@Taqsblaz3 I misunderstood your message then "Some1 already doing that". Sorry for the casting shade, please follow guidelines and regulation in your region, medical data is important and somewhat sacred in IT security.

@Taqsblaz3 key point of a prototype that it isn't in production use. You already mentioned a dev would be using it so I am a bit suspicious.

@12bitfloat That is Linux specific, true. But on the other hand it also comes with the promise that your package manager will work and will keep working.

The amount of times I had to go and re-link, reinstall, rebuild or change my path and reboot over and over again with Windows, just because the installer for program X overwrote/changed some value or reference or file or dependency for program Y is insane.

That is a major reason I switched to package manager driven installation now.

But true, you are somewhat dependant on limitations of the package manager and related repositories and maintainers.

Flatpaks and Appimages and such created by the software teams themselves are getting more and more popular though so as a user you often have a choice to skip the package manager (I am not a fan of this, but having options is good).

@12bitfloat is equally annoying on MacOS or Windows, or even Android or iOS. Take this scenario.

Person X: on a train, bad connection. Wants to read messages.

Discord: No you cannot, download this 60MB+ update executable NOW!

-> Not OS specific.

Sure the AUR issue is Linux specific but that wasn't the focus of my post.

Locking out the previous version of your chat app the second you release a new version is dumb and annoying and doesn't really have a good reason at all.

@electrineer Is a possibility. Discord does seem like a mess on the back-end side. Audio device management is a mess too which is kindoff sad as that is a major usecase for the app.

@electrineer ref. my comment above yours hehe

@HerrNyani people do love polarisation 😋

@hitko I never stated something was broken, I never blamed the AUR for this, I never said this was specifically Manjaro related or even specifically Linux related.

Locking out users the instant you release an update for a chat application is dumb.

If you had properly read my post and the thread and used both hemispheres of your brain you would have known this before you were the one going apeshit.

@hitko My guy, who pissed in your coffee this morning?

Locking out an older version of a chat app the instant you release a new version is stupid, utterly useless and inconvenient.

It doesn't matter if I run Windon't, Crapple MacOS or Shitnux, the lockout is stupid.

The only real environment where that is a logical choice is for games, as patches and fixes and general symmetry across installs is required there.

@kiki I'm not American so I don't use BIDMAS or the other acronyms however I understand their meaning and agree they are confusing and inadequate.

@kiki I agree with your solution however the answer 1 (scroll up a bit) is correct in some nuanced way, mainly a discussion on proper notation.

I haven't used Lisp yet. Or well yes I do for my spacemacs config but not in a really "use" way.

@FuckJava Yeah my bad, English isn't my native tongue but even there I usually mess this up. Thanks though, I try to work on it!

True, tried to use it one day and was blown away by how ridiculous the Giphy integration was.

I have a shortcut for Tenor though on my laptop (global, not Slack specific) so I just copy paste those.

@C0D4 Nice one! Went right over my head 😅

Was a good joke, my bad for not getting it on this one 😋

@C0D4 I don't know if I should laugh or ask you to elaborate 🤨

@iiii agree!

@iiii Here's his solution visualized.

His point basically was that "÷" is a written fraction and that ":" should be used if it is an "inline" fraction, and thus the solution is as in the graphical equation and not 9.

I don't know how I feel about that but he was adamant.

@iiii I'll visualize my colleagues arguments in TeX, just a minute.

I'm confident the answer is 9, as I interpret the expression as:

6÷2(2+1)

6 divided by 2 times brackets 2 plus 1 close brackets

6 divided by 2 times 3

3 times 3

9

(New comment with "written" colleague argument in a minute, give me a moment 😋)

@SalsaGal Oh yeah I know there are fixes. I generally dislike touching config files if I don't have to, but thanks for the tip.

My rant is more about how that is a stupid practice and that as a developer if you ever come to designing an update mechanism: please don't do this.

@EmberQuill exact argument for one of the colleagues who had 1 as an answer.

@MammaNeedHummus They both agreed on that. And they still didn't agree on the answer 😋😋

@IntrusionCM West-Europe, more I'm not willing to give away on a public forum.

Anyways government distrust is a feeling I share, but random dev distrust is just a bit more abundant for me.

Stay strong.

@IntrusionCM in my country there is a government standardised health platform that contains basically everything: surgery notes from surgeon, prescriptions, imagery, next appointments and so on.

It's well organized and in government control. I can't speak of back-end security ofcourse but for the 6 years it has been in service there has not been leaks or fuck-ups so they're doing something right.

I trust this 90% more than a random dev saying he made a platform. I'll never trust something I didn't write myself 100% but this sounds like a bad idea in general.

Also, somewhat good for future proofing? Why would you want a phone or computer that can only just handle the current high-tech? Just to need to buy another one in a year? Some headspace is more than welcome.

Although your 4090 example is correct - that is absolute overkill unless you render photorealistic 3D videos on a daily basis.

@Taqsblaz3 "I'm going to be working with"

For me this translates to: "I'm currently not..."

I don't know what county you're in but in my country you would already have broken several laws if that is the case.

Somewhat related: https://youtu.be/EJJE3MWIccE

@AleCx04 Linux is harder to force into these directions though. Don't like features in a new kernel? Don't install it. Don't like not knowing what's going on in the background? Go Gentoo. Like to have 100% fine grained controll? Finish the LFS book.

There are tons of options, other (consumer) OSs just don't even have this spectrum. You have windows or you don't. No grades of control or choice.

@Nanos major difference here is that that is posted on the "public" facing part of Facebook.

Apple's thing intruded in private chats and there were even rumors that it reached iCloud galleries (however this was never officially confirmed)

Not too relevant, still going to drop this here.