JackbyDev

There is pacman + aur and then there is flatpak.

This is sort of like asking “which fruit juice do you use, an acme apple juicer or a blamco orange juicer.” If I need a flatpak, I use flatpak. Sometimes things only have flatpaks and aren’t on the AUR.

If it’s on both, nowadays I typically prefer the non-flatpak version, but that’s just sort of vibe based, I don’t really have a good reason. I think I ran into a few (very minor) problems with flatpaks (that were probably easy to fix) that I didn’t have with the non-flatpak version and that skewed me in that direction.

I could’ve sworn that I saw a headline recently that gcc isn’t deterministic. But maybe that was some really weird edge case or a bug.

NiTrIlE

My understanding of copyright law, I hate the cliche, but I am not a lawyer, is that things computers make aren’t covered by copyright. Now whether courts will decide if AI agents operating alongside user prompts counts as something a computer generated “itself” versus something the human made by using the computer as a tool, who really knows. But the idea of sending an AI agent to remake some proprietary code and have it be part of the public domain is interesting. Though, sadly it would go both ways, corporations could make public domain versions of copyleft code.

Oobinga is so overrated… Archunga, btw

I switched about a year ago. It’s going great. The only problem with my computer was because my RAM broke, but that would’ve still happened on Windows.

alias rm='rm -i': Am I a joke to you?

rm -fr /

rm -i: Am I a joke to you?

Don’t forget that they used to add referral parameters to links you clicked so they got a kickback from you clicking things from anywhere even if they didn’t make that link for you.

.unwrap_or_ruin_christmas()

I have been on macOS at work since December of 2019. Before that it was Windows since 2014. If I had the choice for Linux I might take it over macOS, but I’d happily take either over Windows.

Yeah I am very annoyed there aren’t many (or any?) very compact adapters.

The problem is that getting a new standard is gonna just mean more of the same shit with like a good ten years of swapping because USB is so widely used. USB ain’t perfect, I dislike a lot of things about it, but starting from scratch isn’t gonna improve things.

If it was the sort of magical scenario where everyone swapped overnight, hell yeah.

Yeah that’s what I’m thinking of.

Like the old USB micros sort of?

You end with

The “fistful of different cables to keep track of” is only getting worse as we head into the USB4 era and it needs to be kicked in the head and replaced entirely.

But started with

need an entirely unrelated team to invent something entirely new to replace it

You want more cables?

HDMI does not have screws.

“I didn’t steal and distribute your work, I just made a machine distill it down and able to copy everything meaningful about it!”

“Hello, this brand of tools that was specifically made for people to learn about? Yes, you’re no longer allowed to attempt to understand how they work.”