You forgot the /s so I'll pretend you're being serious:

Of course you can debug the kernel drivers, it is open source after all. But it's always easier to start with a working system and change one thing at a time to isolate any issues that might come up.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

-Linus Torvalds

(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.

Not the best example since they're trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.

Because 99.999% of the time the hardware you're buying is different from the hardware you have prior experience with. Even if the model numbers are the same there could be a change in hw or fw revision that breaks compatability with whatever drivers you previously had success with.

Being intoxicated while making important decisions that affect the future of the country doesn't count as "responsible," IMO.

I think you meant "going to nightclubs as a white foreigner in Japan"

False - you can get a DUI on a horse (in some states).

53% of white women voted for Trump, and they aren't going to join 4B. "Men" didn't elect Trump, a slight majority of America did. When you point a finger, three are pointing back...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

The unicyclist on the left is saying the bicyclist is only riding a bike because they don't have enough skill for a unicycle. The unicyclist on the right is saying they can't learn to ride a bike because they've spent too much of their life riding a unicycle. It's a dig at people who don't want to switch to memory-safe languages like rust.

This is gold.

I remember this article... He went for a hike and didn't tell his roommates when he would be back. He didn't answer their calls (I'm assuming he needed some time alone), and was gone for more than 24 hours so they reported him missing. He just wanted some time away from his roommates and they put him the the national news.

If part of their job is working with the OSS community I don't see anything wrong (and I just finished my annual training a few weeks ago, so it's still fresh in my mind).

Edit: keeping an "official" repo secret does seem like an issue, but public posts about the correct process to contribute upstream doesn't seem like a problem.

And the same goes for company wifi if you have to log in with your own username.