What? Nova is a rewrite of Nouveau from scratch by Redhat devs to better support newer cards.

If you wish you could do it in the past, why not do it now?

Specifically in the Linux kernel, the 2 big reasons to use it are memory safety (huuuuggee benefit) and that a lot of younger devs like it and thus it will attract their contributions.

The only reasons I can think of to not use it are that some people want their own toolchain and having multiple languages in the kernel adds complication. But tbh, none of that justifies banning Rust stuff that realistically wouldn’t have been written at all if C were the only option.

And then there’s the people who show up in Phoronix, HN, Reddit, and YouTube comments saying Rust is over-hyped without showing why it’s unfit for purpose and also trying to dictate what someone does with their own project. Perhaps it’s something to do with the representation of queer people and other minorities in the Rust community, because otherwise I do not understand why people would be sooo passionate in hating the Rust community like the group I described above is.

It matters to potential contributors. It’s also a floating signifier for a lot of things.

cargo cult

Yeah, you wouldn’t. My point is that’s because it’s preinstalled, not because of any GUI/CLI advantage.

man genfstab gave an error? Neither CLI nor GUI is gonna help with simply not having something installed that the guide assumed.

I’m glad autism doesn’t have a “cure”, because I’m sure it would’ve been used to eugenics autism out of existence.

I can’t even mount my Android storage to my computer without some unreliable MTP FUSE program.

Do people not exercise theory of mind enough? Does he not ever realize that people live whole lives outside of what he sees and imagines?

You assume they think through it beyond “I don’t get it therefore it’s fake”

Someone mistook me as trans and asked “why can’t you just be gay?”, which was a great point, so I transitioned so I could be gay like they asked.

Worked on my machine last I checked, and I don’t have a useragent spoofer

Yeah, that happened to me too. I look back on those egg days somewhat fondly, because I felt a magic from finally being able to imagine a happy future and who I could be.

Conservatives talking about trans people so much infected me with the trans

I don’t think it’s unfair as long as you clearly communicate it and the other person is okay with it. Lots of oddities can be okay and fair as long as they’re clearly communicated about and agreed on.

It’s the Nazi bar effect

I don’t notice my gender in most dreams, but there was one a few months ago where I was definitely a woman. That one also convinced me I want bottom surgery, down there just felt right in that dream.

There are a lot of NB trans women (hiii!)

Sometimes I hear/read the words and could tell you what the words were, but my brain lags on processing meaning. I’ve had to reread so many things because I forgot the part where I actually understand what I just read.