I'm actually surprised when I hear someone technical say they still use Google Search (the search product specifically - they still reign supreme with Maps, etc). I used to love it, but that was quite a long time ago.

I personally use Brave Search and perplexity for those very rare instances when brave search doesn't instantly find what I am looking for. Literally the only thing I (rarely) miss from google is super-deep support for boolean search operators, but then I just tag a !g (exactly like DDG's brilliant bangs) on the end and that works. (I also tried Kagi and did like it, but didn't find compelling differences over Brave Search, especially compared to brave search's excellent and free AI.)

As I read your comment, I was thinking "Really? Is it that surprising?" Then I remembered you said "someone technical", and no longer am surprised. Although I work with some technical people, I'm also surrounded by fools. Just the other day, I watched someone at work open a new tab to Google search, type "Google" and then click on Google search in the results, bringing them to the same page they had just left. With how quickly they did it, I can only imagine it is muscle memory and they haven't noticed yet that their new tab is Google search, or that this is better somehow.

MacOS is neutered for any advanced or even power user compared to practically any Linux desktop experience. Trying to just resize or remove a window should convince you of that instantly.

That statement makes no sense. X11 works fine on macOS and running it in rootful mode with Gnome essentially works the same way it would work on an OS that uses the Linux kernel.

Granted, it will not integrate with anything hardware-wise by itself (unless there's a package for it - if not, macOS still handles it, and Aqua/Quartz will keep running in the background anyway), but if what you wanted was something that is KDE or GNOME running with its own WM on its own X11 server, doing the exact same thing you'd get if you're running a Linux distro, that's been natively possible for over 15 years.

If a power user loses their power based on what GUI happens to be in front of them, how much of a power user was the power user to begin with?

There is a major difference between losing your power and having to constantly fight the UI to keep your power. And, for example, window management on Mac is clunky as all hell.

Which is why I wrote about running the exact UI that was referenced, with the same window server, window manager and desktop environment.

It's just a matter of what one is used to. As someone who's used macOS since before OS X was released (alongside Windows and Linux), moving and resizing windows rarely poses issues.

Seems like they'd have to find another 5 year old Thinkpad.

Remove the batteries. Datacenters have redundant power and UPS.

"We've extracted what we can today."

"This was a marathon session. I will congratulate myself endlessly on being so smart. We're in a good place to pick up again tomorrow."

"I'm not proceeding on feature X"

"Oh you're right, I'm being lazy about that."

Texas

Based on your username I assume you moved to Texas rather than from there. Correct?

Well he considers Texas to be a country, so maybe he’s from there.

Yes :)

he is not op.

In the United States at least, a bank who is offering a subprime loan is taking the bulk of that risk.

Student loans are guaranteed by the federal government. That is not the same thing at all.

During the 2008 Crisis, it was mortgage holders who got fucked and banks made whole, so risk asymmetries go far beyond just student loans.

People investing in companies do so knowing that it might be a poor investment.

But if a company borrowed the money and never had the intention to make enough to pay it back or return on investment, we have a different word for that. That word is fraud. Just ask Elizabeth Holmes.

Its not bad intention from the start. Im sure the succesful ones who land well pating jobs after school do pay off their loans.

Anyone tried out Userify? It creates/removes ssh pubkeys locally so (like a CA) no authn server needs to be online. But unlike certs, active sessions and processes are terminated when the user access is revoked.

We're in the process of updating the experience to this century! ;)

We've always taken the stance that crusty is better than vulnerable, but it turns out that not having a modern experience after 15 years is starting to feel like maybe we need to step up the features and shininess :)

As well as Islam (the Kaaba).

The Kaaba was not covered in black until around the 13 century.