I’ve seen that too, with some emphasis put on viewing the horizon… though where I grew up it’s very unlikely to see anything close to horizon-distance without being at a beach (mostly because trees… better than indoors sure but not much non-treetop distance to look at unless you’re looking across a field/farmland, or maybe a radio/water tower or something).

I nearly died. They say I must journey into the AUR realm for legacy GPU drivers, and I would have fallen into the text-only abyss had I updated days later (assuming I had not heard the news). My internet is too slow for regular updates. Continue onwards without me, I’ll just rest here at this long-outdated version.

Generally I don’t think rolling release is the issue itself (I have been using it for years), but it seems like every packaging/updating scheme out there sucks for one reason or another. Every time something looks like it has the answer, there is something else that works contrary to what is expected/desired.

It’s pretty easy to uninstall and make certain packages taboo

I remember reading that you couldn’t turn it off unless you outright disabled recommended packages. Reading again, I see conflicting statements and it seems like a common thing people take issue with. Though even locking seems to me like it should just be something that happens during explicit removal, if that is a fix.

So I still kind of hate stuff like that.

Making a system either unresponsive or worse, broken. I feel it would be a workflow nightmare of a scale that would beggar belief and it would need constant attention from the maintainers…Something we’d probably not see in our lifetimes

My system is currently outdated and mostly usable, but has 4 different application issues (1 crash, 1 flicker, 1 compiling/library error, 1 feature error)… before I stopped updating, rolling updates gave me a few bad rolls that did not fix some of these issues (and if I’d have rolled not even week later w/o reading the news, I would’ve been toasted into terminal-fix-it-now-land).

So I’d say there’s a lot of room for improvement here. I dream of something that works like this:

• bin.fast: Major.minor.greatest, 7…30 days
• bin.stable: Major.minor.greatest, 30…180 days
• userspace: any version (including non-system package formats), total install/non-shared-dependencies size may influence update frequency (or budget)
  • small things may update always, big programs may even get to the point where it switches the install over to a bin version for you rather than compiling again
• userspace packages may also slow down dependencies

Non-critical applications may be updated less. Security updates or marked-as-needed-fix more. Alternatively, supporting explicit branches (like Godot’s 3.X and 4.X) in official repos helps. Maintenance updates (nothing known broken) may be delayed if something seems/is-known wrong (build-bots, user reports or comments, upstream fix needed or dependency too new, admin/maintainer intervention etc)

Ultimately, this could mean an update about every week or slower than once a month depending on packages and if the user encounters issues or not. And I’m sure this may be possible with some package system, but again not something default (and less effective if a package system doesn’t provide the needed structure/information).

Hardware wise, yeah I’m otherwise still pretty happy with the performance level I have (and it’s a fine target for my own stylized projects, still working on that). A smaller(+more efficient) system would be nice, but GPUs seem to still be behind/lower-value than CPUs though. Polaris would be fine just to make things easier though, not that I want to buy a sidestep especially when the market is so stagnant. Same thing with workarounds that won’t be really cheaper either (esp, w/RAM etc pricing).

This is why I am very careful to use a small amount of them as there are a few apps

What I’m talking about was an issue with 1 package due to sandboxing, and it was Krita IIRC (something I don’t care about sandboxing on). I think KDE stuff was being pulled in too (I don’t use it, but I do use Kate and few other things that use Qt).

For me, I didn’t like patterns (or the work-arounds). A shame because it (or now, maybe slowroll) might be closer to what I’m looking for, especially if the talk of smoke-testing is true. (though I’ve also seen someone say that Zypper is slow)

I like some of what I’ve seen with NixOS, though I see quite a few things that make it seem like not the answer either. And some of the things (like distrobox) seem like they probably add weight to updating as well (and/or clunkiness, if I have to manually do it).

Also some of my issue is I’m still running a 1050Ti (and Arch putting the legacy drivers on the AUR, a bit of a pain for me… not sure if that has changed though), I know that’d likely be even worse on Nix as well.

EDIT: I’ve tried Flatpak for user apps as well, and needing to download graphics drivers again really defeats the purpose.

Ideally I’d like something that has an update system intended for slower internet. Something that can pull (/keep) slightly older dependencies when user-land stuff is a bit slow, or outright delay/reschedule possibly-broken (for any number of reasons) updates rather than wasting a user’s time and bandwidth. Guessing it doesn’t exist, though (or if it does, it has some other huge workflow flaw).

Mentioning @LostWanderer@fedia.io because they’ve talked about Tumbleweed and Nix.

Relevant: THOSE DAMN ALIEN BASTARDS ARE REAL. by Gianni Matragrano.

Even if it’s not a good substitution for chest compressions (it’s 1AM, do you know where the horse’s heart is?), it makes me think of that CRUDBUMP song.

Scroll-wheel rolls up windows for me on XFCE (labwc). I can understand it that might not be what you’re looking for, though.

Yeah I tried it for XFCE yesterday*, noticed a few things I wanted weren’t there (because XFWM isn’t ported over) and promptly switched back. Didn’t seem to me like it was more responsive or anything like that**.

But I am still using a 1050Ti, so who knows. That also kind of kills my interest in the idea even if I didn’t have fixed-if-you-use-this-specific-DE type issues. I also don’t really like the idea of CSD.

* after looking up that labwc not being installed was why the session wouldn’t launch before

** entirely possible it is better in very specific scenarios, but the screen tearing that I see on X11 is diagonal (like the screen is 2 triangles, desynced) and honestly I don’t even know the exact game to test (as I don’t see tearing in videos or any other usage as far as I know)

There is the other meaning, too. Not a slur, but also not safe either.

And there was this art from 2.7.2:

A cheap convection toaster oven not really, it is half-way between an oven and air-fryer at best.

I mean if it’s good enough, keep using it as long as possible I guess.

Me: <using Blender in Linux to make low-poly badger>

You: <using paid retro software in WINE inside Linux VM to make low-poly pudu>

Me:

Can’t, I already got a titanium spork more than a decade ago.

If it’s (not) out of the bag, then it’s (not) out of the bag. Now that is a powerful cat fact.

TECHNOLOGY.

I’m most interested in a polygon editor first (webGL animation/Wick Editor export) and a non-destructive workflow with Godot (SDF textures, Blender as an intermediate, maybe even exporting .scn files for polygons) second.

Though for this (and also the similar, separate effort of PixiEditor) I fear that it will just try to do everything else instead.

For this specific, I see people complain that it’s web/electron-based.

Hail to KING baby DAIRY.

In 2018, Explained.

TL;DW: changed name as test–>couldn’t change back because of new YT content policy.

It is indeed paved over. I’m sure there are reasons, but probably not good ones given potholes like this. Aside from initial cost, for large vehicles+higher speeds. IMO seems a bit like gluing carpet over wooden floorboards (which is another anger-inducing thing, especially if you’ve lived in a house with a carpeted bathroom).

Not Just Bikes has a video on brick roads in the Netherlands (the bricks being called Klinkers, video called Natural Handcrafted Artisanal ... Streets?!), how they allow easier maintenance/re-use, brick designs instead of painting the surface after, worn klinkers used in historic areas etc.

Must not know about asphalt yet…

I wonder if someone has/will make a fell for Todd’s lies again award meme with the bewildered guy wearing an Iron_Helmet_(Skyrim). Probably needs some real headlines/reviews (well, aside from Starfield).

I don’t like vinegary too much (or smoke/fermented flavor etc), I like El Yucateco Red*.

Though it is a bit expensive for a tiny bottle. So I made a few big bottles trying my own spin* from garden habaneros (orange) and liked how it turned out.

* I see the key ingredients: distilled white vinegar, citric acid, xantham gum and tomato paste EDIT: carrots is another trick, IIRC I fried mine with onions and bell peppers