My favourite unusual one is sichuan pepper powder on garlic bread. Originated in me rummaging through my spices for stuff to add to my garlic bread and I really liked this. I now add it to garlic bread, pizzas, that sort of thing.

Cumin is also a great all purpose spice I put on many things. Cumin+turmeric for curry-flavoured things, but also cumin+salt+pepper+rosemary+garlic granules for anything roasted.

That’s concerning. If it was “I generated a function with an LLM and reviewed it myself” I’d be much less concerned, but 14k added lines and 10k removed lines is crazy. We already know that LLMs don’t generate up to scratch code quality…

I won’t use PostgreSQL with ntfy, and keep an eye on it to see if they continue down this path for other parts of ntfy. If so I’ll have to switch to another UP provider.

Nobody can defy the laws of thermodynamics, but some people can be genetically predisposed to being fatter, just as some people are genetically predisposed to being taller. Plenty of skinny people (myself included) can eat through loads of fatty fried foods and not put on a single kg. Meanwhile you see a fat person eating all salads and they get told maybe they should eat fewer salads.

And even if it were entirely down to what you eat, calling it an issue of willpower is just insulting. Do you think people struggling with drug addiction just have a willpower issue? If OP is in the US (which I’m assuming she is from the described healthcare system), the food there is designed to be practically addictive and unhealthy. I doubt OP has a diet of cheeseburgers and doritos—it wouldn’t make sense for someone trying to lose weight to eat like that—but if she did, that’s clearly a social issue of both fast food companies under capitalism, availability of healthy food, and a US food culture centred around destroying your arteries. Sure, a drug addict could simply physically not pick up the needle, but they can hardly be blamed for doing so when there is an obvious material reason for them doing so, ie a chemical addiction.

In my own experience, runit is much faster to boot than systemd. Perhaps your experiences differ but I know a lot of people say the same.

I agree start-up time is not a big deal. I just mentioned it as it’s the only real performance difference I’ve noticed between OSes.

The car-centric culture of many places (especially the US, but it does apply in basically all of the industrialised world to varying degrees) is due to infrastructural factors. If a country is designed to be navigated by car, then you need a car to participate in that society. That’s why people want cars.

Things like the freedom of having a car are also from social factors. A lot of people learn to drive as teenagers, and want to escape the patriarchal environment of the family, hence a car provides freedom. In a world where children are socially raised and the family is abolished, teenagers don’t seek to escape from the family. And, of course, a car can be a way of providing freedom because other means of freedom of movement don’t exist—a lack of accommodation for disabled people to get around, a lack of public transport and safe cycle routes, etc.

Most people wouldn’t want to give up their car for those reasons. If we just got rid of all cars without addressing any of these issues, I’m sure most people would be unhappy about it. So if that’s what you’re suggesting, plenty of people do stand to lose. But if we address the issues that make cars the only option for a lot of people, I don’t think the average person would care. Car enthusiasts can still have their cars, but it becomes a hobby or lifestyle choice, like people who have a boat. And car haters would most certainly be a lot happier too.

My weight varies around 50kg and there was a stretch of a few years where I tried bulking up to put on muscle. I found it very difficult and only got up to about 65kg where I plateaued (and it was damn difficult to get to that point—required an annoying amount of calorie-counting). I think my body is just naturally averse to putting on weight. It naturally follows that there are some people with the inverse problem, where their bodies naturally want to keep fat. I have friends who say they have this problem, and I have no reason to believe they’re lying; they know I wouldn’t judge if they just said they like eating and don’t feel like changing. There’s 8 billion people on Earth and plenty of genetic diversity among us. Of all the fat people in the world, you really think every single one of them is incapable of simply eating less? Or do you think I’m too stupid to decide to eat more food? Come on.

I don’t think Arch is the distro I would go for if I just wanted speed. I suppose it depends on speed of what—generally systemd Linux will boot noticeably faster than Windows, and non-systemd Linux boots noticeably faster than systemd Linux—but once you’re booted up, I don’t think there’s a significant performance difference. Arch is a Linux distro that uses systemd so it’d be the middle option if you’re wanting fast boots. There are other minimalist distros too, some of which end up in arguably faster systems, but Arch is probably the easiest of the minimalist distros due to being well-documented and supported. But the reason for going for a minimalist distro is usually customisability, not performance. On modern hardware the performance difference is negligible. On very old hardware, you should be looking for another distro made specifically for old hardware (I don’t think Arch even supports 32-bit).

My mostly-vanilla (ie mods don’t hugely change gameplay/add anything crazy) Rimworld runs fine on my probably what’s considered mid-range PC. I second the other commenter; you probably need to cut back on the mods.

You’re shadowboxing with a nonexistent Linux user. People do that kind of stuff as a hobby, not for status. Most people who are into that sort of thing are too asocial to use any social capital they might have anyway.

This isn’t gen Z slang. It’s largely butchered AAVE (which is an entirely valid dialect with its own internally consistent grammar and vocabulary). Many such cases.

There are different server implementations. I run tuwunel and haven’t had problems. It seems about as performant on my VPS (8GB RAM, 4 CPUs at 2.4 GHz, hosting other services not just tuwunel) as matrix.org was when I used that.

I don’t. I don’t care how much AI “evolves”. I don’t need it so I don’t use it.

Restaurants exist and some of them are quite good. But I still have a home cooked meal for every meal. The existence of restaurants doesn’t make home cooking obsolete.

It didn’t symbolise that. It symbolises the unity between the industrial proletariat and the peasantry. It’s not about different proletarian occupations; it’s about a class alliance between two working classes.

The peasantry doesn’t exist anymore in most parts of the world, but imo most people understand the hammer and sickle to symbolise communism anyway so it still works.

Having bought some novelty/artisan keycaps, I’d say my main problem is that they don’t match my other keycaps. They’ll be too tall, too short, the plane is at a slight angle compared to the other keycaps, etc. It’s a shame; if only they came in the exact same dimensions as my other keycaps they would look so cool. But to me they feel a little funny to type on when one of my keys is noticeably a different height/angle/etc to my other keys.

if you cannot even htop, then I doubt a daemon could do something.

The point is that a daemon can catch it before it reaches that point by killing processes that are using too much resources, before all the system resources are used up.

Thanks. I’ve had a couple of comments suggesting that it might be a memory leak instead of CPU usage anyway so I’ve installed earlyoom and we’ll see if that can diagnose the problem, if not I’ll look into CPU solutions.

Open a console with top/htop and check if it will be visible when the system halts.

That would require me to have a second machine up all the time sshed in with htop open, no? Sometimes this happens on the server while I’m asleep and I don’t really want a second machine running 24/7.

Afraid I’m using OpenRC.

They get trained. Think about humans for example. There’s lots of stuff we don’t think twice about doing that aren’t necessarily things we would naturally do; they’re taught to us socially and we get used to them as part of life. Horses were domesticated, firstly selectively bred to be friendlier to humans and faster, but secondly they still get trained to form a bond with humans and to do what humans want them to do. They get used to being ridden.

Wow, that surprises me. I did LFS with Sys-V (didn’t continue to use it after I set up X11 as I couldn’t be bothered with package maintenance/mostly did it as an exercise rather than for the sake of the finished system) and found it a fun project.

I wonder how many LFS users use GNOME or something that depends on systemd…