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  • Ahh thank you for the explanation. I was asking in the context of the root of the configuration though, especially since nixos usually doesn’t use a linker at runtime anyway. Afaik, this process only happens to dynamically linked files, which nixos hates for some reason (although things like nix-ld and buildFHSenv exist) so most of the time statically linked executables are used instead.

    I was curious why someone would have that when they can just use nix-ld or yank it directly from nix’s glibc package or something






  • A bit besides the point, but I have been thinking about this.

    I currently use duckduckgo. However I have two problems:

    • Most of the results are usually SEO spam
    • The page takes a ton of time to load

    Google also has the first issue (though not nearly as much), and so do all its wrappers.

    The only search engine that made me feel more or less like I was getting decent results was kagi (especially with the fact that I could block and report AI slop and block sites that I don’t like), but that’s just too expensive for me normally.

    What do ya’ll do for search?




  • As for why it looks like crap, tbh it’s likely just because our letters are very thin. Vertically, an l would take the same space in the line as an ー which makes absolutely no sense and makes the lines look like enshittified junk food. On the other hand, the characters in the languages you showed are squarish, which means that they look good in both orientations.

    As for why it’s hard to read, as someone who’s learning japanese, it’s likely because people are just not used to it. While I started reading R-L fairly early in my learning journey and had no problem getting used to it, I had a friend who only started reading R-L after he was already pretty much fluent in the language, and he told me that he found reading it a little tricky despite reading L-R no problem. I assume that he read words, not letters, and reading in an orientation he was not used to threw him off. On the other hand, I was still learning so I read each character individually, which was why I didn’t feel much of a difference.