It is not for everybody. But if you are in the crowd who consider Slackware, things like fingerprint reader or wifi are not the first things that are important for you.
Get a ThinkPad X230 and go with OpenBSD to get some of that old school unix feeling.
Working system until you need to upgrade something. I feel like the BSD systems are really what you want if a system like Slackware is what interests you. They have a tightly integrated core system with the kernel, and a ports tree to compile software from source with automatic dependency compilation. A lot of ports can be found as pre-compiled binaries.
All this with simple old school unix tools such as tar, cvs and make. All config is text files, everything meticulously documented in man pages. Very easy to upgrade.
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Just waiting for one that requires you to compile one Monad to define your whole distro. Types all the way.
Then I’m writing a blog post how your Linux distro is a burrito.
The refurbished thinkpads you find are usually three years old after the companies who lease them buy new ones for the users.
You can do a lot of things with a three year old thinkpad…
I would upvote this but you already have 69 upvotes so I leave it as it is.
Nice.
dbg!(1) all the time…
Yes. And I feel sad because I haven’t been excited on any other OS for years after learning NixOS. I used to be excited about playing with things like FreeBSD, but now they all feel like something’s missing…
Not for everybody, but as a software engineer nix/nixos is blessing.
Exactly this. Having an interest and a hobby to an open source system will make you better in your job and a much more interesting candidate to hire.
Source: started with linux in 1995 as a kid. Never having issues finding great jobs.
Edit: I did not mean being a devops here, but finding an interest in open source software and learning a highly lucrative programming language while going. You can get pretty far with Rust or Go in the modern startups, C or Java in enterprises. Being very good with Linux drives this interest.
They are not usually very good, depending on the city, of course. In Germany, where I live, it’s a struggle to find good Mexican food. It’s never spicy enough and often kind of trashy. There are a few okay, more upscale places with 6-7 euro tacos (yikes) and 13 euro margaritas (yikes). But it’s not as good as in our visits to the US.
Weirdly, when I visit my parents in Helsinki, that city actually has a quite good Mexican restaurant scene. Damn, Helsinki of all places. It’s one of the rare EU cities with Taco Bells (yeah, not Mexican food, I know), and some of the finest Mexican restaurants I’ve visited in Europe. They are quite expensive, but the tacos I’ve had there have been surprisingly good.
In general, Mexico is far from Europe. You can easily find amazing Italian, French, or Georgian food here. In the US, I’ve mostly been disappointed with the selection of French or Italian food. I haven’t found Georgian cuisine in any US cities. So, I tend to enjoy Mexican food when I visit that side of the planet to see family, and mostly focus on European food in the EU.
But damn, I wish there was a diner serving biscuits and gravy in Berlin. Biscuits are one of the things that just don’t exist in Europe.
Helsinki has multiple Taco Bells. One of the rare cities in Europe for that. It is quite different compared to the US, better quality ingredients and many vegan options.
Jeps. Muistan kun ruokapöydässä puheenjohtaja taputti käsiä, ja samalla hetkellä pöydän kaikki naiset nousivat ylös tarjoilemaan miehille juomaa. Jo nuorena tämä jotenkin oli kuvottavaa…
Damn. Take the upvote.
Joskus nuorena tuli puuhasteltua kokoomusnuorissa ja parin sitsikerran jalkeen kavi selvaksi etta sivistys on tasta porukasta kaukana. En tuon jalkeen enaa pariin vuosikymmeneen ole edes ajatellut aanestavani Kokoomusta.
But if you lose the information how to turn those bits into music, it is gone forever. That Edison cylinder is pretty easy to play compared to that opus or mp3 file you found from the grave 40000 years from now.
True, but analog cylinders are going to be the ones people after the world burns can find and still listen. I wouldn’t count any old CDs play at that point anymore.
Like analog degrades, digital just stops playing.
It used to be in the 80’s when D/A converters were shit compared to the great 70’s and 80’s vinyl and tape players. Or in the 90’s and 00’s when most of the CDs were mastered loud and ugly. Nowadays it is what you say: digital really sounds better…
Yeah, or have a meticulously organized multi-terabyte flac collection in your NAS you stream your music from…
I think Bandcamp gives you this for all vinyl purchases.
I would say OpenBSD is closer to the Slackware idea. You install the system and it works how it was designed. It might not be what you want, but if you are a security-minded C programmer, OpenBSD gives you the full experience out of the box.