Files have a concept of ownership and have permissions on them. Some permissions can stop you from deleting them. If you own the file you can add a “-f” option to the rm to force it to delete. You can also change the permissions and ownership on files.

If the ads starts running too long I just hit the back button or close the window and go look for something else to watch.

Before that people used to write phone numbers on the stall walls advertising things.

No one reasonable would trust anything the Trump administration promises. It is going to be exceptionally hard to convince them that this time is any different from any of the previous broken promises.

Supposedly the weather is really bad right now so we can’t do much bombing any how.

Piketon is radioactive and toxic to live near there due is longterm role preparing radioactive materials for profit. I wouldn’t feel comfortable even driving through that town. I’m not sure if that makes it a good place for a datacenter or not.

I don’t think he was joking.

Mar A Lago is drone & missle range from Cuba. He should not be poking that bear.

If we get some crazy inflation that won’t be more than the price of a cup of coffee.

If Barron went in the service they would make him an officer. Can you imagine being stuck with him as your LT? No thanks, please keep him out of it.

And of the public ones, only the white people.

Maybe there are lapel spy cams you can wear as an observer that record to your phone.

Probably suspended because of the Union.

Real Men are stronger than the Sun too, that is why they don’t need sunblock.

John Wayne never needed math. Stereotypical math geeks are not going to have the big 6-gun and machismo. That is all you need to solve any problem the US might face.

Most servers do not need a fancy user interface. They don’t have monitors attached to them. Most of the other OSes you listed come bundled with a ton of user experience software along with the expectation a human will directly interact with them.

Servers are typically deployed and managed with automation, by the thousands. Lean. Simple. Secure. Tuned for their specific purpose. This is a lot easier to do with Linux than an all purpose general use personal computing platform.

Don’t worry, we will fork over 10x that in 20 years when we have to clean up all of the obsolete and abandoned data centers. There is no way any company is going to do that themselves.

Then let the AI vote too.

All I can think of is The Vasa, which suffered from similar fools and a similar fate.

The defense contractor doesn’t really care if they are useless as long as they can drag out the construction contracts for decades and keep the gravy train flowing.