you do realize this makes everyone immediately discard your opinion, because it’s useless, right?

prune as fuck

you are aware that TUI has been a standard thing for ages, right? wanting GUI features inside a terminal isn’t new and i’m not sure if you had a point with this comment other than trying to dunk on them…

yeah no i’m sorry but this just sounds completely fucking made up

I’d summarize the current OS situation as

Windows Just Works until it doesn’t, at which point there’s basically nothing you can do about it and you just have to kick it until something clicks into place and it starts working properly again.

Whereas linux Just Works to a slightly smaller degree, but when it stops Just Working it does so in granular steps most of the time, and every part of the ecosystem tries to help you fix things when they break.

Windows is a resin-potted black box that takes input and does stuff, if it breaks you’re supposed to just chuck it and buy a new one.
Linux is a slightly bulkier thing that you can just unscrew and replace a capacitor when it breaks.

part that, and part just that windows is successful because it’s successful. Everyone learns windows, thus everyone uses windows, thus everyone teaches windows.
It’s like how all life on earth produces and consumes a specific form of sugar, but when you make sugar in a lab you get both forms, and the second form is completely inert to all digestive systems on earth.

i for one welcome our grub bootlorders

people who unironically recommend anything arch-based (haha yes steamos is based on arch, yes you’re very very clever, i’m sure you can even figure out why it’s an obvious exception if you think about it for a minute) are just detached from reality and simply want to be part of a group.

The only time arch is suitable for beginners is installing it in a VM to learn linux via brute force, after you’ve gotten used to going through that process you’ll have a very solid base of knowledge for using a more suitable distro.

great way to make people detest gnome and flatpaks for the rest of their lives! brilliant move!

I think i have 3 big criteria:

• Track record
• Structuring things to pre-emptively keep themselves (and more importantly, those who might take over later) honest and aligned with the collective good
• Good people involved and ideally in charge of the project

Other people have mentioned things like venture capital and that’s certainly something to bear in mind (arguably part of the structure), but there are projects like Matrix where that feels quite marginal to me, the aforementioned aspects more than make up for it.
Like when the main figurehead of the project goes on stage and nerds out about the code, that’s a pretty fucking good sign in my book.

it’s basically the exact same thing as i’ve seen with IRC, people keep saying it’s decentralized and then when asked to show an example they just go “yeah well uhh obviously it’s not externally decentralized duhhh! It’s ✨internally decentralized✨” which just means they protocol makes horizontal scaling easy…

My money is on IPFS, because it’s so simple (like, in principle, obviously it’s complex under the hood). It’s not fancy, it’s basically a better version of torrent and only handles static data, but it does that really fucking well.
It takes any data you add to your node, splits it into small blocks, does a fancy hash of those blocks, and then builds a tree of pointers that point to pointers that point to the constituent blocks. This means that any identical blocks have the same address, and thus only need to be sent once! And the same goes for anything that ends up being identical in structure, it has the same address and only needs sending once, and if for example two people rip a copy of the same obscure DVD and host it on a node, they will both provide the data to downloaders despite never having interacted with each other at all!

This is of course massively boner-inducing for anyone who cares about archiving stuff.

In effect it does the same thing that HTTP or FTP or whatever does, but in a modern and fundamentally decentralized way. You don’t care where the data comes from, you just request the ID from whatever nodes you can see, if they don’t have it they forward the request to those they can see etc etc, if anyone has it they reply to you and start sending the data, and then you do some fancy math to verify that it’s correct.

Basically everything from https://www.protocol.ai/work, bar the blockchain stuff which i can only assume they’re doing to milk investors to fund the actually good projects.

libp2p abstracts away networking so you can simply point to a peer ID and the computer figures out how to connect to it (though you can of course specify how to connect if you wish), and it preserves connections across different networks among other stuff.

IPFS is basically just torrent but better in every way, foremost in that you can just slap some data onto an IPFS node and if anyone else happens to be serving the same data then you’ll both automatically be valid providers, despite never having talked to each other in any way. No more needing to search out a magnet link, just seed whatever data you want and anyone requesting the data from the network will automatically find you.

ublic market⏲ center

100%, what would be needed for linux to become mainstream is more stuff like the steam deck, i really hope we get a return of steam machines but done properly this time

it is insane, because it doesn’t even fucking apply to any version of windows, it’s bog standard for older windows games to just shit themselves in various ways.

i just kinda feel eh about them as a concept, it’s just a piece of paper with an image on it where the sum total involvement from the giver is that they selected the card, and even that is almost never something that took more than 20 seconds.

It’s a worse version of postcards, which usually have some actually interesting art on them (or a photo) and is relevant to a journey they made.

eh, i don’t see it as any different than most of the cards in a store, it’s all incredibly low effort and cringy.

oh it’s not an official thing, that could probably use some more clarification as the name makes it sound like something developed by the systemd people

i will never stop wanting to commit severe crime every time i try to see what’s using the processor and every single fucking system monitor tool just says it’s xorg

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