Not coffee, so a bit of a side note: with a frother I’ve noticed oat milk seems to give a more consistent froth (compared to dairy which has foam float to the top).

Though that might be an interaction with the cappuccino mix that I use (2 different types of thickeners helps, maybe?). When dairy foam rises, it also somewhat pulls the mix too (when cold mixed, at least).

I nearly died. They say I must journey into the AUR realm for legacy GPU drivers, and I would have fallen into the text-only abyss had I updated days later (assuming I had not heard the news). My internet is too slow for regular updates. Continue onwards without me, I’ll just rest here at this long-outdated version.

Generally I don’t think rolling release is the issue itself (I have been using it for years), but it seems like every packaging/updating scheme out there sucks for one reason or another. Every time something looks like it has the answer, there is something else that works contrary to what is expected/desired.

The difference is restrictions didn’t exist as much. I can’t just go to my local port and get a job on a ship without a resumé and experience, without a passport etc. The main lodging in modern life is buying or renting, so it’s also pretty much homelessness unless you have a job lined up already. Even travel within the US, the best bet to sleeping without money is sleeping in a car/van (if you have one!) in something like a Walmart parking-lot (or a rest area)… even then it’s going to depend on the area and you still might get hassled by cops (or now, maybe ICE).

And hell, if people lived the old way, I probably could do that. I can peel+chop+fry a potato (or most other vegetables) no problem. I’ll sweep the floor, I can carry things, I’ll help with important/risky things, and if I have food+shelter I don’t particularly care about money. Admittedly, I would be higher risk of death at sea though (either heat-stroke or that I can’t swim).

Though this is completely different in the EU… because of: Freedom To Roam, the Schengen Area, hostels.

EDIT: Also going back further, many humans could survive travelling that way likely because they were part of a group. Solo-travel this way is possible now, but I’d say it’s a bit more than courage. It also takes knowledge and preparation, likely health, and again navigating risks. Not to say any of that is new for travel, though I’d say getting arrested or maybe ran over are. And this also falls back more into survival rather than travel for leisure as people think about it now.

Probably because these days, it’s often found via scripts/bots. Either it’s found via content-ID (it scans a video, finds a match for audio) or you included some trademarked term in your title or description (and I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets non-related stuff too, especially when they do it in bulk for places like Github, itch, gamejolt etc). In some cases it might be from popularity or news coverage.

The obvious connection is that how would they even know you’re using it as your ringtone etc.? Unless maybe you are in the room with a Nintendo lawyer for some reason. And also this might seem frivolous if word ever got out if something like this were tried (not that I think it’d stop them).

Though I should say that non-commercial “infringement” is pursued. They don’t actually care if you’re making money or not, just as they don’t care if it’s parody/transformative or not (they can DMCA anybody, the only punishment they get is if you fight it in court… but they have more lawyers than you). Distance yourself from their IP at all costs, even if you think they’re “cool”, and again if you’ve made all your own assets at least keep it out of titles and descriptions.

The key point for me is that their socialist and green parties stepped out to endorse the new (non-progressive) party so it could have supermajority instead of Orban’s party. In other words, they took the strategic/pragmatic path, unlike the result in the US.

Don’t know if it’ll help, but I turned off wi-fi for a while and that changed my habits a bit. I was able to finish a programming project (sweeper clone). If I ever used the internet, it was on my phone (browser mostly for questions, not logged into anything, overall less comfortable without a keyboard for me) and even then I turned the wifi back off shortly after.

I still played games etc. that I already had downloaded, but it’s a lot more limited with choice and I also deleted quite a bit of stuff that I didn’t care about (weighed against how much data it took up). So even that was not so bad.

I also hooked up the old PS3 and replayed some games, which made more sense with limited options.

Finishing the project sort of ended that though, was hoping to get answers to questions and did not. That and dislike the GH co-pilot situation so I haven’t even shared my sweeper project, so kinda killed my motivation’s momentum.

Going by my post history here, it was ~2.5 months for me.

It’s illegal to say.

My first thought was:

“He said: Have you ever killed anyone? I said: Shutup! …I don’t need your accusations around here-I got alotta things to do, I got Jeopardy to watch, and I gotta go to my job!”

(from David Firth’s Not Stanley episode, I Am Not A Serial Killer.)

I’m guessing android or synthetic would be a better term here. Bioandroid if it needs to eat (etc) and if skin isn’t just something to blend in.

I don’t have a social circle, so it would really depend on what the point of this is especially long-term (who’s doing it, do dopplegangers act entirely the same).

Also, if I could get some spooky nerd to physically put my brain into a (formerly broken) Atlas robot: Styx - Mr. Roboto (Official Video)

George Washington by Brad Neely.

Washington, Washington. six-foot-eight, weighs a fucking ton (VIEWER WARNING: He’ll save children, but not the British children.)

Also later in the song:

• “six-foot-twenty, fucking killing for fun”,
• “12 stories high, made of radiation”

Logically, it must then follow that ANY ACTION other than voting for Trump was supporting Harris

Yes, from the perspective of those who saw Harris as the worst outcome (cue clip of the “apparently I’m an idiot” lady).

For the others, not really no. Sure a coin flip could technically land on the edge, but in real-world conditions it’s even less likely to be called that way.

For me the result makes no difference, but it’s more that there’s no living and there’s very little to do about it other than escapism (so, still nothing).

Them Bones by Alice in Chains comes to mind.

It’s a civil offense though, not a criminal* one. I mean sure Nvidia actually has the lawyers to fight this (assuming this just doesn’t get quietly reversed as a “mistake”) but often false strikes may as well be legal when the person targeted doesn’t have the time/money/willingness/etc to fight it in court.

* at least at face-value. I guess other charges could happen based on actions and intent (fraud etc), but I wouldn’t expect that to happen without the civil suit nor would I expect the law to actually have the teeth to actually punish a big company for bullying a nobody.

The artist actually does do advertising stuff (including merch and crowd-funding) on imgur (+reposting/rehashing too) and reddit so I sorta get it, but posting art by someone-who-conducts-themselves-in-a-manner-you-dislike is counterintuitive.

I wasn’t even entirely sure it was this until I saw the mention of Patreon on the image, as the talk of signatures in the comments is jumping the shark a bit.

Sure, but I see it turned the opposite way: you can tell we don’t have magic because clearly there is stagnation where magic would strike deals (even with small, mutual, safe, local wishes).

(And yes, I know that probably hits some plot points of at least 4 of those anime cartoons and probably at least 1 Junji Ito story and/or older folklore. Or maybe it’d just be countless new episodes of… The Twilight Zone / The Scary Door)

It’s pretty easy to uninstall and make certain packages taboo

I remember reading that you couldn’t turn it off unless you outright disabled recommended packages. Reading again, I see conflicting statements and it seems like a common thing people take issue with. Though even locking seems to me like it should just be something that happens during explicit removal, if that is a fix.

So I still kind of hate stuff like that.

Making a system either unresponsive or worse, broken. I feel it would be a workflow nightmare of a scale that would beggar belief and it would need constant attention from the maintainers…Something we’d probably not see in our lifetimes

My system is currently outdated and mostly usable, but has 4 different application issues (1 crash, 1 flicker, 1 compiling/library error, 1 feature error)… before I stopped updating, rolling updates gave me a few bad rolls that did not fix some of these issues (and if I’d have rolled not even week later w/o reading the news, I would’ve been toasted into terminal-fix-it-now-land).

So I’d say there’s a lot of room for improvement here. I dream of something that works like this:

• bin.fast: Major.minor.greatest, 7…30 days
• bin.stable: Major.minor.greatest, 30…180 days
• userspace: any version (including non-system package formats), total install/non-shared-dependencies size may influence update frequency (or budget)
  • small things may update always, big programs may even get to the point where it switches the install over to a bin version for you rather than compiling again
• userspace packages may also slow down dependencies

Non-critical applications may be updated less. Security updates or marked-as-needed-fix more. Alternatively, supporting explicit branches (like Godot’s 3.X and 4.X) in official repos helps. Maintenance updates (nothing known broken) may be delayed if something seems/is-known wrong (build-bots, user reports or comments, upstream fix needed or dependency too new, admin/maintainer intervention etc)

Ultimately, this could mean an update about every week or slower than once a month depending on packages and if the user encounters issues or not. And I’m sure this may be possible with some package system, but again not something default (and less effective if a package system doesn’t provide the needed structure/information).

Hardware wise, yeah I’m otherwise still pretty happy with the performance level I have (and it’s a fine target for my own stylized projects, still working on that). A smaller(+more efficient) system would be nice, but GPUs seem to still be behind/lower-value than CPUs though. Polaris would be fine just to make things easier though, not that I want to buy a sidestep especially when the market is so stagnant. Same thing with workarounds that won’t be really cheaper either (esp, w/RAM etc pricing).

This is why I am very careful to use a small amount of them as there are a few apps

What I’m talking about was an issue with 1 package due to sandboxing, and it was Krita IIRC (something I don’t care about sandboxing on). I think KDE stuff was being pulled in too (I don’t use it, but I do use Kate and few other things that use Qt).

If there’s any truth to that it’s probably related to the acidity of hotsauces (and maybe pickled peppers), particularly eating it without other food. Noodles, which I’d imagine take on the PH of the water, probably not so much.

A quick search says capsaicin can stimulate the production of stomach acid, so the kind of person who does something stupid with a pepper or sauce might do so on an empty stomach as well (which I’d say is another issue).

For me, I didn’t like patterns (or the work-arounds). A shame because it (or now, maybe slowroll) might be closer to what I’m looking for, especially if the talk of smoke-testing is true. (though I’ve also seen someone say that Zypper is slow)

I like some of what I’ve seen with NixOS, though I see quite a few things that make it seem like not the answer either. And some of the things (like distrobox) seem like they probably add weight to updating as well (and/or clunkiness, if I have to manually do it).

Also some of my issue is I’m still running a 1050Ti (and Arch putting the legacy drivers on the AUR, a bit of a pain for me… not sure if that has changed though), I know that’d likely be even worse on Nix as well.

EDIT: I’ve tried Flatpak for user apps as well, and needing to download graphics drivers again really defeats the purpose.

Ideally I’d like something that has an update system intended for slower internet. Something that can pull (/keep) slightly older dependencies when user-land stuff is a bit slow, or outright delay/reschedule possibly-broken (for any number of reasons) updates rather than wasting a user’s time and bandwidth. Guessing it doesn’t exist, though (or if it does, it has some other huge workflow flaw).

Mentioning @[email protected] because they’ve talked about Tumbleweed and Nix.

That’s the neat part: I don’t.

I mean… I’m sure it’s possible that there are people out there that’d make it at least better more than 50% of the time. I don’t know about you, but I live in a low-density area (carless) and have no real viable options to meet… anyone really.

The other half of the story is that I too have a brain that isn’t really wired to do that anyway. I never really made friends in school and probably could live underground and would only go half as crazy as people normally do. Put my brain in something mostly mechanical and it’d probably be hard for most people to notice (especially with people not understanding the difference between robots and cyborgs).

Unlike a lot of people, even the internet isn’t really a social space for me either.

That’s going to heavily depend on location, resources/money, and health. The very issues at hand here. Many people would love to just leave, they don’t because they lack even a viable destination. And it’s not great to travel on foot or be homeless when it’s freezing outside.

Intentional communities are probably a more realistic thing in the US, but even then if it were such an effective option it seems like less people would be homeless. The closest one to me has no info on living costs/expectations and a $50 fee for a “tour” (so it likely is not a saving option for those who can barely maintain themselves).

EDIT: Backpacking/military might make more sense for those that live in Europe. Similarly, the monk thing is going to depend on beliefs and allowed/expected lifestyle, so I don’t expect that to be viable for most either.