You only ever had two funny things happen to you?

My goodness how do you stay sane?

(It honestly took me a few seconds to realize you were not being literal. I hope.)

While I understand your point, it was never implied in my comment that 1984 is mainly about surveillance — in fact, it implicitly drew a parallel to the fictional setting of 1984, e.g. "the dystopian future wherein total surveillance to control the narrative" appearing to have become reality.

George Orwell was off by a few decades, it seems.

Oh it certainly wasn't the first I have ever used.

Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, and more.

This is just the first one that has made me 'want to make the shift', so to speak.

I specialize professionally in hyper automation of all sorts of things. Long time user of PowerShell, custom built C++/C#/Java backend services. More recently also utilizing Python and Rust.

The declarative nature of NixOS (incl. Flakes, idempotent ❤️) is what I love about it. Although I am well aware it can be quite daunting for those that prefer imperative scripting, or even ClickOps.

Thank you for sharing. Great to get some inspiration from a fellow traveller.

Nix (and more specifically, NixOS) made me switch to Linux as my daily driver.

I had been using Windows since 3.11 as my daily driver, MS DOS before that. This was for web browsing, gaming, and development. Linux was my sandbox on the side, and mostly server OS throughout the years.

Goes to show how powerful packagemanagers can be, it made me make the full switch after ~30 years. I love how my OS is now idempotent/declarative.

Unfortunately, you've misunderstood the nuanced meaning that the phrase "en masse" has acquired in the English language:

Cambridge Dictionary: En Masse

However, you can take comfort in knowing that you are not alone in this misunderstanding:

Grammar With Teeth: En Masse vs. In Mass

"En masse".

I have no idea what the actual reason is, I am just responding to the German language aspect.

In Dutch the word "niks" means nothing.

If Mr. Dolstra used a "nothing" reference, wouldn't it make more sense that the Dutch person referenced the Dutch word "niks", which is pronounced exactly the same way as Nix?

As far as conjecture goes this is far more plausible than a Dutch guy picking a German word "nichts" that resembles the pronunciation of the word/name Nix.

And for some reason Hollywood has engrained on society the notion that the Dutch natively speak German. Some of them learn it, but it is not their native language.

Oh the irony:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"`

Underrated comment.

I've used PowerShell in Windows for the past 15 years. Following dozens of steps in a GUI is not required.

I also use Linux, with bash and Python for automation. I've also grown to love NixOS for its automation options.

Both operating systems feature rich automation options. Both have ClickOps oriented interfaces for those that want it or are unwilling to learn to automate / use a CLI.

Doing ClickOps is a choice and a mindset, not a requirement of Windows. Using a CLI in Linux is not a requirement depending on the distro or your use case.

You just made me realize the Zoomers are actually much closer to making Warhammer 40k a reality. IT engineers are like Tech Priests to these Zoomers.

Also, fuck cancer. (Cancer vaccines may be next, the end of the article.)

Just to point something out here.

The thing you had to get off your chest was a depressing and negative bit of content, about how negative and depressive all the content on lemmy is.

If this was a meta-troll post, well done!

Or I dont know... an embassy 🧐

My own father was harsh, complicated, difficult to deal with.

I always thought I'd do the opposite.

What I learned later on was to ask my own children what their day was like, what excited them, how I could help them when they needed it most... and then you need to listen. Even if they're asking silly things, things they have yet to learn, that's how you find that connect.

And to some extent I try to balance the discipline by thinking, if I drop dead tomorrow, will I have prepared them as best as I could to become their own person? Will I have done it in a way that they'll remember me fondly?

So far my kids have always said I am a great dad, all the same I ask myself if I could do better every day.

I think the question you started with here is the most important one though, how can you do great/better.

Can you share her number? I lack the ability to recognize social queues and mating signals.

A lady this literal seems like someone that I could connect with.

You know what, good. Maybe it'll cause the people who keep using Chrome because they don't give two shits about their privacy to get off their asses and use something else.

Just like whole tribes are refusing to move from WhatsApp to Signal, because they say they care about privacy, but actually they don't.

Wonderful use case. MSF is an organization that deserves to have IT get out of the way and enable the business to do their work.

Applying these patterns as described in the presentation is a great way to ensure stability and consistency of IT in the field, so the doctors can just do the work!