Same for me. I distro-hopped for about 20 years with OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Fedora being the most memorable desktop setups for me. While all that was a valuable experience, NixOS feels like graduation.

For the Nix-curious: I wish someone would have told me not to bother with the classic config and build a flake-based system immediately. They’re “experimental” in name only, very stable and super useful in practice.

It’s a good idea in theory, but it’s a challenging concept to have to explain to immigration officials at the airport.

This cat just moved to Berlin

Not sure if this is indended or not, but the somewhat controversial mother tree hypothesis stipulates exactly this – trees borrowing carbohydrates (sugar) from neighbors via mycorrhizal networks.

There’s probably many different ways to achieve this but I would probably use a shell (zsh or fish) that does this by default

Big fan of both fzf and tmux!

Good advice!

That’s what I actually use (and ctrl-r also quite a bit), but up arrow for the meme

You’re right about the location, my mistake. I never said it was photoshopped. I still think that vandalism is the obvious explanation here.

Is it, though?

It’s not real.

1. That’s not the same block. E: Apparently, it is
2. The location from the original screenshot is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8rdfbZJzGmKSQKBR9 (The pin seems to have been removed for me.)
3. Not sure how a real restaurant with a different name makes this any better

I think it’s pretty clear what happened, no? Somebody vandalized Google Maps with a racist joke and took a screen shot.

As in, you verified there’s an entry on Google Maps?

Yes, racial slurs are very cool and funny

Velociraptor = ∫ Acceleraptor ⨉ Timeraptor

I totally understand where you’re coming from, and I’m pessimistic that any flavor of Linux will be an acceptable experience for the person you’re describing. Something like Silverblue may be least obstrusive, but compatibility will still be a prominent problem.

Alternatively, you could show them surface level cool stuff that’s easier to do with Linux. Like blocking all ads, running your own Minecraft server, downloading YouTube videos, building your own PC with cheap parts (and maybe even pirating movies and TV shows, depending on your own practices and relationship to that person). There’s a lot to love about Linux even if you don’t care about privacy and open software as abstract values.

The way I usually start teaching using the console to my (very much non-tech) students is set up a safe container and then let them type whatever, invariably generating a lot of error messages. Then I challenge them to generate different error messages, “gotta catch em all” style. Then we talk about the error messages and what they might mean. After this exercise they usually get the basic idea of command – response, what to look out for and how to compose valid commands.

Jiminy Cricket, imagine not being able to tell the difference between an error code and an image of an error code, and imagine subsequently, for some reason, not immediately inspecting the HTTP request and response. Sounds like a very real #programming #devops problem.

This sounds like a good idea, but I think the problem here is that a lot of popular software runs great on Linux but is very clunky and ugly on other systems (looking at you, LibreOffice). So keep that in mind if you try out FOSS on Windows as a sneak peek.

Navigation on Android: Osmand lets you download and cache OSM data so you can use it offline. Cache is unlimited if you download Osmand via F-Droid.