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I recently changed my nixos configs to this approach. Takes a bit to remember where I put everything and what modules things are in but in the long term it makes things easier to manage. Also makes things easier if I need to turn modules on or off for whatever reason.

That being said does take a bit of work to get everything set up but in the long run it’s worth it.

early internet “culture” to a younger person. They didn’t get it.

In today’s online world you openly post your photo online, where you’re from, what you do, etc and anyone can see it. I had to explain to them that back then (late 90s/early 00s) posting your photo or real name online was a no-no. it was actively discouraged. But then in turn because of the way you primarily communicated with people online either via IRC, forums, ICQ, AOL IM, etc you kinda had a closer relationship with these people even if you didn’t know what they looked like or what their names were.

Also the fact that in most cases a lot of people simply couldn’t put their photos online either because they didn’t have access to a scanner or a digital camera. I told them that one of my best friends online that I would talk to daily I still to this day have no idea what they looked like.

In Canada the government was providing something like close to $3000 per person during the pandemic if they had lost their job or were unable to work due to covid on the condition you pay it back. many people ripped off the program, many people didn’t pay it back, government has kinda been mute on the whole thing since then. Guy I knew got it twice and could argue he didn’t need it (he was a POS). never paid it back, didn’t hear a peep from the government and still hasn’t. continues to pay his taxes annnnnnd nothing, no one has ever come calling to collect.

Another thing is during the pandemic we were putting homeless individuals in hotel rooms for months on end. we paid for it. we “suddenly” were able to find them housing. People were working from home remember that? nothing collapsed, companies continued doing well. Then suddenly the pandemic ends and now for whatever reason we no longer have housing for the homeless, we can no longer put them in those hotel rooms, and we’re forcing people to return to work. We no longer have money for anything?

it’s not that we didn’t learn anything, the people sure as fuck did learn something, It’s just that there’s more money to be made by the powers that be going back to the “old ways”.

EVE Online. still after all these years (23) it’s still a beautiful game that I god damn am still addicted to.

what do Kid Rock and the Homeless have in common? both are “banned” in California.

It’s not so much about being “smart” to figure it out, it’s more like it needs to “click” with you. At first you’ll think it’s stupid, you’ll think it’s a tedious way to do things and configure your system. Then you’ll do something and it’ll suddenly be like “oooooh I get it now, oh man that’s awesome!”. That’s NixOS.

It’s not a distro I recommend to people, it’s one you just have to play around with yourself to see if you like it or not. But I will say I’ve found that the majority of people who do switch to it, it’s the last distro they use. Like I’ll spend a week on something else every few months to try it but I always go back to NixOS now. I just can’t use any other distro long term anymore.

nah I find it boring now and it turns into a mess very quickly. only reason I was on Arch is cause i needed a “vacation” from NixOS to get a project done. project is done so went back to NixOS.

just did this lastnight, went from Arch back to NixOS. was on Arch for like all of a week.

yeah I don’t bother with DDG anymore. used to love it but now it’s just hot garbage. Now I just use a 4get instance and for news just use the brutalist report and spike.news

pretty much. DDG for example uses a bing-yahoo “alliance thing” (can’t remember what it’s officially called but Microsoft and Yahoo have a sort of partnership in this regard).

Your options for actual first party search options are literally pretty much the ones you listed. Yandex is russian so not trusting those guys anymore than I trust Google or Microsoft so that just leaves Yahoo which is…yeah.

Honestly people are just better off using something like SearX or 4Get. they’re all the same except with those two you’re not going to get the AI slop or ads.

I know a guy that has a @linux.com email address. And yes putting that email address on his CV and Linkedin has resulted in him getting emails daily from companies asking if he’d be interested in a position or interview. He’s even had people just straight up offer him a job because of it.

Note though he’s a web developer and pretty much all the jobs offered or interviews etc are for positions out of his skillset i.e. system admin, server manager, IT, data analyst, etc. because they all see the linux part and figure he can run a server or something.

Canada also opened one alongside France.

I don’t know what it’s like in Houston but here in Toronto the entire food delivery industry would pretty much come to a stand still without e-bikes. do they kill people? no. are they dangerous? I’m sorry but with the way some of those dudes drive those things on sidewalks and the amount of times i’ve seen them hit people…yeah. We’ve also had a few literally blow up on commuter trains to the point where we out right banned them on trains.

There’s more to this that I don’t think people realize. no they don’t kill people but yes they do cause accidents because of the people driving them and feeling like they can ride them on sidewalks or…you know…the batteries will randomly explode.

I don’t get it. They KNEW it would happen, they were TOLD it would happen, and yet these two numbnuts show up anyway standing and waving a flag they routinely shit on and surprise surprise they get boo’d.

Why even show up? Just sit your dumbasses down.

kudos to them for doing it and fuck Galen Weston.

Remember kids you ever see someone stealing food from a loblaws/shoppers/whatever, no the fuck you didn’t.

I’d love to see them try. And I think many Canadians are also chomping at the bit to “see America try”. Lets see how far they get up here.

had this happen to me with EVE Online. What DE/WM are you using? If it’s a wayland one are you using xwayland-satellite?

This issue would only happen to me with WMs like Hyprland, Niri, Sway, etc. on KDE Plasma didn’t happen. the solution I found at least for Niri was ensuring xwayland-satellite was installed AND run the game in window mode.