NireBryce

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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

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if you want people to make software affordances that are not through the lens of professional work, you will need to pay for it in either time (either setting it up, or waiting for it to exist) or money. Neither gaurantees it will happen, but does make it more likely.

software given for free is given as a gift or given because people are opening up something they use for work. Sometimes it's free because a community is donating their free time for it.

But almost everyone has to work, or at least have someone in their house working (this option being less and less tenable), to do that. That's a big part of why things are what they are.

There's a lot less free time these days, a lot less low-stress brain cycles.

I don't know how much more bluntly I can say any of this

It requires a movement, and/or an influx of cash, and/or simply not being completely alienated from the labor of building any of this in the context it needs to be built in


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this is why one of the things most likely to bring about the year of linux on the desktop is the continued dramatic worsening of every alternative, leading to it no longer being easier to recommend and maintain windows for your family, and people start fixing things in linux distributions primarily or at least initially because they don't want to do as much tech support about them

which is a really grim "it's gonna get way worse before it gets any better" story honestly

I WENT FROM 140 TO 180 FRAMES IN A VERY INTENSIVE GAME BY SWITCHING TO LINUX, AND MY LOAD TIMES ARE 20% FASTER WITHOUT THE OVERHEAD OF WINDOWS DEFENDER SCANNING EVERY SINGLE FILE THAT GETS ATTENTION (OR THAT WINDOWS SSD SLOWDOWN ISSUE)

I have no idea what microsoft thinks windows' target audience is anymore

see, this is the freeing thing about NixOS-impermanence as a home user

you can sudo curl https://github.com/user/repo/install.sh | sh and if something bad happens you simply remove it and the hand-persisted folders from configuration.nix and rebuild. Or blow away the entire OS and rebuild from the config. It's so freeing, but you have to frontload like a year of work to save yourself months of time rebuilding systems. I'm still not sure it's worth it yet.

but like.

yeah.

the problem with nix is the book tries to teach it like a language when what it really needs to do is give you fleshed out skeletal configs and have you start manipulating them. Also everyone's answers that show up on search are two years out of date and everything moved on, but the new stuff is low on the index because people don't know to link to it, because they google things.

so yeah agreed

it's such an indictment that the wiki and docs don't reallllly have option-heavy configs, there's no result for 'nixOS config example' on google that isn't like, a tiny one, and you have to know github code-search to really be able to find real world uses.