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HN, literally "Hacker News" where people will spend (not an exaggeration) a decade complaining about Windows and macOS issues, with all sorts of workarounds, homebrew, homebrew workarounds and more, and yet still offer up their Ubuntu 18.04 experiences as if they're indicative of where Desktop Linux is today.

I have auto ZFS snapshots, the choice of 5+ competent desktop environments, every piece of software I need and use (including Halo, emulators, etc), an immutable OS, rollbacks to nearly any point in time, have never, ever, ever had anything "break", and have never remotely seen an advertisement or nagware, ever. Not to mention that my NixOS skills directly translate to running servers the way they're meant to be run. With my recently setup zrepl, I also have an exact replica of all of my data on a portable SSD. I can travel with a single laptop and know that I can literally get it back to its identical state in about 15 minutes, should it ever be broken or stolen. Entire classes of anxieties eliminated in a way that other OSes can't even dream of, on top of complete control, and again no nagware.

It's about tradeoffs and I'd much rather put up some up front investment and then never think about it again. Go re-install Windows and watch how long it takes to disable all the telemetry, un-privacy features, default browsers, application and desktop configuration, etc. And then realize for maybe 3x that cost, you could learn something new and move past all of this nonsense. Or just keep dealing with Windows Updates and Bing shoved everywhere it doesn't belong.

I don't normally write this type of comment, but you are an absolute powerhouse and I'm so glad to see you pushing WebRTC, WebRTC+OBS, and playing the social game a bit to drum up support.

WebRTC has so much potential, I have big ideas for using it in a number of projects, if I can ever just clone myself a couple of times. Thanks for your work and enthusiasm!

I constantly dream of a much more simple, but also powerful OBS replacement, with separated components for sending inputs to a "compositing" server, that can then rebroadcast via WebRTC. Maybe with customizable templates that could be more powerful than OBS's scenes. With the ability to let viewers customize/change their views further... It's a bit much to type out all here, but the WebRTC-powered future is very exciting.

I read this thing three times, searched for every variant of "months" and "8" and "eight" I could think of and can't find a single thing that remotely indicates 100+ people dying from an unapproved vaccine.

Can you help me understand what exactly you're referring to? Is the EUA? Is it the concept of clinical trials? Maybe I'm looking at the wrong link somehow?

(I should probably delete this comment, given that the article, referenced materials and studies make it pretty clear that the increases in mortality are not from vaccines, or properly-used prescribed medications and I'm bored of non-topical COVID ... ideologies... derailing HN conversations)

Similar concept, but NixOS + SM64: https://xeiaso.net/blog/super-bootable-64-2020-05-06

one file, declarative, can generate an image for a physical machine, single-command boot it in Qemu, etc.

Well, two files, if you package SM64 yourself. Still.

I cannot imagine even remotely engaging in a culture where either of those are possibilities, let alone speculating about which is likely. But then again, I'm not a fan of incestual SV culture.

ASUS laptops, as of 6.1, I think, have kernel support and a userspace CLI and GUI to trivially configure this stuff (`asusctl`). In Windows, you can use GHelper and avoid the hundreds of megabytes of gaudy crap that is Armory Crate to configure this as well.

`asusctl` (the CLI), and `rog-control-center` (the GUI) lets you configure fan curves, "ultimate mode" (mux switch), LED lights, effects, panel overdrive, battery charge limit and more

And then `supergfxctl`, when "ultimate mode" is disabled, allows you to configure "Hybrid" or "Integrated"(-only) graphics modes.

For completeness/disclosure, flipping the mux switch aka Ultimate mode on/off) requires reboot, though it seems this may become unnecessary with new/future hybrid graphics tech in laptops.

ASUS should shower the developer in money, this G14 2022, all AMD is the most satisfying, best, complete out of box Linux experience I've ever had. And I've owned a lot of Lenovos, Dells, etc.

Not that I disagree with the spirit, X is dead, and someone demo'd Wayland apps on macOS at NixCon Paris.

Bitcoin isn't solvent

So, I'm curious - what do you think this means, when you say it?

Why?

Add Unihertz to the list. I'd love to buy a Jelly2 but not with their stock software. I don't understand the dynamics at play and it's hard to not get a bit conspiratorial..

Imagine being so triggered by any societal protective mechanism that you classify an IN-HOUSE team about ethical use of some technology as "leeches".

I really, really have got to stop coming here.

Oh, you can't hire enough women, you need to hire me again!

There it is. You didn't need to blow the dog whistle, we all got it. Keep on keepin' on ignoring the ever present boys' club and widespread reports that diversified teams produce better results. Surely that's relevant to a discussion about... an internal AI ethics team. Yup.

Wait, there are people that think we're going to have real AGI without immediate disastrous consequences? That's... something.

This thread is FASCINATING to read -- My brand of Adderall changed recently. I even more recently decided to try going off of it.

I miss it. Somewhere here wrote that it helped them be in touch with their emotions. I can give up the focus, I can give up the productivity, I can give up the impulse control. But losing the fast instinct to stick up for myself, ask for what I want, express my needs before they overwhelm me...

... it's a bummer to think that Adderall really was helping me and that it wasn't simply a matter of fixing my depression/perspective.

Oh no! Anyway...

I can't be the only one sitting here going, "okay, fine?". Do I want individual devs screwed? NO! Do I want to watch this same cycle of bailouts play out AGAIN benefiting the capital class AGAIN because god forbid they suffer from the shit-end of the capitalism stick? God forbid they have to tighten their laces and bootstrap and all the key-buzzword-unsympathetic crap? HELL NO.

edit: Since 4 neutrally-scored comments over 5+ hours is too much for this amazing, awesome website, let me elaborate here, something I can't post elsewhere (maybe if I sucked up more and lamented the impending horrible sad boohoo-y times for VCs...):

Why? Why do I try? Why do I try to build things of actual persistent value, instead of just building a big financial institution, tying it to others, and then just taking bigger and bigger risks knowing a bailout is "too-big-to-fail" inevitable? It's utter fucking insanity bred by a community of people that thought they were gonna have their shot on the other side of the see-saw.

I had to find the god damn CTO's email address to spam him a couple of times before my issue was fixed.

I'm out of the country, I complete 4x $20 payments to a friend I'm visiting. I try to do the 5th and it wants to me to "Add a Mobile Number" to verify my identity.

Brilliant PayPal. You already have my email+mobile on file. It says confirmed. I have 2FA enabled. And now, to verify my identity, you need me to enroll a "new" phone number. How in the **, exactly, is that going to verify my identity. And how screwed up are your systems that your left brain and right brain are out of sync.

Granted, I basically have to call them every 2 years for some similar sort of "your website just told me to go F myself, can you press the magic buttons to fix it since you can't, you know, actually fix your systems.".

EDIT: The clencher to this story is calling PayPal and getting the sweetest older lady from Texas that, without asking me any further verification questions, pressed a button and said "okay, try again", and wouldn't tell me anything else. Only to hit the same issue ~24 hours later.

I have a story like this for Schwab. I have a story like this for both my credit unions. Capitalism driven banking baby. What a joy.

I always thought there must be more to the story when someones account was permanently banned. Well, it happened to me, one of the most plain and boring consumer users of PayPal ever.

That self-exceptionalism? Yeah, most of everyone that hasn't already internalized not to use PayPal will do the same thing you did.

It's futile. Let me guess, do you use a Password Manager (bonus, other than LastPass?)?

Here's another futile one, you, yes, you, really need to make backups and replicate time-snapshots off-site.

I love when I call US financial institutes and are reminded that:

1. They insist on using voice menus that are only ever capable of servicing requests that I can already do online, or don't work because they're jammed up by the same backend issue that their website hits.

2. They try to auto-enroll me in Voice ID despite always going out of my way to demand that feature not be enabled.

3. Use TOTPs sent to SMS instead of any halfway reasonable TOTP/FIDO2 solution.

US Banks are a joke. So much so that I actively root for them to be hacked so a light can be shone on the fact that my god damn Xbox account is far more secure (first line security) than my Bank account (I do realize that Schwab will probably make me whole faster than Microsoft would in the case of some act of God compromise).

Well, one step would be some self-honesty about living within means. Throw out some numbers, let's talk about the specifics that no one here really wants to engage in.

Someone with this perspective, please, help me understand - Give me a base salary, a rent, and a monthly expense that doesn't let you save up 6months of runway after 2+ years of employment.

"I guess"? One month of tech salary would cover a studio rent and feed an adult human for a very, very, very, very long time. As I've touched on several times and NO ONE wants to really engage with, there's a lot of out of touch people here that have no idea what "live within your means" means and don't want to be remotely honest about their expenses.

Or somehow thinks "within [their] means" means that they're untouchable and unfirerable. Bet the general sentiment towards unemployment and collective bargaining has changed around here recently! Or not, tech workers are great at excusing-exceptionalism.

EDIT: This actually makes me wonder. I would really like to see data about peoples' empathy regarding unemployment/homelessness/unions and their ability to withstand an unexpected job-loss - how much "F you" money do they have saved, how much do they live conservatively?

The folks around me born into money are much more comfortable "spending their paycheck" than those of us that came from more middle-class backgrounds and graduated into comfortable money.

HN's tendency to GPT whenever exposed to something it doesn't know about is driving me nuts today. :-)

today? checks created date.

I mean, lol, this place was basically blasting anyone who dared say GPT Bing was going to be less than the revolution of our lifetimes. Right before it went off the rails.

Wow! Good luck staying employed literally anywhere in the US or western world throwing any of those around.

Sometimes it's really a wonder to imagine the world some people here seem to want to live in.

I think this is put rather bluntly, and I've still got a bit to go probably to where I would call myself my ideal weight, so I say this with a certain empathy... but I really agree that obesity falls into a different category than most of what might be called "woke".

What I perceive as a general normalization of obesity feels... very corporate, or certainly too convenient for corporate interests. Americans fail to consider many aspects of their lives regarding their health because they're trained to trust brands, and that doubly/triply extends to ignorance around diet and nutrition.

Food, sex, alcohol. All vices that Americans glorify and demonize in nearly exactly the least effective ways.

IDK, I don't want to preach but my body now, compared to with an extra 80-100lbs on it? It's hard to put into words how many aspects of my life are markedly better.

Wowie. Maybe just maybe folks have bigger issues than "my identity as a man is dependent on having a job". But again, I have existed in queer and 30-yr-and-below spaces for so long that this is just absurd to me. Even the straight friends I have would openly scoff at this.

If the response to this is "well I better embrace my identity as a man who only has worth via a job and deserving of love in exchange for money"... then yeah, /r/arethestraightsokay ?

Sometimes I just wish I could instill a sense of "this is YOUR life, your ONLY life" for others the way I've embraced in my late-20s. So many people barreling faster and faster ahead to avoid any examination of their actual relationship to happiness. And then the masses to give excuses for why an unexamined life is unavoidable (lest they consider their own).

I'm sure financial stress takes a toll on couples. Just like in this case, some self-imposed sense of obligation and identity is taxing this man. It seems, probably, very artificially.

And gasp, yes, younger generations are absolutely seeing men taking time off and relying on the woman's income. You know, open conversations, open-mindedness about "gender roles", openness about alternative lifestyles other than the clearly-so-successful straight monogamous couple with 2.5 children and a picket fence. Turns out happiness looks different to folks that have a genuine choice and exposure to alternative lifestyles.

I honestly just can't with this stuff -- I forget what it's like going from gay/queer spaces back to straight world. Y'all get hung up on the absolute silliest, most sexist, unfair stuff that ironically is actually a serious issue worth consideration in the grand scheme of advocating for men.

Assuming are a male and your spouse a female, you are quite right to be concerned that not working for the several years is not likely going to go well.

Huh? OP has basic needs covered, isn't in direct threat of being deported, can we please not subtley reinforce the made-up things that trigger identity crisises in these types of folks?

Like I get it, it's HN, so half the answers are going to be some highly ignorant advice to just double down on the self-imposed identity crisis, but can we please just not?

OP, you are worthy of love and respect, regardless of your employment status. And you are worthy of your own love and self-respect. I think you have valid reasons why getting employed is challenging for you, but I would encourage you to take solace in other parts of your identity that you are proud of.