For all the fear mongering about rolling release distros I’ve only been burned once like 5 years ago by some Nvidia driver bug.

I still do the same thing though.

Flying does suck.

They do pack people like sardines but I don’t think the airline industry is making big margins. If they didn’t treat you like shit there is a possibility that you might be priced out entirely.

You can always pay to be one of the pod people.

Use AI to democratize AI using DeAI and running AI on the blockchain.

I live in a major metropolitan center and the farmers market downtown happens once a week.

The price can actually be quite good but you have to have reasonable expectations. If you see strawberries and there are snow banks outside well… Do the math. On the flip side if something’s in season you can often get a good deal.

A farmer’s market is not a grocery store so it does require a bit of savvy. If you see apples and it’s June those are probably last year’s apples from cold storage etc.

If you can’t install something like EndeavourOS or tumble weed then you likely were not going to be able to reload an os anyway.

Installing vanilla arch is a very useful activity to do at least once so you know how the system works but don’t have to use vanilla Arch and can use any of the derivatives so long as it has the latest kernel / drivers for your hardware.

On new hardware it’s generally easier to use a rolling release distro in my experience.

You’re more likely to have a newer kernel and drivers that support things like wifi cards.

It’s extractive because tourists don’t add or contribute to the reason that place is a tourist destination to begin with and in fact often take away or are detrimental.

Of course they bring money but too many and the start to crush the vibe, ruin the housing market and sometimes cause gentrification pushing out the people who were originally there.

Some people are fine but too many can ruin things pretty quick. In the age of Instagram and accessible travel it doesn’t take much for a small place to get over run in just a few years.

For an extreme example look at the lines to get up to mount Everest.

You should read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLC_media_player

Likely you just want vlc-plugins-all

I’ve actually come to dread when they add a sequel to a good movie.

For every Terminator two there’s a Phantom menace.

There are already anti cheat options on Linux. They just don’t put any dev time into them because it’s a small market currently.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a black mark on valve however I imagine it prints a lot of money and they seem reticent to put an end to it.

Torvald’s behavior has improved a lot recently but the shit he used to send in the past is definitely not conducive to actually getting shit done.

If you don’t have Linux experience it would not have helped. That’s coupled with the way people help with Linux, which is often type this thing into the terminal that you don’t really understand.

He was just conditioned by windows and Macos asking for administration prompts for everything. Linux just lets you break a ton more crap way more quickly.

They enable the ones who do cause problems.

Helping others do harm but not physically doing it yourself does not absolve you of responsibility.

Aha I did a double take for the same reason. Not just techmoan but a really old photo of him too.

Most of the older stuff is really energy inefficient. That said they have looser tolerances so they break less and keep on chugging.

The new stuff has tighter tolerances and is made to reduce cost. These powers combined make them shit.

The worst part is that in a lot of cases paying more won’t actually get you out of the trash. They just strap smart garbage to the cheap shit. You have to pay 5 to 10 times the amount for an actual decent appliance (ie one that’s just good at doing what it is supposed to do) and even then it’s a gamble.

Yeah at some point they are all the same to me it’s just the different package manager. Pacman, apt, yum or whatever they are calling it now a days.

Most use systemd.

I started using Arch flavors because when you have brand new hardware the latest kernel can be important. After the machine is a couple years old it doesn’t really matter.

Also Endeavouros is where it’s at (but don’t tell the vanilla Arch people, they won’t help me with my problems if they find out)

Arch is fine, installing it is a good learning experience. After that endeavoros does what I need to and I just have to click next a couple times and get on with my day.

While I don’t disagree with you I think what drives designer clothing has more to do with image and projection than actually looking good, even on attractive people.

It’s more velben good than looking good.

I mean this is a false dichotomy. You can have a payment system that isn’t a shit show like crypto or a duopoly like Visa and Mastercard.