Florpty hoondee floon is actually pronounced "För hundra gubbar, Borg spelar redan för Sverige, nu blir det bullfest hela dagen."
I don't know about morality, but my view is that it's part of the deal with free software: users can do what they want with it. If you willingly make your software free, that's what you signed up for. In return, the devs have no obligations to listen to users or do anything they don't want. If they only want to fix bugs in the flatpak, fine, that's their choice. It's their software, we're all free to work on or use it as we want.
If you're into Computer Modern, almost all modern tech variants (not Knuths original) are too light in print. If you look at his printed books from back in the day the letters are thicker. It's just a consequence of using one technology instead of the printing tech the font was designed for. Same thing (but more extreme) happened to Centaur btw.
Check out the pictures of CM here: https://www.levien.com/type/cmr/gain.html
It's rare nowadays to see someone admit a mistake. We should all do it more.
how does it compare to k&r (2nd ed.)?
I agree that conversations sometimes end up being about Linux, which is unfortunate. People seldom recommend installing BSD or other free systems, which is a shame. The lesson here is that we should all install OpenBSD.
How well do the hashtags work in practice on mastodon? Are they used as intended and actually useful?
A bold claim. RHEL updates are mostly security patches, are they doing that due to lack of resources too? Is it that hard to imagine that enterprise distros don't want surprises from changing functionality?
Theory: alcohol inhibits the otherwise natural blocking of earth spinning induced motion sickness. If you drink enough, you can feel the world spinning and lose balance.
The word "stable" usually means unchanging through a release. I.e. functionality of one release is the same if you stay in that release even if you update (security and bug fixes mostly). The experience of the system not doing anything unexpected like crashing is reliability. A rolling distro is by that definition not stable, but it can be more or less bug free and crash free.
In sweden we have lots of äss.
Turns out a misaligned mirror made the laser hit the lens in a weird way, and then bouncing off something on the way out to produce this double line. Probably. What kind of strange troubleshooting have you done and what was the reason/fix?
I made this during a time I felt very lonely. Now I don't feel lonely anymore, I feel great (for reasons unrelated to crafting, but still).
I've noticed a pattern in distrohopping among my linux using friends. Many started with ubuntu back in the day, then switched to a less preconfigured distro like arch, gentoo, etc. You learn a lot being forced to tinker and fix things. But after that, many seem to have landed on distros of the debian or fedora kind, because they want to get actual work done and you can make any distro do almost anything anyway.