They probably haven’t unlocked enough of the tech tree yet for those.

I’ll TLDR the answers you’ve gotten already: Stick to systemd. It works.

…because beyond that I think the debate of systemd is mostly astrology at this point: Systemd is basically what handles startup and monitoring of services on your PC. It has largely replaced the older initd on most systems.

Systemd was somewhat controversial when it was first adopted by many distros as it was seen as bloated compared to initd, plus it was a fundamental shift in how services were handled.

Today it is a mature system and while it still has its detractors, I think it mainly comes down to astrology and elitism. Personally I’ve used both for ages, and it’s fine. So was initd. I just wish DNS wasn’t rolled into systemd, but I don’t care that hard, though.

You can’t just mix and match battery chemistry and call one superior. If you could, they’d all be inferior to a nuclear reactor in the right packaging anyway. But since you absolutely have to be pedantic about it, I’ll make this revision specially for you with emphasis in the right place:

Primary cells hold much more charge than an equivalent rechargeable battery with the same battery chemistry.

And you can’t just allow for different voltage ranges without all the electronics also being adjusted for that.

No. Primary cells are easy and cheap to manufacture, and hold much more charge than rechargeable equivalents.

And so much of everyday tech is already built around the form factor and voltage. You cannot change one without also changing the other. While I’m sure some battery sizes will go away with time, as some already have (Type B, anyone?), I’m willing to bet AA batteries will still be around in some form 100 years from now. Internals might change a little, and capacity might increase, but we’re still going to see 1.5V packed into those dimensions.

All of these look like glasses Elton John wore in the 70s

Those first four words caused me to mentally rap this to the Fresh Prince theme.

The white one. I drank a lot of that ages ago, and I have some specific sounds, smells, and other senses associated with it. I’m sure if I tasted it, a lot of specific memories would immediately trigger.

Decades of fox news propaganda, that’s all. They tapped into the cold war talking points when it came to anything Obama campaigned on.

I wouldn’t, as managed switching is only a small subset of the managerial tasks I attend. I don’t manage individual switches as much as I manage production systems where managed switch management is only a minor component.

On that note, we actually use hubs in one particular place in these systems, and since I manage their installation and asset tracking, does this make them managed Ethernet hubs?

Probably belongs in unpopularopinion, but: Chicken is a waste of spices an herbs.
“But you gotta season it, man!!”
I know. Put the same seasoning on any other meat, and it’ll immediately be a better dish.
Anything you can do with chicken can be done better with pork.

Ok, maybe not wings if you wanna be pedantic about it.

“Would you prefer it I didn’t? Didn’t think so…”

… my response to my GF of 15 years after she commented that I was ogling her half naked.

Unmanaged switches don’t care about VLAN tags, spanning trees, management interfaces, or LACP.

Managed switches care about at least some of those features and therefore will have a management interface to configure them, as well as firmware supporting them.

A dumb/unmanaged switch will look up the MAC address of the intended recipient and map that to a port before forwarding a packet to a particular port. A managed switch might do a lot more.

If you don’t need a managed switch, don’t buy one. If you’re OK with everything on one port being able to communicate with anything on another port, and connectivity is your only concern, you’re probably going to be fine with an unmanaged switch.

Source: I manage (amongst other things) managed switches for a living.

So there’s this chorus of unheard voices calling up into the void “is anyone there? We’re over here. Hello? Anyone?”

My impression of the internet for the past 20 years.

Both are fair points. In the latter case I think OPs of such post should, as a courtesy, add a note that they intend to delete.

I find people deleting their post after a few answers have been provided to be a problem here on asklemmy. As a mod I sometimes serve a relatively short ban when this happens for no real reason. While it isn’t explicitly against the rules, I find it very much to be against the spirit of the board, and it’s really not fair to the ones who took their time to write a response nobody will ever read.

I was on deck when lightning struck the MF/HF antenna. The backdeck was very low compared to most other things, so there was never any danger.

“Hey, Mike, you might wanna report that to the bridge” I asked of my coworker who had the radio.

The universe is so vast that it is statistically unlikely that this planet is the only inhabited one. But therein lies the problem: The vastness makes it impossible for us to confirm anything or even observe traces of hints.

We are alone in the universe. And the aliens, they are alone too.

45 degrees in Czech Republic: Probably the strongest beer you’ve ever tasted.

Me whenever I had to visit corporate.

Background: I’m field service personnel. I’m either at home, or I’m in some corner of the world, jury rigging hardware and voiding warranties to ensure everything works until the end of the project. But once in a while I have to visit the head office. And once in a while I have to attend a meeting with someone on the penguin-floor. I stand out like a pink elephant in a snowy field.

A coworker of mine who dealt with the “normal” IT stuff commented that it was always funny receiving hardware from us in the field, because it was opposite of what he got from people in the office; They could receive a work laptop that was shiny and sparkly on the outside, looking almost new until you opened it up:
Screen was dirty, and keyboard was full of makeup-residue and other gunk.
And then there was my laptop that needed a replacement: The finish on every corner was worn down, it had physical bits missing from the trim, paint had stripped in a spot due to a chemical spill, and there was a stain from actual lubrication grease. But open it up, and it was pristine.

EDIT: Come to think of it, the ethernet port was physically missing. The solder pads of the RJ45 port had loosened after too much abuse.