I heard better cooling solutions help. Have you tried eating icecream?

Nah, their instance is blocked on mine.

Not the first time I see this, I guess it's time to either host my own instance or find one with less righteous admins.

I only know the word as a derogatory term and have no idea who you are trying to offend with that.

What exactly lead you to believe it serves an M3U file?

Even if you had good intentions with that, throwing common solutions that obviously won't work at someone only leads to them wasting time. It's not a good thing to do.

Some stuff breaks, but it’s still usable.

You can see posts, thus it's usable.

Well, it's using funny JS, you learn how it works and trick it into downloading the fragments.

But why would you bother doing that if the movie is available on public trackers in better quality?

Have you tried Alexandrite?

Basic Lemmy works without JS. Some stuff breaks, but it's still usable.

x86 is the instruction set, 64 is for 64-bit extension of that instruction set. It's also known as AMD64 to make it even more confusing. All Intel Core processors starting from Core 2 are using that architecture, as far as I remember.

By "tinkering a bit" I meant sometimes digging up a package in the archives and rolling it back. I used Arch daily for around 2 years and had to do it once. You can also avoid it by keeping tabs on what the community says, broken packages cause quite a bit of fuss.

Release schedule is a trade off, if you are updating weekly, it'll usually take less than 5 minutes to download all the packages that got updated within that week. The rarer you update, the more time each update takes.

But it's all ultimately a matter of preference, just wing something up and try to use it for a couple of days. If it's not to your taste, scrap it and try something else, it's rare to end up with a setup you like right from the get go.

Some distributions like Debian get releases once per year or two, people tend to joke around that those are "stale" rather than "stable". Fedora lives somewhere in between, you get more testing than on Arch, but less than on the likes of Debian. Usual Fedora release cycle is once in half a year.

By old Mac hardware I assume you mean x86-64 Intel Macs? Pretty much any modern distro should work on that.

If you are in general ok with tinkering a bit with your computer, I'd recommend Arch derivatives like EndeavourOS or CachyOS, these come with full GUI installers and software availability on Arch is one of the widest around.

Arch is rolling release, though, meaning each package gets updated as soon as a new version is available, rarely it leads to things breaking.

If you want something more stable, Fedora is a great choice, too.

As you mentioned yourself, Mint also exists. It's packages are usually on the older side, but the distro itself is trying to be this "gateway drug of Linux".

The feel of the system is mostly determined not by your distribution, though, but rather by your desktop environment. As far as I know, GNOME is the most "Mac-like" out of popular ones. KDE is "Windows done right", and there are a lot of other options, but you'll mostly have to try them out yourself until you find something you like.

It means that it's Linux shaped as an arch.

Those are different, prefix "arch-" comes from greek "ἀρχι-", while noun "arch" is from latin "arcus".

Though, it should be mentioned that initially the meaning was taken from the prefix one, it's just with time everybody got used to the Arch arch logo and spelling, I suppose.

The urge to downvote something you really shouldn't have never been so strong.

I have this handy little bash function, I think you should use it.

get-english-ordinal-ending() {
  case "$1" in
    *11 | *12 | *13) printf 'th' ;;
    *1) printf 'st' ;;
    *2) printf 'nd' ;;
    *3) printf 'rd' ;;
    *) printf 'th' ;;
  esac
}

We don't care, we are too busy compiling our systems.

The party trick of NixOS is declaring your whole system in a huge config file. If you want someone to get the same system, you just throw your config at them and it works*.

違うよ。ハイゼンベルク。

legitimate

Yea, THC vapes are also illegal in most jurisdictions. People still buy and use them.

there’s some unknowns in the industry, but it’s been around for 20 years now

Yet I know of no studies that would look into health of people who are exclusively vaping across even a 5 year span. It's not "some unknowns", we barely know anything about it.

e liquid are all GRAS

This is one of the most wild takes I've heard. Something being safe to eat or put on your skin does not mean you can inhale it and expect no harm. One of the most common examples would be benzaldehyde, which is used as a food additive and in vapes, as a gas it causes irritation to respiratory passages.

The worst part is that sometimes you don't even have to specify a lot of it in the list of ingredients. You can read article 4.2.2.1 of this document, for example.

much safer means of nicotine

And nicotine patches beat both of those by a mile in this regard.

it’s a means of lowering risk

The best way of lowering the risk is using proper, well established methods for quitting smoking before resorting to something like vaping.

You can start with the Wikipedia article. The problematic part here is that we have no long-term studies about vaping and even less studies about people who exclusively vape. There are plenty of studies that indicate that there is a lot of nasty stuff mixed in the aerosol that vapes produce, like this one.

Another thing is that people who are selling these are the same people who sell tobacco and they have decades of experience mudding the research field.

I in general despise vaping as it made a lot of younger people pick up nicotine and it is far more addictive when you are young.

And, well, yes, I am exaggerating with that statement, but the problem is that we don't know for certain. Substitution therapy exists, but I just can't support it when whatever you are using is wildly underresearched.

Very happy for you!

Must warn people against trying vapes as a tool to quit smoking, though. It has the same if not worse health risks in addition to much less research about any long-standing effects.

If the standard nicotine patch approach does not work, please consult with a proper doctor.