Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

I might've already posted about this, but someone just reminded me of my achieving Linux enlightenment moment. Many years ago I was fascinated with more and more "advanced" distros and as one does at some point installed Arch Linux and I was talking to my father (IT-saur) about how it doesn't do anything by default unless you tell it to and it's so cool to set up my system exactly how I want relatively from scratch even if it sometimes takes some time and effort.

He responded that it seems kinda backwards, and that he remembers when some version of bash installer came out and if ran normally it would automatically detect everything and set up with sane defaults without any need for further tinkering. You run the installer, you get functional bash. And I suddenly realised he's right; that was the future and I believe it's still the way now, I'm all for customising my system as much as I want, but I'd like my software to install with sane defaults and presumptions and not require me to understand its inner workings and connections to other parts of the system just to be able to use it. Software should work for me and save me time and effort if I so desire.

This is something that Gentoo, Exherbo and especially NixOS do much better.

#linux #arch #gentoo #exherbo #nixos

@socketwench Remember, the push for steam machines is *not* about what they produce.

It's about which jobs they *eliminate*, and who profits the most from that elimination.

Yeah, that's what automation is about, eliminating jobs means freeing up humans that can then do something else while making the products they produced more available.

@realcaseyrollins @thor it's almost as if the entirety of Abrahamic religions is a bunch of pre-existing pagan myths loosely stitched together

@thor true, the perfect weather tends to be slightly overcast with a northern/continental dry wind so as not to steam-boil everyone.

@Zergling_man @thor yeah what I described is the theory, as with all social programs the practice is usually less pleasant

@thor in places where summers are super hot (so in the modern day everything south of Norway lol) overcast is the perfect weather to be able to go out and do stuff without being drenched in sweat or rain.

@thor with UBI it would be a legit sustainable lifestyle to, for example, smoke weed everyday and not go to work forever, current welfare systems usually have some sort of a catch to prevent total abuse like that. In Poland for example the unemployment program has a time limit after which to remain in it you have to take job consultations and eventually accept and do jobs the office finds for you.

@thor the Nordics are like the inverse of China. They took the worst parts of communism and capitalism to create a system that has the downsides of both, you took the better parts of socialism and capitalism to create a system that has the advantages of both.

@thor I honestly don't think I've used my mouse to move the pointer to the start menu button and click it in the past decade. Slamming super and immediately typing whatever I want to launch is so much faster. Also super+arrows is great for tiling windows, especially on multiple screens where dragging a window to the shared edge to make it tile to half of the screen is a pain in the ass. Oh, and super+c and super+v work for advanced copy+paste on Windows with clipboard history.

@thor win10 being actually kinda efficient was my biggest shock related to MS products and I'm still bewildered they managed to do something somewhat right. It's better for running on weak hardware than win7 and Vista designed for that hardware.