Unfortunately the traffic noises don’t make this very relaxing.

It had already been announced end of May that there would be a change: https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/standardization-and-price-...

Unfortunately, humans want houses and cars and vacations and such, which makes them very expensive. ;)

Yessir! I even used AI this week, so I'm adding to the energy death of the universe way faster than if I had done something else. Not to mention my car and other things...

And OpenShell: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

How do you set up the sandbox without having downloaded anything from the internet? I guess there’s still places where you can buy Linux CDs.

Why would you personally need the entire internet to receive a fix?

It's handy if you run a service and the internet runs clients you didn't write to access said service. (or vice versa)

Also handy if the internet is running a DDoS reflector and you're being targetted.

Otherwise, usually no sense of urgency for fixes I did for me/my employer and want the rest of the world to benefit. My problem is solved now, everyone else can get it when it ships.

Running a fork is a lot of work. You need your fixes upstreamed so that you don't need to backport other people's fixes

For a couple months? Not a big deal

Nobody said doing it yourself was neccesarily easy. Its just an option that is there.

You don’t need to backport other people’s fixes. You only need to re-merge your patches into updated versions of the upstream (aka vendor branch), which usually is straightforward.

Maybe you mean that if there are many people like you, they’d want to integrate each other’s fixes. But then you’d probably have the combined manpower to start maintaining a true fork.

I'd take Steve Ballmer over most of the current big-tech CEOs, to be honest.

The parent alludes to the fact that the sentence could conceivably be read as "In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust [the machine]", i.e. reading "adjust" as transitive rather than as intransitive.

However, I think it's clear that the intended meaning is intransitive.

It constantly varies.

Also: 102. One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.