Post AnLfd9R57pr9XKK62i by TheRealPomax@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AnLfd9R57pr9XKK62i by TheRealPomax@mastodon.social
       2024-10-25T00:26:35Z
       
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       "Let me compile Node", Pomax said. "Oh okay deadsnakes are assholes and *removed* support instead of freezing it, guess I'll compile Python 3.11 myself", Pomax said. Only to discover it needed 12 additional dependencies installed. Which he installed. Then compiled Python. Then went back to Node. Which wanted GCC 10. "Okay, let me compile THAT, then", Pomax said. The worst thing is that ALL OF THIS WORKS, WHY DO *I* HAVE TO DO THIS?Surely, 2025 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnLfdAdAgN7ZF6zGWe by TheRealPomax@mastodon.social
       2024-10-25T00:28:29Z
       
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       Seriously, if I CAN compile all this bullshit on Ubuntu 16, what the hell is wrong with just paying some folks to keep the PPA's up to date, even if the OS isn't. You don't want me to use Ubuntu 16? GUESS WHAT I ALSO DON'T WANT TO DO BUT HEY SURPRISE NOT ALL OF US GET A CHOICE? Goddamnit @ubuntu, I want to like you, but this is the kind of thing that makes me want to stab someone through my monitor.It's just an older linux version, it didn't magically stop working. It's not MacOS.
       
 (DIR) Post #AnLfdAslkNb81UHiq0 by sullybiker@sully.site
       2024-10-25T00:51:06Z
       
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       @TheRealPomax it boils my piss an ostensibly open source project is so heavy handed with EOL
       
 (DIR) Post #AnLfdC9T1mY5xZ6ZVI by TheRealPomax@mastodon.social
       2024-10-25T00:29:45Z
       
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       (hell, even Windows is better than MacOS in that respect. As long as your application doesn't *rely* on modern APIs, and let's be real: most don't, you can run a windows 11 app on windows 98 just fine. I know. Crazy)