They are killing old.reddit. it hasn’t worked for me for about three weeks. This is stage 2.

Finally started writing a reseme. This job is driving me out of my mind and I look forward to the day the company explodes (organizationally) while I walk away cinematically.

Mint is in a situation where they are drowning in technical debt rather than operating expenses (their Cinnamon desktop environment falling chronically behind upstream GTK technologies), but it is a similar situation in terms of the whole raison d’être of the distribution facing an existential crisis.

Nixpkgs has reached over 1 million commits and is pushing what Git can scale to and is now entirely dependent on a Microsoft GitHub enterprise subscription and a Amazon AWS S3 credits for petabytes of CI/CD.

LMAO they are cooked. Possibly in even worse shape than Mint. What the fuck are they thinking? There is no way on Earth this is sustainable unless it is literally being run by a FAANG company.

The nix derivations abstractions has not truly caught on (due to it not even being better than containers resource wise)

I don’t run Gentoo because it is efficient on resources. I run it because I like to fuck around with shit. I think declarative distros will always fit well in this role as well, but end-users clearly will have to bear the cost of compiling their completely bespoke configurations. There is no way for a community project to sustain a build farm cranking out trillions of permutations of every piece of software with every single configuration option.

At best you can end up in the situation of Gentoo or Guix where the most common configurations have binary packages available and for the rest you’ve got to build it yourself.

In fairness, GDAL / GRASS / QGIS is fucking confusing.

They are likely A/B testing this in different regions or user agents or something. Expect it to be the new normal.

I currently run systemd (on Gentoo, one of the few distros where you can actually choose an alternative). Been using Linux since before systemd existed, so I’ve used various kinds of SysV-style init systems before. I generally like systemd. Though it might be over-engineered for some use cases, desktop / laptop OSes are among the most complex, having to deal with events like lids closing, batteries draining, suspend / hibernate, etc. Parallelization and socket activation are very nice features.

I would like to try GNU Shepherd (and the whole GUIX System Distribution in general) but I could never get it to boot on my machine (volume inside encrypted LVM)

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Dudes rock

I don’t even think their thought process is that developed. They don’t recognize the systemic violence of the police state and carceral machine as authoritarian. This is fully abstract to them. When abuses of power are so egregious that they actually make the news, they consider it incidental. As far as Liberals are concerned, the purpose of a system is not what it does, but what it’s charter says. You could have death camps scattered all across the country, but as long as it is done under the aegis of “the department of justice,” they will be more concerned that the image of all these crematoria are undermining the institution’s mission.

Wait, PJ is gone?

I completed macheteFinal.wad today. Did not do pistol starts.

At this point, it isn’t even clear what Mint’s purpose is. The thing which made their distribution unique is now an albatross of technical debt. It sounds like they have already dug their own grave.

I’m generally pro distributions-steamrolling-upstream but this is a solid counter-argument. If you’re going to make substantial ham-fisted modifications to a piece of software you’re distributing, you have to own it. You can’t claim it is upstream’s product when you are deliberately ripping out all the improvements they’re making and undermining their work. There is a long precedent for this too. For many years, Debian distributed long term support versions of Firefox, and Mozilla was not happy about their branding being used on these packages (versions they no longer supported themselves), so Debian re-branded it to IceWeasel. (Eventually this conflict was resolved with the introduction of Firefox-ESR).

I assure you this is not what chili dogs look like when they come out the back end

Who would win? A quarter-million kilos of rocket fuel, or one sparky boi? (the answer might surprise you)

It won’t help at all, but the idea of wearing a cycling bib in a bucket seat is making me grin.