That is, until your distro releases an update and you’re like “what do you mean the update failed? So does that mean the update script rolled the changes back?” and then you find out your entire system is in a half updated state and you need to clean install

The graphs are confusing, same color, but they switch to whatever is better being at the top

They should just rename Gnome to Desktop Environment and rewrite it in Rust Programming Language

It can do that, but it gets more complicated because you are doing this is in an imperative way. For example, in Nix it’s trivial to change the config and remove something.

In ansible there’s no guarantee installing a package and removing it won’t have side effects. You could install a DE and decide to switch back, but it already changed some files on your system

Nixos conf editor, it shows less of the config on screen than a text editor

Because whenever I use apt or a similar standard package manager there is always some issue. For example, I start up an Ubuntu VPS and try to run nginx just to find out that Ubuntu 24 only has 1.24

And to get a newer version you need to do a bunch of steps:

https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/installing-nginx/installing-nginx-open-source/#stable_vs_mainline

How are these sources.list incantations any different from editing a configuration.nix file?

Okay, but when I figure it out on my desktop I just copy paste the exact snippet to my laptop and it just works.

Do you think I can remember the steps I took to fix my issue with Ubuntu? I don’t remember what file I modified and where I put some config file.

They already built a GUI editor, but a programmer made it so it is actually harder to use than the text file

Not confirmed. Crossed the ocean on a train in Japan

Ships barely pollute. They carry an extremely large amount of weight for the energy they use because they are on water. It’s the truck bringing it to your doorstep that creates the pollution. If you live on the coast, buying American could pollute more

They also got a cease fire for the shipping lanes in the Red Sea and that required extensive bombing. You have to agree that a certain budget is required

Trump administration is selling its first package to Ukraine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/01/trump-administration-readies-first-sale-of-military-equipment-to-ukraine

trying to format C: to install linux

I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave

Some notes I want to look at later I do write with pen and paper. For jotting things down I just have a digital tablet you can scribble or draw on

Let me introduce you to discord. You get a notification for a message but there’s no way to find it. You keep clicking the notification and it won’t actually scroll up to the message to let you read it

Intel thought the iPhone market was going to be too small so they didn’t agree to manufacture their CPUs

You have to charge it separately, it’s not quite as convenient

pwd for password, man for mansplain, and dd for destroy disk

You can’t kill viruses, but you can see if the side effects are nocebo or real. If the placebo group complains about the side effects are the same rate it means they are not statistically significant