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Really wishing I would have realized that before buying my Sony Bravia TV a few years ago. It's basically just an output device for my Roku, I don't want/need any of the built-in smart TV junk but a recent update now causes it to reboot just about every time I turn it on.

The reboot process takes almost a full minute, but at least the SONY logo emblazoned on the screen during that time has hopefully given me a Pavlovian aversion to their brand so that I won't make the same mistake again.

Could someone explain the difference between SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19? Is the former the virus and the latter the infection?

I wouldn't count out a company based solely on a poorly-written job description. Those are often put together by less-technical recruiters or the HR department. And yeah, maybe the team that's hiring should be more involved in the actual job posting, but the whole hiring process is such a huge PITA and time-suck that they're too happy to hand off whatever part they can.

> Awesome. Now what does all that mean in English?

Well, simply put:

  [ccebb 677ce 28f77 86558 2d7cc d67b4 e8f31 8c393 ae867 13593 aa869 3c265],
  [c0021 72510 cee7a 31580 554d3 d49a6 306b9 c1f2c 60c1a 1157c f44c8 31273],
  [682f2 6a4df dc970 3c106 2107c 3dfd5 1506a 6f1b5 af428 829f8 11d06 797dc],
  [d6f84 25e73 76558 6feb0 c67d4 fcc73 b5c8d af4db 2f647 82247 852e7 fc010],
  [f08a8 2ed8f c71bb 12043 5f0f9 190c8 f2ae8 7b30a 4a574 269d0 03be0 a363c],
  [b38c2 10031 37ada 504a8 f2919 3b82b 258fc 5673f c939c a0ef1 46be5 a50d6],
  [93fcd e19f7 0558f e01a6 8beb1 d54b9 9ad20 d6185 adf9b 876a1 a1a94 c9197],
  [92b49 ed290 7a072 fdf1d a61a8 65124 a2025 27153 afa71 a27db 29a2a e5b47],
  [2793f 7171f b18c9 e1945 d31d5 edb66 a1ee0 d9982 e8442 7795d bd4e4 30b41]

Fairly certain that's his wife. He's made a couple mentions of her as "the young and lovely" Mary Alyce and I vaguely recall once that he specifically discussed shooting the photo for that banner and mentioned her.

> I’m not married to an editor so much as my bindings.

Agreed, and it's extremely annoying that VS Code has different default bindings on different platforms. I switch between Windows and Linux a lot and there's no simple way to e.g. say "use the default Windows bindings on Linux" or vice-versa.

I have to manually create my own keybindings and then copy them to every machine and then bother with keeping them in sync.

Yes, agreed. In general I guess my point is, I'm not willing to spend several more years of my life while they continually rearrange things that don't matter. I just want a stable, well-supported distro that gets out of my way.

The time cost of switching has still been high enough that I haven't looked elsewhere, but that barrier is approaching...

> we'call it ip for ... "internet protocol"? Why is this ip tool managing my ethernet network card?

For CLI tools I use every day, their etymology is far less important to me than their brevity. "ip" suits the bill quite nicely.

Yeah, the name-before-argument thing can be annoying though, but again, at least they're all short.

In other words, they've made a lot of big changes right before an LTS version so that they can get wider usage with those who don't mind being on the bleeding edge. Sounds like they're doing it right :)

I'm putting a lot of hope into 18.04. Been using Ubuntu for over a decade now and my happiness with it has been steadily decreasing. Mostly at this point due to very laggy graphics performance (whether using OSS or closed drivers) on a system that should be very fast.

If 18.04 isn't awesome I'm moving on to something else. So I'm glad to see they're breaking some eggs with 17.10!