the initial state should match the final as closely as possible, in this case by installing the new optional dependencies automatically

Sometimes. Some of us out there have use cases where we really, really don’t want our systems making choices for us and would rather read the notes every time. One could equally well argue that an OS whose entire purpose is letting the user make the choice suddenly doing something automatically without asking for input is the break in state that users would find astonishing.

FFS dude. It’s not lazy want updates to be as simple and pain free as possible. The entire point of these universal machines is to automate shit so we don’t have to think about it so much. We have different distros to run them because people prefer different ways of doing things. The one you pick doesn’t make you better or worse in any way. OP found out Arch is more work than they want to put up with for their daily driver and the benefits aren’t worth the cost. That’s a pretty big fucking club to be calling everyone in it lazy.

This kind of elitism is the most unnecessary, useless, vacuous, tedious horseshit and hurts Linux by pushing people away for nothing. Stop it.

Ubuntu was by far the worst experience I have had in terms of updates destroying things. The number of times my post update reboot brought me back to a GRUB prompt, I’ll never go back.

Maybe it’s me, but while you have outlined the events that got you to this point, I don’t understand either the ‘attitude’ you find problematic or what it is about Arch you would hope to find elsewhere. Hard to make a recommendation without those.

It’s way, way worse than. When you spend money at NASA you aren’t just setting it on fire, those salaries support everything that the people who work there spend money on in their personal lives. It pays local taxes. It supports the salaries of workers in the local communities (I don’t mean where NASA buildings are either, that money goes to all 50 states). It also mostly gets spent issuing contracts to the fabricators that make the things for NASA. It pays salaries at Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing etc. There are also all the drivers pushing the advancement of industry and education and their knock-on effects that come from leading the world in aerospace science and engineering.

And the real kick in the pants: all of those things together GENERATE TAX REVENUE. Even if, for some insanely immoral and degenerate reason, you wanted to ignore the ways that NASA makes the world a better place–when viewed through a purely fiscal lens the money spent at NASA generates more in tax revenue downstream than it costs to run NASA. When you cut their budget like this you aren’t reducing the debt/deficit, you’re increasing it.

Do let us know how funny you find it in 3 years when they blame minorities and Democrats for it in the voting booth.

It is still possible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy in the US. It does require meeting a more stringent test than other unsecured debt for loans that covered tuition specifically, but the large majority of people who seek relief through bankruptcy get it. Last I looked it was more than 90% get at least some relief.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

This basically the entirety of the hype from the group of people claiming LLMs are going take over the work force. Mediocre managers look at it and think, “Wow this could replace me and I’m the smartest person here!”

Sure, Jan.

Tell me you’ve never applied to medical school without telling me you’ve never applied to medical school.

1000 gigabit

🤔

How many users do you expect this to serve?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I find the very idea of being “left on read” ridiculous. I am not entitled to the immediate or even incidental attention of every person whose phone number I happen to posses. Maybe it’s because I started dating at a time and place when not seeing or hearing from your significant other for a week was perfectly normal, but putting an emotional valuation on a read receipt seems well out of the category of mentally healthy.

[Not my video]

Wild to see this, living only a few blocks away. For those unaware (likely all of you), Carlisle is the county seat of a deeply red county on the rural/urban divide in Pennsylvania. The borough itself has a population of only 20k.

What you’re seeing here is the town square on the intersection of the two main streets through town out in front of the courthouse. It’s always been a popular ‘soapbox’ spot and most days you’ll see at least a person or two advocating for a cause. I have never seen half as many people for a protest here. This was genuinely bonkers to see.

Those are applicable to this line from the original poster

No, they aren’t. You just read those in based on nothing.

The only thing I am suggesting is that you’re just making shit up up that isn’t there, stop trying to move the goalposts.

unvetted

casually

daily

So you decided to just insert words into OP’s post and then respond to that instead of what they actually said. Please fuck all the way off back to Twitter with that bullshit.

For fuck’s sake.

I’m curious what you think graduating high school has to do with being able to read.

Republicans are removed

If only…

Federal scrutiny can’t exist in a country where the president openly accepts bribes.