I love that you're doing this for free; I've done similar things in the past and learned that at some point you may be doing people a disservice by keeping old systems and broken implementations alive for free. I'd call it vendor lock in by generosity. Or, tongue in cheek: had the business owner paid for support for those Sonos boxes, he probably wouldn't have them anymore.
This is an interesting one and I’m going entirely off anecdotal evidence here: yes, you will be seeing David Hasselhoff posters and the like quite often throughout Germany. Me personally, I have yet to meet a single person who unironically likes his music or is a „fan“ (whatever that may mean to you) - and this holds true for the generation of my parents as well.
My working theory is that there’s some kind of reverse self-fulfilling prophecy at play here: It’s been imposed on Germans that “we love Hasselhoff” over and over again and at some point we just went with it, albeit it’s mostly and irony thing now.
Then again, I might be totally off and not realize that I’m looking at it from within a bubble of people not actually liking him.
I don’t know if there is a _current_ fanbase of The Hoff in Germany. But back then, Knight Rider and Baywatch were huge here and _I‘ve been looking for freedom_ was one of the most played songs. And then there is the Berlin Wall incident.
ah i see, well you cannot mix up his music and acting careers. his music career is usually perceived as funny and liking it as a bit ironic, that does not mean that his roles in knight rider and baywatch are not truly loved by many. Just play the opening scene of knight rider at a random party of 30 somethings and you will see the reaction.
Where in my previous comment did I say I knew? You are basing your dismissal of my comment on something I never said in a quite frankly unnecessarily passive aggressive tone.
I am not trying to attack you personally. Your comment is FUD because you’re making it seem as if it was undisputed that long term risks exist, and we just don’t know them yet. In your words these risks are even „significant“. Now that we’re pointing fingers, how do you know this?
Regarding gaming - Linux went backwards now that new gadgets like VR headsets and high refresh synced monitors are required for serious gaming. Feels like 2002 all over again without any games.
Well, there would be another kind of consequences. See Android, where there are proprietary drivers and most of them are buggy crap thrown over the wall.
There is also a reason, why Apple won't ship hardware or drivers, that they don't have source for.
I'm not sure "Linux" (by this I believe you mean Linux kernel and distros & open-source software) is hostile to the concept of proprietary drivers. There is only a small subset of users who are hostile to proprietary drivers. And I have no idea why you are suggesting Linux doesn't have a stable ABI.
Because for drivers, it doesn't and never did and never will as long as Linus has anything to say about it. This is in stark contrast to his position on userland ABI, which is so stable you can still run Motif.
If you're using Slackware, or another sane distribution, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ is where you put user-specific X configuration. Making the config immutable would prevent overwrite.
Making local edits in any part of /usr/ is extremely frowned upon.
Yeah, see part one of my comment -- I've found that PyCharm is pretty bad at selecting `pytest` as the test runner. It works for test functions, but not for files/directories.
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but PyCharm just uses `./manage.py test` even when I've selected Py.test as the project test runner.
In my understanding you can just (read-only) bind-mount the necessary libraries into the sandbox, ship your own, or do a combination of the former two.
