The old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born. Now is the time for monsters.

Uighur concentration camps

Can you provide a source to read further into that? Preferably one that isn't sourcing from Zenz or from RFA (which in turn sources random tweets / "anonymous sources").

general authoritarianism

What kind of authoritarianism do people in China experience that isn't done by western governments, either directly or offloaded to the market?

tanks running over folk while their out doing their shopping

How come no photos or videos from one of the most surveilled place of those supposed tanks running over folk has been published to this date? Meanwhile we have hundreds of hours of footage of Palestinians in Gaza filming and publishing them getting genocided on the internet, and that is with Israel having complete control over their infrastructure, including internet access.

not being able to enjoy the antics of Winnie the Pooh

I don't think many Chinese people would appreciate being called yellow.

NixOS Genuinely impressive for reproducible system configs. The catch? Local update management is a nightmare. Hard to understand what's coming in with updates and when. Terrible visibility.

Try nh, which gives you a very readable diff of what derivations were added / modified / removed after building your system config.