They're not dumb, they're _intentionally_ socializing the cost of using OSS so that they don't have to fix the problems they "find" that affect them.

When War for the Over world first came out I sent them stack traces for some crashes and they really seemed to appreciate that. I can't remember if it was them or someone else, but somebody said something like "Linux users may be 1% of your users, but they provide 99% of your actionable bug reports".

It's called a "win-win" scenario, either you make your work go faster or they can fire you. Either way they win.

They broke the unattended upgrade facility and didn't seem to care, so "yes".

If you are running 32-bit wine then you can run 16-bit programs, though they are working on bringing 16-bit support to 64-bit wine.

Be careful what you wish for, an executive order against "subversive research" would not be totally unexpected given how things are going right now. But I don't know that it would throw the people you want in jail...

Well, when you have all your code generated by an AI code generator, reviewed by an AI code analyzer, and approved by an AI manager then what exactly do you expect?

The requirements are the things that people can think of ahead of time, and they always contain glaring problems. It is inevitable that someone will have a "shower epiphany" at some point and share it with their colleagues. When these discussions happen in person then there's a discussion about how important it is, whether it rises to the level of an ECR, NCR, or other documentation mechanism, and what to do about it next. I have seen myself that when this happens in Teams chats that _usually_ someone from PMO intervenes immediately and says that we don't have the budget to address the issue and don't you dare spend any more time on it.

Yeah, I think it would be far more likely that they would offer publishers a slightly reduced fee. "Instead of charging you 30%, we'll charge 25% if you make it work on Linux".

And for the ones who have families, moving the family is the wife's job ... and she can move or quit ;)

Thanks, I think that was the first "real" laptop we had in the house - before that it was a "luggable" ;). I'll have to ask my dad if he remembers the model number.

That laptop looks really familiar, but I can't quite place it. You mind sharing the model?

The ACP has collected funds and did not connect a single customer.

"Sure". If you replace a previous program called the "Emergency Broadband Program" and define all the connections of that program as not being "new connections". Then when you're done with that also play statistical jujitsu to "correct" for all the connections that should be expected over the time period. After that you can totally say that you connected nobody with a straight face. </sarcasm>

The soundtrack for the old LucasArts game Outlaws was _amazing_ ( https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... ). I was so impressed by the way that they did that as a mixed mode CD that I filed it away as a "cool trick" that I remember to this day.

You may remember that they do retire longterm kernels earlier than they would like to due to limited resources.

These days they actually transfer things over to a different team run by the Civil Infrastructure Program and they supply back-ported fixes for the "Super" LTS kernels. So, sure K-H only has so much support for LTS (and he would like to support them longer) - but there's also SLTS kernels if you want something to last for 10 years.