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Is the bootup/shutdown speed, and faster package management really worth it? Is it really significant enough?

No. The primary reasons why you'd want to use Void Linux are the musl packages, the easy packaging experience with XBPS, and the simplicity of Runit. The distro felt like BSD on Linux when I last used it (it's admittedly been a few years since then); I liked it. If the above things interest you, then go for it; otherwise, stick with Fedora.

Yeah, it'd be a real shame if they have to shut down. Hopefully their talent can find work elsewhere if it comes to that.

Well if it's any consolation, the Fediverse is basically the spiritual successor to that time period on the internet: now with interesting tech improvements.

OpenWebAuth used to be called “Magic Auth”, because of how seamless the experience is. Instead of only being able to manage things from your social dashboard, you can jump from one part of the Fediverse to another, and your permissions will be granted automatically. It all happens in the browser.

The way this works is relatively simple: your browser accesses a token inside of a cookie. That token references your Digital Identity in the Fediverse, verifies it, and a handshake is performed. Afterwards, anything you were given permission to access unlocks and becomes visible on the page.

Will this be impacted by browsers killing third-party cookies?

The MissKey forks like Sharkey/Iceshrimp/Catodon all have better featuresets and UI/UX than Mastodon IMO. If you don't already have a Mastodon instance that you're extremely pleased with, I would pick one of them instead. I can't comment on the app situation though.

I had no idea that Trim Silence is a thing, but I can see how that would make audio recordings sound janky. There are times when I'll speed up playback to 2x, but that's usually because the person talking is taking too long to get to the point. Sounds like overkill to me.

I went back to using RSS after I ditched corporate social media in part because I like that the content is just there until I'm ready to read it. I use the Top Day sort on Lemmy and the microblogging platforms are constantly putting new posts in the feed; this is fine for casual scrolling, but I can see how this would be exhausting to people who are trying to keep up with everything. I get the author's need to take a breather every so often. I also find myself wishing that people would chill a bit.

Once the starvation deaths start rolling in they won’t stop

Already has, unfortunately.

Sway doesn't support the proprietary Nvidia driver and Nouveau was hot garbage last time I tried it. IIRC, GNOME and KDE are the two projects that have invested the most resources into accommodating Nvidia's bullshit and even then I'd still expect the experience to be lackluster.

I looked, but I couldn't find one unfortunately.

It's a trade off that we'll probably have to take unless we want to deanonymize the internet.

We’re probably lucky that AI spammers haven’t discovered the Fediverse yet, but if the Fediverse does actually become big enough for mainstream use, we’ll see Twitter level reaction spam in no time, and no amount of CAPTCHAs will be able to stop it.

I was thinking about this the other day. We might have to move to a whitelist federation model with invite-only instances at some point.

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. It's the spec for how the file directories should be set up on UNIX-like systems, like how typically user binaries would go in /usr/bin and libraries for those binaries would go in /usr/lib.

Installing proprietary software. For certain courses I unfortunately have to use software like Unreal Engine, Maya, Houdini, Unity, P4V, and a few others. I read NixOS has difficulty with running random binaries. I also could not find an UE5 package in nixpkgs, which Arch does have.

So NixOS is different from other distros in that it throws out the FHS so that it can do things like install multiple versions of the same library without issues; this breaks binaries, however, and they have to be patched to work with NixOS. So you basically have to package things for Nix for them to work. Certain programs like Steam and VSCode even have a wrapper as part of their setup that recreates the FHS to make them work as expected, so doing this is possible, but as a beginner I doubt you want to fuck with that.

Building binaries. I know nixos does some weird stuff with libraries and binaries. I need to be able to do normal stuff with binaries, and perhaps package and distribute them. It’d be really nice to be able to try out different compilers for my CMake/C++ projects also. Can NixOS do that easily?

It's actually nice as a dev environment. You do have to write flakes for your projects, but that's not a big deal and the reproducibility is nice.

VMs. I will be doing dGPU passthrough for testing assignments before handin. I assume this is no problem but it requires some weird stuff so I want to be sure before diving in!

I've used VMs without issue, so should be fine.

Since Nix is a distro-agnostic package manager, in your case I would probably use a normal distro like Ubuntu/Arch/Fedora and just use Nix with that if you want to go that route. It'll go smoother than diving into the deep end right away.

There will probably be mounting pressure to deanonymize the internet, like with what we're seeing via age verification legislation in various places.

Funnily enough, I was just talking about this with someone a few days ago. I've definitely retreated into my fair share of dark forests to escape the spam, bots, and astroturfing. I do wonder if the Fediverse gets popular enough, if we'll have to retreat into a whitelist federation model with invite-only instances. It definitely feels like anything that's open and accessible (and anonymous) is just asking to get turned into a steaming dumpsterfire at this point.

If you want the post to circulate better on the microblogging platforms like Mastodon, then including hashtags in the post title is useful (post body does not federate), as that is an important part of their discoverability features. Personally, I think that Lemmy should add a dedicated text field to the post submission form for hashtags to further improve interop (and to avoid cluttering post titles). Lemmy doesn't use them itself and most of Lemmy's users came from Reddit where they're also not used, but on the Fediverse I think it would make sense as a cultural norm to use them.

What's the Kepler support like at this time?

Ah good, I was wondering when this was going to release (April).

Pipewire was honestly the most pain-free introduction of a new audio technology on Linux; it was a nice change of pace.

TFW even the vending machine is spying on you. We really gotta make it mandatory to use "dumb" devices in public.