I hate replying to myself, but I have a dedicated mythtv backend and four frontends (bedroom TV, living room TV, exercise room TV, and my laptop) that allows to to watch live TV/share recordings. Something the local cable company started proudly advertising a couple years ago, while it's existed quite some time before that in the linux world. Wow! My TV costs are now about $2.30 a month for the guide data so I can schedule recordings, and I find that perfectly reasonable.

I cut the cord four years ago. When I moved into my new place I had nothing but trouble with cable (half the time half my channels wouldn't work.) Umpteen tech visits later, I even had three different techs say the cable from the street to my house was damaged (underground cabling in my neighbourhood.) I was actually injured and basically bedridden at the time and it was basically the only thing I could use other than my laptop occasionally (weight on my legs = killer pain.) Anyway, they didn't want to fix the damn wire and they were surprised I cancelled the service???

About six months later I read about the digital OTA service (I've always known about the analog service.) It was kind of in testing mode (not all stations moved over) but I figured I should give it a shot. Due to my distance from the tower I've had to raise my antenna to about thirty feet, but I got 6 or so full HD channels. The first thing I noticed that was in high-motion movement there was NO pixelation, unlike my cable connection.

So I started telling people at work they didn't have to spend $1200-$1500 to get TV and almost all were in disbelief. Some would say "but I can't get channel X". I guess they've decided that one channel is worth $150/month, but I think they're crazy.

A lady at work the other day didn't seem to know that one could still receive over-the-air broadcasts for television. I wonder how many people don't realize this and are paying for TV that they don't want or need.

I was over at a young coworker/friend and I was telling him about it. His wife's eyes grew really big and she stated "You're STEALING TV?"

Sigggghhhh............

The new generation grew up thinking they have to pay out the arse for TV and grew up thinking this was perfectly normal.

Yes, but as a bonus it's also a lot less likely to bend!

I'm also in Canada and have true unlimited 25/5 for $75/month. However, I pay extra for actually having unlimited bandwidth, an extra $10/month.

On a heavily IO-bound server this latency can matter.

I don't know about the good design and performance part - wasn't it not too long ago that there were a plethora of overheating MacBook Pros? I think it was even posted on slashdot...

You can't shove a microscope up someone's ass and just observe why a particular diet is having a particular effect.

Aww, really? I think everyone would like to get to the bottom of this!

What I can't figure out is that we have things available that can strip paint off of cars. So what do we do? We drink it. Yeeeah, that sound really smart. :-)

Yes, there are a lot of USE flags, but this is part of the extreme flexibility gentoo's package management offers. I have tried to use other distros several times but I always wind up returning to gentoo for the package management flexibility. Remember heartbleed? All I had to do was toggle a USE flag to disable the tls heartbeat and recompile openssl immediately. It was patched eventually, of course, and it could be reenabled again. However, as far as I know, other distros had no easy way to do this, unless you had source tools and did things outside of the package management system for the distro.

There are a lot of USE flags that are shared between lots of packages and this can be enabled globally if need be (thinking of things like printing support, hardware video acceleration, etc.) There are ways to deal with USE flags.

1. First, get the base system running (no gui, just get it so you can login to a shell.)
2. Set a profile (use `eselect profile list` to show them, and `eselect profile set x to set one.)
3. Use `emerge --info` to set what flags are used.
4. Use `emerge -pnuDN world` to see which packages will be compiled. USE flags triggering the change will be highlighted.
5. If you're wondering what a specific USE flag is doing with a package, use `equery uses <package>` to check. equery is in the gentoolkit package.

If you need changes it is better to set USE flags for individual packages as someone else posted.

Yes, this takes a while to set up but once it's done you will know what you need and it can be noted somewhere.

- Don't be afraid of package.keywords, especially for very specific use flags.

Another long-time gentoo user here - the above file is used for mixing stable and unstable/testing packages. I'm sure the parent meant package.use.

Another thing to note is portage has a built-in way to deal with patches that happen outside of ebuilds, you simply create a directory specific to the package that needs patching and drop the patches in it, and portage will automatically use the patches. This is extremely handy for a system maintainer as you don't need to edit ebuilds.

Google has confirmed the older Nexus 7 is getting the update. I actually just read this earlier today. I actually have the Nexus 7 (2012) so am looking forward to the update.

Lennart has a consistent track record of releasing code that breaks the world and then blaming the breakage on the users and distros not using his masterpieces correctly.

Hmm, was his previous employer Apple by any chance?

My grocery store recently (well, a few months ago now) got rid of the loyalty program. You don't need a card to get the advertised prices. Maybe they found out it cost way too much to run?

Question for you: if I have a Linux server and install KDE on it, or X - would you name it a "Desktop"? Or is it still a server? Or both? I'm confused.

How about a sertop? Or deskver?

No, they'd give up waiting for portage to sort out dependencies. It reminds me of Windows XP before Microsoft patched it to not take 45 minutes to search for updates.