GenderNeutralBro

I recently tried Bazzite, and I have to agree. Switching from a traditional Linux distro to an immutable distro is harder than switching from Windows to Linux. I'm not kidding. When it comes to immutability, my experience can be split into two general cases:

1. I don't notice any difference at all.
2. It's a giant pain in the ass.

I have yet to encounter a scenario where immutability offered a tangible benefit. The supposed advantages seem rather abstract. I can't break my system? Okay...but...well, I already had snapper for the rare occasions when something got royally borked. This is a problem that has already been solved without major compromises, so why are we now compromising so much to solve it again?

It comes with 4 different package management systems (or 6 if you count Distrobox and Waydroid), and they all come with big caveats. I've had to reboot more in the past week than I previously had in the past year on Debian, because every time I need to install something from the main Fedora repo with rpm-ostree (which has been many times already), it needs to reboot. They recommend against using rpm-ostree, but there is no reasonable alternative for a rather wide array of software. It's either rpm-ostree or build a whole mess of things from source and manage them manually. Both options suck very hard.

Still, overall, Bazzite delivers. Everything you see on their web site works out of the box. It's hard to recommend, but it's also hard to criticize. I've never had a smoother gaming experience, and this is the first time I've ever had to spend zero minutes configuring my GPU drivers (outside of macOS, anyway). You get CUDA and ROCm out of the box. You get the latest drivers. It's awesome.

If you're wondering if an immutable distro is right for you, the answer is probably "no". But if you're up for the, erm, "adventure" of learning this new paradigm, Bazzite fucking rocks.

I forget the exact terminology but I tried putting it into the most permissive mode available. Is still could not work with external hard drives. This was several years ago so I can't say what might have changed since then, but I did spend some time troubleshooting and at the time that functionality did not work. I'd read that it was possible in the previous version (maybe 18.04?)

Edit: Come to think of it, it might not have been as simple as "couldn't access external drives". It might have had something to do with how my disks were mounted and their permissions and mount points. I remember that I hit a wall at some point and further troubleshooting would have required more surgery on my system than I was willing to attempt.

Yeah, this kind of things drove me batty on Ubuntu. So many things were delivered as Snaps when they just don't work that way. The funniest one to me was Filebot. It's a media file naming/organizing tool....that doesn't have disk access. Are you kidding me, Canonical?

Flatpak is easier to work with, but has similar issues. Great for simple things, but I'm always worried that at some point I'm going to need some features that just won't work, and then it's going to be a hassle to migrate to a native installation. And it has no CLI support.

And yeah, the bloat is wild. Deduplication on btrfs (or similar) helps but there's no getting past the bandwidth bloat.

I miss the Nexus 4.

This is Kaspersky, so the only answer you're going to get from them is "use Kaspersky Premium".

The only non-Play apps they mention in their report are modified versions of otherwise-clean apps (like Spotify or Minecraft). They didn't mention anything on F-Droid or other app stores.

My favorite episode of the season so far. It was just fun.

I loved Encyclopedia Brown when I was a kid, and I enjoyed seeing Leela and Bender play Sally and Leroy.

That doesn't seem like a lot. I've certainly gone extended periods eating more than 150g (~5.3 ounces) of nuts per day. I thought nuts were a healthy snack, and often my only breakfast is a bunch of cashews or almonds.

If anyone is, I hope they're running a third-party ROM like GrapheneOS, because Google ended software support last year.

Google increased their support window after the 5, so the 6 is still good for another couple years of security updates.

If anything, it demonstrates that the law has mathematical validity. Fact-checking simply requires more work than making shit up. Even when AI gets to the point where it can do research and fact-check things effectively (which is bound to happen eventually), it'll still be able to produce bullshit in a fraction of that time, and use that research ability to create more convincing bullshit.

Fact-checking requires rigor. Bullshit does not. There's no magic way to close that gap.

However, most social media sites already implement rate limits on user submissions, so it might actually be possible to fact-check people's posts faster than they are allowed to make them.

See also: the Gish gallop. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

I...I did not know that. That's wild.

Latex is more of a markup language than a programming language.