mduggles

My information might be old. I haven’t worked on a Windows application in 5+ years. At that point you couldn’t.

On Windows it isn't possible to remove or rename files and directories that are being used. In order to handle this, you typically have to run some sort of helper application outside of the installation directory. This renames the existing installation directory to a new directory with ".tmp" (often, not always, but this is my guess). If that rename operation fails in the middle of the operation because a file being opened, either by another process or sometimes by an add-on, then the background update fails.

On Mac and Linux it's less complicated which is why they never get the "download the new version" prompt, but Chrome and Firefox have evolved systems for managing how these silent updates work. On Chrome the update button you talk talking about means you haven't closed the browser in awhile. If you see green that means an update has been available for 2 days, orange – 4 days and red – 7 or more days.

My guess is that you are encountering a situation in which the Chrome background helper can't successfully run the update process and then asks you to download the whole thing again so they don't need to rely on the updater and can just move your user files over.

I mean my intention was to go pure, hence finding the Docker IPv6 registry and doing the IPv6 stuff with the bridge interface.

My hope is folks know of workarounds and I’ll do them and update the post.

Backporting packages is a time-consuming process that actually requires skill. It is insane to expect people to do that for free on a volunteer basis because it makes your situation easier, especially as backporting gets harder the longer you go. RHEL offers 10 years, it costs money, that's your option. Or you pay for the staff to monitor and backport to your particular distro and foot the bill.

It's also maddening to present the issue as "our time is expensive and your time is free". If your field is unable to commit any work at all to updates, fine. UBI Micro is as small as its gonna get and moves everything difficult to the host. That could conceivably run for 15 years if you are careful with how you build it.

Glad they laid off all those employees to get ready for the lean economic times.

Alpine’s use of musl means only the truly insane would be leaping to its defense. The inability to support DNS over TCP was a problem for years. Outside of that, so many things presuppose glibc. It’s an endless source of weird.

It doesn’t make the news cause it’s a hobby os that was made important when we decided the size of the container mattered most.

Debian at home, Debian at work.

I’ve never read an author who liked his own writing as much as this fellow. I had a couple of issues with it.

- You have to accept that the concept of “the left” is in deep trouble and the root of this trouble is that it has a strict definition of itself that doesn’t include well-meaning folks like conservative religious folks.

- That a figure like Hitchens registers on the scale of “moving political systems”. I personally don’t care if a philosopher who writes mostly about religion believes in the invasion of Iraq.

It read like a lot of words to get to “secular liberal governments are actually bad and we need to embrace conservative values because rust belt”. If I missed some crucial point let me know.

Typically chatbots that I interact with are just attempting to steer me back towards FAQs. I don’t need a different interface to search your documentation in an attempt to keep me on the cheap customer service path and away from the expensive customer service path.

Which isn’t to say they can’t be helpful. I’d much rather chat with a bot than call a person, if the bot is capable of doing the things I need. The thing is nobody seems willing to let the system actually do anything except escalate to a person, so why bother?

Love mine. Works great, just swapped the joysticks out for Hall effect ones with zero drift (but higher power usage). It’s the Nintendo switch if it was designed by people who understood how accounts worked in 2023.