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  • I just wanted the workflow, ok?

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  • Hey, I never said this is what people want, just that it is in fact a transferrable skill. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone just trying to get their machine running, but if you're looking to gain some insight, is not the worst choice.

  • I just wanted the workflow, ok?

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  • If you actually try to understand what's happening, I think it's one of the best ways to learn how a system is composed, at least if you install manually. What's a partition, file system, what does mounting do, chroots, you name it.

    I don't use Arch anymore but still think it's a great distro to learn the basics while still having the luxury of new binary packages. Manual Arch install abstracts basically nothing away from you, for better or for worse.

    Currently on NixOS, I'd say while its engineering is better overall, the things you learn there are much more distribution-specific or maybe concept-specific and often not applicable to other distributions.

    I guess there are also probably ways to install e.g. Debian manually, I've never seen instructions for it though as there was always the focus on the installer, and frankly I'm not a big fan of apt and all. It always seemed to be much more convoluted than pacman plus it does a lot of stuff for you, whether you want it or not was my impression.

  • Last one, i've been farming Ai for memes but last one with lore

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  • Also basically every Linux big name posted there. It was so great. I'm still sad it's gone

  • 1 in 4 UK adults now prescribed antidepressants - leafie

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  • As a proponent of psychedelics, this can't be the solution. The fact that 25% of the population is impacted enough to warrant a prescription is scary, but psychs won't fix it long term. The underlying societal issues need to be tackled.

  • Checkmate

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  • Is docker even declarative?

    Also you can build docker images from nix derivations

  • 2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready?

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  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Mostly holding Nano, used Monero quite often - should probably spend some Nano at one point... But vendors accepting it here are rare

  • Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto

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  • Omg we're cryptocurrency twins. I hold exactly these two for the same reasons

  • Tesla now spends ad money to influence shareholders approval of Elon Musk's $55B payday

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  • I mean who currently owns Twitter? It's just another way for him to siphon money out of that company and it can't get worse for him anyways.

    It's a shit move and the board that allows this are beyond saving but for Elmo and Elmo alone it makes sense.

  • Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal

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  • I know you're joking anyways, but I always cringe when I see that. There's no need to invoke su there. If you want a root shell, use sudo -s or sudo -i depending on what kind of shell you want.

  • Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features

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  • There's a keepassxc-full package that comes with all the functionality. Anyhow, Debian does not have the concept of USE flags, these don't make sense in a binary-based distribution.

  • Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

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  • That nicer place is probably at home. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But I think all fast food chains raised prices? At least here in Europe it's not like McDonald's is somehow standing out as more expensive. Worse, yes. But that was always the case

  • Moving to a Linux distro for dev

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  • NixOS: (1, 2) - You can define specific package versions but with the large repos I doubt there is much QA going on

    It depends on the nixpkgs channel you use (I'm also using the term for flakes here, though technically these are then called inputs). The main channels, those being NixOS-stable whatever the current version is at the time and NixOS-unstable have a rather big set of packages that must be built successfully before users get updates, including the tests defined in the build system plus sometimes distribution-specific tests, though these are often rather simple, like start program and see if its port is open. Even more, when a library gets updated, all programs and other libraries depending on it get rebuilt as well, including all tests.

    Now what if a package outside of that scope breaks? Most likely, your new configuration won't build, so you're stuck on an older but working configuration, or it does build, but something doesn't work. But I'm the latter case, you can still choose to start the older working configuration.

    Also the more complicated packages have very dedicated and capable maintainers from my experience, sure the smaller stuff is often updated mostly automatically with merge request created by bots and just the final merge approved by the maintainer, but the big infrastructure is usually tested quite well.

    As a downside, this can sometimes lead to longer periods without updates when a lot of stuff has to get rebuilt and something doesn't work (multiple days, but not weeks). You can then switch to another set in case the problematic packages don't affect you, or just wait. However, saying there's little QA is unfair, in fact from my experience there's more QA in nixpkgs than in most distributions.

    I don't recommend NixOS to new users because it abstracts a lot of stuff away and makes use of mechanics that are helpful to understand first. But if you're comfortable with Linux, NixOS is a great distribution that even on unstable works very well. Then again, it allows specific packages to depend on very specific versions of other packages, which is partially the reason you'd use a stable distribution.

  • Just one more lane

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  • The remaining 17% just never stop

  • Disney bets on sequels and password crackdown for profit growth

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  • Even with the arrs, jellyfin, et al, it's still not a turn-key solution.

    Not quite, all I wanted to express is that spending the time, you can get an experience close to the commercial offerings. And I guess with docker based setups it's rather easy. Never used it though.

    Personally I've never been a fan of piracy streaming sites, they always seemed so sketchy.

  • Disney bets on sequels and password crackdown for profit growth

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  • It's also that they basically raised a generation of users who never had to pirate. Truth is 20 years ago there was literally no alternative to pirating. So you either figured it out or you'd have to drive to the store.

    Nowadays, most consumers have gotten complacent, which is understandable given how good the legal alternatives were at one point.

    However, while the initial steps might be a bit more difficult nowadays (I strongly advise against torrenting without a paid VPN), getting to a convenient setup is much easier nowadays. The arrs, jellyfin, Kodi, docker, Android devices connected to a big screen etc. enable anyone willing to spend the time to create a setup that can rival commercial offerings.

    Just to emphasize, I don't condone piracy here, but the direction the industry is going is unsurprisingly off-putting.

  • Disney bets on sequels and password crackdown for profit growth

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    1. Don't torrent without a paid VPN
    2. Done

  • Suggestions for filesystem.

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  • I can't tell if this is actual advice or irony

  • Israel gotta go

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