its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described

It’s possible, but “not difficult” is a bit of a stretch. FWIW I’ve used this in the past, among other hacky solutions that don’t always work as expected:

# Print packages installed from different origins.
# Exclude standard Ubuntu repositories.

grep -H '^Origin:' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Release | grep -v ' Ubuntu$' | sort -u \
| while read -r line; do
    origin=${line#* }
    echo $origin:
    list=${line%%:*}
    sed -rn 's/^Package: (.*)$/\1/p' ${list%_*Release}*Packages | sort -u \
    | xargs -r dpkg -l 2>/dev/null | grep '^.i '
    echo
done

As a non-Nixer I completely share your frustration. Immutability, i.e. tracking of config changes, is so obviously a good idea. It’s high time it became universal.

Immigration policy, hmm?

Positive sign. This country is always ahead of the curve.

This seems less a technical problem than a human one. Specifically, the need to avoid dispersal and fragmentation. If there are 5 different knitting communities, then the real problem is that there are 3 or 4 too many knitting communities and they should merge.

More irrelevance about desktop market share in a world where soon almost nobody will have a desktop computer.

I’d say you’re looking for a word other than “minimalist”. Maybe “modder” or “tweaker”.

A minimalist doesn’t necessarily have any interest in spending hours making their computer 0.01% faster.

The boss being an asshat doesn’t automatically disqualify a product made by his employees.

Fair enough. But whether this is a technical problem or a human problem, it is a problem. Silly for people to be denying that IMO.

If servers are going to come and go every 3 months at the whim of individuals, then - IMO - maybe there are are too many servers. Anecdotally, I picked my particular one for this very reason. Seems I anticipated well.

Completely. This feels like a major communications fail. It’s a basic technique of fundraising and mobilization: put a big ticking clock on your campaign and people will step up in time.

You are confusing middle-class Americans with everyone else in the world.

Even if it were 26% it would be somewhat irrelevant. Ordinary people do not use desktop computers any more. To repeat (because in this community there’s a lot of stubborn resistance to this fact): ordinary people do not use desktop computers any more.

To be clear, I do, and you do. But we are a small and shrinking minority.

But that’s the point. I don’t want to have to go there to have a good experience. I want to have it here.

Maybe we should rename this place too.

This is the best of your ideas.

If we do things as you seem to want, then there’s no point even having separate communities. Let’s just have one big bin and every day we can throw 10,000 conversation into it like junk.

The rules are there for a reason.

Check the community description, it has a decent definition of “showerthought”. With examples for clarity.

Also this community is actively asking for more mods.

So that explains it.

This belongs in !casualconversation@lemmy.world or !shootingthebreeze or whatever, not here. Like 1 in 3 other posts, yes. Literally breaks rules #1 and #2.

The “mods” in this community are asleep at the wheel. Might as well not have them.

Realistically, there’s going to be no way to stop this. It’s too useful. It works and most people appreciate it. I know this because I have visited southern China recently. I’ve seen the train stations and coffee shops where people now think nothing of leaving their belongings completely unattended. This level of surveillance effectively makes petty crime impossible. It’s widely seen as progress, in a way it is progress, and there’s no going back.

The challenge remaining is to keep some level of democratic accountability over our governments. That’s feasible but it’s not going to be easy.

This post breaks literally rules #1, #2 and #3 of this community. Crazy.

Mods please wake up and DO YOUR JOB.

Breaks rule #2 completely. Not a showerthought.