRC) provided optimized packages for Slackware! It helped a lot. Really a lot. From 'video stutters once in a while' to 'video never stutters' kind of improvements.
Which is probably why when I stumbled over gentoo 1.0. Switched over. Stayed there. Apart from a short 3 month stint when a nuked ssd and the need to install something ASAP made me use opensuse for a couple of weeks.
While I don't run Slackware anymore, I always remember it fondly and I am always tempted to install it again. What is holding me back is that my gentoo installation is so customized to my desires, that I am very, very reluctant to switch. Maybe the next time my root ssd dies....
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