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If it’s not something about signaling, it might be a resonance frequency - I could imagine sympathetic vibrations becoming problematic for the trackbed in spots due to the composition of the ground in some way, similar to earthquakes being able to liquefy soil.

Oh yeah. From messing around with Fedora Atomic, I can definitely see something like that working for a lot of people - no messing around with system libraries, stuff installs in a click, if it’s not available as a flatpak you can find an AppImage, etc. Immutability is really convenient if you just want a system that runs and can revert back to a working state easily without fiddlefucking with the terminal/fighting Google to get the info from StackExchange threads.

lol. love when people are panicking about this when it means that these things are basically interchangeable anyways. Didn’t someone at Google write a memo that was like “we’re kinda fucked b/c you can re-create this stuff with enough resources” like 2 years ago?

IIRC they’re a subsidiary of Lenovo who bougt them sometime in the mid 2010s I think.

I first got on it because Windows Vista ran like an absolute pig after a few years and I got tired of it - downloaded Ubuntu and I was off to the races with it. After that laptop I built my first PC which I’m proud to say has never so much as had a windows USB stick inserted into it.

Tbh I find it requires much less tinkering now - I ended up putting Fedora Atomic Cosmic on a Chromebook this weekend (first time w/ jailbreaking a Chromebook, and w/Fedora) and it took all of an hour to get it done - the only command-line stuff I needed to do was because Fedora Atomic is immutable so adding non-flatpak apps is a slightly more involved process. Beyond that OS setup/software installation was entirely via GUI and straightforward.

I like the idea of them because I don’t like dealing with dependencies changing and breaking stuff and I don’t really care too much about disk space in the context of non-game desktop apps, as I don’t tend to install lots of them.

That being said I absolutely hate that permissions are all over the place and flatpak doesn’t ship a GUI to manage them by default, nor do you get any indication as to what permissions a program has until you try some functionality (like filesystem or camera access) only to find out it doesn’t work out of the box.

If I understand it correctly, it’s “federated” in the sense that you can create similar infrastructure to Bluesky’s using ATProto and have your posts show up there, but that reality seems pretty academic because not many people are doing that compared to Mastodon.

The timing of the click captcha loading is randomized and it probably is looking for human-ish cursor movement? (Like you’re probably moving your hand in imperceptibly small ways that are difficult to replicate). Clicking before it loads and doing it repeatedly probably triggers detection.