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[–] uthredii@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

People on mastodon are calling it enshitification day lol

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have never used Apollo before, what can you do with custom gestures?

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

You should try out wefwef.app

It is an Apollo like web app for Lemmy.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Yep its really impressive for such an early project.

Having said that I can't work out how to edit comments/posts I have made.

It would also be nice to have a preview of your comment too.

Hopefully they add that at some point.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the list. I don't want to go through the effort of installing from github so am just trying the web apps for now.

Wefwef is really good so far!

[–] uthredii@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

never had that issue before, as long as they have the same version and config

Then you are very lucky. "It worked on my machine" is a meme for a reason.

wasn’t that possible before with snapshotting (btrfs/lvm)?

I haven't used snapshotting with those before. I guess the difference is that with nix it is done by the package manager by default, with btrfs/lvm you would have to set that up independently (please correct of this is not the case).

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So how useful it is in practice?

It's useful for quite a few things in practise:

  • You can be sure software that is packaged with nix will behave the same on different computers.
  • You can avoid dependency conflicts.
  • You can automate some things that would otherwise take multiple (mostly manual steps) on other systems.

This video shows off some of the cool things you can do with nix: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Le0IbPRzOE&feature=share9

How do updates work?

You update a programming by specifying the latest version of a program in config and rebuilding.

You update the OS by pointing to the channel you want to use and rebuilding.

You can time travel back to a previous state if anything goes wrong.

Can it play Crysis?

I expect so, some people.do use nix for gaming.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is also available on macos

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phillips Obrien (Military historian and war commentator) gives his take on the coup so far: https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-prigozhin-coup-seems-pretty-damn?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

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