What are we going to do, build high speed rail!? A technology so advanced that China alone has enough track in active operation to traverse the US over 13 times as of three years ago? I dunno, seems like a gamble
Oh man that's good stuff
You can still do that if you really want to
If anything AMD (for ML) is the hardware "I use [x] btw" (as in I go through unnecessary pain for purism or to one up my own superiority complex)
How long until "works on my machine" becomes "works on my config"
Right!! Just like anything there's a trade-off.
Glad you phrased the well-intentioned (and fair) critique in a kind way! I love it when there's good discourse around these topics
Thanks for putting this out for public benefit! I haven't messed around with MacOS much but the things you've mentioned are nice to know.
I believe that’s a shell/bash standard variable, but I need to learn where it came from and how it works
You may know this already, but I've found the man (as in manual) utility to be one of the most useful things in GNU/Linux user space. I don't have much insight into '${file##*/}' off the cuff, but I can tell you there's manual entries for file, sh, and bash that may help you track it down.
# simply type man [some-command]
man file
man sh
man bash
man man # very useful for getting started!
Manpages are local to your system so they're extremely fast to pull up and searchable!
Here's some online info on man if you're interested:
Exactly what I came here to say.
Prompt me for Ubuntu Pro once (in the GUI on first login)? Shame on you, but I'll move past it.
Put an ad in the terminal every time I update my system though? Straight to jail.
Unfortunately I'd say these fall in the consumables category. Realistically the failure mode of a hiking pole is bending or cracking (not as easy as swapping a part) and the failure mode of micro spikes is the flexible part breaking or the spikes wearing down. I'm tuning in to see if anyone disagrees though :)
That's awesome! I hadn't heard about COSMIC DE.
Well put. The one thing I would add is using the Nix package manager on a distro other than NixOS! I'm daily driving Fedora 39 + Nix (home-manager) with zero problems. My pick would either be Fedora or Debian.
Tons of good documentation either way. Flatpak the packages you, no kidding, need to be easy / consistent to debug. Non-root podman for containers. Nix for more up to date packages than are available in the native repos (especially useful with Debian) + the other benefits like nix-shell.
Love me some docker compose! I switched from a manually built VM over to the AIO setup about a year ago and never looked back. It's been rock solid for me and my ~10 users so far.
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I agree. In my opinion there are two huge dominating factors.
First is the almost ubiquitous winner-takes-all election structure in the US, leading to the two party system. There is, bar none, no fair competition in US government at a level high enough to matter.
Second, the lack of term limits allows certain people in certain positions to perpetuate momentum. In part this happens by hand picking successors through brute-force out funding the competition (in part due to the economic disparity that others in this thread have mentioned).