That sounds like the 2003 film, “Good Boy!”

Thanks for the well-written explanation, stranger.

Who knew a company with an unhealthy obsession with harvesting every screen tap of data from every person using their services… would chicken out from connecting their servers to a bunch of clients they couldn’t monitor.

… That said, I actually didn’t see this coming. It baffles me that I didn’t, but I didn’t.

Oh, you’re coming from Ubuntu! That’s a much more manageable transition.

Yeah, going directly from Windows to NixOS is a harsh transition.

I’m finding some details in this stackoverflow question

According to the question’s first comment,

Those default arguments get filled in when you’re invoked with pkgs.callPackage, but nix-build doesn’t do that. –

Charles Duffy Dec 2, 2022 at 16:05

Then one of the answers says:

This worked for me:

nix-build -E ‘with import {}; callPackage ./default.nix {}’

Definitely try this more complicated nix-build command.

I don’t currently have a NixOS system myself, though, so I’m not really able to test it out. I switched back to Debian because it’s more user friendly and I’m not quite ready for NixOS.

This is the only acceptable measurement of time.

It’s very Putin-esque to sully the reputation of every institution and democratic process that could inhibit your power… by shamelessly abusing those institutions and processes so much that ordinary people associate them with shameless, partisan abuse.

Damn it, it’s now GNL and we have to rewrite all the textbooks!

Duly noted. I’ve subscribed to the writing prompts community.

Oh! You could call yourselves

• “the slight right” or
• “right lite”

I don’t know. The name feels weird. I could see calling your community,

• “moderates”
• “moderategop”
• “RINOs” (just like Trump’s supporters embraced calling themselves “deplorables”, non-Trump conservatives should probably ready themselves for turning enemies’ insults into their own battle standards.)
  • plus RINOs also gives a decent logo idea for the community (the rhinoceros)

I recently started a Kbin account and noticed that a few of the communities I searched:

1. were empty, and
2. had, in their info, the claim that they had started right when I searched them.

Which tells me that the Kbin instance only stores local information about a community after the first of its members searches that community.

Such an eloquent response

Wonderful. Thank you South Samurai. I’ll do just that.

This is one hell of a write up, stranger. Thank you!

Mastodon and calckey have the most active writing communities imo.

It is very difficult to search for something when you don’t know it exists. Now that I know Mastodon and calckey have a vibrant writing community that you recommend, I know there’s some value to finding it and learning how to immerse my account in that community. Much appreciated.

I think the best route is a lemmy or kbin author account combined with mastodon. Instances rarely matter in terms of where you join, so long as it’s a fairly stable and not heavily defederated/defederating one.

You even gave a recommended route!? Seriously, you have my gratitude. This is awesome.

By “combined with mastodon” do you mean to create one new account at lemmy or kbin and one at mastodon? Or do you mean to create one new account at lemmy or kbin and use it to connect with the writing communities at mastodon?

Thank you kindly. I feel like this answer supplements Samurai’s answer really well and gives a solid illustration of their point when they said,

I’ve looked over the other options, and they’re pretty meh tbh, for a writer in specific.

Now I know what’s so “meh” about at least one of them.