I recommend starting with basic operations, like:

• putting installed files in the right directory structure.
• integrity checking.
• archiving and compressing.

Decide whether your package manager is source-based, or if you’re going to make some kind of binary distribution mechanism. Either way, you’re going to need a process for configuring, compiling and installing packages from source.

I do recommend looking at how Pacman, & apt approach all this. There are also likely books on this topic.

Also recommend playing around with buildroot; not because it is a comprehensive package manager, but because it’s inner workings are very transparent.

I regularly think about two phases I’ve heard:

• “The smarter you are, the better you get at rationalising bad decisions”
• “advertising/propaganda works best when you are certain it doesn’t work on you.”

I feel like they remind me that when it comes to making choices & being duped, intelligence is mostly irrelevant.

My belief is that on an individual level, the counter to propaganda is both free time to ruminate on what we believe, and a strong network of people we trust who are willing to challenge us on the things we say and do. Two things which an atomized and overworked society looses at all levels.

Regarding the solution: does 1.4 work fine once you’re in the OS?

Is this on a fresh install, or have you installed a Wayland DE on an existing distro? If so, you may be missing some packages. What DE are you using for both X and Wayland?

I’m surprised wlr-randr is missing a display that xrandr can see, they should be looking at the same place for the display info. If you hunt through dmesg do you see any errors related to “EDID”?

It’s important to remember that the actions of the working class are primarily derived from their class interests, not because individuals are dicks. Humanizing even shitty individuals is an important part of persuading people away from thinking in terms of individual people and more about the dialectics of class.

Buy a second hand laptop or computer. Lots of companies sell off their tech shit after 3 years, and they have at least a good decade of use in them.

Look at what models are super popular second hand like ThinkPads; you’ll be able to find replacement parts pretty easily.

Absolutely, the fact that every time you interact with a person it could be on the worst day of their lives, but for you it’s just Tuesday is a massive contributor to mental health issues. Being unable to talk about it makes things much worse, and while the ethos like ‘killology’ and similar might cops less traumatized by their jobs it is definitely for the worse.

The amount of othering I hear from cops who talk about the people they interact with in their jobs… Well let’s just say I’ve never heard a cop talk about their job and go “boy am I glad that person is on the force”, and it definitely seems like at least partly a coping mechanism.

I think there are a few reasons, firstly while conservatives put many issues within society under a mental health umbrella, they simultaneously make no efforts to fix this problem and in fact actively make it worse since poor housing access, wealth inequality, healthcare access, food access etc are all major factors for pretty much all mental health issues. There are only a few explanations I can come up with for this:

1. ‘mental health’ is a smokescreen; it’s an umbrella so vague and monumental an issue that it gets put in the “I can’t affect this problem, so there is no point in worrying” basket.

2. People with mental health issues are so othered to them that their solution to people with mental health issues is “a cop with a gun”.

As for cop’s mental health, that’s a bit easier:

• I can’t speak for other countries, but where I’m from if a cop gets diagnosed with pretty much any acronym they risk getting their gun taken off them which directly restricts the jobs they can take and their career advancement. Where I’m from won’t even take on a recruit if they’ve been diagnosed with something. This means cops are terrified of taking any work provided therapy.

• pretty much all police orgs have a really bad machismo problem, which is one thing that keeps men from seeking mental healthcare in general.

• police tend not to require much formal education to start training and tend to pay better than other jobs with the same starting requirement (moral hazard pay), this can lead to the ‘golden handcuffs’ situation of not wanting to jeopardize this career because you’ll have to start at the bottom for a career which pays worse.

• it’s very common for society to see police as ‘essential workers’, which puts it under the umbrella of “we can make your work conditions terrible”; things like shift-work with really unpredictable hours tends to isolate people from their friends and family, making mental health worse and makes them more reliant on their job for their support network.

Reforming the police a tolerable institution seems impossible to me, but a decent start would be disarming them and making sure they are not the people who respond to mental health calls. Problem is that this requires a large part of the population to accept that you can’t simply shoot your problems, even if you hire a goon in blue to do it.

Regarding the US and their gun ownership: yeah, disarming cops is a lot more complicated and probably involves training them about de-escalation and the peelians. It also requires setting up some aptitude requirements, since basics like “time, distance & cover” are regularly forgone in favour of “warrior cop”, and currently there is a very strong pipeline from “that kid who tortures animals” to “corporal”.

I was halfway through a message about return path impedance, but remembered the pico is a carrier board with its ground built in it’s USB connector, and the switches are hardly going to care.

My bad, you’ll be fine 👍

If you can reasonably have the entire bottom layer be connected to ground without the top layer being too crowded, 2 layers could work.

Wires to the underside components? Can you solder them to thru-holes on the underside of the PCB instead?

You can put the MCU and other circuitry on the underside, but perhaps use at least a 3-layer PCB so you can run an internal ground plane under the power components.

Is this keyboard a one-off or are you doing production runs? Try to keep all the SMD components on the same side if you can.

If you’re using the pico rather than a bare RP2040, you’ll have a much harder time putting anything on the underside though.

I use NixOS, but it is not for learning how Linux works; realistically it’s for when you already know how Linux typically works, so you can understand when it breaks some of those norms.

If you want to learn how containers etc work, use straight-up Debian.

I really don’t recommend arch for a server. On a desktop absolutely but what I want for a server is to be able to let it sit for 6 months, then update it and not have everything break; arch works best with frequent update hygiene.

I used nushell for a good 6 months, it was nice having structured data, but the syntax difference to bash which I use for my day job was just too jarring to stick with.

Fish was (for me) the right balance of nice syntactic sugar and being able to reasonably expect a bash idiom will work.

1. Software has bugs.
2. Bugs which interface with and execute untrusted code are high risk.
3. Browsers are obscenely large pieces of software, which connect a user’s system with random websites which execute JavaScript.

Browsers are one of the most important things to update on your computer.

We can talk about whether browsers should be as complicated as they are, but implying security updates are a intended as a vector of control is conspiricist thinking.

The reason you don’t get security updates backported to your older release of choice is simple: it is so much work.

Waterfox seems like a good choice, just don’t go around thinking that companies are making security updates in order to sneak in unwanted, they make security updates because they are terrified of being responsible for a major incident.

Makes me appreciate that my country’s typical honourific (mate) is gender neutral.

If any were it’s not like we would know, secrecy being rather important to that kind of activity.

Most GPUs will have fan spin & lights if only on pcie power (the pcie slot provides 75W without external connection), but then misbehave during display; I know it sounds stupid but make sure the 12V power connector on the top of the card is firmly plugged in, that connector in particular has a reputation for being unreliable.

They don’t have to care about the minority affected to be impacted; it affects readiness, which will affect them.

Laws which cause people to leave due to feeling unsafe will require others to be brought in to fill their roles, who are in-turn coming from somewhere else.

It’s not a crippling issue (for a military) by any means, but laws that fuck with the readiness of a base piss a lot of people off.

Definitely not saying any military is a font of diversity and acceptance, but their most important asset is their logistics so fucking with that will not win you a ton of friends there.

Wasn’t that OrangePi?

This is unfortunate but not exactly surprising, I’ve quite liked bcachefs for its features but I swear every release has been accompanied by issues with Kent expecting exceptions to standard procedure be made for bcachefs. When you manage an open source project as big as Linux that’s just not sustainable, and it’s frustrating to see Kent not recognise why the onus is on him to make the necessary accommodations.