Nibodhika

I haven't heard anyone else mention it, Vultr is a good one as well.

Switching the emphasis on one word can completely change the meaning of a phrase, there's one example I love: "I never said she stole his money"

• I never said she stole his money (someone else did)
• I never said she stole his money (absolutely not true)
• I never said she stole his money (I wrote it down)
• I never said she stole his money (it was someone else)
• I never said she stole his money (she might have just borrowed it)
• I never said she stole his money (it was someone else's)
• I never said she stole his money (she stole something else)

There's nothing like it, nor will it ever be, for a couple of reasons.

Programming is a long running task

Distros like Kali are meant to be used for quick tasks where you don't need data preservation (or when data preservation is a bad thing). Programming is the opposite of this, it's only about data (the program) preservation. Programming something that will get erased on the next boot is pointless on the long run if you need to program that again, and if you don't then what you're doing is not programming but something else that requires some programming.

Programming is a wide term

There are multiple languages/IDEs/Workflows/etc, ranging from fully free and open source to paid closed source, whichever you will use depends entirely on you, having all of that pre installed would be 99% garbage since you will only care about 1 or 2 of them.

Programming requires setup

Even if you had whatever workflow you use pre installed, to work on something you would need to setup git keys, install dependencies, compile the first version, etc... and that's all before you can start doing stuff. And you would have to do this again and again since distros like Kali are not meant to be installed (if they were they wouldn't need to come with all those packages pre-installed because you could just install the ones you cared about)

Even considering your edits, it's still a stupid argument. By that same logic nothing should be preserved. Watching LotR now is not the same as watching it when it first came out, which should have never been made according to you because by that time the book should have already been destroyed since you wouldn't want to preserve it for 50 years, but Tolkien shouldn't have even written it, since they were based on ideas and drafts he did during the first world war exploring how war changes men and power corrupts, which obviously is only valid in that context and nowhere else so it should be destroyed since preserving it would be invasive and destructive, no?.

Preserving something can never be destructive, it's the opposite of it. If the Mona Lisa was destroyed you wouldn't even know it existed, so how can having preserved it be destructive when the alternative is oblivion?

And I agree that the Mona Lisa is no big deal, you know who else agrees? People from that time. It's widely known that the Mona Lisa was one of Da Vinci's less famous works, and until Napoleon made a big deal out of it it was just a random painting in a random museum. So I get part of your point, that people who make a big deal out of the Mona Lisa are only there to see the famous painting, but that doesn't mean that there's no reason to preserve it, or that there are no people who go there to see the actual Mona Lisa.

We know you are a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low

You don't need to port the home directory, just have it stay on the other disk, that's how I used to do my systems when I had small SSDs. But porting it should be straightforward, just copy it over and it should all work.

What is a superuser in Lemmy? What can it do that's so special? I don't think I've ever encountered one.

Is it? Then what is the gender of the person you're replying? Surely if it was important you would need to know it before replying. The fact that you can reply someone without knowing their gender is proof that it doesn't matter here.

If gender didn't mattered IRL, trans people would be seen in the same light of someone who likes wearing black, or is unhappy with the way their nose looks to the point of doing a surgery about it. Trans people suffer because society puts a lot of importance in gender, therefore wanting to dress clothes from a different gender, or having a body that looks a different gender are "radical" ideas that offend simple-minded people.

As much as I disagree with your last statement (I think Linux for client is on par with Windows for the vast majority of users), I strongly agree with everything else. This wasn't a Windows problem, but a "your IT is cockblocking you" problem, it could have happened in Linux too if it wasn't because he used a rogue device, he could have fixed it on Windows too doing the same.

Personally I would have gone straight to Linux because I'm out of the loop on how to do these sort of stuff on Windows. If it had to be Windows, let IT figure that out, their firewall, their anti-virus, their problem.

That's a very bad decision as a manager, if I was another employee in that store I would take that to mean never control kids in the store, let the manager deal with that.

And if I was the friend I would have asked during that exchange with the manager present "So, I assume that means she's paying for everything the kid broke before I asked him to stop, right?" Just to see the reactions.

I don't think there's a way of checking how many games are like this, but I find that the majority of games I've tried doing that just work, and the ones that don't are mostly bad programming (e.g. crashes trying to load the steam library).

That's GOG's whole schtick, none of the games they sell have DRM when purchased from their store. You can always copy the installer to another computer and run it.

That's not entirely true, as a general rule I think GoG has a lot less DRM-ed games, but it's not 100% DRM free like they sometimes claim https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1

To be fair GoG selling point is that it doesn't use any external software, it tries to emulate the old disk feel.

Personally I identify much more closely with GoG philosophy, i.e. mostly no DRM, manage the games on my own, etc. However I use Linux, and Steam has been investing into it so I'll keep giving them my money (the input management is indeed great, but not enough on its own for me).