Some additional nice things about guix:

Everything is guile. The system definition, the service definitions for shepherd, everything.

Shepherd is hands down the best init program I’ve ever used. It’s just incredibly simplistic but because it just runs the guile definition you give it, you can do some incredibly complex things that systemd etc. can do as well.

The OS documentation is built into the distro, with “info guix” you get reams of configuration information for the distro without ever needing to look it up online.

About a year and a half.

To be honest it’s not “easy” to use. The guiding principle behind mainline packages is that everything has to be built from source, so most somewhat unpopular things are missing from the mainline channels.

To use it like any other distro you’re going to need to learn how to write packages fairly quickly. Luckily the main draw of guix is the entire OS being based on guile so once you get a little under your belt you can just read the specs from other channels to see how a package is written.

Took me maybe a week to start writing guix packages.

There’s also The toybox

Guix because I love the idea behind Nix but Nixlang is the most painful language I’ve ever had to type out.

Hledger!

Command line, plain text files so anything can read them, and GPL!

I’d say this seems useful mostly for pulling non nbz/torrent sources from readarr and lidarr services

Why is Ryubing beyond reproach? I don’t see them doing anything differently than Ryujinx.

It was over eleven years ago at this point so my memory may be hazy on the details but I remember something happening in the major version change that pissed me off enough to switch off of it. 🤔

Licenses for sublime text 2 just said “and future updates”. I remember the “lifetime” thing being a selling point on producthunt. This was back in 2013 though, and the weird way the licensing change was handled made me switch to emacs.

Before sublime text 3 all updates were included in the single license, not just major revision updates. This was back in 2013.

Before the one license=one version switch in 2013 the license stated “and future updates” which they did, but they switched to needing to pay for new licenses for some reason. I remember that being the primary reason I switched to emacs.

After having been shafted by sublime text I will never believe anything called a “lifetime subscription” is such.

A “lifetime subscription” is just a “until we decide otherwise” subscription

Nope, there’s only a few on-call childcare services and they’re very expensive and booked way out in advance. You also have to do interviews with the care provider.

Same.

Japan doesn’t have babysitters. It suuuuuucks.

curious if you have somewhere/someone you can trust the toddler with while you do those hobbies.

I found that having a support network (either personal through friends family, or socialized through the government) has a big effect on how miserable parents are early on.

Ooooo you’re about to re-enter the shitty zone in like 4 years when they turn into teens and start calling you Hitler for not letting them shoot fireworks out of the car sunroof.

According to this study, after adjusting for income, having children is actually associated with higher happiness and well-being.

From a Psychology Today article that summarizes it:

However, household income may not be a good indicator of financial stress. A family with low income that lives in an area with a low cost of living might experience less financial stress than a family with a higher income that lives in an area with a much higher cost of living. Therefore, the researchers conducted an additional analysis in which they included a direct measure of whether or not the family experienced difficulties in paying bills in the last year. This analysis showed that difficulties in paying bills represented a central influence factor for the relation of having children and parental well-being. When the researchers statistically controlled for financial difficulties, having children was actually related to greater well-being in parents.

The first 3-5 years is incredibly stressful but it gets better as the kids are able to do more things for themselves and aren’t trying to kill themselves 24/7.

Having lived in like 7 different countries for long periods of time I’m convinced there is no objective measure of the quality of food, art, or music.

There are things that have measures if high quality in Japan that American would find absolutely foul, and the same in the other direction.

The leadership response to this and the subsequent backlash is starting to remind me of the NixOS debacle from about a year ago.

That resulted in the project being split and like 30% of the community moving off and creating Lix.

I would be disappointed, but not surprised, if we see something similar in the Kernel sometime in the next year or two…

Man you better hope the kernel community gets its shit together then, cause Krummrich (the primary developer for nova and getting those changes upstreamed) is one of guys that got told their project was cancer by the “thin blue line” maintainer (Hellwig) from the article.