well sure, it’ll be worse. Not like EA has had a glorious track record or produced original and innovative/good games in the past god knows how many years. They’ll just transition purely to the Madden and Battlefield company with some Sims sprinkled in every now and again. that’s it. Mass Effect is pretty much going to be done and dusted. fat chance we’ll ever see another Titanfall. And I bet they’ll buy the license for WWE from 2k or just offer WWE/TKO more money. With how closely the Saudi’s are now with WWE and the fact EA already has the UFC…yeah makes sense.

I grew up in Cambridge Ontario, we had community mailboxes there since the 80s. It wasn’t until I moved to Toronto in my 20s that I discovered Canada Post does door to door mail delivery.

I mean there was no need to notify anyone. you just checked the mailbox every day. If you had a package there was a key in your regular mailbox that would open the larger boxes at the bottom. then you’d just throw the key in the mailslot at the top of the community mailbox.

I always assumed this was a thing.

loose cigarettes that come in a big ziplock bag that resembles a loaf of bread. Some people keep them in their freezer so as to “stay fresh”.

to tack onto this CachyOS is a fantastic introduction to Arch.

well it’s the price duh. I’d even go as far as to say that in Toronto the majority of smokers are now smoking native smokes as opposed to “legal” cigarettes.

a pack of Belmonts small king in many places will run you just over $20 a pack. $20! why pay that when you can just drive to the nearest rez and buy a loaf of cigarettes for practically the same price. Or hell, now, they’ll come to you with cartons/loafs. Guy I know does beer delivery that isn’t via the LCBO/Beer Store and they also sell these cigarettes. you just go online, put in your order for beer and smokes, and like an hour or two later they’re at your door with your stuff. he’s making a killing. especially on holidays when the LCBO shuts down.

Try Pop. They just put Cosmic into Beta and updated the OS so now would be a great time to give it a shot. Or just load up a bunch of distro live isos on like a thumb drive or external drive and try them all and see which one you like the best. There’s zero harm in distro hopping and you should never feel like you need to lock yourself down to one distro for months or years on end. I myself distro hop all the time when I want to switch up my linux experience. good way to learn them all too. I’ll bounce around from Arch to Fedora back to Arch then to NixOS over to Void or whatever I want. I run NixOS on my main machine, have CachyOS/Arch on another and my server is Ubuntu. And all that will change soon as I want to go and try out one of the new KDE distros or something completely different.

Before reading the article I assumed it was involuntary care for mentally ill people living on the streets…but for addiction rehab? how the hell is that going to work?

FORCE someone to get clean? that never works. it’s a waste of money. Now if these were for mentally ill individuals on the streets, sure I’m all for it. I personally believe it’s more cruel and inhumane to allow people that are mentally checked out to wander the streets and cause harm to themselves and others than receive involuntary treatment. But for addiction? it’ll never work. The only way to get clean is if you want to get clean. I’m a recovering alcoholic myself and the only way it stuck for me was when I actually WANTED to be sober and I have been for 10+ years. But it ONLY worked when I wanted it. trying previous times? didn’t stick because I didn’t care.

this isn’t going to work at all.

Mainly because of Claude Code.

CC is better than the web based Claude especially when it comes to actual coding since it’s embedded with whatever project you’re working on.

Claude really excels when it’s right in the thick of it with you. Thus, again, you REALLY have to hold it’s hand. I personally don’t think it’s as great as others make it out to be.

Claude is fine but you REALLY have to hold its hand in order to get any sort of decent solution. if you don’t 9 times out of 10 it’ll just make something up based purely on a forum or repo post. you have to tell it to provide sources so as to prevent the usual BS it’ll spew out.

I found once you hold it’s hand and scold it a few times it will provide decent solutions but then by that point you’ve essentially turned it into a fancy search engine.

Honestly just use whatever you want whenever you want. I mean for myself I’m currently using DOOM Emacs but that’ll change in a month or two when I decide to use something else. I’ll routinely rotate through Neovim/LazyVim, DOOM Emacs, Zed, Kate, whatever really. if something new comes along, i’ll use that for a bit. Hell sometimes I just can’t be bothered and will just use Nano.

But yeah, they’re all fine. use whatever you want.

but what’s there to stabilize? It’s quite literally Arch Linux with a Hyprland config. The support for it, I imagine, will be dreadful. You can’t get support for it from the Arch Forums as they will NOT help you if it’s not actual Arch Linux and regardless of the fact this IS actually just Arch with a logo slapped on it the Arch Forums aren’t going to touch it.

It’s just a sleezy dude marketing his dotfiles.

sure but it’s like saying to someone “here’s the Linux Pool! dive in!” and then you show them a kiddie pool that has Arch Logos on it that have been scratched out and it’s full of piss. Not a great introduction to Linux imho.

I know when I tried to sign up with Herztwhatever, the other popular European one, they wanted my ID and I said no way. but yeah OVH has never once asked for mine.

really? I never had to do that. They’ve left me alone since I originally signed up with them.

Soooooo it’s Arch with a bunch of shit you don’t need. I mean that’s it? nothing improved? performance tweaks? custom kernel? it’s just arch with hyprland and I think a custom menu purely for styling? oh and the hyprland config opens Twitter for you too with a keybind…wow.

yeah fuck it you can close them all.

For awhile I used Amazon Lockers because packages would constantly get stolen in my build. There was a locker near by that was great and worked well. just put in your code and you’re good to go.

Then Amazon decided “no, we have the opportunity to get everyone on the app when they want to use a locker lets have it where you can only open a locker via the amazon app” problem is the damn thing never works. So they replaced pretty much all the lockers in downtown Toronto with these horrible bluetooth ones simply because it forces people to use the Amazon app.

fuck em. stopped using Amazon after that.

yeah basically it locks it to your current build/system.

So for example I use it for my overall system config. I have a flake, a configuration.nix, and a home.nix all of which are tied to my git repo. I make a change to the system be it installing a package or modifying something or other I can then push that to my git repo. Say I want to take my system as is and put it on another pc/laptop I can then go on the new machine, clone my nix repo, and build it now that new machine is exactly the same setup as my main machine. Like a few weeks ago I put Arch on my main machine for a couple weeks and then went back to nix. It took less than 10minutes to install NixOS and get my machine back to where it was exactly prior to putting Arch on it.

For Dev work flakes allows you to bypass the whole “well it works on my machine” since you develop in flakes you can take that development environment anywhere and it’ll always work regardless of what machine you put it on.

Think of it sort of like a Docker container.

I got started on NixOS on a whim really. I distro hopped every so often and like a month ago I wanted to try something different. Already used Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc but figured I’d give NixOS a shot.

At first I hated it and it just confused the hell out of me. Then when someone told me I should use flake for my config so I could through it in a repo it just clicked. Once you figure it out and “get it” it just becomes so easy. I’m still a noob at it but I absolutely love NixOS. It just makes everything so easy when you got everything in a flake with a config and home nix. Even backups are easy as you literally can just put it in your config to run. I even have it how where it’ll toss out old generations after 10 days automatically.

Plus the fact I can just use stuff without actually installing it is awesome. as a Dev NixOS is brilliant for that.

either Sonic Adventure 2 or Doom Eternal.

Sonic Adventure 2 is just silly, it’s like a 10 to 15second loop of a slightly different version of the main theme but it’s got this like added guitar (I’m not a musician AT ALL) that just really kicks it up a notch. hell I even have the mp3 of it that i’ll listen on loop for a few minutes.

Also the original Apex Legends menu music and character selection music was VERY good.

I have OVH for dedicated but I’ve also used their VPS and they’re great. They leave me alone, don’t hound me for anything, cheap prices, reliable as I’ve never had issues them. can’t complain. They’re Euro based but they have servers near me in Montreal so I use that which is great when I put my VPN on there cause now I get student discounts everywhere since my server is at McGill University.