Garuda is about the same.

Arch base, preconfigured for btrfs snapshots on Pacman updates (and they provide a handy garuda-update wrapper to that), many niceties already done for you.

I’ve used the snapshot feature a couple times and only because the Nvidia drivers botched something horribly and I went back to the same snapshot a couple times.

And I use distrobox (rootless podman FTW) for some crap too. Like that time I needed WebEx at a moment’s notice for a call (and they only provide a deb and rpm). Or spur of the moment dev environments when I don’t wanna futz around with vscode devcontainers.

But with arch-based stuff, you gotta read the Pacman output. If you don’t wanna, definitely reconsider immutable. Next time I can be bothered to reinstall, that’s where I’m headed. Heck, you can start a distrobox with Arch and install all the AUR shit you please without a major worry.

Man, I wish I could be as upbeat about this year as you. I like your energy, even if you seem to be hellbent on proselytizing prospecting.

20 yrs ago (fuck, I guess it was), I got to 40wpm on Dvorak and 60wpm on colemak. But it was such a a pain in the ass for everything else that I gave up.

Still regret it.

Hey I have extra keyboards and time now…

I saw a shiny penny on the street today. I think that’s the realistic version.

You should definitely post in a relevant community to help build the proverbial field of dreams!

!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

!buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works

Can confirm.

As someone who just wanted to play games and build stuff after getting bored with constant “ricing” a few years ago, garuda has been great. All the comforts of arch and some really great usability out of the box.

Fire dragon here and yeah, sometimes Google won’t even let me log in either.

Why don’t they have free will?

How about: there’s no difference between actually free will and an infinite universe of infinite variables affecting your programming, resulting in a belief that you have free will. Heck, a couple million variables is more than plenty to confuddle these primate brains.

Seems satisfactory to me.

To a significant extent, they do, contracting for construction of generation and transmission (very often renewable), at least at the largest scale.

But, it’s (mostly) all on the grid.

With demand like that, it’s not like there isn’t significant negotiation with the local power company, especially because they’re frequently built a significant distance from existing large power infrastructure.

Heck, all the big 3 cloud providers signed deals for nuclear generation in the last few months. https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powered-data-center

Here’s just one more article about these sorts of investments: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/google-has-a-20b-plan-to-build-data-centers-and-clean-power-together