Steve Dice

I used to work at a shitty company that banned discussing salaries. I never thought anything about it because it was a call center and I just kinda assumed we had standardised salary across the board. One time when having drinks at a friend’s house who worked with me but had a higher position, I found his payslip lying around and I was making, I shit you not, about 70% more. Fucking hell.

All spheres are hollow (mathematically)

You quoted me challenging my comment, you were proven wrong and then decided the conversation was beneath you instead of just admitting you fucked up. Best part is that this is literally an irrelevant topic. Stop being so childish and your life will improve.

Burden of proof is on the claimant

Source?

But saying that to make a hole in a sphere, you need to make two holes in the sphere is funny.

Do you always pretend you don’t wanna take part in conversations you started after realising you’re wrong?

Because you’re an adult who’s expected to know how to use a search engine. I used DDG and it took me about 40 seconds to find the source for the claim you’re asking a source for.

You could have just asked and then you wouldn’t have to go hide behind a transparent facade.

No, that’s a punctured disk, you’re thinking of a torus.

Edit: After dusting off my old-ass-hasn’t-been-in-uni-for-10-years-brain, I’ve concluded the straw shown in the image is NOT a punctured disk, it’s a closed annulus. It’s still not a coffee mug and you’re still thinking of a torus but I don’t wanna go around spreading wrong math.

Seems like you just proved my point.

Fair enough. I personally hate turning up my computer and being greeted with 1000+ updates even if I know the outcome won’t be disastrous.

Seems OP uses these computers very sporadically. Tumbleweed gets pretty much as many updates as Arch.

Let’s assume it’s real. Do you identify yourself with any of your past lives?

This is probably the best way to do it but it feels hacky. I don’t know how to explain it.

Here’s what I personally liked moving from Arch to OpenSUSE:

• OOTB snapshots with BtrFS
• Easier maintenance (this is just true of every distro with a fixed release cycle)
• Zypper is just plain better than Pacman
• 1-click installs with OBS

People also seem to love YaST but I personally loathe it.

Now for the shit I found annoying.

The way OpenSUSE handles proprietary codecs. They’re on a separate repo that sometimes gets out of sync with the regular repo so you’ll try to update and it’ll pester you about changing the source from which ffmpeg is installed because the official repos have a newer version. This is much milder on Leap than on Tumbleweed.

The patterns. Oh my God, the patterns. Unlike Arch, OpenSUSE aims to provide an apple-esque “just works” experience out of the box. This means that when you tell zypper to install “Plasma”, you don’t just get a bunch of packages from a list called “Plasma” — you get Plasma, a desktop environment. Sure, you can uninstall KMines, but it will come back next update. After all, you didn’t install a compositor, a window manager, a panel and a minesweeper clone; you installed Plasma. And KMines is part of Plasma. In theory, you can uninstall the metapackage for the pattern and that’ll stop its dependencies from coming back; in practice, every single package on a new install is installed through a pattern so removing them one by one will get really annoying really fast.

Finally, it’s set to install recommended packages by default so you’ll uninstall the metapackage for the pattern and think you finally got rid of KMines just to update your system, open your menu and find it there because some other package recommends it. You might think there’s a config to disable this, and you’d be right, but then you’ll update and find yourself with no WiFi because someone decided to split NetworkManager and NetworkManager-wifi into different packages and set the latter as recommended for the former.

In any case, I can think of few things worse than maintaining Arch (or pretty much any rolling release) on computers you don’t use daily so give it a shot.

Disclaimer: I haven’t used OpenSUSE in about 2 years so some (all?) of my information might be outdated. Apparently YaST is no more. Good. Fucking. Riddance.

Even if reincarnation is real, it really wouldn’t be you living as a cockcroach.

I know phrenology is racist pseudoscience, but seriously, why do they all look like that?

I’m sorry. “as a college student”, “72 yrs ago”. You guys really need to cap the age at which a person is allowed to make decisions that impact the lives of millions of people. Jeez, at least make cognitive testing mandatory.

Fastboot/ADB is a nightmare on Windows. I honestly don’t understand how they haven’t figured this shit out yet.

Broadcom, Brother, Creative, Radeon, NVIDIA… If anything, you’re not Linux enough to understand.