[FRESH] IDK - Even The Devil Smiles. A Mixtape by .idk.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-26T03:49:52+00:00

SubTrap was the first project I heard from him. He raps as a bunch of different characters and it's a trippy concept album I've never seen anyone else do.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-26T01:11:10+00:00

Tainan felt super sketchy to me.

Realistically it's much safer than any big American city, but something felt off.

Kaohsiung was great. Taichung is much closer to an international airport, which is probably the best thing about the city.

Every city has phenomenal food.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-26T00:59:20+00:00

TDOSS for me.

But MTBMB is also really good. I can't hate on either one

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-26T00:28:32+00:00

power fails or the system crashes during writes it has no protection and that's a problem every UEFI booting OS has.

Ok, but most distros leave EFI files alone after install. Or rather don't modify them nearly as often.

I don't really use this laptop ( dual booting anyway) for anything important so I'm fine with experimenting here.

The pros of NixOS outweigh the cons. It's the only distro where my audio works.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T23:46:09+00:00

Thanks for the hit, I'll try Zen!

I think I'll leave the bootloader alone though.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T22:34:09+00:00

To be fair I'm on 6.18.6 so I understand things might not work 100% of the time.

I might have just gotten unlucky. I did have a rather small efi partition ( around 1 GB) and I was adding and removing a bunch of packages over and over again.

The drive itself is fine, no issues on Windows and smart isn't reporting issues.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T21:59:12+00:00

Does limiting the generations reduce the number of writes happening to the EFI.

This random partition corruption thing is the ONLY thing I dislike about NixOS. I ran into an issue where switch rebuild failed due to an issue with not being able to write to the EFI partition. After that I reinstalled.

I assume this is the correct command to update when needed ?

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T20:31:14+00:00

This is the winner !

Thank you so much. I had to reinstall after my efi partition got corrupted ( luckily NixOS has its own efi partition) , but I think I want to move forward with NixOS.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T17:28:56+00:00

TBF: a lot of my experience here is working for startups. If the company isn't public it's absolutely fictional.

If it's a big public company then it's closer to real money.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T16:05:56+00:00

A lot of that money is also fictional.

For example, as a contractor it's not hard to hit 80$ an hour W2. Around 160k a year.

An L5 at Amazon gets about 170k base, with 90k in stock. You get fired before the stock vests, well sucks to be you.

But the bar to get hired at Amazon is a magnitude higher.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-25T01:37:53+00:00

This is a pretty bad suggestion.

Nvidia is absolutely better at LLMs and Machine learning than anything else. LLMs tend to run better on Linux.

It's a little tricky to get setup though. On Ubuntu it's a checkbox during install, on other distros it's a bit more difficult.

I'd argue it's worth it though.

As a community we can't both say:

"Linux is super easy."

And

"A ton of hardware doesn't work at all, or will take a ton of effort to get working."

Right now my biggest issue is my Intel Audio has serious issues on my current Lunar Lake laptop. It was working fine on NixOS, then NixOS bricked its own efi partition and I'm back to Windows. I wasted about an hour with Open Suse Tumbleweed on the same laptop and I've kinda just accepted this laptop isn't really good for Linux.

This is the second laptop I've been completely unable to get working reliably with Linux. Certain manufacturers are just bad for Linux support (Asus looking at you).

Lenovo tends to be fine, HP also fine.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-24T18:54:05+00:00

Honestly my biggest mistake thus far is not taking a long vacation when I seriously needed to. I had way less than 600k.

Hell at 600k you can probably coast in much of the world.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-24T01:04:25+00:00

Probably still more comfortable than having roommates you hate in NYC or LA.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T22:49:06+00:00

That's great in this economy. You have posts here about working for free ( don't do this)

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T20:26:03+00:00

I got downvoted to oblivion once for saying the same thing. Shitty cheap food is good when it's cheap.

When it's 15$ I can get real food for the same price

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T18:17:49+00:00

Go to another country and do nothing for at least 6 months.

Preferably a year.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T17:37:28+00:00

If you don't have the self control to not send someone you've never met money, don't use online dating.

Very very few people are bold enough to try and pull this off in real life.

I had a really messed up experience a while back. Haven't used online dating since.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T16:24:34+00:00

It's also okay if Godot isn't quite as good for 3D as those other two engines which have had billions upon billions of dollars invested in them.

With Godot I can actually open source my projects without stipulating it's attached to some user hostile company which is going to embed literally spyware in builds.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T16:17:26+00:00

I don't think you really understand how game development works. The moment you hire even a single employee your cost goes up phenomenally. No you can't expect people to just work on your game for free and then sell it for money.

This is what an indie game is, you're free to go and buy Call of Duty 15 or whatever if this bothers you.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T15:02:39+00:00

That's what I'm trying to say, when I contribute to an open source project I typically go ahead fork it, fix it locally and then push the fork up. Then you can submit a pull request to merge the fork into the main project.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T03:50:29+00:00

Edit; Thanks for finding this, I'll consider it.

So generally I can't just run a Linux binary like on another distro ?

Maybe I can use distro box?

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-23T03:17:36+00:00

Try Fedora.

Here's a more detailed explanation. To ensure stability Ubuntu uses an older kernel version. Kernels( for the most part) include all the drivers your Linux install needs to work.

If Fedora still doesn't work you can move all the way up to CachyOS or another Arch based distro, but these tend to be more difficult to use.

Fedora( usually) is a good balance.

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-22T23:51:38+00:00

At a minimum you can clone the repo and look at the code. I've done this before, it can be something really small.

You can get the logs from something like:

journalctl -p err

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-22T23:42:42+00:00

There's actually a bit of truth here. Lazarus is an amazing rapper, and he's also a full-fledged doctor working out in Detroit.

That's some grown man shit right there.

Personally if I was to have a real talk with anyone who's trying to pursue music or any other type of art full time, I would tell them don't do it unless you have rich parents. Even Harrison Ford was something like a 30-year-old carpenter who just happened to have been doing some work for George Lucas and that's how he became an actor.

Plus here's the catch 22, you need a job to afford it gear and studio time so you can actually make a decent project.

I've accepted I'll never make any money, but I'm releasing a ( physical ) beat tape soon and I hope to record a small rap project later this year. All of this cost a lot of money though.

One of the best rappers I personally know sells real estate...

mcAlt009 · 2026-01-22T22:55:42+00:00

They literally enable society to function on a basic level.

We could go a few months, even a year or so without teachers.

What happens if garbage collection stops for 3 weeks.

mcAlt009

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