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Finely balanced between upvotes for pointing out how bloated modern software is and downvotes from people who make their living writing modern software.

Also, I have a long tail.

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Comment · 19 days ago
I liked their old advert about how the 2CV had an automatic sunroof: "You automatically open it when the sun is shining".
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Comment · 1 month ago
"How was I supposed to know it was full of air?" :)
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Comment · 1 month ago
More of us than you think (and often by preference rather than cost).

Current main travel laptop is a T420, backed by a T520 w/nvidia when needed (older T41s, T60's lying around). Both work fine with linux & modern browsers (the T420 is particular has great battery life).

Comment · 1 month ago
Somewhat along the same lines, as I regularly SSH to other hosts with the same network filesystem mounts, 'scd' starts an SSH session on a remote host in the same directory.

  #!/bin/bash
  # SSH to remote system and change into same (current) directory
  DIR=$(pwd)
  ssh -t $1 "cd $DIR; bash -l -i"
Comment · 1 month ago
That's actually XON/XOFF - in the old days when computers could send serial data to your VT100 or whatever faster than it could handle it (and we're talking 9600 baud here), the terminal would send XOFF (ctrl-S) telling the computer to stop sending - then, when the terminal caught up, it would send XON (ctrl-Q) to let the system know it could resume sending.

The advantage of doing it this way ('software flow control') is it worked with just TX and RX lines, rather than having to connect up additional wires to indicate when the terminal was busy ('hardware flow control').

Comment · 2 months ago
In this particular case, the main stream parties did not take part (i.e. field candidates) because the current MP (Farage) resigned just to retake his own seat - basically trying to distract from his dodgy dealings with crypto bros and convicted fraudsters.

I would have voted Count Binface too (as the least absurd candidate).

Comment · 2 months ago
On Debian, install rsyslogd instead - it's that simple.
Comment · 2 months ago
And still does. I generally replace journald with rsyslogd on systemd setups.

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