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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's exactly what I was wanting to convey. But the second veganism comes up, suddenly everyone cares about food deserts, indigenous people, allergies, and whatever other excuse or group of people they can use to avoid changing their behavior in their privileged suburb.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Internet commentors: so the Inuit people are evil for hunting seals to feed their families, huh? Is that what you're saying?

Vegans: I'm literally just asking you to buy beans and tofu instead the next time you're at Walmart

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes. They use the official Fedora atomic images as their base, then add things from there. Silverblue/Bluefim has GNOME and Kinoite/Aurora/Bazzite has KDE. Then they just have more stuff that Fedora can't or won't ship, such as built-in proprietary drivers for Nvidia GPUs without any extra repos or downloads, and the Xone driver for Xbox Wireless Controllers.

You could technically do all of this yourself, but it'd be a lot of work and be slower. For Ublue, a lot of things are on the image, as in baked into the OS as part of the iso and standard install. For things you layer yourself, the OS has keep track of what is stock and what isn't, then act accordingly with each update. So the more things you personally layer versus installing through their preferred methods like Distrobox, Brew, or Flatpak, the longer the system takes to update. Layering some stuff like Steam is also not straightforward, so its beneficial to have a system that has most of the things you need. The phrase they like to use is crowdsourcing your OS. If everyone has mostly the same base OS, support is easier, bugs are fixed faster, etc.

They follow the main release schedule of Fedora but frequently contribute things upstream and take their own approach by integrating things from Nobara, ChimeraOS, and OpenSUSE's Aeon/Kalpa. Folks from those groups collaborate back and forth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Think of it like you have a base OS that is stock, like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. Then the different ublue offerings, Bluefin/Aurora/Bazzite/Ucore take those and add new things on top. If you rebase, anything you installed as a user isn't touched. But all of the addons change to whatever the default is for that ublue variant.

So someone rebasing from Bluefin/Aurora to Bazzite will have Lutris and Steam (and other gaming specific software and system tweaks) automatically 'layered' as part of the default experience, since Bazzite is targeted primarily at gaming, and the other two for general desktop use.

You're swapping out the default system image, just like when you update and the update is actually just replacing your entire OS with the new version (until the feature that let's them only replace things that have changed gets finished).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I had an argument on here with someone saying poor people can't be vegan because if they were truly poor then they would eat anything to sustain themselves. Only rich people are allowed to have principles.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, smuglord. It's a massive inconvenience compared to doing literally nothing. And it heavily depends on what apps you use and how often they update.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How often do you hear about Nepal in any context? Most people can't even point to it on a map and keep asking me how my time was in Tibet.

They have a whole history exhibit in the old Kathmandu palace that talks about the Maoist insurgency and their role in dismantling the monarchy prior to the royal massaacre.

Even so, the current government has been so ineffectual in some areas that some protestors have demonstrated to have the monarchy back. Part of this is because the Maoists and other communist groups lost their fangs when they started these coalitions and the government gets into standstills where nothing gets accomplished except the continual repaving of the roads to and from the airport whenever a foreign diplomat is due.

This is cool and good news.

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