To anyone who needs this in the future, a lot of scanners need some extra firmware files (found on their backend’s subpage, accessible from here) and those can be added to your nix configuration in a way some good people discovered here. Knowing all this would have saved me around 3 hours yesterday, so you’re welcome.

I’m from Europe (Hungary) and I watched the first 20 minutes of the debate (with the intent of finishing the whole thing in one go) before turning it off while basically being on the brink of crying. The US presidents basically have as much say in my life as my own government (if not more) and even though I can’t vote for them, if I had to I’d be lost. Because it’s not that one is old and the other is crazy it’s a freaking Venn diagram of crazy RFK jr., demented Biden and then of course crazy and demented Trump. Seeing the debate and how these people basically can’t put two sentences after each other without breaking up is terrifying. And one of them will be voted into the most important office on the planet.

I mean it’s shit over here. We can choose between a guy who already stole half of our country, someone whose messy divorce somehow made him the most important member of the opposition and this other guy who stole the other half of the country before the current dude did. (And that’s just the tip of the iceberg). But maaan are we a lot better off than the world’s greatest country where two unsupervised parties get to point at the people you can vote into this ridiculously powerful position. And then they pick these guys.

We’re all going to die and I can’t even vote for whoever gets us killed, which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

Don’t get fooled, that’s called stockholm syndrome.

I think it’s a paraphrase of a culturally significant webcomic inserted into a more modern context without it’s original meaning being altered.

I switched to it not even three months ago, after two years on arch and I’m not going back. Just as if not more configurable than arch and it’s actually harder to bloat with something and then forget about it, since you always have user-readable description of your current system.

This is generally true, HOWEVER I still think the closed holders where the roll is supported from below (instead of a rod going through the middle) should be used “incorrectly” since it stops the roll from gaining momentum and unrolling when you aren’t careful enough.

Those don’t seem to be very common though, probably an Eastern Bloc thing. Anyway, I’m talking about one of these bad boys:

One day I realized I developed a skill for correctly inserting the USB on first try and I’m in an existential crisis ever since.

This is such a great reference!

If someone is seriously a supremacist about using darkmode I think their input is invalid enough to be discarded.

On the other hand I don’t think downvoting someone you disagree with on anything is in itself toxic, but going out of your way to downvote someone over something this - let’s be honest - unimportant is sort of stupid.

EDIT: To be clear I’m saying darkmode is unimportant not the issue of people being toxic.

As far as I know most of our letters are the same.

c and h in my own language (hungarian) and own in english

sounds something like

pots-café-h-father-own (random words to illustrate the way the letters are pronounced)

I mean I know people who have a lot of ansible knowledge and they were always like “yeah sure it’s declarative, you can ensure files are the correct version and stuff”, but that’s so far away that is from what NixOS does (unless I misunderstood something). I mean, the same task can be accomplished alright, but it’s a bit like writing your own NixOS.

1. Ethnicity totally can be part of an identity, but that doesn’t mean you have to hate anyone.
2. Don’t misunderstand “closing off borders”. Making the people stay is not okay. Not letting the people that left back is also not okay. Not letting in a different ethnicity? Arguably racist, but I wouldn’t count not letting them into your country as oppression. I’m a christian, so I can’t visit Mecca, yet I don’t feel oppressed.
3. That’s why I said “long established” and that’s why I pointed out that those aren’t many. I don’t think the violence you’d have to use to establish an ethnostate is in any way acceptable. If the ethnostate already stands though, you may use certain tools to preserve it, which are not many and are usually “not enough”.

My take wasn’t that ethnostates are good, but that they are not inherently bad either, it’s just the tools usually used to establish and preserve them that we must condemn.

Nuh-uh. Organic/long established ethnostates may be frowned upon, but if they close off their borders to preserve their identity, that’s their right, since I belive in the self-determination of peoples.

It is arguable though, whether these even exist right now, or are there only nation-states and some wannabe ethnostates.

Trying to violently establish an ethnostate is of course something I cannot agree with.

“Couldn’t count all the stuff”

Sadly it was torn down once it’s enclave status ceased, but if you want to see how it could have looked like from the inside Stray has a very similar atmosphere.

Dunno, imagined something like Kowloon Walled City.

(Almost) Totally out of context comment warning

Some parts of these articles are always so weird for me. It’s not that I disagree or don’t understand the point, but that it’s always such a stupid part where they say “…now then, Trump said we’re X and Y, now this actually isn’t true, because in fact, he is.” and I can’t help but very silently yell to myself “my brother in Christ you are yet to prove your point in a logically sound way”. I mean I know that he is and he acts like people other than him are, but it shouldn’t be assumed I have that knowledge.

I think it’s just bad writing from the journalists’ part, that’s all.

True that may be, however anyone with the capacity to reason should have been aware that this may not be the appropriate response to such an offense, especially with their future goals in mind. Someone bestowed with such an ability should also understand, that telling people about it is itself not the brightest idea, especially if one does it honestly. The question remaineth: is she an imbecile? (yep i head some fun with this)

But like, why? Also why admit to it? Is she just a moron or something? Is there a lore reason for this?