I own lots of content, because I created it myself.

Friggin’ finally! I’ll finally be able to remove some of those alternative chat apps I don’t really like.

Only in Europe. For the rest of us, they will make sure to leave in all the enshittification that Makes Windows Worse Again.

I can’t leave fully because job, but I can sure as hell lock them inside a VM.

Microsoft is the abusive partner wondering how many times they have to hit you to make you love them.

The reaction is funny too, because in my experience comparing communities of various distros, Fedora’s community is among the the most inviting and professionally-behaving of them.

Personally, I am not running Fedora at the moment, but probably will when my Framework 16 arrives, since Fedora is officially supported on it. And to be honest, I find that I am making the same choices with Arch as Fedora would have made for me (aside from bootloader), so I feel that I’m wasting a bit of effort.

Gross

Guaranteed not to drive you crazy.

These comments really speak to me as someone who is comfortable in Arch but mildly interested in NixOS. The concept seems great, and it seems to work very smoothly when it works. Yet there are always these war stories where people have had to fight the system, to debug some misbehaving hack that is nonetheless required to smash a particular package into the NixOS mould. It is discouraging. The idea I get is that NixOS involves more time doing OS curation chores than does Arch, which already hits the limit of my willingness.

Flakes are another issue. The pre-flakes way seems to be de-facto deprecated, yet the new, flaky way is experimental. I don’t want to waste time learning a doomed paradigm, and I don’t want to depend on anything experimental.

For me, configuration files in git plus btrfs snapshots is just so straightforward. I want to see NixOS as a better way, but I can’t.

My elderly relative who uses eye drops also has regular eye infections. I’ve told her primary caregivers to watch out and maybe stop putting drops in eyes if they can avoid it.

I use FDE because my locks are easily pickable. I don’t trust the landlord’s son that lives in the unit above mine. Also the computer is near a big window. Property crime is a popular activity in the area, so the smash-and-grab is a plausible threat. Defence in depth, though, so I still lock the front and interior office doors.

Every time I hear this word firefish, I cannot help but be reminded of the phrase “turds of the firefish”, which appears quite randomly in one of Orson Scott Card’s novels.

If the Mac were half as repairable as a Framework and could run Windows VMs without crashing when they run my default tools, I might be interested in one again.

Do not challenge him to a limbo match.

How could we have predicted such an unprecedented action. /s

Surely the judge will find the state in contempt of court and have the state jailed until the state produces the required information. /s

Neither: I am not aware of it.

Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?

Excellent. Just in time for some migration of my root filesystem I’ve been wanting to do.

I switched to Kagi immediately when they announced cheaper pricing. It’s good.