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Why do you assume her joy is the sad part?

I mean there's literally one of their example images with hands with the wrong number of fingers.

If you're not familiar of the pitfalls of this tech, and the fact that there are more ethical tools with which to do those things, I'm not sure what to tell you.

If you want to discuss a matter, it would be nice to spell out your point of view.

How is the person supposed to know your opposing point of view if you don't tell it?


What are some of the more ethical tools? I would like to check them out

Absolutely, I'd love to see how tiny they are in comparison.

Upgrades to SSD, thinks the OS made it faster. Ok


A bog standard Linux distribution boots under 30 seconds with a good HDD, assuming hardware initializes fast.

SSD generally adds 3x to that speed due to access latency for small files.

I remember pressing power button and leaving my PC alone to get a tea or something when I was booting my Windows installation which I had around for gaming. Same with an SSD. Desktop arrives faster, CPU still choked to launch whatever services are needed, fans are doubling as hair dryers.

Both scenarios were on the same machine, BTW.


> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


This just in: multiple factors can contribute to the same result. Shocking!


Haha, late 90s wasn't really like that though


The name is a reference to the 8088 MPH scene demo, it was the first emulator to be able to run it.


It's because the dataset is all algorithmically lossy compressed music, and not the real source

Basically made with pirated mp3s


Comes and goes? Webmin would like a word


I have been using Webmin/Virtualmin for all of my 15-years as a web host. I love it, although it can be a little idiosyncratic in places, once you know how to operate with it, you won’t ever need anything else. It’s never been the most bleeding-edge or fully-featured, but it’s also never fallen behind with security and compatibility updates, and it’s had a surge in new development lately, which is exciting. On a Debian system, it’s always been rock solid for me.

Virtualmin in particular is more targeted towards production web servers, but I think they’re both something of a happy medium between a GUI and the terminal; The interfaces are all pretty explicit about the components you’re interfacing with, and nearly all of them include the ability to pop open the conf files to edit them directly.

The extensive UI isn’t the most flashy or polished, but it’s functional and if you get bored enough (as I did) you can theme the entire thing with a single CSS file (be prepared for a lot of ‘!important’ and other things that will drive UI/X folks nuts), and make it look rather stylish.

The only downside (and this isn’t really a downside for production servers) is it’s opinionated on how some things “should” be configured. It’s not restrictive, per se, but it’s not very tolerant for “coloring outside the lines”. You can run an Apache or Nginx reverse proxy, but if you want to use Caddy or Traefik or something similar, this may not be the admin panel for you.

Myself, I just run Webmin/Virtualmin on my production servers, and use a separate server for Docker and apps, where I’ve used both Cockpit and Portainer, but generally tend to stick with the CLI. The command line will always be the best, most efficient way of interfacing with Linux. Once I’d learned enough to be comfortable, I found it becomes increasingly preferable for most common tasks.


I am so over reinventing the wheel in tech, I feel as if that's 99% of where the money and time goes


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