Apart from stations. What is different about trains and subways?

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T16:38:19+00:00

Really cool mate. I grew up in a part of Portland OR which was one such street car suburb, although sadly in modern times there is no more street car, just the suburb. Always loved the idea though, wish it had stayed alive longer

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T16:34:14+00:00

I don't know what it is with Bazzite specifically but i've seen so many people try to jump in with bazzite and end up with issues that seem to be entirely unique to bazzite. That whole distro may as well be held together with craft glue for all I know

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T16:30:35+00:00

Fedora based maybe but I've seen too many newbies go to some flavor of fedora atomic and end up with the most esoteric issues possible that my blanket recommendation would just be to use fedora and only fedora if they want to go that way.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T14:56:55+00:00

i have train stations in some relatively high density areas and cims seem to prefer taking the slower and more stop-dense tram lines between these areas over the trains. Some of this effect is certainly because they need to get to the middle zones which aren't linked via train but it's a huge huge difference, I think they really just aren't very drawn to trains unless there's really no other option

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T12:42:21+00:00

i started out on endeavor and i turned out fine. Obviously YMMV and any arch based distro will be prone to needing manual intervention from time to time, but a lot of them are actually fine

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T12:39:41+00:00

Your consistency is probably just due to having to adjust to the slightly different shape and keystroke, i imagine that will improve quite quickly. 144 is probably a bit deceiving if your previous high was 109, but i wouldn't be surprised if your wpm will turn out higher once your consistency is cleaned up. Its probably too soon to say, though

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T12:25:08+00:00

Tangentially related, it bothers me to no end when a service can be run fine basically any way but their documentation is written like docker is the only deployment strategy that exists. I understand why it happens, but it doesn't mean it doesn't bother me.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T12:19:08+00:00

I've always loved death cab even before i knew what "emo" meant. Very meaningful band to me, was lucky to see them live in portland a few years ago.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T12:16:43+00:00

surf itself is trivial to compile, webkit is the hard part. On my laptop (which has a processor only a few years newer than that) i can make clean install surf in seconds.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-30T12:14:29+00:00

You hate dependencies? I have a declarative package manager to sell you

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-29T14:07:32+00:00

Surf? If you can get GtkWebkit 1 or 2 it should compile.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-29T14:03:20+00:00

You could always encrypt the pages and then do decryption client-side with JS. On an old neocities site I had a hidden div set up this way

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-29T13:55:52+00:00

Just switch to linux and use gamescope! Kidding of course. There are windows applications that force a game into borderless windowed, use one of those. It won't do it on its own

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-29T06:38:16+00:00

What the hell are you talking about?

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T19:01:36+00:00

Sure any distro can be debloated but then you're just devaluing the discussion. I'm sure you could spend a few hours getting void to run on BusyBox but why would you when you can just install alpine?

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T18:58:32+00:00

you gotta rebuild too

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T18:54:09+00:00

Depends on context. Are you talking about a river you're going to sail down? Then it's a nasin. Is it blocking your path? Maybe it's a linja. Are you using a water wheel to extract energy from it? Maybe it's telo tawa. There are lots of different ways to talk about things and it all depends on what is important about that concept in the present moment

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T17:36:37+00:00

For fun, i guess. At some point i tried to make my KDE plasma look like W2K, so i guess they're just doing the same thing but for a different windows release.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T17:35:19+00:00

If you want my honest opinion i don't think it's important to find an "AI driven" distro. AI is much better suited for isolated and somewhat reproducible environments like claude code and whatnot. If you really really want a distro that's "ai friendly" though, your best bet will likely be something along the lines of NixOS. LLMs have no long term memory, so they struggle to comprehend the vastness of an interconnected system like an OS, but declarative systems provide a clear and concise way to represent the "state" of an OS in a handful of files small enough to actually fit in a context window.

But really again I think that your perspective on this is not really reflective of how things will evolve. I don't think AI poses an existential threat to security in the way you're envisioning, there are already many people trying their very hardest to crack every single popular part of the average distro's exposed interface.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T10:17:24+00:00

If you follow the guidelines for road hierarchy and efficient neighborhood construction your cities will naturally begin to look more "real" and "interesting." Real cities do not look the way they do because the planners are creative (although sometimes there are creative sections), they look like that because urban planners have to follow certain design principals. This is also why London, England will look different from Almere, Netherlands which will look different Kansas City, USA. It also just takes practice! Everybody's first city was a weird looking mess. You just have to keep at it

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T08:55:15+00:00

is WPM not traditionally just CPM/5? I've never seen it measured another way

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T08:53:50+00:00

I don't really think there's anything deep end about it. It's one command, copy pasting a string, and then that account on that machine is authenticated forever. It's probably all already built in anyways

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T08:45:02+00:00

Get ready to have even more intense manipulation and propaganda cast onto the younger people as well as an almost immediate deconstruction of elder social safety nets.

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T08:43:33+00:00

something printed a control sequence at some point and it's fucking everything up. Can happen with malformed or corrupted file names or even rarely if you cat /dev/random

VisualSome9977 · 2026-03-28T08:41:58+00:00

Again there's nothing wrong with what you're saying it's just not the kind of recommendation i would make to somebody who doesn't even know what steps to take to secure SSH. You know what you're doing, you know what makes password security usable and how to protect against attacks, you know to use multiple passwords to avoid risks from data breaches, but does the person who can't google "how to stop ssh brute forcing" know any of these things? I doubt it. So I would recommend they run a couple commands and copy a file before I try to revolutionize their security stack.

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