I neglected to update for like seven “major” versions recently. I took the safe-ish route to just read every release note as I go and install the last minor version of each major version release, then start, quick check, stop, next one. It turned out fine.

edit: Backup, backup, backup. Then you can’t fail.

Penguin plus GNU OS or PenGNUin as I’ve taken to calling it.

The “I don’t want to be straight, anything but straight” talk was a dead giveaway. I don’t know how people took it seriously.

(I guess this post continues that same “anything but straight” line.)

why do they have a red and a black sofa. who needs two sofas. and why arent they the same color.

what are your strategies against such sites tracking you?

Close and never go there again. If I’m bit enough times, it goes in the hosts file for blocking. If I really need the stuff on there, I try archived versions on web.archive.org or archive.today

My point was that it’s not so much “fair reasoning” as just a statement of that fact.

That’s just saying “we want to sell access to our code, so we can’t make it open source”. Basically the definition of proprietary software, no?