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Is there an epidemic of mental illness?

Yes, but unfortunately no doctors to diagnose it.

Unfortunately that’s exactly what Nationalism Socialism was all about. Great socialist policies to support and bolster the in crowd. Unfortunately those policies aren’t extended to the out crowd. And the out crowd is pretty easily defined when you’ve got “Nationalism” in your political party’s name.

Yeah, the point is “you can use either one”, instead of “we made the choice for you”

“the order in which the system discovered it” is not deterministic

This is the same problem they had with hard drive names and it seems to have been solved in a sensible way, i.e. /dev/sda still points to the first disk detected by the system, but you can look look in /dev/disk/by-path (or by-uuid, etc) to see the physical address of the devices on the system and what they are symlinked back to, and set your fstab or mdadm arrays to be configured based on those unique identifiers instead.

So, I guess what I’d like to know is why hasn’t this been solved the same way? When you boot up they should present every hard wired Ethernet port as ethX, and the hardware address interface should be present as well but aliased back to the eth. Then you can build the your network configs based on either one.

Shouldn’t be that hard right?

I’m impressed with my pixel’s ability to do it. I forget it’s on sometimes and I’ll walk in a pub. Having only been inside 5 seconds and my phone in my pocket the whole time, it already has the song playing on display on the lock screen. Its almost like it works better when the volume is lower. I have a harder time detecting music with it if I turn the volume up or hold it near a speaker. Put it my pocket and have 30 people talk over it? Probably has a 95%+ successful detection rate in those conditions

How often do you do updates on your home server?

Ain’t got legs

Don’t know how to use 'em

Interesting. It looks like there’s a couple criteria to get something into the Extra repository, but the primary one looks to be a ready and willing package maintainer. Sounds like that hasn’t happened yet for fvwm.

What is it you don’t like about the AUR?

I run Arch but don’t install anything from the AUR unless absolutely necessary (or if it is dead simple enough for me to understand). I find the pacman-only experience makes a great stable low effort stable PC with all the latest bells and whistles. System updates on the weekend, once a week. No problems.

You can do the same with just paru. No flags necessary.

Somehow, Palpatine returned.

In the positive direction yeah.

I imagine a sports car and a Nissan Xterra have about the same negative acceleration when running into a concrete wall.

find out and learn

But you repeat yourself

Even raisin face McPalpatine came back after he skydived through an electric funnel.

Somehow

I feel the same way, but I feel it with lots of other topics in my life as well.

I daily drive Linux for both home and work. Windows is absolutely shit, yes, but when you’re using Linux as your primary system, the only interaction you have with Windows is through other people. And that interaction is only when people’s experience with Windows is noteworthy enough for them to mention anything about it. Its selection bias.

A similar thing happened with me when I visited home after having been gone for 2 years. I moved from the US to the UK over a decade ago. I’d go back every 6-12 months, but because of COVID it was over 2 years. It was during the vaccine rollouts too, and I was expecting this warzone anti mask/antivax everywhere. I saw a few people (like, over 3 weeks I saw less than a dozen) with signs protesting at intersections. And I saw one guy have an argument with his wife in the parking lot which she just eventually told him to stay in the the car if he wasn’t going to wear a mask while she went to the grocery store. Thats pretty much the opposite of what I expected based on the images I got for the previous 2 years through overseas media. You only get the lowlights.

We’re always in the center of time. Half way between the past and future.

My understanding is that hardware companies usually alternate generations: one for performance, one for power. It seems like this is the balance that makes the market happy.

That still doesn’t make sense. All this does is enable the PS VR headset to be used with a PC to play steam games. It gives people that already own a PS VR another option for usage: plugging it into a PC and playing VR games they purchased through steam. It lowers the barrier to entry for the user to experience PC VR games by being able to use hardware they already have on hand instead of having to purchase an Oculus or Index. Valve still gets their software sales cut because you can only use the PS VR to play games in your steam library on PC.

Sounds like a dumb move. I thought the money was in software/game sales, not hardware that’s sold at a loss?