No, that file is located in the nix store and linked back, If you become root and try to edit /etc/hosts It will complain that you cannot edit the linked file.

If you go and try to edit the store directly you will meet the same kind of dead ends because /nix/store is a ro bind mount

With enough root access, time and persistence you could eventually unwrap its flavor of immutability which is why I said mostly immutable. Compared to most operating systems where you can just slip a quick edit into a cron job it’s leagues ahead.

Then you have NixOS, which is declarative, and fairly immutable.

You don’t have to reboot to make changes, but you can’t just run unlinked binaries either.

You can’t do things like edit your hosts table or modify the FS for cron jobs. The application store is unwritable, but you can sync new apps into it .

You have to make changes to the config file and run a rebuild as root.

God that’s satisfying.

The number of times I pull up behind some POS at a stoplight… I have this fantasy of rigging up a high power laser focused in at about 10 feet where I can just burn a message into their paint.

yeah, the .com bubble popped because all the vc’s were promised return on investment, and sooner or later they figured out there wasn’t nearly as much money in it as they were promised.

I’m kind of concerned that we’re the mainstay of the product.

I’m concerned that they get enough data to ask: what is the minimum amount we can pay Rumba before they leave or become unproductive?

How much will Rumba be willing to pay for this concert ticket?

I’m worried that there are enough realistic ways to nickel and dime me out of money that they really screw up life for people.

I’m more afraid they’ll find enough use for it to make it not a bubble.

When governments use it to model individuals behaviors, it may never pop.

What happens when Big Brother is a learning model ?

Ok, had to go to a computer to properly answer this.

First, subsidies aren’t explicitly designed to make meat cheaper. They’re intended to keep farms in business and provide a safety margin for food stocks. They subsidize cheese, wheat, meat, soya, corn, everything. In some cases, they pay farmers not to grow crops. It’s about food security. If a farm goes under, it becomes housing land, and we lose that growing capability. That said, most of the subsidies aren’t going to individual farmers, but we’ll get to that later.

A calf costs somewhere in the range of $300. They can have their first calf around 2 years old. And every year after that. They cost about $2-3 a day each to feed. Given there are veterinary needs, hay in the winter, After a year of growth, they sell for ~$3000-$4000 and provide about 450 lbs of meat. That’s somewhere around 30-40% profit calf to slaughter.

If you’re just buying them to slaughter, that’s $6-$8 / lb average, then butchering and transport. But that includes ribs, roasts, steak, filet, liver, and tongue. Tenderloin sells for $15-$20/lb. Steaks sell for closer to $12.

If you managed it calf to beef, that’s closer to $4 a lb at cost.

The caps on the subsidies to the individual farmers are insanely low (something like 150k / farmer). Most of those billions go to the mega-corps who can skirt the caps. Those subsidies are primarily funding the oligarchs.

So let’s reverse that again with the proper claim as you pointed out. $30/lb. 450lb/cow. That’s a $13,000 cow. They’re not getting that much in subsidies either. That would cap out at 11 head.

I think our problem is that the paper is trying to calculate a societal cost, while we’re arguing fiscal cost.

https://sentientmedia.org/government-subsidies-make-meat-cheaper/

It’s also frequently argued by vegan and food justice activists that the price of a Big Mac would jump from $5.00 to $13.00 without federal subsidies. This claim, however, is based on a misreading of the aforementioned UC Berkeley paper.

What the paper actually says is that a Big Mac would cost $13.00 “if the retail price included hidden expenses that meat producers offload onto society.” That’s a much broader category than just subsidies. It includes things like the health and environmental costs associated with meat production and consumption, neither of which are subsidies.

If you want to lump in health costs, every high-fat, high-sugar food skyrockets. French Fries, oils, eggs, bread, cookies.

Lab-grown meat will still have all those hidden health costs. The only true win is for the environment, and to be clear, I want lab-grown meat for all the environmental and ethical considerations, I’m just saying the article is trying to paint a picture that’s much worse than it really is.

That article is highly suspect. The prices of beef cows sans tax credits is readily available, as is the average meat yield. A Big Mac uses 1/5 of a pound of lean cooked meat (2x 1.6 oz patties). So let’s be generous assume that it’s one quarter pound uncooked. $30 per quarter pound would put your average beef cow up around $54,000. At that price, The farmers would be getting 1 million a year per 19 head of cattle.

And all that’s assuming that we’re just grounding up all the random beef into ground beef. Ground beef is generally taken from the trimmings of the steaks and roasts or we’re volume is required at least the cheapest of the roasts.

Certainly the subsidy is there, But it’s more like pennies on the dollar rather than dollars on the penny.

Most that bitch about processed foods have no idea what “processed” actually means.

Most of the ‘chemicals’ they’re worried about occur naturally at quantity in plants and fruit.

The lab-grown meat uses the same organics that happen in the animal to trigger growth.

That said, price-wise, real meat will have to become very very expensive before lab-grown meat will be competitive. Breeding cattle is expensive, but a lot of it is just making sure life happens. Cows are hearty, self feed and have immune systems.

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or one of the offshoots like Mint or Pop.

As long as you don’t go too far into the weeds with Arch, Silverblue or NixOS, You’re probably going to have a pretty decent experience, as long as you don’t dig too far under the hood too early most things that you’re going to want to try are just going to work out of the gate.

I asked my Aunt for R.E.M. at the height of their popularity. She gave me an old REO speedwagon album that had none of their hits on them. All in all, that’s the worst, so i’ve done very well.

Interesting, I have two identicals at home and tend to use them equally.

Where do you put the split, to one side or directly in front of you?

On my desk at work I have an ultra wide, a single external laptop screen to my right and a TV on the far wall on my left.

Snapping two apps right and left on the uw is fantastic on the ultra wide. Price aside, it’s as good or better than having two monitors.

The TV obviously doesn’t count cuz it’s only there for other people or if I want to have server graphs running for show.

But the secondary monitor works really well is a semi important parking space. I usually slide slack and signal over there. That way I can see what was sent and only worry about going over to it if it’s something I need to respond to. I find it kind of nice to have that logical division over there. I can hot key stuff over that monitor.

I’d say if someone has the money the UW is fantastic, But it’s super useful to have a secondary monitor from a mental standpoint for me at least.

I agree, two is probably the productive limit as long as you only have one mouse cursor. But I just got a dual screen laptop with touch on both. I can easily slip between a soure document, destination document and have a web page or other tool open for research it’s kind of classy.

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountain-view-prison/

Path to the right is not mutually exclusive from the left.

They can’t allow that. That’s called leaving money on the table. They will not be satisfied until they have every penny we earn, then, once that food source dries up, they’ll go after each other.

Hell its not even per county, each courthouse can do their own thing.

Wendy’s managers are generally pretty bad at being Wendy’s managers.

Anyone good at the job would never do it for what they’re willing to pay.

no uncle steve, that’s commuter science, I know ALL ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

White collar, I’ll take one 40h block please. 2 20’s if necessary. no rest for the wicked…

I don’t miss it, but my kids miss me playing with them.

I’m aware bottles can make it work, but it’s not straight forward on NixOS and I’ve heard some people getting banned in some games from running on emulation.