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New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:04:24 +0000

Look I have no love for snap in particular, but it exists as a default in serious places. If you can bury it then great, the less confusion the better. I'm not going to install some alt distro just to avoid it though.

Send Xorg to a nice farm too. Or Wayland. Whichever the bad one is. Competing window servers is a way bigger problem.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:53:39 +0000

Those are the popular distros though. Switch to something else and you trade 1 problem for 10.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:30:05 +0000

MacPorts vs Homebrew is actually my biggest gripe with Mac dev, but at least it doesn't get in the way of installing basic software. Regular stuff is always intuitive and ends up with a .app. Even lots of dev stuff is just a .pkg you download, macports/homebrew is for niches.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:27:03 +0000

You said it yourself, "fuck snap." But Snap is the default for a bunch of things. There's probably someone else saying "fuck flatpak." The user doesn't win this way, it's not a feature.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:42:27 +0000

I'm not really obligated to catch up on that. I'll try Linux again if they ever sort these things out, until then Mac is a fine dev/personal machine.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:53:18 +0000

Flatpak and Snap are new to me, and that's the annoyance. Like I get if there's some technical advantage to a snap, but apt can install snaps too. Also idk what .appimage is.

rpm was a thing that existed but wasn't a Mint way of installing. Tar, yes. I can see why you'd consider a tar a package, but I was thinking of things actually designed for packages, and tar isn't really an extra thing to learn and deal with. Port tree, idk never heard of that.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:30:08 +0000

The two nice features it has. I don't need bots to exist.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Bazzite Post-Mortem"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:27:29 +0000

I tried Linux desktop for the first time in like a decade. Didn't know Xorg was deprecated for real, as in most distros moved to Wayland. Was surprised that the one hold out was Mint. And learned the hard way that Mint didn't work on my fairly normal PC, due to an Xorg issue.

This is the thing so many people recommend?! No wonder Linux is unpopular.

Also there like 20 competing ways to install packages now. Used to just be apt.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:28:03 +0000

I'm gen Z. You had to start Skype with "can you hear me" because the answer was usually no (via text). I now do that with phone calls because forced bluetooth has made headsets less reliable than before.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:26:26 +0000

I'd leave with or without them if it sucked. They can and will text me instead, just like they do since I left WhatsApp (because it sucked). The communities of randoms I don't even know irl can't, but that's exactly why it doesn't matter so much.

That and my friends probably care the same or more than me about privacy.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:24:51 +0000

Teams is broken too

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:55:37 +0000

I'm in a Signal chat for a bar trivia group for some reason. I've missed invitations a few times cause it silently got out of date. But at least Obama can't read my messages.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:52:17 +0000

I never had a Skype call work properly on the first try, even before Microsoft broke it

New comment by morshu9001 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:48:14 +0000

Ok, do your worst. I got on Discord cause they offered the best free service, I'll just as easily leave if that ever stops being the case. "Teen mode" seems not bad, I need something worse.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:50:44 +0000

iPhone is just a solid phone, nothing all that fancy. It's like a Honda Accord, and Samsung is like a Nissan Altima.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:38:37 +0000

There are simply way more super rich people than before. Simultaneously the fastest car tech isn't necessarily the coolest anymore. I see hypercars all the time and don't even care.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:35:52 +0000

Whoever rides a horse might have no interest in sports cars.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:52:51 +0000

I actually don't have to accept it, same with automatic trans. If I'm going to splurge on something impractical like this, it better be awesome. Can't blame Ferrari for their decisions seeing how they want to be the fastest and also stay in business, but nothing after the F430 is exciting.

New comment by morshu9001 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

morshu9001 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:50:04 +0000

Well it's exactly that. It shouldn't look different, but the other carmakers decided EVs must have annoying interiors.

New comment by morshu9001 in "I am happier writing code by hand"

morshu9001 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:49:53 +0000

It was never relevant, LLM or not. When reviewing junior SWEs' code pre LLMs, I didn't care about 75% of the style guide. I cared if they were using the DB wrong or had race conditions or wrote code I couldn't read.

In other comment, meant that other reviewers who used to nitpick have stopped for whatever reason, maybe because overall people are busier now.