Yeah. I use it with systemd, but I don’t want to miss /etc/portage/patches for example. It’s so nice.

waow. based

(Made in Krita!)

Yeah, on a desktop I don’t really mind whatever*. On a server however, I think systemd is great and I wouldn’t want to miss it anymore.

* except Debian’s frankenstein systemd + sysvinit combination. Burn it

Gentoo with OpenRC

Yup, anything you can come up with will only work as well as putting “Delete after reading.” in the mail. You have to trust the recipient.

This is for display, not data processing.

Also guess what, journalctl formats date like “May 21 00:48:56” (probably according to system locale). Why would you sort your log files alphabetically? They should already be in chronological order.

No. RFC 2822 (short format) is also great. “20 Mar 2025”

I guess it was wishful thinking that the FBI just learnt their lesson regarding encryption with the Chinese phone line hack. Bastards

Is that Outlook or Outlook (New)?

I’m partially very sad but also kinda glad that I never got to use 10.4 or other previous versions (first one I used was Ventura). The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like I would have absolutely loved it and would be incredibly mad right now at the changes they made since.

I might give you Windows 7 on functionality, it has been forever since I used either. But definitely not design. 2000 has a UI that is consistent throughout, clear, and professional. It’s a masterclass in UI usability engineering. Plus it’s also heavily customizable if you want to do so. A lot of that was lost with Vista and some with XP.

AppImages are precompiled archives with extra steps. Meh. No, some of my problems with Flatpak are:

• it conflates app sandboxing with app distribution
• it mandates using bespoke APIs to work in sandbox mode instead of the established APIs (to the point where I’ve heard “we can’t implement X, it needs to work in Flatpak”)
• these APIs are often very Flatpak-focused but regardless become the standard for non-Flatpak because there is no existing alternative
• it ships its own builds of code that should be part of the system (for example, UI toolkits which would otherwise load global plugins, breaking stuff such as IME or themes)

Some of that (and why it’s necessary in the first place) is due to Linux’s incredible fragmentation and lack of an extensive backwards-compatible system API (such as macOS’s Cocoa), which causes a lot of other problems everywhere – but a lot of it is also self-inflicted. In fact, the massive focus on Flatpak and looking like that is the direction the Linux desktop is going was partly what drove me to try out a Mac.

My three operating system hills:

• Windows peaked with 2000 (design-wise) and XP (functionality-wise)
• macOS’ separation of the application vs window concepts — i.e. an app has exactly one menu bar and dock icon, and is expected to be able to stay open without any windows (without needing nonsense like tray icons) — is much better than anything else and it sucks nobody is copying it
• Flatpak and everything related is atrocious architecture-wise in every single way and it’s a massive condemnation of Linux (desktop)’s compatibility state that it actually solves a real problem

Sans has a variable variant and the other two do not, I think.

Decoder skill issue. If ImageMagick or whatever other open-source software can read it, everyone else has no excuse.

(That said, if I could pick, I’d pick JPEG XL)

IBM Plex Sans/Serif/Mono everywhere!

• Dwarf Fortress
• Rimworld
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• The Witcher 3
• The Binding of Isaac

Carl Poppa

Holy shit, memories unlocked. Uploaded 10 years ago…

I’ll need to listen to all the others again.

INFRA

I love watching Vargskelethor’s Temu Trash streams where he browses the site looking at funny awful products. (clip from one of them that I cut together) That’s the closest I’ve gone near it.

Can you export it as an email archive file and copy it to a USB stick or upload somewhere accessible from your personal computer?