only under certain conditions; mostly pertaining to wealth & vanity. lol

he’s probably the closest thing that americans can have to an aristocrat; but, traditionally, aristocrats had more relative wealth and influence than this ceo did.

marxists & leninists have definitions for lots of words that have been adopted by everyone of the last century+ but pop culture likes to redefine those words every few years and seeing the pop culture definitions clash with the accepted definitions is a really common sight here, given pronounced m/l userbase and i love seeing it because it keeps reminding me that i’m so americanized that i can understand that aristocrats like this ceo are more bougie that the bourgeois. lol

and in a sense, he is an aristocrat because he has significant enough influence in government policy to permanently enrich himself and his allies just like the aristocrats of the past did and his children will likewise hold similar wealth and influence, effectively creating a modern day feudal dynasty.

they’ve become like politicians or lawyers or police or soldiers who don’t care about the damage they’ve inflicted on millions of people’s lives and believe that what they’re doing is justified because it’s for some “greater good” and never mind that the people they’re harming were never part of that greater good.

i came here like most lemmy did; because reddit; and i hope to be here for a long time since all substantially financed social media platforms enshitify eventually like reddit or facebook did or enshitify immediately like bluesky did when they banned gazans.

but it’s so dangerous; everyone who drinks it dies. lol

I watched ace Ventura the other day and I cringed so hard at the transphobia and I remember laughing at it in the theaters too when it was new.

Give it more time; but yes, past a certain point, they’re dead

Just make sure they’re past the finaced majority definition of dead (aka non profit) and actually dead. (Usually 60 weeks or so)

i realized (in retrospect & a few years ago) that i was near the center of a strongly controversial political hiring decision based on the comments i got from some of my colleagues; but didn’t them piece together until almost a decade+ later.

i’m still not sure what the controversy was; but i do know it was committed by the same c-level exec who took a strange interest in my well being in my the company like i was pip in the dickens novel, great expectations. i assume this because his tenure ended an hour before mine did when the company got bought out. lol

i also learned that my team lead and my manager were on the opposing side of the decision; so i got quite a lesson on what it means to watch your back at work and keeping your ear to the ground.

on physical keyboards there’s usually an alt key combo you can put in.

they’re disabled and the last time i needed it was years ago; i also didn’t turn it back on to use it back then as well. lol

even on my phone; it’s more convenient to just switch languages than find that character. jeje

other people have answered your question about syslog-ng and i thought i should share something that i wish someone had shared with me when i was studying up to on a job as an ELK administrator about a decade+ or so ago.

if you have familiarity with any of the non-journald based logging (eg rsyslog, syslog, etc.) and basic networking (eg tcpdump, traceroute, etc.) your experience will translate into syslog-ng well and there’s significant syntactical differences between the versions since it’s been around for decades now.

dedicated key on the keyboard

not on us keyboards; hence all the anal. i literally have to find a source to find ñ and á to copy/paste it. lol

i’m glad you shared this because it’s forced me to take stock of all the time that has passed by as he explained his experiences with ubuntu.

i got especially nostalgic when he mentioned compiz and the feeling of being on the bleeding edge. it felt so bleeding edge that when ubuntu made that public mistake w grub in one of their earlier releases, it got me to consider buying a linux laptop; which i did a few years later permanently, until recently.

also: unity was awesome.

it sounds like you’re either missing a boot loader or it’s not configured correctly.

did you install grub on the vhdx? what’s the boot up order for your vm?

it’s worse when you do speak the language, but your laziness in one language affects the other: in spanish, if you leave out the punctuation like it’s english, you could accidentally end up texting people that your potato is into anal gangbangs instead of into how much your dad likes new years parties. lol

mi papa disfruta fiestas por ano neuvo (my potato likes new anal gangbangs)

vs

mi papá disfruta fiestas por año nuevo (my father likes new years parties)

i see it as more a capability that i don’t always need beyond the minimum; but if you feel about it like this, you can also disable swap all together.

… It’s important that this crucial part of our infrastructure be free and open source software…

the last 3 places i worked at made this imperative for all of our infrastructure to work and it’s heart breaking to see the seemingly inexhaustive lists of so many open source projects that have been developed in-house into enterprise worthy software that will never see the light of day with the public nor be incorporated back into their source projects; unless it becomes a revenue stream.

all that talent, creativity and work being thrown away in the name of profit.

that makes much more sense; thanks for the correction.

i’ve come to this in the opposite direction as you. when i switched to linux full time; that middle mouse button wasn’t so ubiquitously set as you’ve described it (none of the windows systems i’ve owned had it); but the middle mouse button on linux has been ubiquitously set as a 2nd clipboard since the 1970’s.

i’ve grown so accustomed that the middle mouse button gives me a second copy/paste that i had trouble with it when i bought my first linux laptop and the built-in kde decided to mimic that window’s scroll just like you described it and i had to learn how to turn it off. lol

swap is usually significantly slower than ram; are you certain that you wan to use that instead?

i had no idea that the enterprise was so lit. lol