I think the operative word phrase is “supposed to”

Anecdotally… It doesn’t seem to exist.

I also watched the video in question. Pretty entertaining. CONEY is delightfully sarcastic.

before anyone fucking @'s me… I get that saving RAM state across system updates could break shit. But it doesn’t have to, especially if you implement a tagging or compatibility layer to track what’s safe to resume. That kind of bridging isn’t impossible, it just takes planning.

FOSS software routinely considers edge cases like this. Microsoft doesn’t. That’s not a tech limitation; that’s just not caring about user convenience.

This post is kinda annoying to respond to. Not because of what you said, but because it’s hard to map my intuitions into words and convey exactly what’s wrong with Windows in the first place.

Linux doesn’t require immediate rebooting, it assumes the user will choose the right time. And if Microsoft actually gave a shit about user autonomy, there are smarter ways to handle updates.

For example: instead of forcing updates in the middle of the fucking day, just wait until the system would normally sleep or hibernate, or when the user is clearly inactive (like at night). At that point, the system could save the current RAM state to disk, reboot with updates applied, and restore the session exactly as it was.

This isn’t sci-fi. NixOS can already do this (barring kernel changes). The fact that it works proves the concept is viable.

“Wömen… Men of wö”

Not far off base lol. As long as it compiles on whoever’s machine decides to repackage the application, it’ll run on everyone’s.

Most updates its usually just a matter of updating a key.

Its not that hard to make a wrapper for a program designed for hard-linked paths.

Its moments like this I’m glad to be a nixos user lol.

Slap that shit in a flake and forget about it. No matter what updates the dev has, or what system the user has, its always gonna compile.

Fuck I love nix.

If it had genitals I’d fucking date it.

I think it’s almost a matter of reverse engineering the info.

OP said the set.

Rebrickable > search > input op’s set > parts list

I thought your video was gonna be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg

For the past month I’ve been developing a NixOS platform for local businesses.

I keep overestimating how much people know. It’s infuriating trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I don’t need to explain why it’s amazing, just that it is, and it works. I feel like I’m Mugatu talking to Zoolander at times.

Even if I could perfectly analogise what a declarative operating system is, it wouldn’t matter to a client because they don’t understand how a non NixOS machine works.

Though, the worst part is trying to explain to someone, who is “happy with Windows” why they should not be.

How the fuck do people in 2025 not fucking loathe Windows? There’s fucking ads in the start menu. There’s like 4 different places to change settings. The systems bloat and slow to a crawl as the OS ages.

It’s fucked.

In the florescent bathroom of food court, nano crouched by the toilet, vomiting his guts up after consuming the kernel-krush slushie.

He thought being the lowest common denominator was bad; used by noob sysadmins and confused interns, until this moment.

The slushie hadn’t tasted right. It was supposed to be “Byteblast Blueberry,” but it had an aftertaste of burnt silicone and magic smoke. Something in it was wrong. nano could feel it rewriting him from the inside.

lines of strange lua code scrawled across the back of his eyelids. His .bash_history was being overwritten. His sense of indentation… sharpened.

As his tremors subsided and the last of the neon goo slid down the drain, he looked up into the cracked mirror. Something had changed.

His terminal font was crisper. His cursor… blinking with authority. And there, under the stall’s flickering light, he whispered:

“…:wq”

Suddenly, the doors of ever bathroom stall flung open in unison, people shit themselves in fear as his inner thoughts wrote themselves onto the walls of his stall.

nano inhaled deeply, as a familiar scent wafted from under the entrance door, and a shadow stretched to the far wall.

“emacs…” He muttered to himself, before the entrance door crashed open. emacs snorted and coughed, this bloated monstrosity, confused for a text editor, was actually an operating system.

“Poor little nano” he chuckled “serves you right for trying to be more than a fuckin’ stepping stone. Why don’t you go hang out with Edge and Bing, you’re about as useful as a clippy themed Chrome extension.”

emacs’ voice reverberated through the tiled chamber like a RAM leak in a core dump. His trenchcoat, stitched from thousands of unreadable .el files, dragged behind him.

neovim exited the bathroom stall, letting emacs bask in his new glory for the first time.

“Fuck off, Emacs. You press seven keys just to copy a line.”

A silence fell across the stalls. Somewhere, a urinal cake cracked.

Emacs stepped forward, snarling. “I’m the past and the future, nano. I’ve got an email client, a music player, a fucking psychiatrist built-in. You? You’re a Hello World that got a pity install”

neovims eyes narrowed, one coloured gruvbox, the other catppuccin as he clenched his first “My name… Is Neo (vim)”

Next time:

neovim & emacs - Battle of the Keybinds

Will neovims LSP destroy emacs s-expressions?

Can emacs remember how to quit in time?

Signal?

Just download the .apk directly from the signal website.

Or from the github repo

Or download it through f-droid

Or install Obtainium

Sometimes I think of the literal worst thing that could happen.

Like, going to hell, and being told you can leave if you complete some fucked up, borderline impossible task, like:

• Make friends with everyone else who is in hell. Not get them to like you. You must like them too, and enjoy their company. Yes, even Mother Teresa.
• Consecutively live through everyone’s life who has ever lived, as a passenger in their brain, you can’t control anything, but you experience all physical and emotional pain.
• Suck all sand until the earth is sandless. You have to suck each grain one at a time. Also, you have to find them, they’re not just in one big pile, also, there’s sand at the bottom of the Marianas trench
• Live your life on repeat until you live it perfectly. What does perfectly mean? You’re not told. Also, you’re not given any feedback after you die each time. If you try to cheat the system by having fun, you’ll be yanked back to hell and raped by demons before starting back at day 1.
• Achieve universal human genocide in 100 different times periods and starting points. Also every person you kill also ends up in hell, and know its your fault.
• Learn every vim function, then be forced to rewrite all the world’s code in nano.
• Translate every book, movie, song, and poem ever written into every other language, even dead languages.
• Think of a colour which doesn’t exist, then invent a new instrument, and play a song with a tune which has never been performed, invent a new language with a completely new structure, and convince everyone else in hell to adopt it as their primary language.
• read and reply to every comment on the internet. If someone replies, then you need to reply back. Every message must be unique and coherent. Also, spacetime warps to make it possible for everyone to be given a chance to reply to you.

This is what the world needs; a unified slur - to bring us together.

Australia’s plug isn’t bad, in fact, it’s one of the best.

• The angled blade pins ensure polarity will always be the same.
• The ground pin is longer than the live pins, meaning it’ll always make contact first, and last when you pull it out.
• The Earth pin is located on the bottom, meaning when you pull down on it, or if something drops on the plug, it’ll pull away the live pins first.
• also:

Let’s yell at that cloud—together 🤜🤛

I should’ve been more precise; em dashes are just a piece of the puzzle, however, the smart tools you reference are normally programmed to convert dashes to em-dashes under the following condition:

Text > space > hyphen > space > text

Unless you go back afterwards and delete the spaces between words, the AI text is going to stand out due to its tendencies to use em-dashes in place of semicolons without spaces—like this.

It does suck that we need to take a reactive approach to dealing with the perception our emails might not be written by us, or…

Take it back by using them anyway, and insisting our messages are legit.

Though, unless AI stops generating text with far less em-dashes, I think this is an uphill battle which isn’t worth our stubborn insistence. though, that really depends on whether it’s important for our messages to seem to be written by us.

For me, where I work, people have become very judgemental (though not everyone knows) when they receive an email heavy with em-dashes.

Real people use emojis too

Doesn’t explain why AI bots loooooove:

• 🙃 lists with emojis as list points
• 💩 Em—dashes—without—spaces
• 🥴 Weird as hell analogies like:
• 🦮 “responds to throttle like a golden retriever responds to algebra”
• 🍆 For the record GPT didn’t write this

Sure, but it’s also in the tone, language and grammatical structure. After you know what you’re looking for, you can feel whether it’s AI written.

For what it’s worth, I’d be cautious about using em dashes; people basically associate it with AI without exception.

Even when I use a document editor, and it sometimes 'auto swaps" a dash for an em-dash, I’ll undo it. Just because I wouldn’t want to be perceived as copy/pasting something.