I assume the envisioned discussion was supposed to be

Q: Thoughts on the Orphan Crushing Machine?

A: The CDC says crushing orphans is bad for our health.

A: The government in Orphania is expanding the definitions of orphans to all seniors, allowing a cascading orphan-crushing effect.

where we all experience the same negative emotion in a fuller, mildly variable way.

But yeah, it’s kind of… predictable, isn’t it?

_{<thread> FOSS, big bad powerfuls, companies, governments, Stallman </thread>}

Too late, I asked algernon. O.O

but yeah I don’t think I’ll make my OS an absolutely pure mathematical function that I prove the correctness of at every boot _{cool af tho}

I do rely on correct dev envs so I’ll try my hand at nixos-shell -ing. Thanks for the input

So instead of commenting inside of nix files, you put nix files into .org documents and collate them so you can make your nix files an OS and a website and a zettelkasten-looking set of linked annotated nodes.

That puts a stupid grin on my face (ᐖ )

Dammit I was sure I was just going to stick with Arch until I saw this

Questions:

• You have home on tmpfs. Isn’t that volatile? Where do you put your data/pictures/random git projects? Build outputs? How’s your RAM? (Sorry if I’m missing something obv)
• What’s your bootup like?
• Another commenter mentioned difficulties in setting up specialized tools w/o containerizing, and another mentioned that containers still have issues. Have you run into a sitch where you needed to workaround such a problem? (e.g. something in wine, or something that needs FHS-wrangling)

The “stable unstable” setup is a beautiful concept. Thanks for the dotfiles mention – I keep hearing “you need to rebuild if you edit a dotfile” but I guess that’s a myth encountered by people trying to nix too nixily, falling into said archetypal rabbit hole

Questions:

1. Does mixing streams “infect” other packages? I remember an old Gentoo thing where ~amd64 unstable packages would want to spread on its own. Since it’s nix I assume that an unstable package will require a bunch of unstables but they’d be installed alongside respective stable versions – i.e. taking up disk space but not “spreading” per se

For packages its basically 0 time.

Is that really true for you? I assume you refer to the length of time it takes to copy paste a flake from online but how reliable is that really? And the other commenters mention that there’s still wrestling to be had for certain tools

Thanks for the input!

I’m nervous about faking FHS as well, especially for specialized stuff. I don’t know much about steam-run or its caveats – so I can’t debug it (Maybe it turns out to be really simple and solid? Who knows…)

Thanks for mentioning the gpu accel issues in distrobox – I was considering using containerization to fight off any FHS issues but it seems I can’t jump the gun. I’ll probably just tighten dev envs by trickling in nix-shell usage; multiple versions of a package at once is an issue I’d def love to solve (in a way that’s more than just dockerfile)

Interesting that this is the third comment suggesting just using btrfs snapshots to resist Arch update experiences. I have root and home on two flat btrfs subvols so it shouldn’t be that hard to implement. (yeah yeah “What backup?” is bad)

Seems like the simplest way out is those two smallish changes. Wish I could transcend into declarativity but the thread’s nix survivor ratio is grim

Yep this is my diagnosis. I had a lot of time at the start to config horns and halos and miniguns and waffle toasters onto my craptop but now everything is constrained

o(╥﹏╥)o

Oh.

yeah that’s more likely

In a similar way, I’d learnt an eeny bit about visual composition at one point, and it’s helped me understand how something pretty can be uninteresting and something ugly can be interesting. (Maybe it was more obvious to everyone else, especially with the whole image gen sitch (ー﹏一))

Oddly it’s made me respect internet-ugly MS Paint stuff more. Like this ancient shitpost.

And nature too of course. The way a red sky refracts in cirrus clouds. Ladybugs on leaves. Elk.

All stuff I normally wouldn’t have noticed :p

trawl your boss

Weaving up the wire thingies on chain link fences? What’d you need that for – did your property fence get a huge hole from a burglar or something?

Wow, that’s definitely a few. Didn’t expect an entire set of chainmail to show up in these comments!

And I seem to notice something:

…the armor. But because I want to be done in less than a year (will be part of my wedding outfit)

“Hey, what if I not only learn to play the [Hurdy (Nerdy?) Gurdy, but also learn to play it for my wedding”

Someone’s wedding is going to be very interesting.

I went to Yalemacs for my Comparative Text Editors PhD

Yeah it just feels super different. Somehow it tastes different too.

It’s like drinking water out of a red plastic/solid cup vs. a nice clear glass. Or eating sushi using chopsticks instead of by spoon or fork or something.

I wouldn’t eat sushi without em :^)

HOA docs didn’t even cross my mind, that’s resourceful.

Has the AI been particularly accurate, and does it cite where it found your information? With more technical stuff it’s always confidently wrong

ty for the response btw

Nice, AI with half of the suspicion removed.

Does it save you a lot of time, what do you use it for? I have a somewhat old GPU but have been considering something like this to comb manuals. Does it have a file size constraint?

edit: I realize the below sounds kinda ranty. sorry lol

I’m mildly fortunate but ever since I was a kid I saw the rank race as insufferable as well. Since the start of high school I felt that way. Every step of college apps, standardized tests made me physically grimace.

Kids in my hs class obsessed over ranks. “You let this guy beat you? Chump.” “I’m taking all AP classes, I’m a workaholic!” “Did you know so-and-so got into Princeton? She’s so smart!” Superficial as fuck. Talk about something more interesting than numbering people, I beg of you.

The SAT depressed me. I did good, but only because I read at an unholy speed, I wasn’t super smart or anything. And I saw lots of kids get average SATs because of home trouble or not being a test killer or being unable to afford time or money for SAT training or not being able to take the SAT 5 times. Instant sieve.

Even in my undergrad people were ranky af. “Oh, yeah, I got waitlisted for Cornell, I got rejected from MIT, I got deferred from Carnegie-Mellon…” Shut up, please shut up. Whether it’s innocent or not, it helps no one and does nothing.

About your brief digression with Trump. My undergrad was heavy on DEI, and I think a lot of people disliked it but kept their mouth shut. I felt neutral either way but I’d hear conversations like

“Why didn’t I get into this program? What did the others do that I didn’t have?”

“Oh, he’s gay.”

“Fuck, I shoulda been gay! Maybe I should apply for random scholarships and pretend I’m 1% Irish or whatever.”

even though they’d switch and say

“DEI is important for disadvantaged groups…”

during the orientation meeting. So I can see where a lot of modern hostility comes from, even though the effects of said hostilities have put America worse off.

cheap sailboat and live off the grid

Dreamy. Make sure you stay safe :P

Cool! I’ll probably try climbing some day, since sportsball never motivated me to stick on. (And bc of the functional muscle vs. gym muscle stereotype.)

As for infinite Indiana Jones… I’m trying my best to keep the songs I whistle different haha

Yeah the market has definitely toughened regarding college degrees, since the 80s. (Maybe bc they’re more common now? If that’s a good thing or not.)

Funny enough, Reddit likes to say

• cs bachelor’s degree and 2yr experience is better than master’s and none (I’ve always doubted whether that’s a real widespread thing)
• trades make bank ezpz (I hear that relies on a good apprenticeship which can be hard to get)

Also: would you say the choice of undergrad matters in UK tech?

slop creator

lmao

Nice. kdenlive or something else?

Also – upscale video? Don’t you run it through some real esrgan thing and wait for forever? I’m working on trying to upscale a video right now but my GPU is ancient