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Good for the environment? I recycle everything I can. I don't use plastic bags or single-use cups. I avoid using heating in the winter to save on CO2 emissions (used it for 2 days this winter when my gf was sick). I stave off aircon in the summer for as long as I can to save electricity. I'm vegan (mostly because of ethical concerns but also because meat is awful for the planet in general). I avoid using my car when there's an alternative (cycling/public transit).

Good for me? I do at least some exercise (stretching, workout, jogging, cycling) every workday and hike on the weekend. I brush my teeth twice a day, floss weekly, and get a full dental cleaning annually, and because of this (and genetic luck I suppose) I never had any issues with my teeth (don't have even a single filling). I don't drink alcohol or smoke at all. I avoid caffeine and sugars when possible.

I feel privileged to be able to form those habits, and also often blame myself that I don't do better. I'm addicted to fat and carbohydrate-heavy foods, can't bring myself to clean the apartment with any regularity beyond the most necessary, and can't form a habit of regularly reading books. Sometimes I wonder how other adults manage when they have a 9-5 office job with commute times, kids, etc.

Do I have to build all other parts myself before then? (I'm trying to package it for Nix so that other people can also build it more easily)

Are there any instructions on how to build this all to get the ventoy installer binary that can replace upstream? Or is the project not up to this stage yet? I can go without Windows and FreeBSD support.

We'll see. Given how locked down the Apple ecosystem is, often there's no real alternative for a given software, so the pricing model is "how much can we charge" rather than anything competitive. There's simply no incentive for companies to bring the cost down when people buy the software already. So yes, costs will be cut, but the prices will not, all for the line to go up.

Honestly who cares. IDGAF if some shitty corpo has to pay another shitty corpo a cut to sell stuff on second corpo devices or not. I don't think it would materially affect pricing, it would just serve to increase profits of sellers. Either way the user is stuck in a walled garden curated by Apple to make sure you can only get corporate proprietary overpriced bullshit. If they forced Apple to allow sideloading/alternative app stores, and also EU got its shit together and enforced user-replaceable batteries, I might consider an iPhone.

AppImage suffers from the same problem that Flatpak does, the tool do work offline aren’t really good/solid and won’t save you for sure

I've been using my laptop in areas without internet for days. It works fine.

It also requires a bunch of very small details to all align and be correct for things to work out.

I have appimage-run from nixpkgs installed, which handles all those details. They are also not too hard to figure out manually should you need to.

Imagine the post-apocalyptic scenario, if you’re missing a dependency to get something running, or a driver, or something specific of your architecture that wasn’t deployed by the friend alongside the AppImage / Flatpak (ie. GPU driver) you’re cooked.

GPU drivers are emphatically not part of the AppImage. They are provided by Mesa, which is almost guaranteed to be installed.

Meanwhile on Windows it has basic GPU drivers for the entire OS bakes in, or you can probably fish around for an installer as fix the problem

It's actually the other way around - if you want your GPU to work properly on a new Windows install, you have to fish around for AMD/NVidia drivers. On Linux Mesa is pretty much pre-installed on all distros.

It is way more likely that you’ll find machines with Windows and windows drivers / installer than Linux ones with your very specific hardware configuration.

LMAO, try moving a windows installation from Ryzen+AMD GPU to Intel+NVidia GPU and let me know how it goes (hint: you will have to manually uninstall, and then install a shit ton of drivers, for which you will need internet).

Meanwhile I'm typing this from a (Ryzen+AMD GPU) desktop which has an SSD from my (Intel+integrated graphics) laptop. When I plugged it in, it booted into sway just fine, with complete GPU support and all, and the only reason I had to update my config is to make it more convenient to use on the desktop.

Linux is not the best "apocalypse" OS, but it sure is better than Windows.

There are ways to deal with this. There's AppImage for GUI apps (that replicates the "just get an exe from a friend on a flash drive") and lots of bundling programs for non-GUI apps (I use nix-bundle because I use Nix, but there are other options too).

Lots of distro installers work offline too, by just bringing all the stuff you need as part of the installer.

And one major benefit of Linux is that when stuff does inevitably go wrong, it's infinitely easier to fix than proprietary garbage.

leased 92 workers

Good reminder that slavery is still legal and people can still be property in the US.

Don't get my hopes up

I just use IBM Plex, but that's mostly because the keycaps my keyboard came with used it :) I also think it's just fine for readability (i.e. I/l and O/0 are different enough)

There's no credibility to lose at this point. He has been lying for his entire life, no way he's stopping now.

It can always get worse. "Only" ~200000 deaths from Israel's actions for now, or ~10% of the population, which Israeli pieces of shit see as "90% still to go". One can imagine how a total famine can speed up the genocide significantly.

I've actually found RawTherapee to be slightly faster for what I'm doing (slight edits to my amateur photography)

Expansionist? No.

Putin literally started an imperialist land war to expand the territory and capture resources (and stay in power for a while longer).

You’re confusing the Soviet regimes of the past with the current country.

No, you have it backwards.

The Soviet government at least had some noble goals for their expansion, and measurable improvements to the lives of people on the captured territories.

Russia is an oligarchy and the only goals are territorial gains, resource exploitation and enriching the richest at the expense of the poor under the pretext of wartime nationalism. Same as the US, really, but with less power and resources.

Look at where progressive policies have gotten the west thus far!

You seriously think that the current state of the west is due to "progressive policies" and not capitalism and nationalism? If anything, progressive policies (women's rights, LGBT inclusion, secularization, education for all, universal medical care (in places where it exist), and some limited labor rights) are one of rare good things that's been happening in the west.

the people seem to overwhelmingly support the government despite these serious shortcomings

BTW, few people actually support the government. The best way to confirm this is to look at the public reaction to the attempted coup by Prigozhin in summer 2023. It ranged from apathy to amusement, the same kind you would have if you were watching Fast&Furious 21 (or whatever number they're up to). However most people don't oppose the government either and just go about their daily lives. It's similar to what most Americans are doing right now despite their country turning to mask-off fascism, dismantling all their all social safety nets and flaunting a world war.

Not if you’re simply parroting western propaganda, which you are!

I was born and grew up in semi-provincial Russia. I had two neighbors who went through the prison system and told me about their experiences.

Russia isn’t some backward country. Like most western countries, they have various types of prisons or gulags.

Semi-agreed.

Central, more well-developed parts of Russia are not backwards (in fact I really liked the soviet heritage of microdistricts, well-developed public transit, socialized medical care and the remains of the education system); the "provinces" (in which I grew up) absolutely are, compared to the even the worst bumfuck nowhere in Europe.

Russian jails (СИЗО) and low-security prisons (колония общего режима) are OK relatively speaking. However if you are in for a "political" crime you're most likely going to end up in a high-security prison (колония строгого режима or тюрьма) in which conditions are seriously worse, including forced labor, denial of medical care, regular isolation, beatings by prison guards and other inmates.

And then there is the heavily prevalent "prisoner culture" which ensures that people who've been in for more than 3-5 years come out with completely destroyed psyche and lack of any real-world social skills. One of my neighbors who spent 5 years in a low-security prison for drug use in the 2000s came out a broken man and was in and out of the system for as long as I knew him.

I agree that the US prison system absolutely sucks ass and must be abolished entirely. Russian (high-security) prisons are still worse (except maybe for Gitmo and the El Salvador thing, which are a fucking disgrace to humanity).

Gulag is just Russian for prison

No it fucking isn't, how hard is that to check? ГУЛАГ (GULAG) stands for Главное Управление ЛАГерей (Main Administration of [labor] Camps), a controversial system of labor camps in 1930s-50s (colloquially up to the 80s). Back in Russia I've almost never heard anyone use it to refer to the modern prison system. It is sometimes used in a set phrase "Digital Gulag" to refer to the government's attempts to censor the internet, but that's about it. Funnily enough the word is used in the general sense of "brutal prison" in the West only - and that is indeed western propaganda.

For further context, opposing the war can and does lead to 10-15 years imprisonment in Russia, and Russian prisons are even worse than ones in the US.

The sad/scary part is that the missile research did indeed work pretty damn well.

What the hell is Trump admin trying to achieve here? China was already overtaking the US in scientific research. Randomly detaining researchers just because they're foreigners (among other things like defunding universities) ensures that in 5-10 years US will be hopelessly behind on everything from social sciences to medicine to physics, the list goes on really, and not just behind China but likely behind EU too. This really does seem like an empire in decay, however I'm willing to bet that people working on missiles to kill brown children will continue to be well-paid until the bitter end.

Anything more complicated than business logic in JS/Python sends LLMs into a guessing game that can take you those 3 hours to get out of. Try asking it to write embedded software in C, hardware-interfacing code in Rust, or any non-trivial TemplateHaskell.