Distro-hopping is a valid hobby, but it’s not for everyone. If you aren’t specifically interested in distros and fiddling with packages, hopping around on your “daily driver” can be disruptive. If you just want something that works, there’s nothing wrong with figuring out which distros do what you need and using one of those for work and play. If something catastrophic happens to a distro to make it literally unusable, you can worry about that when it happens. There is usually something else which is almost the same. Few people will get much value from hopping between distros which are basically the same, just because the distros are put out by different companies or install different packages by default.

This wouldn’t surprise me, among the group buys on GeekHack over the years.

The post volume is still much lower, but that isn’t all bad, since the toxicity and quality isn’t as bad and unlimited scroll time isn’t healthy.

It sounds like SUSE is announcing that it is happy to eat the cost of providing a free distro that is RHEL-compatible, and to offer paid support to customers who want to use a RHEL-compatible distro, all as an add-on to their core business with SUSE. Can anyone correct my understanding?

If I signed up to a mag on one instance, that doesn’t mean I want to sign up to it on a different instance.

Nobody is talking about banning users “the moment they mention anything more eastern than Norway.”

It stands for Marxism-Leninism, which other people would call Communism.

The issue is not whether there is some individual occasion where some individual person posts “conspiracy shit.”

The issue is whether admins act on user reports of blatant anti-semitism.

RTX 3060 12GB works great on Linux using the Nvidia drivers and CUDA. No reason why it wouldn’t.

It’s the same logic they’re still using: they want to monetize Reddit more aggressively, even if that kills its appeal and they have to brutalize their own community to do it.

They fired Victoria because they were trying to aggressively monetize IAmAs in ways that were going to fuck community interests, and Victoria pushed back. Think Rampart, except companies can pay to ensure that it doesn’t become a PR fiasco, so it’s guaranteed astroturf.

Reddit has been classy ever since.

The mob boss who wants $8/mo for a lame service but won’t harm you if you don’t want it?

How about affordable housing?

You’re right - having multiple copies of everything is a drawback of housing each application in its own container or VM. The standard rejoinder is that disk space is cheap. The validity of that rejoinder depends on what you’re doing and what hardware or budget you are working with.

Another problem is that old versions of these dependencies will be baked into an image that is then used for many years without updates. This ensures the application keeps working without being disrupted by an update to a shared library, but it also means things like security flaws persist. Arguably, this is mitigated by only that image having the problem, but one insecure app can be a real problem - especially when it accesses shared resources - and when the same problem applies to many applications.

Compiled code optimized for a specific system’s hardware is less relevant than it used to be - even Gentoo users do not focus on this anymore. Rolling your own container isn’t much harder than compiling with your own options.

You don’t have to be perfect or make zero mistakes. You just have to be careful with a couple things like sudo rm -rf and overriding warnings when you try to uninstall system packages. This is not rocket science and has not been for decades. The average user is not the worst-case user. More frequently something specific is broken, like ssh, so that it would be more useful to have file versioning.

You’re doing the right thing. They’re just trying to juice their own numbers by pressuring you to say something effusive.

Creating an instance is not free and requires some effort (including a little research). Discord is free and creating a server is as easy as falling off a log. I don’t like Discord, but let’s be objective about why this happens.

that sentence is not only valid for gender, it’s for anything other cultural label (like genders are).

How about race? Can white people elect to be Black?

Execs aren’t suffering…

Instances are still privately operated and at the whim of their operators, who are technically free to delete and modify posts arbitrarily. They are not public spaces.