Are you a ragebot? Getting awfully worked up about a keypad.

This was much more pleasurable than the Lunduke - DHH interview. Boy, is this one relaxing.

Snaps and DEs are what drove me from Ubuntu. Gnome2 was actually nice to use and unity was too Mac for me. Then came snaps and things kept breaking. The breaking point for me was going “sudo apt chromium” and it installing snap, then chromium through snap.

Oh, and I have never had a stable update experience. Every single update lead to me being dropped into a shell or TTY session without a functioning display manager. I tweak my system in many ways to develop software (many PPAs) and updates always meant going on the hunt for new ones to be able to develop again.

Now I’m at NixOS and although the community forums are a constant slugfest with nonstop drama (so I dont visit them anymore), the system has actually been stable for my entire usage period. A friend audibly gasped when I switched channels and updated. They too had never seen a smoother update experience between multiple different major versions (20.05 - > 24.05).

If all you do is develop in devcontainers, have no PPAs, dont modify your system in major ways and just are stock, yeah, pretty much any distro can be pleasant.

I’ve met Arch users who will confidently tell me untruths about Linux in general and have no idea how to even approach solving problems beyond copypasting instructions from the Arch wiki or forums.

“What happened?” I dunno

“What did you do?” I just ran “echo…” (Or some other meaningless command)

“Do you have logs?” No, what are those?

“Please at least tell me the versions of the things you are running” How do I get that information?

I guess it speaks to the stability of Arch that it can attract users who have no idea what they are doing and still work. But it does also speak volumes about the image it has as an elite distro that makes you look like a Linux expert without actually being one.

Once you mentioned AVIF, I found it “FLIF”, but JPEG-XL is an extension thereof.

Is this the right format? I thought there was an alternative with better compression and it was opensource and without royalties.

If only nixos could be made minimal. The smallest install is hundreds of MB large. How small can gentoo get?

The amount of effort people have to go through to get windows 11 on their computers, they might as well just install linux.

How does this compare to yunohost?

There are linux compatible kernels in the works. There are some written in Rust too (although, at least one is MIT licensed). My prediction is that the linux kernel will die in its current form and be replaced by an alternative, probably an MIT one because industry loves that licence. Then we will have another Mac clone but based on Linux not BSD.

Hello, yes, I enter all my numbers via a vertical line and visual search to mock those who use a grid they just have to feel.

Keypads exist for a reason. Please do practice Chesterton’s fence at least a little. We don’t all use laptops the same way.

I just imagine walking up to an apartment building and having to enter a number code using a line of ten numbers 🤣

There have been multiple rumours of Windows 12 being basically EdgeOS and just a gateway to the web with all apps and compute in the cloud. Some articles I’ve read and videocasts I’ve watched say “Microsoft have realised it’s not about the hardware, but the software and selling subscriptions and services”. So, from my very limited and uneducated view, windows 12 would be the perfect vessel for doing just that. But they can only do it if there is good internet in the majority of the world, so my prediction is windows 12 will come in ~2032 or so.

What i the suggestion here?

Probably because there is no separation between title and content. If this had been

I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer

Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.

The first line would’ve been taken as the title, just like in a commit message.

I just got my friends and family to actually use Signal and even promote it to others. If I switched to Deltachat or Matrix, they’d tell me to fuck off. My hope is that signal moves towards Matrix’s model. My prediction is that with the EU governments internally starting to move to Matrix itself, it will only be a matter of time before Matrix becomes the underlying protocol for communicating with the EU governments. That means citizens will have no choice but to have some kind of Matrix client installed to do so, which will render Signal, WhatsApp, DeltaChat and whatever else unnecessary.

DeltaChat is a stopgap for email. WhatApp is a scourge and Signal is driver for security.

Everyone is new to something. No need to be surprised about that.

A sane laptop manufacturer, that’s who

Does DKMS not work or do the proprietary blobs need to be compiled by the authors for each kernel version?

He’s not even inaugurated and the articles about his failings have started. Do they expect him to overhaul the entire system by firing everybody and telling them to burn the system to the ground? 😮‍💨

There will always be stuff to code. Even if the task of coding itself were completely removed, being able to use AI for coding will require knowledge of the subject matter and an ability to express one’s needs.

If you go onto any bug list, most people are unable to express the most basic information to dill in a bug report form. “What are you using”, “What did you do”, “What did you expect to happen”, “What happened instead”. Just that. It doesn’t require any technical knowledge, just the rudimentary ability to describe events and desires and yet they still fail.

AI assisted coding requires the ability to understand ambiguity too. “Solve world hunger” can be solved by killing all of humanity so that nobody is hungry anymore, putting porridge in front of evey human being until the end of time, hooking up every human to a feeding tube and harnessing energy from it, modifying human genes to not know what hunger is, or rebuilding society to give everybody equal access to nutrition that they enjoy.