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Yep, and I understand how little this message changes in the world

But at least it's good to highlight the basics to ensure people understand the dangers and shortcomings

As if we didn't know this already.

Space launches disrupt ozone layer, contribute to air pollution and global warming, waste a lot of resources, and produce tons upon tons of space debris.

We should be careful with this industry and technology, and use it when it makes sense. But hey, why not launch billionaires and their cars into space for leisure and launch hundreds of satellites under different brandings all promising the best Internet ever or whatnot?

Also, massive launches such as Starlink should be approved by international bodies, not national organizations. Cool, US has greenlit the launch, but now it's a global headache.

I like the premise behind this.

But how do we differentiate? Unless explicitly mentioned, it might be hard to tell the difference between AI and native human message.

It's enough for the other side not to mention the message is AI-generated to fool us for quite a while.

Lol

I would argue either RAID 5 or ZFS RAIDz1 are inherently unsafe, since recovery would take a lot of read-write operations, and you better pray every one of 4 remaining drives will hold up well even after one clearly failed.

I've witnessed many people losing their data this way, even among prominent tech folks (looking at you, LTT).

RAID6/ZFS RAIDz2 is the way. Yes, you're gonna lose quite a bit more space (leaving 24TB vs 32TB), but added reliability and peace of mind are priceless.

(And, in any case, make backups for anything critical! RAID is not a backup!)

Actually it's sort of scientific consensus. Not that it matters much for casual conversation (do not fuck minors, what's so hard about that), but the distinction is real.

obligatory nerdy note that all those -philias refer to attraction, and not action; pedophile might not abuse children but still be pedophile; child abuser is not necessarily pedophile

Hold my beer, it's even more complicated

• Infantophiles go for 0-5 (up until developed consciousness)
• Pedophiles ~6-beginning of puberty
• Hebephiles - going through puberty
• Ephebophiles - after puberty but before adulthood
• Teleiophiles - 18-late 30s
• Mesophiles - 40s-60s
• Gerontophiles - 70+

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronophilia

Don't ask me why I know, I just like getting to the grit of things.

True!

Although, as another commenter pointed out, this will use Packman repo which is not official and apps there are not going through the same testing as in official repos.

So Flatpak is generally a better option. Still, if you want VLC as a native package, opi is indeed an easy and reliable option.

Fair point! Honestly, that's exactly what I ultimately went for, I just know there are people around who strongly prefer native packages.

Flatpak contains all codecs etc., and works flawlessly.

Nice to know!

Guess we simply apply different meaning to the word "stable". (you do you, though, and if it's alright with your workflow, yay!)

To me, stable means reliably working without any special maintenance. Arch requires you to update once in a while (otherwise your next update might get borked), and when you update, you may have to resolve conflicts and do manual interventions.

Right now, I run OpenSUSE Slowroll (beta, not released yet) on one of my machines and EndeavourOS on the other. The former recently had to update 1460 elements, and one intervention was required - package manager asked me if I want to hold one package for a while to avoid potential dependency issues. Later, it was fixed, and otherwise it went without a hitch. This is the worst behavior I've seen on this distribution, and so to me it renders "acceptably unstable" for general use (although I wouldn't give that to my grandma).

Nowadays Mint is practically the default newbie distro.

I would also recommend against immutables, since you seem to be a knowledgeable user. Immutable distros are severely limiting, some programs may not work at all, and in other places you'll have to go through a lot of unnecessary hoops.

What I've learned with immutables is that you can do all that on a regular system, with added flexibility of installing packages the normal way if you need it. Just go with Flatpaks whenever possible, use Distrobox when not, and you'll be golden. Should some need arise for a regular install of something or some tweak in system files - you would still be able to do so.

Honestly, what I went for after my experiments is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - it's bleeding edge, but also very stable and predictable, and if you set up volume as btrfs, it features well-preconfigured snapper to revert any mistakes you may make along the way.