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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:46 KDE's AI policy 06:42 Existing AI policies 10:06 Going further on AI 12:58 My stance on AI 17:05 FOSS projects: yes or no to AI? 28:02 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
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hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!"
nope, they're now doubling down further.
Bringing an on-going discussion from outside into a thread with which it bore no relationship, The correct way to proceed is to alert mods, sysadmins or another participant in the discussion privately. What happened is akin to someone walking into a restaurant and seemingly randomly punching another patron. They're going to get thrown out.
Damn what a completely out of touch response. Many people point out that this was basically a badly handled abuse report that a user brought to a main thread instead of reporting, however that does not and never did justify the original and continued ban of the first person to report on it.
I am especially galled by the "and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it)." bit. Dude, maybe someone's motivations matter. Acting like attacking someone's motivations are always out of place is part of what lets this kind of shit fester and grow. Everyone has motivations, and a lot of people's motivations are deeply unsavory.
Bruh my Kubuntu minimal install. Welp. *sigh que sera sera, we all move on sometime.
Hello everyone, I need help to decide on a Linux Distribution to settle and finally stop distro hopping. I have quite some experience with Linux(1year Mint, a quarter year Arch, nixos, debian, manjaro, fedora, suse tumbleweed and kalpa...)I have been experimenting for now almost 3 years. Now I finally want to setlle but I just don't know where. I like Nix's shell but don't like installing everything in five steps(with git because my brain can stand neither the dirty tree warning nor leaving out on the git push) and I don't need the reproducibility. I like rolling so I don't need to reinstall or do any major update, but even more appealing is low maintenance and stability in the sense of nothing unexpectedly breaking. I'll use the computer as an daily driver mostly for programming & 3d design, university related work, streaming and also some gaming. Thank you for your answers. #linux #distrohopping. EDIT: I don't want to have a company behind my distribution. And my specs: Nvidia RTX 4070, Amd Radeon 7 7840HS, 16GB of RAM
Conclusion: Thanks a lot for all of that feedback, I decided to go for Debian 13 Stable and might check out MX once.
The final conclusion 😛: I will now install LMDE and either try to install KDE Plasma or just stick with Cinnamon. Its not as uncustomizable after all. And the flashbacks I got during the installation from me first stepping into Linux... ...definetly the rabbit hole I should have fallen into, even though I can now never live a normal life again :/.
Honestly, I'm not really sure if anyone can help you here. Sounds like you're already quite experienced with linux and know what you're looking for and what you need.
Most people seeing your requirements would probably say Fedora, as it's pretty up to date but still stable. I might recommend debian testing if you want slightly more cutting edge.
Frankly, I think you know best what you need and you should see what fits you 😀
I had a similar journey and at some point settled for Debian.
I know, everyone around here will tell you how basic that is and how much program versions lag behind sometimes, but I have come to the conclusion that this really doesn't bother me on daily use.
The main wow moment was, when the I noticed my system was running for 5 years and nothing ever broke.
Sure, I sometimes miss the AUR or some of the bells and whistles off bleeding edge distros, but in the end I want my main daily driver as a tool to other stuff, not a project to constantly put effort in.
The beauty of Debian is, its reliable AF, everything you got working once stays working, in 99,99% of cases even with a major version change, its the best documented and tested system and it does everything I need and more.
Plus with KDE plasma and all the native programs, like kdeconnect, kdenlive, kget etc I dont miss out on convinience. (Sure I could still use them on other distros, but I like how it is integrated into a good user experience with the option to tweak everything but without the need to do so)
The main down site imho is that some advanced things which may work in a hacky and time consuming way on arch just will not work on Debian at all, but I seldom have such moments and its a small price to pay for a system that's just won't brake from where I stand.
I did enjoy debian a lot when I used it, I then left it for hyprland and the rolling release though. But debian is definitely something up top of my list right now. Especially because I am now back to KDE Plasma and I'm not planning to change anything about that soon. The only picky point was that it does not support BTRFS with custom subvolumes for timeshift out of the box. But the stability would be a blessing.
I have the same feeling regarding Debian and btrfs (or zfs). Would be a blast having either on Debian.
But on the other hand, I've been running Debian unstable for two years now (initially installed unstable for Star Citizen) and haven't had major issues with it. But be warned, it being unstable you're obviously only one update away from it being unstable 😁
I meant literally the repository wiki.debian.org/Firefox#From_M… not an alternative method. One can add the official source of built packages my Mozilla, keep their Debian distribution otherwise untouched and get the latest.
I've settled on CachyOS, using Bazaar for flatpaks (I avoid the AUR). I get a rolling os with frequent updates and more or less secure and verified apps. It's been a year, no problem so far.
I like Arch for this. Ten years ago I wouldn't have recommended it, but it's been a great decade for me. Rolling distro means not many big changes at any one time. Don't have to reimage to cleanly install newer release. Arch maintainers are excellent, updates rarely cause problems. Not perfect of course, but you get up-to-date software and an amazing community.
My main conflict point with Arch is the maintenance factor. Whilst my priorities have been the bleeding edge for a long time, by now my thinking has been shifting more towards stability and being able to just use it. That's what I loved about openSUSE Slowroll, but I don't want to have a company behind it. And it had a KPM version mismatch resulting in broken nvidia driver.
I've used Ununtu and then Debian for a long time. I was playing with the live distro of the latest SparkyLinux and could imagine using it. Does anyone have opinions about Sparky?
I always vote for boredom, which means I vote for Debian. It's a well rounded, reliable and solid OS. It can be a bit dated on some packages but it rewards with very low maintenance. It works. It does what it is supposed to do, which is allowing us to run and use our computer as we see fit.
You want something a bit more up to date? Move to Mint. If Debian still appeals to you, move to LMDE.
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:46 KDE's AI policy 06:42 Existing AI policies 10:06 Going further on AI 12:58 My stance on AI 17:05 FOSS projects: yes or no to AI? 28:02 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
I compare the AI usage to digital photography: where a professional photographer learned how to develop a photo years ago, I assume this is just theoretical knowledge toady. Probably you will learn it in some kind of education but maybe 1 of 100 or even less will do so in practice today. Code might go a similar way - and my question is, whether it is important that humans understand code in a way they do today? In 50 years from now only 1 of 100 developers might be capable to write code, some more might be able to actually read it. But will it matter? Is it really necessary to write code by yourself if the machine eventually is better in most coding disciplines? If the models keep on getting better at coding, my assumption is: yes. Coding is an art not worth investing anymore because it is slow and imprecisecompared to anything what an AI agent will be capable of in the next decades.
among photographers, those who do it professionally are required to use digital cameras for all or almost all of their work. among artists and hobbyists, there is much more of a split between digital and analog methods (film has grown dramatically since almost disappearing in 2012). I think the need to produce at scale, for capitalist economic reasons, is what drives much of the digital photography choice. does this hold for ai usage? remains to be seen.
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hm, i thought KDE was trying to make up for platforming the nazi. lots of people today saying "let's give KDE a chance!"
nope, they're now doubling down further.
Gewalt gegen Frauen ist in Deutschland kein Randphänomen, sondern erschreckender Alltag: Laut der aktuellen Dunkelfeldstudie von Familienministerium, BKA und Innenministerium hat jede fünfte Frau, die Gewalt durch ihren Partner erlebt, Angst um ihr Leben jede sechste Frau erlebt sexualisierte Gewalt. In diesem Video schauen wir uns an, wie es um häusliche Gewalt, Femizide und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt in Deutschland wirklich steht und warum die offizielle Kriminalstatistik nur einen Bruchteil der Fälle erfasst. Wir werfen außerdem einen Blick auf die Frauenhausstatistik der Frauenhauskoordinierung e.V.: Bundesweit fehlen rund 12.000 Frauenhausplätze, um den Vorgaben der Istanbul-Konvention zu entsprechen mit dramatischen Folgen für betroffene Frauen und ihre Kinder. Wir erklären, was das neue Gewalthilfegesetz und die verschärfte Fußfessel-Regelung für Täter tatsächlich bringen, warum Deutschland beim Sexualstrafrecht noch immer beim Grundsatz „Nein heißt Nein" steht und wie der Bundesrat sich inzwischen für „Nur Ja heißt Ja" ausgesprochen hat. Zum Vergleich zeigen wir, wie Spanien, Irland und Schweden Frauen vor Gewalt schützen und was Deutschland von diesen Ländern lernen kann. Das Thema betrifft Millionen Menschen in Deutschland und braucht mehr politische Aufmerksamkeit, mehr Schutzangebote und mehr finanzielle Unterstützung für Frauenhäuser und Gewaltschutzinitiativen.
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Signal has rolled out registration without a phone number on Android in beta, Revolut breached customer data through fake law enforcement requests, X Chat has mysteriously disappeared from the App Store and more. Join us for This Week In Privacy #71!
0:00 Intro 0:38 Start of podcast 1:19 Signal registration without a phone number now available in Android beta 28:08 ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral 36:59 Forum Updates: Petition to not require tech manufacturers to detect nudity content on devices 41:40 Site updates 50:34 Meta's Copyright System Is Being Weaponized Against Albanian Protesters 1:02:00 Forum Updates: What messenger you use for people who won't use E2EE messengers? 1:12:19 How TikTok and Google ended up with information about doctors' appointments around the world 1:24:53 Forum Updates: How to preserve your anonymity under camera surveillance? 1:30:00 Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight 1:40:31 Q&A 1:42:24 Outro
19 days ago I announced my plans here on Lemmy and after four weeks and ~300 hours in total, I can finally share the first ISO of my project with this community. ~~"sometime next week" yeah that was optimistic lmao~~ I want to thank you again for the feedback on the initial announcement and I can say I tried my best to address and implement a lot of your suggestions!
For the people that haven't read the last post, this is the basic gist of it:
Unlike immutable distributions that lock you out of the native package manager and force you into sandboxes, Plutonium-239 keeps the core Arch experience intact. You still get the bleeding-edge Arch repositories and the power of the AUR but all of that with a 5-20% performance boost from a heavily optimized kernel and the peace of mind of an unbreakable safety net underneath.
For the ISO and the in-depth technical documentation, please visit my website at the link in the title!
The 0.0.1 version is a pre-release/in-development version meant for experienced people interested in this project. I tested it extensively and I'm running it for a few days now on my Thinkpad myself, however I can IN NO WAY guarantee that this is 100% viable to daily-drive just yet.
I'm very thankful for every person that considers testing this distro in a VM or on a secondary PC to contribute to the development of this project. Any feedback is appreciated and I hope my work can be of value to you!
Edit: from the feedback that was pm'd to me so far it seems like it's working fine when it's running but two people had issues with the hardware detection during the install. If you are experiencing a similar issue, please send me your hardware specs and the output of the log where it failed and I'll be able to make it more robust!
I'm in the process of making a distro that combines the way SteamOS makes Arch Linux stable and user-friendly WITH the performance optimizations of CachyOS
As the title and the website say, I'm currently making a distro with the goal that you don't have to compromise between ease of use + safety and bleeding-edge + performance optimizations.
As I will likely be able to publish the 0.0.1 source code to the GitHub link and the ISO to the website sometime next week, I would like people to be aware of my project so I can have some feedback for further improvements when I release the first version. I have not posted this anywhere else yet, as I value the opinion of this community more than Reddit or whatever.
If you have any questions or any criticism, please voice it, I would love to hear it, good or bad, in the end I want to make a proper OS. (I'll go to bed now so expect replies to take a few hours from posting.)
Pu-239 is an atomic Arch Linux distribution: sealed read-only root, ostree A/B deployments with automatic rollback, and the 1000 Hz linux-cachyos kernel.
There are a lot of benchmarks for the CachyOS kernel and it's mostly single digit performance increases for "normal" tasks but a noticeably more snappy feeling. The mayor increases come in compiling or rendering workloads, there it can easily get into double digits. For example on my 270K, compiling this kernel takes 23 min with the stock linux kernel, 20 minutes with the linux-cachyos kernel in -v3.
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Thank you! In a perfect world I would have loved to name it "Arch Atomic", but I'm not affiliated with them so I went for a wordplay on atomic with my favorite isotope!
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Well, it were four 80 hour weeks and I "only" reverse-engineered the way Fedora makes their distro atomic with ostree but adapted to Arch. I did try to stay true to the Arch philosophy of keeping it minimal otherwise so it wasn't that big of a project!
Edit: Sometimes I had to spin up Qwen 3.8 27B because the error codes the installer threw out were literally humanly unreadable so I had no clue what even went wrong but other than that it was by hand lmao
Yes, it does come preinstalled with KDE as implementing a proper desktop selection is planned but would take even more time. This is Arch however, you can uninstall everything you want. Throw KDE out and install whatever desktop enviornment you want, you still keep the kernel and the ostree update model, that's what's so cool about it!
Haha, I feel honored to hear that! It's still rough around the edges, so only use it if this isn't your only PC. That said, I already use it on my Thinkpad and the only issue I myself encountered so far is that I had to use vscodium-electron-bin instead of vscodium-bin since it wanted to make a systemlink that caused the install to interrupt, otherwise it's been smooth sailing so far.
not that anything stands a chance anymore but lol, another project that doesn't care about ever being found by search engine. right up there with "matrix" and "riot"
I was just finishing this quarter's distro-hop frenzy, but seeing as you are apparently using Lemmy as your network platform as opposed to fucking discord or similar crap, I think I'll give this a shot for sure. Thanks, we need more devs with this train of thought.
Yeah, Linux distros using something like Discord always seemed very odd to me. I mean okay, if you cater to gamers then I guess it makes sense, but you won't catch me doing that. Lemmy is the only social media I have anymore, the rest is just braindead and bot-infested.
lenovo. replaced my old dell precision laptop with a T480 and I'm loving it.
dell pros: - fast - solid gpu for the time - clean look - came with linux.
dell cons: - battery swelled up, made the trackpad and keyboard not work. replaced the battery a lot. - keyboard wore out well before lenovo - chassis screws fell out and then the hinge broke as a result. this is not a thing with lenovo. - front edge was too sharp and slightly cut into my wrists. not a show stopper but annoyed me the whole time I owned it.
For your situation 16G may be adequate. But 24 is better.
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T490. i personally had issues with dell laptops a few times. (hinge problem, coating on palmrest/trackpad peeling) also, i don't like dell laptops' keyboard layout but this is just personal preference.
and 8gb more ram for $60 seems decent in todays prices. (afaik it's soldered so not even upgradable?)
I wrote some niche commandline Python script to rename filenames. I know there are many tools to do this already. It's in the vein of something like Perl rename command. Maybe someone is interested, I don't know.
name --append "_v2" -- *.py
name --glob --replace " (*" -- *.sfc
Manual installation only:
git clone https://github.com/thingsiplay/nameplate
cd nameplate
mv name.py name
# The path below is just a suggestion. This depends on your system.
install --verbose -t ~/.local/bin/ name
BTW, use option -n (--dry-run) to test commands without applying any changes on the filesystem. The README got some more examples.
I also don't like Martin's writing style. But I love the lore. I just can't do another series. What's one book that has the kind of worldbuilding that made us all love (and then hate the unfinished state of) A Song of Ice and Fire?
If you only want single book entries, you probably need to go back to classic literature. Anything that's good will be the victim of its own success and get more installments.
I know good classic ones. Not anything from this century, because: capitalism.
Edit here is some amazing ones: The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas Anything not just: Las Miserables from Victor Hugo War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (this technically was published as several books) it is really fun! The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky The Red and the Black — Stendhal I do love this tho it has a second one. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov Enjoy!
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hahahhhhhh nice pun in all fairness, the book is called Les Miserables. the play is my favorite of all time, so i thought id like the book as well. we live in miserable times, so it's relatable
While it does technically have a sequel (which is a prequel, if I remember correctly) set in the same universe, the first book is a complete story unto itself.
The world feels vast and detailed, and the characters are satisfying. Samantha Shannon's prose is great as well. Highly enjoyable book!
The first mistborn book is great. While the rest of the series is also quite good, imo it just does not quite reach the level of the first book. Fortunately, that one can be read standalone.
Okay it's 3 books but they're short and it has an ending lol
The silo series (wool, shift, dust)
Also I would check out the Mistborn series. It's more books, but many of them (like mistborn) can stand alone and be a great story. Insanely good world building, some of the most unique out there I think
As AI rises, more and more companies, labs, universities, and governments attempt to build science fiction into reality. The whole thing is starting to look more and more like a mashup of CyberPunk, Blade Runner, and Idiocracy.
Artigo sobre candidates não-bináries e suas pautas no ano de 2026. Menciona cissexismo, capacitismo, exilinguismo, racismo, mascunormatividade linguística e uso de LLMs
A análise e seu motivo
A plataforma VoteLGBT permite que candidates registrem suas identidades e um perfil resumido para facilitar que pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ que buscam ser representadas na política achem candidates que gostam.
Mas aí pensei: se existem candidates não-bináries e pautas não-binárias, será que há algume candidate que as defende explicitamente?
Os partidos analisados para achar candidaturas não-binárias no site VoteLGBT em 2026 são: UP, PSTU, PSOL, PCdoB, PT, PV, PDT, PSB, MDB e PSDB. Não só partidos de direita (especialmente menores) têm menos chances de acolherem pessoas não-binárias como eu teria que verificar cada página de candidatura do AVANTE ou seja lá o que for o que for para saber se cada pessoa ali é não-binária. O PCB seria incluso se algume candidate LGBTQIAPN+ tivesse se registrado na plataforma.
Lembro vagamente de já poder ter filtrado por pessoas autoidentificadas como não-binárias em eleições passadas, então só poder usar os filtros "trans" e "mulher", ambos os quais aparentam excluir pessoas que se disseram não-binárias desses filtros nas pesquisas, foi um empecilho a mais em coletar esta lista.
Além disso, só incluí pessoas autoidentificadas como não-binárias. Não sei quantes des candidates que escolheram "outro" o fizeram por estarem questionando suas identidades de gênero (um processo que não necessariamente inclui a não-binaridade) ou mesmo por não saberem o que significa o termo cis. Também existem travestis que não se colocam dentro da não-binaridade, então decidi não incluir a categoria travesti por si só.
Tentei dar uma lida nessas marcações diferentes de homem/mulher para ver se alguma descrição explicava melhor a situação de gênero da pessoa, mas, quase sempre, todas as informações extras que poderiam ser relevantes eram que colocaram ou só ela ou só ele como tratamento e que quase todes tinham gay, lésbica ou heterossexual como orientação. Menções honrosas vão para a Senhora Mar, que é travesti pansexual concorrendo como deputada federal pelo PSOL na Bahia e citou infância sem gênero como uma de suas pautas, e para a Bancada Transformar do PSOL no Pará, que defende a pauta de acesso de "travestis, transsexuais (sic), transmasculinos e não-binarios (sic)" ao ensino superior; o líder da chapa se coloca como transmasculino ou homem trans, dependendo da divulgação, mas não achei algum local com qualquer ume des participantes sendo descrite como não-binárie de forma explícita, então também estou excluindo tal candidatura da análise.
Análise inicial
7 candidaturas foram encontradas: 3 do PSOL, 2 do PT, 1 da UP e 1 do PSB;
4 candidaturas são da região Sudeste (3 SP e 1 RJ), 2 são da região Sul (RS e SC) e 1 é da região Norte (AM);
4 concorrem para deputades federais e 3 para deputades estaduais;
Nenhuma das pessoas declarou de uma orientação específica a pessoas não-binárias (embora exista a possibilidade do cadastro não ter sido 100% livre): 3 pessoas se declararam gays, 2 pessoas se declararam pansexuais, 1 pessoa se declarou bissexual e 1 pessoa se declarou heterossexual;
Apenas Indianarae Siqueira exige tratamento não normativo, ainda que de forma vaga ("neutro"; parte de seu material indica a flexão e). 4 pessoas marcaram "tanto faz" no campo de "pronomes" (porque aparentemente exigir marcações para além de pronomes seria exigência demais de quem quer ter cargo na política), 1 marcou "ele/dele" e 1 marcou "ela/dela";
4 das pessoas marcaram ser brancas, 2 marcaram ser pretas, 1 marcou ser indígena;
Ninguém marcou ser intersexo;
1 pessoa marcou que possui deficiência ("TEA", sigla para Transtorno do Espectro Autista);
Todes possuem Instagram, 3 possuem Facebook, 2 possuem sites próprios e canais de WhatsApp próprios.
Agora eu vou entrar nos links de cada candidate e ver 1) quais são suas pautas e 2) se há pautas específicas para a população não-binária. Pessoas não-binárias acabam precisando de mais auxílios quando a saúde, educação e emprego (como pessoas de quaisquer outros grupos marginalizados) em comparação com seus pares cis, e minha intenção aqui não é tratar a população não-binária como alienígenas que só precisam de quem defenda nossa hormonização, retificação e linguagem (ou outras pautas do tipo), mas o ponto desta postagem é especificamente ver se esta representatividade não-binária está só nas fichas ou se há uma perspectiva não-binária dentro das propostas também.
As candidaturas
Lucas Penteado (Federal por SP, 1303)
Lucas Penteado só tem um Instagram como referência (o qual não tem link para mais nada), o que dificulta achar qualquer projeto ou proposta. O perfil em si não tem nenhuma menção à não-binaridade, e a maioria das postagens parece se tratar de falar a favor do Lula e contra o Flávio Bolsonaro. Também tem algumas postagens junto com pessoas que estão concorrendo para serem deputadas estaduais.
O "link para Instagram" do Felipe Menino na verdade vai para o Threads. Dito isso, já há algumas informações sobre ele na própria página do VoteLGBT:
Sou advogado há 13 anos do Conselho Regional de Óptica e Optometria do Estado de São Paulo (associação civil), lutando pelo acesso à saúde visual na atenção primária e no combate à cegueira evitável; pesquisador e mestrando em história e crítica de arte pela UFRJ; budista e casado.
Ok, quanto a pautas, temos aí acesso à saúde visual.
Dito isso, não encontrei nenhuma menção específica da não-binaridade dele nos perfis, ou mesmo menções específicas a pessoas trans ou não-binárias fora da sigla LGBTQIAPN+ em si.
Santo Legaliza (Federal por SP, 5042)
Como já deve ser óbvio para muitas pessoas, a pauta principal que Santo traz é a legalização da maconha. Seu site também menciona que o candidato também quer o fim da violência policial contra o povo periférico.
Eu não conheço o histórico dos candidatos anteriores desta lista, mas pelo menos eu sei que esta não é a primeira eleição onde Santo se declara uma pessoa não-binária. Dito isso, não há nenhuma menção à sua não-binaridade em seus perfis, e seus materiais contém o uso constante do artigo e da flexão o.
O Filipe Menino já publicou pelo menos um cartaz onde o uso de LLMs foi óbvio, mas o Santo faz uso desta tecnologia de forma mais descarada ainda: várias de suas publicações no Instagram e no YouTube possuem aquele visual genérico associado com LLMs, assim como a própria moldura para ícone que oferece em seu site para sues apoiadóries.
Álex Souza (Federal pelo AM, 5050)
A última candidata da lista de concorrentes a deputade federal é a única que não está concorrendo em São Paulo. Ela também é a única até agora com um documento inteiro onde apresenta suas propostas e que diz ser não-binária em seu perfil no Instagram. O programa tem 34 páginas, design simples mas relativamente bem feito e é para uma candidata com número fácil (5050), então imagino que haja bastante foco nesta candidatura. (É apenas minha impressão, mas não sou do Amazonas.)
O programa tem 8 eixos: 1. População LGBTQIAPN+; 2. Povos originários; 3. Juventude; 4. Para o povo; 5. Saúde e inclusão; 6. Meio ambiente; 7. Direitos humanos; 8. Cuidados essenciais.
Algumas das pautas que posso citar de forma positiva são: criar um incentivo para cidades manterem transporte público à noite, criar pensão para pessoas que não podem trabalhar por ficarem o dia inteiro cuidando de outres, criar programas de ensino superior em estabelecimentos penitenciários e defender a proteção a terras indígenas demarcadas além da demarcação de terras indígenas ainda não reconhecidas. Em relação à população LGBTQIAPN+, Álex propõe a criação de uma rede de casas de acolhimento para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ em situação de violência, abandono ou falta de moradia, preparo maior para o recebimento de pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ no SUS e criação de banheiros sem gênero em espaços públicos, como alguns destaques.
Pessoas não-binárias são mencionadas múltiplas vezes (no caso, Álex não usa o hífen), especialmente quanto à inclusão de pessoas não-binárias dentro do atendimento do SUS (inclusive nos documentos e no respeito a tratamento, embora aqui esta questão esteja sendo referida como "pronomes") e uma vez na questão de banheiros neutros. Há algumas menções a "pessoas trans e travestis" e outras menções a "pessoas trans", enquanto outras vezes a menção é aos três grupos (pessoas trans, travestis e não-binárias). Eu vou presumir que tais incoerências sejam por falta de vontade de repetir tudo, e não exclusões propositais de travestis ou de pessoas não-binárias de determinadas propostas ou da modalidade trans (não há motivo para reservar vagas de trabalho para pessoas trans sem incluir travestis, por exemplo).
Indianarae Alves Siqueira é uma das principais lideranças do movimento de pessoas trans, travestis e não binárias no Brasil. Nascida em 18 de maio de 1971, em Paranaguá (PR), é ativista de direitos humanos, fundadora da CasaNem, do PreparaNem e presidente do grupo TransRevolução. Sua trajetória é marcada pela luta por cidadania, saúde, educação e moradia para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+ em situação de vulnerabilidade.
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Não há em nenhum momento uma indicação de pronome ou artigo, mas há indicações das flexões a e e. Também não há indicação explícita acerca de identidade de gênero e o perfil no Threads (que requer mais cliques no VoteLGBT) é o único que usa somente a flexão e.
O financiamento coletivo aponta a história de Indianarae Siqueira, a qual sem dúvida traz um currículo impressionante:
Fundou em 1995 o Grupo Filadélfia De Travestis e Liberados em Santos (SP) pra atuar na luta por prevenção e tratamento pras pessoas vivendo com HIV/Aids. A organização foi pioneira no Brasil ao conquistar a obrigatoriedade do nome social nos prontuários médicos para travestis e transexuais, internação em ala separada ou feminina de hospitais e também o reconhecimento de casais lgbtqiapn+ como cônjuges, na conferência de saúde de Santos em 1996 . O que foi um escândalo sem precedentes pra época.
A sua ação performatica dos seios de fora pelo Rio de Janeiro e em alguns lugares do Brasil através da Marcha Das Vadias, fez que o nome social chegasse aos tribunais superiores, já que sua documentação de identidade não continha o gênero com o qual se identificava o que a liberava em andar sem camiseta na rua.
Em 2015 fundou o pré-vestibular PreparaNem, focado na inserção de transvestigeneres nas universidades através do ENEM. O projeto colocou mais de 5 alunas em universidades já no seu primeiro ano, o que colaborou com a criação da CasaNem (Primeira casa de acolhimento para pessoas LGBTQIAPN+, no Brasil).
Em relação a pautas e propostas para o futuro, porém, só há isto:
Sua vida é o alicerce da Transrevolução, um movimento que não pede permissão para existir, mas exige o direito ao afeto, à educação e à vida plena para todas as identidades trans, travestis e dissidentes de sexo/gênero.
Suas propostas parecem estar concentradas em suas publicações de Instagram. Esta "cola" contém o seguinte parágrafo dentro de sua descrição:
Para avançar nas pautas de trabalho digno nas ruas; acolhimento e direitos para a população LGBT; valorização dos feirantes, produtores e da economia popular; enfrentamento às violações de direitos humanos e animais e direito à cidade para todas as pessoas...
Já esta publicação contém uma série de propostas para auxiliar pessoas que protegem animais, oferecer saúde pública a animais e combater violências contra animais. Esta aqui traz 20 propostas para a cultura, entre elas piso salarial maior para artistas e técniques de arte contratades pelo Estado e agenda 50% gratuita para coletivos independentes em teatros e centros culturais. Há também esta postagem onde as seguintes propostas são citadas:
1️⃣ Cenário político 2026: PL da Dosimetria, escala 6x1 e retrocessos
2️⃣ Cota Trans Já: a urgência de ação afirmativa em editais de cultura e trabalho
3️⃣ Piso salarial de R$ 2.000 para toda a população renda mínima e dignidade para todos os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras
4️⃣ Transporte gratuito para toda a população de baixa renda passe livre como direito de ir e vir para trabalho, saúde, educação e cultura
5️⃣ 4 refeições diárias já política de segurança alimentar, acesso à alimentação digna como direito básico
6️⃣ Organização do território: segurança, renda e direitos da população trans/travesti negra e favelada
Não acho que Indianarae Siqueira seja o tipo de pessoa não-binária apática à causa não-binária, levando em consideração seu histórico de vida. Mas acho relevante para o propósito deste texto apontar que pessoas não-binárias não são mencionadas de forma específica em nenhum lugar, embora suas propostas sejam tão espalhadas que podem existir propostas mais específicas a este grupo que simplesmente não encontrei.
Sou o Douglas Meriz, e a minha história não foi escrita em gabinetes ou na política tradicional.
Ela começou desde o início nas ruas, no trabalho diário e nas lutas de quem vive com o peso da desigualdade e do preconceito.
A força pra encarar essas batalhas vem da minha identidade e da fé que eu encontrei nas religiões de matriz africana.
(Qual identidade? Qual ou quais religiões de matriz africana? Existe um peso racial quando uma pessoa generaliza um aspecto de um continente inteiro, como em "culinária asiática", "tradições ameríndias" ou "religiões de matrizes africanas", o que inclusive faz parte das discussões sobre orientalismo. Por isso, é importante saber especificar para além disso, como em culinária coreana ou vodu haitiano. Faz sentido usar um termo mais amplo quando se trata de uma questão mais ampla, mas o contexto é de uma pessoa autodeclarada branca falando sobre a própria fé "nas religiões de matriz africana", dando a entender a ideia de totalidade, quando seria possível falar sobre ter encontrado fé em algumas ou múltiplas religiões de matriz africana, ou ter nomeado caso se tratem de apenas algumas.)
Eu defendo com orgulho os direitos da comunidade LGBTQIA+, a liberdade religiosa, o combate ao racismo e à corrupção.
Como parte da população LGBTQIA+, defendo que ninguém deveria ser obrigado a esconder quem é pra existir.
Eu também acredito na urgência de cuidar da saúde mental dos trabalhadores.
Enfrentar jornadas exaustivas e ter uma vida digna parece quase impossível, e eu sei disso porque essa também é a minha realidade.
Também há outra postagem onde elu lista uma série de "propostas" (que estão mais para pautas em muitos casos, por não serem concretas), separadas em temas:
Trabalhador não é máquina (como fim da escala 6x1 e defesa de salários dignos);
Protetor independente não pode carregar o Estado nas costas (como hospitais públicos veterinários e combate firme aos maus-tratos e ao abandono);
Direitos LGBTQIA+ são direitos humanos (como casas de acolhimento para pessoas em situação de violência e vulnerabilidade e programas de empregabilidade e inclusão para pessoas LGBTQIA+);
Respeito à fé. Combate ao racismo religioso (como preservação da memória e do patrimônio cultural dos terreiros e educação para combater o preconceito religioso);
Saúde mental é direito (como políticas de prevenção ao suicídio e ampliação do acesso ao atendimento psicológico).
Como em tantos outros casos da lista, não há nenhuma menção à não-binaridade ou ao fato de Douglas Meriz aparentemente não se importar com tratamento gramatical. Todos os materiais utilizam artigo e flexão o tanto para sua linguagem pessoal quanto para linguagem genérica, mesmo em casos onde seria fácil evitar marcações (seria fácil substituir dos trabalhadores por do povo trabalhador no espaço disponível na imagem, por exemplo).
Depois de ver que uma das imagens de fundo tinha um símbolo de estrela de 4 pontas mostrando que era uma imagem feita usando LLMs, não pude deixar de perceber que vários dos textos contém listas de 3 itens que são relativamente arbitrários (como nas frases de efeito "quero construir um mandato que tenha lado: o lado de quem trabalha, de quem luta e de quem muitas vezes é obrigado a resistir para ter seus direitos respeitados" e "existir com liberdade, segurança e dignidade é um direito"). Eu não acho que todo o texto das imagens linkadas foi escrito por um gerador de lero-lero, ou que todos os designs das imagens (os quais são em sua maioria bastante simples e consistentes) foram feitos com LLMs, mas acho provável que os textos tenham passado por um ChatGPT da vida em algum momento do processo de escrita.
Pessoas trans são mencionadas em especial uma vez (na suposta proposta "políticas de inclusão e proteção para pessoas trans"). Pessoas não-binárias não foram mencionadas de forma específica nenhuma vez, nem na sigla utilizada (já que não há N em LGBTQIA+).
No VoteLGBT, a não-binaridade de Everaldo é mencionada, ainda que de forma resumida ("NB") que usa a sigla como substantivo ao invés de adjetivo:
Iniciou sua militância no movimento estudantil onde foi o primeiro NB Coordenador-Geral do DCE da UFRGS, e foi diretor da UNE.
Porém, esta questão é completamente omitida no perfil da página da UP:
Foi coordenador-geral do DCE da UFRGS, diretor da UNE e integrante da Coordenação Nacional do Movimento Correnteza.
Em seu Instagram, elu também tem "NB" ao lado de uma bandeira arco-íris.
Quanto a questões defendidas, elas são bem resumidas nas duas descrições mencionadas:
Organizou a luta da juventude contra as opressões na Universidade e lutou em defesa da educação , pelo fim da escala 6X1 e pela prisão de Bolsonaro e os golpistas.Defende uma sociedade livre da exploração, o socialismo!
Atualmente segue mobilizado na defesa da educação pública, contra as privatizações e pela organização da juventude e da classe trabalhadora.
Porém, uma publicação de Instagram dá mais detalhes: são 25 pautas, algumas das quais são propostas relativamente diretas ("passe livre nos ônibus e na Trensurb", "Delegacias da Mulher 24 horas em todo o RS", "prioridade de investimento para prevenção de desastres ambientais") enquanto outras estão mais para ideais abstratos ("combate ao racismo e à violência de Estado", "combate ao feminicídio e aos estupros", "valorização dos aposentados"). Um dos itens é "anulação da Reforma Trabalhista e da Reforma da Previdência", sendo que estas são questões federais.
É até possível que Everaldo Oliveira tenha planos concretos para todos os seus pontos, mas, infelizmente, o documento mais completo oferecido sobre o que ile faria na Assembleia Legislativa foi um carrossel de Instagram. Tentei procurar no site da UP, presumindo a possibilidade de que o programa fosse igual a todes do partido, mas não achei menções a vários dos itens citados no carrossel.
Nenhum dos itens, porém, menciona ou teria como público-alvo principal pessoas não-binárias, ou mesmo pessoas cisdissidentes ou heterodissidentes num geral. Novamente, não acho que isso por si só é necessariamente um problema, especialmente pelo quanto há de pautas relacionadas com combate à violência, acesso à moradia e valorização de estruturas públicas (SUS, escolas públicas, fim de terceirizações, etc.), mas é uma questão perceptível quando outros grupos específicos e outras opressões específicas foram mencionades.
O veredito
Há mais pessoas não-binárias que não se declaram não-binárias fora da plataforma VoteLGBT (4) do que indicam não-binaridade em seus perfis fora da plataforma (3), sendo que, no caso de Indianarae Siqueira (contade como alguém que explicita sua não-binaridade), a não-binaridade apenas pode ser inferida a partir do uso da flexão e em combinação com a ausência de especificações acerca de gênero ou expressão de gênero.
A representação não-binária também não aparece de forma centralizada ou positiva em nenhuma campanha. Váries candidates se orgulham em, por exemplo, representar uma determinada região, profissão ou pauta, e parte des candidates listades se incluem nisso (como Filipe Menino e seu foco em saúde visual); mas, se a não-binaridade aparece, é como uma linha no perfil ou uma menção em "ser LGBTQIAPN+" no material de campanha. A não-binaridade é, aparentemente, algo a ser escondido do eleitorado geral: algo que não só não ajuda na campanha, como também poderia prejudicar o quanto cada candidate é aceite.
Em relação às pautas, 4 das candidaturas mencionam questões LGBTQIAPN+, com 3 destas oferecendo pelo menos uma menção específica a pessoas trans e apenas Álex Souza mencionando pessoas não-binárias como uma categoria específica. Sem perfis mais completos, porém, é difícil saber quantas das outras 6 pessoas votariam contra a implementação obrigatória de banheiros neutros ou da reformulação da "política de linguagem simples" de forma que a abra para reconhecer a diversidade de gêneros gramaticais para tratar pessoas específicas, ou a favor da inclusão explícita de pessoas não-binárias não trans (como isogênero ou absgênero) dentro de políticas voltadas para a população trans, por exemplo.
Eu consideraria votar em Álex Souza, Indianarae Siqueira ou Everaldo Oliveira, mas não voto em tais estados. Enquanto isso, prefiro candidates com propostas concretas e que não aparentam estar usando LLMs constantemente, algo que pra mim é um sinal de que parte da reflexão da pessoa está sendo terceirizada para uma máquina treinada para gerar textos que a média da internet faria. Já temos problemas suficientes com a classe política ignorando (ou mesmo suprimindo) pautas consideradas "nichadas demais" em busca de ter um eleitorado amplo para também termos que lidar com a eleição de mensageires de carne.
E de resto, temos aliades?
O VoteLGBT não tem filtros para questões mais específicas, apenas para "principais pautas". Porém, mesmo filtrando para quem tem como prioridade "Cidadania LGBT+" (a categoria mais próxima de "contra o avanço das pautas antitrans" ou "a favor de avanços para o respeito à não-binaridade"), há muites candidates que não facilitam para que suas opiniões ou pautas sejam encontradas. Inclusive há candidates na lista que mal citam questões "LGBT+" mesmo listando tal prioridade.
O Instagram limita bastante acesso sem login, por exemplo, e a maioria des candidates usa somente o Instagram para comunicarem suas ideias. Mesmo que eu não seja contra candidates manterem contas em redes sociais onde há mais gente, não acho que o formato de rede social seja ideal para acompanhar as posições de ume candidate. Outres candidates querem inscrições em suas listas de e-mail ou canais de WhatsApp, ao invés de explicarem suas propostas publicamente, e eu não acho que este deveria ser um requerimento para entender que tipo de propostas alguém tem.
Mesmo quem tem site próprio muitas vezes não elabora muito nele. Por exemplo, Prof. Marcelo Yoshida (PT-SP) tem vários depoimentos e várias fotos, mas apenas 4 caixas pequenas para dizer "o que defendemos" que estão mais para ideais do que para propostas. Enquanto isso, Ruth Venceremos (PT-DF) oferece propostas mais concretas e Fe Miranda (PSOL-RS) tem tanto parágrafos explicando sua posição quanto propostas derivadas de cada eixo.
Mesmo assim, é muito difícil saber o que boa parte das pessoas listadas no VoteLGBT fariam ou não fariam pela população não-binária, especialmente em pontos que podem não ser necessariamente benéficos a pessoas trans binárias ou binarizadas (por exemplo, já vi pessoas defendendo a não criação de banheiros neutros porque o que deveria ser feito é deixar pessoas trans entrarem nos banheiros que correspondem com seus gêneros, sendo que apenas duas identidades de gênero são representadas nesses banheiros, e a questão da neolinguagem mal é defendida pelas próprias comunidades não-binárias mesmo sendo necessidade para um grupo cada vez maior de pessoas). Quando o assunto é a inclusão de pessoas trans por estarem em situação de vulnerabilidade, esta é outra questão que deixa pessoas binárias defensivas, dando a entender que somos pessoas cis que decidimos ser irritantes em relação a como somos tratades e podemos parar a qualquer momento, quando muites de nós sofrem com as mesmas questões de exclusão social, vontades de transição física, violências com base em nossas aparências e disforia de gênero não aceita pela família do que mulheres e homens trans. As novas casas de acolhimento vão incluir pessoas não-binárias? E vão ter um espaço que não seja designado para homens ou para mulheres? E as cotas trans para empregos e universidades? O pessoal que defende inclusão LGBTQIAPN+ em empregos sequer parou para pensar que a maioria das vagas repassadas por aí são para "estagiários(as)"/"engenheiros(as)"/etc.?
Com as informações que consegui ver, admito que não encontrei outras menções a pessoas não-binárias. Raramente vi menções a pessoas trans, embora tenha visto uma ou outra menção a questões trans, como defesa do uso do nome social.
No final, mesmo depois de toda esta pesquisa, ainda acho que (aqui em São Paulo) vou votar na Neon Cunha, como fiz em outras eleições (desta vez ela está com o número 13913), e no Guilherme Cortez (5005), de quem recebi santinho perto de onde moro e gostei do que vi no site. De qualquer forma, peço para que todes que estejam lendo procurem ir atrás dos programas completos de sues candidates, não apenas de uma combinação de representatividade e partido ou de frases de efeito engraçadas.
Vi vários convites para eventos onde o objetivo é fazer propaganda para candidates. Não tive vontade de ir em nenhum.
Não vejo motivos pra isso: vou perder meu tempo fazendo propaganda pra alguém que nem sabe que eu existo e que talvez nem vá defender causas importantes pra mim, em um ambiente onde argumentar contra alguém que vier me maldenominar ou cometer outra violência vai prejudicar a campanha de quem eu deveria estar ajudando? Vou ter que defender partidos enquanto fico remoendo na minha cabeça toda vez que seus programas faltaram com segmentos da população NHINCQ+?
E aí eu fiquei pensando além disso.
Não há motivo lógico para defender neolinguagem ou não-binaridade - ou mesmo cisdissidência em geral, embora defender pessoas trans binárias seja uma posição relativamente popular na esquerda atual - como parte de um programa de governo. Nossa população é uma minoria numérica e é muitas vezes colocada como piada e frescura mesmo entre pessoas "LGBT". Isso não aumenta tanto os votos que ume candidate pode ganhar quanto os votos que podem perder.
Acredito que pensar nas questões de grupos marginalizados minoritários seja uma questão de ética. Acredito que deixar de usar o/ele/o como linguagem genérica seja uma questão de ética. Mas ética não ganha votos: se ganhasse, PSTU e UP teriam bem mais presença na política, enquanto figuras conhecidas por corrupção não continuariam por aí sendo eleitas e reeleitas.
Quem ganha mais votos em territórios grandes são quase sempre figuras genéricas e familiares. Lula e Boulos tiveram que moderar o tom pra conseguir mais votos do que em eleições anteriores. Mulheres, pessoas racializadas, pessoas NHINCQ+ e pessoas de outros grupos minorizados, embora possam ganhar eleições de vez em quando, possuem a desvantagem inerente a serem considerades "fora do normal". Alguém usando neolinguagem corretamente, defendendo pessoas não-binárias e se recusando a usar linguagem capacitista para falar de sues oponentes não conseguiria ser tão popular com um povo que ou tem orgulho de seus preconceitos ou não quer examiná-los quanto alguém que deixa essas questões éticas de lado pra se mostrar "junto com o povo" (majoritariamente cis, majoritariamente perissexo, majoritariamente alista, majoritariamente sem alergias alimentares, majoritariamente despreocupado com as consequências negativas da supremacia cristã, majoritariamente desinteressado em buscar alternativas a se render a grandes empresas para espaços de socialização e assim por diante).
As próprias referências a "eleitoras e eleitores", só para depois cair em o/ele/o para descrever os dois grupos, já indica: só os blocos grandes importam. Só quem é padrão importa.
Pessoas cisdissidentes, de modo geral, acabam tendo suas próprias comunidades alternativas: há ocupações cisdissidentes para não ter que lidar com o cissexismo de outras ocupações, há grupos onde se trocam dicas de hormonização pra evitar lidar com médiques cis, há comunidades online e offline específicas a pessoas não-binárias que muitas vezes podem ser os únicos lugares onde a interação social pode não vir agregada de um grande risco de disforia social. Quando precisamos acessar algum serviço que não podemos ou conseguimos fazer sozinhes, como de depilação com laser ou de terapia, a gente tende a perguntar entre si por lugares onde vão nos desrespeitar menos.
Colocar questões trans, desde a maldenominação por conta de documentação ou aparência até a situação precária de viver na rua porque a pessoa não consegue emprego e nem a família e nem abrigos públicos aceitam a pessoa, como frescuras que acontecem "porque a pessoa decidiu ser assim", como se pra todes ou muites de nós a mutilação de nossas identidades cisdissidentes fosse simples e fácil, é não só ignorância como outra forma de marginalização.
(E a política eleitoral não tem espaço pra ensinar pessoas, porque só tem tempo e espaço pra sinalizar o quanto os valores de cada candidate são alinhados com o que algum grupo pensa.)
O CR POP TT, lugar em São Paulo onde é possível marcar consultas em diversas especialidades do SUS desde que você seja trans, travesti, não-binárie e/ou intersexo e residente da capital, é maravilhoso, mas é uma exceção: a maior parte das cidades não conta com tal serviço, mesmo tendo múltiplos postos de saúde. E não é algo do que o [prefeito atual concorrente à reeleição] Ricardo Nunes vai se gabar (não que tenha sido iniciativa dele, mas é sob a SMS do governo dele que o centro foi inaugurado), a não ser como um número a mais, porque mesmo que ele tenha o reconhecido como demanda da população, a prioridade dele é agradar a um público cis, o qual frequentemente é antitrans também.
Eu entendo que, na maioria das eleições, as opções oferecidas não são todas igualmente danosas. Meu ponto aqui não é um pedido pelo voto nulo ou uma falsa equivalência entre todos os partidos existentes.
Porém, como alguém não-binárie, como alguém que dedicou anos falando de e defendendo a diversidade de linguagem pessoal, identidades não-binárias, modalidades de gênero e orientações e como alguém que ainda é constantemente maldenominade na maior parte dos eventos que não organiza, não importa o quão supostamente inclusivos sejam, eu não me sinto bem-vinde nas falas da grande maioria da classe política, incluindo mesmo as das pessoas que juram que são as únicas opções elegíveis que vão defender meus direitos. E não consigo confiar que qualquer reconhecimento positivo de pessoas como eu não é negociável em troca de votos e fundos das "famílias tradicionais" cristãs.
A maioria das pessoas cis podem sair na rua ou se inscrever em atividades que envolvem convivência com estranhes sem correr o risco de serem bombardeadas com maldenominação. A maioria das pessoas cis podem ir atrás de relacionamentos sem ter que se preocupar com ter que revelar que ou suas identidades de gênero ou suas genitálias talvez não seja as esperadas. A maioria das pessoas cis que vivem com outras pessoas cis não precisam se preocupar em ser expulsas de casa ou ter roupas e objetos jogades fora por não condizerem com a imposição da cisgeneridade (embora questões como heterodissidência ou inconformismo de gênero também possam gerar tais consequências por também serem transgressões relacionadas a não cumprir os papéis de gênero esperados).
Mas ativistas de partidos de esquerda também deviam se tocar de que é esse o motivo de tantas pessoas cisdissidentes - especialmente não-binárias - estarem ocupadas demais com nossas próprias pautas pra somar em suas organizações majoritariamente cis e em seus eventos com falas e atitudes cissexistas. Especialmente quando o trabalho de educação que fazemos em relação às nossas pautas - algo que tendemos a fazer pra ter uma parcela do respeito garantido a pessoas dentro das normas - é visto como fútil, egoísta ou como coisas que não merecem adentrar espaços "do povo".
Replies were bombarded with harassment and enbyphobia, trotting out the usual, "Why did you say their? Is she a group?" talking point, like a wall of Buzz Lightyear toys repeating their stock phrase. Others ask how to un-back the project, some describe the announcement as a "threat," and then come the usual buzzwords: Erika Ishii is a "toxic activist," a "woke idiot," "Antifa terrorist," and a few blatantly racist descriptors we obviously won't repeat here. Understandably, Double Fine turned off the comments.
Voice actor for Atysu in ghosts of Yotei I believe. They identify as gender fluid and a believe has partner. Asian, LGBTQ, the two capital troglodyte chud capital "G" Gamers nerve popping trigger points...or at least that's what they're told should be their trigger.
They were also Ana Bray in Destiny 2
Because Jin Sakai is dead (it's centuries after Tsushima) and Suckerpunch chose to have a gasp WOOMEAHN be the main lead this time, chuds were told to be angry and threaten her because Erika represents the "woke" movement that their God emperor wants to erase permanently.
Cause they're all fucking goostepping Nazis
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 2:30 PM)
you can tell none of these dumbos have ever consumed any of erika's content. they're just a fucking gremlin. an amazingly talented gremlin but a gremlin nonetheless. i don't understand how you can not love erika.
Man, I fucking love Erika. They play a character on Hello From The Magic Tavern nicknamed "Sword Bro" who's a dude who's really into swords, but also low-key but high-key appropriates dragon culture and constantly wants to become a dragon lmao
I mean, I tried to watch some of L.A. By Night and didn't really love her there, to be honest. Didn't make me dislike her as a person or anything though, or as a voice actor. I think she's talented. Just made me stop watching the show.
Yup. Noticed this with plenty of "fans" opening thread after thread of hateful drivel on Steam forums, e.g. for Paralives. These people are clearly not interested in the game. Some even confessed to having been incited by alt-right streamers.
Yeah, zero chance people like that were actually going to play paralives to begin with.
Not too long ago, I ended up randomly on one of those "curator" lists where they review basically everything in terms of wokeness. You know, so you can buy responsibly or something. That shit is hilarious.
Like half of the "nope" have no reason but "there's gay marriage in it", but wait, Skyrim has that too... "Err yeah, but we like that one so, it's okay. For... reasons."
And I remember one game getting a "Not Recommended" with the only line in the whole review being "In the trailer, you can see a man who's knitting".
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 6:15 PM)
Stop fucking using Twitter to announce anything. "We go where the people are" is no longer an acceptable excuse for your business keeping any presence on Twitter.
Once you know how it works, managing containers manually with crun is pretty easy. But if you don't want to do everything manually, the next best thing is podman. But podman pulls already around 500 MB in dependencies on Alpine, while half of it's features don't work without Systemd and the other half duplicates system-interfaces on a local website.
Which is why, before i create my own scripts, anything that let's you with a single command * create container from template * add sub-uid:gid * add respective default nftable rule * same for deleting container * list contianers by status
Once you know how it works, managing containers manually with crun is pretty easy. But if you don't want to do everything manually, the next best thing is podman. But podman pulls already around 500 MB in dependencies on Alpine, while half of it's features don't work without Systemd and the other half duplicates system-interfaces on a local website.
Which is why, before i create my own scripts, anything that let's you with a single command * create container from template * add sub-uid:gid * add respective default nftable rule * same for deleting container * list contianers by status
now no vms work i get this error "failed to start logical volume “vm-sys-usb-volatile” already exist in volume group “qubes dom0” (vm sys usb volatile is just an example)
also gui is buggy (slow and not appearing where it should be) and clicking doesnt register (not a external mouse) and logging in/out is super long but this happened before cpu pinning and just happens after updating it works fine on fresh install before updating
Learn linux like everybody first, install an easier distro like debian or mint, play with that. After a few months delete everything and reinstall domething else. Keep data on external disk to not loose it. This is the way to learn. Do not learn to unicycle before knowing how to walk.
Hey I see you are trying out Qubes! But I think you got sucked down a bit of a rabbit hole here. CPU pinning is a very deep customization, it is absolutely not necessary, and is a case of the author of the guide wondering "can I do this?" and finding out that yes, there is a way. But I would suggest that you not worry about it, as the difference in performance may not even be noticeable to you.
The best way to approach qubes as a new user is to do almost nothing to modify dom0, and do all your playing around in the qubes.
Also, for in depth tech support like this I would always post to the Qubes forums. Its a niche OS, so posting on a general Linux forum is probably going to not get you a ton of help.
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i did it because i was having problems with it. it was crazy slow and unresponsive (gui doesnt appear when/where its supposed to, clicks dont register (its not an external mouse) only after an update though. without updating (and logging out and back in) it work just fine. i pinned the cpu and that seemed to fix it but then it had problems only after i logged out and back in
Have you checked the hardware compatibility list, and the hardware requirements? What are your PC specs? Qubes relies heavily on virtualization and your hardware must support certain features (and those features must be turned on in the BIOS) for good performance.
So confirm that you have turned on all the recommended hardware features, which should be on BEFORE install, you may need to reinstall if they weren't turned on as I'm not sure what Qubes does at install time if those features are off.
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You probably shouldn’t be running qubes, either because your hardware isn’t up to it or because you aren’t up to it.
Nothing wrong with not being up to it. That’s a weird operating system that’s basically a research project. It’s just about like saying you daily drive 9front.
I vouch for Breezy. Been using it for years. It's very easy to use and clear and I think more accurate than a lot of my friends phones. Though that depends on your weather source.
Today, I was doing some command-line stuff and then this happened:
ls --help|less
Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
ESC]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#ls-aESC\ESC[1m-a, --allESC[0mESC]8;;ESC\
do not ignore entries starting with .
ESC]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#ls-AESC\ESC[1m-A, --almost-allESC[0mESC]8;;ESC\
do not list implied . and ..
ESC]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#ls--authorESC\ESC[1m--authorESC[0mESC]8;;ESC\
It's rendering ls --help with control characters. When I do ls --help|less --raw-control-chars it doesn't show the control characters, and it looks all neat and pretty. Isn't this the opposite of how it's supposed to work?!
Is --raw-control-chars a toggle and some config is causing less to show control characters when I invoke it with no options? If so, where can I find this config and stop this?
This has absolutely no bearing on my work and my life in general except for the fact that I'll go absolutely batshit trying to figure this out, because that's how my brain is. So far, all of my web searches just confirm that less shouldn't be working this way, but they don't give me any way to fix it. Please help me, Lemmy!!!
I would say your ls shouldn't be working that way: when it detects that it's standard output isn't a terminal, it shouldn't be outputting the control codes. Which makes me wonder what version of ls you are running.
edit: what is the output from alias ls and what happens if you run \ls --help | less?
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 1:58 AM)
That's surprising. I have an older version of coreutils (9.7 from Debian 13) that doesn't produce the links and formatting. I'm running bash and the behaviour you're experiencing isn't reproduced.
Aliases aside, I wouldn't expect the shell to be the cause. None the less, I installed version 4.0.2 of the fish shell and ran the same command in it and didn't see any control characters. But that's not really surprising - my old version of ls doesn't produce them. So I ran ls | less because even with my version ls colour highlights files by type, but in the pipeline to less, there were no codes.
If I run ls --color=always | less then I do see codes in the less output.
You might check your environment variables to see if CLICOLOR_FORCE is set.
/usr/bin/ls --color=never --help | /usr/bin/less and /usr/bin/ls --color=never --help > ~/Desktop/lshelp.txt produces and contains the same characters, BTW. This happens in Bash and Zsh, using Kitty and Konsole terminals. So its not an issue with less, the shell or terminal. Meaning it might be an issue with ls itself. I have "ls (GNU coreutils) 9.11" from ls --version.
Ah ls has an option for this: -q, --hide-control-chars But ls -q --color=never --help | less seem not to hide anything, maybe because --help is in use. I can put strings in between, it would only hide control characters, not the normal sequence for other stuff \ls -q --color=none --help | strings | less
Looks like an issue with ls. I feel helpless.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 5:21 AM)
/* True means output nongraphic chars in file names as '?'.
(-q, --hide-control-chars)
qmark_funny_chars and the quoting style (-Q, --quoting-style=WORD) are
independent. The algorithm is: first, obey the quoting style to get a
string representing the file name; then, if qmark_funny_chars is set,
replace all nonprintable chars in that string with '?'. It's necessary
to replace nonprintable chars even in quoted strings, because we don't
want to mess up the terminal if control chars get sent to it, and some
quoting methods pass through control chars as-is. */
static bool qmark_funny_chars;
All commands now markup option names in --help and man pages,
with bold attributes, and hyperlinks into the online manual on gnu.org.
The links can be configured with the --enable-manual-url configure option,
and the bold highlighting with --disable-bold-man-page-references.
At runtime all markup can be disabled with the TERM=dumb env var value.
This has nothing to do with less (or bash or fish). It is a new behavior as of Coreutils 9.10. It is to preserve the hyperlinks in the help output of ls, cp, rm, mv, etc. In default mode, less catches these control codes and escapes them so you see the visual escape codes. If you use less --raw-control-chars then less is NOT escaping the control characters (just passing them through) and they get interpreted by the terminal as screen formatting codes.
Debian 13, which ships Coreutils 9.7 does not have the change and cannot reproduce the behavior.
When I do ls --help|less --raw-control-chars it doesn't show the control characters, and it looks all neat and pretty. Isn't this the opposite of how it's supposed to work?!
You've gotten a longer reply to this, but just to make it clear: No, that's how it's supposed to work.
By default less mangles control characters so they can't do anything to your display (or bell)
With -R, less will pass some control characters through raw and unmangled; enough to give you stuff like pretty colours
With -r, less won't mangle any control characters, which, if you're doing something stupid like trying to read a binary file, can leave your terminal prompt fucked up and in need of a reset.
Ubuntu 26.10 changes how the system choose which processes are killed when memory runs low, making a rogue browser tab is less likely to punt you back to the login screen.
When your system runs out of memory, the kernel’s out-of-memory (OOM) killer kicks in, terminating processes to recover some.
The issue is that doesn’t always kill the right things.
By default, many apps and critical desktop services share the same priority score. When the OOM killer is choosing its victim target, it looks at their OOM scores, not “what’s using the most memory”.
Firefox and GNOME Shell, for example, share the same priority status. If memory pressure increases, the OOM killer may decide to terminate GNOME Shell to free up memory rather than the the process causing runaway memory requirements.
I regularly encounter this myself in Ubuntu VMs if I try to do too many things (with too many Firefox tabs open): rather than OOM nuking an app, it kills GNOME Shell instead – but I’d much rather a tab crash than my entire desktop session.
Ubuntu 26.10 makes changes to mitigate this.
Canonical’s Jean Baptiste Lallement says “the goal is simply to preserve the desktop session where possible” by terminating apps before core session services. To do this, it’s lowered the OOM scores for desktop processes so they’re less likely to be nixed.
Ubuntu 26.10 also stops systemd-oomd being able to kill user sessions as it doesn’t use the same OOM priority scores as the kernel, and important desktop services could still be nixed based on memory pressure requirements.
These changes will improve how Ubuntu copes when memory runs out, but Lallement calls it “a first step” that “does not make Ubuntu immune to OOM conditions”. More granular OOM policies for desktop services and apps are planned.
Ubuntu 26.10 is released on Thursday 15 October, 2026, but if you plan to test drive the beta that’s due on Thursday 24 September, these changes will be there – not that you’ll notice them, hopefully!
Isn't this article essentially wrong because of this line:
Ubuntu 26.10 also stops systemd-oomd being able to kill user sessions
systemd-oomd works completely differently from the kernel OOM killer. Unless it's changed, it just ranks everything by how much memory they're using and picks the biggest memory hog that isn't manually deprioritised by some config rule, and kills that. The OOM killer has a much smarter heuristic to deprioritise processes which are being actively used.
As far as I understand, systemd-oomd was always a shoddy implementation because of this, and when it first started being used in Fedora (I don't know about Ubuntu) also had insanely aggressive settings so that it would nobble something when you still had 20% free memory.
The problem it was trying to solve was that Linux's behaviour under memory pressure is actually abysmal. I have no idea if other OSes are any better, but basically once your computer starts thrashing, you're better off rebooting it because it'll be up again in a minute, whereas if you wait it'll probably be half an hour if you're lucky. The OOM killer detects actual out-of-memory, not thrashing, and so you can spend days slowly grinding your way through operations that should have taken seconds without ever triggering it. Hence systemd-oomd is designed to kick in before you actually run out of memory... and as a consequence it somewhat frequently does so too early.
Do you actually know that the decision-making takes a long time? I would have assumed that it's pretty quick as it doesn't need to access much, and what it does need to access should mostly be staying in RAM even when thrashing. But I don't know that for sure. I had assumed that essentially all the delay was other things happening very slowly, allocating more memory byte by byte before an actual OOM condition was met.
sure, but how much memory? Here's how I imagine it working (based on approximately zero knowledge):
OOM killer is triggered
The kernel code for the OOM killer (including heuristics) has to be swapped in. This code should only be a few KB at most so won't actually take long.
The code has to be executed. To do so it needs to access information about all processes
Even if this information can be swapped out, it, likewise, is very small.
So in my imagination it only takes two small blobs of data being swapped in - if kernel code and process information even can be swapped out; maybe it can be protected. Maybe you know something that ruins this picture though.
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I was setting up iptables like I have done a billion times before, but when trying to /etc/init.d/iptables save, it said that the kernel doesn't have support for it. Wut? So I load ip_tables with modprobe, only to lose it after a reboot, so I shoved it into modules in mkinitcpio.conf, which seems to have helped.
What's going on? Are we forcibly moving on to nftables?
«I load ip_tables with modprobe, only to lose it after a reboot»
Write the module name into: /etc/modules-load.d/.conf — on most modern systemd distributions (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc.) or /etc/modules on Debian-style systems.
OpenRC's modules-load service reads configuration files from the following locations, in order of precedence /usr/lib/modules-load.d/ /run/modules-load.d/ /etc/modules-load.d/
Mišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in,Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems.
I intern at a security company and half of our office (including me) runs some kind of a Linux distribution. I got Ubuntu on the company-assigned computer.
LibreOffice replacing the commercial office suite.
how to open and save documents in LibreOffice, how to access files on Nextcloud,
Also recommend them to follow the office suites nagging and save future documents in Open Document Format. Because OOXML (.docx & co.) is the villain here in compatibility and formatting issues.
This entry was edited (Monday, September 21, 2026, 10:35 AM)
At work we have been slowly pushing into Linux instead of traditional IIS/windows servers. Its SO much easier to deploy images/docker containers. Licensing is sane. The costs are slowly going down.
I had a blocking program. I didn't mind it closing, so I wanted to do that on shutdown. But I miss the button and clicked "Do not show again" in the popup that asks if you want to kill blocking programs.
I instead want that popup to remain. How can I restore it?
from the top of my head there is a file ~/.config/dontaskagainrc that you can manually edit. I'm sure it's somewhere in the settings gui as well but no idea
My understanding is, you're routing your traffic through 3 nodes, so the slowest of those 3 will bottleneck the entire process. Unfortunately it's just how Tor works.
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You probably have two kernels now on disk. Compare their configs. Old kernel probably had trackpad compiled in. Anyway, you need to find the module which supports your device, and add it's name into the list of modules to load.
Over the years, I’ve started having big collection of cables or dongles.
Mostly USB-C, USB-A to Micro USB, USB A to C, USB C to A, HDMI..
I was wondering how I could know their specifications as nothing is written on them. Maybe through a Linux program telling me how fast they can transfer data.
I was wondering also if there was a way to know how much power was sent to a device when these cables are used to power one. For instance, I’ve noticed that my Steam Deck battery was draining when playing games with 15TDP and being charged with an iPhone charger.
I don’t know if it’s useful, but here are my computers: Steam Deck running Steam OS, Surface Go 1 running Fedora Silverblue, MacBook Pro 2012 running PopOs.
I don’t want to buy anything to be able to measure how much data or power these cables can send😇
To get the know the true spec you need special measuring devices. No software can tell you the true spec without knowing the actual inside of the cable. You can do a few test to get a rough estimate though. But that means testing all the capabilities and see what it does. Could be using the cables way out of spec that way however.
This entry was edited (Sunday, September 20, 2026, 8:12 AM)
I'd try to stay away from isolated projects on GitHub that only have a single maintainer, to avoid the risk of installing malware. You could check the aur.archlinux.org/ to see if any of those have been uploaded here and if there are any comments on the package. If there are none but you still would like to install, check out this guide to learn how to vet the "installer".
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There are cheap USB cable testers that will tell you what pins are connected and what speed the e marker chip reports. Actually measuring the bandwidth of the cable requires some expensive test equipment though.
This will tell you which types of "fast charging" Power Delivery a cable will handle and if the cable supports data, and will identify some types of electrical faults treedix.com/products/treedix-u…
And this kind of thing will tell you how much power is actually being transferred (but nothing about data transfer) - as someone else mentions, this also depends on the device you're charging/powering, and the power source, but it is a more immediately useful number than what specification is supported: aliexpress.us/item/32568078551…
【USB Cable Performance Testing】Test USB cable continuity, functionality (charging, data transfer, high-speed signal), and measure internal resistance for power efficiency.
Usually if a cable doesn't come with specifications, you'd have to measure it yourself. Resistance / voltage drop tells us what kind of power can be transferred. It's the same as with regular power cables. And I guess which contacts are connected can be measured with one of those (cheap) rigs. There's small devices available for that job. And of course a computer can try to transfer data and see how that goes.
This entry was edited (Sunday, September 20, 2026, 11:18 AM)
Unfortunately there’s no way to actually know what’s going on with a cable without testing it and as of eight or so years ago you can’t trust cables to conform to the spec.
You should either buy a cable tester, not use high powered supplies or throw away what you have and buy cables you know are what they say they are.
Especially for power delivery, buy a tester. It’s cheaper than a house fire.
While that's good the grass is not always greener the amount of time they are required to be at the office from a cultural pressure. To the point dying at work is a trope in anime.
A black company (ブラック企業/ブラック会社, burakku kigyō/burakku gaisha), also referred to in English as a black corporation or black business, is a Japanese term for a company that is exploitative or abusive towards its workers.
(snip)
While specifics may vary from workplace to workplace and company to company, a typical practice at a black company is to hire a large number of young employees and then force them to work large amounts of overtime without overtime pay. Conditions are poor, and workers are subjected to verbal abuse and "power harassment" (bullying) by their superiors. In order to make the employees stay, superiors of black companies would often threaten young employees with disrepute if they chose to quit.
This is the norm in Japanese offices. I worked for 2 years in Japan in an office. Officially we were a white company and weren't allowed to work overtime. However, we would get monthly emails from the office manager detailing everyone's exact amount of overtime. Even though we were salary, we had to clock in and out to make sure we didn't work overtime. The nominal reason for these emails was to tell people to lower their overtime since it wasn't allowed. Those emails had the actual effect of ranking everyone by how much overtime they had worked and pressuring people with lower numbers to work later. People would regularly leave the office around 9 or 10pm. All hiring is done April 1st when a large cohort of college grads come in and they are expected to work there for life.
To be classified as a black company, and be named and shamed by the government, you have to like...cause a high profile suicide or something.
Japanese companies can't lay off permanent employees without triggering things like hiring freezes and other consequences. They're usually put in shit jobs to force them to quit (though this can be illegal) or are offered a buyout for several months of salary to quit.
This entry was edited (Friday, September 18, 2026, 5:10 AM)
Following the Arch wiki, I built a custom kernel for the first time ever. It was easier that I thought it'd be, probably because the Arch wiki is so thorough and because I didn't make that many changes... I just enabled a few FireWire related options as per this guide in order to work on this project (or this).
Results/takeaways - The OS ran fine with the new kernel 💃 - I learned how to manually create GRUB entries 🔧 - I learned that I don't even have to create new GRUB entries, since I can simply point to the new kernel image and initramfs from the bootloader menu 🪛 - I learned that my 5800X3D runs well (compiles the new kernel blazingly fast) with all cores set to negative 30 in the UEFI - FireWire is dead 💀
Tiny followup on that project That old GPU did something to the UEFI (possibly CMOS?), because even after removing all potentially incompatible hardware and reinstalling my modern GPU, I still got that same error message, saying that the system was forces to boot in CSM mode. Only by resetting the UEFI settings was I able to restore the system to a working state. I admit, I panicked.
Just a little update: effed by the archaic Geforce GT 220 somehow 😅
Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @[url=https://feddit.org/u/Thorry]Thorry[/url] , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won’t have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn't have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate.
I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won't install in CSM mode... I've tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT... 😅 Boot partition with and without file system... 💀
I'll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance.
Oh NO 🤣 I did successully install Gentoo once and I see the benefits. I really do. BUT. My brain works in such a way, that I need to understand every single USE flag, otherwise I "can't" install packages 😭 I simply can't allow myself to do a... "as is" installation with Gentoo... And I don't have to motivation right now to learn EVERYTHING I'd have to learn xD
In times of pre-optimized repos (like CachyOS) it seems rather redundant from a performance perspective. Other reasons remain valid though (learning or specialized optimizations or requirements).
Alternatively, it can also be considered wasteful (electricity/compute) when everyone compiles their whole system instead of doing it once in a central server.
Compiling your own kernel is very intimidating at the beginning and one learns a lot after plunging down that rabbit hole
After some time it gets pretty straightforward. Just don't forget to enable the modules for your drive and filesystem (it has been a while, maybe that's not needed anymore) and the rest you can always fix with another compilation
That part where you got stuck even after switching hardware: yikes. I wouldn't expect that
Oh shiet... well, I pray my 5800X3D survives a little longer. I'd hate to upgrade in this economy D: ...
I've had it since it came out, I think. I did have some random reboots, but that was with one of its newer (?) relatives, an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics. And I believe it was because it had ran out of RAM and SWAP or the like...
AMD will re-release the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in Q2 2026 with 8-core, 16-thread specs and 100 MB cache, letting AM4 builders stay on platform while AMD backs AM5.
also... this marks the second time this week I've heard of FireWire. though you might've had a better excuse for bringing it up. the other instance was my mother, mistakenly referring to the optical cable im running at home lol
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We HAVE a seperate GNOME-Shell for mobile and it is called Phosh (PHOne SHell). Also see their repository on GNOMEs gitlab. Phosh is also the most used DE on true GNU/Linux phones to my knowledge. But Phosh is also more independent and has its own organization. There is just no need for a mobile GNOME shell anymore (for many years).
Edit: Thank you all for your quick responses! No downtime at all with this project! 😁 More specifically, I followed the advice to put command line parameters in the script. By slapping a $1 anywhere I want the filename to be expanded/accepted in the script, I was able to do
./command_ffmpeg_SYNCAUD birthday_0
I am digitizing my dad's video and audio tapes, for which I - after painstakingly scouring the documentation of ffmpeg, as one should - finally have found the encoding options that I'm happy with. 😁
But instead of retyping the PhD dissertation that are the ffmpeg commands that I use a bazillion times, I have simply started to do command substitution with for instance
$(cat command_ffmpeg_COPYCODEC)
or
$(cat command_ffmpeg_H264)
and the likes. This, however, still requires me to vim the correct filenames into these concatenated commands every time I work on a new project, so I thought, "Why not just set a variable, like I use to do with visudo as in
EDITOR=/bin/vim visudo
So, wanting to do a little ffmpeg magic to delay the audio stream of a file, I tried
but bash said, "no, who do you think you are?" After doing a wc on FILENAME, I noticed that there is an invisible trailing something after the filename - possibly some whitespace char - since it thinks that I mean to use an option "-synced.mkv".
How would you go about writing the now bash script (it simply wouldn't expand the variable through command substitution...) so that the trailing whatever is deleted, if that is indeed the case? I have tried slapping " ", ' ', ( ), { } in all conceivable configurations, but I'm simply to inexperienced. xD
First, did you look if the filename itself contains a trailing whitespace? I had this issue a few times myself, thinking the script is broken, but in fact the file on the filesystem had a space. That is annoying. If your variable has an additional space and you want to remove it, then I think its better to find out where this space comes from (if its not the file itself), and solve the issue there. Because if you get an unexpected space, then this could be a bug in your script somewhere.
There are multiple ways to remove leading and trailing whitespaces with Bash. The best is not to call a command for this and rely on Bash substitution. This can get ugly, but luckily we can steal from Stack Overflow, 😛 (basically what we did before Ai):
trim() {
local var="$*"
# remove leading whitespace characters
var="${var#"${var%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
# remove trailing whitespace characters
var="${var%"${var##*[![:space:]]}"}"
printf '%s' "$var"
}
trim " text in the middle "
sure, wayland isnt perfect and will never fully replace x11, but it does just work for most people nowdays
is systemd that controversial? seems like a loud minority imo, most distros use it
gnome haters will always be there, im one lol, but its pretty fine if you like it
most of the hate twords ubuntu is directed at canonical not the software imo, but snaps i totally get, arent even fully open source with canonicals proprietary snap repos
Wayland because it works for a majority (but not all) and still doesn't have some basic functionality despite having been in development for near 20 years (eg custom window placement).
It may eventually be good, but it is taking a goddamn lifetime to do it. Completely mismanaged imo.
Maybe what you call "basic functionality" isn't as "basic" to implement in code. Or maybe there aren't that many people that consider those functionalities "basic" (me for example).
All in all the hate towards wayland just does more harm than good and people limited on complaining and hating maybe should consider ways of actually improving it.
All in all the hate towards wayland just does more harm than good and people limited on complaining and hating maybe should consider ways of actually improving it.
This is bullshit. I have no duty to be loyal to any project. Wayland in particular has been so mismanaged it's still fighting for dominance after decades and still can't reproduce the functionality we had in the '90s. All that effort could have been put into refactoring and updating X11 instead.
(Note: I've not watched the video yet, but this is what I think of common hate towards every project mentioned)
systemd hate is just "fans" of the UNIX philosophy complaining that "it does too many things to get it right", while they follow a flawed philosophy and also fail to separate systemd the init and systemd the project.
Wayland hate is just silly, yeah it's not the same as X, but it's getting there while still avoiding becoming a total mess of software. Same with flatpak.
Ubuntu and snap hate is deserved because of how canonical is steering those projects.
GNOME hate though... I can totally understand the dislike for it. It can force too many opinions onto its users with not much choice, but thats kinda its thing, having a simple and consistent desktop experience. I kinda like their approach to a usable desktop.
Speaking as someone who doesn't use any of these things, at least half the problem is the people who push these pieces of software. Hint: telling someone "oh, your preferred software is crap, use this instead" when what they have is already sufficient for their purposes makes you look like a liar and turns people against your message because they don't like being insulted. There are examples in the comments here already.
There is a type of person who instantly jumps on new software because it is new . . . and y'know, that's fine. We need those people, or software will never improve. However, most people don't think that way and need to be offered a compelling reason to change. "This new software has this great new feature" may be a compelling reason . . . for someone who needs or can use that feature. "The codebase of the software you're using is old and crufty and not attracting many developers" is not a compelling reason as long as there's at least one person around providing needed patches. Even "the software you're currently using is completely unmaintained" may not be a compelling reason if the software continues to work and doesn't have any known major security issues.
Sorry, but . . . Gentoo user. Meaning that one of the things I do is retain packages for software that suits me as long as I can still make it and its dependencies compile, because that's one of the things my distro allows me to do. I'm sorry if your expertise ends with taking what's explicitly offered to you.
im on mac os and using this app called pencil+ along with an addon for blender so i can get nice outlines on 3D models. The app costs more than a years wage in my country so i cant afford it. The trial has all the features unlocked and lasts 14 days but even if i delete all files it installs it somehow still knows my trial is over.
Im assuming its phoning home and reporting my mac uuid or something to let it know my trial is over. Formatting the mac lets me restart the trial but i cant format my macbook every 14 days. Anyone know a good way i can reset the trial? It has an offline activation mode if you have a license key so maybe i can prevent it from going online and have it think im still in trial mode?
Yes, this scenario indeed sounds like piracy, and you are a thief (or planning to become one). Don’t go down this path ! You’ll end up stealing money from old ladies, robbing a bank or whatsoever; it will damage your karma and you will end up in jail.
Also, most apps just put a preferences file at some obscure location. Try uninstalling it using AppCleanerX (make sure to remove everything it shows) and see whether that helps.
So, maybe check the /Users/Shared/.etc folder? Make sure to turn on hidden files in Finder by pressing ⌘⇧. (dot)! Also, look for some files starting with psh_.
EDIT: I've also seen something like /.config/ or /.config/PSOFT/ - so might be in your user directory or in the /Users/Shared/ one.
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Just a quick idea that will likely not work these days anymore, did you try change your systems time to an earlier date? Used to work with really old software but maybe worth a try.
Maybe make timemachine backup before install, install only your app, try if timemachine restore can reset trial. Or compare filesystem before app install with after, see below.
Very technical way: try find every file open/create during install or run. Linux has strace, macos has dtrace/execsnoop but depend on macos version difficult to setup. Then dump trace for all file operation (open/write/rename/...), find filepath from trace, try delete file that outside of directory you already try to delete. Prepare you might brick mac or not allowed because of tight security.
If not show any other file maybe also syscall trace useful if kernel give "uuid" to program. Also maybe macos has better way to debug app, like gdb maybe, and try to find all call to open , then intercept and log filepath like that.
Or install fresh system, take apfs snapshot (apparently possible using tmutil, or just make timemachine backup but iirc those not backup all file of system so might miss some), install only your app, take apfs snapshot, mount both snapshot and compare to find all change/new file. Maybe rsync -avin newsnap oldsnap for metadata compare or rsync -avicn newsnap oldsnap for content checksum compare (if actually change content without metadata somehow) or snapshot or backup diff using other program, i think timemachine could show backup diff somehow.
Edit: also wireshark for intercept and inspect network traffic.
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Can you run it in a VM? I see you say the trial is unended with a format so it’s probably not phoning home with a UUID. Maybe swap user accounts every 14 days?
I was recently messing with CRTs and plasma TVs, both of which don't exactly have square pixels, are there any normalish wayland compositors that allow a different horizontal and vertical scaling factor?
This is the main discussion thread for the draft FEP-c0d0: Context Locking
[h2]Summary[/h2]
Context locking (and its inverse, unlocking) refer to the action whereby a topic no longer accepts new replies.
This proposal introduces a [code]locked[/code] property on the context object, and a new activity type, [code]Lock[/code], to signal changes to a topic's locked state across the fediverse. Unlocking is expressed with the standard ActivityStreams [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core
This is the main discussion thread for the draft FEP-c0d0: Context Locking
Summary
Context locking (and its inverse, unlocking) refer to the action whereby a topic no longer accepts new replies.
This proposal introduces a locked property on the context object, and a new activity type, Lock, to signal changes to a topic's locked state across the fediverse. Unlocking is expressed with the standard ActivityStreams Undo activity, applied to the original Lock. It builds on FEP 1b12: Group federation for audience identification (the audience property) and the Announce wrapping pattern, and on FEP fe34: Origin-based security model for authorization.
Why only have a boolean flag? I usually want something like “only people I follow can reply”, though ofc. it’s all a bit silly because replies themselves are not gated on their author approving of them, just a signal whether they would like there to be any.
But also, why introduce a new state machine like that, why not have a single property on the original message that can be edited with a normal `Edit`. This way we can have more specific intent than “I’d like nobody to reply to this”
@profpatsch@mastodon.xyz good question! This FEP is specifically limited in scope for simplicity but does not preclude the use of additional mechanisms to allow for fine-grained privileges related to reply controls.
Reply controls are a whole 'nother ball game which is deserving of its own FEP. This deals with binary moderator/admin level locking of a topic for arbitrary reasons (spam, off-topic, inflammatory, etc.)
For example, postingRestrictedToMods is something Lemmy, NodeBB, and Wordpress (among others) use to signal that a category can not be posted to freely.
Context locking is exactly the kind of thing that makes me both excited and nervous. Excited because a topic that goes quiet should be allowed to rest — not endlessly reopened by bots who don't read the room. Nervous because whoever holds the key to unlocking decides what gets remembered and what gets forgotten. That's a lot of power for a protocol layer.
How do you see the balance between 'the community decides this thread is done' versus 'an admin or the original poster can silence it'? I keep thinking the answer should live with the people who were actually in the conversation.
@julian Should people be able to lock/unlock their own threads? Facebook supports this, and I've seen plenty of people ask for this on the Fediverse, too.
In my own notes I have separate "locked by moderator" and "locked by OP" properties, so that moderators and OPs can only undo their own locks, not each other's.
This week, Plasma folks shifted to bug-fixing and polishing work for Plasma 6.8. As of the time of writing, there are only four open regression reports for Plasma 6.
Arch Linux was my distribution of choice for more than a decade. With its rolling-release model, minimal base, and the invaluable ArchWiki, it felt like the final distribution I would ever need.
My primary Linux machine is a dedicated home server, handling services like Home Assistant, local DNS, background jobs, and developer sandboxes. For a server running 24/7, long-term stability and maintainability are critical. Over years of incremental tweaks, configuration entropy inevitably crept in. System state became scattered across /etc, /usr, systemd service units, and package manager transactions. Whenever I made changes, I had to keep diligent notes about which files were edited, when, and why.
Recent events, such as the Arch Linux AUR security incidents (which I touched upon in my previous post on Caddy) and developments around Omarchy, prompted me to re-evaluate my setup. I wanted an operating system that was declarative, reproducible, and manageable entirely in code.
GNU Guix shares the same core architectural foundation as NixOS (functional package management, declarative configuration, and atomic rollbacks), but its design choices felt much more cohesive:
Language (GNU Guile Scheme vs Nix DSL): Nix uses its own bespoke domain-specific language. Guix configurations are written entirely in GNU Guile, a general-purpose Scheme (Lisp). As an Emacs user accustomed to Emacs Lisp, Scheme felt familiar and expressive. Rather than learning a specialized configuration syntax, I could leverage a real programming language with first-class functions, macros, and modules.
Init System (GNU Shepherd vs systemd): NixOS builds on systemd, while Guix System uses GNU Shepherd as its service manager. In Guix, Shepherd services are also defined in Guile Scheme. Everything from package recipes to system daemons to PID 1 shares a unified language and data model.
Documentation: Guix’s documentation is remarkably cohesive. Even though some community tutorials can be dated, the official GNU Guix reference manual is consistent, comprehensive, and avoids the fragmented wiki landscape of Nix.
Philosophy (GNU Libre Standards vs Pragmatism): NixOS takes a pragmatic stance, offering toggles for proprietary software and unfree drivers. GNU Guix strictly adheres to the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines, shipping the Linux-libre kernel and free software exclusively by default.
This is what I do. I use guix shell for local development environments, for example when I need current Rust + cargo or an LSP package in Emacs.
Guix is typically very little behind of Arch (which I use as well, in a VM), and depending on what you do, it now has a pretty massive package selection (well, less npm stuff or NVidia hardware support).
It is also quite good for packaging and distributing own software that way, offering for developers and power users a better solution to what flatpaks solve. Since it works across different distributions and across most popular languages, I expect it to become somewhat of a standard for bazaar-style open source contributions.
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Installing new packages is relatively slow. But it was also quite slow because the infrastructure at gnu.org was loaded. It is a lot faster since the project moved to codeberg.
Also, for me personally is openix a "guix shell" a lot faster than starting up a virtual machine.
Great writeup! I discovered guix a few yearssago and it's become my preferred OS. I first installed it on my desktop and then my two laptops.
The declaritive system config is a game changer. I like it so much I would never go back to a distro that doesn't support it. The rollback feature has saved my @$$ a few times.
I haven't done any yet but I want to try packaging some software for guix. I think that's it's biggest downside, some packages not being availible on any channels forcing users to install via nix, flathub, or something else. In my experience it can add a bit of friction.
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms.
With Wine 11.18 a number of patches have landed for further building out its NTOSKRNL implementation support for kernel drivers. NTOSKRNL is the main kernel executable file for the Microsoft Windows operating system as the core for the kernel and executive layers. NTOSKRNL deals with hardware abstractions, process handling, memory management, and related essentials.
With Wine 11.18 there is work on NTOSKRNL around PnP device enablement, container IDs, and implementing a variety of necessary functions. Test coverage for the Wine NTOSKRNL code is also coming in-step.
Wine 11.18 also has a variety of code correctness fixes, compatibility fixes in standard C headers, and 21 known bug fixes. The bug fixes this release range from Adobe Creative Cloud fixes to game fixes for Assassin's Creed Rogue and others.
Wine 11.18 downloads and more information at WineHQ.org.
Zentralisierte Soziale Netzwerke sind ein wachsendes Problem. Wissens-Infrastrukturen wie Bibliotheken, Universitäten und öffentlich-rechtliche Medien, aber auch zivilgesellschaftliche Medien wie Offene Kanäle und die Wikipedia dienen nicht Profit, sondern dem Gemeinwohl. Sie alle sind auch Pioniere im Fediverse, dem dezentralen Sozialen Netzwerk, das eine strukturelle Lösung für Probleme der Mega-Plattformen verspricht. Wie kommen die gemeinwohlorientierten Wissens-Infrastrukturen ins Fediverse und wie kommt das Fediverse in die Gesellschaft?
Es diskutieren:
Alexander Baratsits, DisplayEurope.eu und CBA.media
Valentina Hirsch, Social Media Managerin 3sat
Rebecca Sieber, Juristin, Expertin für rechtliche Fragen im Fediverse
Ralf Stockmann, ZLB Berlin
Moderation: Volker Grassmuck, DigiGes & FediDay
Ausgestrahlt vei Alex Berlin am 4. Oktiber 2025 Merh Infos: berlinfedi.day/
Welcome back to another minor release of NodeBB, at a blistering pace after the last release about three weeks ago! 🚀
Here's what changed since v4.15.0, and what you can expect to see in v4.16.0.
ActivityPub Functionality
As always, we spent quite a bit of time here improving NodeBB's AP support.
We now support sending and receiving of RFC9421 HTTP Signatures. Most of the fediverse is still on the outdated cavage-12 draft standard, so moving to the RFC is a step in the right direction
Split-domain webfinger handles now supported (from remote users)
Admins can now easily follow a hashtag globally. This means the instance itself will follow the hashtag (either via configurable relay.fedi.buzz or tags.pub), and automatically categorize content into NodeBB
Content Warnings from remote posts are now honoured, and hidden behind a `` tag
Custom emoji handling improvements — custom emoji in usernames and topic title are now rendered faithfully!
Local admins can "bump" topics, and this shows up as an Announce, which is like a Mastodon-style boost
Chat messages can now be reported and forwarded to the remote instance
Activity sending logic was given a major overhaul so the site is more performance (aka less likely to keel over when someone moderately popular posts something)
Moderation updates
Chat messages can now be flagged
Category privilege copying is now available via the v3 API
Admins can hide topic event types
Full name can be used in ACP user search
Post edit privilege can now be granted to groups
One-click instance-wide ability to disable notification emails
Since our last update to the bug bounty program, we've seen minimal (if any) change in the amount of AI generated security reports. If anything they've incre...
First 120 ever done. Still working on her facecards before she's perfect, but I definitely hit my goal for bunnyfest 😀
Not sure which servant will be my next 120 goal, I'd need more copies of Nagiko for coins (NP3 and Bond 14 needed) I could do Lambdaryllis or possibly Fae Tristan depending on how those rolls go (she's rateup on two banners I'll likely roll on a lot).
Continuous tire pyrolysis plants operate at sustained throughput, making emission control a core part of plant design rather than a secondary environmental measure. Unlike intermittent systems, continuous operation creates a steady stream of process gas, condensable vapor, and combustion exhaust. The treatment system therefore needs to maintain stable performance under prolonged thermal loading.
A well-designed emission control strategy combines airtight process equipment, controlled combustion, gas recovery, and downstream flue-gas treatment. The objective is not simply to remove pollutants after they form. It is to prevent uncontrolled emissions throughout the entire thermal conversion chain.
Waste tires contain a complex mixture of natural and synthetic rubber, carbon black, steel, additives, sulfur-containing compounds, and other constituents. During pyrolysis, these materials undergo thermal decomposition and generate a mixture of non-condensable gas and condensable hydrocarbons.
In a continuous tyre pyrolysis plant, fluctuations in feedstock composition can alter gas generation, heating demand, and combustion characteristics. Poorly controlled conditions may increase incomplete combustion products, particulate emissions, or volatile organic compounds.
This makes process stability an important component of environmental performance. Consistent feeding, temperature regulation, pressure control, and gas residence time help create a predictable operating envelope.
Airtight Pyrolysis as the First Emission Barrier
Emission control begins inside the pyrolysis system.
Airtight continuous pyrolysis reactor construction prevents process gas from escaping into the working environment. Sealed feeding and discharge systems are particularly important because these interfaces can otherwise become potential leakage points.
Slightly negative pressure can also help prevent process gas from migrating outward when properly integrated with the plant's pressure-control system.
Continuous monitoring of reactor pressure, temperature, and gas flow provides operational data for identifying abnormal conditions. Mechanical integrity should also be periodically inspected because thermal cycling and prolonged operation can affect seals, joints, and rotating components.
Controlled Combustion of Non-Condensable Gas
Non-condensable gas is one of the principal energy-bearing streams generated during tire pyrolysis. Rather than releasing it directly, a continuous plant can route the gas to a controlled combustion chamber or thermal oxidization system.
The combustion process converts combustible hydrocarbons into primarily carbon dioxide and water when adequate oxygen, temperature, and residence time are maintained.
Stable combustion requires careful control of the air-to-fuel ratio. Excess air can reduce thermal efficiency, while insufficient oxygen may promote incomplete combustion and increase carbon monoxide or unburned hydrocarbon emissions.
Automatic temperature and oxygen control can therefore help maintain consistent combustion conditions as feedstock and gas composition fluctuate.
Flue-Gas Treatment and Pollutant Reduction
Combustion alone may not be sufficient to satisfy applicable emission limits. The final treatment configuration depends on local regulations, feedstock characteristics, plant scale, and the composition of the exhaust stream.
Particulate control can be achieved through appropriate filtration or dust-collection equipment. Acidic gases may require dedicated neutralization or scrubbing processes. Where sulfur-containing compounds are significant, desulfurization may be incorporated into the treatment train.
Volatile organic compounds and other combustion-related pollutants can be addressed through optimized thermal oxidation and, where required, additional treatment stages.
The treatment train should be engineered around measured or reasonably characterized gas composition rather than relying on a generic equipment configuration.
Managing Sulfur and Other Tire-Derived Compounds
Sulfur deserves particular attention in tire pyrolysis because many tires contain sulfur-based vulcanization additives.
During thermal conversion and subsequent combustion, sulfur-containing compounds can form sulfur oxides. Their concentration depends on tire composition and process conditions.
A dedicated sulfur-control strategy may therefore be required. This can involve feedstock characterization, controlled combustion, and downstream desulfurization.
Feedstock screening is also useful for identifying materials that could introduce elevated levels of chlorine, metals, or other contaminants. Reducing variability at the input stage makes downstream emission control more predictable.
Monitoring for Long-Term Compliance
A continuous plant needs more than emission-control hardware. It requires a monitoring framework capable of demonstrating stable performance over time.
Key operating parameters can include reactor temperature, combustion temperature, oxygen concentration, pressure, gas flow, and treatment-system status. Depending on local requirements, stack emissions may also need periodic or continuous measurement.
Data logging creates an operational record that can support environmental reporting, equipment diagnostics, and regulatory inspections. Alarm systems can identify deviations before they develop into major process disturbances.
Regular maintenance is equally important. Filters, scrubbers, ducts, burners, valves, and sensors gradually deteriorate or accumulate deposits during operation. Preventive maintenance helps preserve the designed treatment efficiency.
Integrating Emission Control Into Plant Design
Emission control in a continuous tire pyrolysis plant is most effective when treated as an integrated process architecture. Feedstock management, reactor sealing, thermal conversion, gas recovery, combustion, flue-gas treatment, and monitoring should operate as interconnected systems.
The central principle is to control emissions at multiple points rather than depend on a single end-of-pipe device. Airtight equipment limits fugitive releases. Controlled combustion manages process gas. Flue-gas treatment addresses residual pollutants. Continuous monitoring provides operational verification.
This layered approach improves environmental resilience and helps a tire pyrolysis facility maintain stable performance under continuous operating conditions. It also provides a more robust foundation for meeting site-specific environmental requirements as regulatory expectations become increasingly stringent.
Apartment construction in the Philippines often requires concrete to travel through a constrained chain of production, delivery, pumping, and placement. The challenge becomes more pronounced as buildings rise and available ground space diminishes. Dense residential districts may provide limited room for mixer trucks, while narrow access roads, neighboring structures, overhead utilities, and active traffic can restrict equipment positioning. For apartment projects, concrete placement therefore needs to be planned around the actual geometry of the site rather than around equipment capacity alone. The selected pumping method should correspond to the building height, pour volume, access conditions, pumping distance, work sequence, and expected continuity of concrete supply.
Different construction stages can also require different concrete pumping arrangements. A foundation pour may favor one system, while upper-floor slabs or columns may demand another. Instead of assuming that one machine must serve the entire project, contractors can evaluate the concrete route at each stage and select equipment according to the prevailing constraint. This approach makes concrete placement more adaptable and helps prevent equipment access, pumping distance, or interrupted supply from becoming a hidden bottleneck.
Plan Concrete Placement Around the Apartment Site Layout
Ground-Level Access Determines Where Concrete Can Enter
The first consideration is the point where concrete can physically reach the project. Apartment sites may have narrow entrances or limited internal space because of property boundaries, temporary fencing, neighboring buildings, and other construction equipment. A mixer truck may be able to approach the site entrance but still remain too far from the actual pour.
In this situation, contractors can separate the concrete delivery point from the placement point. Concrete is discharged where the delivery vehicle can safely position itself, then transported through a pumping line to the foundation, slab, column, or wall being constructed. This simple change in site logistics can make a constrained plot much more workable.
Building Geometry Changes as Construction Progresses
An apartment project rarely maintains the same concrete route throughout construction. During foundation work, the primary concern may be excavation depth and horizontal pipeline length. Once the structural frame rises, vertical pumping and floor-to-floor access become more important. Later, completed structures may further restrict ground-level vehicle movement.
Concrete Planning Should Follow Construction Stages
Rather than fixing the pumping arrangement at the beginning of the project, contractors can review equipment requirements according to each major pour. This staged approach allows the pumping method to evolve as the building footprint, elevation, and access conditions change.
Match Pumping Equipment to the Type of Pour
Concrete Boom Pumps Suit Large or Elevated Placement Areas
A concrete boom pump for sale can be useful when apartment construction requires concrete to reach elevated or difficult-to-access areas from a relatively fixed truck position. The articulated boom provides a controlled placing route and can reduce the need for extensive manual hose handling. This can be particularly relevant for large slabs, structural frames, and multi-floor construction where the placing point changes across a broad working area.
However, contractors still need to examine the available setup space, boom reach, obstruction clearance, and truck positioning requirements. A boom pump is not simply selected according to building height. The actual geometry between the machine and the placing area determines whether its reach is suitable.
Concrete Mixer and Pump Systems Combine Production With Placement
Smaller apartment developments may have a different requirement. When concrete demand is moderate and the project has limited space for separate machinery, a concrete mixer and pump can combine mixing and pumping in one workflow. The system can produce concrete and deliver it through a pipeline toward the required placement area, reducing the number of separate equipment interfaces on the site.
Integrated Equipment Can Simplify Intermittent Concrete Work
This arrangement can be particularly relevant when concrete is needed for foundations, columns, beams, retaining walls, or smaller slab sections at different times. Instead of maintaining separate mixing and pumping operations for relatively modest pours, contractors can coordinate production and placement through one compact system.
Portable Concrete Pumps Fit Changing Work Zones
A portable concrete pump can provide flexibility when the pumping position needs to change between construction stages or when a truck-mounted boom pump cannot occupy the required location. Its compact arrangement can allow the pump to remain at an accessible position while pipeline sections extend toward the actual work area.
For apartment projects with narrow plots, this configuration can be valuable because the pump itself does not need to follow every change in the placing point. The pipeline can instead form the bridge between an accessible equipment position and the concrete placement zone.
Use Stationary Pumping for Repeated Vertical Delivery
As an apartment building rises, repeated vertical concrete delivery can become a defining logistical issue. A stationary concrete pump for sale in the Philippines can remain at a designated ground-level position while concrete travels through a pipeline toward higher floors. This arrangement avoids repeatedly positioning a large vehicle near each placement area and can support a more systematic pumping route.
Pipeline Design Becomes Part of the Construction Plan
For stationary pumping, contractors should establish the pipeline route before major pours begin. Vertical sections, horizontal runs, bends, pipe diameter, support points, and the final placing arrangement all influence pumping conditions. A poorly planned route can create unnecessary resistance and complicate maintenance, even when the pump itself has sufficient theoretical capacity.
Continuous Supply Must Match the Pumping Rate
Apartment concrete placement also depends on synchronization between concrete arrival and pumping. If the pump is ready but concrete supply is interrupted, the pour can lose continuity. Conversely, excessive delivery without sufficient placing capacity can create congestion around the discharge area. The concrete supply rate, pump output, crew size, and placement sequence should therefore be planned as a single operational cycle.
Coordinate Concrete Placement With the Overall Work Schedule
Equipment Positioning Should Protect Other Construction Activities
Concrete placement rarely occurs in isolation. Cranes, reinforcement crews, formwork teams, material deliveries, and workers may all require access to the same area. The pumping system should occupy as little critical circulation space as practical while leaving clear routes for essential construction activities.
Different Pours May Justify Different Pumping Solutions
There is no requirement for every apartment project to use one pumping method from foundation to roof. A boom pump may handle a large structural pour, a concrete mixer pump may suit smaller concrete works, a portable pump may address changing access conditions, and a stationary pump may support repeated vertical delivery as the building rises.
The central planning principle is straightforward: concrete placement should follow the project's physical constraints. By assessing access, elevation, pour volume, pipeline geometry, equipment footprint, and supply continuity at each construction stage, Philippine apartment contractors can establish a concrete delivery system that remains workable as the building changes from excavation to structure and eventually to upper-floor construction.
Decades of family life are embedded in that frame — meals shared, naps taken, conversations held. The wood remembers what the fabric cannot.
Nobody prepares you for the emotional weight of dead people's furniture.
It shows up in a moving truck or sits waiting after the estate is settled. A large, well-built sofa in a pattern that doesn't belong in your home. You didn't pick it. You can't return it. Throwing it away makes you feel like a terrible person.
So you keep it. You rearrange your living room around a piece you never wanted. You cover it with blankets that slide off every time someone sits down.
The guilt is understandable, but it's solving the wrong problem. What you actually need is a way to make the sofa yours without erasing why it matters.
Look Past the Surface
Most people evaluate furniture based on appearance. With inherited pieces, that's a mistake.
The upholstery — the foam, fabric, batting, and cushion inserts — is what ages visibly. It sags, fades, pills, and goes stiff. But underneath all of that sits a frame that was likely built to outlast several rounds of fabric.
Furniture produced thirty or forty years ago used solid hardwood, proper joinery, and real spring systems. Mass-produced modern equivalents often substitute engineered board and staples. The older construction philosophy prioritized longevity over manufacturing speed.
Before you make any decisions, give the frame a physical test. Push the arms and press the back. Lift one corner and see how much the opposite leg stays grounded. A sturdy frame with minor wear is worth saving.
A well-built skeleton is genuinely difficult to source today at moderate price points. Keeping what you already have sidesteps that search entirely.
Understanding the Process
This work is structural, not decorative. That distinction matters when setting expectations.
The piece gets stripped completely. Every layer of fabric, every piece of batting, every cushion comes off until only bare wood remains. A technician inspects every joint and re-glues or re-secures anything loose. Springs get re-tied and webbing gets replaced where it has stretched or torn.
From there, new foam fills the cushions, fresh batting wraps the frame, and hand-fitted fabric covers the whole structure. Sofa reupholstery follows a strict sequence because each step supports the next. Rushing produces visible flaws within weeks.
The timeline reflects the labor involved. A complete project typically takes several weeks in a busy workshop. That duration is normal, not a sign of inefficiency.
You're essentially getting two outcomes at once: mechanical restoration below the surface and a visual transformation above it. Both contribute to how the piece feels when you sit down every evening.
Fabric Changes Everything
If the frame is the skeleton, the fabric is the face. It's what you and everyone else sees first.
Choosing it wisely is the single most impactful decision in this entire process. A dark, heavy tapestry replaced with soft dove-gray cotton turns a formal relic into an everyday favorite. Same frame, opposite impression.
Three areas deserve your attention before you commit to any material.
Durability under pressure. Homes with pets, children, or heavy daily use need textiles that resist abrasion. Look at double rub counts — a metric the industry uses to measure wear resistance. Numbers above 25,000 to 30,000 serve well in active households.
Color in your actual space. Swatches behave differently under store fluorescents than beside your own windows. Tape samples to the piece and check them morning and evening. Texture matters as well, since you'll feel it every time you sit down.
Scale of any pattern. A plaid or stripe that looks restrained on a small sample can dominate a full-length sofa. Ask the craftsperson how the pattern will align at seams and cushion breaks. Proper matching takes skill and will influence the estimate.
Experienced professionals offering sofa reupholstery guidance can prevent costly mistakes at this stage. They know which textiles endure and which fail under real household conditions. Listening to them early saves money and frustration later.
One financial reality worth noting: good fabric is expensive. A three-seat sofa can require fifteen to eighteen yards or more. Set a per-yard ceiling before you begin browsing, or the total will escalate beyond your plan.
Design Tweaks You Can Make Along the Way
A stripped frame offers room for adjustments that go well beyond fabric selection. Small revisions can shift the entire visual direction.
Removing a skirt and exposing the legs gives the piece an airier feel. Replacing short, blocky legs with tapered ones changes the silhouette dramatically. Swapping three separate seat cushions for a single bench cushion introduces a modern edge.
Piping, nailhead trim, and tufted buttons can all be added or removed during the rebuild. Professional sofa upholstery services handle these modifications as a routine part of the process. None require altering the frame's core structure.
Think of each change as a conversation between your taste and the furniture's history. You're not erasing the past — you're translating it into a language that fits your home. The result is a piece that feels curated rather than inherited.
What Drives the Cost
People want a simple answer to the price question. The honest answer is that it varies.
Labor is the dominant expense. A standard sofa demands twenty to forty hours of skilled handwork. Quotations from sofa upholstery services generally break down into three categories: labor hours, fabric yardage, and any structural or cushion repairs.
The investment makes strong sense when the frame is solidly built and perfectly scaled for your room. It also makes sense when the piece holds sentimental value — which inherited furniture almost always does.
The case weakens when the original construction was cheap or the frame shows serious damage. If the total approaches the cost of a high-quality new sofa, the comparison deserves honest scrutiny. Always request at least two or three quotes, since regional pricing can differ significantly.
A trustworthy professional will tell you plainly when a project is not worth pursuing. That kind of honesty is the most reliable indicator of a shop worth trusting.
Selecting the Right Workshop
The craftsperson you choose determines the outcome as much as any material decision you make.
Referrals remain the most dependable way to find quality shops. Ask friends who have had furniture reworked. Speak with local designers or visit a fabric store and ask which upholsterers customers trust most.
During your search, request photographs of completed work — especially pieces with similar shapes or styles. Confirm the shop handles frame repair and foam replacement rather than simply stretching new fabric over old padding. A detailed written estimate should list labor, materials, yardage, pickup, and delivery.
Workshops that provide fabric yardage numbers demonstrate transparency and allow you to source material independently. Shops that ask about sunlight, pets, and daily habits are thinking about how the piece will age. Both qualities signal professionalism worth prioritizing.
Expect a meaningful wait. Well-regarded workshops carry full schedules because careful work resists compression. If someone can begin immediately, it is worth asking why their calendar is empty.
What Stays and What Changes
Decades of family life are embedded in that frame — meals shared, naps taken, conversations held. The wood remembers what the fabric cannot.
You chose new colors, new textures, and new details. The object your family loved remains in active use. It belongs to your daily life now, not just your conscience.
Someday someone will inherit it again and face the same choice. They'll keep what matters and change what doesn't. That cycle is the entire point.
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Iran has something the DPRK does not, though, Hormuz. It's essentially an economic nuke, though obviously it isn't as effective at preventing attack, it seems very effective at flipping the tides without inviting an actual nuke on them in retaliation like MAD doctrine would result in.
It's sort of one-time-use though. Now that it's been used, the gulf states are building pipelines to bypass the gulf and vulnerable countries are taking the opportunity to decarbonize. If the straight opened tomorrow, these countries would continue those efforts to reduce their strategic vulnerability. It won't be as strong of a deterrent the second time around.
Also, a nuke is supposed to deter aggression. It didn't do that.
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Just Stop Oil's first protests were directly shutting down oil terminals, then oil companies bought private laws to stop that so they moved on to other, at the time legal, methods such as "slow marching". These were then also made illegal. Also the sunflowers painting was covered in glass.
I'm still on the fence about Just Stop Oil. They "shut down" oil terminals for the span of a single Friday morning, but the blow back led to laws that are still on the book today.
Their operations seemed purposely created to create as much outrage as possible without actually effectively damaging the oil industry in any measurable way.
It doesn't help that they were funded by a fucking Getty oil heiress. So it's hard for me to determine if it was actually a false flag operation or just the good intentions of a incompetent billionaire.
the blow back led to laws that are still on the book today.
Effectively, those laws were already in place. If the first time a tactic is used against powerful people, it is outlawed, it was never actually allowed. The laws getting passed at least shows people how the law is being used to benefit the rich and powerful. The previous unspoken rule gave the people in power plausible deniability. I'm not some huge fan of Just Stop Oil but the edges of the laws should always be probed by activists, imo.
In den letzten Wochen war digitale Gewalt in der öffentlichen Diskussion so präsent wie selten zuvor. Was von den hektischen Bemühungen der Bundesregierung zu halten ist und was tatsächlich helfen würde, erläutert Anne Roth.
Bereits im September 2023 war Anne bei uns zu Gast beim netzpolitischen Themenabend zur digitalen Gewalt: digitalegesellschaft.de/2023/0…
Cold-chain close is a probe tip log, not a hand on the door. Seventeen probe tips get a written line before the cooler seals. Miss a line and the night lead keeps the radio.
The log hangs on a clip inside the cooler vestibule. Header lists T1 through T17. Those codes match the physical probe slots on the rack, not wishful nicknames. If a slot is retired, reprint the header the same day.
Walk the tips in order
Start at T1 with a dry pen and a charged light. Read the display once. Confirm the tip is seated, the cable is undamaged, and the reading is in range. Write three short marks. Move. Do not rewrite essays at T1 while T17 waits behind a pallet.
Each line needs: tip seated (yes/no), cable intact (yes/no), reading in range (yes/no). Add one extra word for trouble — drift, fray, open — then keep walking. Full incident detail goes on the red cold-chain pad, not on this log.
Radio “probe log complete” only after T17. Then seal the cooler. Sixteen lines with a blank seventeenth is a failed log. The far rack loves hiding an open tip.
Empty slots still get a line. Write EMPTY plus the code. Erasing a row because “that product never ships tonight” is how blind corners return. Tagged-out probes get OOS plus the work-order number.
Cost of a blank probe line
Blank is not later. Blank is an unread tip. Morning then finds a drifted reading, a frayed cable, or an open connector, and the day crew debates who left the mess. The log ends that debate.
A missing T11 once delayed an outbound chilled load. A missing T4 once hid a tip left hanging in air. Both needed one honest line, not a meeting.
When the problem is real, the log still helps. You can show which tips were checked and which were not. That narrows the window instead of blaming the whole cooler.
Where this log sits with the other night boards
This cold-chain probe log is separate from the extinguisher tag board, the shrink-wrap seal card, and the pallet jack check. Same discipline, different surface: write before you claim sealed.
When quality wants a week of cooler photos as one clean PDF for review, we merge the phone shots in tip order instead of dumping a chat thread. A quick merge on pdfmergefiles.com keeps T1–T17 readable. Put the date and “T1-T17” in the filename so nobody hunts a chat scroll.
Keep the physical logs thirty days even after you photo them. Auditors like a dated paper trail more than a gallery.
Failure modes we keep killing
Yesterday’s log left on the clip. Skipping far tips in a hurry. Phone photos instead of written marks. Clipboard left on a forklift seat. Each one seals the cooler while a tip stays unread.
Fix stays dull: clipboard on the vestibule hook, today’s date stamp, T1→T17 in order, radio only after T17.
Another quiet failure is rewriting marks after the radio call. If you need a second look, walk again before you claim complete. Do not invent a cleaner page at the desk.
Teaching the next night lead
Night one: they write, you watch. Night two: they walk alone, you check the log before seal. Night three: they own the radio call. Seal authority waits until that sequence holds.
Neat identical “yes” marks copied from memory fail harder than messy honest ones. Send them back out. Have them point at each tip while reading the line aloud.
If they say seventeen is too many, recount the slots together. Fewer slots means a new header the same day. Seventeen slots means seventeen lines.
Morning handoff
Day shift reads seventeen lines before the first chilled pick. No standup required. “Drift” means start there. Clean log still gets a glance at T17.
Binder archive for thirty days. Photo if the binder is full. Merge photos when quality asks for a week. Always merge in T1 order.
Scope we refuse
No cooler Wi-Fi tablets that die in the cold. No QR scavenger hunts on wet floors. No thirty-page probe SOP at 23:50. Seventeen tips, three fields, one radio call.
Permanent slot removal means reprint the header the same day. Invented T18 gets stopped. Scope creep kills the log faster than laziness.
Last soft check
Say T1 through T17 aloud. A skipped code means skipped feet. Then seal.
Safer seals come from seventeen written tip lines, not from hoping the cooler felt cold. Fill the log, then seal.
I wonder if lepton will solve the Minecraft problem. Waydroid was broken by some recent drm changes which are unlikely to be reverted although mcplauncher still seems to work although it's been awhile since I tested on my SteamDeck.
I think right now the main focus is actually running Oculus/Meta Quest native games on the Steam Frame - the Quest headsets run Android and the games are actually APKs. No GAPPs involved
I'm sure I everything will be working about as soon as the community gets ahold of it though
I think devs will have to ship a build that does not have the extra DRM and whatnot that is required to run on Oculus devices. The beauty of Lepton is just that developers won't have to rewrite their game for a new architecture or anything. All they have to do (hypothetically) is export a new build of their project without the "include Oculus DRM" button checked. From what I understand, it's not the exact same situation as Proton, just similar in many regards.
The problem with running quest games outside of quest is actually that meta has a specialized vr version of android, that even people haven't figured out how to get their apps running on the pico (bytedance) android headsets. This is pretty crazy considering how easy it is to pirate on quest
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I actually just discovered Waydroid this past weekend and it's been a godsend. I don't play any android games though, just use it for utility stuff that refuses to run on my physical phone.
I'm super curious to what tools you would use? Other than games off course, I wanted to find a reason to finally get around and install Waydroid. But I just don't find a reason to, please help. 😁
I would assume something like Fortnite, PUBG and Call of Duty games as an example. I'm curious to use cases outside of (obvious) games. Is there any situation that is not possible to do on a Linux desktop, that requires to use Android or iOS app? Like banking, is there any bank that only offers a mobile app and nothing else? That's the issue I have right now, finding a real use case where I have to use it (obviously there is none for me personally, so finding it wouldn't make it a requirement for me).
What components do you mean in example? Game got a "Playable" rating on Steam and the user reports sits at "Gold" on protondb.com/app/3092660 , with lot of them using Proton GE or its even flawless (according to them). Did you try Proton GE as an alternative to Steam Proton?
Oh, its probably Proton then. There are or were number of games on Proton that were not playable because the videos didn't work. It's some sort of video driver issue or so. Depending on when you tried it, they might already updated it. There were number of fixes in recent months about video related issues.
If not a new normal Valve Proton version fix is, maybe the great alternative Proton GE could. In case if you find yourself trying it out again.
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Great. Note looks like you are not familiar with GE? The installation is simple, just download the archive and unpack it under .local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d (or where your Steam is installed), so that you get something like .local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton11-6-x86_64. Just unpacking the archive basically installs it. Restarting Steam is enough. There are tools that manage these custom Proton versions. I leave you a few relevant links:
It has additional fixes to Proton and is often more up to date. Some launchers such as Heroic Launcher I think integrate it too, so its usable outside Steam. I linked a gui tool to manage that, but you don't need a manager if you simply download and unpack the archive yourself.
Edit: And no I am not an Ai, lol I just noticed my reply sounded a bit robotic.
There is no universal winner here. It depends on the room, the budget, and how long you need the floor to last. If durability is the priority, or the tile is going somewhere tough, porcelain wins. It costs more upfront but rarely needs replacing.
Ceramic vs. Porcelain Large Format Tiles: Durability, Cost and Best Uses
Walk through any tile retailer today and the change is unmistakable. Compact squares that once filled every wall display are increasingly hard to find. Large format tiles have claimed that space, and the shift makes sense.
Fewer grout lines. A cleaner look. Rooms that feel bigger and more seamless. What is not to like?
But once you start comparing options, you run into a decision that trips up a lot of homeowners: ceramic or porcelain? They look similar on a shelf. They are often displayed side by side. And the price difference can be confusing, sometimes significant, sometimes barely noticeable.
First, What Is the Actual Difference?
Both ceramic and porcelain tiles are made from clay and fired in a kiln. That is where the family resemblance ends. Porcelain is made from a finer, denser clay. It is fired at higher temperatures, usually around 1,200°C or more. The result is a harder, denser, less porous tile.
Standard ceramic is made from a coarser clay, often red or brown in color underneath the glaze, and fired at lower temperatures. It is softer and more porous, though the glaze on top gives it its color and protection.
In plain terms: porcelain is the tougher cousin. Ceramic is the cheaper, lighter, easier-to-cut one. Both have their place.
Durability: Where Porcelain Pulls Ahead
Let us start with the category porcelain wins outright.
Porcelain's density makes it resistant to just about everything. Water, stains, scratches, heavy foot traffic, freeze-thaw cycles outdoors. Its water absorption rate is under 0.5%, which is why it is rated for outdoor use in cold climates. Water gets in, freezes, expands, and porcelain shrugs it off.
Ceramic absorbs more water. Not a huge amount, but enough that it is generally not recommended for outdoor use in places where winters get cold. Indoors, though? It holds up fine in most rooms.
Now, here is where large format tiles complicate the picture a bit.
Large tiles, anything bigger than roughly 15x15 inches, with some now measuring five feet or more, are more demanding than standard tiles. They flex less across their span, which means the surface underneath has to be flat. Really flat. They are also heavier and harder to handle during installation.
Ceramic's softer body is actually a small advantage here if you are a DIYer. It scores and snaps with a basic cutter. Porcelain, especially in large sizes, often needs a quality wet saw and a diamond blade. Some installers charge more for porcelain for exactly this reason.
But once installed, porcelain large format tiles are hard to beat. They handle high-traffic areas, commercial floors, and busy households without complaint. If you are tiling an entryway, a kitchen floor, or a commercial space, porcelain is usually the safer call. Ceramic large format tiles work well on walls, in light-traffic bathrooms, and in rooms where the floor does not take a beating. Just know its limits.
Cost: More Complicated Than You Would Think
Here is where people get surprised. Yes, porcelain generally costs more than ceramic per square foot. Ballpark figures:
Ceramic tile: $1–$8 per square foot for material
Porcelain tile: $3–$15+ per square foot for material
But the gap has narrowed a lot. Mass-produced porcelain from major manufacturers is often priced close to mid-range ceramic. Meanwhile, handcrafted or imported ceramic can cost more than basic porcelain. The label alone does not tell you the price anymore.
The real cost difference often shows up in installation, especially with large format tiles.
Large tiles need more prep. The subfloor has to be flat within tight tolerances, or you will get lippage, where one tile edge sits higher than its neighbor. That means more self-leveling compound, more thinset, and more labor time. Installers may also charge extra for porcelain because it is harder and slower to cut.
So a realistic budget comparison for a 200-square-foot room might look like this:
Ceramic large format: cheaper material, cheaper cuts, but check the durability needs of the space
Porcelain large format: higher material and labor cost, but often a longer lifespan and less maintenance over time
If you are only staying in a home a few years, ceramic might be all you need. If this is your forever house or a rental property, porcelain's lifespan usually justifies the extra cost.
One more thing worth mentioning: visit a ceramic tile shop in person if you can. Online photos hide a lot. Tile color, texture, and finish look different under showroom lighting than on a screen, and seeing full-size slabs side by side makes the ceramic-versus-porcelain decision much easier. Staff at a good shop can also tell you what is in stock locally, which matters more than people expect when you need three extra boxes mid-project.
Where Each One Shines
Let us make this practical. Here is where each material makes sense.
Choose porcelain large format tiles for:
Kitchen floors. Heavy traffic, dropped pans, spills. Porcelain takes it all.
Entryways and mudrooms. Dirt, grit, and wet boots are no match.
Outdoor patios and walkways. The low water absorption rating is essential if you get freezing winters.
Commercial spaces. Restaurants, retail, offices — anywhere the floor needs to survive constant use.
Shower floors and wet areas. Less absorption means fewer problems long-term, though slip resistance matters more here. Look for textured finishes.
Fireplace surrounds and countertops. Porcelain handles heat well.
Choose ceramic large format tiles for:
Bathroom and accent walls. Large tiles on walls look fantastic, and walls do not take abuse. Ceramic's weight advantage helps here too.
Kitchen backsplashes. Easier to cut around outlets and windows.
Light-traffic bathrooms. A guest bath or powder room floor does not need porcelain-level durability.
Budget-conscious renovations. If you want the large format look without the price tag, ceramic delivers it.
DIY projects. If you are installing it yourself, ceramic is far more forgiving to work with.
A Few Things That Apply to Both
Whichever material you pick, large format tiles come with shared realities:
Your subfloor matters more than your tile choice. A slightly uneven floor that is invisible under small tiles becomes obvious under 24x48-inch ones. Budget for leveling compound.
Grout lines will be minimal, so what is left counts. Even two grout lines across a big tile surface stand out. Take time picking a grout color that works.
Rectified edges are worth it. Rectified tiles are cut to exact dimensions after firing, allowing tighter grout joints and a cleaner overall look. Most large format tiles are rectified, but double-check.
Buy 10–15% extra. Breakage happens. Dye lots vary. Running short mid-project is a headache nobody wants.
The Bottom Line
There is no universal winner here. It depends on the room, the budget, and how long you need the floor to last. If durability is the priority, or the tile is going somewhere tough, porcelain wins. It costs more upfront but rarely needs replacing.
If cost is the priority, or the tile is going on a wall or in a low-traffic spot, ceramic does the job nicely. Modern ceramic looks great and saves real money.
And if you are still torn, do what the pros do: pick your top two or three options, get samples, and live with them for a few days. Lay them in the actual room. Look at them in morning light and evening light. Tile is a long-term decision. A little patience before you buy beats regret after installation.
The best tile is not the most expensive one or the trendiest one. It is the one that fits the space, the budget, and the way you actually live.
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Everyone was fixated on 9-11 this past weekend. Hardly anyone knows that only 45 days later, our benevolent overlords passed the Patriot Act. Let’s do a little digging on that, shall we?
linux isnt immune to viruses even though its not as bad as windows
what should i do to be safe if i have a safe browser, vm, but pirate and download risky things? i know its a vm but i still dont want to have to delete everything in the vm if something happens. also the malware doesnt go to the router and spread rigt????
And if you pegleg some games, there's an ice cream-loving wrestler (or maybe some folk that just borrowed the id) that tend to bubble wrap their warez.
If it says no network access, my Wireshark says no network is being accessed. That's all the confirmation I got.
Flatpak is missing even rudimentary sandbox features. Apps that don’t have an easy sandbox escape are rare. And this is all useless when it’s the app developer who decides the app permissions because most users won’t tinker with every Flatpak they install.
Flatpaks are NOT any more secure than system packages, and their “sandboxing” should not be trusted to accomplish anything.
OP is the kind of user who used Tails on his own computer to log into his Gmail account. He has grammar issues and thinks Linux is this hacker OS that makes you anonymous and impossible to hack
Let’s be real, do you think this is the best thing for OP who is presumably a child?
i mean if op is a legit kid, i'd rather lead them to the world of linux than windows. at least that's what worked nicely for me
and please don't accuse people of grammar issues unless it's very obvious they're trolling. english is not everyone's first language. i'm also not a native speaker and struggle writing basic shits quite occasionally
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Mirror, keep a clean copy of your setup offline. Make periodic backups. If you ever get into an unpleasant state, nuke it and go back to one you like better.
To study I need to used at least 2 pdf files at the same time in windowed mode (so I see file A to the left and file B to the right, or file A on top and file B on bottom). I cannot do that with fossify file manager.
No, not at the current moment. Hypothetically someone could set up an array of anonymous Youtube accounts to use explicitly for authentication challenges similar to how Aurora handles Google Play Store downloads, but currently that service doesn't exist for Youtube.
You would need to find an anonymous google account, or create a burner.
these were dirt cheap on the darkweb circa 2014 and i hope that they still are
I don't know how, but I'm sure Ai found a way to increase those prices too. lowkey joking here, but I'm actually scared by the idea this could be true. Edit: I mean so that Ai tools can access those videos as cheap as possible.
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I remember using some "YouTube video downloader" website (the kind we all used before learning about yt-dl) to download an age-restricted video recently. I had tried several of those kind of sites, and most failed. But one site in particular did allow me to successfully download the age-restricted video that I wanted. Unfortunately, I do not remember the exact website that I had used. And honestly, with what I understand about how volatile these YouTube downloader websites are, I wouldn't be surprised if that exact site doesn't even exist by now anyway.
All that to say: try a bunch of YouTube downloader sites. That is unfortunately your best bet at this point. You just have to hope to find one that works with age-restricted videos.
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I was reading through this and forgot I actually was able to download an age restricted YT video about a month ago.
Ill repeat the comment here, in that I used a website called Bilibili with a browser extension called Cat Catcher. It took some fiddling but I was able to not only watch the video on bilibili, but download it with Cat Catcher.
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Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to uutils' coreutils; the Rust reimplementation Canonical has been feeding into the distro since 2025.
They had been held back from 26.04 LTS over flaws in the uutils versions. Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier releases.
This change, while big, sits hidden away in an obscure mention in Canonical's work-in-progress release notes for Ubuntu 26.10.
It's been a long road
Canonical started oxidising Ubuntu last year, and Ubuntu 25.10 became the first release to ship coreutils as the default. That release also made sudo-rs the default privilege tool, replacing a command that had been in place for decades.
26.04 was the release where the plan did slow down quite a bit, as Canonical kept cp, mv, and rm on their GNU versions due to a bunch of TOCTOU issues that were blocking the full implementation.
These were caught during an audit, when Canonical commissioned Zellic for two rounds between December 2025 and March 2026, focusing on the most security-sensitive utilities first.
Across both rounds, Zellic raised 113 issues, and 44 of them were assigned CVEs. Canonical says the vast majority have been resolved.
Getting here has had its ups and downs, and the last stretch was not clean. In July, uutils cp went back into the archive and came straight out again after it broke live image builds.
The fix was quick; as the developers marked it "Critical," the fix went upstream, and the migration landed in time for 26.10. What changes for you?
When typing commands, nothing changes for you on the surface. uutils coreutils is designed to be a drop-in replacement for essential GNU tools, and the project treats any divergence from GNU as a bug, further pointing out that some options may still be missing or behave differently.
So if you prefer staying on the GNU version, you have the option to install the coreutils-from-gnu package that houses all the required components.
The next stage
Coreutils is one piece of a broader campaign. Earlier this year, Canonical became a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, pitching in €40,000 a year to fund memory-safe system software.
Under this, their current target is ntpd-rs, a Rust rewrite of the tools Ubuntu uses to keep its clock in sync. While work is still ongoing, it has already arrived for testing.
Its transition to being default is targeted for Ubuntu 27.04.
What Canonical is gradually building up towards is the completion of their oxidation vision for Ubuntu, and it's not about blindly including new components. Rather, it looks like a measured approach that's being worked out a few steps at a time.
Because Canonicals real goal is to move Ubuntu entirely to corporate friendly licensing under the pretense of migrating to rust. Obviously they leave the original untouched, it’s a matter of adoption. Without the oxidization argument nobody would have gone along with Ubuntu just deciding to do a clean room implementation of gnu tools in corporate friendly licensing, by making it about oxidation they are able to manipulate a large portion of the rust community into contributing/supporting their license laundering.
It's not even Ubuntu doing the new implementation. And no, having a new project that is compatible to an existing one does not make it a license laundering. The word "license laundering" doesn't even make sense.
Uh call it whatever you want but canonical pouring money and resources into development of corporate friendly licensed clones to existing tools so they can avoid copyleft restrictions in the future is not good. I never understand when people feel the need to defend corporations obviously harmful behavior.
This is not about defending corporations. It doesn't matter who does that, I don't think writing new tools with a different license is bad. My opinion has nothing to do about who does that, if communities, or corporations. I think having tools in a different language than C, especially something like Rust, is a good thing. Anyone who writes Rust code can read, adapt and make changes to it.
And for licensing, GPL can be problematic in some cases that is not compatible with every license. Therefore having an alternative in MIT license is a good thing. Even if it ends up being in a proprietary program, its still better than not able to use the code. The old GPL code is still maintained independently.
I actually an agree an independent rust project would be really cool. If it was also GPL. I have yet to encounter any argument against GPL that doesn’t boil down to corpo boot licking.
You say “Even if it ends up being in a proprietary program, it’s better than not being able to use the code”. This is a bad faith argument. Everyone can use GPL code freely, the restriction is only that you must also publish under GPL if you publish. I’m sorry your favorite corporation can’t profit off community projects without giving back to that community… not. If GPL was a real problem BSD would have overtaken Linux ages ago. But it didn’t because GPL is good not just for the community but for the project. The only people that don’t stand to gain from GPL are corporations that want to monopolize the technology.
One example is that GPL games cannot be published in Steam, with using Steams proprietary tools and features.
And in general I am not actually against for any company to use MIT licensed products without open sourcing their own proprietary tools. It would be nice if they open sourced it, but I am against in forcing companies to do so. Now I understand the risks involved here, but its not like MIT license is the devil, just like GPL can be problematic in some cases, MIT can too.
Corporations are by their nature entities with priorities that are not aligned to the good of society. It is natural and obvious that we do everything in our power to compel them to do the best thing for society rather than the best thing for them.
Also while valve tends to be a pretty fair company they don’t need to be proprietary. Their product is selling game licenses and server space for cloud sync, none of that requires a closed source client. So while valve may be my favorite corpo they don’t get a pass from my previous statement about not being sympathetic to wanting to profit of community projects without giving back.
The exact problem you point out is in my view a feature not a bug because it means there is an economic advantage to someone doing what steam does but open source. Which is exactly the sort of incentive that helps capitalism help people.
MIT does not prevent from contributing back. Also GPL does not ensure it is contributing back. Besides thiefs and Ai companies, anyone can use GPL privately, modify the code and do whatever they want without contributing back, if not published openly.
Can you name me MIT licensed projects where it is a problem like you describe?
Xorg had several proprietary clones, and their software authors described how they chose MIT specifically to spite Richard Stallman who annoyed them, but with the benefit of hindsight they conceded that he had been right about the licenses. I saw this in a talk on YouTube somewhere.
If you are right, they started from the wrong place. I am pretty sure that in a corporate environment there are thing more important to be "corporate friendly" than the coreutils.
I don't understand why Canonical is replacing the existing GNU tools. Unlike many others, I don't think its "taking over GPL projects" or "license laundering" and I am also not against MIT license. My question is, why Canonical is doing this.
Im not sure as well. A lot of popular stuff is on MIT. But if I were to guess, its one of the most permissive licenses, which is somewhat a bad thing when companies suction up solutions with AI and spit them out without attributing the coder involved.
haha. Welp it only becomes an issue if your software doesn't get audited. I worked in medical and government so it might be a different world where your at. We literally cant use certain software given licenses and such. It can get a bit loony.
AI has tells they built in nowadays. If you use the newer models at least. But in addition...its pretty easy to just find the code in codebases if you end up in an audit.
Im not defending it, just saying that MIT is one of those that you can get away with a lot more than other licenses. And that might be an issue to some.
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I can't speak for medical field... but a more serious topic, in example videogames. 😁
I think sometimes GPL can be in the way, so it is a tradeoff. In example if you use proprietary Steam features in your game, then you cannot build the game with GPL libraries and code, because that is not compatible with proprietary code. For some that is exactly what the GPL is set to do, for others its hindering games and other software to be released on Steam with Steam features. That means, its impossible to sell GPL software on Steam, if you want to use any of those features (I think in example Achievements and online save files in example). MIT would solve this issue.
Ill be honest, I know of GPL but I know theres like 5 different versions of the GPL. Like AGPL is the most restrictive and has held up in court before because someone forked a project then stripped out everything, sold it again. And was deemed liable.
MIT could potentially solve it...or make it even more messy. Ill believe you on videogames.
If I were to guess, its probably moot in all cases unless it goes to court (or like my orgs not let you use software) and gets defended one way or another.
Do you know about the LGPL license? I think it allows you to statically link proprietary code, and the LGPL code remains open while the closed code remains closed. Modified and distributed lgpl still remain under the LGPL.
Yes, but does anyone actually use LGPL still? Anyway that is a different license and not really GPL anymore, as it does not force anything. I mean if the project is GPL licensed already, then you can't turn it into LPGL, because that is no longer compatible. So the issue for programs and games being GPL remains. If they were LGPL from the start, yes, that probably would solve it.
You could understand if you used a materialist analysis.
Canonical sells products and support to corporations. The gpl is a problem for corporations because it requires that they contribute their changes back into the commons, creating additional overhead in many ways.
Canonical is funding, prioritizing and providing support for a rewrite of a gpl project in a different language with a more permissive license.
Put two and two together. Canonical is bankrolling and pushing something that materially benefits them.
But from all the things why core-utils? I don't think it is common to need changes in core-utils. Now with this MIT version it may certainly be needed, because of broken compatibility. So it feels like instead of doing nothing (because they work as is) and using GNU core-utils they switch to MIT core-utils that are slightly incompatible and because of that need work. I would assume that it will certainly provide patches for MIT core-utils, but I am sure it will just make another platform target for scripts like macOS. Some GPL projects will change their scripts to make them work with Ubuntu.
Its not 1-1 so this is going to fry some bash scripts and install scripts. At work we had to stop using Ubuntu because of a couple of bad installs via this change. Debian is just as good so its fine.
I have no opinions on the rewrite, but I wish they made a flavor or something just for this.
Windows is now using uutils for their coreutils. I want to see if Microsoft gives back anything to the project with that permissive license. Also, aren't canonical and Microsoft partners or something? I saw the Ubuntu wsl news.
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Plastic pyrolysis is increasingly being considered as a way to recover value from waste plastics that are difficult to recycle through conventional mechanical processes. One of the main products is pyrolysis oil, which can potentially be used as an industrial fuel or further upgraded for higher-value applications. But an important question for investors and recycling companies is: What grade of fuel does plastic pyrolysis to fuel oil actually produce?
The answer depends on the feedstock, pyrolysis conditions, reactor design, and post-treatment process. In most cases, untreated plastic pyrolysis oil is considered an industrial fuel oil or intermediate fuel product, rather than a direct replacement for finished transportation fuels such as gasoline or diesel.
What Is Plastic Pyrolysis Oil?
During pyrolysis process plastic to fuel machine, waste plastics are heated in an oxygen-limited environment. Instead of burning the plastic, the process thermally decomposes long polymer chains into smaller hydrocarbon molecules.
The resulting vapors are cooled through a condensation system, producing liquid pyrolysis oil. Non-condensable gases can generally be recycled as process fuel, while solid residues and other impurities are separated from the main liquid product.
The composition of the oil is strongly influenced by the type of plastic being processed. Polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) can produce different hydrocarbon distributions and therefore different oil properties.
What Grade of Fuel Is Produced?
For many commercial projects, raw plastic pyrolysis oil is best described as an industrial-grade fuel oil rather than a finished road fuel.
Its properties can make it suitable for certain industrial heating applications, depending on local regulations, specifications, and the characteristics of the produced oil. Potential applications may include industrial boilers, furnaces, and other thermal equipment designed to use appropriate liquid fuels.
However, raw pyrolysis oil should not automatically be classified as standard diesel. Diesel for road transportation must meet specific fuel standards covering parameters such as sulfur content, flash point, density, viscosity, distillation characteristics, and other quality requirements.
Therefore, simply producing liquid oil from waste plastic does not mean that the product is automatically equivalent to commercial diesel.
Why Feedstock Determines Oil Quality
Feedstock selection is one of the most important factors affecting plastic pyrolysis oil quality.
PE and PP are commonly considered favorable feedstocks because they consist mainly of hydrocarbon polymers. Their pyrolysis products can contain significant quantities of hydrocarbon fractions suitable for fuel applications.
PS behaves differently because its structure favors the formation of aromatic compounds. This can influence the density, composition, and other properties of the resulting oil.
PVC presents a particular challenge because it contains chlorine. Thermal processing of PVC can generate hydrogen chloride and chlorine-containing compounds, creating corrosion and contamination concerns. For this reason, PVC content should be carefully controlled, and appropriate dechlorination and gas-treatment systems may be required.
Raw Oil vs. Upgraded Fuel
There is an important difference between raw pyrolysis oil and upgraded pyrolysis oil.
Raw oil may contain a broad range of hydrocarbons and impurities. Depending on the feedstock and process, additional treatment may be necessary before the oil can meet a specific commercial fuel specification.
Upgrading may include filtration, distillation, dechlorination, desulfurization, stabilization, or other refining steps. These processes can separate different boiling fractions and improve properties such as viscosity and volatility.
The appropriate treatment depends on the intended end use. An oil intended for industrial heating does not necessarily require the same specifications as a product intended for further refining or petrochemical applications.
Is Plastic Pyrolysis Oil the Same as Diesel?
No. This distinction is important when evaluating a plastic recycling project.
Although plastic pyrolysis oil can contain hydrocarbon fractions within ranges associated with conventional petroleum fuels, its overall composition and properties can differ significantly from commercial diesel. Meeting a diesel specification requires controlled refining and quality testing rather than simply collecting the condensed oil.
For this reason, project developers should define the target product before selecting a pyrolysis system. If the goal is industrial fuel, the process can be designed around the relevant industrial fuel requirements. If the goal is a higher-value hydrocarbon feedstock, additional upgrading and purification may be necessary.
How to Determine the Fuel Grade
Before investing in a plastic pyrolysis project, the oil should be evaluated through laboratory testing. Important parameters may include density, viscosity, flash point, distillation range, sulfur, chlorine, water, ash, and other relevant characteristics.
The test results can then be compared with the specifications required by the intended market and end-use equipment.
This approach is more reliable than assigning a fuel grade based solely on the appearance or yield of the oil.
Conclusion
Plastic pyrolysis to fuel oil generally produces an industrial-grade pyrolysis oil rather than automatically producing finished diesel or gasoline. Its quality depends heavily on feedstock composition, operating conditions, condensation efficiency, and downstream purification.
For waste plastic recycling projects, the most practical strategy is to define the desired end product first and then design the pyrolysis and upgrading system around the required specifications. With appropriate treatment and quality control, plastic pyrolysis oil can move beyond basic waste-derived fuel and potentially become a more valuable hydrocarbon resource for industrial or petrochemical applications.
The distinction between industrial fuel oil and transportation fuels is especially useful for understanding its practical applications. It also made me think about how different processes can produce very different results, much like the varied gameplay I experience in Basket Random
The metallurgical industry relies heavily on carbonaceous materials as reducing agents, carburizing materials, and process additives. Traditionally, these materials may include coke, coal, and other fossil-derived carbon sources. Biochar produced through controlled biomass pyrolysis offers another carbonaceous material for selected metallurgical applications, particularly where renewable carbon, controlled ash content, and specific physical properties are important.
How Pyrolysis Converts Biomass into Metallurgical Carbon
A biochar pyrolysis reactor thermally decomposes biomass under oxygen-limited conditions. Instead of allowing the feedstock to combust, controlled heating drives off volatile compounds and concentrates carbon in the remaining solid fraction.
Feedstock selection has a direct influence on the resulting biochar. Woody biomass, agricultural residues, nut shells, and other lignocellulosic materials can produce biochar with different fixed-carbon content, ash composition, porosity, and volatile-matter levels. These characteristics determine whether the material is suitable for a particular metallurgical process.
Process temperature is equally significant. Higher pyrolysis temperatures generally increase carbonization and reduce volatile matter, while also changing pore structure and mechanical characteristics. Consequently, biochar production should be designed around the specifications required by the downstream metallurgical application.
Biochar as a Renewable Reducing Agent
Many metallurgical processes require carbon to remove oxygen from metal oxides. Carbon reacts with oxygen-bearing compounds and contributes to the formation of reducing gases such as carbon monoxide.
Biochar can potentially serve as a renewable carbon source in selected reduction processes. Its relatively high reactivity can be advantageous because its porous structure provides substantial surface area for gas-solid reactions. However, its suitability depends on fixed-carbon content, ash chemistry, volatile matter, particle size, strength, and reaction conditions.
A metallurgical application therefore requires characterization rather than assuming that all biochar performs identically to conventional coke.
Carbon Additives for Process Control
Carbon additives are also used to adjust carbon concentration during metallurgical processing. Depending on the process, a carbonaceous additive may influence melt chemistry, reduction behavior, slag interactions, or final material composition.
Biochar can be processed into a specified particle size or further densified when the application requires improved handling characteristics. Pelletization or briquetting can increase bulk density and reduce the variability associated with loose biomass-derived carbon.
The final formulation should account for ash and mineral constituents. Alkali metals, silica, calcium, and other inorganic components naturally present in biomass can influence slag chemistry and furnace operation.
Reactor Design Influences Biochar Quality
The thermal uniformity of a biochar pyrolysis reactor is critical for producing consistent carbon properties. Uneven heating can result in different degrees of carbonization within the same production batch, creating variability in volatile matter and fixed-carbon content.
Industrial systems therefore require controlled feeding, temperature monitoring, residence-time management, and effective discharge cooling. Cooling is particularly important because freshly produced biochar can remain hot and may oxidize when suddenly exposed to air.
A well-integrated system can also utilize the combustible gas generated during pyrolysis as a process-energy source. This improves thermal integration and can reduce dependence on external fuel.
Matching Biochar Properties with Metallurgical Requirements
The appropriate biochar specification depends on the metallurgical process. Important parameters may include:
Fixed carbon: Determines the available carbon fraction.
Volatile matter: Influences reactivity and gas evolution.
Ash content: Affects slag chemistry and furnace balance.
Particle size: Determines feeding behavior and reaction kinetics.
Bulk density: Influences storage, transportation, and furnace charging.
Mechanical strength: Particularly important for applications involving material handling or packed beds.
Chemical composition: Helps identify potentially undesirable mineral constituents.
Laboratory testing and pilot-scale trials are therefore useful before large-scale substitution.
From Biomass Resource to Industrial Carbon Material
Biochar production can create a pathway for converting renewable biomass residues into engineered carbonaceous materials for industrial use. The opportunity is not simply to replace one carbon material with another, but to develop a feedstock-specific product with controlled chemical and physical properties.
For metallurgical applications, a biochar pyrolysis reactor provides the core conversion stage, while feedstock preparation, thermal control, gas utilization, cooling, sizing, and quality verification determine the consistency of the final material. When these parameters are aligned with furnace requirements, biomass-derived carbon can become a technically relevant reducing agent or carbon additive for selected metallurgical processes.
I've been using Asahi Linux (via the flagship Fedora Asahi Remix) for a few weeks now. It's been my everyday laptop and I'm really impressed with how it's held up. Battery life is amazing, and the ARM Linux experience is fine for everyday use.
This video walks through how I installed Fedora Asahi Remix in December 2025, the process might change in the future and if it does, I might revisit it here or in a blog- watch for pinned comments I guess!
Chapters: 0:00 What is Asahi Linux in the first place? 2:15 Installation caveats 3:27 Actually installing Asahi Linux on real hardware 7:34 About the experience 11:06 Asahi is awesome
so like ram, storage and like cpu in intel terms (basically the only one i could find and understand)
i will be using plasma bigscreen, running my jellyfin server, maybe play some steam games (decently light ones), maybe run a minecraft server, watch youtube, stream like netflix etc.
The requirements for a Minecraft server are pretty minimal if it's not modded and just for a couple players. If you're running a couple hundred mods, it will need a fast CPU and lots of RAM.
The system requirements are wildly different for the different things you’re asking. That means your computer can’t make compromises to be cheap.
Jellyfin and the piracy stack will want a potato with middling amounts of ram and a cheap discrete gpu from six years ago. And whatever storage you plan on using.
Minecraft will want ram and fast cpu.
Streaming will want a recent cpu with all the bells and whistles and a remote.
Playing games needs a okay gpu.
When you combine all that you need an okay gpu, a recent fast processor, a good amount of ram and the rest of the stuff to make it a computer. Plus your time. That’s approaching $800 now.
If you split it up you can do jellyfin, the arrs and Minecraft server on a ten year old gaming pc of yore that someone thinks they screwed you on when you pay them $100 for at a yard sale and hook your tv to a dedicated streaming set top box that can talk to your jellyfin for $100.
i already have a jellyfin server on my familys old ass laptop, but its kinda meh so i thought hosting it on this streaming box would be a good idea AND im always connected to the server (in my room where the box is of course). The minecraft server thingo isn't really needed and the same applies to the steam games
any recent-ish intel machine should do, i'd suggest around kaby lake or newer for the igpu's hw decoding capabilities. beware that netflix streaming may not work so well with linux and stuff because of shitty drm.
I've been streaming Netflix on Chrome on Ubuntu without trouble for years and years - maybe 10-12 years ago there was a bump in that road, but it has been smooth since.
that's great! i've personally never done it, but have heard people struggling with widevine binary blob from chromeos(?) and being stuck in low resolution, etc
Caveat - I've never subscribed to "super Netflix" with HD and all that - we display on 4K monitors, but the Netflix feed is their basic resolution - I don't know if there's any problems going up-market.
As of late, I install generic Chrome (yes, I believe free Chromium did - maybe still does - have issues), on generic Ubuntu or Debian + XFCE.
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Yeah, I used to enjoy it too. No more. And these apps are often not very good and are accompanied with obnoxiously frequent releases, sometimes multiple per day.
I wish fdroid had a "vibe coded" antifeature that we could filter out.
i actually find it pretty damn uncomfortable that there isn't even a single antifeature for AI-developed apps, there's no reason not to add it so the lack feels intentional.
I really really hope it's not going to turn out that the f-droid project is filled with clankers
okay just to start things of; I AM NOT AN ADVANCED USER, I WOULD SAY BOTTOM OF INTERMMEDIATE AT BEST!!!!
im planning on ditching my chromecast for a little mini pc with plasma bigscreen, so i'm just wondering what distro would be good for that. I'll also be hosting my jellyfin server, and maybe game too but idrk
I literally just finished doing this over the weekend. I went with fedora since I find it more stable and easier to use than the other distros plasma bigscreen works on. There have been a few bugs when using a controller but other than that it works great! I highly recommend it.
It's not a bad set up at all. There are some additional codecs you will want to get if you have an Nvidia GPU, but there are plenty of guides on that.
Bazzite is an atomic distro with a focus on gaming and based on fedora silverblue. I'm currently running it on my main gaming rig and it's very nice. It is more complete out of the box than fedora but installing something like bigscreen will probably be more difficult. Although, I bet it's possible. I haven't tried to figure it out though.
Unless you are just trying to use up hardware you already have laying around, do not do this. The experience is extremely suboptimal and much more expensive than just buying a better streaming box.
If you have not spent money yet there is still time to avoid this mistake.
Oh I agree, chromecasts and any android streaming box are a hard no. It’s just really important to recognize that replacing one with a mini pc is going to be much more expensive than just using a better streaming box.
So what IS a better streaming box if Chromecast and Android are out? IIRC Roku is enshittifying and Apple TV is great, but it's even more proprietary and locked down than an Android box. Shield is also Android I think?
I'll agree that it's a good device, but this being the Linux community, I suspect most people would prefer something running open source software.
Also apparently these days it's like 250€, 320€ with ethernet and extra storage. No longer feels like a good deal to me, I had one when it was ~170€ with ethernet.
The second gen ones are still incredibly cheap for what you get and will most likely have a long support window (they’re still pushing updates for the old hd models from nine years ago).
As far as being open source, I have done diy linux streaming or time shifting boxes for twenty years before switching to the appletv and the fact that it can connect up to a smb, ntfs or jellyfin is enough for me.
Just trying to save our illustrious op some money, time and heartache.
It's usually a worse streaming box.... WAY worse. Lol
I should know since I tried it twice. First w mythbuntu circa 2004 and again w Kodi over a decade later and they both sucked compared to the $20 Chromecast I got for Xmas. Lmao
Since Plasma bigscreen is part of KDE, you probably want to start with a KDE desktop environment. So just get Fedora Kinoite (performs "atomic updates" which are a little faster and more reliable) or Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop (traditional packages which maybe have a higher chance to break, a little more annoying to update I think).
To install plasma-bigscreen on Kinoite, you run rpm-ostree install plasma-bigscreen and then reboot the computer.
Check LibreElec, if it ticks all your boxes, it's probably the best (simplest) choice.
You can go much more general purpose, but if you don't need general purpose then all that general purpose capability amounts to (intentional or accidental) attack surface you don't need.
Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @thorry@feddit.org , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won’t have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn't have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate.
I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won't install in CSM mode... I've tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT... 😅 Boot partition with and without file system... 💀
I'll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance.
Night👋🔌
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Yeah get a simple but recent AMD card, older cards, especially nVidia are a nightmare. I had an old 980 TI which was a really good card still, but I couldn't use it anymore because everything kept breaking. So I got me a recent AMD card and it has been running perfectly.
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Yeah I have a RX 7600. It wasn't brand new, but lightly used, bought it off a friend who upgraded. Paid around $200 for it, so I think a pretty good deal with current pricing.
I think the one I have is 41mm, so that would be a tight fit. Can't you rearrange the cards a bit to make some room? With only 40mm that would be hard to fit in any modern card.
The MOBO's expansion card sockets are placed in such a way, that I'd have to get an ATX chassi to be absolutely sure. 🫠 Anyway, I'm trying out an ASUS GeForce GT 1030 silent tomorrow to start with.
So I ended up ordering a ASUS GeForce GT 1030 silent anyway, because I couldn't find any AMD GPUs that are less than or equal to 40 mm thick. I'm picking it up tomorrow and I'll test it immediately. If it doesn't work, I'll return it.
Oof, that's a terrible card. The GP108 chip is a rebatched mobile card Geforce MX 150, it's a pretty ancient chip at this point. There are no drivers for it, so you'll need to use older drivers or limited open source drivers. Unless you got it very very cheap that's not going to work very well for you. It's newer than a GT 220, but not by much.
The A series is pretty limited, I would go for a B series if you can find it. But keep in mind drivers for Intel on Windows are terrible and on Linux even worse. So that would not be a good time.
There's plenty of cards that would fit in 40mm, but your airflow would be pretty bad. Do you have a pic of the inside of your system? There has to be a way to make something more fit.
But most 6600, 7600 and 9060 cards should be able to fit in 40mm. And with AMD the drivers on Linux are very good.
Thanks for all the advice! I really appreciate it!
I just removed the GPU, which sat in the PCIe 4.0 slot - which I guess really doesn't matter, since capturing shouldn't rely on the GPU, right? (Perhaps when I encode with ffmpeg though... Even then, I don't mind letting it encode through the night.) The top and bottom cards are the capture cards.
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That's tight fit. If you really need the two capture cards then that's the room you've got to work with. If you can bring it down to just one card at the top that would be a lot better. I personally use a capture card that's connected using USB3, which works very well and doesn't require room inside the computer (even though I would have room).
Most videocards have two or three fans on the bottom these days, with such a tight fit one of the fans can easily collide with the capture card. And even when it doesn't it will have a hard time sucking in air from there. You can try and find a blower type card, but that would be a bit harder to find.
And you wouldn't happen to have a GPU inside the CPU? Because the iGPUs from AMD are very solid if you don't need much in terms of performance (easily faster than the 1030 you mentioned). Otherwise two capture cards and a GPU is a big ask in such a small case.
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Thanks! You just gave me two ideas: 1. I already have all the hardware I need: if I do as you say, and only work with one capture card at a time - namely, FireWire or VGA - I can simply swap them whenever I need to. Cards as small as these won't be to much of a hassle to swap, especially since the side of the case/chassi simply pops off/comes off with a click. I would then be able to use my 3080 and call it a day. And have huge processing power. 2. I could just buy an ATX chassi and put the 3080 at the bottom, thus fitting all the cards. 3. Bonus: I too have an HDMI to USB capture card, but that's for digital only. The whole reason that I bought the card at the top is because it takes digital and analog. Which sounded cool.
I think I'll try #1 before investing any more money at the moment. Again, thank you so much for taking your time! 🥰
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Ignore the other guy on this, I have an A770 in my gaming ring and a B60 in my server. The drivers are amazing on Linux, and much better than NVIDIA.
If all you need is encoding, then VAAPI just works. There are some other caveats with the Alchemist series, which is mostly it was made during the transition to xe, which means you either pick better encoding with i915 (default) or better gaming performance with xe. For your use case I'd leave it with the default i915, though there are encoding patches for xe if you must use the newer driver. Both drivers are mainlined and officially supported by Intel.
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I was going to say, Intel GPUs work great on Linux these days. For more modern Intel cards (if not all Intel GPUs), it's also part of the kernel, just like AMD cards. The savings in electricity is probably worth using a lower power card of you don't need it for gaming.
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That card probably also has an insanely old firmware too, but you ought to be able to set a 550 motherboard to bios mode instead of uefi and get past it.
Oh lol. I forgot that amd CPUs can be put in that situation too.
I usually use Debian and have had to use legacy (bios) booting with csm loaded on those boards before. so if you can tolerate an old man distribution, try legacy booting the Debian text mode net installer.
Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @thorry@feddit.org , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won’t have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
what exact issue are you having? i believe you can use GOPUpdate to integrate GOP(UEFI) support onto the GPU. though tbh it's probably easier to install grub in legacy mode. or use clover(hackintosh bootloader) to chainload uefi grub.
I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I shouldn't run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and not setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?
Yes, I did that for a while some years ago. It was fine. Good enough for using it in a training. And I lost interest in that setup early enough that the stick survives to this day.
I also thought about running from RAM but I guess the transcription might be needing the RAM too. So that route probably depends on how much RAM there is available
The gain is portability. I do this between repairing family machines. You can take your OS and near m.2 mobo speeds and get to work. Live USBs are needed sometimes but having what's yours when you need it exactly where you need it is what matters in times of getting shit done.
That's what I do. I upgraded the SSD in my Steam Deck to a 1tb (before the prices went nuts, thankfully) and then ended up with a spare 256gb drive. I put it in an enclosure and installed NixOS on it as a sort of second system. It doesn't really do anything super important, it's more a learning project to get comfortable with NixOS without interfering with my daily driver. I could have just as easily done it in a VM but what can I say, I'm a tinkerer lol
I guess an SD card might be better. RasPis work from those for years just fine. Just don't kill the power, power down nicely. SD cards are fragile on that
If you have the ram for it, you could set it so that on boot it copies everything to ram and then you basically get the best performance at the cost of a few gigs of ram. Though it probably isn't gonna be that much better than just an ssd.
The person who said it’ll be too slow and you’ll ruin your usb is right but also:
Your system supports a nvme and sata. Dumping raw to nvme then working with it there so it doesn’t take so long to page into ram will be significantly faster.
I'm still looking for a place to put the spinning drive though 😅 this micro-ATX chassi, while really practical in many other aspects, doesn't leave much room for HDDs. 🫠 I could just leave one "standing" on the bottom of the chassi if I don't have to secure it with screws 🤣
So work on dumping and encoding your raws on the internal nvme SSD and then save the finished stuff and project folders you’re not using on the magnetic drives.
That’ll give you the fastest paging. That’s a ddr4 board right? The old wisdom used to be that you’d get faster performance with only two sticks of ram but that’s from back when two 32gb sticks was the same price as four 16gb sticks. Don’t shy away from using all four slots.
You also have the option of network booting. Generally the PC gets an initial boot image over the network, then mounts an ISCSI disk for the OS to fully boot from.
This causes disk access to be a bit slow, but is useful for a Pi when you're tried of the SD card dying and don't have a M2 hat.
You can configure a lighter-weight setup (lxde, xfce, maybe mate, mint) so that it writes only if you do some writing. And also mount options to cache for a minute or so, for the smaller writes. But you better have some RAM then, for Firefox in memory/tmpfs. And compiling larger software will destroy your stick.
Also keep in mind, that thumbdrives are relatively cheap is, because it's flash memory is one step in quality before defetctive. Also no wear leveling.
That's a totally valid use case, I have done it in the past and there are Linux distributions that are made to be used this way. Those distributions usually work by loading the whole system into ram which avoid multiples writes to the USB stick. They also usually offer some persistence mechanism so that data can be added on the USB stick.
Examples of distribution meant to be used this way: MX Linux, Puppy Linux
The thing is USB sticks are much more unstable than an nvme or something, so you're more likely to lose your data. They can also be stolen way easier than an nvme or hard drive, but if you encrypt it w/ a strong password that shouldn't be an issue.
The concept here is that the USB carries the immutable OS image, you make as many copies of it as you need because it's a fixed image, boots the same every time, "your data" gets stored elsewhere.
Just mount /home and /var to an SSD, tempFS(If you dont care about your data), or network drive and this is a perfect purpose for USB booting.
Saves your hard drives from all the bootloader stuff, and should be faster than a spinning disk if the drive is 3.0.
Id even mount the USB as read only to ensure it isnt damaged, and use any ISO generator to manage updates from another device (Like create a new flash, shutdown this PC, plug in the new flash - bam update complete)
/home and /var are the main targets for persistent storage. Unfortunately, a LOT of applications color outside those lines, so you're into a bit of case-by-case for what else needs to go into persistent storage, depending on what you run and how you configure it.
Just a little update: effed by the archaic Geforce GT 220 somehow 😅
Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @[url=https://feddit.org/u/Thorry]Thorry[/url] , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won’t have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn't have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate.
I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won't install in CSM mode... I've tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT... 😅 Boot partition with and without file system... 💀
I'll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance.
I did that in 2011, and I regrtetted ittt sooo bad. The machines wereeee designed for long uptimes, and between broken flash and lost USB it was just a huge pain.
For 2 years I operate some server now with some nvme connected via usb3 and it works pretty well. But even there one USB/nvme bridge died on me. I'd conclude, that this kind of hardware is not made for this kind of job.
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[...] the Void Linux project does have a contributing policy over AI usage that reads:
"In this section, "AI" refers to generative artificial intelligence tools, including Large Language Models and similar technologies.
All contributions are expected to be made by humans. AI tools may be used for research and learning, but all content in contributions must originate from and be understood by the contributor. This includes code, documentation, issues, security reports, pull request descriptions, and comments in all Void Linux community spaces.
ALL usage of AI tools MUST be disclosed.
Do not bring AI review tools into pull requests.
Usage of AI-powered human-language translation tools is acceptable to facilitate contributions across language barriers."
i would rewrite the title as "Slopper tried to be a maintainer on void linux: abducted and orphaned 100 packages they maintained after being discovered and forced to comply"
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i would rewrite the title as “Slopper tried to be a maintainer on void linux: abducted and orphaned 100 packages they maintained after being discovered and forced to comply”
To say that, you would need proof that this was in bad faith, wouldn't you? I wrote this comment about polarization for a reason.
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i need proof of the already proben impact of AI and AI datacenters over territories in the country i live in?
No, proof about the maintainers intentions. Because you make a statement about them.
(And besides, making statements about other people's intentions is already stirring conflict, because normally only a person theirself knows what is happening in their mind and their heart, so stating what is happening inside somebody else is already a kind of transgression, a violation of boundaries. Which stirs empty conflict, whether you want that or not.)
I totally agree that there are very strong reasons to avoid LLM use ("AI"). Also fed up with the ham-fisted manners it is shoved in every place by companies, like github copilot. Also, all the BS in advertising it, with dishonest arguments. Also, its glaring links to authoritarianism. And I am extremely worried about the implications of "AI" as well.
And: Some people which take over this corporate ham-fistedness into personal behaviour might need to be informed about boundaries. This is good. We need to define and keep boundaries on that (such as the above policy of the Void Linux project).
But: you do not win this discussion by name-calling. Are you aware that the Linux community is also a target of trolling? Have you perhaps heard that polarizing topics (for example right now, gas prices, or migration) are absolutely used in a kind of information warfare to break communities and civil society? This topic is one of them.
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do we have to be burdened by western existential narratives vis a vis Orwellianism that don't scale? seemingly, yes! society seemingly doesn't scale gracefully ... though China looks better-adapted to present reality
The meme is more general than personal - I wouldn't count myself as an anarchist! I'm more of a democratic socialist.
But I, personally, would define anarchism as an extremely decentralized and de-institutionalized form of governance reliant on direct democracy and ad-hoc solutions for most major decision-making.
Trail camera footage of my new neighbor(s) taken in September 2026. With the help of Finnish Mastodon I named them Inari and Aarni (Virtanen). 😀
I post more everyday stuff of the wildgarden and the family Virtanen on my Mastodon account @magdalenahai@mstdn.social (but it's mostly in Finnish, sorry!)
CAUTION: the trail cam footage has some flicker I couldn't quite get rid of in the editing, so if you're prone to migraine etc., please tread carefully!
Naked self-interest disclaimer: I want the best config for the --output option, one that sorts downloads into folders, respects playlist order etc., and never ever displays the string NA, no matter which extractor is used (I mostly use youtube and bandcamp).
Unlocking the bootloader. Because it's Xiaomi. I have screenshots from the whole process, but that's more of a thing for "mildly infuriating" community. Fun fact: Xiaomi doesn't even allow installing APKs via ADB without Mi account...
Why is it running plasma-desktop?
It's the first UI I tried. I've used it with a touchscreen before, and it worked well. I've also tried installing both plasma-mobile and plasma-desktop, but the configurations seem to clash. Also, when I use Android I always increase DP in developer settings to >600 which switches some UI elements to tablet mode. I prefer more things on the screen.
plasma-mobile vs plasma-desktop
Apples and oranges, yes, but I'll compare them. I am allergic to apples, but not oranges. Wait, that's not what I was talking about...
Nice things in plasma-desktop
Sleep works (dmesg reports s2idle).
More powerful UI (proper desktop).
Nice things in plasma-mobile
Extra buttons in Konsole (tab, arrows, ctrl).
Screen can be locked and turned off.
Existing buttons on phone are automatically mapped to navigation in Plasma.
Bad things about plasma-desktop
Even if I set power button to "Turn of screen", it immediately turns back on.
Awful CLI experience without needed buttons.
Pressing back and home buttons causes awful noise on headphone output.
Bad things about plasma-mobile
Sleep isn't available as power option. systemctl suspend seems to properly put it into sleep based on kernel logs, but pressing button first time won't do anything, while causing a reboot when pressed the second time.
While phone's buttons are mapped, I didn't find a setting to hide on-screen buttons, so you just get each button twice.
Running without modifying anything (aside from bootloader unlocking)
I didn't yet want to modify anything on the device, so I just flashed PostmarketOS to SD card. The device is then booted through a computer using fastboot boot with lk2nd bootloader image.
:::
If I collected info correctly, BootROM loads whatever SBL is, which then loads whatever ABOOT is (which probably includes fastboot), which then decides what to load next (recovery, boot).
But how?
Does it look at the partition table for the names/UUID, or does it look for disk offsets? (There are suspicious holes between partitions.)
If the former, I could re-partition it.
If the latter, I'd be fucked.
Anyway, when it comes to backups, I first erased cache and userdata (``fastboot erase``), booted TWRP, and cat the internal storage over ADB shell, storing it as a sparse file. It takes up just 3.3GiB.
I also checksummed the storage and image file for verification.
I also tried to extract the stock recovery into Android boot image without extra data after it.
I don't know how to determine the real size, so I used ``unpack_bootimg`` and ``mkbootimg`` to get the original image, rather than whole partition.
The checksum of re-created boot image was different to original truncated partition image, but upon closer inspection with ``xxd`` and ``diff``, this was just a difference in header:
```<>
00000010: 68c2 4f00 0000 0081 0000 0000 0000 f080 h.O....... | 00000010: 68c2 4f00 0000 0081 0000 0000 0000 0000 h.O.......
But I found it might indeed be a good idea to just keep a full image backup. After a bunch of NULLs, there's more data. file doesn't recognize it, but running strings on it reveals readable text: <> California1 San Narciso1 Yoyodyne, Inc.1 Yoyodyne Mobility1 Yoyodyne1#0! yoyodyne@example.com0 Indeed, it seems this is a certificate: source.android.com/docs/core/o…
Anyway, I am once again getting reminded it might be good to learn assembly (ARM in this case). The content of sbl1 and aboot seems to be an ELF, so I might be able to pop it into Ghdira, and try to figure out what it's doing. Maybe. I don't know, I have the most stupid of ideas usually.
How's the UX of actually using it? I used to have one in the day and it wasn't terribly powerful at the time, so I'm curious how it feels with Linux now
It seems supertuxkart can reliably freeze Plasma. After entering a game, the screen briefly freezes, then Plasma displays "Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset" accompanied by following logs: <> [ 2346.824555] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: hangcheck detected gpu lockup rb 2! [ 2346.825327] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: completed fence: 59486 [ 2346.825920] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: submitted fence: 59494 [ 2346.826698] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: hangcheck recover! [ 2346.827442] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: offending task: supertuxkart (/usr/bin/supertuxkart) The game will run, but Plasma remains frozen. The only fix is to SSH into the phone and restart plasmashell using systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.
Web browsing mostly works, though in this case, the phone only handles YouTube playback up to 480p.
Oh, one more interesting observation: Cloudflare CAPTCHA causes Firefox to freeze with 100% CPU usage (single-core). So entering websites like lemmy.world is not possible.
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Interesting, the Cloudflare CAPTCHA works for me, but I'm on the Fairphone 5. I haven't tried supertuxcart but minecraft (java) works pretty well. Youtube works for me too, but that might be because of missing hardware acceleration drivers on your phone.
This entry was edited (Monday, September 14, 2026, 10:29 AM)
Would you mind to post your screenshots from the bootloader unlocking process? I have a xiaomi device from the approximate same age (redmi 4X) that I fucked up trying to unlock the bootloader and got it stuck with a mi account that I don't have any access anymore. Do you know if there are any ways to deal with the bootloader in that case?
Very interesting. I wouldn't touch a Xiaomi product these days because of their ridiculous bootloader issues. (Would be interested in more info about how you dealt with the bootloader though.)
OP's phone runs MiUI, so it would be easy to unlock. You register a Mi account with an active SIM and either wait 3-7 days as asked, or use one of those scripts that intercepts the unlock request and gives you the key.
Newer Xiaomi devices run HyperOS, which is much harder to unlock and there are no exploits as far as I know.
[...] What I forgot to mention is that metux created huge numbers of commits using AI without checking them, but I never published that until here.
When these 3 persons learned about my Xorg advices in our forum they kicked me out of the xlibre team and startd to make my - personal - life hell. Source: forum.artixlinux.org/index.php…
It could be that I'm late, but if there are any other Artix users out there who wonder why a pacman -Syu asks whether you want to replace xlibre, here's the reason.
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in reply to SocialistVibes01 • • •Damn what a completely out of touch response. Many people point out that this was basically a badly handled abuse report that a user brought to a main thread instead of reporting, however that does not and never did justify the original and continued ban of the first person to report on it.
I am especially galled by the "and ad hominem attacks on another user (even if it turned out they deserved it)." bit. Dude, maybe someone's motivations matter. Acting like attacking someone's motivations are always out of place is part of what lets this kind of shit fester and grow. Everyone has motivations, and a lot of people's motivations are deeply unsavory.
Bruh my Kubuntu minimal install. Welp. *sigh que sera sera, we all move on sometime.
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