I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.

1. Install as much as possible via flatpak
2. Install a bunch of other stuff in distrobox (with podman backend)

That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.

Not that I ever had any problems with native pacman installs though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess my pacman -Syu command runs faster now. That’s something…

Convenience beats owning things. 99.999% of non-techies I’ve talked to do not want to manage their computer or media. They don’t want to learn how things work or how to fix them. The video says it, “… it took away the burden of ownership.”

I can’t even convince them to use my seedbox to torrent media—heck I’ve even offered that I’ll do all the work, they just have to access Jellyfin! But, no. They prefer to pay to get access to the media now instead of messaging me, waiting for me to get the media, and then watching it.

At the same time, they’ll complain that “everything is a subscription now!” I’m like bro…

One time, I was at a concert at a small-ish venue. I went to see a popular-ish band that I like, place was packed. The band started like 30-45 minutes late. When they finally got on stage, I happened to yell out during a brief pause, “Finally! We’ve been waiting forever!”

No one said anything and the show kept moving—but immediately after I yelled that the girl in front of me turned around and gave me a huge scowling look, like she was super embarrassed for me, like I had just done something really awful.

That look has stuck with me ever since.

Seems like these guys: https://nubo.coop/en/

They provide email, calendar, contacts, and cloud storage.

On their mission statement page they explicitly have:

not seeking to enrich shareholders

The American dream is an all time amazing piece of propaganda that has left every American imagining that one day, through hard work, they will become the oppressor

Wow, yeah. Well put. This is why they only care about “winning”.

I’ve seen the status code in a JSON response before: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/status-codes#401-unauthorized

One reason I can think of for including it is that it may make it easier for the consumer to check the status code if it’s in the JSON. Depending on how many layers of abstraction you have, your app may not have access to the raw HTTP response.

Although, yeah you lose the single source of truth though.

I definitely hear “hotcakes” in Mexico City. Ironically, we say “panqueques” in US Spanish.

panqueques

Interesting. In US Spanish, we also call them “panqueques”. However, when I go to Mexico, I hear people call them “hotcakes” (in English).

Voyager has been pretty decent for me.

Honestly, each parent should have 6 mo of paid leave.

Heck yes. 12 weeks is nothing. The baby still needs a ton of help at this stage.

Most men are hard working and want to support their families

… which is exactly why you should take paternity leave and support your family, instead of abandoning them for 8 hours a day at work. I’d feel like a total asshole if I just took off and said, “Good luck with the baby, honey. I’m gonna go hang out with my friends at work.”

Probably thinking too small, but if I were rich, I’d give a bunch of money to OpenStreetMap.

What state are you from? In California, we learned Mexican Spanish. My teachers very briefly mentioned vos/vosotros, but we never spent any time on those conjugations and were never tested on them.

Although… now that you mention it… maybe the textbook was for Iberian Spanish… I definitely remember the teacher going over vocabulary, getting to the word “coger”, and then 90% of the class busting up laughing, while the other 10% was confused! 😂

Maybe we did have Iberian Spanish textbooks, but since most people in my town were Mexican, we learned Mexican Spanish from the teacher using an Iberian Spanish textbook?..

Would this cause a problem? I’m assuming this would be deserialized to the same value, no?

Oooooooh. Kagi added this lens! Since you can add custom lenses, I thought I added this (and forgot) to my own account. Cool!

LOL! You caught that! I vaguely remember seeing that somewhere? Was it on the Simpsons trivia episode? 30 years later, I still remember that, but I couldn’t tell you the equation to draw a line… 😅

LOL! Here. First try! 😹

At one point in my career I cared about what I did and who I worked for I felt pride over my product and my team, and all I feel now is shame to be associated with my company, I feel disgusted with myself that I work not for my customers but for shareholder value.

This tracks with my experience here as well.

keep my job and not get layed off.

For me, it seems like falling in line and kissing the ring is more important than showing ability, if you want to avoid being laid off. At a previous job, I got laid off before my very noob coworker who took months to complete PRs because I wouldn’t shut my mouth about RTO.

a meritocracy

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Never has been.

There is some degree of independence. For example, if Mozilla releases some super evil patch tomorrow, I’m pretty sure everyone would just patch it out immediately. In fact, this is what most derivatives seem to do, patch out the ad/telemetry stuff.

But yeah, these are all modified Firefox browsers. Hopefully, nobody was thinking these were unique, new, browsers.

Browsers I tried yesterday (on Linux):

• Zen: neat, but the UI is too different for my taste
• Floorp: also neat, but features I don’t use
• Waterfox: sweet spot for me

Librewolf and Waterfox seem pretty similar on paper. I went with Waterfox cuz idk. So far, Waterfox seems to be a drop-in replacement. I haven’t noticed any problems with websites and haven’t run into any bugs.

One note about Waterfox is that I would have liked if it was added to the official Arch Linux repos. I installed fine with the AUR, but still.

Bonus: Waterfox is available on Android! 🥳