Matrix honestly sucks ass and is full of spambots posting illegal content

Xmpp is too confusing for most people

It’s absolutely possible to build a discord replacement

The real issue is convincing people to move

nixpkgs is literally a GitHub repo

just noticed the white plastic bar holding the floating letters

unlock origin lite still works great for me

AFAIK there’s actually less than a billion cattle

I daily drive bazzite

I just treat it like an atomic distro that happens to be good for gaming

I use it for development and other general use cases

I can use disposable distroboxes without worrying about updating or breaking my base system it’s nice

You can easily get rid of an unused variable error with a _ = var; statement (just make sure to remove them when you’re done)

Let’s assume the dimensions of the copper block are 40mm40mm160mm (I’m not taking the heat spreader into account here)

That results in a volume of 256000mm3, or 256cm3

Copper (at 20C) has a density of 8.935 g/cm3, so that’s roughly 2.28736kg of copper

Copper has a specific heat capacity of 384.603 J/(kg K)

Using E=cm∆t, we can figure out that it would take ≈ 70378J of energy to heat the copper block to 100C, starting at 20C

With a TDP od 120W, that means it would take 586 seconds to heat the block to 100C, or 9m46s

This is probably way off but I was bored

Open access to information is one thing I love about the internet, I can find information (of varying quality) about anything I’m interested in without having to look through a library or get a massive encyclopedia

IMO flatpaks are a better option, appimages are just bringing people back to the insecure “find it on a website and download it” method of package management

This is also one of the reasons why I dislike curl sh

imo, directory refers to the filesystem concept, folder refers to the UI concept

Unintentionally accurate

Kate actually does have a mascot, Kate the Cyber Woodpecker

I wonder if another kernel will ever start competing with Linux - there’s more and more Unix-like OSes being made with microkernels nowadays

Technically you could just netboot a kernel and initrd, then mount a root filesystem via the network

So you don’t even need a drive in your computer

Not sure why you’d do this outside of very specific appliances but it’s an option

SANS HOW THE FUCK DID YOU BURN THE WATER

Assuming £1 coins, roughly £114 per kilogram

Kate is nice but it’s annoying to use with direnv/nix devshells unfortunately

PostmarketOS isn’t GNU

Anyways it’d be interesting to see more niche OSes on phones (there’s a mobile port of Genode/Sculpt OS for example)