But I cannot help but wonder if a line of simple, less advanced ICE cars promoted on their ease of maintenance wouldn’t get popular with, for example, rural folks. After all, being able to fix the beast yourself would lover your costs a lot

No car company will make a car which is maintainable by a common man because it affects their bottom line. We can dream of alternate concepts (open-source car design/metal 3D printing) but government regulations and lobbying will kill such concepts. We have to focus on the current scenario.

But if I wanted to hit the relatively nearby lake or beach, getting there by foot is another story

The majority of the anti-car people are not saying “destroy all cars. Nobody should have cars”. We are just saying “please don’t make our entire lives car-dependent. Please design cities/governments/social life in such a way so that it’s accessible to non-car folks.”

I also have a car, but I only use it for going to places which are not reachable by public transport. For traveling to work, I use public transport 5 days a week. Cars should be (IMO) a recreational mode of transport.

Author also forgot that these companies won’t fail, because these are not “one and only” of each in the world

I agree with you; they won’t fail. However, they surely can make our lives hell if they want to. This is a power that I don’t want them to have over me.

I once installed Bazzite on my PC. I am an sway user/addict. So thought about installing sway on Bazzite.

Below is my journey

Let me try to download and compile it.

Downloaded but it won’t compile.

The libraries/dependancies are not installed. Here, try installing the packages via brew.

Nope, some of them are available and some are not on Brew.

Now what do I do? Okay, there is something called distrobox where I can install whatever I want.

Looks like I have to learn distrobox. Wait, sway is not a simple application, it’s a full blown window manager. Even if it compiles, will it work?

Most of the people online (Discord) told me the process won’t be very pretty.

Do I want to invest another week experimenting with distrobox?

Nope, installed Nobara the next day and I’m happy.

Disclaimer: Bazzite is a fantastic distro and it’s powering my RoG Ally. Atomic distros are fantastic for the niche they fill.

Development, I’m not sure about

This has been done by Github several times. But thankfully, all major distros are not primarily hosted by Github.

However, I am unsure how powerful sanctions are on distros if the US becomes relentless.

I had a brain fart. I completely forgot that Canonical is British.

That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg

I see you have read Dr. Toshio Bukkake’s paper. Didn’t expect to find a fellow man of culture over here.

“Cum Soup For My Valentine”

tl;dr

You don’t need antivirus on Linux in 99% of scenarios

I’m gonna ask my wife if she wants to be rammed tonight and then give her these cookies.

Nice cookies 🐏🐏

A: “Hey, did you just download all the movies of 2024?”

B: “Yeah”

A: “That’s illegal”

B: “No no, it’s not illegal. I’m gonna train my AI model. So it’s fine”

A: “With your i3 PC with 4 GB of RAM?”

B: “I’ll get better hardware later on. I might have to watch them to understand what to use for training”

A: “As long as you use it for training, it’s fine. Make sure to not watch it for your entertainment”

B: “Yeah sure, bye”

Can you write to Mojang as ask for a account migration?

I remember that i made a separate MS account only for Minecraft specifically for this reason.

Most of the time, the package is available on the standard package manager which makes the process extremely simple. Hardest part is knowing the package name. If you know apt search, you don’t even have to search on the browser to find the package name. But certain packages are only available as tar.gz or as source. But those are usually not encountered by newbies.

If someone is using Nix, they generally don’t have trouble finding packages. Also, Nix has more packages compared to AUR.

To your conscious brain, it might seem like 4 steps. But we are doing a lot more in reality because install process is second nature to us (Because of several years of usage).

If you tell someone who has never used a Windows PC to install a software and my list is more accurate.

winget is everything which Windows fanboys are against. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fantastic (terminals ftw). However, I remember people often smirked about the fact that in Linux you have to type commands to install something and the GUI method is much superior.

The only reason I could not use bazzite was because i was trying to make it into a work PC as well (making/compiling git repos). I could use the built-in distrobox but was becoming a bit of a hassle. So switched to Nobara.

However, bazzite works great on my ROG Ally.

I have been using Nobara and Bazzite, both Fedora spins, and they are working great.

If anyone wants a great terminal bluetooth manager, use blutuith (https://github.com/darkhz/bluetuith)

How to install an application on Windows

• You hear about some application
• You google the application name
• You get a bunch of links
• You click the first one (and hope it’s valid and not hijacked by malware ads)
• You scan the webpage to find the correct download button (and hope it’s not an ad link)
• Download the application
• Double-click the application.exe
• Windows UAC pops up which you have to allow
• Install start and you click next, next, next (You hope the installer does not change your homepage or install some browser toolbar)
• Installation finished

Windows is so much easier /s

Google is like a useful acquaintance who inevitably one day will pull a knife and threaten to cut you

Umm…that does not sound like an acquaintance

Fabric servers can even run on RPi (within reasonable parameters) and it has nice documentation.

Pro-tip: Use docker to maintain your Minecraft server. Much easier.