@mekkaokereke ok. I will bet against you, for the simple fact that if I lose, I win.
I bet $150 that mastodon will not have both quote tweets and composable moderation by January 1 2026.
If I lose, I'll pony up the cash to the destination of your choice (a charity, a mastodon server, someone asking for MutualAid, your own Venmo, whatever). If I win, 🤷 I've gotten way more than $150 value from your posts so we'll call it good.
@aral I have not, and probably won't in the near future, but I can say this:
Installer to get a working fully-encrypted system with my preferred DE was trivial and fully GUI'ed. Time to a working system with the software I wanted and configured the way I like was ~15 minutes after that.
I'm sure there's a lot of power i'm not yet taking advantage of, but time and effort to get started is essentially zero.
OK so I *finally* gave NixOS a shot and oh gosh it's a game changer. The thing NixOS solves is *everything I hate about linux* that I apparently mistakenly believed was "just how linux works".
I honestly did not know it was possible for a linux system to not suck as much as NixOS doesn't suck.
@thomasfuchs I think this is actually a feature of the analogy. If you have a low interest rate and you can earn more from the capital than the debt is costing you, you hold off paying down the debt. Debt is not a de-facto bad thing. Using a credit card is taking on debt. But just like technical debt, you need to be strategic about when and what you take on, and when you commit to paying it off.
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