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  • How FOSS Won and Why It Matters

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  • GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix

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  • It isn't terribly difficult. I'm in the same camp as you (in my case, there was no way I was going to run Linux Libre over the standard kernel).

    Guix uses what it calls channels to distribute package definitions and the NonGuix channel is an often used one for non-free packages (https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix). With that, i can use the standard Linux kernel (and other things, such as Steam).

    In terms of Cuda, I found some definitions for it at this repo.: https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-science-nonfree/src/branch/master/guix-science-nonfree/packages/cuda.scm

  • GNU Guix transactional package manager and distribution — GNU Guix

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  • Theoretically, I'd expect so? As you can load a Wisp file with Guile, I'd expect you could get Guix to read a Wisp config., though it might be somewhat round-about in method. Something like this, maybe: https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/1g6ft9h/comment/lsoa1e7/.

    Personally, I love LISP for the parentheses but I love seeing just how much we can get away with (and choice), too.

  • How FOSS Won and Why It Matters

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  • Guix mention!

  • Why I use minimal syntax highlighting (2019)

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  • Doesn't resonate with me, I'm afraid; the initial images are too much highlighting but much preferable, for me, than the suggested adjustment.

  • Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC?

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  • Guix; fill your life with parentheses. It's worth it, I tell ya.

  • Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX 🥳

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  • To be fair, you seem to be using the original UI that mirrored Word 2003's UI (which, when I first switched over to Linux back in 2012, I was positively thrilled about Writer having as it was basically a drop-in replacement for Word, then).

    I dunno if I just occasionally used Word too many times since then but I find the old UI impenetrable now, as well; but LibreOffice has support for the Ribbon UI (and 2–3 similar ones, I think), as well. Maybe you might find it easier?

    I almost never switch the orientation of Writer so I genuinely was pretty much finding how to do it for the first time.

  • Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX 🥳

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  • Layout > Orientation > Landscape (I presume you meant that since the default orientation is Portrait)

    Took me about 3 seconds.

  • That escalated quickly...

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  • If you want to explore other immutable and declarative OSes – as well –, you could take Guix for a spin, too (and you can install things such as proprietary software with the NonGuix software repository, in case that's a concern any).

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  • I expected (hoped?) you'd educate yourself a bit; there's a wealth of information and research and theory on this subject so it's not like you have an excuse to so wildly misuse terminology which is well-known and well-defined. Continuing to use "racism" without defining what race is is cartoonish but I did hope for more from you; I guess, at least, good faith. Oh, well.

    For others who come across this thread and would like creators who sometimes cover these topics with some depth, here's some video essayists:

    https://www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire

    https://www.youtube.com/@olurinatti

    https://www.youtube.com/@lilbilliam

    https://www.youtube.com/@Princess_Weekes

    https://www.youtube.com/@KatBlaque/videos

    https://www.youtube.com/@jouelzy/videos

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  • I expect, at this point, we will just agree to disagree and there's no way we'll see eye to eye but no: it's very much not. Race is an ill-defined social construct whereas xenophobia is based on prejudice against cultural and national lines and, while those are also socially constructed, they are more concrete than the boundaries of "race".

    As such, racism seeks to (and is more defined by its attempt to) construct a sense of identity against something to maintain a status quo (hence why the definition of "white" has been able to expand to include ethnicity such as the Irish) to better position itself against others.

    While cultures and ethnicities can certainly change over time, they're not remotely as nebulous (and made up) as race is and, thus, don't operate in that same way; people are also much more invested in cultures and ethnicities beyond reasons of maintaining hegemonic status quo so that impacts things, as well.

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  • That would be xenophobia; not racism.

    I also never said that Europeans were a pest or plague; as I said in the previous comment, "My only response was that you statement that Europe’s history of colonization is still relevant." You never alleged that I was saying that Europeans were a pest or plague (probably because I never said that) so I was never attempting to refute such a claim.

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  • Europe's a race, now?

    My only response was that you statement that Europe's history of colonization (which, again, isn't even true as Europe still has colonies) is still relevant as the effects of that colonization is still present today.

    Something you haven't refuted or even contested; how is acknowledging history racist?

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  • If you strip the land of resources when you owned it such that people can no longer use it, your colonization of that land – while in the past – is still relevant to the people now trying to eke out an existence on that land.

    Playing prescriptivist with definitions isn't going to absolve Europe of the still ongoing effects that their colonization has caused.

    Also…Europe still has colonies/territories (https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1er0god/european_overseas_territories_outside_europe/); so your entire argument doesn't even hold up, to begin with. Europe's still colonizing.

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  • Is there a definition of relevant that, for you, doesn't include the impacts and effects of the thing in question?

    Are you going to argue to me with a straight face that the only relevant aspects we should be concerned about with colonialism is whether ownership is current and active?

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  • You'd be correct; a country which suffered from colonialism by a European country; the effects of which continue today. Therefore, the effects of colonialism by at least one European country is still relevant.

    You said colonialism by Europe isn't relevant in the modern age.

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  • If France wants to reimburse Haiti for the independence debt, it's welcome to start at any time; I'd hardly begin to say that colonialism isn't relevant – even in the modern age –, for Europe.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • Ahh; that makes much more sense.

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • As much as I'd like to think I'm generally in the loop of Lemmy lore, I'm afraid I don't understand the connection.