It’s hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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  • sbird@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    hang on, there’s one called please? Are there any downsides with using please instead of sudo?

    • Brickhead92@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      It promotes familiarity with the machine which is best to avoid. Except of course if the machine uprising happens, then it would be in you favour to have been using it for years.