It’s better to avoid re-encoding as it lose quality.

While it’s a good thing to avoid WhatsApp there is no way to know if Signal is safe from Graphite, they used to claim to be able to target it.

I did: a) as said elsewhere in this post steam auto update, the package version is not relevant. b) this is 5 years old.

I don’t think you should trust it more.

The link you posted is about using steam with NTFS and the installation method has nothing to do with it.

Even after reinstalling steam with the steam.deb file it shows the same error

I never heard that and never installed Steam without a package manager. Be careful not to listen to everyone’s advices.

I’ve never seen the !0 and !1, it is dumb and indicates either young or terrible devs.

Boolean(window.chrome) is the best, !!window.chrome is good, no need to test if it’s equal to true if you make it a boolean beforehand.

It’s way more accurate that google map. But it lacks a lot of stores and opening times in less touristy countries.

If you want to contribute check out StreetComplete for an easy way.

I don’t understand why but OK.

That would be very weird. I gather that Mint use Ubuntu’s packages so it should be OK. Did you try it?

I don’t really know mint but why not install it through your package manager?

Is this left-wing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilisation_in_Sweden

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Institute_for_Racial_Biology

Brave does farbling: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/11770

JShelter is a nice extension that tries to implement the same things in other browsers, it’s a bit limited by the fact that it’s an extension.

https://jshelter.org/farbling/

I’ve yet to see a serious review of Duckduckgo browser, the only thing I saw was that because of it’s agreement with Microsoft for their search engine the browser, for a time, had rules to avoid blocking Microsoft tracking.

Sadly Firefox has no tab sandboxing on mobile so yeah, it is less secure.

And while I agree the Brave company is shady, the browser has good security features.

Well in the end I think I’m needlessly nitpicking. It doesn’t matter if it’s strictly immutable or not. What matter is that it has the good parts of reproducibility, immutability and declarativity.

Isn’t immutability related to the root filesystem being read-only? I can write on my root filesystem, even if it’s mostly links to the store I can replace those links.

Yes, or use flakes which gives you a lockfile pinning everything. But this is related to reproducibility, not immutability.

I’ve had NixOS absolutely refuse to run some compiler toolchain I depended upon that should’ve been dead simple on other distros, I’m really hesitant to try anything that tries to be too different anymore.

Yes, some toolchain expect you to run pre-compiled dynamically linked binaries. These won’t work on NixOS, you need to either find a way to install the binary from nix and force the toolchain to use it or run patchelf on it somehow.

Well that was an approximation to keep it simple and disprove the given example. There are other directories in the root filesystem that are in the path by default, or used in some other critical way (like /etc). Even if they are links to directories in the nix store you can replace the link.