pmk @ pmk @lemmy.sdf.org

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Many people find Debian to be a "boring" OS. After years of distrohopping some come to the conclusion that a boring OS is exactly what they want.

Time for Navidson and some cameras to document it!

A thorn in everyone's side.

Does Soulseek work with a VPN without port forwarding?

A good thing was also that Germany officially said that "suspicionless surveillance must be taboo in states that have rule of law". This indicates it's a firm position and not a flimsy "maybe tomorrow..." position.

Oh I know the reason, nobody knew git and had just worked alone before.

Aha. I was part of a project where each dev had their own long running branch for non-specific work and this was the norm, but it always felt clunky. And often resulted in merge issues.

I see. I didn't want to imply that it was common, but more as a thought experiment I guess, what it means for these (possibly rare) cases.

Is it ok to continue on a branch if you also merge back main into it? Like, branch gets merged into main on remote, local main pull, local merge main into local branch, push branch?

I don't know, and I don't know how much they take, it probably varies a lot.

I see, so it's about the amount. I just don't know much about these things. And, probably difficult to find data on how much bodybuilders take.

Honest question, what does this mean for female bodybuilders who use a lot of testosterone to build muscle mass? Are they technically biologically men?

You wrote "It is a myth that arch is unstable". Arch, being rolling release, is by definition changing. This is, imho, the opposite of stable. This is why it's important to use precise words. I have no interest in continuing this discussion since you don't seem to argue in good faith.

If you have a better word for the concept of unchanging functionality and interfaces, I'm open to using that in this context. In describing distros, I've only come across the word stable for this. Reliable is a wider concept to me, and also includes being relatively free of bugs. A stable distro can still be buggy, if it's the same bugs tomorrow as yesterday.

Well, for the sake of clarity, lets separate stability and reliability? Stability means unchanging. Reliable means it won't crash or behave in unexpected ways.

Do you think you would have that opinion if you ran arch on mission critical production servers for a couple of years?

Back in the day, ubuntu used to be the most user friendly distro. Linux for humans. It has a faster release cycle by not following stable debian releases. It had hardware support that you had to jump through hoops in debian to get. A great community. It made sense to base mint on ubuntu.

If I may ask, where are you from? The city I live in is a nightmare for cars, the roads were made for horses and walking, narrow and winding cobblestone streets and the city tries its best to keep cars out of the center.

You can use a mastodon frontend that doesn't require js.

Ubuntu is Debian based yes. Not all ubuntu-based comes with snap (for example Mint). Sometimes I think "why are there so many different distros? We only need like five of them", but then, sometimes I think it's a strength, each distro exploring a new direction to see what works.