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Re:You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:29PM (#49513100)
What fight? Don’t delude yourselves. Trump is doing whatever he wants and Democrats are just letting it happen. Don’t hold it against the rest of the world for noting this.
Re:You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting on Monday August 31, 2026 @02:13PM (#49512873)
Glad to see this on HN. This Canadian is doing something similar. In fact, anything I do that involves sending money to the USA, I am re-evaluating.
Re:Gloomberb on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:39PM (#49289365)
Why should anyone care about your opinion if you are adding no value to the conversation?
Re:Gloomberb on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:16PM (#49289033)
I really wish this was not the top comment on HN. It’s a cool project! Maybe try it??! Or just be silent!
Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:53PM (#49218760)
Can’t say I blame him, given the tone of some of the convos on the discourse site.
Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:50PM (#49218749)
Very true.

I like the friction aspect to some extent because I think keeping the base system pure confers many benefits. But you’re right. Bazzite imposes a certain workflow. For installing new software …

1) try ujust first (since there is some porcelain provided for some things that can be challenging to install properly on immutable distros, such as Steam or DaVinci Resolve)

2) if that doesn’t work, try flatpaks from Bazaar/Flathub

3) if that doesn’t work, use Homebrew which installs into your home dir by default

4) use rpm-ostree as a last resort.

Functionally I find this has driven me towards a very devcontainer-centric setup. Of course in theory Nix can do better, but in practice I’ve found the combo Bazzite offers, not to mention the excellent hardware support, hits the sweet spot for me.

Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:47PM (#49218482)
I suggest giving Bazzite a try
Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:30PM (#49218414)
Ha that is very funny. I also started thinking about Gentoo a lot as well which was a sanity check moment … “even Gentoo was easier than this” etc.
Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:17PM (#49218335)
This resonates with me as well. I was really into using Nix for awhile but it turned out to be more trouble than it was worth for a solo dev.
Re:The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:01PM (#49218236)
Why is the Nix community such a dumpster fire?
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:40PM (#49024479)
Advice from an inexperienced reader, please disregard (and don’t do this to library books!)
All the SV shills crying freedom in this thread are exactly why this stuff is happening. Listen. Most of us don’t trust you. Most of us don’t like you. You’re destroying society, destroying employment, destroying personal relationships and destroying childhood. People are going to try and stop it and yes it will be stupid, but you have nobody to blame but your clueless, arrogant selves. Have fun in the world you’ve built.
Re:The Unbearable Frustration of Figuring Out APIs on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:26PM (#46626686)
They seem to be unemployed (maybe for a reason)
Re:The Unbearable Frustration of Figuring Out APIs on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:24PM (#46626678)
This seems like the most ineffective way possible to figure out an API
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Sunday January 11, 2026 @10:13PM (#46583602)
If you’re unlucky in the same way I was, it could actually be a GNOME/GTK issue. Some questionable (?) font rendering decisions were made that for me caused all text in GNOME to be blurry. I hated it so much I switched to KDE but soon realized GTK apps had the same issue.

Eventually I found a fix that worked and now I’m happy. So, next time you can try this. In the file:

~/.config/gtk-4.0/settings.ini

You can add:

[Settings]

gtk-hint-font-metrics=1

Here’s the Arch wiki page that explains it:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GTK#Text_in_GTK_4_applicati...

If your settings.ini is in a different spot see:

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.Settings.html

Re:Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:57PM (#46570802)
This comment makes it very clear to me that we are not talking about the same things, lol.
Re:Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @10:33PM (#46522209)
What gets on my tits more is people who are pretty bright in one field (hacking) thinking that entitles them to just brute force their way through reasoning about some other field (finance) that in their arrogance they think is simpler.
Re:Google is dead. Where do we go now? on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:07PM (#46425704)
Why hate on the guy with the kids’ entertainment business for placing ads? I don’t get it.
Re:Loneliness at 19, How to Cope? on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:40PM (#46417232)
Go to Reddit with this kind of thing, seriously
Re:Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:25PM (#46412664)
These articles always make me laugh. Everyone complains and then everyone lines up and buys Macs again. macOS has been on the decline for literally years now. If you really want things to change put your money where your mouth is and switch!
Re:Is Firefox Firefucked? on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:36AM (#46327717)
I'm disappointed to see this immature, mean-spirited screed on HN.
Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:18PM (#46277342)
This is not true. Don't ask a historian, ask an economist:

https://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-finance/universal-bas...

With some exceptions, UBI generally doesn't seem to work.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:07PM (#44514254)
What I don’t believe is that somebody bought Twitter only, or even primarily, to further their “class interests”. The whole framing here is bent.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:59PM (#44513635)
This is what I was talking about before, fwiw. Your beliefs are predicatable:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42444-z

Our findings revealed a moderate positive association between psychedelic use and beliefs in alternative facts, as well as the specific belief that facts are politically influenced.

The one paper you keep shopping around here does indeed affirm that CBD may have some neuroprotective properties. That doesn’t change the fact that for the vast majority of people susceptible to schizophrenia or psychosis, that cannabis (always a mixture of THC and CBD in its natural state) is dangerous for them and can trigger mental issues. You can feel superior or more intelligent than others as much as you like, but that will not change this fact. You are getting a negative reaction from people who know this because we have been negatively affected by it, either ourselves or people we know. If you yourself “engage with the research” beyond your tunnel vision, you will see that the link between cannabis and mental issues is pretty well established by this point. In fact, refusal to acknowledge downsides of cannabis use is one of the hallmarks of cannabis use disorder. Pluck the beam out of your own eye.
Nope. Based on your gish gallop of quasi-scientific defensiveness (very typical of your ilk I would add) I am going with “tiresome stoner” on this one. Have a nice life. Just don’t mislead others into thinking your drug of choice is safe.
“Dangerous misconception”? Get out of here with that. Cannabis is dangerous for schizoaffective people. Why are people that smoke pot so tiresome about this? Just accept that it’s not good for everyone!
Re:My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:10AM (#40756205)
Here’s a representative example of what I mean, an issue from one “modern” Linux desktop:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3787

At least with Windows you don’t have to gaslight yourself into thinking that blurry fonts are better. If you have a setup with multiple high-res monitors (or, God forbid, have to mess with scaling), it takes a lot of work to be happy with the looks and feel of a Linux desktop compared to what you get out of the box with Windows or a Mac.

Windows is the only reasonable option for someone who wants a modern desktop but doesn’t want a Mac. Apple has been integrating ID into their systems for years and nobody bats an eye. Do you want a computer that “feels like” something or do you want to get work done?
Re:John C. Lilly and the Solid State Entity on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:12PM (#38976353)
He sure did. This was a man so vain he refused to wear glasses even though he needed them.

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