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Inbred: chaorace's family has been a bit too familiar. (Can be inherited)

  • Does Nix's break from FHS cause problems?

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  • You may be interested in reading this post about the process of packaging Steam.

    tl;dr: It's mostly an annoyance reserved for packagers to deal with. Dynamically linked executables can be patched in a fairly universal fashion to work without FHS, so that's the go-to approach. If the executable is statically linked, the package may have to ship a source patch instead. If the executable is statically linked & close-source, the packagers are forced to resort to simulating an FHS environment via chroot.

  • Where can I find work?

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  • If you hate job boards then you need to find individual company "Careers" pages and go from there.

    How you go about this varies a lot by skillset and industry, but I'll just throw out a random example: lots of Linux jobs exist in the DevOps space (think Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, NixOps). It just so happens that lots of medium-sized software companies need DevOps people, so you can pretty easily find companies looking for DevOps hires just by browsing Y Combinator's Startup Directory

    With that being said, I get the impression from the way your post is worded that you're looking to break into a new career without having yet established a concrete plan. My advice would be to step back and consider specific options first. Almost all jobs like these require industry-specific certifications (e.g.: CompTIA, ITIL, AWS, Azure, Cisco, etc.). You need to look at your options, pick a certification, earn it, then go job hunting. Certifications are great for securing entry level jobs and the standards body issuing these will often provide an online directory of partner companies who are currently hiring.

  • NixOS is better because...

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  • You'll understand when you're older, son

  • The last few weeks in KDE: It’s coming… it’s coming… it’s coming

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  • Ugh... they got Plasma everywhere!

  • Screenshot tool for GNOME + Wayland

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  • Try Satty? It's inspired by flameshot, Wayland native, and written in Rust.

  • NVIDIA contributes Reflex support to dxvk-nvapi.

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  • Nice. Flagship features like these so often feel overlooked in the Linux GPU discussion. I like to think that's because we're all very serious pragmatists who don't care for such frivolous addons, even if the simple truth is that vendors are indifferent towards Linux as an end-user platform.

    In light of that, features like these coming in with 1st-party support is a welcome sign that things are (slowly) changing. Emphasis on "slow"; I don't find it terribly impressive that Nvidia's partially reversed the proprietary own-goal which they call NVAPI, especially considering the still ongoing parade of new (also proprietary!) standards which they insist on shoehorning into it... but I'll acknowledge that they're making progress nevertheless 😤

  • To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?

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  • Still waiting for git good unfortunately 😔

  • Who will die in 2024 ?

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    • Alexei Navalny
    • Markus Persson
    • David Attenborough

  • What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?

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  • Sugarcoating pills is fairly common, especially for pills which are frequently ingested or target older demographics. It's because sugar coatings are much gentler on the esophagus (i.e.: less likely to cause esophagitis, "pill burn"). Advil (i.e.: ibuprofen) is a cheap, well tolerated, and non habit-forming pain reliever -- it's about as safe as such a thing could possibly be, so hopefully that helps to explain why a sugar coating might be warranted given the aforementioned upsides (for the love of all that is holy; always read the directions on the label, it's still quite possible that Advil is not safe for you specifically). FWIW: the bottles also have childproofing mechanisms built into the caps (... at least in U.S. markets. Not sure about elsewhere?)

  • what are the most ethical places to give your stuff to in a will

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  • Watch out I saw these guys about to show up at your inbox

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    Why is Jerma a meme?

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  • No, but now that you mention it that would be a pretty plausible thing to have happen. Just grabbing hold of a random armchair analysis and then repeating it ad nauseum until it transforms into an irony-poisoned meme totem... you've really gotten my hopes up now!

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    Thoughts on this?

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  • I am of two minds:

    1. He's not wrong
    2. It doesn't matter at this point

    It's a mess, but honestly so are a lot of critical FOSS projects (e.g.: OpenSSH, GNUPG, sudo). Curmudgeons gonna curmudgeon. There was a point of no return and that was years ago -- now that Wayland's finally becoming useable despite itself it's probably time to come to terms with the fact that better alternatives would have arisen had anyone thought they could truly manage it.

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    Why is Jerma a meme?

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  • 95% of the time he plays the straight-man and then the other 5% of the time he behaves like an unhinged lunatic. It's the perfect recipe for cultivating an audience of viewers who love to torment him with his own words. After that it's just one step further to put words he didn't say into his mouth and see how he reacts to getting gaslit.

    I make it sound like a cynical ploy but really this kind of thing is just intrinsically tied to Jerma's online personality. Lightning in a bottle. If you ask me the most impressive part's actually how he manages to stay in control of the situation and not get totally swallowed up by the increasingly bizzare behavior of his viewership.

  • How to stop eating junk food?

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  • (You've not been good)

  • Laptop keyboard unresponsive - I think my (unknown) laptop is affected by the kernel Zen IRQ regressions - how do I work around this?

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  • Hmm... what's the purpose of loading amdgpu at all if you're using an NVIDIA card? Optimus?

  • Laptop keyboard unresponsive - I think my (unknown) laptop is affected by the kernel Zen IRQ regressions - how do I work around this?

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  • Your best bet is probably figuring out why the graphical session isn't working and then going from there. Since you're on NixOS odds are all the logs you need are right there in journald.

    Worst case scenario: you might need to pin your system nixpkgs to ~January 2021 until the issue sorts itself out. You can still install newer userland packages if you separately manage them as a flake (this is a common and well-supported pattern in home-manager)

    EDIT: found a discussion with good configuration.nix examples for pinning the system nixpkgs. Once you find a workable pin you could also try inching it up to get a better idea of what broke (January 2021 is a good starting point because it's the last month before 5.11 released, a newer pin is very likely possible)

  • Mayo, mustard or ketchup?

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  • Mayo, mayo, mayo, mayo. I'd eat mayo flavored icecream if only the frozen dairy industry weren't so cowardly

  • What is the most user repairable robot vacuum cleaner?

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  • I'll go to bat for Roborock. All common "user serviceable" parts are available for direct order from them and remain the same between generations so even very old models can be easily maintained with first-party parts.

    They unfortunately won't sell you an internal part like a motor, but you can still find new first-party parts if you know where to look and it generally only takes removing ~10 screws to get at the insides (example).

  • How do you guys cope with the fact that the world isn't getting any better?

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  • Still no free blowjobs!

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: How to embed images accessibly on Lemmy

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    YSK: Metric Meters are equal to exactly 1 Minecraft block

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    SFW

    NSFW Rule

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    mission accomplished

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK how to correctly link to other Lemmy communities

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Favorite SGDQ 2023 Runs?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Here’s Everything You Need to Know About MTG Arena on Linux - Draftsim

    draftsim.com /mtg-arena-linux/