The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility.

I think a lot of people do care about it, just not under that name. But I think a lot of users asked themselves at least once "what did I do back then to achieve X". Not in that the whole system is reproduced 1:1, but certain aspects. That's something much easier to answer with nix.

Well, you don't need to learn nix as a programming language for a simple installation, you can use it like a slightly different json, which the configuration.nix part was about. You can get the reproducibility aspect from just that, so I wouldn't say you get no benefits at all without learning the language.

There are more disadvantages (like time required to rebuild because you added a single package), so Arch is the better choice depending on preferences. Arch is a very good traditional distribution in my opinion, can't go wrong with it

Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple /etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I'd say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn't have an equivalent to that...

Well I mean they didn't pay for most of the stuff in there in the first place

Every card they buy isn't available to a competitor.

Only half joking.

"bro imagine if we could actually use all these cards we bought, we'd be the best at this AI thing"

I'm still waiting for an actual business case. Who's going to consume all this slop? And pay for it at one point?

Similarly here. Have an Odroid with that platform, it wasn't cheap but it came with several advantages:

• 4 SATA ports on addition to the M2 slot
• Intel QSV
• 2 x 2.5 Gbit Ethernet (I only have gigabit at home though)

Very powerful machine for the power usage, I ran a really old Athlon before though (from 2010 or so that I retrofitted with 16GB RAM) that did most stuff just fine. But I wanted some transcoding and also possibly a smaller case.

I run everything bare metal though.

Luckily, it's not the entire Internet, just the unfun part.

While there is quite the push thanks to Valve, they built upon the work of others, mostly Wine (which I think they fund nowadays) and DXVK (they hired the dev after a short while). So they're definitely not freeloading, but the main lifting has been done by Codeweavers and Wine contributors through their massive work over the years, plus the quantum leap that was DXVK.

I'm not trying to shame Valve here, they definitely go beyond what they'd be required to by license, but I feel it's also not fair to call them the reason most games work under Linux when others have poured literal years of work into making it possible.

Repo means repossessed, which is only applicable to items purchased under a credit (e.g. you take out a credit to but a car, can't pay it, the car gets repo'd); also they only happen on unsecured loans, it'd be the security that would be transferred to the lender, which in this case is Russian, not Ukrainian.

The beauty of a loan secured against someone else's assets is that it doesn't harm you if you default. Russia could still leave Ukraine and propose how they repay Ukraine for damages, which would also cover these loans; in return, they'd receive their assets back.

The money in the end will most likely go to Europe, as in is given to Ukraine who use it to buy European weapons is my guess. At least until the war is over

The way the article is written is that Europe gives Ukraine a loan that is secured by Russian assets, meaning of Ukraine defaults, Russian assets are transferred to the EU.