Oh it certainly wasn’t the first I have ever used.

Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, and more.

This is just the first one that has made me ‘want to make the shift’, so to speak.

I specialize professionally in hyper automation of all sorts of things. Long time user of PowerShell, custom built C++/C#/Java backend services. More recently also utilizing Python and Rust.

The declarative nature of NixOS (incl. Flakes, idempotent ❤️) is what I love about it. Although I am well aware it can be quite daunting for those that prefer imperative scripting, or even ClickOps.

Thank you for sharing. Great to get some inspiration from a fellow traveller.

Nix (and more specifically, NixOS) made me switch to Linux as my daily driver.

I had been using Windows since 3.11 as my daily driver, MS DOS before that. This was for web browsing, gaming, and development. Linux was my sandbox on the side, and mostly server OS throughout the years.

Goes to show how powerful packagemanagers can be, it made me make the full switch after ~30 years. I love how my OS is now idempotent/declarative.

Unfortunately, you’ve misunderstood the nuanced meaning that the phrase “en masse” has acquired in the English language:

Cambridge Dictionary: En Masse

However, you can take comfort in knowing that you are not alone in this misunderstanding:

Grammar With Teeth: En Masse vs. In Mass

“En masse”.

I have no idea what the actual reason is, I am just responding to the German language aspect.

In Dutch the word “niks” means nothing.

If Mr. Dolstra used a “nothing” reference, wouldn’t it make more sense that the Dutch person referenced the Dutch word “niks”, which is pronounced exactly the same way as Nix?

As far as conjecture goes this is far more plausible than a Dutch guy picking a German word “nichts” that resembles the pronunciation of the word/name Nix.

And for some reason Hollywood has engrained on society the notion that the Dutch natively speak German. Some of them learn it, but it is not their native language.

Oh the irony:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”`

Underrated comment.

I’ve used PowerShell in Windows for the past 15 years. Following dozens of steps in a GUI is not required.

I also use Linux, with bash and Python for automation. I’ve also grown to love NixOS for its automation options.

Both operating systems feature rich automation options. Both have ClickOps oriented interfaces for those that want it or are unwilling to learn to automate / use a CLI.

Doing ClickOps is a choice and a mindset, not a requirement of Windows. Using a CLI in Linux is not a requirement depending on the distro or your use case.

I have never had a desire to explore the numerous cultivars or varieties of tomatoes to determine if one was not going to make me vomit. Blind testing seems like a masochistic exercise now that I think of it.

With your description though, I might try a Budyonovki tomato (I assume Budenovka / Будёновка) if I am ever presented with one.

Thank you for the tip.

You assume this is about taste.

In my case, when the texture of tomatoes touches the inside of my mouth I get the urge to vomit. When I was forced to eat them as a child, I literally ended up puking. The taste of Cherokee purple tomatoes will not change that.

A similar thing happens with egg plants, water mellons, and similar ‘squishy’ textures.

The taste of tomato paste, or ketchup? Love it.

Your SO and I are not the same.

You just made me realize the Zoomers are actually much closer to making Warhammer 40k a reality. IT engineers are like Tech Priests to these Zoomers.

What are they going to do, put up a sign that says “don’t let in frikineh@lemmy.world”?

Also, fuck cancer. (Cancer vaccines may be next, the end of the article.)

Just to point something out here.

The thing you had to get off your chest was a depressing and negative bit of content, about how negative and depressive all the content on lemmy is.

If this was a meta-troll post, well done!

Or I dont know… an embassy 🧐

My own father was harsh, complicated, difficult to deal with.

I always thought I’d do the opposite.

What I learned later on was to ask my own children what their day was like, what excited them, how I could help them when they needed it most… and then you need to listen. Even if they’re asking silly things, things they have yet to learn, that’s how you find that connect.

And to some extent I try to balance the discipline by thinking, if I drop dead tomorrow, will I have prepared them as best as I could to become their own person? Will I have done it in a way that they’ll remember me fondly?

So far my kids have always said I am a great dad, all the same I ask myself if I could do better every day.

I think the question you started with here is the most important one though, how can you do great/better.

This is such a missed opportunity.

The barrel should’ve been a Tribble.

Wonderful confirmation.

To think how hard it is to confirm these planets, for such a relatively close star. When we have already confirmed so much about objects at far greater distances.

Hard to comprehend these achievements from our individual perspectives. 👏