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DNS filtering. I’m using NextDNS, because I can’t be bothered to be my own server admin.

Why? It does a great job at filtering out ads, tracking the rest of internet cancer on mobile devices. Works no matter where you are. With pihole, you get the filtering only when you’re at home, not when you’re scrolling funny cat videos while waiting for the train.

Yes, but did some programmer just decide it’s maxed out green, and then somebody else toned it down to a more reasonable green? How did we end up with this specific shade?

Capsaicin gets on your hands when chopping chilis. Laundry detergent can get on your hands when doing laundry. Even small amounts can cause trouble if they get to sensitive parts of your body.

If you’ve been in contact with aggressive chemicals, it’s actually a really good idea to wash your hands before touching other parts of your body.

I’ve used LLMs to have conversations about technical topics I’m not familiar with. I ask it how something works, it answers, and then I ask several follow-up questions to clarify various things I’m interested in.

I think it’s good enough for that sort of use, but you need to ask follow-up questions about anything important.

Don’t think about it too much. Engaging with paradoxes is known to exercise your mental muscles.

I’m a liar.

Something sweet like banana, pineapple, mango etc.

If you already have a source of income, don’t turn your hobby into a jobby. Hobbies are supposed to be stress free and ejoyable. If you involve money in it, you’re actively undermining the enjoyability of your hobby.

If not, I still don’t think AI stuff is a good source of income in the near future. The AI market seems to be overheating, and expect most of it to come crashing down just like all the other bubbles. If you get involved with AI right now, there’s a good chance you’re going get your fingers burned.

If you need a handful of plugins to make a site tolerable, there’s probably something terribly wrong with that place. We can keep on patching it with an ever growing list of plugins, but is it really worth it.

Always remember, distrohopping is allowed. Your first distribution doesn’t have to stray with you forever. It can, but doesn’t have to. If you hear about a cool new distro, feel free to try it out.

Thanks for the explanation.
I’m only vaguely aware of the concept of an atomic distribution, so there’s a lot to learn. I guess it’s about time I sacrificed my spare laptop to silverblue.

When it comes to recommending a distribution to a newbie, I have mixed feelings about atomic distributions. If the newbie in question just wants to leave the OS alone and focus on gaming, Bazzite sounds like the best option.

On the other hand, if the newbie wants figure out how things work, starting with an atomic distribution doesn’t really sound like the easiest starting point. Is it though? Could be mistaken.

I think it’s pretty simple to understand if the system just pulls packages from the repos and downloads what needs to be updated. If you add flatpaks and appimages to the mix, it just adds another layer of confusion. Totally fine for your second distro though. After all, getting to experience new and interesting ways to do things is the joy of distrohopping.

And then there’s rpm-ostree thing. I really need to read more about that, but that sounds like yet another layer in an already very tall cake. Those newbies who want to know how these things work may find an atomic distro a bit overwhelming.

But do you really need to understand any of that to get started? Do you think it’s enough for most newbies to just install a few flatpaks to get the apps you need? Do you think they would need to involve rpm-ostree within the first year?

No native package manager? How does Bazzite manage packages then?

Care to elaborate?
I know many people who use Teams at work, and they aren’t complaining. Quite the opposite actually. Various announcements are no longer emails since they have been migrated to relevant Teams channels. This means that it’s way faster to scroll past announcements that are not particularly relevant to your work, and none of them clog up your inbox any more.

The only real problem is CPU and RAM usage, but as long as your IT department is reasonably funded, that’s not a problem either.