LordKitsuna @ LordKitsuna @lemmy.world

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I'm not a huge fan of python projects in general, they tend to be wildly unreliable in the long run (more the fault of python itself than the devs but the fact remains) however i am looking for something exactly like this so I'm gonna give it a shot

Maybe it's been improved, i haven't used slack in many years now. But i remember it having hilarious issues with state tracking. Trying to go back to old messages would fail half the time it would just scroll up to some random midway point then give up.

Would see notifications of new messages in a channel but didn't see anything new until reloading slack. Based on what you are saying sounds like they fixed that. Which is good, however I'm willing to bet it still wants 1GB+ of memory just to display some text so bloated/slow still applies ¯(ツ)/¯

And no I'm not one of those "just use irc" people. Telegram supports all the modern stickers, files, audio, etc but it's fast and surprisingly light. But it's also written in native C++ so that's more expected

Slow, bloated, buggy af. Name one electron application that doesn't struggle with state tracking over a long session, even just for simple shit like chat. The browser wasn't supposed to be a real time application, no amount of trying to bolt it on will ever make it ok

Sure but you're going to have fairly Limited flow rate or need an astronomically expensive solar still to be able to do the kind of volume at treatment plant needs to be able to do

Not to mention the astronomical amount of energy required to do that. Boiling water is insanely energy intensive at scale you would basically need to dedicate nuclear power plants to treatment facilities

Oh hey look T-Mobile internet modem

Seafile is another to check. It's focused entirely on the file storage aspect and doesn't really do all the other stuff next Cloud does but I greatly prefer it

Gave a friend rimworld for Christmas

The way I have always liked to put it specifically is that Linux is not inherently more secure than windows. However Linux is inherently easier to secure than Windows. Namespaces, apparmor, seccomp-bpf, and a very fine grain limited vs super user permission system. Just to name a few top level things.

The tools are all there on basically any system, very well documented, relatively easy to use. And once you set them up they will not randomly change things on you. I say this as a system administrator having to deal with Windows constantly where Microsoft decides that they are smarter than you and fuck your group policy edits because we put out this update and we think this option is better so we're going to revert like half the shit you did. Over half my fucking job and security is just checking what did Microsoft fuck up about my security set up with this update, and trying to rotate through security vendor 2094726 to fill in the absolute basic security processes that windows doesn't provide

You expect Americans to actually understand anything about their own bill of rights? Seems unreasonable given how uneducated they are

This, i almost had a stroke. Or at least i thought i was having one.

Straight to bookworm. Sounds like that's not supported but that just further shows why i don't find it to be a functionally stable, or perhaps reliable is a better wording, system. But that's also just my opinion

Was using voice to text, it auto capitalizes words at absolute random. However yes i do use EndeavorOS so it comes up from time to time :p

It's definitely not something that will happen 100%. I've also had long standing debian systems that seem to not care. However I've had plenty that, for whatever reason couldn't handle multiple major version hops and just eviscerated themselves, I've not had that with arch personally. You may need to download the latest statically built pacman depending on how old it is but that and a keyring update usually has you covered

I mean, if you want to use your system pacman sure. But you can just download the latest statically built pacman to do the large jump without issues. However i will concede that is more than JUST keyring update

Edit: another fun way to get around that issue pretty easily. Boot any up to date arch installer, mount the old ass system root to /mnt and just run

pacman -Sy

pacman --sysroot /mnt

Now just normal syu and the live environment pacman will update the old system, arch/pacman has a plethora of easy ways to get around what would otherwise be show stoppers on apt/dpkg :)

I mean when I can take an Arch Linux installation that I forgot about on my server and is now 8 years out of date and simply manually update the key ring and then be up to date without any issue but every time I've ever tried to do many multiple major version jumps on debian it's died horrifically... I would personally call the latter less stable. Or at least less robust lol.

I genuinely think that because Arch Linux is a rolling distribution that it's update process is just somehow more thorough and less likely to explode.

The last one with debian was a buster to bookworm jump. Midway through something went horrifically wrong and dpkg just bailed out. The only problem was that it somehow during all of that removed the entirety of every binary in /bin. Leaving the system completely inoperable and I attempted to Google for a similar solution as arch. Where i could chroot in and fix it with one simple line. But so far as I was able to find there is no such option with apt/dpkg. If I wanted to attempt to recover the system it would have been an entirely manual Endeavor with a lot of pain.

I would also personally label having the tools to recover from catastrophic failure as being an important part of stability especially when people advocate for things like Debian in a server critical environment and actively discourage the use of things like Arch

If the only thing granting at the title of stability is the lack of update frequency that can simply be recreated on Arch Linux by just not updating frequentlyಠ_ಠ

I'll never stop hating that debian is labeled stable. I'm fully aware that they are using the definition of stable that simply means not updating constantly but the problem is that people conflate that with stability as in unbreaking. Except it's the exact opposite in my experience, I've had apt absolutely obliterate debian systems way too often. Vs pacman on arxh seems to be exceptionally good at avoiding that. Sure the updated package itself could potentially have a bug or cause a problem but I can't think of any instance where the actual process of updating itself is what eviscerated the system like with apt and dpkg.

And even in the event of an update going catastrophically wrong to the point that the system is inoperable I can simply chroot in use a statically built binary pacman and in a oneliner command reinstall ALL native packages in one go which I've never had not fix a borked system from interrupted update or needing a rollback

Shazbot!

Worm of Theseus?

Not going to lie I kind of wish they had kept the Dead Space that the screen created. I feel like it's not going to be as comfortable with everything just shoved in tight like that I actually really really like the spacing that the screen on the steam deck provides