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It really pisses me off when something doesn't work and the first thing someone says is "must be Linux". Bro, I moved away from Windows because of all the bugs there. Don't try to bullshit me into thinking you live a bugfree life.

My system is as fast as when I first got it (minus maybe the extra bloat websites have acquired due to bugger JS libraries and unnecessarily big assets). On windows reinstalling every year or every second year was normal.

One of the horror scenarios could be AI gaining intelligence and access to biomedical capabilities and producing a virus that modifies us or our DNA. Of course if it gained access to a high-tech label capable of making nanobots, that would maybe even worse.

Waydroid is GPLv3 and that's great. Hopefully contributions will be upstreamed. Waydroid, Wine, FEX... Valve is contributing to great things!

Latest release was 2 weeks ago. Not sure how "dead" that is.

That's a good question I dont have an answer to. Maybe there are ways to short where you can just hold, but I dont know how. Maybe there's a way to borrow lots of RAM and GPUs, sell them, then buy them back when the price drops and sell them for cheap back to whom you borrowed. But I dont know who would make that deal.

Same thing happening to me @aeharding@lemmy.world. Thought it was a fluke and that the recent update would fix it but it just happened again after the update.

Latest version from f-droid (2.41.0) on eOS 3.2-a15-20251022539003 (android 15).

Please be a nice bubble and pop soon, AI.

I do think it is, but only if you dive into what the services and modules do, or if you create some yourself. Most packages are created for mainstream distros and you will have to adapt how they work to nixos's mode of working. In doing so, you will learn - at least I have.

I know more about systemd, kde's configuration, bash, opengl, library paths, and more because of having to go through the pain of making it work ok nix/nixos.

It is arguably also quite valuable to see how something is done in nixos as a kind of documentation in code for how to configure other software. Where changing an option's value in nixos kicks of a bunch of things, on other systems you have to either trust that the package has scripts to do that, or imperatively do those steps yourself.

The skills seem quite transferable to me, IMHO.

He spent 30 days trying to get adobe premiere to work instead of just fixing his audio issues with kdenlive.

Javascript just made it very easy to add libraries. I bet you if it C++ had an ecosystem as easy to use as Javascript, it would be the wildest mess you could imagine. Someone would create a package chock full of generics that sends your credentials to a foreign server during compilation but output a completely fine binary. But making dependency management easy in C++ would kill the elitist allure to the language and we can't have that now, can we?

When you say "nixos installer", do you mean the GUI nixos installer? If you have a github account, you can create a bug report. As a KDE user, this has never been a problem for me.

That's a meme response. I can snicker, but it really doesn't solve anything.

Development should really happen more in containers but I hate devcontainers. It's very VScode specific and any customizations I made to my shell and environment are wiped away. It has trouble accessing my ssh keys in the agent, and additional tools I installed...

I just wish nix/nixos had a safer solution for it. Maybe even firejail or bwrap or landlock or something.

We laugh about AI deleting all the shit, but every day there's a new npm package ready to exfiltrate all your data, upload it to a server and encrypt your home. How do you protect yourself against that?

Probably not. There must be something missing in your configuration. Do you have createHome = true for your user?

When facing issues on nixos, you can easily just share your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix + a description of your error + logs and it'll provide useful context for people. We'll even be able to spin up a VM with your config to see if the bug can be recreated.

Every month I hope to read an article about some bug name using RISCV in consumer hardware as a flagship chip, but alas, it's ARM again.

Why has Lemmy had such problems with this and piefed, the new kid on the block, just makes it work? I've been subscribed to the linux experiment since I joined and it simply doesn't work. The last video I see here is from 2 years ago.

And yet, Germany wants to hang on to gasoline. Are they going to pivot to tank production because they use diesel engines?

A good friend's grandma was missing her friends and I suggested getting her online so that she could meet other people while gaming, but the idea was rejected as she had enough trouble fighting out WhatsApp. Her daughters had to call her on Google Messenger until it was killed.

She finally died of cancer but was very happy while doing it because of the relief. No more pain, no more loneliness. I wish we could introduce gaming to more seniors. It might make their life more interesting. Then could even have a Gray League and stream themselves to other aging people.

I bet that if the people born between after 1980 get to retire, gaming will be pretty normal. Unless social media has eaten away at their brains too much. Or something greater comes along like brain to computer interfaces.

How are people still on xitter? Is this dude a nazi?

It sounds interesting but who in the world is going to write article in the abstract wiki? It doesn't seem at all accessible.