Hating on Rocky is going to be popular and he has earned a lot of it. He also did a lot to turn around a team that nobody in Chicago cared about and made them relevant again. Like most people in life, he is a complicated individual.

They know what they wrote

Everyone says they wanted a new nexus 7, we’re on our way there!

Because they something to lock you in to Ubuntu. They want Ubuntu to be the only thing that uses snaps. They want to get snaps to be an Ubuntu exclusive feature, and once they can start convincing some random closed source devs to ship in only the snap format they have a hook to keep you on Ubuntu. And they want those random random closed source devs to be focused on more of the corporate world so they can sell some support licenses.

Download the netinst image. You get the option of installing a de or none entirely.

Thank you, very helpful! In this case the vm is just a file server. The bulk of the traffic is for Time Machine. In the past I had the host manage samba shares on btrfs but was exploring delegating that to a vm and playing with zfs. This is all home network admin fun, and your response gave some good info.

It’s 1a for me as the worst decision in modern history, 1b is legalizing direct to consumer medicine marketing.

Sorry, you need to blame apple for this /s

proprietary file extensions

What file extension is that?

Gonna need a guest appearance by Wart to make it truly “2”

Time. There was one time when a 65” 1080p tv would set you back $10k. Now those are Black Friday giveaways for test driving a car. By manufacturing the first units Apple can get the manufacturing time to mature on the exact specs they want which will lower costs.

Just look at the iPhone SE, it is so cheap because all of the hard work was done years ago and it’s just swapping out a chip every few years.