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josef

on Linux, is there a way to switch off "Tamagotchi Mode"? specifically i mean the thing where you set up linux exactly how you want, and every 2 weeks you run package updates and some obscure part of your system which you didn't even know existed now no longer works the way you set it up, and you have to spend 90 minutes fixing it, and it's always a different thing, and this happens every 2 weeks, forever. how do you switch that off? (ideally in a way where it won't switch back on after 2 weeks)

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Good thread.

often feels like the software of Theseus, except the onboard shipwrite is a kid who has to do all the carpentry because no one else will help, so things keep falling off as we sail.

And I say that as someone constantly glueing bits of back together after every release. The complexity begs for a hundred times the paid labour, but our economic proposition doesn't provide enough resource to staff things properly.

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josef

@doctormo when i was younger, i loved how so much free software was, well, free-as-in-beer. i didn't value my time that much, so it kinda worked out. but nowadays i'd absolutely pay for a really polished distro that offered a cohesive, stable experience, with guaranteed software and hardware compatibility and some degree of included support

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josef

@doctormo i think a difficulty though is for complex software which i only use occasionally, but still find a huge amount of value in. for me, inkscape is actually in that category: i probably use it no more than five times per year, but it's almost always installed on any computer i regularly access. if such software wasn't available, i probably wouldn't be able to do certain things at all, as i wouldn't be able to justify getting mired in expensive/service-based/proprietary alternatives

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Alexandre Oliva
there's no escaping the cost of fighting decay/bitrot and of keeping up with a changing landscape. the progress of entropy is unavoidable. one way people go about it is by outsourcing control, but that is a losing proposition: it costs them freedom and agency, and sooner or later that which seemed to serve them becomes that which they serve, because they've become dependent on what others control and benefit from. IMHO the right answer to alleviate that burden is community: find or form one that shares your preferences, and then you can divide the efforts to keep things working the way you and others in the community like. the more you steer away from the community standards, the more you have to bear the cost by yourself, whereas the more you share goals and preferences with the community, the stronger the community gets and the lighter the burden is on each member.

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