@mhoye@CosmicTraveler@jannem while many people do trips like that doctors and highway safety engineers tell you not to. Take longes breaks for health and safety.
Development isn't mysteriously becoming deskilled. It is actively being directed, to manage the employment market, by the largest players in that market.
"Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end users who volunteer to be taken advantage of. What makes the McRib different from this everyday horror is that a) McDonald’s is huge to the point that it’s more useful to think of it as a company trading in commodities than it is to think of it as a chain of restaurants b) it is made of pork [...]"
My pleas for the open software world to remember that one person in front of one computer is a constituency that matters are as much about that seemingly forgotten constituency as it is about the negative space around it, all the agency over how we grow and value ourselves that's handed off to machines churning out limited-liability slurry, made of the interchangeable molded parts we've unknowingly die-cast ourselves into.
There's also code built into printers, scanners and close-source image editors programs that recognizes currency and prevents you from scanning, printing or manipulating images of money.
Remember, there's no such thing as "printers" or "scanners". There are only computers, often network-connected, that happen to have printing and scanning features.
Question: is there a linux installer out there that makes some effort to save or recover data from the target system?
I feel like an installer that branched off into something like, "backup one or more user accounts", "take a drive snapshot" or "please run PhotoRec" would be extremely welcome by people nervous about their first Linux install, I've just never seen anything like that. It's always "yup we're gonna just burn this to the ground and pave over it."
@mhoye IIRC the Fedora installer allows you to pick existing partitions/subvolume and chose which ones to delete. It's not something a first user would do, but it could be surfaced in a better way, e.g.: "We have noticed you already have a /home partition/subvolume, do you want to mount it instead of formatting it?"
The article I was looking for a while ago about the feel of cutting - "kireaji", sometimes translated as the "flavor of cutting" - was this, from TW Lim, called "Forming An Edge"
Toronto friends: is any sort of industrial or commercial space out here always like $20/sqft/mo and always up in the thousands of square foot range? Does anyone rent out, like, 300sqft industrial spaces for non bonkers money?
"Every empire's fall begins with a peasant's hunger" is far too powerful a line to be a half-misquoted remark from a middling comic book villain in a middling comic book.
I'm generally in favor of nationalizing and dismantling companies if remediating the damage they've done to the world will cost more than they're worth.