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  • And semantically, logically, you are 100% correct. But there are other, subjective, emotional, layers to language. Billionaire, business magnate, and oligarch can mean the exact same thing, but they have very different emotional meanings and associated contexts.

    I think the author may have a point that by spreading the "HTML is not a programming language" meme, we may be contributing to its lower subjective status.

    But this thesis is, by its very nature, subjective, of course.

  • Well, ehm.. Thank you for the feedback I guess?

    I appreciate your clarification: you mean that the logic part of conditional appearance should be handled by, for example, changing a property on an HTML node, and styling that property in CSS, did I get that right?

    If I may offer some feedback in return, I would recommend you work on your phrasing. Insulting people can easily lead to being ignored or having low-value interactions. Asshole. 😉

  • Normally, I only comment when i have something to add, but I just want to commend you for your high quality contribution to this sensitive topic.

    Really learning a lot from this. Your arguments are solid and your phrasing is respectful. Thank you!

  • Don't use proprietary drivers and don't install amdvlk or whatever it's called, just use mesa if the Steam install asks you to choose.

    The open source drivers for AMD have great performance, they power the Steam Deck and have great compatibility.

  • Sounds great! Is there a reason you can't share the repo? If you're not version-managing your dotfiles yet, I highly recommend chezmoi. It simply creates a git repo somewhere in .local/share and then lets you sync your home dir to that and the other way around, as well as diff etc.

  • This is excellent! Each step can be Googled but for a quick summary:

    A wine or proton prefix is like a small Windows filesystem inside your Linux. This is how you run most games. Steam normally hides this from you, but it does this exact thing: one proton prefix per game.

    On Nobara and Fedora, you will not need to worry about duplicating files and wasting space at all: they use a very advanced filesystem which (among other things) does not actually repeat files but just goes "this file is the same as the earlier one, just read that" and saves on disk space that way. You don't see this in the file explorer, you can just copy a file a hundred times but it will not consume a hundred times the disk space. Very cool stuff. And very useful with proton tricks.

  • Navigating at night using nothing but maps, compass, altitude and speed indicator is pretty difficult. Especially when the hostile territory you are flying over is forcing everyone to keep their curtains closed and minimize light leaks.

  • That's a solid criticism. Firefox + uBlock Origin or Librewolf are good desktop alternatives. But what's the alternative on Android? Last time I checked, there wasn't any on privacyguides.

    Btw I do always turn off all their rewards and wallet stuff and follow most of the https://privacyguides.org recommendations.

    Thanks for your help in making privacy-focused software available on Linux btw!

  • Fair point, but the engine is important.

    I understand their blog post, and if I were to build a browser today, I'd probably do the same.

    But that doesn't mean this situation isn't problematic. It's similar to car-centric infrastructure: in this situation, for any individual, choice X makes sense, but that will make the situation even worse for the whole population. A cumulation of many tiny Prisoner's Dilemmas.

  • Do you mean Safari?

    Name one other browser that is not based on Chromium. If it is based on Chromium, it has to deal with what Google throws at them.

    I say this as an enthusiastic Brave user. Brave is great at what it does currently, but the more terrible stuff Google builds into Chromium, the more patches they'll have to maintain. This can make it harder to maintain their fork.

    Worse than that, most Chromium-derivative users aren't Brave users. Many web apps already don't work as well with Firefox' JavaScript Engine (Gecko) as they do with Chromium. This gives Google immense power.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Browsers_based_on_Chromium

  • Good points all! I think OP, like me, is not afraid of manually messing with config, reading archwiki and getting your hands dirty.

    But I would've never looked at dracut when setting up Arch. I'm really happy Endeavour set that up for me. It's nice to have a good base. Btw, thus dracut also meant I didn't have to do anything with the mkinitcpio change you are linking. Although I was reading the wiki, forum, and looking forward to it.

  • Excellent, I think you'll love Arch. EndeavourOS provides a solid base with sane defaults. Having dracut set up out of the box prevents a lot of mistakes. Combining that with systemd-boot should be a reliable base.