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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • Your logic is sound.

    The motive and skillet are certainly there.

    But there sure are many eyes on RedHat’s source code, and IBM has a lot to lose if they got caught putting in a back door.

    Plus, the US government uses it for their own sensitive stuff, so one would hope they have the wisdom not to shit where they eat, installing a back door that 100% would get used against them.

    None of my arguments really outweigh yours, if I’m honest.

    But I also don’t blame anyone who trusts RedHat Linux, today.





  • No, I can’t access another tty during a freeze, unfortunately.

    That’s may be a hint!

    The only times I’ve had the desktop freeze on Linux and the alternate terminals fail to respond, I had a hardware issue.

    In one case, I was on a Raspberry Pi, and my power supply was not delivering clean enough power for the board.

    In another case, my fan wasn’t connected properly and the motherboard was overheating.

    Edit: Oh! I think I had this behavior once with a RAM stick that was terribly subtly not quite all the way in the slot.



  • Like how can it be fun?

    So many cool utilities are Linux native first, today.

    When I finally switched my work computer to Linux, various little tools I had been using were suddenly trivial to install, instead of maybe an hour each. I had restored my full favorite toolset in less than 30 minutes, and moved on to exploring things that never worked on Windows, for me.

    The combined feeling, for me, is like when my father user to hand me $5 to shop at our local 10¢ candy store. “I can just have as much of this as I want.”





  • Exactly the link I was going to search for!

    Those fuckers at Sony made me wipe and rebuild my PC, for the “crime” of listening to one of their fucking CDs at my desk one time.

    (Sony’s virus caused all kinds of bugs, and then people who didn’t wipe and rebuild immediately were getting infected by worse viruses within a few days, because Sony’s virus fucked up the PCs defenses so badly.)

    I figured I would be less pissed this long later, but I’m not.

    Fuck Sony. I’m mad just thinking about it long enough to post this confirmation.

    That is what did it, for me. Fuck Sony.

    Did I mention “fuck Sony”? Fuck Sony. Bunch of virus writing assholes.