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They said they can’t do that in the article:

but at the same time, we cannot ‘take over’ the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications

They’re both “immutable” in the sense that they’re setting up either read-only Filesystem Hierarchies (as in bazzite, which uses ostree) or Symlinking their entire filesystem hierarchy to a read-only “store” (as in nixos).

Bazzite uses something called ostree to “diff” the filesystem hierarchy much like git does, while Nix basically makes giant read-only store of files and hashes them, then weaves them all together into a “view” of a filesystem that gets symlinked into the context of a running program.

A real flatpak cake would come wrapped in the oven used to bake it.

And then when those AI also have issues do we use the AI to check the AI for the AI?

If you’re putting in that much work, please submit those edits to musicbrainz! We need all the help we can get 😭

As a musicbrainz editor, don’t depend entirely on Picard and musicbrainz for correct tagging either cause shit isn’t as well curated as you think.

You need to encode the metadata in a standard way, encode new data that shows up in a standard way, and various people can add more metadata to files: think like Posix ACLs or the immutable flag or whatever.

Nix actually invented a fork of tar specifically for this called “normalized archive” or “Nix Archive” or nar. Guix uses this too:

https://releases.nixos.org/nix/nix-2.22.0/manual/protocols/nix-archive.html

“here is a checksum of my /usr/lib folder, if yours differs from mine I can’t provide installation support”

Hey, Guix user here, I…if you want we… We could recommend to each other…

Is this just hosted nextcloud with collabora office pre installed?

Shepherd my love!

I’ve used SystemD for years and the pure joy writing system initialization units in Scheme gives me can’t be overstated.

Seriously, a lot of times I feel like I stick with Guix’s many problems just for shepherd.

I have also been done in many times by git-filter-repo. My condolences to the chef.

I’m not sure if it would work for your situation but you seem to be able to ssh into a server on that network? If so you can run a browser on that computer and tunnel the X session over ssh:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/running-x-window-graphical-application-over-ssh-session.html

Otherwise neko seems neat, I’ve actually been looking for something for watch parties.

I’m not sure how you’re getting wallpaper engine to work on Linux because it’s not supported on anything other than windows.

Are you using Wallpaper Engine? If so you are likely going to keep having issues with your screen blanking while you try and use it, as it’s not supported on Linux.

“The future” is whatever the majority of young people decide it will be, regardless of it’s the past or not.

Jokes aside I actually do appreciate that almost all guix packages are verified source and not just copy scripts of already built tarballs.

Guix is awesome!

Nonguix substitute server is down for the fifth straight day, forcing me to rebuild the entire Linux kernel when updating

And you should Never use it!

I agree to some degree but the gnu project doesn’t have a great track record for performative hosting (savannah is very prone to going down for long periods of time.)

I don’t begrudge better hosting infrastructure from a different non-profit.