Yes! “Concepts weren’t a thing.” This is for me the impossible thing to describe. In retrospect, I’m glad I had that experience, but I also say never again.

The caring you describe is part of the helping.

I had a similar experience on ketamine, and it’s been so frustrating, because I want to explain but no words can explain it. I can’t even say it was an experience I had because there was no concept of “I”. It wasn’t the case that I was “one with everything”, because there was no I. I’ve been looking for the right words to describe what it was like, but it’s just not possible to describe with words and concepts.

Isn’t a shopping list more like a data structure? A recipe would be an algorithm. I don’t know, I could be wrong.

If someone told me to use the fdisk app I’d be confused.

Distance between pole and equator is… 10 km?

So, how do you feel about Gail Slater? She has a history of going after big tech, which is why choosing her was a surprise to many.

Sadly Sweden has a government that wants to force backdoors to encrypted services. They haven’t succeeded yet, but Sweden might not be safe in the future.

That someone is you

Sometimes I think “if debian had a flashy website and a few tweaks for user friendliness, then it would be just as attractive as linux mint or ubuntu for new users”, and other times I think “isn’t this exactly what most debian based distros are already?” Would there be a benefit if those projects worked under the debian name, something like debian workstation pure blend, or debian corporate pure blend? I don’t know.

It will be introduced on the year of linux on the desktop.

Thanks for explaining, that sound good. I hope we can also squeeze in Year of Linux on the Desktop as an added bonus.

What does this mean in practice?

Is it still based on Fedora?

Expanding on this, we could make it so that root must use ed(1) to edit files?

Thank you! I will keep those things in mind!

What are the things to consider when writing an app that works well for e-ink devices? I’m asking because I have a project in mind but at this point I’m just trying to figure out best practices when it comes to the software and things to be aware of. Any good advice that you have learned?

For JavaFX I ended up putting both JDK and JavaFX in my home dir and pointed vscodium to the right paths, I could get programs to compile but for some reason it would not let me open windows from inside, complaining that DISPLAY was not set or available iirc, even though I did set the env variable inside. Either way, I’m not ready for this container work-flow. Though I suspect that I could get used to better practices. Do you install git and your editor of choice separately in all dev containers? Like, how much of the tooling should be inside or on host?

About a year ago I started experimenting with the whole container-based workflow thing. I don’t know how much time I’ve spent on setting up various programming environments, and there’s always hurdles like getting a flatpak editor have access to java and actually be able to run javafx programs. And with distroboxes, what if my code needs access to a database that is started in a docker container on the host system, do I install docker inside the distrobox? I’ve had so many configuration issues. Every time I try I come back to debian stable and it feels like home.

Isn’t it more satisfying to just not buy a Tesla? That people choose not to.