Not “no” impact (the laws of thermodynamics are still a thing), but it’s pretty negligible.

Where I live, most electricity is hydroelectric, nuclear, or wind. So it’s really NBD to download a few extra MBs of data, especially since flatpaks aren’t something you need to download over and over again.

It sounds like the issue is that the Rust compiler uses 100% of your CPU capacity. Is there any command line option for it that throttles the amount of cpu it will use? This doesn’t sound like an issue that you should be tackling at the OS level. Maybe you could wrap the compiler in a docker container and use resource constraints?

Blue light filters may not help with eye strain, but I’ve definitely benefited from them for circadian rhythm reasons.

With lawn mowing minigame

Flatpak’s benefits mostly exist for the developer. Apt is more tightly integrated with the distro, which is generally advantageous, but also means more work for packaging. Flatpak’s benefit is that it’s a compatibility layer for lots of different distros. In a perfect world, every distro would have a large library of packages in the official repo, but that’s a lot of work for devs, and flatpak lets them avoid that sprawling support.

Same. No idea what it means, but I like when Linus throws stuff.

My sister burned her apartment down by leaving a portable battery bank plugged in and charging. Luckily the reason she wasn’t home at the time of the fire was because she was bringing the cat to a cat sitter, or else the cat would’ve been cooked too.

Be careful with portable battery banks folks! Don’t leave them unattended!

Oh hell yeah. The Beaches are great! I wasn’t crazy about their latest album, but the three albums before that are all fantastic! I’ve seen them in concert 3 times!

Yeah I wouldn’t hate snaps if it wasn’t for canonical saying they wouldn’t force them on people, then making apt install snaps instead of .debs without the user asking for it.

My brother is really into making electronic music too. Last Christmas, he said he really wanted a Stylophone. I got him one, but first had him open a gag gift that was a child’s toy Xylophone and was like “I heard you really wanted one of these”

Specifically, Adam West

Isn’t that just shopping on their website with extra steps?

No man needs a special place for help

Wow you really don’t see what a shitty way of thinking this is, do you?

Which is why the vast majority of “safe spaces” explicitly and only for men, quickly devolve into incel shit.

Man fuck this mentality. The myth that if you put enough men together in one place that they will automatically start becoming toxic is the exact reason why men need safe spaces from people like you who spread this sort of hateful rhetoric.

Oh, neat! I had no idea. Still, the term “swap” would be incorrect.

Sus

I’m pretty sure Windows doesn’t have fixed-size swap. It uses pagefiles.

Edit: apparently pagefiles can be given a static size as well.

You ever think maybe you don’t have imposter syndrome? You’re just telling yourself you do because it feels like it, but you actually don’t have it at all.

Attention is a commodity.

The vast majority has learned helplessness and submissiveness. It’s not that they don’t care, they’ve just been beaten down over time.