Things break. More than upgrades, Framework laptops are great for repairability.

touch: cannot touch 'your': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch 'mother': Permission denied

Exactly. I never see people actually liking Cinnamon as a DE, but everyone keeps recommending Mint. It’s so frustrating, and perplexing.

The idea is that someone is checking the code. And by building it yourself, you can at least ensure that you’re getting what’s built from the code. It is possible that some malicious stuff was inserted while building the binary that doesn’t show up in the source code. Building from source solves that problem.

Reproducible builds try to solve that problem by generating some provenance from a third party. A middle ground can be building the binary using something like GitHub Actions, since that can be audited by others. That comes with its own can of worms since GH is owned by M$, but I digress.

So it is technically sane to do it, just not very practical in my view. But for lesser known apps, I do sometimes build from source.

I mean, that’s not a Rust issue per se. It’s only noticeable because cargo is much better than most build systems, and hence is an actual option for distribution of software. But there should ideally always be a binary distribution. I know some people like to build everything by themselves, but I get it, it’s annoying.

Yeah, that’s the unrealistic part. The sister would’ve known how he is and asker her kid not to bother uncle.

Yeah.

This is even more apparent with the online Indian hate. It’s so manufactured. Especially on Instagram, that place is a hell hole.

No it doesn’t. If I say I’m melting on a hot day, I’m not trying to minimize the suffering of burn victims. It’s just comparison.

Yeah, if you want me to hear your endless bitching, you at least need to invite me for drinks (or potluck, if you don’t drink) sometimes. Even then, I might just offer some advice every once in a while. A little bit of tough love is sometimes necessary.

This just reeks of right wing anti-intellectualism. People actually offering solutions are vilified because they’re sometimes rude or annoying. Grow up, and learn to ignore people you want to ignore. Not everyone will bow down to your whims. You wanna complain, fine, some will respond with solutions. If you want that, ignore them. It’s not very hard.

Yeah, snapper just works better with btrfs in my experience, but timeshift is fine too.

Arch is great for gaming. Also, if you’re familiar with how Linux works, Arch pretty much gets out of your way. Just have btrfs with snapper for rolling back any mistakes. (Although, I’ve only had to do that once in the last 5 years or so on Arch. And I was trying to replace the graphics driver, so kinda on me.)

Dozens!

I’ve already taken the RAM and SSD for my home server, but I don’t think I can use much else. Not much of a hardware guy. I’ll happily send it over to anyone if they paid for shipping (I’ll even add some old RAM). Some screws are stripped, so the chassis doesn’t close properly, but if those are replaced, it can be a perfectly usable laptop with some RAM and SSD. It’ll be better than just dumping it.

I’ve thought of doing it, but the power draw wouldn’t be reasonable.

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In fish, you can enter part of the command, and then press up to search for it. It’s kinda awesome.

I’m an amateur programmer at best, and the height of my programming “career” was when my friend told me their IT was using my tool internally. It has a few hundred stars on GitHub now, so not too bad. Sad thing is that I have other projects that I actually am passionate about, but they don’t get much love.

Honestly, the only American politician who I really like is Zohran. Even Bernie has weird stances when it comes to Palestine, even though he’s probably the second best one. I tried to like and trust AOC, but she’s all bark and no bite.