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No, THE Unix is the original AT&T Unix from 1969. BSD is a derivative of that from the late 70s.

I was going by Wikipedia which calls NetBSD „Unix-like“ but to be honest I have very little BSD experience.

Correct. BSD is a separate family of operating systems. Like Linux, they are Unix-like but they use their own kernel(s). The original BSD is way older than Linux, I think from the 70s. These days, the most popular BSDs are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Darwin (the lower layers of macOS, originally based on FreeBSD)

It’s fine. Occasionally I feel like the performance is a bit worse (for example I need to set my energy profile to balanced to keep videos from stuttering while Vivaldi plays them fine on the lowest setting) but overall I am happy enough.

Hey, at least fax machines still work while Outlook is down.

Had that experience at a festival in Germany. Walked from my tent to the stage and someone came up to me to ask “Hey, do you know where Rick is?”. 40000 people at the festival, I had never seen that person in my life, but annoyingly, I did know who and where Rick was. He had walked past me just a couple of minutes earlier.

“The world thinks we are efficient and have no humor. In reality, our trains are a joke.”

Basically they don’t have the manpower to maintain a whole Chromium fork that still supports manifest v2. Even if they kept it in for a while, every upstream change might break things on their end.

It sucks and it’s the main reason why I recently switched from Vivaldi to Floorp, at least on some of my machines. Vivaldi’s ad blocker just isn’t comparable to uBlock Origin.

“Oh no, I sold my CPUs to a small Japanese company called Nintendo. 183 million handheld consoles may not be quite your league but I’m happy.”

The point is that you need to figure out which advice and criticism is useful. You shouldn’t dismiss everything but you shouldn’t accept everything either.

In my interpretation, this is not about “I know better than everyone else” but about “That person has hurt me so much in the past. Maybe I should not take their criticism to heart anymore.”

Have you considered https://givin.gifts/? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.

I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I’m happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.

Absolutely. I haven’t been told the final costs of the renovations yet but from what I’ve heard, they had to completely rip out everything from the room you can see in the background to get rid of the (lead-contaminated) soot.

Also, it was pure luck that everyone got out unharmed. I rent that place twice every year to spend a couple of days with friends who live all over Germany. One of them had all his stuff in the room behind the fire. The only reason he hadn’t been in there when the battery exploded was that the night before he hadn’t slept well on his air mattress and had moved to a couch upstairs. The room has a fire exit but depending on how fast he would have woken up, he might not have found it through the dense smoke.

Tell that to the person who wanted to be cheap and used a car battery.

Put it on a wooden shelf and let it sit. You certainly won’t regret it.

This is the aftermath of a spicy car battery that was used as backup power for some emergency lights in a community center. Blew up in the early morning, burned the plastering from the wall and covered the whole basement in smoke and soot. Fortunately someone was there and heard the fire alarm, otherwise the whole building would have burned down.

Because the original SE is the smallest somewhat modern phone you can get.

The Post title is literally „nutty putty“

Yeah, no, knowing what that comic references, that’s not a price I‘m willing to pay for therapy.

Avalonia offers an unoffical Linux backend for MAUI and there are some other less-maintained backends. I have tried neither of them (I really should) but they might work.

The nice thing about WPF, MAUI, Avalonia and Uno is that they are all extremely similar in concept to the point where you can sometimes just take an existing UI, change some namespaces and class names and get mostly what you want. (WinForms on the other hand is very different from all of them)

I would say the main downside of C++ is that it carries around a lot of baggage from the last 40 years. Even if you decide to use a modern standard in your own code, you’ll have to deal with libraries that can’t use many of the new features because they need to stay backwards compatible with old code bases. Also, a lot of tutorials and examples still look like they are from pre-C++11 times.

I recently started a project that would have been a great fit for C++ (simple 2D game engine + editor) but the way Qt has to reinvent half the standard library, GTK basically asks you to write plain C and gtkmm had some other issues that I can’t even remember, all the fun of working on the project was gone. I decided to switch to C# (which I use for work anyway) and Avalonia and so far it’s going well. Not being able to use C++ still nags at me anyway. I would have loved to get more comfortable with modern C++ but I just couldn’t keep up the motivation.

I’ll try again for the next project.

That’s so zero of you to say that