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We’re talking about a population, where a 1/3lbs burger was rejected for being smaller than the 1/4lbs. But even besides that, the fear-mongering, and the propaganda, have clearly worked

Blatant and unchecked invasion of privacy. This should be not just opt-in, but not even installed by default

No one’s stopping you from just downloading the app you want. They changed the default, not eliminated the option to have something elsr

Oh no… people will have less ads, without being bullied into paying… what would the billionaires even do. Don’t get avocado and coffee for a bit, i guess

This is a good example of what people consistently overlook/misunderstand, when it comes to Nix.

Obviously you can remount a /home, or just pull the dotfiles from a personal repo, but the strength of Nix is also in that I can re-create my entire config exactly how it is defined. If i were to setup a machine completely from scratch, with a mature enough config, it will get me from 0 to my exact desktop completely unattended.

But there are also many more advantages to it, at least in my eyes. Let’s take trying/tweaking new packages as an example. Yesterday I pulled an old repo for an Outer Wilds mod. The thing needs a dev environment, and a mod manager for the actual game. A nix shell got me both, I finished my work, and when I exit out of fish, both are gone, just as I wanted them to be.

Another good example would be partial os updates. I’ve used Arch for almost 9 years before switching to Nix, and pretty much a top3 Arch rule is not doing partial updates, or partial rollbacks. In case of a breakage, I would have to manually redownload an older version of a tarball, pacman -U the package, and then hope i’m not cooked. In the case of gcc incompatibilities, it can quickly become a massive pain in the ass. My nix flake would never experience this problem, because I already have two different scenarios available - either i build based on an older lockfile from my git repo, or I create an overlay for a specific input I need, so that it still pulls what it needs, and doesn’t interfere with the rest of my system

As much as everyone hates Nintendo, apparently, this means literally nothing for them. This does, however, make the used market a nightmare to deal with

Lawmakers are grappling with how to address …

Just a reminder that the government is actively voting against regulations on AI, because obviously a lot of these people are pocketing lobbyist money

Quite a disappointment, to be honest. I’m still running a 1080ti, and this card is more than capable today. Obviously it’s no 5090, but it runs everything I’ve wanted to play on it, par MHWIlds, which runs on newer systems just as poorly anyway

No one gets a third term, and that’s not negotiable. They can get the guillotine though

Aren’t these three distros mirrors of each other, for a lack of a better expression? I remember reading that one of them was started as a clone of CentOS, bugs included

I truly don’t understand the trend of games receiving an “enhanced” edition a year after launch. So what you’re saying is that you’ve released unfinished garbage originally, and now present this upgrade as something new, when that’s what it should have been right off the press

Snake oil salesmen are claiming their product is something it’s not, more at 11

Unsurprisingly so. The feedback has been overwhelmingly negative.

That being said, it’s still a matter of time until it happens

The proposal has been dropped

Doing the best for which use-case? The answers will be fundamentally different depending on the situation

Didn’t think it could get worse, and yet here we are. Not sure if it were an experiment, but for a while now my search results were always exactly 5 relevant videos, a block of shorts, and then just completely unrelated stuff.

I don’t really understand why we can’t have it, like it was before. If you’re subbed to a channel, you get the videos in your feed as they come in, and search just works as intended.

They are engineering solutions for problems that don’t need to exist

Something about channeling like 50 lightning strikes from a single skill just feels right

Correct. Atomic distros don’t apply the update, unless it is ready to be applied successfully all together, usually with an option to restore the previous state, without the need of something like btrfs snapshots.

With Nix(-OS) as an example - your bootloader entry is just a reference a giant list of what you need to get out of the Nix store, to achieve the config you want. Many of those can coexist in the same system as a result, including different versions of the same package

This setup won’t really teach you anything different in relation to containers though.

This is the exact same kind of late stage denial, that Ubisoft people are going through. They didn’t make a Dragon Age game. They just made generic slop with a Dragon Age branding. All these Assassin’s Creed games after the series reboot have been experiencing the exact same treatment. With 0 doubt in my mind, if the next Mass Effect ever comes out, it’ll be like this too.

Stop supporting these people. Spend your money on something actually good, especially if it’s made by an indie dev

It took me a bit to get into it, but it’s so addicting once you get a run going. Defect is by far my favorite, but each of them make the game a completely different experience