What is their plan to provide long-term support? How long do they say they will support it? I had the FP1 and after a few years there were no more firmware updates from I think Qualcomm. Google eventually stopped supporting the chip for newer android versions, and fairphone didn’t have the resources to do it on their own. Then there was a major security vulnerability. I don’t remember which one, but basically remote code execution was possible just by visiting a website. With no updates for the FP1, it was unusable from then on for everything remotely private.

The hardware worked fine until the end, but this mess made it unusable. In comparison, my recently bought Pixel 9 gets updates until 2032.

Not my experience. Men hurt their little toe, act like they are about to die and then tell their heroic tale of survival for 10 years

I tried the exact same prompt with my own profession, the answer is not at all as well put like that. I doubt that was actually written by an LLM. It’s more like this:

[lame introductory wrapper, the word “toys” appears]

some bullet points about what I actually do in non-5-year-old language

[lame closing wrapper with 3 emoji]

So their thoughts and prayers worked?

I personally think Nix OS brings some amazing features, very few of which are relevant for me as a regular laptop user without my own server farm. Sure, reproducible builds and dynamic package versions are neat. But if it takes me 1000 hrs to learn how to write a functional config file that I now have to keep updated, if I have to work with some weird repository, there is no documentation and community infighting… Nah, I’ll stick to debian (BTW) for a while.

Fantastic foreskins and where to find them

And I thought all Arch users already switched to Nix OS (BTW)

Well, that was more of a rhetorical question. This new European narrative is buzzing and I get it. But I think that any move forward should involve everyone who wants to co-create new rules and then play by them. Replacing America first with Europe first is just dumb.

Greetings from a European living in Japan

Are there no other places than Europe or America?

So 8 billion + nature team up?

“refuse” lol as if there were a general requirement to use this shit

One thing, somewhere, with nothing else happening at the same time

One thing

one (seven)

Edit: Oh, just saw that joke has already happened below

When did you last update your system? It should call Microsoft, not Red Hat.

Hey, that’s ミャクミャク!

Thanks for the long list! I’m not “opposed” to typst, whatever that would mean, just a bit cautious picking up new workflows/investing into skills that may become irrelevant 2 years later. But it seems that for my use case the main advantage are more useful error messages (which does suck sometimes using latex). I also see a potential new use case, if I need to use/create a new template, which can take some time with latex. The other points are not really bothering me. I write my texts in vim and build the pdf later, once the text is finished. Latex is fast enough for that.

I’ve seen this floating around a few times but am too tired to invest energy into this specific hype train. What exactly makes it stand apart from latex or markdown (then pandoced into latex)? Genuine question. I think once you’ve found your way around Latex, the major pain IMHO is whenever you apply it for a new use case and need to find out which packages to load that are not outdated. Ah, and alt text for images. But AFAIR this is already mostly solved, just not shipped widely yet.

Pros of Latex I think are important to keep in mind:

• it works since ever and for probably the rest of all our careers
• there is an established community
• the codebase doesn’t change on a whim

Missing some context here (?)

I was just saying that banana monoculture combined with specialized fungi could mean that we don’t have bananas for much longer, at least not for as cheap as they are now

Not accounting for the Panama disease though