Being a terminal purist is wonderful for those of us who live our lives deep in the caverns of Linux, but in actual production use you very often find situations where less technical users have to interact with the systems that we build.
For my work, I need a way for low level tech support and technicians to go in and restart a container from time to time, and these people curl up in a ball and scream if you show them a command prompt. Having a UI removes a lot of friction.
To be fair, Dockge is very, very new. I imagine features like that will turn up soon enough.
Technically true, but if you actually try to interact with those compose files directly then shit gets really fucky.
Hi, Canadian here. The Handmaid's Tale was seriously over optimistic about what kind of country we are.
I hate to say it but if Trump wins, it will not be the same as last time. Trump and the Republicans have both learned a lot from their last go around, and they've got the benefit of a captive supreme court at their back this time. Last time they had no clear plan for what to do if they won. This time around their plan is very clear and very scary.
There's this thing where normally surprising court rulings result in a lot of breathless over reaction from the public, while serious legal commentators are going "Guys, no, it doesn't actually work that way, it's not nearly as bad as you think."
The Trump immunity ruling is the only time I've ever seen those serious legal commentators saying "Holy shit this is so much worse than you think." People are seriously underestimating just how bad this really is.
This is exactly what you should be doing. Matching speed with traffic is always the safest option. If you're going slower than everyone else, you're creating a hazard, almost as much as if you're weaving through traffic.
OK, I'm not a mental health professional, so take this with a grain of salt, but...
Be there. That's really the most important thing you can do. Just be there. Be a friend. Get them to come over and watch some anime, invite them along to board game night. Just be a friend. Companionship doesn't cure bad mental health, but loneliness often makes it much worse.
Be encouraging. The problem with "cheer up" is not only that it's trite, but also that it assumes they're doing something wrong. Don't give advice, give compliments.
If someone trusts you, be willing to push back a little when they're engaging in maladaptive thought patterns. Gently, of course, but be willing to call them out, to say "Hey, you're doing that thing where you assume the worst outcome is the most likely" or whatever. But be careful with this; you're not their therapist.
Help with the little things. Are they hydrated? Did they forget to eat? Have they not slept? Did they take their meds? You can't solve mental health with good food and exercise, but conversely being tired or hungry or thirsty can amplify symptoms a lot. Encourage them to be your gym buddy or go running together, or play some paintball. If you're going out for groceries, ask if they want to come with; maybe you've got a car and they don't, and it would really help just to have someone drive them to the store and back while you're on the way.
Be careful about gift giving. Buying someone lunch is just what friends do, but don't take it too far. Often it's better to let them do something nice for you. If someone feels worthless, it can be a big deal just buying lunch for a friend. Feeling like they've tangibly improved someone else's life. Even if you're flush and they're broke, don't turn them down if they want to do something nice for you. Instead maybe use it as an excuse to bond more; "OK, you got this one, but next time we get coffee it's on me." Now there has to be a next time you get coffee.
When they want to talk about their struggles, listen. But don't try to force them to open up. Again, you're not their therapist.
Watch out for signs of struggling. If someone doesn't do well in crowds, but wants to come to a big gathering anyway, be the person who's ready to say "Hey, do you want to get out of here?" when you can see that they're at their limit. And when you bail on the party together, maybe say "Sorry guys I've got an early start tomorrow so we're heading out." A lot of the time people don't want to single themselves out, but if you make an excuse for both of you that puts the "blame" on yourself, it's less stress for them.
Don't force socialising to always be an active thing; parallel play is really important for a lot of people. It can really mean a lot just to sit in a room with them playing on your Steamdeck while they write notes for their fanfic with their music blasting.
Be patient. When someone snaps at you, or blows off plans, or says something that was maybe a little hurtful, remember that it's not really about you. They're struggling with a disease, and a lot of the time that disease is going to make them act in ways that are hurtful to other people. That doesn't mean you shouldn't call people out for their bad behaviour, but be gentle and ready to forgive. You'd want the same from them.
And above all else, remember that they're a person, not a list of symptoms, and there is no right answer that fits every person. Depending on who they are, everything I've written could be terrible advice. You have to just take your time and get to know them. When you screw up, apologize and ask how you can do better. Remember, you experience their disease in small moments; they live with it all the time.
Just to pick one small example, the last four years have seen an unprecedented increase in union membership in the US. This is in large part because under the Democrats the NLRB has made an absolutely ridiculous number of powerful pro-worker rulings that have seriously constrained union busting from the big companies.
Are things sunshine and rainbows as we live in a beautiful post scarcity utopia? No, not even close. It's shit. Everything is shit. It's shit up here in Canada and it's shit for you guys down there. But the Democrats have, in fact, made things better, in some surprisingly big ways. If this huge growth in union membership is allowed to continue, it could make a huge difference to working conditions for the average person, while also building pro-worker political blocs that have an incredible amount of power to influence the government.
I'm sorry that you didn't get Bernie. I'm sorry that you didn't get the glorious revolution. I'm sorry that you're still stuck with first past the post, just like us. But don't go starving yourself to death because no one deigned to serve you fillet mignon. Reality is messy, and it sucks, and sometimes progress is slow and boring. Biden is a neo-liberal ghoul, but he's put a lot of good people in positions where they can do good work. You seriously want to throw that away and put an actual fascist in power, for the sake of some imagined world where the fairy Godmother turns up to give you your glorious socialist utopia without you having to do any work for it?
If you do want to host your own google docs, look into Onlyoffice, or LibreOffice with Collabora
Correct. This is a brute force dictionary. It's a very powerful tool, but it's applications are severely limited. Any well designed system has protection from brute force attacks. It's mostly useful for stuff like cracking encrypted databases, which would be a situation where the target is entirely under your control. You can't just break into someone's Gmail with it.
Quantum Thief is genuinely amazing. It's a book that somehow manages to be both the hardest of hard scifi (the author's day job is doing hyper advanced quantum math), and also completely batshit insane. There are superheroes, hyper-advanced civilisations built on WOW clans, weapons that use human minds as ammo, a city where people have to make contracts just to remember each others names and where time is currency... And that's just book one.
The fact that two of the main characters stole a moon is quite literally a footnote. It's such a minor detail that it gets mentioned in passing. That's the level of insane this series operates on.