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How does it look like in a proper 80x25?

Now when we have Matrix, we also need to deal with rescuing people from a NIH protocol designed around a property nobody needs.

I can’t even make it through the maze of your thoughts. Being sponsored by people who make killing utensils = bad, while being sponsored by people who literally kill = good? This is beyond logic.

NixCon Europe gets sponsor money from a military company. Taxpayers of the greatest democracy ever had a knee-jerk reaction, because not only they were having such a nice peaceful day before getting reminded that military exists, and they themselves are sponsoring it, while, clearly, in the enlightened world like ours military = bad, “every rifle made is money taken from good causes”. Also, wars are something that only happens in history books anyway, not, say, present-day Europe, amirite? Tons of internal value dissonance, fediverse buzz and free PR later, said military company gets their money back.

NixCon NA gets sponsor money from the same company, because the value proposition of the previous PR stunt was so sky-high, it’d be negligence to not repeat it. Taxpayers of the greatest democracy ever are reminded once again they don’t have a slightest say say in what they’re funding, so they try their best to not get funded back with their own money and bury their heads back in the sand again. Tons of free PR later, said military company gets their money back.

Now the foundation publishes a sponsorship policy, the community debates whether it is or is not enough to prevent said military company from diverting funds from the stuff they find so revulsing and towards the stuff they are so excited about. This round of free PR is on the house.

What’s gonna happen next, we all wonder.

inb4 “what would you say when the Nix-powered killer drones arrive to your country to start cost-effectively slaying your people”: “it’s 2024, dafuq took you so long”

Whenever you get your podcasts, is it’s not RSS, it’s not podcasts.

True, all but NixOS and indistinguishable.

Guix doesn’t count.

You can use insecure boot and not enter the password. It can’t make stuff meaningfully more secure though, it just plain doesn’t add any protection against evil maid.

Disk sometimes being too slow to appear? Try rootwait/rootdelay kernel cmdline options.

NixOS is uncomparable.

There are two browsers with sync, and one of them syncs with Google.

5 minutes of fame when Debian said “if you want other init systems, maintain them”, soon-to-be-Devan folks slammed the door and effectively ruined the chance of multi-init debian by fracturing efforts into their fork instead. But hey, all the news were abuzz about them.

It was hard to miss, I was working there. It doesn’t mean that much as you’re assuming.

IBM’s vision

Anybody can have a vision, but it’s the work that matters. I’ll be worried when they become a player.

Software projects are dictatorships of those willing to put in the work, not meritocracies.

Most linux distros are slight variations on the best components available. Yes, one can put in resources, do a great job and now everyone switches to the fruits of their labor. No, it does nothing to stop another player from one-upping them and taking the lead with their next best good enough. In political terms, dictatorships are incompatible with voting with one’s feet.

As a Red Hat employee who had his all-around sensible Fedora Change to prevent it from falling too far behind RHEL (!) rejected, I think I can confidently claim that your statements smell of conspiracy theories.

Do Linux-involved companies have resources to develop the projects they like the most? Yes. Do companies dominate userspace development? I don’t think so, in fact, they’re all seem quite focused in their interests, and their involvement with a median package on your community distro desktop system isn’t even minimal, it’s none. Do the se companies at least all push for a united agenda? Absolutely not. Can they force a single random community distro like Debian to pick something over something else? No. 99% of the distros? Goes without saying.

Linux community is so inherently meritocratic that one can’t meaninfully force anything upon any large group of them.

Thore particular two creations of Lennart took the world by storm precisely because they were so absurdly good that working on other stuff was a dead-end, obvious for all but such tiny fraction of people that even forming vacuous hate bubbles haven’t rallied enough effort to foster and maintain alternatives.

It became trendy to hate Pulseaudio and call it bloat years after Nokia shipped a rather anemic phone where it already worked flawlessly. I need no further proof that there’s no technical basis beneath the hate.

Of course. There’s just one pitfall: there’s no turning back, once you grasp it, the inferior ways of the past become unbearable.

I admire their uncompromising stance on feature creep and polish of the core functionality.

I’m a simple man, all I need 95% of the time is keyboard shortcuts to switch between maximized browser and a maximized terminal emulator.

Compare and contrast KDE, where you have three infinitely configurable screen zoom plugins, and I’ve never seen 3/3 working.

If it distributes Linux, it’s a distro. Thus ChromeOS, Android, Windows are all Linux distros.

If you have a different definition, best you can do with it is go brighten up some lawyer’s day, I guess.