Thanks for the breakdown. Those are some good arguments in favor of it I hadn’t heard. Nix lang can leave some things to be desired, especially in the error handling/debugging department.

As a NixOS user, what are some things I would like about Guix? The webpage mostly covers features already present in NixOS, so I’m curious how they diverge.

There were a couple times it helped me figure out something I was struggling with if I remember. Either that or I mixed it up with something else entirely. I think it was either when I was learning to use Quickshell to make widgets, or it was something with NixOS. For Nix it wouldn’t surprise me since the documentation lives in ten different places.

The more I used it, the more I realized that it actually wasn’t that good. Realizing that it was AI made my experience make more sense. Since there’s an element of randomness to AI output, once in a while it actually does a decent job just by chance. The more you use it, the more you realize that the average is much worse than those few lucky times. I guess I got lucky with the first couple pages I read.

This is how I felt discovering that DeepWiki is AI generated. I just thought some group was just working towards improving the state of more niche software documentation.

I didn’t even think about it until you mentioned it, but I’ve had several college assignments where I’m tasked with asking an LLM a question regarding the course, and then I have to write about what I learned from it. I still have to find sources supporting or refuting the output, so we’re not expected to take the output as truth at least. And these aren’t CompSci courses either. It’s common core cultural intelligence stuff.

When they talk about AI taking over the world, it’s always about taking over the Internet and connected industrial machines. No one told me that AI was going to take over the collective consciousness first.

Refresh until you get guitar cat.

I had to rely on NickwithaC’s helpful comment.

https://slrpnk.net/comment/18112686

Start at the black food truck and go toward the orange seating. It’s on the back of a guy’s T-shirt who’s sitting at the table one down from the couple who are bending down, one with his hand still on his beer.

(I haven’t linked a comment before, so I hope I did this right.)

Luckily you get more queens as you fail.

I only needed five to win. 😓

I feel so accomplished…

It got renamed? That seems pretty crazy, but it might be for the better considering the original name didn’t really suggest it was a serious independent project.

The software to run a server for a game is different from the client software. I have to buy Minecraft to be able to download and use the client, but the server is freely available for anyone to host their own server.

Developers almost always release their server software for free if they offer it. The user is providing a service to the developer by offering another server for the community to use without the developer having to pay for it. There’s no reason to charge for it.

You can even password protect your server and put it behind a patreon or other exclusive membership, but it’s hard to compete with free servers. You have to offer some kind of special experience.

Everything you’re complaining about has been common practice in the PC space for decades.

NixOS gang, you here?

No? Guess I’m here alone. Meme checks out.

This isn’t really a Windows vs Linux issue as far as I’m aware. It was a bad driver update made by a third party. I don’t see why Linux couldn’t suffer from the same kind of issue.

We should dunk on Windows for Windows specific flaws. Like how Windows won’t let me reinstall a corrupted Windows Store library file because admins can’t be trusted to manage Microsoft components on their own machine.