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Re:Show HN: ELI5 Powered by GPT-3 on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:55PM (#34586988)
it is heavy on crypto bro content :)

https://eli5.gg/Q

> Q > > q: What is a cryptocurrency? ELI5: A cryptocurrency is a type of digital money that uses special codes to make sure transactions are secure. People can use cryptocurrencies to buy things online, and send money to friends and family without having to pay a bank or other middleman. Unlike regular money, cryptocurrencies are not controlled by a government or bank, and can be exchanged anonymously.

Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:53PM (#34586966)
i also accepted it. And made a point to forget the cisco experience.

Yeah, the dependency is a fine feature, but before it was even *easier*... just put a number on the rc.d symlink.

c'mon, if you think that is harder than editing a dozen files, remembering weirdly named camelCase attributes and then pointing to randomly named services, then i don't know what to say. But again, i also accepted it, for better or worse.

Now, i don't care about lennart, but i hated systemd for most of the time because they pushed an incomplete crap over something that was working, just to get contributors. If redhat wanted their cisco/windows services management clone, they could have worked on it. Doing what they did (i call it to pull a gnome) was just shitty behaviour and they should always be remembered for such action.

I also have a small compact car and it is fine for me to drive it every day to work, market, etc. Doesn't mean an expensive sports car is not much, much faster.

The irony is that here the compact car is more expensive :D maybe the correct analogy is a minivan, since it can hold more clients. but still, more expensive than the TP-Link sports car.

Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Monday January 30, 2023 @04:45PM (#34586883)
you think free CDs worldwide is cheap?!

they paid for "CD vending machines" at several locations where you could get free cds... that is more expensive than a billboard and practically buys you a spot on specialized magazines. They were going those marketing campaigns all over the place.

Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:53PM (#34575888)
slightly wrong. Ubuntu succeed in part because of what you mention, plus lots of marketing money. debian have caught up now. and most people seriously wanting up to date is over at gentoo or arch.

But back to the "ubuntu exists" premise you started, it is because a rich guy wanted to take over debian and sell an enterprise solution based on it.

remember at the time enterprise was all the rave. google was pushing their enterprise suite, and there was ton of startups (zoho, etc) it was a crowded space then and red hat, suze were completely fumbling with their linuxes.

Re:Ask HN: What Next After Ubuntu? on Sunday January 29, 2023 @11:49PM (#34575869)
systemd is "easier" for people used to cisco/microsoft/etc.

The huge list of services with not-for-human names so your job can look complicated and essential.

their NICs will not work with regular kernel drivers. you will lose the only edge their hardware have which is dealing with a stupid large number of clients.

everything else (speed, uptime, ram/cpu power, beanforming magic, etc) you are better off with linksys devices when using open source drivers.

it is but in the worse way possible.

They take and contribute nothing back. just a base to get up and running quick in their startup days.

Also most of their own pieces is just a awful api/shell that tries very hard to simulate the worse of cisco ios shell.