Or they’ll install portable versions of Minecraft so many times they’ll decide to learn how to remove -rubbishfiles from root

We don’t surface downvotes. I find no issue with surfacing upvotes. If someone would want to snoop through every comment looking for some upvote from a specific user, that unfortunate victim would’ve gotten some other and easier harassment directed at them from that someone anyway.

Someone saw that guy who wrote the overlay to feed interview leetcodes into GPT, and was inspired to make a similar video about having a real-time deepfake answer all interview questions.

The second video apologizes for that. You also have https://kotaku.com/pewdiepie-calls-for-end-to-the-subscribe-to-pewdiepie-m-1834365026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLdxuaxaQwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ibVn8vwW5U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph8M_8sVOEA https://web.archive.org/web/20170214050008/https://pewdie.tumblr.com/post/157160889655/just-to-clear-some-things-up (archived because it looks like he’s deleted his tumblr account since?)

some of these things are hideous. some of these things the way you word them makes them sound way worse than I actually are, like the one with the death note review. and i don’t think he’s a nazi is what i’m saying. and i think not having things repeat is an indication of taking in the lessons learnt and lends credence to the apologies.

what would count as trying to repair the damage to you?

he’s made apologies for all of them

the sign thing was a joke to see how far they would go (https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14605060/pewdiepie-disney-deal-lost-nazi-anti-semitic-imagery), but i agree it’s very questionable and bad taste/disgusting to publish the video. he didn’t quite own it up for this one, and he was also following several alt-right figures at the time. i agree this is horrible but i feel like he’s changed since then and hasn’t done things like that since 2019.

he made this apology video much longer than the relevant stream clip two days later for the hard-r incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLdxuaxaQwc. I think it’s pretty convincing.

these incidents were also horrible, but he also apologized for them well, and everything you mentioned (except for the fiverr sign) was in 2018 and it doesn’t seem like there was much since. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44969322 in the case of the nazi channel, it was based on his impression of a single video that reviews death note and only had a dozen or so seconds of nazi references (joking about the charlottesville car attack) https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134748/pewdiepie-er-pewnews-youtube-hateful-content-anti-semitic

it should be really clear that pewdiepie encouraged neither distasteful vandalism nor the las vegas shooter. pewdiepie was the biggest meme on youtube at the time, especially amid the giant subscribers race against t-series. 4-chan and its extensions tend to gravitate towards macho online culture.

WSL, Deepin for an hour, and then endeavourOS (easy Arch) ever since

Good thing there are community frontends.

If you want to run post-upgrade, you got to do it yourself.

That’s just wrong. Pacman has hooks, and easy hooks are one of the reasons Pacman is loved. In a normal weekly upgrade I see Pacman run over 30 hooks. I do not think simply not updating user-modified config files is just the bare minimum needed.

I think this boils down to Arch’s philosophy: the users should know their system, and when something could break things, don’t assume things and do it automatically; have the user do it instead. Thus when shipping config updates to a user who had already changed their config, Arch does not overwrite the configs and instead ships the updated vanilla config with a .pacnew suffix. The user is expected to review such pacnews, a process that’s just like normal git merge conflicts when you use the pacdiff tool.

Agreed. The normal pacman CLI does have a comparatively much higher learning curve though compared to e.g. APT. It’s not that hard to learn either but when you’re scrolling over a long-ass manpage, you do not immediately realize from the headers which whizz by in a flash that -S (alias for --sync) is for installing from repos, -Ss is for searching from repos, -S does not by itself “synchronize” with repos by pulling newest repo package metadata because well that’s not what we’re “synchronize”-ing with and you have to add the “y” flag, -Su (remember to add “y”!) is for upgrading all packages instead of -U (alias for --upgrade), and -U is for installing a local package. Compare that to the APT/dpkg system’s apt install, apt search, apt update, apt upgrade, and dpkg -i.

Admittedly APT does need one to get behind the fact that there are different commands and that “update” and “upgrade” are different, but that’s way less to remember (especially since apt is meant to be the interface for everything a user should do) compared to remembering pacman’s interesting definitions of database, query, sync, upgrade, and maybe files, while the only definition unlikely to be guessed with APT IIRC is update vs upgrade. You’re far more likely to need a pacman cheatsheet than an apt cheatsheet.

But in the end, let’s all love libalpm, and the actual code behind that pacman interface.

Yes, promotion and awareness of a service is necessary for its continuation. I’ve agreed with that. But again, without the technological resources and money, there is no service to promote and nothing to continue because it hadn’t even started.

That’s not contradictory. Most would rather offload hardware and security costs, running one’s own hardware is time intensive nevermind power and equipment costs, and you can indeed add advertising and awareness costs to that list. But you do also need the resource investments for a service to start with before advertising it.

This. This is the way. Even if the APY is just 4% I get 40k free.

by “check out” I meant click on it

Check out bullet #2

Next I hope Thunderbird’ll restore the GTK/Qt theming support they removed two years ago…

For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don’t. Please don’t make assumptions. Thank you.

I’m safe physically, but I’ll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Also potentially relevant: https://bsky.app/profile/lina.yt/post/3lkjo6jomok2v (scroll up)