Comments on: Ubuntu is a worse piece of shit than MS-DOS ever was.

By: Crashproofing bitcoind, the easy and the not-so-easy « Fixpoint

Crashproofing bitcoind, the easy and the not-so-easy « Fixpoint — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 06:45:44 +0000

[...] OK so... now what?! Game over, sorry for your loss. Would you like to play again, starting from the genesis block of 2009? I swear, the filesystem wasn't this bad in Windows 98 and I'd bet it wasn't in MS-DOS either. [...]

By: Desperation in desolation ; Or, the woes of the contemporary entrepreneur ; Or, what came of my first attempt at running the second generation Eulora client. Ornery, in any case. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 16:27:02 +0000

[...] first attempt occured on a moderni Debian upon which I attempted to install a heftyii list of "needed" packages, which broadly succeedediii. The idea was to proceed with our own, gnat-based build [...]

By: Desperation in desolation ; Or, the woes of the contemporary entrepreneur ; Or, what came of my first attempt at running the second generation Eulora client. Ornery, in any case. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:34:18 +0000

[...] first attempt occured on a moderni Debian upon which I attempted to install a heftyii list of "needed" packages, which broadly succeedediii. The ideea was to proceed with our own, gnat-based build [...]

By: The thumbs up and other dents in the substrate of perception on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 02:08:57 +0000

[...] browsers", as fucking if anything besides lynx can meaningfully exist in that space, and a pile of dangling dependencies, incidental & accidental complexity and assorted this-dumbest-generation-of-morons byproducts [...]

By: Mircea Popescu

Mircea Popescu — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:00:11 +0000

There's loads and loads of this type of problem, coming from the very nature of "open source" bullshit, as it's extremely friable and structurally incapable of dealing with complexity. Lulz like "the built-in net card that can't be used because the OS doesn't know how to get it out of power-saving mode" (which sounds a lot like what may be the problem with your card, at that) etcetera etcetera. They "fixed" something somewhere breaking something else somewhere else in the process, because nobody tests anything nor would they know what (or how) if they somehow wanted to, and so on.