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Cake day: August 10th, 2026

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  • Okay. Build a weird farm use only modified v10 excursion with half the body removed and a gooseneck receiver welded on.

    If you find it too limiting to tape together the standard utilities then do what your intro to programming class did when you learned c and write your own utilities and libraries, zip them up and store them on a cheap vps you can remember the ip or fqdn of and yank them down onto whatever system you happen to be on, pardon the turn of phrase, like a normal person.

    The reason a particular style of pressure fitting is mandated by law to be used for hydraulic connections between cabs and trailers isn’t because it’s the most versatile, repairable or even most secure type but because its manual of operation is simple, straightforward and very importantly: excludes off label or dangerous uses.

    An alternative to the standard utilities or Unix way is something you want because you think it will be easier and faster and more versatile. It might be that way for you. Combination wrenches tend to have the sizes and shapes they do to accommodate working around the spaces their size of fitting tends to be in and because the wrench snapping in half when you try to operate it with a breaker bar is the tools way of telling you to begin destructive removal of the fastener instead of continuing to pour pb blaster into it.


  • The Unix way isn’t for people who can’t integrate those tools.

    Ever been in the drivers seat of an 18 wheeler? Even just getting into one requires more physical exertion than getting into your car. When you’re up there you have a million gauges and controls meant to provide the operator the tools they need for any situation they might encounter and to interface with a galaxy of stuff that can be hooked up to the back. You need a special license which encapsulates this different paradigm of use, operating a gigantic vehicle under much different and more variable conditions than the everyday driver (in addition to approaching normal road conditions and functions like turning left with a different outlook and awareness).

    It’s why I often tell people not to switch to Linux. It’s not for them.


  • If it’s not open source, remove them.

    If they’re open source then the people posting them are in the right place.

    A policy like what’s being suggested in the op will only be walked back in a few months.

    E: also disclosure is a stupid requirement. All it does is give people something to fight over and there’s no industry accepted process for evaluating ai code as opposed to human written code, so disclosure doesnt even serve a useful purpose. It’s literally just giving people something to argue about when the hypothetical post is ostensibly about the software or what it accomplishes.





  • It’s not bullshit. I deal with the repair and engineering side of 1/8” phone jacks and they’re fucking stupid ass miniaturized versions of designs from 70 years ago that have to maintain mechanical backwards compatibility with several profiles and conductor arrangements, literally cannot be reliably implemented in a high IP way, cost a bunch, are worse to clean than even usbc and provide a very high leverage thing to torque on your board as well as necessitate additional pcb space for the dac and its power conditioning, shielding and other stuff.

    And people who like 1/8” will just buy a dongle anyway.


  • The problem the op is having is solved with the nvidia drivers. The most common (and nvidia supported!) method of installing them on their distribution is to install the nvidia drivers through the apt repository some other nvidia supported way. In the case there is a problem with a driver update, there is a higher chance someone will document and explain a resolution to that hypothetical problem based on the normal apt installation of nvidia drivers in a format that the op will find when they go looking for a solution on the internet.

    Their capacity to run the two photo and video editing programs is something they’ll have to figure out no matter what they do and they said as much in their op, but the nvidia drivers fix the other problem and the apt repo or some other nvidia supported method of installing them is the appropriate suggestion.

    Gaming on flatpack just adds another layer of complexity to a system the op already doesn’t understand how to use.