They can respectfully choke on my massive GDPR

Can you check in a terminal? If you can see them in the terminal and not in the desktop you're missing a font. If you can't see them in the terminal then you've somehow mangled them. What was the OS and filesystems you copied from?

Comedy can be staged and still be funny. It's acting.

They will suddenly stop supporting them after a few years

Try putting -vvv when you connect and see what's happening. I can imagine this happening if you have multiple identities (private/public key pairs) on the client and you hit a max retry limit. Pub key is always tried first, and it should ask for password once all the local keys have been tried.

Like the S in IoT stands for security. Got it.

Fifty thousand dishwashers side by side

Unfortunately falcon self updates. And it will not work properly if you don't let it do it.

Also add "customer has rejected the maintenance window" to your list.

Ok, you're right, let's give putain all the territories he wants.

It was a struggle. You went to buy some device and you had to check it was not one of those windows-only ones. Modems were particularly bad, for example.

You had to read the how-tos and figure things out. Mailing lists and newsgroups were the only places to find some help.

You had to find the shop willing to honour warranty on the parts and not on the whole system, as they had no knowledge of Linux at all. But once you found them, you were a recurring customer so they were actually happy. You might even have ended up showing them memtest86!

You would still be able to configure the kernel and be able to actually know some of those names, compilation would take several hours but it was a learning experience.

You could interact with very helpful kernel developers and get fixes to test.

You could have been the laughing stock of your circles of friends, but within you, you knew who'd have had the last laugh.

And yes, Loki games had some titles working on Linux natively, Railroad Tycoon was one. Too bad they were ahead of the times and didn't last much.

You are right. I once heard a pilot say "popping flares", so that's my usual choice.

Hey now!