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  • Yes. But p10k has many downsides:

    • requires using oh my ZSH, which alone is quite bad because of how much slower it makes the shell.
    • is a piece of software you’ll have to either install on each new device or have the software in your dotfiles. Bad practice. I very much prefer having no additional dependencies or overhead, plus the way I do it I can do whatever I want without the limitations of a prompt made by someone else, for which I’d have to dig in a lot of documentation. Compared to this, I only spent half an hour making a prompt exactly how I like, which doesn’t add overhead and doesn’t require a third party piece of software which I’d have to install on every new device.

  • Free software tells you “do whatever you want, you’re free” but open source completely misses the point: it means you can read the code, but not necessarily recompile, modify and redistribute. Plus the term was invented for the confusion that would come from it. For example, a lot of AI models like LLM’s claim they are “open-source”, which basically means nothing: it’s far easier to say that than to claim it’s a free model, because that would imply freedoms to modify, reuse, redistribute the training data, weight etc. (no AI model allows that for now, and there will probably never be one that does).






  • tarneo@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat is your favorite quote of all time?
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    1 year ago

    Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:

    “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes

    (You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))

    “The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie

    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg









  • Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.

    Servers:

    • main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a “degraded” status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
    • second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.