It’s a new distro that’s putting effort into marketing. The last time I saw a distro really market was Ubuntu, nearly 20 years ago.
Anything that gets people in the door is a good thing.
I ran Omarchy for a few days, but switched over to Fedora after a few security incidents were announced. A vibe coded system made me nervous, but I was trying to put my vibe coding prejudices aside.
There are dozens of distros out there that are little more than a specific desktop environment with a new customizations and a theme. Hating on Omarchy any more than the others doesn’t make too much sense to me.
Omarchy is popular for the same reason Manjaro was popular, people want Arch without the time, decisions, and maintenance of starting from nothing.
It also did look pretty cool, and the themes were a nice touch. Most people don’t have the patience to do all of that themselves.
All that said, I don’t think Omarchy is going to be the gateway to Linux for the mainstream. Coming with a timing window manager will scare away most average users… or frustrate them into leaving. Very few people want a learning curve on moving a window around.
The Linux community as a whole can learn something from all this. Make stuff look cool, easy to use, and add in a little marketing, and it will get a lot of attention. Also, that last 10% to take something from functional to smooth and enjoyable matters a lot. It seems like Linux has always had trouble with that, as not a lot of people want to do that finishing work. If they do a really good job, no one will notice. People only notice when it’s bad.
My read is that the Air Marshal was confirming a gap in the orders, which were amended after this flight. Less of a "what the hell were you thinking" and more of a "what the hell were we thinking allowing this in the first place?"
No, Election Day is not a paid holiday, or even a recognized holiday. Public schools are generally out (at least the ones used as voting precints) but folks have work, and typically most "in person" votes are cast after 5pm (after folks traditionally leave work).
Mail in voting has been something that the elderly, infirmed, workers, and folks in the military have done for decades. It's remarkably secure and quite auditable. The issue the right has with it is that the folks that vote by mail (the military notwithstanding) are typically democrats.
It is not a paid holiday. It isn't an unpaid holiday either. And if you work a minimum wage job, you probably need to work as many hours as you can. And if you don't show up to work on Tuesday, don't bother showing up on Wednesday because you don't have that job anymore.
This is absolutely discriminatory against the poor. That's why the republicans fight for these types of restrictions and democrats fight against them.
I’m not sure I’m quite ready to take on 3 books to figure this out - can you explain a little bit what you mean about quality work? Consider my interest piqued!
per the article, because the stub pipe counter bore had to be drilled after that end of the pipe was welded in place, so directly measuring pipe wall thickness wasn't practical
I’m so happy to see the negative Perplexity posts today. I felt like I was taking crazy pills hearing people think this service was at all useful/trustworthy.
The credit reporting agencies lost the data of normal people, they didn’t lose their customers proprietary internal data. The credit agencies didn’t loose or misplace their customers data, so obviously their customers don’t really care that much, and the credit agencies weren’t sued into oblivion.
But I can guarantee you that if a companies internal data got leaked or misused, then every single enterprise customer of that lab would turn around and start suing them. As an enterprise customer you would be foolish not to, if only if figure out via discovery just how badly you got screwed.
You want to see how nasty that can get. Just go and look at what Apple is doing to OpenAI at the moment. Do you really think Apple wouldn’t find a way to sue a lab into oblivion if they discovered a lab had secretly started training on their data?
I finally dipped into using ImHex when doing some reversing of the PS2 memory card format for https://ps2iodb.com.
The program is so good, and has enough of a reputation that I knew to reach for it even though I know nothing about reversing, and that was 3-4 years ago now! Also shoutout to the awesome GUI library is uses; https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
It's a good thing then that there's an entire existing profession dedicated to exactly this class of problem.
To go from a spec through the buggy outputs of a bunch of imperfect writers, debug it, and obtain a finished product that hopefully works just well enough to earn the investment back.
It’s funny, it’s obviously understandable why someone would vibe code a placeholder website, we’ve all probably done it. But I’m realizing a basic unstyled html thing with minimal copy is probably a better signal at this point for startups, it makes it clear you are still working on it rather than giving up the impression you might think your vibeslop is the finished product.
> Within the space of four seconds, the energy from the annulus gas flow accelerated the IP turbine past its critical speed, until centrifugal forces exceeded the ultimate strength of the nickel alloy disk. The red-hot, wildly spinning disk instantly fractured into several sections, which rocketed outward in multiple directions at incomprehensible speed.
So these rules by the Federal government were implemented to stop mail in voting from being abused as it has been for some time. The US Postal Inspections Service was being heavily abused by the government in times past in ways that were blatantly illegal. Hardly a peep was had about that, but everyone being up in arms about this tells me that the same people who were abusing the US Postal Inspections Service are probably upset that they won't be able to abuse mail in ballots the same way as they were that service.
I grew up on a farm about 100 miles from where this guy lived. I have never heard of him until now. The type of farming he did wasn't used on working farms since before he (1930s) was born. And there aren't any working farms along the Kentucky river. So yes, he was a LARPer.
PS Its distilleries that are along the river and the land there is far too hilly to grow row crops.
You can bet that if the board of directors could show that unscrambling the omelet would result in greater shareholder value produced, it would suddenly be really easy to do...
So, if you want your installation of macOS 15.0 to pass the UNIX® 03 certification test suites, you need to disable System Integrity Protection, enable the root account, enable core file generation, disable timeout coalescing, mount any APFS partitions with the strictatime option, format your APFS partitions case-sensitive (by default, APFS is case-insensitive, so you’ll need to reinstall), disable Spotlight, copy the binaries uucp, uuname, uustat, and uux from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin and the binaries uucico and uuxqt from /usr/sbin to /usr/local/bin, set the setuid bit on all of these binaries, add /usr/local/bin to your PATH before /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, enable the uucp service, and handle the mystery issues listed in the four Temporary Waivers.
Thanks for your response, very intriguing! I have some controls background, and there’s something tantalizing about the idea that perhaps we need to be looking at the brain in frequency space, as it were. Are you aware of reservoir computing and do you see it playing a part in this?
Of course people in US are very wealthy if you are looking at dollar amounts. It would be impossible for cost of living to be this high, without a lot of people having decent amount of wealth.
But people's perception of their own wealth depends way more on relative value of their wealth compared to cost of living. If you live in a city where some shitty 2 bedroom apartments cost 1m$+, you aren't going to feel all that rich even if you have 10 million dollar net worth.
For the cost of a small amount of metadata the offsets of every MiB or so could be stored. I did something like this with pigz as I was implementing multithreaded compressed and encrypted kernel zone suspend and resume for Solaris.
Anything that gets people in the door is a good thing.
I ran Omarchy for a few days, but switched over to Fedora after a few security incidents were announced. A vibe coded system made me nervous, but I was trying to put my vibe coding prejudices aside.
There are dozens of distros out there that are little more than a specific desktop environment with a new customizations and a theme. Hating on Omarchy any more than the others doesn’t make too much sense to me.
Omarchy is popular for the same reason Manjaro was popular, people want Arch without the time, decisions, and maintenance of starting from nothing.
It also did look pretty cool, and the themes were a nice touch. Most people don’t have the patience to do all of that themselves.
All that said, I don’t think Omarchy is going to be the gateway to Linux for the mainstream. Coming with a timing window manager will scare away most average users… or frustrate them into leaving. Very few people want a learning curve on moving a window around.
The Linux community as a whole can learn something from all this. Make stuff look cool, easy to use, and add in a little marketing, and it will get a lot of attention. Also, that last 10% to take something from functional to smooth and enjoyable matters a lot. It seems like Linux has always had trouble with that, as not a lot of people want to do that finishing work. If they do a really good job, no one will notice. People only notice when it’s bad.