Remember the old days before /dev was its own virtual filesystem?

*Kirk shame

That sounds right.

I’m also mostly familiar with the business lines: Dell Latitude and slightly less with HP ProBook.

Given the context that we were talking about laptop chargers rather than generic power bricks, I think it’s fair to consider standard laptop power supplies. (HP has the same connectors even though their protocol is different, and I’m not familiar with other brands but I expect they are much the same).

Unfortunately, barrel plugs tell you zilch about the power supply they’re connected to. They’re a dumb connector with no data capability whatsoever, and I’ve seen the same size of plug on power supplies with output anywhere from 3V to 24V.

That’s definitely not true: Dell laptop chargers and desktop power supplies do communicate what wattage they are able to supply.

Thank you for demonstrating.

If it helps to explain it, Red Hat is owned by IBM.

As someone who uses Windows for work and Linux for pleasure: one of the cons of Linux is the lack of integrated ubiquitous file sharing via SMB and UNC paths. Being able to “cd \\server\c$” and expect that to work with 99% of programs made in the last two decades, is pretty great.

“Hardcode a few pre-selected paths and their credentials in /etc/fstab” just doesn’t cut it. Neither does autofs.

You could have done that, but here we are.

Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.

What exactly is “improper use”?

It can be done if the 1% would stop being greedy selfish assholes. So it won’t happen.

That’s all valid criticism. Im happy to say I didn’t create it, and I would love to see better. I’m a bit inclined to delete the image, but I’d love to find an alternative.

Most that I can find are more outdated and tend to assume people know the meanings of the various terms. And the other one I added (down thread) is a little too fine-grained for my taste.

It’s a fair point but is it wrong?

In reality: they don’t.

In their minds: they fear losing that paycheck just like everyone else.

Honestly: yes.

There’s other classifications or sub-classifications particularly with regards to how much someone may benefit from capitalism and therefore where their interests might lie, but ultimately I think the bourgeoisie vs the proletariat is about how much influence they have over how society works.

Here’s another infographic which tries to cover that angle, no comment on how successful/ accurate it may be. Personally I think it divides people too much. (Source: Reddit, latestagecapitalism)

Maybe a useful distinction to be had between “capitalist class” and “enthusiasts for the capitalist system”

The word is used for both of those things.

Yes.

Reminds me of the WLER railway line, and I like trains, so that makes it a great name.

(Turns out that “it reminds me of” is not a great way to evaluate a name)

Also tbh, if it does the same things as before, they could call it POOP, and I’d still use it. The name has no bearing on how it functions.

That sounds like an argument against the name change…