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Meh, who cares about performance benchmarks for phones?

I'm much more interested to see how power efficient Tensor 4 is, and whether or not they've fixed the connectivity issues.

They have a GUI package manager? That's news to me. When I tried it out last year, package management was handled by nix-env or configuration.nix.

Anyway, I found it much harder than Arch because it requires learning a completely new paradigm of system management. There is a very high upfront investment in learning multiple new concepts in order to change even the most basic aspects of your system - What are flakes? What are channels? What is home-manager?

Also, the documentation and online support is far more sparse. If you encounter an issue, it's much more likely that you can find the solution for Arch through the wiki or a forum than it is with NixOS. There also tends to be no single way to resolve a problem, and so a lot of the information you find online may appear contradictory and confusing.

Aurora/Bluefin or Silverblue/Kinoite.

Good lord. If you're not already familiar with NixOS, there are far, far easier ways to go immutable.

Configuring Nix makes Arch seem like a walk in the park.

That's somewhat confusing since a classical liberal and a modern social liberal are quite distinct things. Plus, even two hundred years ago liberals were distinct from conservatives.

I suppose to tankies, it's liberals all the way down.

Trick question. Anyone to the right of tankies but left of conservatives is a liberal, as far as tankies are concerned.

Trump did; it's a matter of public record. He violated court instructions about blabbing to the media ten times, and was held in contempt by the judge twice.

He repeatedly make false and misleading statements about the trial, the judge, the witnesses, and even the jury on social media and to the press in the entrance hall of the court building itself. The idiot just couldn't stop himself.

Had he been a regular citizen instead of a former president, he would have almost certainly done jail time just for his behavior during the trial.

I don't think this analysis is correct. This unwavering support is true of Trump supporters today, but back in the run up to the 2016 there were definitely people who voted for Trump who would have changed their mind had the "grab them by the pussy" tape been immediately followed up by a media storm surrounding more awkward sexual allegations coming from from a porn star.

The Trump team clearly thought so - presidential campaigns are nothing if not obsessive about how optics can affect their candidates in key states, and by how much. The fact that they went to such lengths to cover it up was indicative of how impactful they feared it would be among swing voters.

I've only tinkered with Nix in a VM so I'm no expert, but I will say this: for every person that raves about it, it seems there's someone else who decided that the hassle of learning an entirely new way to do pretty much everything on a Linux system, often with sparse documentation, wasn't worth the time investment.

Your experience sounds pretty much par for the course, to me. People who think Arch is hard have obviously never tried Nix.

They didn't have crew cabs back then, which is kinda the point.

Edit: correction - they did, but it wasn't until the mid-2000s that they became common.

The Maverick is new and while it does buck the trend of "bigger is always better", all it signifies to me is that Ford are diversifying their range of pickups now that they don't make any small cars or sedans in the US any more, which is kind of emblematic of the whole problem.

There were several posts about it across multiple Lemmy communities about 4 weeks ago.

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