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People that support him don't care about evidence. It's a cult following.

I don't think they ever said they knew they were the only one to know the admin passwords. Looks like they've heard it from former colleagues after they left:

> I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me

And looks like they tried to address the fact that the entire sysadmin operation depended on them and management did nothing?

That's a lot of hostility and assumptions about some person on the internet and by the looks of it I'll make the assumption you've never worked on chaotic places where management is just shitty? I'm in the same situation at my company where I'm the only person managing our legacy CI/CD pipelines which are quite complex and nobody wants to learn it and management keeps saying they'll hire somebody as backup but they never do so I can relate to parent.

The course I did back in 2015 had a really good focus on the fundamentals; it helped immensely. At some point I also did DAB although I didn't follow it all the way to the end, but it also helped, especially with perspective.

One thing that distract me is the amount of stuff I need to learn as my goal was to learn digital painting. Drawing is very important but it's just the first step, then you have lots of other stuff like values, color, light, composition, etc. So you start to look into these things and there are an obscene amount of material to learn so it gets overwhelming and it put me off every now and then.

I confess that I need to improve my organization skills to be able to go through all that stuff without getting frustrated.

I loved to draw as a kid and in 2015 I tried to really learn so I bought a cheap course in one of these learning platforms (I think it was udemy). I haven't really kept drawing and have been on and off since then. Last year I decided to get back at it again and have been drawing a bit more consistently but I still can't keep it a daily routine.

TL;DR: I draw, not consistently, but I do enjoy it.

I must be the luckiest person alive to use Linux because I keep reading people writing about issues with Linux, issues with Fedora, and meanwhile I have been using Fedora since version 16 and I had virtually zero issues. I'm on my second laptop since then, now running Fedora 41, and still, zero issues.

Sure, I had limitations back then using an external monitor (HiDPI) but all that went away once Wayland got stable. My new laptop has a GeForce and I needed a few commands to make it work nice.

I'm glad I have never had to resort to going back to windows except for gaming since I started using Linux as my main driver in... 2006 I guess?

I thought I was the only one like that, except my dominant leg for kicking is the right one, and I eat with fork on right hand, knife on left; and I use scissors with my right hand. I also play the guitar as a right-handed person.

When I tell people these things, I can see total confusion on their faces. Quite funny.

I don’t drink soda anymore, but when I did, it was mostly Coca-Cola. After moving to the US, I decided to try Dr. Pepper. Couldn’t get past the first sip, because this thing tastes like cough medicine (the bad kind). I know taste is very subjective and individual, but it puzzles me how people can drink—and like—this thing.

Conceptually yes (and Krita might be more feature rich than Procreate), but Procreate is an iPad only app and Krita is not available on that platform, unfortunately.

D&D artwork was something else back then. I remember spending hours and hours just looking at it.

For anybody interested, there is a documentary about the history of the art in D&D: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8888186/ It’s quite interesting.

> One bit that doesn't make sense to me is how caves or rock overhangings don't provide protection.

There is a hiking in my home state that takes about 2 days to complete. Along the way, there is a huge rock that fits that description; it sits in the middle of an open area. We are taught to never seek shelter under it when there is lightning. When asking why, we’re told that that rock is informally called “The Microwave”, because, well, exactly what the article says.

This has been common knowledge in the area for a very long time already (not sure if specific to that rock or for any cave or overhanging rock in general like the article says).

I have an Asus ROG Zephyrus with an AMD CPU and a dedicated Nvidia RTX 3060. It also has integrated Radeon graphics.

When using the Nvidia, the system is quite unstable (I get some weird issues with KDE on Wayland) but when using the integrated graphics it works fine. Since I only play games on Windows (this laptop is dual boot), I haven’t missed the Nvidia yet.

The WiFi has an issue though and it seems related to the adapter used. Sometimes when I boot into Linux, the WiFi is not detected (drivers can’t be loaded or something like that); things only get back to normal after power off/on.

Contacting a local organization is mostly finding their website to figure out how they train and approve ATCs.

Years ago, the region I was part of had a progression training where you had to read materials, shadow an active ATC for an X number of hours and then take a test. This was for each ATC level - you started as Ground, then Tower, Approach and Departures, and so on. For each level there was reading material, shadowing, and a test. It was quite demanding but very rewarding.

I know quite a significant number of people that said the same thing. But it's not that they can't watch movies in itself: they can't _sit_ through an entire movie so what they do now now is watch those movies on TT, one short clip at a time, spread over a few days.

I keep seeing these kind of comments and wonder why that might be. I personally run Firefox on 2 different laptops running Windows 11, one of the laptops is dual boot and I also run Firefox on Linux (Fedora). In my previous company I also used Firefox on MacOS.

I've had exactly zero performance issues. I watch YouTube, Netflix, AppleTV+, HBO. I access many SPAS. I use Google Meet for conference calls at work. I use websites that have a custom video player to watch their stuff.

CPU and memory usage are always low. No freezing. Nada.

I'm not questioning you or anything, I'm genuinely curious why some people seem to have these issues.

When I ask for the no contact option, normally the drivers will ring the bell after they left the food at my door. I know the food arrived and I don't have to meet the driver. I have the impression that that's her expectation.

> every second or third post is a fucking ad.

Maybe that's where the money is coming from?

I learned to play guitar on a very crappy guitar. It was from a brand known for being cheap and poor quality, and I've bought it second hand. Still, I learned to play on it. Chords. Scales, arpeggios; you name it. Execution was really bad though, because the instrument was the limiting factor. So, I agree that, in some ways, the instrument was a limiting factor.

One day I got to play on a very good guitar. All the stuff I struggled to play on the cheap guitar came out almost flawless. It felt like before I was racing F1 with a scooter, and then I've finally gotten a proper F1 car.

So, all this is to say that yes, maybe if I had started with a good guitar I wouldn't have struggled as much but, I think the fact I had to put in twice the effort to learn the same things on the crap guitar actually helped me improve (faster? better?). Of course, at one point I had to upgrade the guitar because there were things I couldn't do and it was holding me back but, I think starting with the bad guitar was a good thing (for me personally).

I'd say that maybe the fact I didn't have to think about it is a good sign. To me it means that the desktop is out of my way. I can customize it for my liking and I don't need to keep fiddling with it. Sometimes the overly minimalist approach that GNOME is taking bothers me a bit, but not too much.

I also use KDE sometimes and I quite like it but it feels a little bloated and a bit unstable sometimes. Still love it though but I'd rather use GNOME as my daily driver.

I'm still trying to get used to tilling window managers and 8 have been giving Sway a try, but the radical metaphor change takes some time to get used to.

The usability on GNOME is the best of all Desktops I have ever used. It's my daily driver and it feels so natural to use. To each their own, I guess.

Not mentioned in the article but I think what triggered BK to pull the license was Andrew Tridgell (SAMBA and rsync) reverse engineering BK's protocol to implement a third-party client.