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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Ubuntu was reliably bugged and I could not use the software I needed for work because of that. I had to fuck with it on a monthly basis to fix it.

    Arch reliably works and is always up to date, so bugs that I experience get fixed in a timely manner.

    I never had to fix it after an update. On my personal PC I have the same arch install since 2020.

    Never ever did my arch not boot or not work after an update.

    I literally have a web server with arch that runs automatic daily unsupervised updates (which is not recommended by arch devs tbh.) And it has been serving my personal homepage for a year without downtime or maintenance (except for 15sec post update reboots ofc.).

    If you want to go beyond personal anecdotes as evidence, we both would need to conduct a significant study.

    But I feel like people keep saying that arch is unstable without trying it themselves or without looking at data.








  • Not sure if troll, but I’ll explain just in case.

    You wrote:

    Perhaps not everyone uses the platform the same way you do?

    What I meant was that you can see an exact number of the people thatuse the platform one way or the other (enjoy youtube link posts vs those who don’t enjoy them) in the likes and dislikes (on the original post).

    Calculating the ratio is as simple as dividing one number by the other … but it is a bit more useful to divide one of the votes against the total number of people who voted. You can further normalize the results as percentages.

    Currently there are 23 upvotes and 26 downvotes. That results in:

    • Upvote Percentage: ~47%
    • Downvote Percentage: ~53%

    (and I challange you to do the math yourself because I am too lazy to type it out)

    The point is - this percentages (or the ratio of likes to dislikes) represent the groups of people you talk about. Why are you saying “perhaps not everyone …” when you can see that about half of the people are enjoying the content and half don’t.

    (I know the numbers are not perfectly correlated to the attributes we discuss, due to bots, irrational votes etc. but they are good enough to get an approximation)


    Further trivia about the term “ratio” in the context of social media platforms, especially twitter: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n25w8s/whats_the_deal_with_the_term_ratio_on_twitter/

    The “why” comments in this thread are a similar kind of ratio concept as on twitter. Even though here we have likes and dislikes directly visible.










  • Here is my personal approach to this.

    • I have set my bash history to a ridiculous 1000000 max length, so that I can use CTRL+R to search for commands that I have ran before

    • I write down a lot of commands in a searchable note text document

    • Ask chatGPT

    • Use the tldr command

    • Added A LOT of verbose custom aliases and scripts. For example instead of

    inotifywait -m -r --exclude "(/tmp.*|/var/cache.*|/dev/pts/|/var/log.*)" -e MOVED_TO -e CREATE -e CLOSE_WRITE -e DELETE -e MODIFY . (nobody can remember that alphabet gibberish)

    I just type watch_for_changes .

    Since it is verbose, straight from my brain, I always remember it and it works with autocomplete. I have like ~30 such commands so far.