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It’ll be easier on them to do so if they were all placed in the same room

Microsoft/Bill Gates only got a worse rap because they were more successful

I’d want a registry that was compartmentalized meaning each app gets an area to store its own configuration and the apps can only modify their own settings (without root permissions).

Apps should never be expected to modify system settings directly but only through system calls.

Some Linux packages achieve this kind of behavior by adding an additional user which owns their configuration directories. That always felt hacky to me.

A centralized place to store settings (e.g. the registery) isn’t a bad idea in and of itself.

Never saw a .coop before. Unfortunately chicken.coop is reserved :(

Desktop Environments are decoupled from the underlying system. It makes switching DEs very easy but integration sucks.

I needed to flush dns on my Ubuntu machine. I googled it found a command for an older version. But of course the underlying stuff changed since then and that command doesn’t exist anymore.

The command to flush dns on Windows has been the same for decades. On Linux half the stuff I learn is going to be obsolete in a couple of years and that knowledge can’t be carried over to other Distros because they do it differently.

I also had to manually build and install a driver for a very common realtek wifi chipset that is not even new.

Lots of cars had this same design in the 70s, with the fuel tank low in the rear, right behind the rear differential.

Jeep Grand Cherokees were this way between 1993 and 2004 and Jeep Libertys were this way between 2002 and 2007.

I do believe they were plastic though.

But they are jeeps. Quality was never an expectation

It’s really confusing.

The .m4a extension is commonly used for audio only MP4 (container) files. m4a files are capable of carrying other audio codecs other than AAC.

The .acc extension seems to mean very little. It indicates that the file contains a AAC stream but the container is not defined. Could be MP4, could be 3GP could be a raw AAC stream.

The concept of file extensions really break down when it comes to audio and video files. A single media file could contain a dozen audio streams in a dozen formats.

webm files really are nothing but mkv files in which the audio/video codecs are limited to a certain subset. You can “convert” a webm to a mkv by renaming the file.

Ain’t nobody got time for that

Nearest repair center is 2 hours away

I wish I had the necessary petabytes of storage to at least store an offline copy. I wonder how many disks that would be and how redundant disks you’d need.

They essentially would just need to develop their own Wine