Yeah but you’d need to do it for *everything* that’s affected, which is a lot.

Forced updates are bad if they bork you system, sure. If you know what you are doing it’s also mostly fine to skip a few. But the truth of the matter is that 95% of users wouldn’t ever update their system if they didn’t have to. Then half of them infect their system with ransomware and the other half get to join a huge botnet.

We’ve had that before and I wouldn’t want to go back. A few bored systems because of updates are probably preferable to at least as many lost to malware, where data is often unrecoverable.

The problem is that the all those apps installed as dependencies will get marked as unused and removed with the next --autoremove (which you should probably do regularly to clean up old kernels.

The real fix would be to mark all those apps as explicitly installed, but I don’t use apt-based distros regularly so idk how.

Distrobox would like a word, or so I’ve heard. Haven’t had to use it yet, as the AUR has pretty much everything.

What? That just means it will corrupt files on fat32 too but not the whole filesystem so you didn’t notice. Return that shit.

You wear crop top jackets?

I use Arch btw

That’s definitely not true, Raspberry Pi OS works and acts like a normal Debian installation per default - with root mounted rw and all.

Other than that, there isn’t much “treating like an HDD/SSD” going on, it just writes to flash when an application requests it does. If the underlying storage is an eeprom, an sdcard nvme storage doesn’t really change anything here.

Most SD cards aren’t really suitable for the kind of workload an operating system generates (that being mostly random i/o). Make sure to get a reputable A2 (application class 2) rated card, they aren’t that expensive but perform way better.

Raspberry Pi themselves launched a card recently, I haven’t tried that one but it’s probably a good choice too.

I don’t understand. If you’re overwhelmed by settings just don’t open them? You don’t “need” them, like ever.

You can do the same on Plasma. Switch by three-finger-swipe

You can hardly argue that the lamp itself is using energy when “not a lamp” is using exactly as much energy

The GPU renders the map no matter if there is lighting baked in our not. It’s exactly the same operation. And depending on your display tech, brighter pixels might actually use slightly less energy.

I’d argue that’s not true if the lighting is baked into the map.

You can’t convince me that wood shrinks by 35% by crossection. No way.

You could probably gat away with it if you install a single mini split somewhere upstairs to remove moisture and cool the rest of the house with the big pump

At that point, why not write latitude and longitude and be done with it?

and configure them to not make up any of their own

That’s the trillion dollar puzzle nobody has been able to solve yet. It’s not trivial at all, even when it seems like it should be.

Half of these don’t even handle logging

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