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4 years agodiscuss

yes well. docker sits atop the lofty shoulders of cgroups. i don't think containerisation is the only way, it's coercion with flatpak and snaps is fustrating.its a means to an end. a means that has mass adoption and is proven, even if it's not ideal.

4 years agodiscuss

the irony is - if you stick to software of the time, you live in GNOME LTS land - it's pretty frictionless and stable. my experience is the bad times start rolling in as soon as you need to compile - sway for example - you need a newer version of meson than is on ubuntu LTS, and there's a tight wayland dependency too. its the shiny new software (often the ones posted on hn...) that end up needing the most up to date build dependencies.

i agree - it's a failing of the pkg management and devs. but also - the hardware developers. if you rely on prop blobs - docker is a way to liberate yourself somewhat from this - you dont need to have a well maintained upstream

4 years agodiscuss

Alpine Linux containers can be as low as 8MB in size. Virtualisation has a cost, that decreases every year. I disagree - many people want an efficient system where the package manager handles it - Arch linux.

In my use case - I started running Arch Linux and installing the packages I want - however aarch64 w/ prop Mesa drivers = bad time. too few AUR packages has aarch64 binaries - would end up compiling nearly everything. eventually I snapped trying to build my own PKGBUILD for printer drivers (that worked on my arch/hardware) instead of just using the provided install script that had ubuntu aarch64 support.

while a sleek minimalist system, ticking smoothly, is really nice - to get to that "happy place" on many bits of hardware can be tricky. this constantly getting stuck and having side effects across different programs on my system led to me taking the same approach I take deploying in production. just install stock os, get docker, then run docker compose pointing to your persisted config/data.

4 years agodiscuss

Virtualisation is cheap. Docker + Debian - stable, with the official docker ppd - you're able to achieve a compromise of stability (and out of date packages) - while running fast moving projects that require later build tools than those available in the distribution.

8 years agodiscuss

What is the purpose of making a flight reservation without payment?

8 years agodiscuss

What an exceptional place to live. Is there a good sense of community between the residents?

8 years agodiscuss

Is charisma not valuable in all jobs?

8 years agodiscuss

Right, they pay more because the company wills it and people (I think) are more receptive to subscribitions. This is what the author of the article is complaining about and the reason consumer advocacy groups exist.

8 years agodiscuss

The model works for you - great. There are users who don't care for constant feature updates and rather own a product than perpetually rent it.

8 years agodiscuss

True. How many new features do they need? What about word processors? Photo editors? Email clients? There are new features that could be useful, but for many users their needs are already fulfilled. Why should they have to continue paying for Photoshop as a service if they're happy with the current version? I apologise for my poor examples.

8 years agodiscuss

Adobe Acrobat Pro, Foxit Phantom PDF. I'll concede I can't think of a file manager though.

8 years agodiscuss

How many products need constant feature updates? Aside from security/compatibility there are plenty of products that already meet everything required of them (to near everyone). How many new features does a file manager need? An PDF reader?

For Facebook - I don't think forced subscription would work. People would be forced to think about how much they value the service (a less ubiquitous one at that).

9 years agodiscuss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia

10 years agodiscuss

Interesting about people getting banned. I haven't browsed either for a while. More diverse within leftist politics, but across the political spectrum?

I don't think a forum full of edgy memes is a great place for political discussion, /pol/ or /leftypol/

10 years agodiscuss

As a counter I think there are /leftypol/ users who sincerely hold Stalinst or Maoist views. Jokes are made about gulags, Holodomor and the Great Purge, just as /pol/ will joke about 9/11, the Holocaust and mass shootings.

How does this make it a better place of discussion?

10 years agodiscuss

I think it happens less on special interest boards because there are less posts altogether on niche boards.

/p/, /trv/ - slow boards that have their own shitposts.

10 years agodiscuss

I've seen Düsseldorf trams in Gdansk

10 years agodiscuss

Do you have more information on how Russia's Eastern regions are becoming more habitable? I know they have a development fund to incentive people from other regions to move and develop small businesses (especially in agriculture).