Usually. You already know the answer to that…

Linux might not do everything you want it to, at least not easily, but it usually doesn’t do things you didn’t ask for, unlike all proprietary OSs these days.

No. I’m more of a hoodie person.

Sex

I see we have a DM in the audience…

It’s not trying to make money from me.

People who want to get on the leader board should consider that your FICO score is a measure of how much lenders can profit off of you.

I got the CD a little later, it’s still in the basement somewhere. All of it ran on a 386 in an XT fold open casse, with a monochrome graphics card and an amber CRT display.
If you needed more grognard nostalgia.

Slackware 1.1, downloaded from s BBS as a large pile of floppy disk images, in late 1993.

Two things, one you care about and one you might not. The one you care about: you can set up a service in isolation. You can then test it, make sure it works, and switch over to it once you are sure, with almost no downtime. This is important for things you actually need to use. Once you do something like breaking your primary email server, you will understand. Also, less important, you can set up a service on, say, a VM at home, and move it to a VPS, without having to transfer the entire image, and it will work the same. The one you don’t care about. That last bit about moving servers around is important for cloud providers who turn these things on and off all the time.

name.com. I don’t remember why I picked them, but they do no BS and the service is fine.

Old consumer electronics. Good to practice reflashing on old phones or tablets, if you brick one, it was trash anyway. Sometimes you can pull useful components off old computer boards.

National Aviary sounds very cool. Adding Pittsburgh to the list.

New York fit that pretty well. I think Chicago does too. DC, Seattle, Boston are all recommended. Have not done that kind of trip in Atlanta or Philadelphia, but they are what you want.

Exactly. It does happen; you’ll only do it once…

Ooh, thanks, I should have checked that.

I don’t necessarily view it as a bad thing. I’ve been targeting an emotional age of about 12. Maturity is overrated. Some of my SOs might not agree, though.

Likewise, I use vi for sysadmin work, and a big IDE (VSCodium) for writing code.

Okay, but nobody paid any attention to my multiple choice anyway, and the responses are thoughtful.

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