NixOS is my new daily driver after a hard start and many copy+pasta from Github Repos ^^

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    71 year ago

    One day, one day soon I will install nixOS on my ThinkPad. Til then I will continue using silverblue like a pleb

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    91 year ago

    That’s exactly how nixos went for me you feel like you understand it and then went to go and look at old configs after awhile and was like what in the fuck and rewrote the whole thing but once you figure it out it’s pretty easy to keep learning

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    21 year ago

    After using Silverblue for some time I tried to use Arch again, and pacman had failed at installation process. A easy fix for that is to be like: 1. Get list of all the installed packages; 2. Install all these packages again with --force. But after using immutables the situation is just meh.

    And also now I dislike package managers which require to be used with sudo, and cannot ask for permissions with polkit.

    So. BTW, I don’t use Arch.

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    221 year ago

    I don’t think I will ever feel comfortable learning NixOS since they accepted a sponsorship from Anduril until there was community backlash. Anduril performs violent border survailence for the US government and are responsible for a huge amount of death and suffering.

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      61 year ago

      I don’t like Anduril either, but what’s wrong with taking their money and using it for good purpose?

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        61 year ago

        I’m with you in some cases. Who you take money from is not the same as who you give money or support to, necessarily. I think the worry in this case is that it’s a surveillance company.

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      141 year ago

      The original comic was about the learning curve of various games. The black line represents Dwarf Fortress

      The original comic was very accurate

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        81 year ago

        No, the black line is EVE Online. There could have been an edit replacing it with Dwarf Fortress, but the original is definitely about EVE Online.

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        71 year ago

        I have Dwarf Fortress on my wishlist and while it’s cheap to pick up…yeah that looks like X4 levels of complexity but in 2d. Not sure if I’ll ever be ready for that, haha.

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          As someone who loves it, It’s less a game and more a story generator. Until the company was hired to do the nicer graphics and interface for the Steam version it was a math PhD and his brother programming it as a work-in-progress complete fantasy world simulator. It still is but now it’s prettier. It feels very comfortable to call it the most complex game on Steam. Rimworld and Minecraft among others took direct inspiration from it, he’s been working on it awhile.

          Famous patch notes include fixing cats dying from alcohol poisoning because they walked through a puddle of beer before cleaning themselves, egg yolk and egg white having different fluid densities, and nerfing mer-people farming because that’s just disturbing.

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          So if you’ve played Rimworld it’ll feel familiar. Much more complex but part of that complexity is because you can traverse the Z axis, and make multi-level fortresses. I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date). If that’s still the case At any rate, the end of every fortress (that doesn’t succumb to a mood spiral or a were-beast or an elf invasion or the circus or forgetting to pack an anvil or vampires or a cavern collapse) is fps death. Usually from cats. But remember, losing is fun!

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              Amazing news and you love to hear it! I’m so happy Tarn and Zach get to benefit from their passion project. TBH i haven’t played since they introduced magic. I got distracted by other things. But I 100% bought it through steam as soon as it was released, just out of appreciation

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          31 year ago

          I also wanna say that the Steam version packages a full tutorial which will get you off the ground and also cleaned up a lot of the old game logic that was inconsistent and confusing (like how some rooms were “rooms” and others were “zones” and still others were “places”), and now I’d say that getting a base up and running is pretty intuitive since most things work just about the way you’d expect them to and it’s only “hard” if you intentionally make it that way by embarking on a dangerous biome or doing a challenge run.

          You’ll still die a lot though, 'cuz that’s the fun part.

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    Just learn UNIX then you inherently know everything except windows

    (though mostly true this is still a joke relax)

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    821 year ago

    When I first started my job, a coworker set me up with a machine running NixOS. I gave it a year before I binned it for Ubuntu. I just… didn’t see the point? The troubleshooting wasted so much of my time for seemingly no benefit.

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    161 year ago

    I use guix cause having an entire OS centered around Scheme is cool and based.

    Wearing out the parentheses keys on my keyboard

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        91 year ago

        There’s been a couple forks but that’s not all. They are made votes to massively restructure their governance system. Things are looking up on the main nixos branch!

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          11 year ago

          ooh, nice!

          I’ve just red up on Tvix and looked at a few discussions regarding the post-drama work.

          Would you mind pointing me towards more sources on the restructure?

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    Does this graph mean what it is supposed to mean for the joke to work? The black line means I learn much quicker with less time investment, i.e. it is easier than all the others.

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        41 year ago

        You nearly had it. The black line starts higher at “gaining skill” so it requires more skill to start learning but after short time you are gaining much more skill in the same time.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        That is a common misunderstanding of how learning curves work. A steep learning curve means your skill increases more rapidly with the invested time. That means the subject is easier or more intuitive.

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            41 year ago

            ‘If you change the axis then it makes sense’ is not a great argument 🙂 but it does not matter, it is just a joke after all, so let’s not argue. Have a nice day y’all!

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          11 year ago

          It is clearly meant to be graphing the difficulty of the game VS time played. The graph means what the author designed it to mean.