You do need t have to worry about me touching your Bud, or any for that matterâ¦.

Very nice to see DSL restarting as a project. Back in the day I used it a lot. It was quite easy to roll your own version of it. I did that quite a lot. There was a very nice feature which I think was called frugal install. This allowed you to install it to HD and boot in a similar way as the CD or USB stick would boot. So effectively boot from a read-only filesystem. For instance interesting for some system used in a public setting where it is an important feature that after a reboot it is 'clean' again. Also it could be loaded completely into memory (provided you had enough)

Recently I was looking in to doing similar and, as DSL was no longer active, I created scripts that allow you to create your own custom .iso based on Debian. They work, can be found here: https://gitlab.com/customlivecd/customlivecd . So I know from experience what a challenge it is to create such a thing at around 700 mb. A basic system will quickly go over 1GB

From DSL I did copy the concept of Frugal install as well, so you can create your own custom (personalized) .iso that you can install to i.e. an SSD. I also added the option to encrypt your home dir.

What I am trying to get to work now is to include the use of a Yubikey (or other u2f device). However pamu2fcfg seems to not be chroot safe. After booting from an .iso where I enrolled a Yubikey during the creation the key isn't found.

So in all, I am happy to see DSL reactivated. Will definitely play around with it

That's true. I've got a Nokia 8210 4G (a retro feature phone). It thinks it is connected to my car kit via Bluetooth but it doesn't work. Battery time is also not as good as expected. But at least since they are abandoning 2g here, it works on modern networks. It looks like the good old solid Nokia, but it is definitely less quality.

I use it in a hybrid fashion. For work I need a smartphone. When working I use that. The Nokia has a cheap prepaid sim. I've set the work phone to forward calls after 5 times (*61 option). When I'm free I only take the feature phone with me. If they really need me they can reach me, all other stuff I don't see
The reason I do this is, since I did notice that when I was away I really did look at the smartphone way too much. Started with smartphones with the first Android (G1 developers edition). If you are in public place these days, look around. Most people are hunched over looking at their phone. If they are talking to people, every notification and they'll be distracted.

To each his own, but I find it quite relaxing to be without it. The one thing I do miss is maps though, but I am old enough to be able to find my way without.

Me too, since almost a decade, although the trigger was not the root kit episod. The final straw for me was that after a firmware update for a TV (that was needed to solve an issue during the startup phase) I could no longer watch HD DVB-C channels. Downgrading was not possible as they stated 'We don't support downgrades as we want the customers to have the best experience'..... Funny though that I find HD channels a better experience. And no newer firmware would ever be released as they were not selling this model anymore.
Basically, as soon as they can't make any money on a product anymore they don't care. This was not my only issue with Sony, but ever since I have never bought another Sony product.

Hey, the bullhorn up front won't stay on if you go much faster

True ai first needs to learn how to play golfâ¦.

same here on Linux. I also tried the rom for Parallel Worlds, but as expected that didn't work.

I have bought the game a few times, including on the SNES mini, and on the DS3. If they released it on the switch similar to what they did with Link's awakening I'd buy it again on the day of release.
I really never got into the 3d Zelda's and keep playing the old ones and custom roms.

So say we all

Painfully slow? Remember âoepress play on tapeâ ? I was so jealous of my friends that had a floppy drive with their c64. Those 5,25 inch floppies were so fast!

You're right. I checked https://slashdot.org/~ZiggyZig... and it says:

ZiggyZiggyZig (5490070) is all alone in the world.

I wouldn't underestimate how fast technology can develop. I'm 52, When I was young, we didn't even have a calculator in the house (portable calculators became commonplace when I was about 10) and look where we are now. Having said that, it's true that there are some major hurdles to overcome. Everyone seems focused on safety, but that may not be the hardest part. Getting to a point where a car using FSD can go through the centre of Amsterdam nearly as fast as a human driver is much harder. Achieving that it doesn't run into someone can probably be done, but preventing that it ends up in a deadlock within a few minutes not so much.
I'm looking at what insurance companies will do. The bean counters don't care, they eventually will only look at something like liability per driven mile. And if liability and the cost to the insurance companies is determined equally compared to human drivers, it will give a much more objective verdict on what is safer.

I am hoping though that we'll get there. I have seen too many people still driving at an age when they really should have stopped. If they're lucky they are only a nuisance to other drivers and don't end up hurting others. I hope that when I get to that age, which is just a few decades away, FSD is real and I can hand over the wheel to AI.
The moment an FSD car can get safely and nearly as fast as a human driver throught the city centre of Amsterdam, I'll open a bottle to celebrate. When I'm allowed to have it take me home after drinking I'll open a few more ;-)

Or Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation?

Luck is a factor, but luck alone is not enough in my experience. What I think is needed:

1) luck. Okay, you do need luck as well. Someone I know started a company and straight away got to create a team of freelancers for government and be the billing partner. He took an obscene percentage and this how he quickly got major cash to build his company. He really believes he is all that, but I have never noticed an original thought in him. His 'skill' is cashing in on whatever fad IT managers now believe in. He does well, but I don't seem him reach the level of success the great ones have.
2) risk appetite. You have to be able to risk it all. That is especially hard if you have already achieved something and have a well paying job. The more comfortable you already already are, the less appealing it is to jeopardize it. Musk could, after the sale of Paypal, retire very comfortably. He did not, in fact he very much risked what he had on multiple occasions.
3) 'hard' work. It is not so much that every hour counts and should do everything yourself. Far from it, hard working people that don't delegate don't get rich. It means that you have to always put work first. Evenings, weekends, no signing of at Friday 17:00h for beers. There is period when life is put on hold.
4) be ruthless when needed. Don't keep your best friends around if they are not really contributing.
5) be technical enough to understand what you're building. You have to make the right decisions. You don't have to be the best software developer, but you need to have the discussions with the developers at their level.
6) understand the business side. The coolest tech does not mean you get rich.

Decades ago I tried to build some internet services with some others. We failed, not because our ideas were bad, in fact others have gotten rich doing exactly what we tried to build. Most successful ideas are usually not that unique. Speaking for myself, I lacked the risk appetite and was not prepared to put life on hold.

Having said that, definitely hard work alone won't get you rich.

It actually can, the fact that you can self host (or pay another party to host for you) will mean that if this company stops providing the service, or gets too expensive or you want to stop doing business them for some other reason, you have options. That also means they have to remain competitive.

This is not for people getting in to software development. As far as I can tell, MS Excel is one of the most used tools in business. Some more advanced users use MS Access. It serves a purpose but, especially for MS Excel, ones it gets shared it gets to be a mess. You can't work on something simultaneously, different versions crop up, people working on copies etc.
People want a tool that helps them with their job. That job is not being a software developer. To some degree the no (or low) code system fill that gap.
The risk however is that they actually start building apps that get to big and you start to run into the limitations of such a system. Then if it needs to be rebuild into something professional, they don't understand why it has to take 'so long' to rebuild the functionality they already had.

I'm not a fan, but I dislike the overuse of Excel more than these systems.

I have one of those on my 10 years old Prius. It came with the sun roof (sun roof in the front, and over the backseats there solar panels powering the fan). Most likely I'll get a new car somewhere next year. The fan running on the solar panels is the feature I will miss the most. The more sunlight, the harder the fan works. It is not an air conditioning so when it gets really hot, the car still gets hot only never unbearable hot. They discontinued this fairly quick. My guess is that people expected too much, as in air conditioning cool. But I would definitely pay again for this option.
Parking it in the shade is better, but that is not always an option.