Thanks to Lemmy, I quit the orange site. I didn’t expect the discussion on Lemmy to be that good! From HN I had this impression there are mostly idiots, plus these VC guys willing to utilise these masses of idiots to their advantage by various means. Via hiring them, making them do something (like adore YC and making them more popular, a fan base), by promoting one topics and suppressing others. They do modify the narrative all the time, to the point people start self-censoring.

There are interesting people as well, sitting there for some reason. But I guess they are heavily invested into the platform, and also benefit from their popularity there, so it’s a win-win for them too.

For me, an average guy, not even interested in becoming anyone popular, but seeking a normal discussion over topics I’m interested in, they’re just a moderation propaganda piece. While Lemmy mostly good. Unfortunately not all topics are covered here, some are quite tumbleweed, but some technical topics are rather good. So, my view, HN is just absolutely shitty trash in comparison.

I’ve been visiting the week or so, not even slight mention of the Epstein files I found there. I hadn’t been spending my all day there, but at least that wasn’t on the surface. I bet they’d just brush it off as irrelevant to tech, but come on, you can discuss a variety of precisely tech aspects of these (they used regular gmail or yahoo accounts, their passwords were like wtf very simple, the opsec was non existent, yada yada). Crickets. On the other hand, there are multiple irrelevant (to tech) topics wildly discussed. So, when you’re long enough there, you’d start seeing patterns and very obvious censorship.

Came to ask whether someone uses this.

First, I thought that’s Tim Apple, not the pedo. Don’t know which is funnier though.

What about actual developers of Cosmic?

I bet you’re looking for zathura.

I paid my sins, father! Now all my MacBooks are on Linux! All of them!

Perhaps you just don’t know Arch well then.

I owned only MacBooks and not pre-built PCs, so it’s the same for me. Never bought a single Windows license, even the OEM one.

I was worried there might be some weird bugs, as all my other clients are on v2. But so far, I haven’t noticed anything wrong.

So it’s purely some kind of a mix of cargo cult and just the will to have the newer updated software everywhere. That makes little practical sense, but I’m still with this illusion of newer = better, on a subconscious level, I think. Plus, I wasn’t sure everything is correct as it is not updated for a long time, I thought perhaps some Debian repos ingrained into my Fedora!

Yeah, like, Blender devs being: ‘we implemented HDR on Linux. Windows? You can implement it yourself, if you want.’

Source: The real change log of some year or so ago, but I cannot find the link quickly. Here it states the Windows is supported too now.

What a nice way to say sudo rm -fr /

I can say about the stability, as I use Syncthing extensively and the version 2 since day one. It had the database issue, perhaps upon migration, which lead the program to crash on my Raspberry Pi 2B with 1 GB RAM. At some point I noticed the issue, removed the database and let it rebuilt it cleanly, which did the job and fixed the issue. Plus, I made a swap partition just in case. Haven’t seen any other issues after that. That was DietPi distro, based on Debian.

I had no issues like that on Arch, but my Arch desktops, laptops, and servers are more powerful, perhaps they handled the migration better. I expect that this was some bug that was fixed later. Fedora still syncs, but I wonder when would they update the repo, or if that’s me that wasn’t attentive somewhere and I need to change the repo. Maybe they follow the topic closer.

Oh Windows did mess with me a gazillion times in 2000s, when I was a poor kid with just one HDD, and tried to dual boot.

Uncle Ben taught me the hard way, through his nephew, Peter. I was still a kid, but I knew: big power, big responsibility.

I don’t understand why Syncthing is still not version 2 on Fedora. Did I do something wrong? Did the repo changed? Apart from that, I agree, I really like Fedora on systems where I don’t want to mess with the system. But I do want to mess with my systems, that’s the point of Linux for me now :)

I had this too, but I use ctrl + r all the time (with fzf), and really have no need for that many aliases.

A friend advised me to sell mine when the GPU prices were crazy, I could get like $200 for it, or a bit more (years prior to that, I bought it for $150 from another friend, used, he tried to mine some Etherium with it). I was lazy, and perhaps the friend was right, I could buy something better for the price now. But I’m really satisfied with the card and feel no need to upgrade any time soon. Runs everything I want.

I do sudo pacman -Syu as a ritual each time when I start my computer or laptop. Like, the very first thing after the system is booted. So far so good, been doing that for 7 years.

True. Yet, I hate it as a server too. I use it only on SBCs, but not pure Debian, but Armbian. Otherwise, on an X64 machine, I’d go with Arch.

For me Debian is the worst distribution I ever used, excluding Ubuntu (that’s the primer of trash distro). I mean, it must be good for many people, but I just cannot stand it, it’s always obsolete and always breaks on me. I tried to love it for like ten or more years, no luck so far. So its logo is the least annoying thing to me. Their website shows too. Like a competition of ‘we’re a huge community, look, nobody can make a website here!’