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  • Oh yeah, I remember using tortoiseCVS briefly.

    Mercurial and Bazaar also showed up at around the same time as git, I think all spurred by BitKeeper ending their free licenses for Linux kernel devs.

    An interesting shot to the foot, that one.

    BitKeeper was a proprietary version control system that somehow (and with a lot of controversy) ended up being adopted by a big chunk of the Linux kernel developers, while others were adamant against it.

    In any case, they provided free licenses to Linux devs, with some feature restrictions (including not being able to see full version history) only available for premium clients, while Devs who worked on open source competing systems were even barred from buying a licence.

    When someone started to work on a client that allowed access to these locked away features, they revoked the free licenses, and a host of solutions started being developed immediately. Linus Thorvalds himself started work on git, and that eventually got adopted by the whole Linux ecosystem and, nowadays, the world.

    As for BitKeeper, it’s been dead for years now.




  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldFTFY
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    Only issue I’ve experienced is with sound, I have a wireless plantronics headset I use for meetings and it likes to adjust the audio volume automatically for some reason. Doesn’t break anything, but is mildly annoying because of the pop-up slider randomly showing up.

    Other than that, it doesn’t get in my way, and it’s the best compliment I can think of.

    I don’t have specific software I need to run for work or anything, it’s just vscode and browser, so it’s smooth sailing.

    For chilling, I’m massively impressed with how much proton/wine have improved, I’ve been able to run several windows games I usually play with zero hassle, except for the occasional visual glitch with shader effects (I have a Radeon card).












  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldIs it moral to vandalize Teslas?
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    My hot take: yes it’s perfectly acceptable.

    You are only partly correct when you say “cruelty doesn’t change minds”. I’ll up that and say that you cannot change the mind of a jackass who buys cyber trucks, no matter what you do.

    What you do is show them that there are consequences to their choices, that they’re not somehow immune like they think they are on Facebook or on their preferred social media echo chamber.

    And if that doesn’t change their minds or makes them consider their choices much more carefully, then they fucking deserve it.

    EDIT: also, that’s written in the dirt, isn’t it? Is that what we call vandalism nowadays? What do you call it when the french burn a few cars down when protesting, a world war? Just go wash the shame off, you slob…