they call it the giggle button because you walk up to it and giggle

this sounds like the beginning of a wonderful prank

they'll taste like disappointment

This is entirely valid and I'm feeling the same.

It's not just frustrating or exhausting, it's this deep existential terror I feel.

Living in a society with near-universal literacy is one of the privileges that come with living in America. And now there's a possibility that becomes a thing of the past.

I love to get in arguments online, and something I increasingly see is something like this:

incomprehensible bullshit

Frankly, this is incomprehensible. I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Surely you'd agree it's never acceptable to poison children?

cringe, you know you lost the argument when you need to break out the thesaurus 🙄

... Come on, I am using common English words in simple sentence structures.

It's so disheartening! It might have been worse, but it makes me miss the time when someone could say "you made a spelling mistake; your argument is invalid".

I think I made myself pretty clear.

youre never alone in this journey 🫂

and camed my pants

We was lookin for some fellas to do a job, see. We's thought ya mighta wanted a piece of the action, see.

A psychedelic will be impregnated into the very plastic of the cart; after sucking on it for a few seconds you play the game and taste and smell-o-vision according to cues from gameplay.

Pardon?

Different for each game. Mario Kart: rubber. Zelda: leather. Splatoon: paint.

this is assuming the only thing the server is running is linux apache mysql and php; but you'd just write your PHP code and create a package like an RPM or what have you, that deploys it to the right place, and your configs for the rest of things would also either be their own packages, or managed by some script or puppet.

It all depends i guess. I suppose it probably is much easier to manage if you just compose some images, than if you say "you gotta configure the machine" because if you can abstract away much of that stuff into containers then you're not stuck on one distro of linux, so i get why people use docker (which I call dorker btw).

a bandaid for having too many dependencies or a workaround for people who don't want to make their software easy to deploy

I'd be curious to ask this; what could someone using a LAMP-like stack do to improve on things? I kind of thought that dependency problems were inherent to this kind of stack.

E.g. Postmill uses Postgres and PHP. Short of rewriting the PHP part in Rust or Go (which is an extreme length but would produce a mostly-static binary), or using another isolation tool like AppImage or Flatpak, I don't know any way it could be easier to deploy.

I really am asking from curiosity-- I moved to Docker because of frustration with LAMP-likes. (Shaking my fist at Nextcloud)

the bad news is both companies are in their enshittification stage, paywalling features and trying to sell you crappy ai shit

Awh, I was really hoping this was just Docker advertising itself as good for deploying AI. Running neural networks usually means running Python, and Python package management with CUDA is so hard that (in practice) you'll just see people providing a Docker container. Some kind of "Docker AI Hub" would make sense as a product.

Looked it up, nope, it's "we'll generate your Dockerfile for you!" which is very very stupid :(

but when i've tried using podman for postmill development, it crashed, and for deploying services, i couldn't get ansible to work with it. which is weird, because ansible is also a red hat product.

Oh yeah, this was my experience too (sans ansible). I wanted to use Podman for the same reasons you listed.

Actually, according to my notes, first I tried setting up a Conduwuit server to get connected to the Matrix using Podman. So, that's two marks against it. Which is strange, since it should be the same API around the same Linux tools, where the only difference is the containers can't use root, which they shouldn't be doing anyways...

I do think containers are a bandaid for having too many dependencies or a workaround for people who don't want to make their software easy to deploy. Like you shouldn't have to ship an entire inner OS with runtime and everything, it should just compile and run. Sometimes that's not feasible for valid reasons, but often it's a way to get away with having a bad release process or having your software too complicated to set up.

I dislike that it's tied to a Company

well the good news is that thanks to oci, it's tied to two companies, the other being red hat with podman

the bad news is both companies are in their enshittification stage, paywalling features and trying to sell you crappy ai shit

anyway, in theory i like podman more than docker. like the problem with docker is if you're root in a container, you're root in real life, and podman solves that with some file ownership abstraction thing or something. podman containers also run without a daemon, which is nice.

but when i've tried using podman for postmill development, it crashed, and for deploying services, i couldn't get ansible to work with it. which is weird, because ansible is also a red hat product.

so my take is that ansible will be nicer, when it's fixed.

Yeah, I get that. I think I'm an "old ways" person too (thank u weird people who got me into linux in 2009). Docker just feels like the "right" way for me to do the "old ways" things I've been doing.

Lots of gotchas (isolation but no security benefits at all ??? every container gets host root ???) but lots of "I-gotchya-buddy" too. (That's Docker saying "I gotchya buddy", because it loves u)

Shitting my hell

I hear Nintendo is partnering with Progresso for a "soup you can suck on" thing

I worked with it like 8 years ago and didn't like it; that's just down to it being much less mature back then, and also me not wanting to learn it.

The OCI standard is pretty mature now and there's a lot better tooling. I should stop being a curmudgeon and learn how to use it to be honest, but i'm a grouch who likes to do things the old way.

I'd love to hear more; I dislike that it's tied to a Company but I don't know enough to have qualms with the tooling. I'm still in the honeymoon phase with Dorker

:O

You have painted a beautiful future;;;

Shaking my head

1. yes I have the 64gb one that they don't do anymore and I really like it, specifically it's great for playing computer games from my childhood while in bed and one thing that all the other handheld gaming PCs lack are the touchpads. Mouse controls work really well and my most played games on the steam deck pretty much all use the touchpad mouse functionality. Emulates the gamecube too which is the most anyone should ever need.

2. not allowed a gun on account of united kingdom

3. yeah I have an HP laser printer and laser printing is very good but I'd not get HP they're a bit scummy. Big up front cost for toner but I've had mine for 5 years and only had to replace the starting toner pack, not gone through a whole regular pack at all and I do print fairly often.

4. nop

5. just a regular electric kettle but it's good, I drink tea every day, also on account of united kingdom

6-8. nop

9. When I was in university I decided to become the sort of person who always writes with a mechanical pencil and proceeded to take a few years' worth of notes entirely in mechanical pencil. I have a nice steel Parker one and it is really fun to write with.

10. Yeah I have a flashforge which I wouldn't necessarily recommend as the brand. Bambu are supposed to be the super great ones. I've been wrestling with mine for the past year or so but finally got it fixed properly. When they work they're amazing fun. What I say to everyone considering one though is that they are not an appliance, they are a new hobby. You will spend a lot of time troubleshooting and tinkering no matter how many automatic features your model promises. Super rewarding when you design something and get it to work properly though.

11-14. nop

15. JUST POST!!!!!!