I went into the r/NEET sub because I've realized I kind of am one (but I think the derogatory term is a consequence of capitalist psychopathy). Anyways checking that sub kind of bummed me out. Idk. Being unemployed mooching off parents doesn't mean I'm a shut in, I still go outside quite often and hit up the kava pubs. I know I need a job but I don't want to just accept any that will abuse me for minimum wage and obviously the economy is collapsing in on itself and we're heading for a depression. Basically where I'm at is this: skate, do drugs, and try not to die.

Drinking and listening to sad music again lmao, idk why but its so calming to me

The elites don't want you to know this but if your shoes feel loose you can just return them and it'll be better

When the anime is trash 8-9 episodes in because they exhausted the premise and didnt have the sauce to keep it interesting by the end of the cour.

Did you know that spider web has the tensile strength such that if it were scaled up 1000x to a 5mm width it would be able to suspend a isuzu MU-X a whole foot off the ground but still not enough to suspend THIS BEANIS

A game where you play as a witch in the swiss alps looking for your lost cat with disco elysium mechanics actually does sound kind of cool ngl

Retail used to be an actual career and not a humiliation ritual for pennies.

Waiting for my tomato plants to sprout. I am doing four varieties on the balcony we have in our glorious Soviet style rental. My partner made a raised spot for them from pallets as the balcony front is concrete and they need to be lifted a bit to get to the light. Going to try growbags for the first time with a diy soil mix. I'm so exited.

Also have some chillies and paprikas growing, and lots of basil and flowers. Cucumbers will be planted next. The balcony is going to be so nice.

Biggest newspaper in my country is publishing gusano opinion pieces on Cuba. It's infuriating to see their talking points given such a big platform, but what can I even do about it beyond sending an angry mail?

this allergy season I'm setting a goal to train myself to say "hawk tua" instead of "achoo" whenever I sneeze

apparently, the cockroach with the world's longest wingspan is called Megaloblatta longipennis

Second Wizard of Earthsea book done and adding false consciousness into my idea that the naming/real names in the book can be viewed as a sort of althusserian interpellation. (So not really althusserian anymore as that guy decided to shit on the view of ideology as false consciousness as per Marx and Engels. But interpellation is still I great concept.)

The girl that is taken to be priestess forgets and is denied her real name and thus her freedom and true self. The wizard gives her back her real name and she is no longer a slave. She had been interpellated to a false identity.

my coworker just sent us a video link to show us that AI "is the future of programming"... its from the fucking McKinsey youtube channel 😭

Back to debian 😔.

GUIX was cool but really not right (yet) for either desktop or server use, at least for me. I really like the thing I was looking for in it, which is declarative configuration of nearly the entire system and that part worked flawlessly. And scheme is fun. But here are some significant pain points:

• They only have Linux Libre in the main repos. Linux Libre is a pointless security hole whose only practical purpose is to nudge people to get hardware that uses open microcode or that has vendors pushing bios updates for as long as you have your device. This is basically zero personal computers. It is so thoroughly patched that you can't even feasibly load your own microcode on top of it with any reliability. So to have basic security with a normal computer, you have to use the repos and kernel of the undocumented sister project nonguix.
• Nonguix being undocumented wasn't a huge issue for me, but having something as critical as the kernel have such little focus and upkeep is a disaster. Just trying to pin the kernel to an lts release was surprisingly challenging due to the dual repos needed and them being out of sync re: 6.12 and 6.18.
• The nonguix repos were effectively down for like a week for "substitutes" (binaries), meaning you'd have to either wait (like me) or compile the kernel etc, which takes quite some time.
• The main repos broke my browser for over 3 weeks and so I switched to flatpaks. I also realized it was using a version from over 6 months ago, largely unlatched. My browser was broken at the packaging level, so I could not update my system (or at least half of it) until I decided to partially abandon the main draw for me, declarative management.
• The guile parts were oddly slow. guix shell is cool but using it to make a system container that stimulates a typical Linux filesystem has a 1-5 second start time due to mostly guile itself taking a long time to load modules. But this is also the wrapper tool! So if you want to use a snappy cli tool that needs this emulation, you either now have a clunky one or you have to (like me) do things like write a bubble wrap script with no fewer than 30 flags and yes, their exact order is very important.
• No real "offline reconfigure". You can tell it to not use substitutes and it will work that way, but only if nothing needs to be downloaded, so you have to sit there and watch it to be sure or else it might download compile something. This means every reconfigure has a 5-20 second delay while it gathers its guile modules and checks for binaries remotely that it won't need to download. Then it reconfigures to add my one setting change in like a half second.
• Various applications are much slower for whatever reason, even with flatpaks. Possibly due to the nonstandard filesystem and need to do elf patching, but I don't really know.
• Modularizing your config requires creating a guile module. That part is easy and fun but now you have to either add it to your guile paths for the things you define to be recognized by your reconfiguration commands and ide you use to edit them. Or turn it into a "channel". If you add it to your paths, it's advised against doing so globally via your shell environment. This leaves you relying on temporary environment variable declarations and inconsistent cli tool flags. And adds oddly large amounts of load time overhead. If you forget to add just the right guile module path flags to just the right programs, you will get an opaque error, usually in the parent calling module, and have to guess and check. If you use a channel, you can't actually use any changes you make until you commit to the repo, so you can't do a "add this, run, then commit" workflow. You have to switch up "add this, commit, run, and revert if it broke" workflow, which I hate.

Really the eventual deal breakers for me were the security issues (linux-libre, nonguix linux servers down, unupdatable system, old and unpatched security critical packages) and the necessity and difficulty of FHS filesystem emulation for tools I needed, but it all also just kind of added up until I had to give up on it because I couldn't practically work around some of these limitations, namely the kernel and packaging issues. The former being a poor design choice and the latter being an issue of design choice (rolling distribution) and not having enough maintainers. I'd have started helping with the latter issue myself but I wasn't sure I would be sticking around.

Anyways it is still a very cool system and is not itself a bad thing at all despite my criticisms. The actual core system is very cool and structurally sound aside from the fact that it should probably use fewer macros (not lintable) and guile needs a faster engine. I hope GUIX does well and I hope I can try it out again with some of these issues resolved and start making my own contributions. But back to the grill pill FOSS distro, debian my dearest.

Listening to the recent Radio War Nerd on Bahrain, amused that John's infirmity of the week was just getting melancholy after seeing a crowd of people

Idk why but my Instagram reels is basically r/watchpeopledie or ai slop

Bruh you do not slander Beijing in my presence. I'm not a huge fan but if you don't live in China and you shit on it then I am going in to bat for the Jing

I'm hearing many innovative ways of pronouncing Qatar this month.

I went like fifty minutes and a reply before I noticed that I posted a humorous bullshit comment meant for this mega in the news thread goddammit

Why do the japanese do that thing where they say words from other languages and confuse R/L sounds and P/F sounds and why do the people translating usually do the Absolute Worst Job Ever in deciding which to go with

I.e. this REALLY GOOD YURI ANIME that was out this past season called Roll Over And Die called the main character FLUM APRICOT and it's like. A Flum isn't even a thing! Plum! Plum Apricot!

Or like, holy shit, watching the live action One Piece and for the first time in 35 years I see it written as "Laugh Tale" and it's like, OH, THAT'S WHAT ODA WAS CALLING IT? i thought it was fucking Rafftale this whole fucking time. What the fuck

It’s fun that the history books about the downfall of the American empire are going to contain a chapter on people who got millions handed to them for writing a skill.md file that was like “you are a cracked 10x engineer who never makes mistakes”

Tbh while "woke" punisher when hes the only protagonist isnt bad hes more fun when hes lowkey a semi-chud that gets bullied by spider man

You know, it would have been absolutely hilarious if the U.S. government did the same thing they are doing now with the "leader in exile" Reza Pahlavi during the cold war with Alexander Kerensky and the Soviet Union. I am honestly surprised the U.S. just allowed him to live quietly in their territory until his death with no real attempt to turn him into an asset.

I wonder if Reza will end up just the same as Kerensky, almost completely forgotten with the only thing people remember him for is a catchy Finnish song dissing him.

ARMA Reforger is on sale on steam, nice improvement from 3, it's unfortunate how many actual nazis will be online though in any milsim related games. Honestly though I have been so much less bothered by chuds recently with the knowledge that their shit is getting bombed all over the Gulf region, and certainly there have been more casualties than they've announced right?

Anyway there's a Vietnam War mod ('Vietnam '67) that was cool, I could play as a PAVN sniper and talk about stopping the American imperialists with my comrades.

jane remover

Who is ready to hear the phrase "Stay the course" to shush critics of the war as more and more land troops occupy Iraq and Iran?

Started Lost. It’s weird, I think I dislike almost every character but still find the show engaging enough

Deadlock and ow stadium having the reputation of being fun for now is proof that mobas are fun when no one takes them seriously (besides having to actually aim the right click)

Same with turbo mode dota to lesser extent.

Hey Jesse don't go in the bathroom, Meowth is blasting off again

Gunpla: I just dropped $350 on plastic

The psycho gundam is absolutely giant

Batman's a Scientist

Made the huge mistake of trying sumo oranges and theyre so fucking good but expensive