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mircea_popescu: you don't HAVE TO update anything, and if it sucks you don't update.
mircea_popescu: every step of the way of technology is sound and can be rested upon.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the issue should be addressed irrespective of how obnoxious X kiddo is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends which. the oil prospectors that make money do.
mircea_popescu: if the problem exists it's a prime indicator you're wasting your life.
mircea_popescu: so... if what you do is a good idea, this sort of problem can't possibly exists.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt they actually use poettering stuff either, but what do i know
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically you're running your own metal which you don't want to colo because you figure it's actually cheaper in your own house sort of thing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
mircea_popescu: now suppose the major cost of the icecream truck wasn't icecream, but... windshield wiper.
mircea_popescu: but both of these make sense from a business perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and actually renting stuff like amzon offers is not cheaper than what you're currently doing ?!
mircea_popescu: but you see how from a business perspective this makes no sense ? the hardware's the biggest cost. in any and all dcs ever since the world begun.
mircea_popescu: there is a lot terribly wrong with the picture you paint. i've yet to see this wonder where support costs more than the hardware.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : two $10 old cpus are faster than a $50 modern cpu.
mircea_popescu: anyway, entertain me here. so what happens if you use 2010 hardware with older linux instals is that what, your shit moves slower ?
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagine what the us agency of redhat is trying to solve is exactly your problem,
mircea_popescu: poettering should be good news for you then - soon enough you won't need an emulator at all.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into a "because i need to run windows".
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into this sort of edge myself. i guess count it as a blessing an' move on.
mircea_popescu: well this sounds like a fucking curse on the level of, "must have sex in my car trunk, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: you can't just boot up say a vm for it on a remote server ?
mircea_popescu: and you gotta run the winblows in an emulator on a physical laptop ?
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with this picture tho. i find it hard to believe that you need a lot of computing that is a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don't do enough hi res porn conversion on a laptop to care ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> on account of my profession, i occasionally do things like booting up winblows in an emulator. << actually last i did that it was on... ubuntu!
mircea_popescu: finding a fucking nat router that's not backdoored by design is a fucking hassle as it is.
mircea_popescu: it's not like simply ignoring pottering forces one to any sort of anything. so you run 2005 linux on 2010 hardware. you probably don't want the modern crapolade for any serious purpose anyway,
mircea_popescu: no but look, linux only went braindamaged this decade.
mircea_popescu: the cpu instruction set changed or something ? it's the same thing.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you think you can't run "max" whatever they are on older debians ?
mircea_popescu: i can't even be bothered to count all the ways that's stupid. wtf.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck takes any electronics from their job is so stupid shouldn't get to live anyway.
mircea_popescu: uh. if you have servers you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who exactly is doomed to grunt on recent hardware
mircea_popescu: but i suppose putting more steam behind openbsd can't hurt.
mircea_popescu: dude don't tell me the forum muppetry actually fucks itself to memorialize being fucked.
mircea_popescu: "If you have ever been F#CKED using BTCitcoin for something this would be a great way to memorialize that as well."
mircea_popescu: it's also the one to most famously rebel against its status, but so what of that.
mircea_popescu: artist is a servile profession. the long and the short of it.
mircea_popescu: yeah, this i true in the reverse. bloggers that write for someone else aren't much more than buskers.
mircea_popescu: jurov except then they're not real artists. just buskers.
mircea_popescu: there is no economically viable path for "artists" outside of mooching off the sovereign.
mircea_popescu: total ocd case, she'd actually pluck her hairs by hand, braid them in threes then braid the results and on it went.
mircea_popescu: jurov i used to know this chick that wore a bracelet she made out of her pubic hair.
mircea_popescu: i imagine it makes little sense to have anymore at all, tbh.
mircea_popescu: because at the time idiots honestly thought the "internet funbux" angle can be pushed.
mircea_popescu: it had its political importance at the time, these aren;'t really remembered today, but at some point i had to go into fucking something awful forums and argue with the idiots as to why bitcoin actualy is valuable.
mircea_popescu: it made perfect sense to have a coin with something more than nothing's worth of bitcoin in it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you gotta ppreciate, when the cas coins were a thing, 50 btc was like 100 bux