dinckelman

Oh no... people will have less ads, without being bullied into paying... what would the billionaires even do. Don't get avocado and coffee for a bit, i guess

This is a good example of what people consistently overlook/misunderstand, when it comes to Nix.

Obviously you can remount a /home, or just pull the dotfiles from a personal repo, but the strength of Nix is also in that I can re-create my entire config exactly how it is defined. If i were to setup a machine completely from scratch, with a mature enough config, it will get me from 0 to my exact desktop completely unattended.

But there are also many more advantages to it, at least in my eyes. Let's take trying/tweaking new packages as an example. Yesterday I pulled an old repo for an Outer Wilds mod. The thing needs a dev environment, and a mod manager for the actual game. A nix shell got me both, I finished my work, and when I exit out of fish, both are gone, just as I wanted them to be.

Another good example would be partial os updates. I've used Arch for almost 9 years before switching to Nix, and pretty much a top3 Arch rule is not doing partial updates, or partial rollbacks. In case of a breakage, I would have to manually redownload an older version of a tarball, pacman -U the package, and then hope i'm not cooked. In the case of gcc incompatibilities, it can quickly become a massive pain in the ass. My nix flake would never experience this problem, because I already have two different scenarios available - either i build based on an older lockfile from my git repo, or I create an overlay for a specific input I need, so that it still pulls what it needs, and doesn't interfere with the rest of my system

As much as everyone hates Nintendo, apparently, this means literally nothing for them. This does, however, make the used market a nightmare to deal with

Lawmakers are grappling with how to address ...

Just a reminder that the government is actively voting against regulations on AI, because obviously a lot of these people are pocketing lobbyist money

Quite a disappointment, to be honest. I'm still running a 1080ti, and this card is more than capable today. Obviously it's no 5090, but it runs everything I've wanted to play on it, par MHWIlds, which runs on newer systems just as poorly anyway

No one gets a third term, and that's not negotiable. They can get the guillotine though

Aren’t these three distros mirrors of each other, for a lack of a better expression? I remember reading that one of them was started as a clone of CentOS, bugs included

I truly don't understand the trend of games receiving an "enhanced" edition a year after launch. So what you're saying is that you've released unfinished garbage originally, and now present this upgrade as something new, when that's what it should have been right off the press

Snake oil salesmen are claiming their product is something it's not, more at 11

Unsurprisingly so. The feedback has been overwhelmingly negative.

That being said, it's still a matter of time until it happens

The proposal has been dropped

Doing the best for which use-case? The answers will be fundamentally different depending on the situation