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  • Hey, I appreciate your warning.

    For a bit of context, I have been a Debian user for almost 30 years now. Mostly using testing for desktop / workstation systems, and stable on servers and containers. Debian is comfortable and provides me with stability where I need and cutting-edge where I want. It mostly “just works” with great defaults for everything, and it’s easy to customise where I desire.

    With that out of the way: you’re not wrong. In fact, the testing FAQ describes situations where these kinds of breakages could happen.

    That said, this is exceedingly rare if not nearly unheard of, and I can always pull packages from sid or experimental if I need (like I do Mesa).

    Edit to add: for anyone interested in trying out Debian testing, please check out the Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

    Edit 2: I have published a blog post describing my setup if you’re interested: https://blog.c10l.cc/09122023-debian-gaming



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    1 year ago

    That reminds me of that joke:

    Two economists are walking side-by-side.

    One tells the other: I’ll give you $100 if you take a shit on the pavement.

    He proceeds to shit on the pavement and grab the $100.

    He then tells the other economist: I’ll give you $100 if you eat my shit.

    The other does the deed and collects his $100.

    After walking a few more blocks, one of them says: both of us left our dignity with that work back there and neither of us are any richer!

    To which the other responds: no, but we grew our combined GDP to $200.

    And they both walked away happy, patting each other on their backs.


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    1 year ago

    Latinum is only valuable outside of the Federation, where societies are not post-scarcity.

    Now, before you argue that there are no material conditions demanding scarcity in (some of) them, I’ll add that artificial scarcity is scarcity nonetheless.