Cats being predators are meant to kill things. If this causes a problem in your area, it’s a sign cats weren’t meant to be in that area and you should probably stop buying them and domesticate some native wildlife instead.

People don’t drink because it tastes good. People drink it because they like getting high and alcohol is one of the few legal drugs you can do. People who drink it because it’s the cool thing to do are being idiots.

If alcohol isn’t your thing you should probably get out there and try other drugs. The good thing about drugs is how many different kinds there are. There really is a substance for almost everyone if you look hard enough. Now if only stuff was legalized and people didn’t abuse it to the nth degree and get themselves in trouble.

Edit: also forgot to mention that brewing is probably the easiest and cheapest way to make a psychoactive substance known to man, and is an entire hobby people (such as myself) have. While lots of homebrewers spend money on fancy equipment and ingredients you don’t need to spend much at all to make alcohol that will get you drunk it can literally be done using a used plastic bottle and a fucking balloon. You can make pretty drinkable stuff with even fairly basic equipment like a hydrometer, couple of plastic or glass fermenters, yeast + nutrients ordered online, and supermarket ingredients.

I like how being able to drive a car has become the metric that decides if you are retarded or not. Like come on. Cars are killing the planet and even if they weren’t they are the most dangerous form of transport by far. Stop hyping cars.

Also you can have physical issues, coordination issues or attention issues that make driving difficult, but can still be more level headed than the average person.

Yes you were, just take the loss

I can’t see them saying this at all. The only person treating people as not being people here is the way you treat men. If you discriminate against a group of people as is clearly happening here towards men, then of course that group is going to turn against you. You don’t remove sexual assault by pretending men are the only perpetrators and never a victim. You don’t remove sexism by adding discrimination against men.

You don’t get it at all. Creating this kind of system for only one gender is discrimination. It’s exactly the same kind of thing you see white supremacists doing because they only want to be sat next to other white people. It’s this kind of behavior that drives men to sexism in the first place. How you don’t see this after it’s been explained to you is shocking. It’s also hilarious that people only talk about men assaulting women and never about women assaulting women, women assaulting men, or men assaulting men. Not only does it not reflect the reality of sexual violence, it’s also heteronormative and sexist. Pretending that only men have the power to be abusive, and that women are always the innocent part is sexist thinking.

Bruh they are making at least one good point here. Meanwhile you are trying to do a character assassination and make baseless accusations. Fucking stop it.

This is actually reasonable. If you explained it this way in the first place maybe people would have stopped being pissy and taken you seriously. Before this comment your position seemed flimsy, but comparing it to racist practice made it make a lot more sense.

While I don’t agree with the idea that isolating someone from women on a plane will make them rape someone else somewhere else, I think your point about alienation driving extreme views is very pertinent. The more you try to vilify a group the more that group will try and make it a self-fulfiling prophecy, or otherwise go against the people vilifying them.

I think you need to add another new line to this comment.

Gentoo isn’t immutable or declarative afaik

What is a better implementation than NixOS? Guix is held back by the fact that it’s GNU only by default, and that it also compiles everything on your machine by default. You have to go out of your way to add a binary cache and speed up the install. That’s after you go out of your way to enable non-free packages so that your hardware can actually work with the right firmware. If someone made a version with those enabled by default things would be way quicker to setup and use

That explains why Nix despite being parallelized takes a long time to install packages and rebuild the configuration.

However “it worked on other distro X, thus is should work on other distro Y” probably isn’t a helpful way of thinking to get things working.

I am talking about the kernel here. It tells me that the device is actually supported. If something works on other distros driver wise, that means the one it doesn’t work on either has an old kernel or is doing something strange.

NixOS ships a very minimal kernel and relies on you to declare what modules you want to load (or sometimes relies on nixos-generate-hardware to find some of those modules), so even if it is really standard hardware that “just works” on other distros, you still may need to dig out some kernel modules and explicitly load them.

That explains it. Still is an odd choice. The whole point of Linux being modular, and knowing how to load stuff automatically, is that shit like this isn’t necessary. I can understand if this was Gentoo and we were talking about manually compiling kernels, but this is a pre compiled generic kernel. The expectation is that it just works.

Do you have a source on where to configure these kernel settings?

It’s clearly not a UEFI problem when it works fine on another Linux distro. Likewise I don’t think it’s a needed kernel parameter, because I didn’t add anything to CachyOS to make it work, though I will double check the current parameters. It’s a fairly standard Intel audio device as well, not anything weird or even that new (tigerlake).

I think this is an issue with how NixOS build their kernel and kernel modules. It’s not like it’s the only problem I have had with NixOS unfortunately.

Error is the same as last time. Turns out even the live Nix image can’t do audio on this machine. Switched to a Linux distro that actually works. Still would be interesting to find out why this happened.

Yeah doing sound.enable = false fixed it for a little bit, but it’s broken again now.

I tried the stock kernel. It didn’t make a difference. I will try disabling sound.enable.

Yeah, I kinda thought that just installed it. Since the system config had them installed I thought I shouldn’t do it. Obviously I was wrong. I’ve fixed it now.

Not the guy you are replying to but there are some people who only need 6 or 7. It’s a genetic thing if I remember correctly. It’s also pretty well known now that sleeping only once a day isn’t natural, so probably their body wants an afternoon nap instead.

Why doesn’t lemmy at least have pinned comments and flairs? Seems like a serious omission to me.