The true arch experience.

That’s cool. How did you go about finding that? Any communities you can recommend?

I think it mostly refers to a fresh install, which is fairly slim I guess (though not THAT slim either). The package (non-)granularity is still just absurd sometimes.

Honestly, I’ve been using Arch for about 10 years now, and I’ve never met an actual Arch elitist in real life (I guess we don’t get out of the basement that much). The only people I’ve met who would show that attitude were usually either Ubuntu/Mint fanboys or GNU hardliners. Live and let live?

This is a preprint published on arXiv.org, which is as reputable as it gets before peer review (so no red flag but standard practice). But I agree that people shouldn’t place hopes in this before it’s been peer reviewed and replicated by independent researchers.

I think the question was “what’s the purpose of posting this on Lemmy?” (not arXiv) because that does nothing for peer review but a lot for stirring laypeople’s wild imagination.

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I exhaled abruptly.

FOAAS (Fuck off as a service)

I, too, would like the winter winds to teach me about Rust.

No and no, it’s just hype IMO. But the trickle of new users seems sufficient to make Lemmy a more interesting place to be and a more viable platform long term. That’s already quite good if you ask me.

Man, when I played, poor Paul got burnt to a crisp. I’m still having flashbacks from that shock.

Some weather we’re having, eh?

Roman emperor Elagabalus is my personal entry for the “historical man-children so incompetent it’s surprising they even made it that far” category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

I feel like Windows 7 fills the sweet spot between the seemless UI of the 2000/XP era and newer versions. Windows 10/11 could top that list if Microsoft had bothered to create a proper UI instead of just slapping some material design on a handful of apps, while everything else is still basically 2000/XP. Then again, GTK2/3/4 can be almost as bad.

Could also help to deactivate the personalized advertising functionality in the Google/YouTube settings (basically wipe currently stored preference, the forbid YouTube from making suggestions based on your interests). This will keep her feed fairly generic (and bad, oh boy) so that she would have to actively search for or subscribe to these videos.