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  • My employer uses ubuntu for operations, and so I have experience using it in that settings. My thoughts:

    • It’s basically fine, it’s well-supported by third party PPAs (i.e., apt repos) so it’s generally possible to install arbitrary versions of popular open source daemons (e.g., postgres, redis), it’s been on systemd for a while, which despite some people’s criticisms, I find to Just Work, so I like it.
    • snap is annoying and I wish canonical would stop trying to make it a thing
    • apt’s default is to automatically enable and start daemon systemd units on installation, which IMO is highly questionable

    For desktop, I like Arch too much to use Ubuntu or any other fixed-release distro.



  • The purpose of VOA writing about this is manufacturing consent among the public for when the govt helicopter money starts pouring onto tech companies for “innovation” which will manifest as massive PR spend and share buybacks.

    Private capital has no national allegiance. If bolstering the u.s. tech sector doesn’t increase margins, it isn’t going to happen.




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    Bill Gates is a parasite. What he does with his monopoly spoils is donate them to his own foundations, which allows him to write off a huge amount of tax liability. He ultimately controls these foundations, therefore the funds are still under his control. The funds are being used to exert a huge amount of unipolar influence on global health (e.g., via the WHO), education (charter schools, circumventing public education), and from what I hear, arable land in the U.S.

    Philanthropy is no substitute for functioning public investment. Don’t cheer for bill gates.