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I had to dig through the website shoving paid services down my throat and found the script builder, is that what you mean? If yes, I can see it generate either a command using chocolatey, or a config file (to feed chocolatey?), which seems to require me to install chocolatey manually first.

Looks like it doesn’t meet the basic requirement of being a standalone script, and requires you to do extra setup first. I’m also very much not a fan of the website so far, but I can give it a pass since ninite being opinionated in the package choice is a subjective thing.

The great thing about ninite is how you can go there ahead of time and generate a single file, and when you’re done installing you just run that file. I suppose one could generate a batch script that installs stuff with some other package manager (you’d need to include install/update for it first, I remember reading about how Winget can come outdated with a broken version), but the issue with that is simply that ninite definitively exists and works reliably, while I don’t know any such service to generate install scripts.

Ambiguous, yes; very ambiguous, though, sounds like you’re preemptively dodging any blame for misreading :P

Right, but that requires somebody to find and document exploitable firmware revisions, create and distribute hardware/software to exploit them, develop the aftermarket software/hardware, and all that potentially separately for each car model. And then that just becomes a war with the manufacturers, who might try to update their firmware more aggressively, lock things down more, and threaten/sue people working on such things.

some of my games didn’t launch, complaining about missing stuff.

I don’t know Slackware, but I know on arch there’s the standard steam runtime version, and then there’s the unofficial steam-native-runtime, which uses system packages instead of steam’s own bundled runtime. And if we’re talking native Linux games, which is where the problem is, they tend to not work with steam’s runtime, presumably because they weren’t properly built to target it, and need to be launched with the native runtime (or switch to running the windows version with proton…)

I don’t know what the source is, but I remember seeing the “AI” bit first, and then a bit later people started editing it more and more, escalating things. I’d check sites like knowyourmeme if I wasn’t lazy right now.

Blaming AI for burning the planet is like blaming guns for killing children in schools, it’s people we should be banning!

I use KDE, but for my file manager I stick to Thunar, which I think is from a fork of GNOME. Does cause me some issues, since Thunar uses gvfs for stuff like mounting USB drives, whereas plasma loads kio, seemingly with no way to disable it, and they fight for control over devices.

I remember one thing in particular that pissed me off about Dolphin is how it displays folders with 4 tilted miniature icons of files inside, with no way to turn it off, or even just make them not be randomly tilted. Such a minor thing, but when I was choosing it was between clean icons and a scrambled mess, I went with clean icons.

Ultimately, I wish gvfs/kio wasn’t an issue, but I love to have the freedom to choose.

One counterpoint - even with a weak speed to capacity ratio it could be very useful to have a lot of storage for incremental backup solutions, where you have a small index to check what needs to be backed up, only need to write new/modified data, and when restoring you only need to read the indexes and the amount you’re actually restoring. This saves time writing the data and lets you keep access to historical versions.

There’s two caveats here, of course, assuming those are not rewritable. One, you need to be able to quickly seek to the latest index, which can’t reliably be at the start, and two, you need a format that works without rewriting any data, possibly with a footer (like tar or zip, forgot which one), which introduces extra complexity (though I foresee a potential trick where the previous index can leave an unallocated block of data to write the address of the next index, to be written later)

If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right doesn’t matter.

Right, because 1-2-3=3-2-1.