Makes sense. It’s like having your personal undergrad hobby coder. It may get something right here and there but for professional coding it’s still worse than the gold standard (googling Stackoverflow).

Pendatry. Very widespread in tech.

Onfuscators probably use it though, so no spec ever will be able to get rid of this crap.

Apple does have a significant market share of 25-30% in Europe. Just because they avoided having to open iMessage (for now) because everyone in Europe uses WhatsApp, doesn’t mean other Apple services are safe from regulation.

But I’m with you - it’s more likely about (not so) privacy.

Nah, it makes sense. Apple really likes their proprietary walled garden, so the interoperability requirements trouble them deeply.

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BASIC. At least VB.

I always enjoy the weird questions most.

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ham on pizza is sweet

What? Where? Ham isn’t supposed to be sweet.

Debian 2.x (don’t remember exactly) was my first attempt. But I don’t actually count that because after annoying driver troubles (networking and mouse) and having to recompile the kernel multiple times I unfortunately lost interest.

Tried again with Debian 8 on my laptop and stuck with it until I moved 100% Linux just a couple of years ago thanks to Valve/Proton.

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That episode was awesome.

It doesn’t fucking matter day to day.

Without that knowledge, you can’t make intelligent decisions when faced with new situations and you won’t always have time to look something up.

That lack of basic understanding is why many of AI engineers and scientists believe, the current models won’t ever become really intelligent and won’t stop hallucinating.

Of course it’s debatable when knowledge stops to be basic but I’d count most of the things mentioned in the comic among them.

I’ve heard beans are good too.

I agree. Cannot repeat that one often enough.

That is the reason for degrading proficiency. Not, that the tools are bad but the attitude, they have to be easy to use.

That almost everything “just works” is nice as a consumer but it won’t make you troubleshoot and you will not gain technical expertise by using such devices.

I totally wouldn’t be surprised if there originally were people being like “So what’s this so-called ‘cupboard’ supposed to solve? Why isn’t a regular shelf good enough for you?”

It’s Proton VPN. Lack of IPv6 support is a downer but I wouldn’t call them shit.

Edit: maybe elaborate why you seem IPv6 so crucial? As I said: everything works just fine without.

What the fuck are you talking about? My ISP supports IPv6 just fine, but following my VPN’s advice I disable it (on certain devices at least) for privacy concerns. And it makes exactly zero difference in functionality.