clhodapp

12 ms·

181.
by clhodapp 3y ago
That is not true at all, with respect to the aims or the reality of nixpkgs. The original post here is talking about reproducing the (binary) minimal iso, which contains a bunch of binary packages.
182.
by clhodapp 3y ago
It's not about hardcoding, it's about the fact that libc isn't even an ABI, really. It's a C source API, which compiles down to a secret ABI that you can't know (you just have to expand all the macros and see what y
183.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I don't see the point of making this distinction. First, selling it to another company is just shutting it down but doing you the courtesy of migrating the data to another vendor. It still results in all of the management UIs, integrat
184.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Either they are aping from Google Cloud or Thomas Kurian brought some Oracle phrases with him to Google, since GCP also calls it that (or at least they used to).
185.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I would be kind of shocked if you can't compile C to an unholy sed program.
186.
by clhodapp 3y ago
The fact that they view a stabbing attempt as a step toward being serious seems like a big part of the issue. In order to have a successful platform, you need to be dedicated to the idea of being a platform and continue pouring in the resou
187.
by clhodapp 3y ago
If they were serious, they would start something like drm/mesa but for compute and it would just work out of the box with a stock Linux kernel.
188.
by clhodapp 3y ago
For me, personally, this was the year of Wayland... but that comes after years of checking every few months whether it was ready. My last-resolved reason not to switch: Popular compositors didn't support scaling for XWayland on par wit
189.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I believe that Mesa has just recently added support.
190.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Dolby Atmos, at least, sounds good but it's pretty annoying because it's had the practical effect of making height channels proprietary in most systems. Springboard definitely isn't OK. There's no good reason that Aird
191.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Most Wayland compositors work on Nvidia now, though
192.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Regularization of more Flake outputs into schemas sounds compelling. E.g. thanks to this great work on flake schemas, do the definitions of outputs related to NixOS modules, NixOS configs, and nixpkgs overlays even need to be pre-baked into
193.
by clhodapp 3y ago
That's true to a degree but it does create weird incentives where a municipality could charge a crazy-high tax and have the cost get amortized such that the bulk of it is paid for by people who live outside of their jurisdiction.
194.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I use Proton and will remain a huge fan of Valve as long as they are funding most of the work that makes it feasible for me to run Linux on all my machines. However, I think that this speaks more to the degree to which Apple have put the to
195.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I wonder whether Google will lose their meager remaining motivation to keep running Fi if they're told to stop doing this.
196.
by clhodapp 3y ago
My (general purpose) Linux machines and Chromebook all have reasonably sized UI elements for mouse use.
197.
by clhodapp 3y ago
You must have missed on their product pages where they say: "Laptops designed for open-source software need open warranties. Our 1-year limited warranty allows you to take your computer apart, replace parts, install an upgrade, and use
198.
by clhodapp 3y ago
None of them. This is the Star Lite Mk V.
199.
by clhodapp 3y ago
LVFS is how you ship firmware that installs permanently into flash on the hardware device (e.g. Coreboot). Hopefully, at least Coreboot itself stays buildable for the motherboard in the long term so you can keep locally building core system
200.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I use home-manager on Ubuntu on my work machine. You have to pay the full learning curve of Nix. Once you do, it works just fine. I think there comes a natural pressure to use Nix for as much as possible and slowly cut down one's depen
201.
by clhodapp 3y ago
To be clear: I speaking somewhat in jest, and I'm not really talking about academic versus industrial programming. I'm snarkily referring to the fact that that many developers didn't see the value in a lot of Scala's f
202.
by clhodapp 3y ago
They're converging on Kotlin, but of course 75% of the difference between Java and Kotlin consists of Scala features that have been laundered of their dirty "academic" origins for acceptance in polite industry.
203.
by clhodapp 3y ago
I've seen TV overscan settings be in menus like "Size", "Aspect Ratio", and "Scan", but never "Game Mode". Which manufacturers call it that? In my experience game modes are usually focused on low
204.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Hank Green, whose tweets originated this topic, addressed this on YouTube and less explicitly in the tweets. His statement was essentially that: right now, were effectively seeding clouds with sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid is bad but if
205.
by clhodapp 3y ago
It's transformative (in a bad way) for the vast majority of users to be using systems that are capable of attestation, however we get there. Once that happens, it's a slippery slope into a world where you can't use open sourc
206.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Yep! Bulkheads to avoid your tasks getting mixed in with everyone else's and subjected to a global stack ranking of priorities, where they might never actually get done.
207.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Or like Apple banning smartphones among the people that do iPhone development
208.
by clhodapp 3y ago
When your entire business is built around public internet services and public internet enabled devices in the hands of end users, this approach feels like losing the plot. Compare with something like BeyondCorp, which actually advanced the
209.
by clhodapp 3y ago
That's what Whoopi Goldberg said in her complaint video. No joke. Her argument was that the decision to stop supporting Macs was OK, but they should have been more vocal about it because a lot of people (herself included) preordered it
210.
by clhodapp 3y ago
Windows 10 may have been your last benefits-outweigh-drawbacks release, but I'd argue the the blatant user hostility really started in Windows 8 (and tainted 10 as well).

More ›