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I don't do this thing, so it's a real question. If I were doing it from scratch, my instinct would be to go with the partition.

I don't think you'd even have to make your own image, although you'd be mounting /home by hand every time if you didn't. Hm. If you built your own image, you could mount everything as an overlayfs, and persist even application installs.

I'm lucky it's survived so long. I got it in HS, and in between:

• Did a tour in the Army
• Went to college
• Lived in Germany
• Have moved over a half dozen times

So many valued possessions have gone missing in that time, due to roommates and sheer carelessness, it's a minor miracle it's still with me. The only original possession I have that's older is a Bloom County Opus plushy that I got in junior high.

Well, by including it they imply they liked it, so I'm guessing not a hater. Just curious why they said it "looked like it would be bad".

I mean, read the github README. The author is claiming that there are people trying to sabotage progress on X11.

If there are folks actively working on a fork, then it's not deprecated, is it?

I like Islays, myself, so Lagavulin or Laphroaig. Next, Balvenie 12y. Next, honestly Jack Daniels regular black label: inexpensive and smooth. Some of the High Deserts are nice, but I haven't had anything else that really stands out.

I finished a bottle of Whistlepig red label about a month ago; I don't care for Whistlepig, but it was recommended. It was proof to me that price isn't correlated to how much I'll like something.

Ok. This is interesting, if a bit conspiracy-theory-ish:

moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to elimitate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.

Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc,

I wonder what the story behind this is. Why would anyone want to hinder progress on X11?

So... sexy...

Exactly. It was one of my top three ST movies, and by all accounts. Ebert reviewed it positively, as one of the best of the franchise.

I wonder why they put it in the "looks like it'd suck" category?

Such a great movie!

I got this at a DragonCon. They did a pre-release showing and gave these out to the audience.

April Fool's Day

It doesn't rashly matter; all of the roles had to be casted. I wonder what that experience is like for the children. Life is Beautiful, for instance, or Saving Private Ryan (remember the French couple in the bombed out town?). How do you direct a child to emote trauma?

Can't you just partition the SD card and mount the second partition as your persistent storage? Why do you have to unmount anything?

I was trying to figure out how you came up with this - even given that you're reh learning math - and thought "oh, maybe their native language is read right to left, so 1 + 1 = 2, and 10 - 2 = 8." But then doing that you'd also go "1 - 1 = 0, and 10 - 0 = 0," so I honestly don't know how you're getting there.

And then I thought, "maybe they think subtraction comes first", but then (10 - 1) + 1 is 10, and (10 - 1) - 1 is 8.

I can't think of any consistent rules that would produce this. You'd have to do:

1. 10 - (1 + 1), and
2. (10 - 1) - 1

I'm really curious about your thought process.

Incidentally, my wife was home schooled except her mother didn't participate, so she never learned anything beyond basic addition and subtraction, and the single digit multiplication table. When she finally went for her GED she was in her 20's, and we spent many, many hours together tutoring.

So, you're getting a lot of negative reactions, but don't let it get you down. Keep up with it; it's valuable to learn.

BTW, my wife eventually graduated Summa Cum Laude in both her Bachelor's and her Master's degrees - non-STEM, so algebra was all she needed, but she fought hard for that 4.0, and she got it.

And "yonder" and "over yonder," although I don't head the former at all anymore and the later is increasingly rare

Go, because

• I can decent crank code out quickly, and good code when I need to.
• The tooling is outstanding
• I can easily jump back into my projects I haven't touched in a year and do bug fixes. Which most of those is project organization (and some of my projects are less well organized and harder to get back into), the language facilitates it by being simple. The hardest problems I face are algorithmic, not fighting with the compiler
• Astonishingly fast compile times. I really hate waiting for builds, and CI pipelines run so fast
• Static binaries. Before Go, I spent several years in Ruby, and got sick of having services fail because of runtime dependency changes. I had interpreter updates itself break programs more than once.

I was using Java in my job, and had been since 1995 at that point, and did not touch it except for work. When I finally got fed up with dynamic, interpreted languages (around 2008?) I evaluated Rust, Vala, and Go, and Go won. In retrospect, I'm really glad I didn't pick Vala, but whenever I look into Rust these days I'm also glad I didn't pick that.

For scripting, now I stick to bash, or zsh if I'm not sharing the code. Bash scripts never fail because bash changes; the biggest risk is having to be careful with commands; tools I've become accustomed to, like ripgrep, aren't guaranteed to be installed everywhere, and POSIX tools like grep have variants that differ in argument support: GNU grep is substantially different from SysV grep. If I'm distributing it and can't write it using basic, standard bash and the standard SysV POSIX tools available in BusyBox, I write it in Go.

I did do a project in V recently and like it a lot, but it's not mature enough to switch to, yet, and it's so close to Go I can't switch between the two because I start to conflate them.

I will very rarely program in C to fix a bug in some project I'm using. C is so basic, I'll never forget it; the biggest hazard in C is other people's idioms.

The Streisand Effect doesn't apply here. They're not making news about it, they're silencing content posts on their platform. If Google went out and started using takedowns on other platforms, that's when you start to get a compound media effect because site owners tend to broadcast to their readership; in this case, the only people who notice both the takedown and the cause is the author. And us, because OP told us, but we're tiny.

After so many people stayed on Twitter, and after companies like Apple reversed their policy and went back to advertising there, I've lost faith in any mass internet movement. Most users don't care, as long as they're getting free stuff, and most content providers insist on using it because of monetization. If that's where the content is, that's where the users will go.

Good choice. I've been running Radicale for years, reverse proxied behind Caddy, and it's been solid.

Very probable! When replying, my client only lets me see the comment I'm replying to, so losing track of who said what is a common problem for me. I assumed you were OP because I didn't think anyone else was advocating for Plebbit.

Did you read the same thread I did?

Yeah, solipsism existing drives the point about truth home. Thing is, LLMs outright lie without knowing they're lying, because there's no understanding there. It's statistics at the character level.

AI is not my field, so I don't know, either.