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I see. When I wrote that out it was more of a “Why would some one pick this over CachyOS or plain Arch?” and I think you’ve adequately answered that.

I have NEVER had less issues with an OS ever since running Arch and/or CachyOS

I can say the same, except I’ve never had a real issue with Arch in the 15(+) years I’ve known of it and used it. Every issue I’ve had with it was my own fault and was just part of learning of how package managers work. Nothing unique to Arch is inherently confusing or prone to user error in my opinion. But that’s just my own bias.

Good luck with this distro. My only bit of feedback is that distros with a bus-factor of 1 usually die out quickly (burn out is real). I would say if you’re planning to have any support channels look into on-boarding some trustworthy comrades to assist you with this. Other than that wish you the best homie!

What will this new distro do that CachyOS doesn’t already (or can’t) do?

Hey could you explain how that works? I thought Noctilia was a replacement shell for plasmashell. How do you use it alongside it? Do you just use the KWin compositor with Noctilia as the actual shell?

is it really so rare to just not really use your phone much in the US? There’s days I straight up forget I have a phone

Still looks like they allow it as long as it gets approval by the core team. Not saying I agree with that choice, but there’s still a very real chance LLM-generated code makes it into NetBSD.

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

Kind of a small thing, but I use an Ultrawide monitor with Sway, so I wrote a oneliner to swap to a higher or lower display scale depending on the workspace I’m on. I like to game in full rez while I’d write code or read with a HiDPI resolution that’s easier to squint at. Also adding hotkeys to change scaling on demand is nice

I would agree, but most leases have stipulations that restrict voiding the contract “at any moment”. You have to do something to violate the lease agreement most times so this is even worse than renting.

but on desktop Linux you need to either create a new user (and remove world-readable permissions from your main account files), or create a custom Docker container, or create a chroot, or launch a VM

You don’t need to do any of that stuff to achieve application sandboxing. bubblewrap or firejail exist for exactly this purpose. Firejail in particular can integrate with AppArmor (which most mainstream distros that aren’t RHEL or Fedora ship with) so you get MAC on top of sandboxing.

The Librem 16 starts at $2,899 for the Base configuration with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. The Plus model costs $4,199 with 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage, while the Max configuration reaches $9,799 with 64 GB of RAM and 16 TB of storage. A custom build option is also available, starting at $2,870.

Wow. At those price points I’m going to need it to bring more to the table than just privacy assurances. These things would need battery life that lasts for weeks without a recharge.

It baffles me that this person had to:

1. Have their firearm and ammo in proximity without the intent to immediately discharge it
2. Have their firearm LOADED in their own home without the intent to discharge it.
3. “theoretically” leave it LOADED and unattended in their home long enough for “their dog” to discharge it.

Yeah this is absolutely the type of person who should not be allowed to handle firearms.

Oh gotcha. Yeah I agree it’s a cool concept. Having accurate HR and sleep patterns from a ring was why I looked into this originally. Really wish there were more players in this market so my options weren’t so limited. I understand GadgetBridge has some Smart rings it already works with, but feedback has been scarce.

Doesn’t it require a yearly subscription to even use the ring? Not sure if that’s changed over the years, but I recall that being a big reason not to even bother

it would have been nice if that was in the documentation

Its been in the docs for at least 7 years now (check the Last Modified date).

No free Apple TV app is kind of a deal-breaker. Even Emby has one. Also the Roku app still crashes fairly regularly for me just randomly either browsing or during playback.

I’d love to use it fulltime but I don’t want to have to buy new devices just to use it. Plex already works and I picked up a lifetime pass when it wasn’t insanely priced.

It’s just way easier to get helix to a usable state for the languages I write in than it is with vim. I don’t have to go plugin hunting or vetting random github repos; all the support mostly comes shipped with the editor. Throw some lines in TOML file and you’re good, vs downloading a plugin manager, downloading plugins, configuring those plugins and hoping you got everything right and the plugin repo’s README isn’t 10 years out of date.

vim feels like a downgrade.

100%

I use it where it’s available and helix isn’t