The Doctor

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Google happened to it. Right when some of us started doing practical things with it. Still haven’t forgiven them for that.

Several such solutions already exist. Problem is, only folks like us mess around with it. Non-geeks, not so much.

And/or, private equity is revving up the bulldozers to strip mine each and every last bit of value out of it before they let it collapse.

NSA? Yes. CIA? Probably not. They don’t have that kind of imagination. c.f., the internal parody of The Hunt for Red October they declassified about a decade ago.

That’s DHS.

If you’re already rich as shit and don’t have to worry about any consequences for anything you do, why not?

Surprising no one who’s ever had to work with it for longer than sixty seconds.

Not having them pretty much makes Debian a non-starter for many home users. It’s a thing that one really only runs into when they get serious about using Linux.

Senior year of high school. I’d been losing weight for a couple of years and was now down to a point where athleticism of any kind was starting to be possible. I was late for gym class and didn’t feel like running a mile as punishment for tardiness, so I decided to take a shortcut by not going all the way down to the end of the road to get to the field.

I vividly recall thinking to myself, “I’ll just jump over that guardrail!”

My feet hooked the back of the guardrail, I flipped over it and landed hard. Broke my wrist.