This is not about intelligence. People, in general, are really fucking smart. Think of the dumbest person you know, who is not cognitively disabled. I'd bet they are intelligent enough to hold down a job and live a meaningful life. Of all the things I've seen that hold people back, lack of intelligence doesn't even rank.
I think high levels of bias are to blame. Current media and culture encourage the embrace of bias because it makes people easier to sell to; more suggestible to marketing. It doesn't matter how smart you are, if your navel feels good when someone sings your tune, you'll believe whatever they tell you. Especially if you aren't even making an attempt to understand your bias tendencies.
No fucking way anti-oligarchy is the future of the party. The Dems are going to run the same tired playbook of courting the center and hoping the Republicans shit the bed. They are already saying this loudly and often.
Harry doesn't need to study or practice because, by accident of birth and circumstance, he's naturally gifted at magic. Hermione isn't naturally as gifted, but with hard work and dedication, she can do it all. Ron is neither, so he's just the fuck up.
Lol thanks for clarifying your sarcasm. 😂
I can be an airhead at times.
I was actually interested in trying NixOS on a laptop that is gathering dust. I did see a few months ago that there was some drama surrounding the project owner, though. I never investigated enough to understand what that was all about, but I'm less excited about digging into something if it may suddenly end.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I think I have a clearer picture of the problems it's trying to solve and the solutions it's delivering.
It also now seems connected to immutable distros I've heard about recently. So I guess the idea there is that the OS is just a tiny core set of libraries that never have to change, then the applications have their dependencies bundled, instead of requiring them as system dependencies.
I'm not convinced it's something I want as a user, but more importantly not something I need.
From a development perspective, it seems downright seductive, allowing almost total freedom of opinion.
The AUR is a different kettle of fish entirely, though. I do see your point, but the AUR is solving a problem common to all distros; hosting a repository for applications that there isn't willingness or capacity to host in the official binary repos.
Installation, removal, dependency management, etc are all still handled by pacman. As others have pointed out there are great tools available to aid in AUR usability. My favorite is aurutils.
"Bad people" isn't the schtick of Sunny or Seinfeld, or any comedy. Shitty people is a trope that's as old as comedy itself. Twists and turns of their lies, dastardly plans backfiring, etc. If you have a problem with that, I think your sense of humor is broken.
On the other hand, if you think their particular bits or premises aren't funny, you're just demonstrating you have bad taste, and that is fine.
"It's Always Sunny" is some of the greatest American comedy since "Seinfeld". If you think it's trash, I'm interested to know what you consider great comedy to be.
This is not about intelligence. People, in general, are really fucking smart. Think of the dumbest person you know, who is not cognitively disabled. I'd bet they are intelligent enough to hold down a job and live a meaningful life. Of all the things I've seen that hold people back, lack of intelligence doesn't even rank.
I think high levels of bias are to blame. Current media and culture encourage the embrace of bias because it makes people easier to sell to; more suggestible to marketing. It doesn't matter how smart you are, if your navel feels good when someone sings your tune, you'll believe whatever they tell you. Especially if you aren't even making an attempt to understand your bias tendencies.