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New comment by Gud in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

Gud — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:17:59 +0000

I believe FreeBSD will make a comeback on the server. But you do you.

New comment by Gud in "Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:02:04 +0000

Honestly I’d just start swimming.

New comment by Gud in "Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:00:47 +0000

Sam Altman is hardly a “non conformist”.

New comment by Gud in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:30:33 +0000

No it makes no sense at all. I do my gaming on Arch.

Windows sucks and I hope to see the demise of Microsoft during my lifetime(crosses fingers).

New comment by Gud in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:05:30 +0000

Thanks for the information. Now, if they would only fix search…

New comment by Gud in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:26:49 +0000

Jails is far superior to the kludge that is docker. “Every server” only needs docker if you’re asking the wrong questions

New comment by Gud in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:25:40 +0000

But then you’re stuck running Linux as your primary OS, which is a huge drawback.

FWIW, I’ve done both, FreeBSD with a virtualised OpenBSD for WiFi, and currently I run Arch so I can do gaming, with FreeBSD virtualised for development. I’m kind of looking to go back to my previous setup.

New comment by Gud in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

Gud — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:53:20 +0000

You can tell it to be no nonsense

New comment by Gud in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

Gud — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:28:59 +0000

Why is that “obviously “? I find Linux to be a broken mess.

FWIW I use them both, FreeBSD and Arch , but let’s not pretend the layers of crap tacked onto the Linux kernel is some pinnacle of computing.

New comment by Gud in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Gud — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:35:14 +0000

This is downvoted but needs to be said. Thunderbird was an amazing 90's style piece of software that has unfortunately been been changed into a more "modern" look, with excessive white space and power-user hostile work flows.

It was near perfect, just needed better search, pretty much.

New comment by Gud in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

Gud — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:05:02 +0000

There is hardly any wilderness left in Europe.

New comment by Gud in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

Gud — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:16:47 +0000

Many programmers("software developers") believe they have the final say on what an application should be like, and they were mostly right before the advent of LLM assisted software development.

I started programming as a child, although I was more interested in system administration.

Today I work as a high voltage test engineer on new substations. I do partial discharge measurements mostly on green field sites.

I have developed amazing tools for myself, software that I could only dream of having that would have taken years of cat herding and millions of dollars, and still not be quite what I wanted. I am a competent programmer, but I don't have the time. I have the ideas, I even know how to do it, but I already work 50-60 hours a week.

Now I can ping pong my ideas with chatgpt and claude and get something useful out of it, all in the background.

The only thing that leaves a bad taste in my mouth, is that this technology is owned by at best neutral corporations. I want to host it myself, but I can't pay the money, which sucks.

New comment by Gud in "Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities"

Gud — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:44:59 +0000

The problem of course is that many of these devices are eager to connect to the internet so they can often user hostile updates.

New comment by Gud in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Gud — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:27:45 +0000

Willing or not, the Hormuz toll will be paid for many years to come.

Thanks, Donald. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Dues

New comment by Gud in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

Gud — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:31:32 +0000

Many countries can do this? Pakistan, France. What is the relevance?

New comment by Gud in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

Gud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:16:16 +0000

You believe a USA run amok will last long? I doubt it.

New comment by Gud in "A whole civilization might die tonight"

Gud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:48:57 +0000

I guess we’ll find out!

New comment by Gud in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

Gud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:34:37 +0000

You can stockpile food, resources for yourself, your family, and your neighbors.

New comment by Gud in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

Gud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:43:24 +0000

No, this is not “propaganda “ to justify anything Trump is up to.

The USA has not been “problematic”, it has enforced a particular ideology on the world with the rest of us unwilling participants.

The USA has repeatedly overthrown diplomatically elected leaders(Iran ironically being the best example, a democratic government toppled because it was stopping American business interests and democratising its oil resources) so the USAs ownership class can make their fortunes.

Sometimes , it has stopped elections, exterminated millions, set their villages on fire, because the people were picking the wrong ideology.

Remove your rose tinted glasses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

New comment by Gud in "Iran Is Not Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It's Running a Toll Booth"

Gud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:38:43 +0000

1$/barrel “in yuan”, please just write in yuan. In a decade or two the yuan will be the world currency anyway, might as well get used to it.

It is interesting times, as the Chinese proverb goes.