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boo_, 4 days ago

Have you looked at Guix? I love it because it uses Scheme instead of Nix as its language, but I realize not everyone likes Lisp as much as I do. Also, I found the documentation easier to follow. Since it is a GNU project, you will need to install a third party channel (repo) if you need proprietary drivers/firmware. If you do, check out SystemCrafters’ install image, which has firmware on the image so you can at least boot it.

boo_, 9 days ago

I think so. The language (Scheme) is a lot more logical to me, and the higher focus on reproducibility in the main channel compared to Nix (Guix can be bootstrapped from a tiny binary seed) is a draw for me.

boo_, 17 days ago

*under capitalism and other non-democratic economic systems

boo_, 29 days ago

Communism isn’t bad per se, authoritarianism is, but there are many authoritarian regimes going under the name ‘communist’, thus we have a term for that: tankie. Using different terms to describe the Israeli state (like fascist, ethno-nationalist, or Zionist) and its supporters does not mean it’s not bad. It really is! It’s just categorically different in the ideology espoused by them, and having language to describe that is not bad.

boo_, 1 month ago

PPA:s are specifically hosted by Canonical, no? Otherwise it’s just a normal repo.

boo_, 1 month ago

This is different from the Wayland security model, as Wayland restricts the ability for clients to modify and read from other clients arbitrarily. This is an extension to a Wayland compositor, and as all extensions do, it contains code which runs on your system. Any code, unless sandboxed, can access your filesystem no matter if it’s run under Wayland, X11, or no windowing system at all for that matter.

boo_, 1 month ago

Omg their eggs are heart shaped! 🥰❤️😊

boo_, 2 months ago

Two spirit ig?

boo_, 2 months ago

Does nginx give me anything over apache httpd in the year of our lord 2024? I’ve used both for hosting servers but never really understood the difference, as apache seems to have incorporated the important improvements that nginx made iirc.

boo_, 2 months ago

Maybe mod_lua is an equivalent? I haven’t used OpenResty so there may be something I’m missing.

boo_, 3 months ago

I formatted all my C code in High School with the GNU style. I’m not sure my teacher even read the code :P

I mostly write Lisp today, but that GNU style still has a special place in my heart. As long as it’s automatically formatted, I’m fine with whatever style, though.

boo_, 3 months ago

I think they got democratic socialism confused with social democracy (which is understandable given the similar names). The difference is that democratic socialism is… well, socialism and that social democracy is just liberalism with a social safety net.

(Side-note: Socialism is in essence about organizing the economy democratically so the fact that tankies have coopted the term to also mean totalitarian state capitalism unless democratic is added as a prefix is such a shame.)

boo_, 3 months ago

Check my comment. Democratic socialism is correct here. Social democracy is what you’re explaining.

boo_, 4 months ago

I thought floating number two was in reference to floating point numbers lmao

boo_, 4 months ago

I’ve really wanted to try bhyve but the lack of hardware passthrough support (PCIe GPU passthrough in my case) compared to KVM keeps me from it as of right now. Looks really good though.

boo_, 4 months ago

I think Xen does? It’s available on a few different operating systems but idk how user friendly it is compared to QEMU/KVM or bhyve.

boo_, 4 months ago

Merry Christmas ya horny animal

boo_, 4 months ago

Say gex

boo_, 6 months ago

Haha yeah that’s worse

boo_, 6 months ago

I’ve noticed that Steam for Windows displays download speed in mbit/s while the Linux client displays it in mbyte/s, although both display the unit as mb/s. This is a setting that can be toggled. This doesn’t account for the entire difference (1887mbit > 109mbyte) but is one contributing factor.

boo_, 6 months ago

Ah, that’s annoying. Have you reported the issue to Valve? Seems like it’s their issue to fix. I personally haven’t encountered this issue, so I’m unable to help further, but it seems that it’s an issue with Steam’s Linux client since the rest of the system is unaffected, as I understand it.

boo_, 6 months ago

Why was she suspended on Twitter?