winterayars

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[–] winterayars 24 points 2 months ago

Once you fire up a webpage it'll just dump garbage all over the couch.

[–] winterayars -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It isn't, though. Package layering modifies the install itself. See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/getting-started/#_flatpak_command_line

The big problem with the way ostree works is that installing things has side effects. Every item you install with ostree makes all future items slower to install, including regular os updates. This is a significant flaw in the way they designed it and really makes immutable oses less attractive.

[–] winterayars 8 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Got any recommendations?

[–] winterayars 3 points 2 months ago

He knows what he's doing.

[–] winterayars -3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Immutable is fantastic in theory. Where it falls apart is having to basically rebuild the whole distro every time you want to make a change. It should be there your base distro is immutable, then any extra changes go on an additional mutable layer but that would be difficult to set up. (You'd need a package manager like Nixos or something.)

[–] winterayars 4 points 2 months ago

There are hundreds of Linux developers, including companies like Red Hat, Intel, IBM, Google, and more. You want all these people to up and move to... where? Somewhere. Russia, or a Russian ally presumably but hell if i know. Anyway you want them all to move so a handful of people working for Russian weapons manufacturing companies can keep maintaining pieces of the Linux kernel?

This is obviously a non-serious suggestion.

[–] winterayars 30 points 2 months ago

Switzerland is currently sanctioning Russia. Let me say that again to be clear: moving to Switzerland, the most neutral country in the world, will not prevent you from having to abide by sanctions against Russia.

[–] winterayars 16 points 2 months ago

"A lot of companies" completely left the sphere of influence of basically any country except Russia? Doubt.

I know the company i work for has to take similar steps when the sanctions went into effect, for example. Same as almost everyone.

[–] winterayars 1 points 2 months ago

You're right, the goal of getting to the moon and scale of the effort was much bigger than putting satellites into space, even if they've put a lot of satellites into space. They had to invent crewed rockets. Nobody knew how to take an explosion and put a human person on top of it and surf that up to space, then people figured out how. Without that work, SpaceX (and friends) would not exist now.

[–] winterayars 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’d measure it by number of objectives completed.

How many commercial space flight programs landed on the moon? SpaceX was founded in 2002, over two decades ago. It had decades of public engineering data and knowledge to build on. In 1957, Sputnik made it to space, the first artificial satellite in the history of Earth. In 1969, humans landed on the moon.

[–] winterayars 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One could argue this, sure, but practically we see that’s not the case, given that inequality is rising massively and poverty and wars are spiraling out of control.

This is one factor. I think we can see that Republicans are worse at this than Democrats based on historical trends, though obviously it's going in the wrong direction for both parties. However, this is not the only factor. One point of similarity does not mean there are no differences.

Again, the point is that the vote legitimizes the voting system itself...

The system legitimizes itself.

The majority of the US population already doesn't vote, hell the majority of adult citizens do not vote. It was even less in the past, seeing as how women and non-whites (and non-property owners) couldn't vote. Not voting makes zero difference in terms of the "legitimacy" of the US government. From a practical perspective, it's not even what should be measured. The idea that the government reflects the vote is what gives the government legitimacy is weirdo liberal bullshit. The government should reflect the people, which it most certainly does not in all kinds of ways. (Though it does reflect the public in some really unfortunate ways, too.)

[–] winterayars 1 points 2 months ago

I don't understand why that is or why i even care.

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