Oddlama/gentoo-install is great for this.

IP could potentially be accessible through tool use?

Not sure, but not impossible.

Yeah this wasn’t ratio or even obiter, perhaps convention. Without looking deeper this was along the lines of an impact statement. Whilst it raises points for discussion its a far cry from precedent for the admission of evidence.

Steam deck is quite good with touch I find.

Must be nice in that small section of western Europe. For the rest of us things are not so blissful.

Tail scale already has a bunch of limitations for unpaid users but it’s only an extra step to set up wireguard in a container.

Honestly, I’ve had little trouble. The Gentoo Wiki and Void Handbook have a lot of overlap with OpenRC and musl, respectively.

While the documentation could be improved, the overall experience has been quite good and very stable.

I’m not trying to be unhelpful. My advice would be to steer into the terminal. Bite the bullet. I use arch and alpine for my servers but Fedora would be fine (but SELinux can be a pain with bund mounts)

Probably just go with Fedora with btrfs for snaps. It has lots of support and is a common choice for servers

Well, it could change the meaning of the prompt unintentionally.

The real challenge is that this technology is not universally accessible so people aren’t learning effective use-case and prompt strategies.

Whilst 1B models are easy enough to run and have plenty of use, nobody can teach this, its a nightmare on Windows and most universities have collapsed under their own weight. Half my comp sci profs didn’t know python 10 years ago and I know for a fact this hasn’t improved (hiring developers – not fun).

My parents never noticed. It’s only younger generations who are heavily invested in the branding.

Actual usage is much the same.

Wireguard (or tailscale) would be best here.

Oh yeah sure it’s not the ethics thats actually the problem. I think everybody agrees on the need for a strict ethical framework.

But most of the research institutions that I have been involved with have cared very little about the actual ethical constraints of research (such as data privacy or survey questions that could be triggering) But every single time they will pull you up on the font being too aggressive, whatever that means.

I can’t speak for regions other than my own however.

The bureaucracy of a typical ethics review is insane and it neither helps design ethical experiments or set boundaries, it’s just paperwork concerned with font type. there’s more truth to this than we’d like, which is not ok.

I think the parents suggestion was to not use it.

However, it’s a bit like avoiding water on a boat given how pervasive the cancer is.

Most of the MS suite is pretty awful. OG OneNote was a good idea. VSCode is ok, just quite slow. Oh LSP is fantastic, I believe that was developed by MS.

The Office Suite and PowerBI are terrible, by 2025 standards it’s glossy trash.

Yep. mid size business is the best place to be for engineers. You get your pick Of the lot all without HR 🙃

Every OS just mentioned can be updated, no support needed? Just overlay the next kernel over the last and all these distros provide a pathway for that.

Moreover, Arch, Void, Gentoo etc are rolling, so no loss of support.

I figure a multi-million dollar company could do the equivalent of exactly that.

That’s a fair point. But it also depends on the application as well.

To use the example from earlier, good luck getting Emacs 25 to run on Windows 11.

…but maybe another perspective is that it works really well with Windows because they prioritise backwards compatibility at the expense of development time and they can do that because they’re a large company and as a large company the community gets a very little say in the way that their operating system works.

Linux is your operating system. It’s community driven and community developed and one of the expenses of that is that users are going to need a higher degree of technical capacity. The trade-off is that you get more privacy, and more say.

However, I believe that it’s achievable for most users.

I mean this sincerely, how can I help? I’m not an expert but i did teach this to university students and I’m a big advocate of privacy. What would you like to see?

Yeah I’ve installed heaps of old apps, it depends on dynamic vs static libraries etc but some people still use Emacs 25…

I have lost power whilst updating, can be a nuisance depending in the distro, but snapshots (zfs and btrfs both work well for me) have been life saving.

Mac and windows simply don’t have a lot of quality of life features. Working with them is painful. As self a documenting systems they are fantastic though, however, when I was younger we had things called schools that served to address that gap, these have fallen out of favour in modern times.

Python’s usually the better choice anyway tbf. I know piping isn’t as good, but there are so many footguns!

Nushell and Fish can be really convenient too.

I used to adhere to sh for an OpenBSD machine but I switched to python, Rust and Go for, even simple things.

Ratchet and Clank 3 is missing.