nickwitha_k (he/him) @ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

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Oh, absolutely. The thing that is weird is being non-x86 hardware and explicitly implementing the translation layer in hardware that has minimal field configurability (they did have the capability of loading something similar to microcode). It makes sense in some ways (performance being a big one) but, seems like it would be vulnerable to potential changes in the external ISA.

Possibly but the CPU was pretty crazy. It used "code morphing" to translate x86 instructions to its internal ISA, something that just seems a bit ridiculous to do at the hardware level.

Would be nice if the law would be enforced on these fucks who continue committing crimes without consequence.

Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046. It was semi-rugged with a magnesium alloy chassis but, the real awesome bit was the Transmeta Crusoe processor. It was super power efficient (~15hr between charges with the extended battery) and performed decently. The thing was really ahead of its time.

100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.

Should be.

He'll get right on it, after infrastructure week.

Everyone deserves to feel safe. Except for Nazis, slavers, and the like.

If killing civilians and starting a war makes you euphoric, you're not a good human being.

That's why they took hand grenades during the W years. Soldiers were getting pretty sick of fighting for Halliburton.

Like UFOs and cryptids and shit. Yeah...

5. Windows update intentionally bricks GRUB.
6. Delete Windows.

You love to see it.

Why don't distros support listing packages and system settings in text file(s)?

Short answer: Because it would be bad software design.

More detailed answer: I can definitely understand the feeling but a large part of it is that text files are not databases. Trying to use them for that purpose leads to quickly running into a brick wall of scalability problems. Seriously, that wall is hit faster than one might expect.

Why use a db in the first place? Well, when a package manager installs a package, it does a lot more than install files in their specified paths and store the name. Every package also has a ton of metadata. This includes everything from the software version number and versions that it obsoletes to repo that the package is from to signatures to verify package authenticity and checksums to verify file integrity.

Storing all of this info is the sort of thing that databases excell at and text flatfiles are terrible at. The db also includes integrity checks for itself. Since the data is already stored in a db, also storing even a subset in a flatfile would be poor software design as it is unnecessarily wasting storage space in a manner that would perform significantly worse and is much more prone to data integrity failures.

So, how do you work around that for backup? Just script a dump of the installed packages from the package manager. It's trivial with apt and dnf/yum. Then, store it with dot files in your backups.

To restore, I'd recommend Ansible because it works nicely with lists of packages and has minimal dependencies.

If you don't want to interact with the package manager and like domain specific languages (or don't dislike the syntax), just use Nix and be done with it. Noone whose opinion matters is going to bully you for the choice. If, like me, you strongly dislike DSLs and the Nix syntax, the choices are pretty much Fedora Atomic, GUIX, and/or Ansible.

Yup. As jerry illustrated, this shit isn't free.

Donations, subscriptions, etc are definitely fine. They are not invasive fuckery that inflict themselves on people without consent, nor do they seep into the space in a commercial manner. Ads do not respect consent and they fundamentally force commerce into every place that they touch.

Ads are the root of the rot in the www.

I read it as a poly relationship of some sort.

38 (cis-M) here. Yes, I do want kids and have pretty much all of my life. I want to give them opportunities that I didn't have, encourage pro-social attitudes, and share in the joy and wonder of discovering things that, as an adult, are very much taken for granted. At this point, however, I'm getting pretty doubtful that it will happen.

Coming up on 10 years with my spouse and I'm not sure that I'd even have the energy at this point - being sole income and providing care for someone who has disabling mental health conditions and endometriosis has been extremely stressful and exhausting. And she's back and forth on whether she even wants children, due to said conditions (which is not unreasonable). If we had more partners than just the two of us to share the load, it could work but, endo is chronic, degenerative and hers has only been getting worse recently so, I'm not too optimistic - for bio or non-bio.

Quick footnote on the subject: The "selfish ones" related to having children are the anti-natalists and anti-childfree people who think that everyone has the same life experience as them and want to judge others based upon their myopic views. Having children is not inherently moral or immoral - it's just a function of biology and a personal decision.

Abso-fucking-lutely not. People need to be able to exist without having hypercommercialism forced on them everywhere.

Hope he uses the saved energy to double down and remove every last right-winger from the party.