bootloader, the initramfs, the boot procedure, systemd, PID 1, you can check the logs, you have all those little things that make the system work […] it’s all dandy… if I have a problem with a program I can usually debug it, check its logs, and get it to run.

I find it very safe to say: forget it. You can never acquire such a completeness of understanding with a windows. It is too much, the parts are too different, and too obfuscated.

Look at it from the other side:
The fact that this level of knowlege is possible in Linux (which is decades old, too) is a result of the openness in “open source” and of the “keep it simple” principle there.

Windows is build deliberately in such a way that several different “windows” professionals are needed to keep all the threads together, and they all need to have paid for their “windows” education with their “windows” certificates etc. But none of them can go to such a depth in every part of it.

And if somebody objects here, and says, hey, even idiots can get these certificates, then I say, ok, what did you think for whom it is made.

It is prone to all sorts of bad. Humans are bad. We need reason to keep it in check.

How do I make sure not to become this kind of person?

These are many different questions, so it needs lots of answers. I can see three aspects now. There may be more.

Some of these things they do are clearly toxic. So you can avoid being like this if you always continue to love yourself exactly as good as you love other humans, and stay ready to question your own actions / behaviour, and change if needed.

Some of these things aren’t so bad per se, but they are triggering you. This means that you do the same and you find it bad, but have not found a way to change yourself. This is the hard part, because this is also where you can’t see yourself properly. You need help from others. Ask some very, very trusted friends where and how it happens that you do the same things. And be ready for their answer even if you don’t like it. This thing: be ready if you need to change yourself, is also the most important of all my suggestions, because: as soon as you aren’t ready for this anymore, it means you have already become (a good bit) like this other kind of person.

Another part of the answer is that you can’t know the future, therefore it won’t be possible to determine everything. You are going to make mistakes, like everybody does. My advice for this part is to have mercy with your future self.

Paywall :-(

Why would you blow up babies like balloons?

Now you know that the problem is not your DNS.

It is either your routing or firewalling.

I tell it to point docmost.example.com to 192.168.1.80, […] but actually nothing happens. I get a connection timed out error.

I suggest to collect more info about this “nothing”.

ping from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com

ping from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80

traceroute from your PC on the inside to the name docmost.example.com

traceroute from your PC on the inside to the number 192.168.1.80

Then do the same in the reverse direction: from that docker container to your PC.

Maybe traceroute shows you some stations on the route. Then do the same from this station.

Write down the results thoroughly.

Nice! Didn’t know it. Have to try…

Ultra reliable. Secure. Easy to maintain.

Collateral…

Only about 10 other countries, so far.

IntelliJ IDEA comes to my mind.

vi (incl. vim etc.) and it’s only counterpart emacs are both open source.

apache and nginx are the undisputed top webservers.

samba is better than Windows server.

It’s better to go out into the real world and fix the problems.

Jerk, yes, that’s the word I was missing. Jerk just didn’t want to come to me.

You may not notice, but there are devices that can measure the distance that a car travels, even for a long distance, and with a super high precision.

Car manufacturers have such devices. I have seen a few.

did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?

No, you don’t throw your eggs into a basket when the basket is foo far away.

It’s quite the other way round. Imagine the North American continent drifting away from all other continents at the same time, and at an increasing speed.

This hasn’t been caused by the orange problem. It was observable several years earlier. But when they decided to afford their orange problem for the first time, it increased the speed significantly. And now it is increasing again, and both speed and acceleration increase.

Science Advisor

This guy must have worked at Tesla before, and there he did their calculations of future achievements.

I have this same acc for probably >20 years now. But you should not think that they would get smarter! They still want to me to verify my age from time to time.

(I do never comply, of course, because all personal data there is either missing or fake)

Envy, usually.