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k32

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    Comment #25465708

    This matches my experience. I played it for 50 hours on PC (and I am a very lazy gamer, typically I get tired of everything in one hour), and didn't encounter any breaking bugs. Ov…

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    Comment #25449772

    > Use Signal to transfer messages and files https://blog.erlang.moe/2020-12-01-acme-messenger.html

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    Comment #25425257

    Sluggish UI, dark patterns, OS rebooting when it feels like it, OS waking up during the night for some shenanigans, surveillance, nagging, ads... I don't know how people can have s…

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    Comment #25047191

    > If that was your problem, you should've said so instead of spinning it up into an entirely different security problem that plainly did not exist. It was merely an answer to your …

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    Comment #25044642

    > This is precisely why it's important that Twitter calls out when things are stated as fact without evidence. Twitter is a platform for stating things as fact without evidence. 12…

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    Comment #25044493

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    Comment #25044388

    > Erlang's gnarly build system It's actually fine, thanks for a remark.

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    Comment #25044172

    > requiring you to specify the URL of the required packages and its hash beforehand. ...a different hash. You see, I naively think that a checksums should not be overwritten when t…

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    Comment #25044137

    > First of all, the fork obviously isn't there for general consumption. I didn't know that when I installed a package called "rebar3" and spend some time trying to understand what'…

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    Comment #25033928

    > Except that your anecdote is completely misleading given that the patched version was intended for creating Nix packages. You could've just used the unmodified version instead. T…

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    Comment #25033791

    Thanks for a constructive comment.

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    Comment #25030731

    > Any widely used distros do this. I've yet to encounter another distro that deliberately breaks 3rd party software the way Nix did it to rebar3 (before it was reverted). > Plus, t…

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    Comment #25030517

    > I don't find myself patching stuff all the time, and would hate to go back to half-assed leaky-abstraction kludges like Ansible. Speaking of half-assed kludges, NixOS itself is a…

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    Comment #25027386

    > Oh ffs really? Yes, really. This PR partially reverted this behavior (or rather made it less intrusive): https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/54115/files , but from there you ca…

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    Comment #25026661

    Nix is a nice research project, but after playing with it for ~6 months and contributing to nix-packages, I came to conclusion that (in my case) it's not suitable for production no…

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