Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

It's been about a year since I switched to #NixOS and I must say it's the #Linux distro I've had the least problems with. Which says a lot considering I've also used Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Manjaro, all of which put more emphasis on being easy to use, besides a bunch of nerd shit like Arch, Gentoo and Exherbo.

My experience is that a distro is either easy to install and configure on a basic level but absolutely shits itself or presents many blockades when you attempt to veer off the beaten path (by installing a version of a package that is not outdated by 3 years, for example), like the former ones, or it's just painful for everything, basic or not, and actively discourages its use, like the latter ones.

NixOS is the exception, apart from the initial installation and configuration which require experience, all system management is reduced to changing a single well-designed config file and letting the nix modules do their thing.

And it works. Great distro, recommend, 9/10 (point substracted for occasionally inadequate documentation)

@Moon oh god that reminded me of a time a stupid american corp I worked at decided to just drop-in and enforce AirBNB eslint rules that, amongst a whole lot of other stupid shit, enforced maps instead of loops etc. The performance of the data digest tool my team was responsible for dropped to 30%. Who woulda thunk.

At least when presented with this outcome they relented and allowed us to override the worst offenders, but there certainly was some classic front-end "dev team performance is more important than product performance" cringe in the process.

>hey what's that NothingOSS thing
>go to nothing.tech
>mostly loads then redirects
>to fucking pl.nothing.tech
>wait for that shit to load
>no apparent changes

Is there something more annoying than unsolicited localisation? Apparently yes, unsolicited javascript-based no-op localisation.

If you design your website like that, fuck you.

@fluffy @tk Harambe

@BrodieOnLinux shame, it's just a technology that has been overshadowed by the hype and worst offenders.

I watched the Good Omens TV series recently and was pleasantly surprised that it's actually very good. Fun to watch, true to the book, well made overall.

I remember that when I first heard the proverb "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" as a child I found it very counter-intuitive, and yet the longer I live the more universally true it appears to be.
Good intentions seem to outrank even greed when it comes to causing the worst atrocities committed by mankind.

@tk ?
Have you seen the shit people do with JS? Or Google Docs / Office 365? We're *way* past the point of implementing arbitrary software in the browser.

@tk see highlighted answer lol

@tk former is an open standard for running lower-level code in the browser while maintaining all safeguards, latter is a proprietary plugin that bypasses the browser to run insecure shit basically from the desktop and only pretend it's inside of the browser.

They're pretty much direct opposites.

@2ck yeah, that "set up that situation in your community and establish some norms" part is called civilised society, and there doesn't seem to be a correlation between gender / sexual orientation and the (in)ability to keep in-pants things in the pants. At least in the aforementioned civilised society, dunno if it's the same case in the USA.

@fribbledom https://xkcd.com/2259/

Oh look, a closed game engine controlled by a single entity (Unity) got fucked by its management. Who would've thought? It's almost like depending on a single company to not get corrupted/plain worse over time with no escape if it does is not a good idea...