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"Loving" any OS is strange to me. It's just a tool. I don't love my kitchen knife, or car. Nor do I love my computer, or any application on it. Web3, Rust, Nix
by baalimago 7mo ago
"Loving" any OS is strange to me. It's just a tool. I don't love my kitchen knife, or car. Nor do I love my computer, or any application on it.
Web3, Rust, NixOS. The holy trinity of cult-like appreciation. I do wonder what brings forth such fanaticism.
- globular-toast 7mo agoI love my kitchen knife and I love Emacs. More love is a good thing. Unless you're the kind of person who thinks not loving is better because you've got nothing to lose.
- baalimago 7mo agoTo me, loving inanimate "trivial" things diminishes the value of love. I love my girlfriend and my pets. I like my kitchen knife and my car. To bunch up both into the same category confuses things into "which one do I love the most", some sort of spectrum of love. In the case of a fire, I'm sure you wouldn't prioritize your laptop with NixOS over your cat (let's imagine that the only backup is in the house that's on fire).
- globular-toast 7mo agoNo, you don't have to rank things, there's your mistake. Stop ranking things.
- baalimago 7mo agoIf I say "Girlfriend, I love equally to my operative system" I'm in for a world of trouble.
- globular-toast 7mo agoDon't say it then. Nobody is forcing you to rank anything.
- kgwxd 7mo agoDo you "love" your girlfriend or your pets more? If your girlfriend starts requiring you to view ads before talking, would you still "love" her?