Language classes in school are horrible. You’re going for an hour a day for 180 days, with significant gaps every few months, and moving at the rate of the slowest learners in the class.

500 hours of constant, immersive study would likely get you most of the way there, which is not the same as being immersed for 500 hours without study :)

I thought I was doing well with Duolingo once, then realized, 40 hours in, that I had almost no concept of formal/informal, and barely had any verb conjugation or grammar.

oops, I swalloed the die.

it was a d100

Yup for work in a multi-national company. Also Zoom fucked me over bad, their client services are just horrid.

Teams vs Meet for the big boys, meet is the lesser of shitshows.

ohh wierd, I def had an ai fame come up on the right, must be some other extension, thanks, i’ll check on it again.

Yes, anyone who would like to run Fedora, Debian, or Ubuntu, I’d be glad to support. Only had one taker so far, he lasted a few months.

give em time, given they’re not young by any standard, but they are starting to gain traction which should help bring about advances.

Can’t anyone more reputable than brave field anti-fingerprinting in a chrome derivative?

I’m librewolf for primary

using floccus for syncing so there’s no accounts for anyone.

I’m using a start menu replacement so i’m not sending traffic to the browsers default choice

I tried a bunch of browsers a year ago, set them all up, and tried to use them daily.,

Vivaldi is shoving AI and VPN up my ass, has week fingerprinting and only promises to subvert manifest v3 as long as they can

Edge is bad and getting worse, plus giving data to MS isn’t much better than giving it to google. also locks into manifest v3

I give Helium credit for supporting manifest V2 still. I wish they did better with fingerprint randomization. But then again, I’m not even using Brave for anything but YouTube and Meet, so maybe the anonymization isn’t a big deal.

Brave is a shit company with a bad leader, but they have a fully funded dev team, and they block YouTube ads earlier in the pipeline before extensions get to them, so the manifest BS can’t touch them. I turn off the VPN and BAT shit and don’t use their default page.

Librewolf is doing good randomization for me, and blocks still block. I’d use it exclusively if I could share a single tab’s audio in meet and the camera and mic sharing worked every time in linux without 30 second timeouts.

Nope. I was thinking of doing an immutable server with it because that would be neat AF.

But the updates are deprecated way too soon. You really need to take the latest milestones really close to when they happen.

I run it myself at work for a couple of years now, but I wouldn’t want to support the userland on it, even the technically competent ones.

You cannot trust your employees to be security and IT conscious. They’re not trained in it. I’ve been in the field for over 30 years and that’s one the few things you can bet on.

Helium has poor anti-fingerprinting.

Firefox derivatives don’t support google meet well.

any better ideas?

No, we want you on our equipment because we can’t trust you to stay secure, virus and malware free. When you crack the screen or have a fan die, we want to leverage our warranties and parts to repair the equipment. We don’t want to give you the keys to our repos and kingdoms to have them delivered to the nearest person adding a keylogger to a fitgirl repack.

People have actually been found off-shoring their own work to China by installing remote access clients on their work machines.

Don’t get me wrong, there are asshole companies out there that want to use activity trackers to see what you’re doing, most don’t give a shit and track you by what you do. We don’t need monitoring software to tell if you’re working or that you’re not vibecoding, we can tell by your actual work.

I absolutely adore doing shell.nix environments and flakes. I basically don’t have anything installed that I don’t need on a daily basis. I use syncthing to keep a folder full of shell environments backed up.

cd /nixShells/video nix-shell

BOOM, I have yt-dlp, ffmpeg-full, mpv, timg, kdenlive, python 3.12 with a bunch of subrip and AI subtitle generators. I do what is needed and exit and it’s all gone.

I keep one for wine, one for mp3, one for parsec, one for video

Then I have flakes for real development work.

admittedly, it’s a lot :)

Wait till anna’s archive finishes the torrent and they’ll download it and spend a couple dozen million on training on it.

Second-best ever. 25.05 was seamless.

I only needed to screw with mesa, pinentry, vim-full, and unpin my kernel for v4l which is now fixed in OBS

I’m preparing to break out my configurations so that all my machines can share parts of them and maybe see if I can get my home .confgs a little more managed under home manager.

How was yours?

My favorite part is syncing one file and my home folder and moving from one computer to another seamlessly.

I’ve moved hardware three times and always been right back in service.

Can you imagine taking someone from MacOS and giving them NixOS?

user: Great, June 2026, Upgrade time! What do I click on?

NixFriend: Umm, sorry you’re going to need to open your terminal and change your nix-channels to https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-26.06 and you’re going to need to do it under sudo.

user: umm, ok, now i’m upgraded?

NixFriend: no, not quite, you need nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

user: ohh jeeze, ok. umm, i got an error, a couple hundred lines it’s kind of vague about a bunch of functions failing

NixFriend: Go back up 70-80 lines and see if it calls out a certain package being a problem, just ignore all the messages about variables not being set.

user: ohh wow, yeah, ok, something about pinentry and specifying ncurses and some messages about name deprecation

NixFriend: ohh yeah ok, that’s pretty easy, go edit these text files, change all the names if mentions and either remove pinentry or just make or leave in pinentry-ncurses

user: Ohh ok; Now it’s complaing that /boot is full

Helion got really quiet since that last venture push :)

I’ve seen a few pretty solid questions about the lack of shielding around their running equipment being a red flag that their output is nowhere near what they claimed.

I just looked up my state laws, and yeah, it specifically states parallel.