The reaction is funny too, because in my experience comparing communities of various distros, Fedora’s community is among the the most inviting and professionally-behaving of them.

Personally, I am not running Fedora at the moment, but probably will when my Framework 16 arrives, since Fedora is officially supported on it. And to be honest, I find that I am making the same choices with Arch as Fedora would have made for me (aside from bootloader), so I feel that I’m wasting a bit of effort.

If paper is good enough for wiping the shit from my hands, it’s good enough for wiping the shit from my ass.

Makes sense. You need geological time scales to describe how old that BlackBerry is that the person is holding.

These comments really speak to me as someone who is comfortable in Arch but mildly interested in NixOS. The concept seems great, and it seems to work very smoothly when it works. Yet there are always these war stories where people have had to fight the system, to debug some misbehaving hack that is nonetheless required to smash a particular package into the NixOS mould. It is discouraging. The idea I get is that NixOS involves more time doing OS curation chores than does Arch, which already hits the limit of my willingness.

Flakes are another issue. The pre-flakes way seems to be de-facto deprecated, yet the new, flaky way is experimental. I don’t want to waste time learning a doomed paradigm, and I don’t want to depend on anything experimental.

For me, configuration files in git plus btrfs snapshots is just so straightforward. I want to see NixOS as a better way, but I can’t.

I’m a happy Kagi convert, but yeah, this post is indistinguishable from an ad. A disclaimer and perhaps a rationale for posting would have helped.

They recently made that level unlimited. That’s when I became a customer. Before that, I agree, not worth it.

Sounds like 1P handled it about as well as they could, and the attacker didn’t get very far.

I might actually do that.

No, it was to run Teams as a PWA on Linux.

I develop software that runs on Windows, so I have to use it to some degree. I would pay so much money for an officially-supported version that lets me cut out all the shit I don’t need and not deal with stupid thirst tricks. For the longest, I just ran Windows Server in a VM.

I recently installed Edge for a technical reason and was instantly grossed out by all the stupid bling they’ve added to it.

Neither: I am not aware of it.

Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?

Excellent. Just in time for some migration of my root filesystem I’ve been wanting to do.

Tell them if no VPN, they’re getting sued by a bunch of copyright holders.

You might be interested to know that I’m writing this comment from the Tri-Cities Area.

Exchange rates are a bitch

Well, I don’t, because mine is for ripping threads. Use the right tool for the job.

Sounds like it’s time for me to start investigating a move to a different cross-platform chat app. The enshitification continues.

As a PowerShell expert, I can confirm it is suuuper verbose and yet cryptic. It’s a real shell, much better than it’s predecessor, but still with plenty of bad decisions in its design and implementation. My theory is that they only watched a 1-hour presentation on Bash before spending a weekend designing PowerShell.