oh look, its the same time as that stopped clock.
29.2 tweets a day?
At a rate of 10,658 tweets a year, I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
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I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
Nope.
Last year’s winner was Amber Heard in Overwatch cosplay
29.2 tweets a day?
The brilliant businessman is clearly hard at work.
Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin’ dare ya.
Edit: we want Falcon 9’s landing guidance software too.
Open sourcing the falcon 9 software would almost definitely be a violation of ITAR… On second thought it would be fun to see him go to prison.
Nothing could possibly go wrong open sourcing a
misslerocket guidance system…Source code is protected under 1st amendment
That’s like saying state secrets are protected under the 1st lol
I don’t think it’s true
Source code is
I think there has always been and always will be exceptions for military technology.
Oh yeah I forgot about the first anyways the guy who really killed JFK is
No, not just open, free it entirely. License the code under a GPL license.
It’ll probably be MIT… just like the rest of the corps.
I want a world where anyone can go to space. It the thing I wanna do the most. But I’m not rich and I’m no super smart and I have awful health.
I know what you mean, but if it’s any consolation, you are in space.
I want to be in space by myself
Blanket fort?
How do you know you aren’t alone?
I mean, you right lol
We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.
Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing…there was a British one I can’t remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.
Edit: here is is and I was mistaken it’s not a SCRAMjet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
Space planes carry along heavy-as-fuck wings, control surfaces and a lot of other bullshit that’s only useful inside the atmosphere, and which massively increase fuel consumption for every single maneuver while your space plane is actually where you want it to do stuff - in space. And the only benefit is that the atmosphere helps lift and fuel your vehicle to about 10% of orbital velocity. The other 90% it will have to accelerate just like any other rocket.
The SpaceX approach is much better: Land and reuse all parts of your rocket, but don’t carry them with you further than where they’re useful. Rockets leave the atmosphere where wings would work within a few minutes anyway.
Yeah but…most people’s grandparents aren’t going to be riding rockets. This isn’t sustainable for widespread access to space.
Do you really want countries like North Korea, Iran and China having access to software that would certainly be used for missile guidance?
Why not. If everyone has it, everyone will be afraid to use it, because they know everyone else has it, but what they don’t know is how many have developed a working prototype.
Ehh, mutually assured destruction has worked so far, but there are some crazy assholes out there who might not act rationally.
Yeah, that is true.
Yes like in America gun violence never happens because everyone has guns.
Hmmm
Please don’t fucking touch anything to do with Linux Musk. Please.
Crazy, rich South Africans is how we got Ubuntu
But would you like to upgrade to Ubuntu pro?
Ubuntu pro is not at all a bad thing. It’s free to consumers but you can also just ignore it if you don’t need it.
Can we disable the prompt?
The ssh prompt? I think you just need to mess with the files in /etc/update-motd.d
The prompt on the desktop that says there and pending updates that can only be installed with Pro.
I’ve been using Ubuntu for about 3, years now on the desktop and I don’t know what you’re talking about. Where exactly is that prompt? And they’re not hiding updates behind pro, it’s just extra on top of the updates you’d get on other distros.
Ubuntu is a gateway drug to Arch.
And arch is a gateway drug to NixOS or gentoo
Select your drug now
I smoke my Linux with a filter.
Ah, a Zorin user
I have selected Fedora. Where did I go wrong?
Something something IBM something
I’m an Arch user flirting with the idea of NixOS. Is it too late to save me?
Hes to far gone SMH
I ran nix for awhile and it was super stable, i just kinda got bored of using it. I know its really powerful with nixpills and flakes.
Funny Gentoo actually was my gateway to arch. Loved the customizability of Gentoo and the rolling release model.
But building Chrome and Firefox (I needed both for work reasons sometimes) every update was the nail in the coffin. Switched to Arch and didn’t miss a thing.
Could you elaborate on this for those of us who don’t know the context?
Canonical, the company that is responsible for Ubuntu, was founded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to sell B2B Linux tech support.
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Aha thanks for letting me know 👍
Ubuntu
It’s also how we got snap packages and apartheid, and I’m not even sure which of those is worse. (yes, I’m joking)
Par for the course
Linux Musk sounds like the evil counterpart to Mint. A fork of Red Star OS, etc.
Linux Musk Cinnamon. Yours for a modest subscription.
Careful Linus. This guy may start claiming he is a confounder of Linux any moment now.
Musk certainly is confounding.
What? You didn’t know he was Linus’s right hand man back the?
Eww, we stepped in some Elon… 🤢
oh, so that’s why its so musky in here
The nice thing about Linux is, he can’t buy it and fuck it up.
He can still fuck up the community.
How?
He’ll claim he invented it
Well, he at least invented X11…
Let me put it to you this way.
Elon Musk fanboys, now running arch.
Just… Let that simmer for a minute.
Anyone smart enough to run Arch is smart enough to recognize Elon is an imbecile.
As a complete idiot who uses arch on her main PC, I can attest that you don’t have to be particularly smart to use it.
But do you recognize Musk as an imbecile? If you do you’re smarter than you think.
Take it from me, people who openly say they’re idiots usually aren’t. Socrates: I now know I know nothing.
Maybe nowadays, with Elon’s imbecility so publicly visible.
I’ve run Arch for close to 10 years, and was pretty jazzed by Musk in the early days of his presiding over Tesla and Space X. Then again, I was barely an adult at the time, and I hadn’t yet come across the first reports of terrible working conditions and his overall shittyness as a manager/exec.
A lot of people forget how overwhelmingly, insanely popular Musk was with way too online nerds. He was reddit’s golden child for years. Part of this is that whenever Disney started releasing the Marvel movies, beginning with Iron Man, Musk was front and center as the core inspiration for Tony Stark (yes, I’m serious, the director and Robert Downey Jr. basically went on record as saying as much) and he fucking milked that shit. It’s also important to understand that for a time he was seen as a forward looking entrepreneur whose business was “going to help save the planet by making electric cars so popular that every car manufacturer would switch to electric vehicle production to keep up.” If Musk was a genius at one thing, it was manipulating public perception of himself and his enterprises. It took years of him being a thin-skinned weirdo and massive corporate tool to undo the amount of positive sentiment he’d built for himself and Tesla.
you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.
to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.
Popularize among his follower base and make it cringe to use Linux
You say that, but I’ll be more than willing to try and sell him a copy of the source code.
For extra irony, sell him an NFT to the source code.
Just like chromium is safe from Google?
Welp, off to macOS now. Sorry guys I can’t be a part of this community anymore.
Too expensive for me. FreeBSD it is!
Time to boot up the old windows 98 machine from the closet and start making my own modern app alternative.
I’d rather go for Win95, now that dotnet9x is out there and I can run modern software: https://youtu.be/CTUMNtKQLl8?si=zM7L49Y4wuDL_XYN
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/CTUMNtKQLl8?si=zM7L49Y4wuDL_XYN
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
He’ll realise his own distro and call it OS X.
LinuX
LinuS
LinuE
LinuX
LinuY
The lawsuits would be hilarious.
This is good work.
Realistically, he would call it ElonOS, hire a bunch of shitty systems programmers to cobble together a bullshit operating system mostly comprised of code stolen from other open source projects, insist that it be written in python because “python is critical to AI,” talk about how the OS integrates with AI seamlessly while having no actual AI in it at all, sell it with a tiered subscription that locked basic functionality, like being able to use the file system, behind a paywall, and then quickly abandon the project and fire everyone involved, having made no real money from the venture but still referring to it as a “triumph of engineering.”
LinuseX
Quick, someone pretend to be “the Linux company” and convince him to buy it!
Noo, I don’t want Linux to be sold to Elon…
As the CEO of Linux, I’ve had long and intense discussions with Mr Musk about the future of the company if he were to buy it, and I have come to the conclusion that he is a very good and smart businessman. There is no doubt in my mind that our company will thrive under his competent leadership. The Linux Corporation™ is therefore proud to announce that we have decided to accept his gracious offer of 69 billion US dollars, payable in $100 Google Play gift cards.
You forgot to tell them that our head office is…
300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
…and all the play cards should be sent there!
Broken clock.
Fuck off Musk.
Is it purely because Linux has the letter “X” in it?
First thing he’ll do is write Torvalds and suggest a minor change to the naming.
given Linus’ flair for writing replies, I would love to see him rip into Elon.
I really appreciate Linus trying to tone down the nastiness in his replies over the years, but I’d be willing to let almost anything slide if it means getting a proper, old-school Torvalds tear-down of Musk.
LinuX: in honor of the LinuX Foundation’s new sponsor, X.
He’ll get very virulent in the X vs Wayland debate before he even learns what these mean.
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