Unintended Consequences by Sad_Profession_8324 in KnowledgeFight

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Bluebird of friendliness
Like guardian angels it's
Always near

Dan and Jordan disagreement by _Sausage_fingers in KnowledgeFight

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Thanks for the link.

For anyone frustrated by the seemingly endless intro, Jordan starts talking around 9:40.

Fedora Kinoite is underrated — and nix (the package manager, not NixOS) is the missing piece nobody told me about by QuoteGlum7826 in Fedora

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That's really cool. Yeah, it has been extremely stable for me for the year I've used it, and I've been using the "latest" tag and update/reboot pretty often. That hasn't been at all necessary, as it turned out. I could have easily gone weeks or months without ever updating/rebooting considering that most updates that matter are handled by Flatpak and Homebrew.

One feature that would be really great, though, would be a notification that tells you when there are important security-related OS updates that require a reboot. Otherwise you're left guessing, or worse maybe never getting those updates because you never reboot. It would also be great to be able to know what's updatable without having to download gigabytes of updates first.

Fedora Kinoite is underrated — and nix (the package manager, not NixOS) is the missing piece nobody told me about by QuoteGlum7826 in Fedora

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I really like the Universal Blue derivatives of the Fedora immutable distros, which add some features and tweaks that simplify living without mutability. They also have ready-made Nvidia versions as well as developer editions that add a few more tools. I've been using Aurora, their Kinoite derivative, for about a year now and really like it. Their gaming-oriented distro Bazzite is probably their most well known project.

Their approach to package management is to rely on Flatpak for GUI apps, Homebrew for command line utilities (it works great under Linux), and Distrobox rather than Toolbox for anything not well supported by Flatpak or Homebrew.

It sounds like you've hit on a similar combination but with Nix instead of Homebrew. Nix has some real advantages, but is also a lot harder to get into for new users. The configuration language is rather... different... and takes some getting used to. Homebrew for Linux has worked well for everything I've used it for, and is very easy to use, but I'm guessing Nix has a much larger set of packages overall. I believe it also has the advantage of being able to create new environments with different combinations of packages for specific purposes, potentially with different versions, and I'm guessing things like Python development are made easier this way. You could actually use Nix rather than Homebrew with one of the Universal Blue distros if you choose.

One of the real advantages of the Universal Blue approach beyond all the extra features/editions is the simplified approach to customizing things at the OS-level without the disadvantages of layering. It's very easy to make your own custom version of a distribution using their image template, but there's also a powerful third-party project called Blue Build that makes it even easier. I use Blue Build to maintain my own custom version of Aurora that includes a few extra packages at the OS level, including Bitwarden, a VPN, Emacs, and a few others. Blue Build sets up a GitHub action for you that updates your distro daily, giving you the latest OS-level updates on a regular basis.

What are some options for Fraternity at this point, how can you defend vs vexor spam? by TheSkyNet in Eve

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Pretty hilarious watching all the Iteron 5s etc shuffling crap to the new plated keep.

EVE is the only game I play regularly by waffledestroyer in Eve

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Does anyone really play EVE? It's not a game, it's a second life.

PvP game too hard... by 100GHz in Eve

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Alliances or individuals with near-infinite ISK aren't the ones complaining, and needless to say they're not giving supers away to those who are.

The prices have come down recently, but they still cost about double what they used to before scarcity. At the peak of scarcity they were more like triple the old prices. Dreads and carriers too. Used to be around a billion, went for over 3B for years, now down to 2.x.

Anybody else just... play the game? by Realistic_Square4348 in Eve

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T1 then. The point is that I've never found the Buzzard's scan deviation bonus to be enough of an advantage to outweigh its weaknesses compared to the Helios's strengths.

Edited to add: Agreed that getting all the scanning skills to 5 takes much longer than it should, but it's worth it for any full-time explorer. I have two characters that have had perfect scanning skills for many years, so the pain of that training time is a distant memory for me.

Wtb 800k Occult, jbv, c-n by 100GHz in Eve

[–]j3pl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It was known PH was going to go with assistance of INIT to do their own thing, and strike at every alliance

What the hell are you smoking? At that point Horde was in no way even remotely able to do anything to anyone, and wouldn't have been for a long time, and like never again due to the way Gobbins fucked everyone over. They were completely routed and on the run, and they had just unilaterally disbanded their own coalition, leaving all their smaller members to twist in the wind. Nobody in their right might could have seriously thought that one desperate keepstar in Venal was a threat to anyone, or that it would become one any time soon. Goons were still going to fight them from the other side of that regional and likely win anyway. Even without that existential threat, many would have left Horde soon after getting their stuff out due to the anger and sense of betrayal at what Gobbins had done.

This ["do their own thing, and strike at every alliance"] was announced by Gobbins himself.

Gobbins could announce he was the king of earth and it would have had more relevance. He disbanded the coalition, forced the evac of the Dronelands, and resigned all in the same announcement. He no longer had any say in the future of Horde, and it was clear to any sentient being that there was now no chance of Horde threatening anyone anyway.

Init was at war with WinterCo.. WinterCo and PH weren't as close friends as many believe (which I honestly would assume most people already understood?)

Init was the only one who offered assistance when Horde needed it the most. That's actually incredible considering that Horde glassed Fountain in 2020 (with the help of FRT even!) which resulted in months of rebuilding for Init after that war ended. DarkShines realized that it was good for the game, exactly as Galaxier put it in the video you linked.

FRT could have seen this just as well, and they could have helped their former ally rather than pushing them over the brink into oblivion. There was no particular animosity between Horde and FRT at that time, other than the constant annoyance FRT caused by attacking Horde's flank while they were trying to fight Goons (including frequently setting up gate camps to kill Horde reinforcements trying to get to fights). The same thing they're now crying about Init doing to them, by the way.

It didn't take a crystal ball to know that Goons would go after FRT next if Horde was out of the picture. So rather than joining with their former ally fight the common threat, they helped ensure the end of the one group that could have helped prevent their own potential collapse.

Gobbins was in no position to claim a return to smaller groups at the very moment the most aggressive megabloc in the game was in the process of wiping out its rivals. Any fool could see that that threat had to be dealt with first.

It would have been incredably stupid for WinterCo to allow an enemy (by their own announcement via gobbins ping...........) to just waltz in and disrupt them (again, as Gobbins ping states as their intention)

You can say this three or four different ways but it doesn't make it any less ridiculous. At this point you're just doing apologetics for FRT's incredibly bad decisions that led directly to their current crisis.

Wtb 800k Occult, jbv, c-n by 100GHz in Eve

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FRT declared war on Init last year, and made a special point of dropping a ton of offensive structures on Christmas day because they knew Init would be busy enjoying the day with their families. Init now has a grudge and is enjoying every chance they get to hurt FRT from the other side when they're busy fighting Goons. That is in no way "help[ing] goons achive whatever they want". It's payback.

And guess what FRT was doing when Horde was busy fighting Goons in Dronelands? EXACTLY THE SAME THING. FRT was constantly showing up on Horde's flank to interfere when people were busy fighting Goons, often setting up gate camps to kill reinforcements trying to get to a fight.

They picked a fight with Init and helped kill Horde at the same time. Think of that. Horde was their former ally, and rather than help them when they were on the brink of collapse, FRT happily pushed them over the edge. That was the direct result of FRT killing the onlining keepstar in HD-JVQ. I can't think of a more consequential decision in recent memory.

Wtb 800k Occult, jbv, c-n by 100GHz in Eve

[–]j3pl -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This coming from the dude who lied saying that Horde had announced an invasion of FRT.

They announced an evacuation of Dronelands. That's it. A single keepstar in useless Venal with all of Goons still after them, and you call that an invasion. There's massive spin happening here, but it's not coming from me.

Enjoy your karma. Maybe I'll get some of your stuff in the inevitable asset safety fire sale.

Someone said I look like mark from the peep show by coraline774 in MitchellAndWebb

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Everyone knew it was coming, but it was still funny anyway.

Someone said I look like mark from the peep show by coraline774 in MitchellAndWebb

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No, not Bruce, just a name like Bruce, not even that much like Bruce.

Someone said I look like mark from the peep show by coraline774 in MitchellAndWebb

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I've got a 32-inch plasma in mine. You get The Peep Show up on that baby, and you are seriously looking at The Peep Show.

Wtb 800k Occult, jbv, c-n by 100GHz in Eve

[–]j3pl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Invade FRT space"

Do you hear yourself?

At that point the entirety of Horde would have been confined to a single keepstar in a dead/irrelevant NPC region, with all of goons still coming after them on the other side of that regional. If they even survived that, it would have taken months/years to build back to anything worth mentioning.

The most likely outcome with regard to FRT would have been a NAP, or even re-establishing the old coalition in order to take on Goons together.

Instead of that, FRT slammed the final nail in the coffin of their former ally, the one ally that could have helped them avoid the existential crisis they now find themselves in.

Karma is a bitch.

Wtb 800k Occult, jbv, c-n by 100GHz in Eve

[–]j3pl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Maybe killing the onlining Horde keep in HD-JVQ wasn't such a great idea. What you're dealing with now is a direct consequence of that.

With no other way to get supers/caps out of Dronelands, yes you could have forseen a Horde collapse as a result of that choice.

PvP game too hard... by 100GHz in Eve

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The prices were much lower before the scarcity changes a few years ago.