NeXT is probably the pretty direct ancestor of osx dock. Only Apple turned it from good to bad by moving it to the bottom, where there is no space. And that only got worse as screens became wider, but not taller. And they made it overlap and obscure content and bounce around if you got near it making it extra obnoxious and hard to use.

Other docks existed even before, of course.

You could use some sort of caffeine as a workaround. I do since sleep locks don’t always work.

It’s Nvidia. That’s not going to change.

And show by example that lying and arbitrary cruelty is ok, especially from a position of authority.

With big warm fuzzy secret heart

Nvidia user?

One of the many boons of colonialism.

Everyone doesn’t. Just a handful of loud idiots who mostly don’t work with init systems. It is objectively better. There are some things you could criticise, but any blanket statement like that is just category a.

I was just thinking that iptables lasted a good 20 years. Over twice that of ipchains. Was it good enough or did it just have too much inertia?

Nf is probably a welcome improvement in any case.

Newer toolkits all seem to be going immediate mode. Which I kind of hate as an idea personally.

But it was the blackjack and hookers that got us into this in the first place.

No. But you can run some of the init scripts with ‘status’ and they might print something. And telinit can do a few basic things.

It may actually be a security hazard since there is a small chance of e.g. OOM killing your lock screen or other such process.

Every.

Even a little entertaining.

Being evil pays really well. Sometimes.

It’s unstable in the sense that it doesn’t stay the same for a long time. Stable is the release that will essentially stay the same until you install a different release.

Sid is the kid next door (Iirc) from Toy Story who would melt and mutilate toys for fun. He may have been a different kind of unstable.

Neither is unstable like an old windows pc.