GrapheneOS sounds really interesting, but I’d need some kind of alternative to Android Auto - could even be a new head unit with some other piece of software… Fumbling around with a small phone screen while driving is a (physical) security nightmare in and of itself.

Saying they do E2EE but not doing it would be a literal massive scale fraud. Can’t say I put Meta past those behaviors to be fair though lol

But as the other guy said, metadata is already a lot.

Yeah, fair enough. My point still stands though: VPNs are a mere band-aid to the underlying issue, not a solution. You’re merely shifting your trust from your ISP to another company, not fixing the problem.

That’s DNS

That is honestly not nearly as much as I thought it would be.

So with this, you would use your internal GPU for the host OS, you dedicate your powerful GPU to a VM, then you can access it from the host?

Free VPNs should be avoided at all costs for many reasons, and the alternatives are an additional service to pay for, to fix another service you already pay for too that doesn’t work the way it should work in the first place.

I don’t see what’s ineffectual about the complaints. Of course people will, and should, complain. Loudly.

Declarative vs. imperative does require a large paradigm shift for sure. I’ve used some of these provisioning tools before, but I’m still very much a noob with NixOS. They go further than what I said, they have their own abstractions on top.

I will never forget whoever decided it would be a good idea to conflate “FOSS” and “open-source” to mean the same fucking thing, and to have to refer to software that has open source code “source available”. I see this exact fucking discussion going on at the very minimum once a week…

Edit: I know it’s a common misconception. My point is that it’s a misconception because of the term choice. There’s a reason we have to explain it over and over and over again.

Use a combination of allowJs and ts-ignore, do progressive enhancement, and convert your codebase file by file. Adding any everywhere literally turns off type checking altogether codebase wide, including type inference. It also means a huge PR that’s both just noise that needs to be fixed later, and messes with your git history (good luck getting anything useful out of blame or bisect now).

Just getting a green build doesn’t mean things are okay. You’re worse off than before doing that.

Cause otherwise it’s plain JS :/

Might as well not use TypeScript

The way I can dumb it down the most without being too wrong…

With most other distros (imperative) things are installed and configured in a way where you have to follow the recipe with all the steps to get to the end result - run installers, or do things manually or write/run scripts, tweak config files, etc.

The Nix/NixOS way is declarative, more akin to an ingredient list, a description of what your system should look like. Nix takes care of doing the legwork. The same config should always build the same system.

As far as I know, the protocol itself is open, but there’s no open-source reference implementation. Is this what you mean by “proprietary”?

https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RCC.07-v10.0.pdf

Every time I see Slack/Discord et Al. described as such, I wonder if any of these people actually used any of those. By use, I mean actually try out its features, not just treating it as IRC (“just” channels, messages and DMs for text convos).

I hate Discord with a passion, but pretending like it’s just “fancy IRC” is IMHO pretty absurd.

High-DPI I just don’t understand. I tried. Yeah, it’s pretty, but that’s all it is for me. More content on screen > sharper text for me, thank you.

Higher refresh rates and VRR are pretty neat though. Just at 75Hz I already feel the difference pretty clearly when I go back to my 60Hz laptop.

It’s pretty great for media consumption and gaming, with the right hardware. Otherwise it kind of blows.

I wouldn’t care about something showing on all monitors, if it wasn’t that it somehow insists on focusing the wrong monitor altogether. I have a stacked setup (2x23" on top, single 34" UW on the bottom) and it keeps focusing my top right monitor. Right now it just kind of throws its hands in the air and goes “welp, here’s three times the exact same clock and set of inputs, figure it out yourself” and that’s it.

Just slap a formatter on there and call it a day. Semicolon or not, IDGAF, let’s just stop with the formatting bikeshedding. There are more important things to think about. They don’t encourage anything if you don’t think about formatting.

I’ll be honest, I’ve been using Linux for ~16 years now, I’ve yet to switch to immutable systems. I see the appeal, I’ve been toying around with NixOS and Tumbleweed on VMs, but for my main machines (which I use for work), it’s an additional learning curve I’ve yet to spend enough time on to feel confident I won’t get stuck fixing my OS on a work day lol