Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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Not a Sonos.

While I like the sound of my Sonos One, their app fucking sucks, and you have to use it to do anything (and I am supremely patient with technology). I am so close to just trashing it and the only thing stopping me is that I don't yet have a replacement for it.

It was a time of desolation, chaos, and uncertainty. Brother pitted against brother. Babies having babies.

Then one day, from the right side of the screen, came a man. A man with a plastic rectangle.

I never said it was going to be any good!

Yeah! I have two typewriters!

Seems like a fitting end to the internet, imo. Or the recipe for the Singularity.

I do want SOME customizability, in the sense that I don't want some hard work tweak I've implemented being nuked by an update.

Bazzite can do that. Unlike SteamOS, you cannot edit the system files, so there's no customizations to wipe out. That said, user customizations generally live in /var and /etc, and those are left intact during updates. They're also the only directories that are mutable on purpose (/var/home/youruser is found there). You can also layer RPM files or dnf packages using rpm-ostree install. It's a longer install process than traditional package managers, but it ensures you always have a restore point.

As a sidenote, I do recommend also checking out distrobox, as it's a useful tool anywhere but especially on atomic systems.

CachyOS sounds cool, but arch scares me.

Don't be. Arch isn't a big deal. The only reason people tend to like it is because vanilla Arch is a blank slate. That means the user gets to decide what goes into their system, but distros like CachyOS take all of that choice and decide what to include for you, in advance. So you get the same update schedule as the rest of Arch users, but you don't have to think so hard about whether you want to use zfs or btrfs (for example).

If you want a great installation experience and mature community, I should also mention EndeavorOS. It's Arch, but boy do they have the installation and onboarding down really well. If you're nervous about CachyOS or Arch at all, check out this one.

CosmicOS I might avoid just because I don't need beta instability right now.

Fair, and it's not even in beta, it's Alpha. I just mention it, because it's going to be a big deal when it's finished. Keep an eye on it.

Spin up some VMs and give em all a try!

Think of a person with the most average intelligence and realize that 50% of people are dumber than that.

These people vote. These people think billionaires are their friends and will save them. Gods help us.

Mint is a great first choice, and you should be able to do lots with it, but there's others you might want to at least be aware of, if gaming is important.

If you don't care about customization at all, Bazzite (Fedora). While you can update typical things like panels, icon styles, window decorations, etc., making changes to things like SDDM requires a little bit more creativity.

That's because it's atomic (mostly immutable). You don't have to worry about a bad update breaking your system, since you can just rpm-ostree rollbackand get back to it. The downside is that atomic distros have a different way they're designed, so learning how to work with them has a little bit of a learning curve, but it's worth learning, imo.

CachyOS (Arch). Kinda the hot thing right now. It's Arch but oriented towards gaming, content creation, and optimized computing. You'll have full customization abilities like a traditional distro, access to the AUR, and some really nice kernel and scheduler tweaking tools.

Pop!_OS Cosmic (Ubuntu). Pop!_OS has been a longtime popular choice, but they're currently throwing all their effort into their brand new Cosmic desktop environment, so I'd wait until everything is at least in Beta. It looks great, though, and I think it's going to set some new standards for user experiences.

God having a plan vs. everything being calculable to us is practically the same thing, no?

No. A supernatural conscious agent with intent (e.g. a god) planning and orchestrating every quantum-interaction is not the same as humans documenting or even predicting extremely complex chains of physical reactions.

Either way, it's still best to act within your moral framework, religious or atheist because it's just better to be a good person.

Agreed. Whether Determinism is true only gives credence to philosophies like cosmic nihilism, and being a cosmic nihilist myself, it doesn't matter that much whether my actions have purpose beyond now. It feels good to be kind, I know how it feels to be hurt, and so I try to do as much of the former and as little of the latter as possible.

I use it for basic Python questions, but it gets even basic stuff wrong. The reframing can sometimes help me see new options when I get in a rut, but I'm not putting that code into production.

It's that interoperability of unique instances that makes the Fediverse resistant to scraping. The posts are all public, but crawling it all and categorizing everything is probably like untangling a cotton ball.

I think you can have this same dilemma as an atheist as well.

I'd like to hear your opinions on how you think so (truly). The way I see things, Atheism is only the answer to a single question: do you believe in any gods? If "yes," you're a theist or deist. If "no; I don't know; not currently; maybe one day," then you're an atheist. It's not a philosophy or a comprehensive worldview, and it can't possibly answer deeper questions.

What you're referring to in the latter half is Determinism and Compatibilism (Determinism + free will). Science is currently leaning pretty strongly towards Determinism, but since Compatibilism doesn't add much more to the idea, it's also still a candidate possibility.

It's very likely you could calculate every chain reaction from the Big Stretch up until now and maybe even into the future. Whether we have the ability to affect or disrupt those chains might be a matter of philosophy.

Son, you've got a panty on your head...

Mangione for president.

Graber replied that generative AI companies are “already scraping public data from across the web,” including from Bluesky, since “everything on Bluesky is public like a website is public.” So she said Bluesky is trying to create a “new standard” to govern that scraping, similar to the robots.txt file that websites use to communicate their permissions to web crawlers.

Do you have any statements from the dev? Would be curious to know if there's anything that corroborates it being abandoned or on hiatus.

But it sure does seem that way. I remember Boost for Reddit getting updates all the time, and this one had a few in the beginning, then it just kinda stopped with bugs unresolved.

It's a shame, because there's a lot to like about Boost.

Still not on Boost, unfortunately.

Oh, how I wish spoilers worked in my Lemmy app...

It only counts if you get caught, after all

I agree. Doesn't seem like an outlandish take at all. Parents should be involved in their kids' gaming choices, especially if there's online interactions or lootbox/gacha components.

Offloading parenting to corporations is just a terrible idea all around.