Recently upgraded a laptop that had been on the shelf for 5 years up to latest version. Flawless one-step upgrade! nixos. Things never get in a tangle where installing and uninstalling packages leaves random artifacts behind. If you saved it to version control, you can return to a past system configuration and the only thing different is your home directory data.

And yes, if you have a home partition and root partition, that’s exactly what you can do. That’s the beauty of that approach. But back it up!

I order stuff from ebay. Got a phone on the way from china right now. Ebay work-alike might not be a bad place to start.

Another issue might be, how do you deal with people selling illegal items/services? How do you avoid “Silk Road” style liability? Would there be a blacklist that someone running an instance could use so they don’t have to vet everyone they are federated with?

I wonder if you can ‘outsource’ trust by relying on payment systems? If a seller uses stripe and scams some users, stripe would freeze their account right?

I really like the idea of a grassroots Amazon competitor. That said,

You need to have a high level of trust. A federated network of shady scams that just take your money and send you nothing half the time is not going to fly. Is there a vetting process, who controls that process, how’s all that work. If its ‘good seller’ reviews, how are those stats protected from manipulation.

You need to have extreme ease of use. UI barriers that seem trivial to developers can sink a platform.

If there are problems solvable by centralization, maybe that could be done as a cooperative organization which devs and vendors can join and run democratically.

Unaffected since I’ve never participated in the Kindle ecosystem. I’ve been gifted a few Kindles but never was on board with that walled garden. Fuck Amazon.

tariffs are just a tax on the plebs. more money for them to funnel into billionaire pockets.

then someone comes along with a bread making robot. so convenient! unfortunately the documentation is on a 300 foot long paper scroll.

Maybe this explains why I can’t stay interested in most netflix shows I try. Or, maybe they just suck.

I didn’t have trouble paying attention during quality shows like Raised By Wolves or Scavengers Reign, but other shows that turn out to just be teen high school drama plus sci fi elements, or similarly predictable tropey fare, just leave me cold these days.

I never saw what was so hard about arch. But not doing anything weird so maybe I missed all the bad stuff? Wiki is nice.

Nixos, now there’s a distro for beginners, lol.

What’s FE?

I think there’s room for a rust-lite language that is GCed. Something with a functional-style type system and that compiles to machine code.

Roc is a candidate for this language. Basically Elm that compiles to machine code, but with a number of tweaks to make it work for more than just a web front end. Like Elm, the type system is haskell like, but simplified.

Haha I don’t actually have any to cancel.

I want to cancel my american owned subscriptions and I’m a american

What about a lenovo yoga? Reportly good with linux.

I just got a T480 thinkpad from craigslist for 120$. Frickin stellar machine for the money. Its not the fastest, but fine for light dev. Or will be once I put 32G of ram in it. With 16 I sometimes experience slowdowns due to swap. Luckily memory isn’t soldered in on this model.

No touchscreen though, and I wouldn’t get one even if it was available. Paid extra for that in my old precision 5520, and almost never used it. If it doesn’t fold completely then its not useful IMO.

Speaking of which, my dell precision 5520 was a good machine, but had chassis problems. Hinge fell apart after screws fell out, and as a result the power connector broke, as did a replacement power connector. Dell battery swelled up making the touchpad unusable, so did a replacement dell battery. No-name lower capacity battery ok. Keyboard wore out and keys cracked, replaced but now becoming unreliable again. Screen and motherboard are still good, but unfortunately its become unusable. Some of these problems are to be expected in a 7 year old heavily used laptop, but I haven’t seen this same degree of decay in thinkpads.

Still loving my 2002 subaru. Cassette adapter bluetooth is my entertainment/info center lol

Kinda rooting for the ULA sniper at this point

Its talking about spiderman’s secret identity