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[Michael_S]

I didn't call users parasites. I called the people who take an open source project and then make and sell a proprietary version, without contributing...

[Michael_S]

To address the "developer's freedom" thing for the bazillionth time:

copyleft takes away the recipient's freedom to release a proprietary...

[Michael_S]

I didn't know, thanks. I've only been using virt-manager at home, at work it's all Amazon EC2 orchestrated through Terraform....

[Michael_S]

I can understand putting emphasis on Cockpit, because - with proper authentication and authorization systems in place - it's probably easier to manage...

[Michael_S]

Ditto. Have it mounted on eight drives in my house right now....

[Michael_S]

In my experience, Android passed into 'acceptable performance' territory with version 6 or so and 3GB of RAM, and that still holds. More memory is nicer,...

[Michael_S]

I think if you get a guide to the use of $, %, @, and &, and a reference sheet for the special variables and a few of the syntactic quirks, you can...

[Michael_S]

To get best practices from a Perl 5 program, you need to start each source file with something like this:

use v5.24;   # force a minimum

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[Michael_S]

I agree with all of that, save I would add that if your income and wealth are low enough then living within your means may be impossible.

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[Michael_S]

I'm worried about the build quality, not the feature set. A Toyota won't give you the same comfort, style, or fun-to-drive experience as a Lexus, but...

[Michael_S]

If you read the rest of my post, my point was that for smart phones anything below a Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, or iPhone breaks very quickly. So...

[Michael_S]

I suspect you were defining "powerful" as fast and memory efficient and the other person was defining it as "expressive" - able to...

[Michael_S]

I love Raku, I've been playing with it. It's got everything - object-oriented top to bottom, multiple inheritance, functional programming, generics,...

[Michael_S]

I would say the way a market works when it functions normally and functions in a way friendly to people with average incomes is that "you get what...

[Michael_S]

So, the thing I hate about that is that it translates to "be a member of the wealthy class or else go screw yourself".

I hate Microsoft...

[Michael_S]

Perl has been dying. This isn't enough to reverse that, but I think it is a necessary step in any attempt to reverse it.

In Perl 5.32 you...

[Michael_S]

I live in the US, so getting a Fairphone would be difficult. I agree it's a great choice.

In the reviews I've been reading, even the Samsung...

[Michael_S]

I had been trying to get by with mid range Android phones and the best case options available for them for my family. LGs, Motorolas, Xioamis, OnePlus...

[Michael_S]

I don't own any Apple products, but to be fair to Apple they have the least evil planned obsolescence life cycle for smartphones. All the Android vendors,...

[Michael_S]

I agree completely with minimizing external dependencies. I am glad the new builtin object system is under discussion, but I bet we're years away from...