Even if your tool learns to talk and to make decisions, it's still a tool, not a person. You're the person and the one responsible for the decisions you make based on your tools.

Going back from the analogy, the problem is that we conflated software with "coders". A lot of people thought their job was to create code, we gave them a tool to generate a lot of code fast, and they truly think that "more code" = "more good"

I bought an internal and external battery and the external one quickly started bloating.

It can boot from a floppy or from a CD drive, and it lets you chainload into a live usb even on old computers.

I used it to boot from CD from a floppy in an old Pentium MMX and it worked great (although slow, of course)

It remins me of some gnome themes from 2005-2009.

I'd choose that a thousand times over an ad filled start menu

Some countries sell primary goods and other countries manufacture them.

But it turns out it's the manufacturing industry the one that trickles wealth the most, raises salaries and improves education overall.

China knew this. And used all its non-democratic powers to make their country a manufacturing superpower.

A country that only extracts natural resources can't hold a numerous population. And if it does, a big % of them is doomed to a life of misery.

I'd prefer to adopt a few of these programs than having to configure i3 and use ctrl for everything

Trying to be binary-compatible with Tahoe may not be worth it. But you could make a distro binary-compatible with Snow Leopard.

Or better, make it compatible with Ventura apps without the bloat of MacOS Ventura.

That could give new life to old Macs. It can also give a PC a MacOS-like environment without having to deal with Hackintosh.

A computer is many, many orders of magnitude more complex and expensive than that.

This isn't said with the intention to demonize expensive hobbies if no one is harmed because of it.

But I do sometimes wonder if my hobbies are too dependent of a power plug. Even reading, which I do with a e-reader.

Suddenly it's mandatory because the device is a phone?

Linux is different. Decades of being tied to x86 made the OS way more coupled with the processor family than one might think.

Decades of bugfixes, optimizations and workarounds were made assuming a standard BIOS and ACPI standards.

Specially on the desktop side.

That, and the fact that SoC vendors are decades behind on driver quality. They remind me of the NDiswrapper era.

Also, a personal theory I have is that have unfair expectations with ARM Linux. Back then, when x86 Linux had similar compatibility problems, there was nothing to be compared with, so people just accepted that Linux was going to be a pain and that was it.

Now the bar is higher. People expect Linux to work the way it does in x86, in 2025.

And manpower in FOSS is always limited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjG6_UY0ou4

Some developers suddenly realize that X system is old, and then they try to redo it from zero.

And when they do that, they throw decades of feature development down the drain:

- Xorg: Was Wayland worth the 10+ years of manpower needed to catch up?

- Synaptics: Now we have libinput, less configurable and with way fewer features

- Gnome: Something that happens when the devs think "If Apple can, then we can too" but without the money to invest in good UX (Gnome2 had actual UX research done by Sun)

- Systemd: I'll concede that nobody liked SystemV. But we also had OpenRC and strangely got ignored.

Sometimes "developercracy" is terrible, and we spend years arguing if Rust or Not, instead of trying to make good software

Just curious

And we would have laughed at it.

You don't even need to do keto or wacky "just meat" diets to handle insulin. Protein consumption prevents insulin spikes for around 1-2 hours after eating. Also, proteins and fats slow down digestion.

Turns out, the good old Mediterranean diet is spot-on for a healthy lifestyle.

What you're referring to, is the basic concept of thermodynamic calorie in/calorie out. Yes, you can "just" reduce food and lose weight if you hit deficit numbers.

But if you don't do it correctly, you'll feel like trash, you'll suffer bad cravings, and put yourself in a stressful mental situation for days, possibly putting your job at risk.

You have to:

- Eat less than what you're already eating

- But enough to nourish yourself so you keep being in good shape for your work and hobbies

- Manage hunger

- Make the change sustainable so you can keep doing it for the rest of your life.

It's specially hard when your work is entirely sedentary, you live alone and, ironically, when you have a salary that let's you order food every day.

A lot of people don't have it hard. Maybe because they have someone cooking for them at home, because they meal prep the entire week, or because their work is so physically intensive they can just wing it and burn everything with what they need to do for a living anyway.

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While there's nothing wrong with purely enthusiast projects, they never got the amount of traction practical FOSS projects get. How many users does SerenityOS have, compared to Linux?

I invite people to ask themselves, do we really want a "pure hobbyist Linux OS"? How many modern feature are we willing to surrender for it?

A full flagship phone at 6.1" size