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flying_sheep , 4 days ago

I agree with you here. As soon as you change something, that should be respected but as long as you use the default theme/wallpaper/… that could just as well mean that you prefer tracking the default or don't care at all.

Now bringing back the explicitly disabled search bar really is atrocious

flying_sheep , 7 days ago

No, but one for systemd

flying_sheep , 9 days ago

So you're agreeing. “one does not simply stop, because one needs to be really sure that they want to stop for some reason or another”. The desire to stop doesn't come from nothing, yet it's the vital ingredient for stopping successfully. Unless you have it, stopping is really hard.

The contents of your message aren't a “no”, they're a “yes, and”

flying_sheep , 9 days ago

WTF is wrong with you. A stranger pours out their heart for you and you just stomp on it? Have the decency to just shut up and ignore it instead of going out of your way to be an asshole.

flying_sheep , 9 days ago

I'm not the same person, I just saw someone responding to kindness with discouragement, and humanity really doesn't need that right now.

flying_sheep , 10 days ago

What was the problem? I can see that if you don't get past one of the steps described in the wiki, then you're blocked. But I think if one has some experience with shell, CLIs and TUIs, it should be possible to follow the steps until you have a bootable system.

Is it worth it to try that, maybe through multiple attempts? Idk.

flying_sheep , 14 days ago

Both things can be true at the same time. E.g. people sometimes are worked up thinking about some strawman they are discussing against in their head. So when I don't virtue signal enough that I'm on their team or at least not against entirely against every single thing they stand for, those people sometimes take a very clear and to the point thing I say or ask and misconstrue it into meaning some horrific, morally objectionable thing.

Like, when people say that burning kittens on BBQs is a huge problem that we need to band together against, and I reply that I doubt that this is a widespread enough or well enough organized phenomenon that banding together would be effective, they take it as me admitting that I'm pro kitten-burning.

Sure, I failed to coddle them and front my opinion with how abhorrent those kitten burners are, but also nothing I said implied that in the slightest. I just thought that didn't need mentioning, why say something so obvious?

flying_sheep , 14 days ago

Do you do that every two years?

flying_sheep , 16 days ago

For me it's less often, but otherwise same.

flying_sheep , 24 days ago

Twitter (now “X”)

flying_sheep , 26 days ago

Why remember/include the algorithm? Tar can infer that. It's just bsdtar xf filename.* for everything. (bsdtar handles .zip as well)

flying_sheep , 26 days ago

It's insane that this isn't consistent.

Any combination of -h, -? and --help exists between tools (from 0 to all 3 of them)

flying_sheep , 25 days ago

One example for it is … tar!

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html

flying_sheep , 25 days ago

Yes, and tar works the same, it just doesn't handle zip files.

And even if we're pedantic: bsdtar is Arch Linux’ executable name for a port of the tar command that is shipped by BSDs, so it's also tar.

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

When in doubt, blame zoom. The sheer amount of completely different outlandish weird bugs and glitches as well as the fact that they were told what the correct API for screen sharing on Linux is just for them to completely ignore that and do something weird, specific, niche and bad instead … I've never seen something like that since like Windows xp.

I'm completely convinced they have absolutely no idea what they're doing on the frontend (app and web) and just have the latest newbie hire hack things together until it kinda works on their machine.

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

Ah, you're “from US state” too?

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

I hope things like this will take off: https://cooltech.zone/tangara/

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

what exactly is the point of running wayland if you are going to run less secure X apps with 94% of the same vulnerabilities?

When running Wayland, one X server is started per X application. So that application won't be able to e.g. keylog others.

I personally don't care about security here, it's all about a flicker free Multi-monitor experience with different refresh rates per monitor. X just can't do that under any circumstances.

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

Because you emigrated and get this live saving essential service for free?

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

It's not magic, but there will never be a life saving treatment that ruins you financially here in the EU. And travel insurance is dirt cheap here as well.

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

Until? The “hunter gatherer, then farmer” progression is a story, not reality. People sometimes did one in summer, the other in winter. Or gave up farming when they found nice herds.

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

Wow, what a completely unhinged reply to what was simply stating the obvious.

The person you replied to didn't see the scenario you imagined in your head. They replied to the words you wrote.

flying_sheep , 1 month ago

The both-sidesing was already telling. Sometimes the only “controversial or alternative viewpoints” are just idiotic conspiracy drivel and should be presented as such (or not at all)

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Why compile to a Makefile? You'd end up with automake gunk all over again. Just use cmake or so, where the declarative language replaces the Makefile entirely

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

It does? I guess I never looked inside that build directory.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

My point was that packagers should use straight up VCS and run all build tools instead of relying on partially pre-built tarballs uploaded by the upstream maintainers.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I mean, teachers are not practicing the science they teach. They only need a textbook level understanding.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I've seen several in this thread who didn't read the OP, didn't engage with its arguments, just stomped their feet and said “but Biden didn't give us exactly what we want so we're not gonna”.

How can you reason with people who don't feel like reading your argument?

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Wow what a horrible take. Just think about why this comparison is complete bullshit for a second and you'll see.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Then don't engage. Some people apparently need to see this, judging from the comments here.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Have fun sailing off the cliff.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

What do you mean, “support”?

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I'm German. I really hope you guys don't vote for the fascist this time, but seeing comments like yours make me extremely happy that my partner emigrated from the US instead of still being there.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I just think your humble opinion of the legislation being easily reversible is doing a lot of work here.

Are you really that sure that there will be no long term consequences if the guy comes into office who has explicitly stated his intention to become a “dictator for ‘a day’”, is really intent on stacking courts, fucking with elections, calling immigrants “vermin”, and so on?

Because if you're wrong, there might be a civil war. And MAGA nut jobs statistically have more guns than us leftists.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I'm aware that more than two parties technically exist in your country. I'm also not under the illusion that voting for one of them in the general election has an effect that's distinguishable from not voting.

I mean, except for the individual third party voter, who has to leave the house and stand in a queue when voting third party.

It's great to have a political system that allows for diverse political parties. Sadly the US in not a country where such a system exists.

Under normal circumstances, you won't be able to ever reach critical mass with a third party, and they won't give up power.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I literally haven't run into a single one in the whole time Arch has been using it.

(I installed Arch shortly before it switched to systemd and have been using it since without pause)

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

OP said “bloated and full of bugs”.

I've been using Arch since shortly before they started using systemd and literally never ran into a systemd bug.

I have no clue at this point what “bloated” means. Maybe if everything works and you don't have to hack up your own solution all the time, that's “bloat”?

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Huge difference. With 30M you can buy a few flats and never have to work again. With 1M you can buy your own flat and have more of your monthly salary to spend.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

I don't actually. All stuff I care about is on code hosting platforms

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Probably personal connection paired with facts and persistence.

It's not easy changing someone's mind. You need a lot of dedication, especially if they're in a community that reinforces their belief.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Every other init that has unit files shipped on any distro that matches my quality standards. In other words: there are none.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Yeah, the corporate heads could have ended up in any industry, they don't care where the money comes from.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Of course Linux desktops are slightly less reliable than the both less flexible and also commercially tested stacks of Apple and Microsoft.

But that doesn't mean that OP is right. They might be one of the luddites that religiously use some ancient tech stack based on X11 or so.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

How do slightly higher latencies impact any of that?

You don't even notice those unless you play a FPS. Last I checked, pwning b00ns in CS isn't vital to a good education.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

It's competitive because as you describe, it's better than all other available forms of Internet access.

I used web sockets exactly once in an interactive piece of software. It worked perfectly fine with over-the-ocean latencies, which are higher than Starlink.

It's a non-problem.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Look, this is not the only case where semantics and syntax don't always map, in the same way e.g.: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/586690

I'm sure it's possible that all your textbooks agree, but if you e.g. read a paper written by someone who isn't from North America (or wherever you're from) it's possible they use different semantics for a notation that for you seems to have clear meaning.

That's not a controversial take. You need to accept that human communication isn't as perfectly unambiguous as mathematics (writing math down using notation is a way of communicating)

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

No, you can't prove that some notation is correct and an alternative one isn't. It's all just convention.

Maths is pure logic. Notation is communication, which isn't necessarily super logical. Don't mix the two up.

flying_sheep , 2 months ago

Yeah, and when you read a paper that contains math, you won't see a declaration about what country’s notation is used for things that aren't defined. So it's entirely possible that you don't know how some piece of notation is supposed to be interpreted immediately.

Of course if there's ambiguity like that, only one interpretation is correct and it should be easy to figure out which one, but that's not guaranteed.