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Sevarison Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

My main problem with Arch is that there's rarely a point where I feel like I've finished installing. There's always something missing or something not configured right. Shit, dialog still isn't a default package in 2020, which you need to use wifi-menu during the install process. So if you happen to forget to install that (and it isn't mentioned anywhere in the documentation), you're going to have to reboot into the live media, chroot into your install, install dialog, then reboot again.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/netctl/

Why in the fuck is dialog an optional dependency?

Which sort of ties into my next problem which is that Arch simply isn't opinionated enough. Which is fine for people who want that kind of experience, but if you used Ubuntu before and you want a similar "install and go" experience, Arch really isn't the right answer. It is if your goal is to tinker with Arch, but that isn't what everybody wants.

Sevarison Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Afaik, upstream packages aren't changed by Arch maintainers. It's the whole point of using Arch. And if you're using AUR, you'd better be checking the PKGBUILD (because no, it isn't verified by anybody). At the very least, you need to be checking where the package is being downloaded from.

Sevarison Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Manjaro is install and go. Arch Linux is ... well, if you haven't done it before, you're going to waste at least an hour going through the awful documentation trying to piece together what the installation flow is supposed to be. The beginner's guide was scrapped and the replacement is awful. So if you're new, it's going to be painful. And if you aren't new, it's still painful if you just want to install your OS and get working on things that actually have anything to do with things that interest you. You like Arch Linux, fine. But don't pretend everybody wants to install and configure everything manually, then mess around with whatever seems to be not working because the moons aren't aligned just right that day. I'm tired of Arch Linux. I'm tired of all the tinkering. I'm tired of the additional cognitive load of all the things I have to make sure is configured right. I already waste hours of my day just getting tooling to work for whatever god awful language I have to work with that day. I just want things to work. Manjaro just works.

Sevarison Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

I've tried it on nVidia and AMD systems, and I'd been using it to troubleshoot customer laptops as a technician. Never had issues with drivers.

Sevarison Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

You're never forced to update. I'm don't even think Arch natively supports automatic updates. You can also tell pacman to skip a package from being updated if you're aware of a problematic update but you want to update the rest of your system.

And yes, Arch takes in the upstream vanilla packages, though there are testing phases before updates reach stable repos. I'm not sure any of this is a bad thing. It also means you don't have to wait 6-12 months for the newest version.

Sevarison Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Ugh, no. Manjaro is the no-nonsense "I really don't want to waste time troubleshooting my own shit" version of Arch Linux. I stopped using Arch when I found Manjaro and I'm so glad I did. Arch just requires way too much fiddling for it to ever feel "complete" and or finished.

Sevarison Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns

You realize wide swaths of the global population use communal transportation in the form of trains, busses and subways? And then go to work in poorly ventilated factories or office buildings? I'm not sure what you intend as the solution other than nobody may ever leave the house again. Social distancing simply doesn't work when applied to everyday situations like this unless you find a way to get most people to opt out. Just working in the same office means a high risk of transmission despite whatever 1-3m distancing rule you want to instate.

Sevarison Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On - Especially During COVID

It's not like you can postpone protests. It either happens now directly after Floyd's death, or another injustice goes ignored by basically everybody and police brutality as people know it continues unabated. I'm not really sure what you're saying here. It sounds like you're against protests and you believe Covid19 was totally exaggerated.

Sevarison Slack Removed a Blog Post Showing How Police Use Its Tech

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/gwxsl0/an_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/gx20pi/lapd_shoots_ho...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gwzrap/this...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/gwvk...

After seeing things like this (hell, these are some of the tamer videos I've seen in the past week), I'm not sure how anybody can seriously still support the police. Police as a concept is absolutely necessary in a civilized society. But the police that the US has? They're nothing but state-sanctioned terrorists.

Sevarison Hands-On Scala Programming

Oh, wow. This looks fantastic. Unfortunately far beyond my current budget, but definitely going to keep it in mind. I've been wanting to learn Scala for a while now.

Sevarison How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (1995) [pdf]

It seems this was one of two appendices to Raymond Chen's book "Old New Thing". The appendix doesn't exist in printed form for some reason though. It's a great book and definitely worth reading.

The second appendix is titled "Tales of Application Compatibility" http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech...

Sevarison Understanding Programs Using Graphs

Interesting topic. I feel like the representation of the Ruby fib misses the mark though because of how many language implementation details are caught up in it. The lack of abstraction here takes away from the usefulness of using a graph for understanding control/data flow in a program.

Sevarison How to write a toy JVM

As always, I'm impressed with the amount of work you do. Have you ever talked about how you manage to be so productive?

Sevarison Tesla Model 3 Drives into Overturned Truck in Apparent Autopilot Failure

Ideally there'd be obvious visual feedback that reflects the current state of the Autopilot and what it recognizes. Something that can't be ignored (front and center on the windshield maybe) and that can give the driver sufficient information to make a decision about whether to interfere or not. This doesn't seem to be on the radar for anybody though. It's like everybody assumes they'll figure out a 99.99% working driving AI where driver intervention is never necessary.

It's even more egregious with Tesla, who is already shipping a half-baked self-driving feature in its current state where accidents like in the article are inevitable.

I could even imagine the windshield outlining everything that the Autopilot sees. If you don't see an outline around a object, you know the Autopilot isn't aware of it. No idea how technically feasible that is.

Sevarison Extra salty sodium battery performs on par with lithium

Is it a minority? What about batteries tied to energy grids like the Tesla battery farm in Australia? Wouldn't that be a potential use case which would be useful across the globe?

Sevarison Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests

When the US inevitably does turn into an authoritarian dictatorship, I think people would be happy if there wasn't copious amounts of proof they were on the streets protesting.

I should add: In all of the streams and pictures I've seen, all (most?) the looters or violent people were wearing masks, ensuring their anonymity. If anybody's being protected by measures like this, it's your average peaceful protestor.

Sevarison Extra salty sodium battery performs on par with lithium

Wouldn't a sodium-ion battery be much more environmentally friendly to produce? It seems like there's value in sustainability that makes this attractive over lithium-based batteries.

Sevarison UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

I'm sorry, but if you require the deletion of what you said to protect yourself from the people, then you shouldn't be in a position of power.

> and stating bluntly what you really mean (and what you are concerned about)

In the end, people aren't judged for this. They're judged for the actions that they take, and then communications like this are used for context. If your decision is so bad that they had to make a FOI request to find out how spurious your reasoning was, then I don't see why you should have the protection of having no paper trail. That's insanity.

Sevarison UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

Obviously, yes. Nixon would never have been impeached without the tapes. If there's no record, there's no accountability. That's just how it is.

Sevarison How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct

At this point people should be wearing helmets and goggles to protect their heads and eyes from rubber bullets and canisters of tear gas. It's crazy that the police can get away with severely injuring people. We've seen them directly aiming and shooting at cameras at eye level, and aiming at peoples' heads without any regard for safety.

Sevarison UK government MPs are using Signal’s automatic deletion feature

It's not a personal conversation if you're working for the government and talking about topics that pertain to government functions. You have no right to privacy in the same way that your average citizen (should) be when your decisions affect the lives of millions. There needs to be a paper trail or power becomes even more opaque than it already is and all accountability goes out the window. There can be no democracy if your government can hide everything they do. The records don't necessarily need to always be public, but they do need to be stored so FOI requests can be served when necessary.

Sevarison Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology

Uh, you say this like an apology is always sufficient. It isn't. If you break the trust in a relationship and damage that relationship, saying "sorry" isn't enough. Trust should be hard to regain. Your comment reflects why companies keep getting away with being terrible to consumers. It's like an abusive relationship - some kind words, a "heartfelt" apology,and everything is back to normal so they can abuse you some more. It's not enough if they don't take any steps to improve themselves and prevent this behavior from happening again. Trust can be regained over time by repeatedly doing the right thing. "Sorry" just doesn't cut it.

Sevarison Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)

> First of all, the group I'm in tends to read mostly non-fiction books about history, philosophy, science, social issues, and economics.

Okay, I need to find me a book club like this. That sounds legit amazing. I sort of assumed book clubs were always about novels. On the other hand, I'm not sure how easy it is to find book clubs in Germany ...

Sevarison Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)

As an introvert, I like going to parties. I get to meet new people and there's usually at least a couple of them who are interesting or hilarious or both. If you're socially anxious, then yeah, it might not be a great experience.

Sevarison GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code

There are other options than torrenting.

Sevarison GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code

He didn't mention p2p, did he? I can go years without touching p2p, while still pirating everything I want to watch.

Sevarison I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser?

For some reason, one of my top contacts on my iPhone is always this one awful customer I had sometime last year. Forget that I've talked to dozens of other people since, apparently a couple of emails to this insufferable dbag means I want to send him pictures of kittens and memes all the time.

The one thing iOS does get right is being able to order my apps in the share dialog however I want and it always respects that. I fucking hate using my android phone because I'm 100% sure it's meant to torture you.

Sevarison Windows Package Manager Preview

Depends on how good the Microsoft implementation is. Afaict, mainly power users use Chocolatey, and they're going to be particularly critical of a solution that is half-baked and doesn't solve the problem as well as an existing, third-party solution that they're already using and they're already used to.

I'm certainly not going to switch over just because it's MS. It's going to have to prove it's at least as good as, if not better than, Choco.

There are also benefits to Chocolatey that probably can't be replicated by MS, such as the package repo being a community effort and it being a relatively open platform for anybody to add whatever package they need.

Sevarison Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games

This is pretty cool. Are you still working on it?

Sevarison Rant: The DRY Principle Is Bad Advice

I skimmed it because I don't like criticizing a piece without reading it at all. It's such a vapid blog post that there was no value in reading it completely. It's just "Don't DRY, except do DRY" with a provocative title. If the title were actually honest about what the post is about, I wouldn't feel so annoyed with the post, but it does and I'm annoyed.