Used it for the last few years. X just doesn’t work right with multiple monitors of different resolution.

You wouldn’t end up at a login screen, you’d end up in the last logged in user’s session.

Mostly joking, but Farenheit is % hot outside.

0°F is 0% hot. Jacket, pants, boots, scarf, etc.

30°F is 30% hot. Shorts, but with boots & an unzipped jacket.

60°F is 60% hot. Shorts, short sleeves, & sandals.

80°F is 80% hot. AC recommended.

100°F is 100% hot. AC or you’ll melt.

120°F is Phoenix, Arizona, a city which should not exist and a temperature which should not exist.

People use computers to accplish tasks. That requires running software on an OS, but nobody runs software or an OS just to sit & watch it exist. They run it to accomplish tasks.

Different distros mostly vary in how easy it is to accomplish various tasks. No one distro is the easiest for everything, so people make different choices depending on their needs.

I use NixOS & Home Manager. My config is in git, and I use an ephemeral setup with ZFS & tmpfs:

Mount layout:

/		 tmpfs  
├─/boot /dev/sda1  FAT32 EFI system partition
├─/nix	 rpool/local/nix ZFS partition
├─/home/persist rpool/safe/home ZFS partition
└─/persist	 rpool/safe/persist ZFS partition

ZFS partitions under rpool/safe/ get backed up, the rest don’t need to be. Everything else can be rebuilt (and most of it gets re-created at boot anyway, since / and /home are tmpfs).

Yep, it’s basically a way to define new groups per directory. But these groups are hidden from the normal group commands!

Hah! Lots of (shitty) sites don’t allow some “special” characters, like '. That’s usually a sign that they’re storing passwords insecurely, and it’s always a sign that they’re not following current security best practices (composition rules reduce security).

I deliberately run / and /home as tmpfs. Then everything I want to persist across boots gets symlinked in at system start, and anything I didn’t opt in to saving gets deleted every boot.

Many cameras these days have AI autofocus for subject detection. Phone cameras use AI image enhancemnnt by default.

They also separate concerns better than classical distros. Executable binaries & libraries are separate from configuration which is separate from data. It makes backups much simpler, makes configuring new machines easier than something like Ansible, etc.

i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk =-1

It’s especially funny because systemd isn’t one program any more than GNU is. It’s a project. systemd-initd handles init. systemd-journald handles journal logs. systemd-resolved handles DNS resolution. Etc. Each systemd daemon has one area of responsibility!

Yes, or if you override something you’ll compile that thing and anything depending on it. If you override glibc, you’ll recompile pretty much the entire system!

Same, except ZFS instead of BTRFS for me.

And / is tmpfs, /home is tmpfs, /nix, /etc/nixos, /var/log, /home/$username/downloads, /home/$username/documents, and some other directories are ZFS subvolumes bind-mounted at boot. That’s only an option for NixOS or Guix though, so don’t worry about opt-in state on other distros.

That binary cache means you don’t have to compile anything the distro provides. Same as any binary distro.

I’ll second Fastmail.

I’d run a memory test overnight.

ARM TrustZone is already common on A-series. Device manufacturers want secure storage & computation, so chipmakers provide it.

Every “mad scientist” in popular media has been an inventive engineer. They never do any hypothesis testing, no p-values, no publications in the Journal of Doomsday Weaponry, no grant applications…

I copy by pressing ctrl+shift+C. Some terminal emulators copy on select. A terminal multiplexer isn’t needed to copy.