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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Linux, MacOS and Windows have been completely rewritten multiple times across their existence.

    So it’s not like the original decisions are all still in play.

    Windows and Mac OS were rewritten under some particular weird duresses of closed source profit driven engineering; so it has been a mix of improvements and seemingly illogical setbacks.

    Linux developers still need to eat, so some of the same (corporate) influences are there.

    But the average engineer who sets out to create a brand new completely modern operating system - usually decides to reuse any components of Linux that they don’t have any concerns with…

    Which usually gives us yet another cool new Linux variant.

    But sometimes we get…

    something very different

    A cool new FreeBSD variant!






  • Thought about a couple cases of his favorite beer. Still might do that. Any other ideas?

    Consumables that the person already likes make great gifts, since they will get used up and not sit around.

    I usually avoid abusable substances, just in case the person has a carefully balanced relationship with that substance.

    But you know your friend.

    Sometimes I just ask first. No real reason this needs to be a surprise.

    “I know you said you won’t take cash, but I’m going to grab you two cases of X as a thank you, on my way back.”

    Then they get a chance to call me off, or redirect me if it would be a problem.

    And I’ll always let them call it off with even a mild “no thanks”, since they might not want to say to me “I have a real problem with X and I can’t safely have thay much on hand.”.