digdilem

GPSrs generally takes several readings over a period of time to get an accurate fix. Photographers like to not to have to wait for a minute or so before the shutter fires, so it would need to be running all the time.

As someone who works in an environment with many Windows and Linux VMs, I can pretty accurately state that Windows updates have caused far more critical problems than Linux ones over the past 2 or 3 years. Microsoft's Patch QC has been AWFUL. (Print Nightmare fixes caused ongoing problems that are still breaking printing. You mentioned the EFI change, there's also patching completely failing for machines that had too small a recovery partition. Fine if there was none, or it was large, but all updates fail after that if your machine has a partition that Windows itself silently created.) There's literally dozens of major Windows update failures recently.

As you say, shit happens. Paying for something doesn't make that any less.

Fedora is a fork of Red Hat, the same way Ubuntu is a fork of debian.

I think you've got your ordering and terms a bit confused, there. There's no forking as such going on in the EL ecosystem.

To explain it as simply as I can, as there are quite a few people mixing this up in here.

Fedora is *upstream *of Red Hat (Or RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to be exact - Redhat is a company owned by IBM that does a bunch of stuff, not just RHEL).

Fedora feeds into CentOS Stream (Essentially a staging area for RHEL). This has no relation to CentOS Linux, which is dead.

RHEL is then built from CS at point releases and sold commercially through licencing.

There are distros such as Rocky, Alma, Oracle Enterprise Linux and possibly some smaller ones that strive to be near exact clones of RHEL (Rocky claims bug-for-bug compatibility, Alma doesn't any more as they build in a different way) - these follow RHEL's point releases, and might be considered a poor and loose definition of forking, but rebuilding is a more accurate term.

All these distros are under the blanket term of "Enterprise Linux" because it's shaped around RHEL, even though most are free. Historically this worked well, as people learned Enterprise skills using Fedora and Centos Linux which turned into careers (including for me). Then Redhat went a bit mad and that all changed.

The only similarity to Debian/Ubuntu is that Ubuntu uses Debian as a base, and builds upon it. Like RHEL, it adds commercially licenced bits to its distro and rebuilds other parts into something unique, and like RHEL, Rocky, Alma and OEL do with Fedora, it feeds back improvements and development into Debian.

Have you played War for the Overworld? Based on DK but reworked and (imo at least) improved

War for the Overworld (I have many thousands of hours in this)

Settlers 2 Gold

(Both the above have a lot of user generated maps, which has given them most of their longevity.)

Factorio

I'm pretty sure he's using Twitter as some sort of home project science experiment.

The amount of sheer hate and vitriol I was getting ramped up hugely in recent months - the algorithm is definitely promoting hate, despite my almost never replying/posting. Lots and lots of far right political content also, it really didn't feel random.

I bailed a couple of weeks ago.

I'm not in the US - and who was talking about genocide? We're talking about tax and it's software here.

Bad? It's a couple of decisions made by organisations or politicians who are ignorant of free software alternatives and open standards.

Certainly better than the US's tax system, where you have to pay to file your taxes or at the least, have to spend a lot of your time working out complex tax submissions each year.

In the UK, your income tax is automatically paid by your employer when you earn it. Unless you're self employed - or doing your own business accounts like OP, you don't have to submit any tax information, ever.

I think you have to be exceptionally strong to resist this sort of thing. You can justify sponsorship in a hundred ways - not least to yourself. But in every case, it changes everything. That, of course, is why companies spend money influencing the influencers.

Buyer beware, as always.

No - it's the kernel image - the actual operating system, rather than a service that runs on top of it.

If you just want to restart your ssh service after updating the packages, then "systemctl restart sshd" is all that's needed, although you should probably reboot whenever the package manager suggests as a general good habit.

Well, that's this afternoon planned then.

Because choosing a distro to begin with isn't easy. Ask ten people and you'll get eleven suggestions.