Yeah, I know about the binary repositories. I’m running Gentoo as well (on one box with the intention to expand to other machines), but haven’t had occasion to use the official binary repositories yet.

I imagine I’d probably only ever use them if I wanted to install something temporarily. Install LibreOffice, view a file, uninstall. Just seems weird to have one package compiled with different USE flags than the whole rest of the system.

And, the compiler optimizations definitely aren’t why I use Gentoo. Probably more than anything, I’m sick of SystemD. And Gentoo feels a whole lot more “under my control” than Arch. (Arch is great for the most part, don’t get me wrong. I just like what Gentoo has to offer.)

I’m not RanzigFettreduziert, and I don’t know much about PopOS, but…

• Rolling release is awesome.
• Amazing documentation.
• Helpful user base. (The forums are great.)
• Does pretty much nothing that you don’t specifically tell it to. (Like, very little is installed without your express say-so, for instance.)
• Customizeable as fuck.
• Doesn’t making things harder by trying to hide the “hard parts” from you.
• Doesn’t take days to install Libreoffice like Gentoo.
• AUR is great for software that isn’t available in the official repos. (Always review the pkgbuild, but practically everything is there.)
• Very up-to-date (even cutting-edge) on everything.
• And surprisingly stable given how cutting edge it is. (That said, I’ve never run a keyword-unmasked system.)
• Definitely will teach you a lot.
• Very actively developed.

Downsides:

• Learning curve. (Definitely not as bad as, say, Gentoo, though.)
• You’d definitely have to get really comfortable with the command line. (Arguably as much a good thing as it is a downside.)
• The biggest exception to the “customizeable as fuck” bit is that you’re stuck with SystemD, which is practically a whole OS. (And Artix (Arch but with a choice of init systems) is… kinda janky last I tried it.)
• Support for non-x86 (like ARM, for instance) is abysmal.

It’s kindof the second-most hardcore OS out there after Gentoo. (Nobody actually uses LFS as a daily driver, so I’m not counting that for this.) It’s the sort of OS that will teach you a lot and let you get down in the guts. But also avoids a lot of the downsides of Gentoo by remaining a binary OS.

This is /c/fuck_ai, not /c/pretend_ai_is_only_partly_a_scam .

There is no baby in the bathwater. And the bathwater is sewage.

My mother was neck deep in “Satanic Panic” propaganda. Literally thought Pokemon was “Satanic.” I think the thing that set her off was the Japanese-style art, and Japan isn’t majority-Christian like the U.S. is.

Don’t think that by explaining this I’m trying to make it make sense. The “sense” train derailed long before, but even more so when she decided that Pokemon had wiccan influence (which, by the way, isn’t the same as satanism, but again, it’s a foregone conclusion that none of this made any sense) for some random fucking reason.

Mine was “you can play Smash Brothers 64 with your friends as long as you don’t let anyone be Pikachu.”

Sir, this is a Wendionelli’s.

You hear that? That’s the sound of lemmy.ml deleting this post from their instance.

What I want to know is how does it work? Maybe a human silhouette of plexiglass onto which the image is projected? (Kinda like how they do Gorillaz concerts.)

My graphics card sounds like a wind tunnel when I play vanilla Morrowind.

Not like 'murca where you have to register your photo ID in order to fap.

I just got this too. Using old Reddit (the realest Reddit (which still isn’t saying much)) got rid of the banner and allowed loading all the content.

As the guy people come to when they’ve spent days banging their heads against a dependency conflict problem rather than delivering value for the business, I wish the folks on my team would take the proverb “a little copying is better than a little dependency” to heart a little more.

Saying “we can’t in practice reduce the complexity of our dependency tree because we need happy clients and a pay check” is like saying “we can’t in practice turn on the propeller because we need to get this airplane off the ground”.

Be the change you want to see in the world, people. Don’t use any Node (or Rust or Python or Java or whatever) modules that have more dependencies than they absolutely, positively, 100%, for real have to. It’s really not that hard. It doesn’t have to be this way.

LLMs have peaked already, and their peak was shit.

Can confirm. Eating healthy helps a lot. The first time I tried to lose weight, didn’t change what I ate, just how much I ate. So I was still eating crappy, completely non-nutritious food. Just less of it. I plateaued well before reaching my target weight, was desperate to eat all the time, felt like shit, got frustrated, gave up, and gained all my weight back.

The second time, I did better. Ate healthier, but still not as well as I could. But I got down to my target weight and kept it off for a good long time.

Now, I keep my weight at my target weight mostly without thinking about it. I eat healthy, but not specifically for the purpose of keeping my weight at a good level per se. More because… well I want to be healthy.

Moral of the story, try not to fixate on your weight. Eat healthy for your health. Health is about more than just your weight. And being healthy will help you meet your weight goals more than losing weight will help you reach your health goals.

My final point. I’d say there are benefits to making sure your diet includes a lot (and by “a lot” I mean still within your calorie or portion sizes or whatever budget) of healthy fats and proteins. Those set off some triggers in your brain that make you register satiety. Sugar and carbs do that a lot less so.

Me 5 minutes ago: Oh god. No, I should not click that link. I’m definitely going to regret clicking that link if I do. I for sure am not going to… dammit I clicked the link.

Me now: Ok, that’s pretty smart, actually.

I’m a big fan of jq. It’s a domain-specific language for manipulating JSON data.

ImageMagick is like ffmpeg but for images.

inotify-tools has command-line utilities that can be used in a Bash script or a Bash one-liner to make arbitrary things “happen” when something “happens” to a file or directory. (Then the file is opened or written to or renamed or whatever.)

I probably should mention rsync. It’s like a swiss army knife for copying files from one place to another. And it supports “keeping files syncronized” between two locations.

Of course, there’s tons of stuff that you pretty much can’t talk about Bash scripting without mentioning. Sed, awk, grep, find, etc.

Also, I totally relate about the terminal giving more dopamine. I kinda just hate going on a point-and-click adventure to do things like image editing or whatever. To the point that I’ve written a whole-ass domain-specific-language to do what I want rather than use Gimp. (And I’m working on another whole-ass domain-specific-language to do a traditionally-GUI-app sort of task.)

OP what the hell is wrong with you

That’s never a question you have to ask of a 4channer.

everybody walk the dinosaur