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Autocorrect hates me, I am sorry.

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  • If you install home brew 90% of the issues go away.

    The problem is that most Linux software assumes it can do whatever it wants, and immutable distros do not let you write to the system files.

    This creates confusion, because you see a guide for Fedora and it said dnf install xyz, but dnf doesn’t work. The solution is to add it to your image tree (no) or to create a toolbox with that package (complicated, requires setup, gets complicated if your tool needs access to Wayland for clipboard or something)).

    Bazzite solves this by using brew, which is a package manager built for macOS which has had immutable systems for years. Brew solves most of the issues.

    For me by the time I went immutable it just made more sense to go full declarative with nix, but nix is also a steeper learning curve.










  • There’s also a broader implication here.

    If the US ever goes to war with China (by necessity it choice), for the foreseeable future all China has to do is have their ally choke off the strait of Hormuz and the US will crumple in months.

    The reason the US is surrendering is because they are about to lose oil production capacity domestically; they hit the threshold of not enough oil to pressurize domestic pipelines.

    That happened because they never filled the strategic reserve, and lashed out at any price increases, and bragged about how they can now sell so much extra oil now.

    So any conflict with China will utterly destroy the US (and world) economy. The US is too far into late stage capitalism to ween off oil, so they’re fucked by their own choices.

    The US is now officially unable to combat China.