JubilantJaguar @ JubilantJaguar @lemmy.world

European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. **I nev

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its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described

It's possible, but "not difficult" is a bit of a stretch. FWIW I've used this in the past, among other hacky solutions that don't always work as expected:

    
# Print packages installed from different origins.
# Exclude standard Ubuntu repositories.

grep -H '^Origin:' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Release | grep -v ' Ubuntu$' | sort -u \
| while read -r line; do
    origin=${line#* }
    echo $origin:
    list=${line%%:*}
    sed -rn 's/^Package: (.*)$/\1/p' ${list%_*Release}*Packages | sort -u \
    | xargs -r dpkg -l 2>/dev/null | grep '^.i '
    echo
done


  

As a non-Nixer I completely share your frustration. Immutability, i.e. tracking of config changes, is so obviously a good idea. It's high time it became universal.

Boring political groupthink-fest does not belong in this community.

Immigration policy, hmm?

Positive sign. This country is always ahead of the curve.

Amazing caricature of a comment. A single word ("whiny") triggered you to jump straight to vulgar insults. If you had bothered to get try getting over your irrational anger and (what appears to be) insecurity, you would have found I basically agree with you. Your whining was justified. It's only a word.

That was quite the whiny rant. But you know what, I agree with you. I've noticed all these things too.

My own pet peeve is off-topic garbage. Have you seen !AskLemmy? There are constantly posts about US politics even though it's right there in the community rules: "No US politics". Even worse is !Showerthoughts, which should be renamed !EverythingButShowerthoughts - basically every post there breaks multiple rules, the mods are completely AWOL. I would always get downvoted for complaining so in the end I unsubscribed. The garbage party won, congrats!

The only possible solutions to these problems IMO are the same as for any virtual forum:

• clearly defined subject, if possible niche rather than lowest common denominator like politics
• activist moderation - i.e. more than just deleting and banning and pissing people off, but actually getting involved

Check out Hacker News for a community which gets absolutely everything right. The only one I know of, personally. But yeah, it's techies and the mod is literally paid.

I used to single-handedly keep the Jazz sub afloat, but I’ve given up, I’m not going to be the guy that posts 100 pieces of quality content, and nobody else even bothers

So why not consider posting once a week instead of daily, for example? That way you'll keep it alive in case others turn up. Jazz is a pretty niche interest, it's gonna be hard until the R-site implodes. But even if you only get 5 or 10 others, that could make for a nice intimate community.

I see this argument a lot and I still don't get it. Do you literally have zero interests? Follow your interests.

It's open source (AFAIK or least I certainly hope so). So once published, the bad guys' work was effectively done for free. Take the win.

Yet another post that breaks rule #6.

This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.

Interesting. I also picked what looked like the most popular one for the same reasons as you, but it seems I picked right.

More irrelevance about desktop market share in a world where soon almost nobody will have a desktop computer.

Read the topic title again and try to imagine what it might sound like to the average person in the street.

By that standard every community from gardening to history will be overrun with techie talk. Makes no sense.

If a generalist community is a bit less busy but on-topic, I call that a win. Communities should be built on shared interests and normies will never be interested in this subject.

This super geeky and technical question does not belong in a generalist community.

PS: sure, I'll get downvoted, but consider the possibility of selection bias. If you're reading this thread, you clicked out of interest. How many others scrolled past "X86/X64 arm blablabla" while subconsciously noting "Lemmy = tech talk"?

Firstly, this assumes that "timbre" is a fancy word for "sound characteristics". I would definitely have troubled defining it.

Piano.

For me no contest.

That’s also kind of why I’m against a global language replacing all others

That's handy, because the whole promise of the AI babel fish is that we finally won't need an imperialist global language.

IMO you've got this entirely the wrong way round.

I'd say you're looking for a word other than "minimalist". Maybe "modder" or "tweaker".

A minimalist doesn't necessarily have any interest in spending hours making their computer 0.01% faster.