And possibly IPA as well

Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else.

GNU IceCat is also amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle. But still, the pages that work are clean, and I love that by default the browser doesn’t do anything without your permission - it doesn’t even connect to update and telemetry services, it has 0 connections on startup, unlike almost anything (qutebrowser does the same, but, unless you are a strong Vim fanboy, you won’t like the experience).

Yeah, a better way to put it would be “There are women that may attempt baby-trap you, and you should always be mindful of that”

You do you, most goes with what’s free and there are plenty of good free options available.

Ads are a bad way of funding the development, especially for Lemmy, a place where a lot of people are increasingly privacy-minded.

I see, yep.

Thanks for the response!

Fair!

But still, an installation process that doesn’t involve a package manager is a bit of a pain, comparatively. Flatpaks may certainly be very helpful, though.

While I appreciate seeing content in Russian, this would better be placed in another community

Круто и внезапно здесь видеть контент на русском, но, мне кажется, это надо двинуть в другое сообщество

Maybe an infrared heater somewhere? They can look like a painting or whatnot, while actually serving as a heater first and foremost.

Actually yes, because “warm air” and “warm solid surface” are at two different temperatures to us due to unequal heat transfer.

The walls just have to be slightly above the air temperature to heat it up, and they may feel a bit cold anyway.

I can absolutely expect Slackware to be solid; my concern is about user-friendliness :D

Not the easiest distro out there.

On the topic of immutable distros, I more or less understood them and kind of managed to work fine with them, but, honestly, I feel all they do is enforce a certain way to interact with the system that makes screwing it up very hard - but on the other hand, introduces a slew of non-standard and sometimes complicated solutions newbies won’t understand (even for veterans it takes a while to get a grasp on them). If you follow the same pipeline on a mutable distro, you get the same stability plus the ability to do a lot of things without jumping through the hoops.

Right now I ended up on classical non-atomic Fedora for this reason. It features a lot of safe practices from immutable distros - system snapshots before updating, prioritizing flatpaks, container-oriented terminal able to work with Distrobox among all other things - but at the same time it’s a mutable distro able to work with everything else.

Yeah, Gentoo puts serious emphasis on that, I have to give them a credit. I liked it.

But yeah, I’d rather not have breaking changes in the first place.

Some functionality (menus, networking) working not as expected, random glitches, bugs, instabilities…also, now coming from the experiences of others (wasn’t there at the time), one time even GRUB had an update that broke it on all systems with Arch, forcing many to halt updates. In my eyes, from personal experience and experiences of others, it got a reputation as a quite messy system.

That very setup is why I do not recommend it to newbies who don’t have someone experienced around. Debian, even Debian 12, is not holding your hand and directing you. You’ll have to figure a lot out by yourself, and this adds to the steep learning curve.

Also, a very slow update cycle means the newbie will be stuck with outdated packages (sure, flatpaks are there, but the base system will be old, like, very old). And new hardware might face issues.

To me, the perfect pipeline is something like Linux Mint, then Fedora, then either Arch derivatives or Debian, depending on what serves you best. Alternatively, if you don’t mind some challenge after an easy entry, start out with Manjaro and then get another Arch. But that one’s more controversial.

Honestly, as someone who ran Arch and its derivatives, no one should be running upstream Arch but the testers.

No amount of experience or expertise will save you from breaking it. It WILL break, and you’ll be mocked for that as well by “Arch elitists” who will then face the same issue.

That’s why Linux veterans are rarely using Arch. It’s good for its purpose, it’s very important both for downstream Arch and for the entire Linux community, but it is NOT the distro you should run on your PC.

Go Fedora. Go Debian. Go to the downstream distros if you’re strongly into Arch, take Garuda for example. Make your machine actually work.

To me, every distro that seriously requires you to read through all changelogs before updating is BS, and it doesn’t solve a basic problem. No one in their sane mind will do this, and the system will break.

That’s why, while I respect the upstream Arch, I’d say you should be insane for running it and trying to make things stable, and mocking people for not reading the changelogs is missing the point entirely. Even the best of us failed.

Arch is entirely about “move fast and break stuff”.

In fairness, there are attempts to make Nix user-friendly, such as SnowflakeOS, featuring a lot of improvements including a graphical app store etc, but those are alpha and not ready for an average user.

Now that’s an extreme choice :D

Doing a lot of tech support, don’t you?

That is, if you have experience running immutable distros yourself and are able to serve as a tech support for them should they ever need it.

A lot is different under the hood, and general Linux knowledge doesn’t always help.

TL;DR Superheated products of burning in the state of plasma - essentially, an ionized gas.

Long answer:

Boring part on what causes the fire, you may skip it but it provides context

As is widely known, oxygen is the second most powerful elemental oxidizer in existence, second only to fluorine. Our atmosphere contains something like 21% of it in the form of oxygen molecules, and nearly everything it could oxidize at our normal conditions it already did - that’s how we got rocks, water and a lot of other good things. We also use it to oxidize our food - for us, this is just breathing, but really it’s a complex set of reactions meant to essentially burn our food at low temperature, without a flame.

However, one of the simplest things that can be changed to make oxygen oxidize something else is temperature. Elevated temperatures lead to the weakening of the bonds between atoms in the molecule, making them more readily available for a chemical reaction. At a certain threshold called activation energy, the reaction (in this case rapid oxidizing, i.e. burning) starts to occur. From here on out, the heat provided by reaction is enough to heat the rest of material up to the energy required for reaction, and it becomes self-sustaining, heating further and further. The further the reaction heats up, though, the more heat it emits to the environment, and at some point, different for each fuel type and external conditions, heating and cooling of the reaction equalize at a certain temperature - typically about 600-1000°C (1100-1800°F) for wood, 2000°C (3600°F) for natural gas, etc.

Normally, when a chemical reaction occurs, bonds get so weak that atoms can leave the molecule and reconfigure in a different way - they don’t stay in this separate state for any significant time, however, and the outcome is always two molecules with a different configuration of atoms. This is what happens inside our body in long chains of various reactions that involve oxygen. The end goal here is to extract as much energy as possible by putting electrons inside atoms in the most energy-efficient position, but that’s a topic for another time.

The thing is, fire works a bit differently.

Now the part actually about the fire

At such temperatures at which you see the flame, materials in the fuel don’t just swap atoms - they straight up break into free floating ions, or charged atoms, not bound to anything. They are so energized they rip chemical bonds apart. This state of matter is known as plasma, and it is very similar to gas, except gas consists of normal molecules and plasma is too hot to have that. So, in layman terms, you can see the flame as hot gas, though it wouldn’t be exactly correct.

Those ions then recombine into regular molecules, attempting to take the most energy-efficient configuration, and are moved out of the flame by the currents of air that itself gets expanded on heating. The products of this process are primarily carbon dioxide and water, as they are the most stable, energy-efficient bonds of carbon and hydrogen with oxygen, respectively.

As per why it glows - this is the property of its temperature. In fact, every object in the Universe that is above absolute zero temperature (0 degrees Kelvin, the lowest temperature there can be, signifying full stop in motion of any particles) emits electromagnetic radiation - that’s how thermal cameras work, they just see what we don’t. The interactions of protons and electrons between particles form paired electric and magnetic fields. These fields radiate photons, and at the temperatures above about 500°C (950°F) the emitted electromagnetic radiation begins taking form of visible light. Due to the amounts of heated matter and the energies involved in the process, we see fire as a very bright light.

That’s it, in the nutshell :)

Let’s not get astray here.

The reason El Salvador stopped using Bitcoin as a legal tender is not because it’s some sort of failed experiment (it had issues, but still), but due to continuous pressure of IMF interested in maintaining a US dollar-centric economy.

El Salvador is reliant on US dollars in its economy, which puts it under heavy US influence. Knowing Salvadoran currency wouldn’t be strong, Nayib Bukele suggested an alternative option - risky, volatile, but free from pressure of other countries and strongly appreciating in the long run. IMF didn’t like it, and that’s where we are.

So, when you cheer Bitcoin not being legal tender anymore, you also cheer US and IMF projecting power over the country.