tfrancisl

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by tfrancisl 5d ago
This is such a disingenuous comment. People are allowed to be displeased with how these very wealthy people have spent their money without being told "hrmm, well maybe you should vote with your dollar!!"
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by tfrancisl 5d ago
If you think him getting money from Jack Dorsey and Michael Dell has no political implications, I have a bridge in Brooklyn and a tower in Paris to sell you. This isn't conspiracy theory, this is following incentives. We should be aw
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by tfrancisl 5d ago
When you have to do mental leaps and bounds to make it not seem like calling for ethnic cleansing... it's probably a call for ethnic cleansing.
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by tfrancisl 21d ago
It has nothing special compared to Arch. In fact, I would argue its just dotfiles for Arch.
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by tfrancisl 21d ago
Literally funded by Michael Dell and Jack Dorsey. And DHH is just coasting on his ruby on rails clout.
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by tfrancisl 22d ago
$30T? Why not $100T? $1000T? Why not $1 trillion trillion? If we're just pulling numbers out of our asses we may as well go big.
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by tfrancisl 22d ago
It's not what the article or study are about. Theyre about entry level white collar jobs.
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by tfrancisl 22d ago
Clicked expecting commentary on why playing NYTs wordle, and perhaps other games, was problematic for some reason. Found a game instead.
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by tfrancisl 25d ago
For Arch, I would agree. Things break in mysterious ways and you may spend days tinkering to get a stable system. NixOS is entirely different. Once you get it working how you want, its set and forget. There are tons of simple set ups like t
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by tfrancisl 26d ago
It isnt a Linux distro, its dotfiles for Arch.
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by tfrancisl 26d ago
Omarchy is not a distro.
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by tfrancisl 26d ago
In my opinion, you wouldnt. You might sooner pick up a distro like Arch (which is what Omarchy uses; it is not a distro in itself) if you want to imperatively manage everything, or NixOS with basic hyprland or Plasma or COSMIC config, etc.,
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
"Trust me guys, the free market will work, it's just that no-one ever earnestly tried it before!!" No. This is the end state of any semblance of laissez-faire economics. Full stop. Massive accumulation at the top, power to th
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
I cant tell how tongue in cheek youre trying to be, but capital rules all. I don't have billions of dollars like the trillion dollar companies do, so I am not "free" to "compete" with them in any meaningful way. Sam
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
Why are we acting like isolating software is impossible on Linux? It isnt even difficult, there are about a dozen different models to choose from.
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
Nix comes in because im tired of dealing with procedural solutions to things that should be solved declaratively. I run NixOS everywhere I can because I can actually reason about what is installed on the system. "Package management&quo
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
This is exactly where my head goes. There's nothing special about this hardware other than its small form factor. Sure, some desktop apps would likely want a different skin, but thats hardly limiting.
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
What's stopping me from using a browser to log in to my bank? Assuming my bank is one of the ones that requires you to lock down sideloading (they aren't, but i know many are).
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
I dont think app support is all that important. Most apps are garbage as they are ime, so rebuilding from scratch, or using existing software that runs fine on linux, would keep me happy.
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by tfrancisl 28d ago
I've never really understood why we chase Android-alikes on mobile platforms instead of trying to build on mainstream Linux. I know some folks in the nix community (nix-on-droid and other projects) have tried to bring us closer to this
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by tfrancisl 1mo ago
this language predates the rise of "AI" (you probably mean harnessed LLMs, but I'll forgive you) by several years. This is the 1.0 release.
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by tfrancisl 1mo ago
Ultimately, Databricks wants your enterprise on their platform. I dont think they particularly care about open source or the little guy.
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by tfrancisl 1mo ago
I'd retrain that model if I were you.
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by tfrancisl 1mo ago
This article is not AI generated. Everyone is asserting it is but the author is well known as a critic of these tools in his communities. Why would he lie and use it to write an article with his genuine views, edit it to assuage the feeling
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by tfrancisl 1mo ago
From my interactions with him in some nix forums online, he is not in the industry. This is hobby work (not to devalue it, as his software is generally high quality).
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by tfrancisl 2mo ago
$160 billion valuation and market capture among some top (non-AI, traditional enterprise) companies, I think.
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by tfrancisl 2mo ago
Seconding this. I'm not happy with the fact that the drivers are proprietary, I really prefer FOSS. But, I am tired of having to deal with FUD around performance and issues with NVIDIA devices which simply don't exist at scale. I
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by tfrancisl 2mo ago
Whether they did that or had an LLM one shot it, I dont really care. Commit history is pretty important if you ever want to try fixing bugs or improving features in the future.
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by tfrancisl 2mo ago
250k lines of code in one commit is reason enough to disregard the project entirely, IMO. Vibe code if one wants, but that is just madness...
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by tfrancisl 3mo ago
There is a project by a group of nix/nixos enthusiasts aiming to replace some of these core deps https://github.com/manic-systems/nixos-core . I havent tire-kicked it much, but it seems useful.

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