Isn’t that the case with TES as well?

Depends on what TES you’re talking about. In Morrowind most people are neutral towards the player and you have to gain their trust or bribe them if you want something from them. Some just hate the player for various reasons and some NPCs are just straight up racist/spiecist. Some refuse to talk to you if you have contraband in your inventory (like skooma or moon sugar). I don’t know about the other games but I’ve heard that the “universally liked player” thing started with Skyrim.

This isn’t limited to JS. Too many times have I seen someone ask a question of how to do XYZ in language ABC where most of the replies were some form of “Just use this library bro” while not actually answering the question. And usually the library that’s being suggested is some big monolith that implements a ton of shit that no one really uses.

I’m at a point where any computer (including smart devices) that doesn’t run a GNU/Linux or BSD derivative where I, the user, have full control over is completely useless to me. Proprietary OSs are so limiting, they’re like a plastic toy hammer for kids in comparison to GNU/Linux, which is like a real metal hammer.

From my so far limited experience of playing around with it for 30 minutes in a QEMU KVM, it does use the apt package manager but a quick look at /etc/apt/sources.list tells that they use their own repositories. Looking through the repositories of what they have to offer it seems that they aren’t just mirrors from another distro but actually maintain their own packages and port some Ubuntu packages. A look through their Kernel Config zcat /proc/config.gz tells that they compile their own custom Kernel as well. Also it doesn’t use snap at all, but they do offer it in their repositories. And for some reason there is dockerd/containerd pre-installed and pre-configured on the base System. My guess would be that they use docker for the Mobile apps, but I can’t verify this right now since every time I try to install a Mobile app from the Software Store it tells me that I can’t run a VM inside a VM. And unfortunately I don’t have some spare Hardware to test at hand atm.

To answer your question; It seems like an independent distro utilizing the apt package manager and porting some Ubuntu packages. But I can’t say for sure, since all of the documentation on their git repositories is written in mandarin.

Is there a specific date of when they will federate with us that I’m not aware of? Because I don’t see anything other than “soon™”.

Also there are a lot of people in that thread who don’t seem to understand what lemmy/federation even is or how it works. Despite how worrisome some of their users and rules can be (CW on meat and milk products? That has to be ironic, right?) I’ll still welcome all Hexbears if they follow the rules. I look forward to the day where our communities can finally interact with each other

What I see whenever I look at a MrBeast thumbnail:

Their profile is only a few hours old and they have only 2 posts both of which are basically identical. Also the way they reply gives me the impression that they’ve already made up their mind. Seems sus.