name a VPN company that obstructed a federal court order

great read, though I still prefer css-in-js. Tailwind still uses css rules and syntax, and I find it clunky when trying to handle complex styling logic.

All the power to you! For me personally, what I’ve learned in the past few years of using Linux, is that installing things is just half the battle. The other half is discovering them and deciding whether they are worth the time and effort. And I found out about so many useful tools from the Fedora and Bazzite teams that I decided I’d rather let them make the choices for me. Things like pipewire, wayland, fzf, ptyxis, btrfs, podman, distrobox, bazaar, and so much more.

When I want to configure a declarative environment like people do on Nixos, I just use a container, devpod, or distrobox. These are all included on Bazzite DX. But for the base system I prefer to delegate trust to others to save me the time and energy. The maintainers test each tool, and make sure they are stable and work with the rest of the system, so that I don’t have to. And in the future if I decide I don’t like the direction that Bazzite is going, the rpm-ostree rebase system lets me use a single command to switch to a different distro maintained by a different team.

Though to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if Nixos had a similar system, and if they don’t right now they probably will in the future. Things are changing fast!

Sorry for necro but your ideology is fascinating. It sounds like you believe offline people deserve the same benefits as online people. Why do you believe this? Why shouldn’t the world move towards an expectation of online existence?

If I were to guess, your goal is not offline existence, but privacy, and doing things offline guarantees privacy, the same way that high-security environments use airgapped machines. But that’s just a means to an end. There are other ways of achieving privacy, like using vetted open source software that take privacy seriously, for example a fediverse client running in Tor browser. Privacy does not necessitate being offline. Going to a cafe to download articles to read offline, is not really offline either. It’s just an intermittent internet connection

is internet archive the only alternative?

I imagine that this also means it’s your own responsibility to research and manage upgrades that the rest of the Linux world are making. For example, X11 -> Wayland, PulseAudio -> Pipewire. One of the benefits of using distros like Fedora or Debian is that you can trust them to make these changes for you. Reproducible is nice, but immutable distros give you a reproducible desktop that also evolves over time, without any effort from you.