AI could never

To me it’s similar to buying illegal animal products and showcasing it for public awareness

“It’s not to support the poachers but to raise awareness”

Maybe I’m too entrenched in FOSS political vision, but why devote these tremendous efforts to improve products of a company like Apple. I don’t understand the motivation behind Asahi linux, except “just because it can be done” ie academic purpose

Fair enough. For me, scripts are small reusable programs performing a very specific (sometimes trivial or common) task. Eg: making a wav file from PCM data, modifying byte sequences or formatted text in a particular way, etc. I mostly program in C so I have written most scripts in C. Need not necessarily be grokkable as long as its application and scope is clear

I do not get your point?

A script is more about the program rather than the language. You can write a script in assembly or C++ or whatever

iPhone 1 from the 1950s

He might’ve graduated years ago. My experience (also from India) was Ubuntu/Mint is the most likely OS you will encounter in academia here. In school, we were taught about OSes (just GUI programs from Windows and Linux). And during engineering where basic programming is taught to all, we were encouraged to use Ubuntu and even our computer lab had Ubuntu or Mint installed on all computers.

Depends on how old the HDD is

Not officially supported but it works just as well and might be more well documented than Ubuntu, regarding support and issues

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Hmm the world has already turned more dystopian than I had assumed

why not both

What about the issue where people try to install new version of python sometimes try to uninstall the “old” pre-installed version on a linux system and thus borking the whole s

Definitely not me, anymore

You joke but one time after a fresh install I genuinely forgot to update (the linux header files or something) and some of the device drivers weren’t working

Time is relative in hell

Ok but why my graphics driver act up?

Watch out, using the door requires you to be in wheel group

Not much. There used to be this fear of Microsoft copyrighting Mono for reimplementing their stuff on Linux. For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono and they have also open-sourced .NET and everything, this does not mean much.

But to its credit its alphabetical

More importantly it helps people radicalised by Stallman to play games on their GNU/linux machines (kidding)