Copies of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” were downloaded tens of millions of times, with an estimated loss to the copyright owner of tens of millions of dollars.

Actually lol’d

I used to use cmus before the streaming services got to me

I think they use up too much space. I primarily use laptops with limited SSD storage and using flatpak has come back to bite me a couple of times.

When I was younger I didn’t get tis popularity, as I got older it seems my intuition was correct

As another user pointed out, the ones with Intel chips work well ie older models (idk the details as I don’t use Apple products)

To me it’s similar to buying illegal animal products and showcasing it for public awareness

“It’s not to support the poachers but to raise awareness”

Maybe I’m too entrenched in FOSS political vision, but why devote these tremendous efforts to improve products of a company like Apple. I don’t understand the motivation behind Asahi linux, except “just because it can be done” ie academic purpose

Fair enough. For me, scripts are small reusable programs performing a very specific (sometimes trivial or common) task. Eg: making a wav file from PCM data, modifying byte sequences or formatted text in a particular way, etc. I mostly program in C so I have written most scripts in C. Need not necessarily be grokkable as long as its application and scope is clear

I do not get your point?

A script is more about the program rather than the language. You can write a script in assembly or C++ or whatever

He might’ve graduated years ago. My experience (also from India) was Ubuntu/Mint is the most likely OS you will encounter in academia here. In school, we were taught about OSes (just GUI programs from Windows and Linux). And during engineering where basic programming is taught to all, we were encouraged to use Ubuntu and even our computer lab had Ubuntu or Mint installed on all computers.

Depends on how old the HDD is

Not officially supported but it works just as well and might be more well documented than Ubuntu, regarding support and issues

You joke but one time after a fresh install I genuinely forgot to update (the linux header files or something) and some of the device drivers weren’t working

With app images it’s easier than installing. Although the chmod step will deter the typical windows user