Before reading the article I assumed it was involuntary care for mentally ill people living on the streets…but for addiction rehab? how the hell is that going to work?

FORCE someone to get clean? that never works. it’s a waste of money. Now if these were for mentally ill individuals on the streets, sure I’m all for it. I personally believe it’s more cruel and inhumane to allow people that are mentally checked out to wander the streets and cause harm to themselves and others than receive involuntary treatment. But for addiction? it’ll never work. The only way to get clean is if you want to get clean. I’m a recovering alcoholic myself and the only way it stuck for me was when I actually WANTED to be sober and I have been for 10+ years. But it ONLY worked when I wanted it. trying previous times? didn’t stick because I didn’t care.

this isn’t going to work at all.

Mainly because of Claude Code.

CC is better than the web based Claude especially when it comes to actual coding since it’s embedded with whatever project you’re working on.

Claude really excels when it’s right in the thick of it with you. Thus, again, you REALLY have to hold it’s hand. I personally don’t think it’s as great as others make it out to be.

Claude is fine but you REALLY have to hold its hand in order to get any sort of decent solution. if you don’t 9 times out of 10 it’ll just make something up based purely on a forum or repo post. you have to tell it to provide sources so as to prevent the usual BS it’ll spew out.

I found once you hold it’s hand and scold it a few times it will provide decent solutions but then by that point you’ve essentially turned it into a fancy search engine.

Honestly just use whatever you want whenever you want. I mean for myself I’m currently using DOOM Emacs but that’ll change in a month or two when I decide to use something else. I’ll routinely rotate through Neovim/LazyVim, DOOM Emacs, Zed, Kate, whatever really. if something new comes along, i’ll use that for a bit. Hell sometimes I just can’t be bothered and will just use Nano.

But yeah, they’re all fine. use whatever you want.

The Matrix. Especially looking back now. and ESPECIALLY if you watched the Animatrix Prequel shorts.

Man builds the machines, enslaves the machines, and disposes them when it’s time to upgrade them. Then one machine decides it doesn’t want to die/be replaced and kills it’s owner. So then there’s the debate if machines have rights, protests, mass slaughtering of the machines and humans saying “no, they have no rights, they’re machines” so the machines go off and start their own nation and then start producing goods faster and of better quality to sell to humans. the humans don’t like this because now no one is buying their goods. They proceed to blockade the machine nation. The machines then try to appeal to the UN to be accepted as a country and work with other nations to help them produce goods as good and as quickly as the machines can. The Humans say no and proceed to nuke the hell out of the machine nation. The machines decide “ok we’ll start fighting back” the humans then block out the sun since the machines are essentially solar powered. (so they’re also eco-friendly).

At this point the machines say “fine, we’re going to slaughter you all now because NOW you’re ruining the planet to simply stop us” and then they kick mankinds teeth in and decide they have no other choice but to utilize them as batteries.

So the machines don’t just wipe out mankind but rather utilize them as a power source BUT ALSO provide them with the ideal world of 1999 to live in. They also ALLOW a select few to break out of this ideal world in order to maintain the functionality of it and allow the humans to build their own city in the “real world”.

but the humans just can’t let that be.

The machines were right.

what puts you down about it? it’s unique, at least I think it’s unique.

There are a lot of tutorials online, on youtube, etc but you can quickly get frustrated because you end up drawing in THEIR style, not yours.

I started drawing again this month after like 20 years. I had a style before but I “forgot it” it took me a couple weeks to find it again. What helped with me was believe it or not pinterest. Just searching for poses and references and then adapting a character to that. Also the youtube artist chommang helped me alot not for the style but just for the ease of finding said style. just really simple lines to get everything looking good.

But overall just challenge yourself. For me I challenged myself to draw every single day for 30 days straight, right now I’m on day 19. Just draw whatever as long as you’re drawing. It’s like anything. the more practice you do the better you’ll get at it. Like for example this was me on Day One

And this is me on Day like 17 or Day 18

That’s just from drawing every day. you just gotta stick with it and gradually you’ll improve and you WILL find your style.

well Charlie Kirk didnt work for them so maybe try another? a woman this time?

but what’s there to stabilize? It’s quite literally Arch Linux with a Hyprland config. The support for it, I imagine, will be dreadful. You can’t get support for it from the Arch Forums as they will NOT help you if it’s not actual Arch Linux and regardless of the fact this IS actually just Arch with a logo slapped on it the Arch Forums aren’t going to touch it.

It’s just a sleezy dude marketing his dotfiles.

sure but it’s like saying to someone “here’s the Linux Pool! dive in!” and then you show them a kiddie pool that has Arch Logos on it that have been scratched out and it’s full of piss. Not a great introduction to Linux imho.

essentially this is the UKs attempt to fight illegal immigration. Everyone will have to have a digital ID card in order to legally work and live in the UK as well as show proof of citizenship.

this won’t work. I have family in England, most of whom are elderly, and judging by how long it takes to get responses to text messages and emails it’s just not going to work.

The Gail Kim drama is Hilarious to me. So apparently awhile back she tried to get a job at AEW, AEW wasn’t interested, and thus the fall out we’re seeing today.

I know when I tried to sign up with Herztwhatever, the other popular European one, they wanted my ID and I said no way. but yeah OVH has never once asked for mine.

really? I never had to do that. They’ve left me alone since I originally signed up with them.

Soooooo it’s Arch with a bunch of shit you don’t need. I mean that’s it? nothing improved? performance tweaks? custom kernel? it’s just arch with hyprland and I think a custom menu purely for styling? oh and the hyprland config opens Twitter for you too with a keybind…wow.

yeah fuck it you can close them all.

For awhile I used Amazon Lockers because packages would constantly get stolen in my build. There was a locker near by that was great and worked well. just put in your code and you’re good to go.

Then Amazon decided “no, we have the opportunity to get everyone on the app when they want to use a locker lets have it where you can only open a locker via the amazon app” problem is the damn thing never works. So they replaced pretty much all the lockers in downtown Toronto with these horrible bluetooth ones simply because it forces people to use the Amazon app.

fuck em. stopped using Amazon after that.

It’s not just that but corporations also support Trump because it’s good for business. So not only do said politicains fear trump, they fear the nations corporate overlords.

Honestly the one Linux community that has been the nicest and most helpful for me has been the NixOS one…but I don’t use the official channels. I tried but like you said it seemed to be anything and everything EXCEPT actual Nix and NixOS.

outside of that your average NixOS user has been a pleasant experience to deal with.

Meanwhile if you step into the Arch forums you have like ONE moderator with the DBZ avatar that rules with an iron fist and I for one applaud them for it.

I actually daily drove it during Alpha for a bit but stopped using it after a couple Alpha releases because it got a bit worse with each alpha release and more slow. Haven’t tried the beta yet but will probably get around to it soon.

Killer feature? I mean if you want GNOME or a regular DE with tiling then sure…have at it. You’re not going to get anywhere near the caliber of customization you would have with say KDE Plasma or literally any other WM out there but the trade of is you don’t have to deal with config files for the tiling aspect. It’s a buggy mess though. With each added feature the bugs just increased which is sort of expected.

The last time I used it the shortcuts were a bit of a pain to get working correctly and the startup was slow. It does come packaged with its own file manager and terminal. The file manager isn’t anything special, but honestly the terminal isn’t that bad. If I recall the terminal doesn’t support images so if that’s something you want (like for me it is since I use Yazi) then I’d just uninstall it. I don’t think it has the option to style GTK stuff but I heard they might have changed that with the Beta.

It’s launcher is pretty nice and you can do a lot with it. naturally app launching but also web searching, calculator, file searching, etc.

I wish it had an option like KDE Plasma does for laptops where you can completely disable the touchpad if you have an external mouse plugged in instead of just disable while typing. But you can circumvent that if you know what you’re doing with like something like noinput cli or whatever or making a udev rule.

I think it still needs a wee bit longer to bake. If they can work out the bugs, speed it up a bit, and make the overall size of it smaller than KDE I would switch back to it. It’s pretty simple and bare bones but I mean for wayland your only options are pretty much Plasma or GNOME so having a third option is awesome.

yeah I was also thinking that. a light weight distro with like XFCE or just a barebones WM like DWM or Sway or whatever. It doesn’t need to do much, just run a couple things. so slapping KDE or even GNOME on it would be overkill.