I can't seem to find anything like it, neither as a Fuse fs. Is there really no file system, that just evicts the oldest entries once it's full? I mean, it could be a simple stack.
This would have been the ideal tool for cache; no bothering with size limits and background daemons.
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In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel versionwww.phoronix.com
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This release also restores NSS-based user/group lookups by default and improves the keystore locking mechanism.RPM 6.1 has been released today as a major update to this package manager system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux-based distributions.
Coming almost a year after RPM 6.0, the RPM 6.1 release introduces a new release model inspired by the Linux kernel, new %define options for expansion at definition and global context, a new macro modifier syntax to support literal and one-shot macros, and new man pages.
RPM 6.1 also restores the NSS-based user/group lookups by default, after being somewhat eagerly disabled in RPM 4.19, improves the usability of the rpm-plugin-syslog(8) command with systemd journal, and improves the keystore locking mechanism to use a separate lock instead of the transaction lock.
This release also allows for users and groups to be provided by the system runtime environment, and closes file descriptors more efficiently on Linux kernel 5.11 and later and GNU C Library 2.34 and later to reduce installation time by about 26 percent.
The rpmuncompress(1) utility now honors the rpm-common(8) options and received support for CAR files, while the rpmuncompress(1) and rpm-setup-autosign(1) tools have been moved to the standard $PATH to make them easier to use as standalone tools, and symlinks are now installed in /usr/lib/rpm for backwards compatibility.
On top of that, the rpmbuild(1) utility was updated to understand the k build stage argument for running the %check scriptlet, the rpm-plugin-syslog(8) utility has been fixed to no longer show misleading operation names or emit duplicate messages, and there are various API and Lua improvements.
Last but not least, RPM 6.1 improves and fixes build and verification error handling, fixes the rpm --undefine and Lua rpm.undefine() commands to no longer bypass sanity checks, updates rpmsign(1) to sign files with PKCS11 tokens, and fixes Clang compilation errors and warnings.
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Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027.Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently estimated to run out of stock in three months time. Just pre-warning everyone in case people start asking when things are going to be in stock again.
Meanwhile, devices like the PineTime, PineVoice and Pinecil will continue production as usual!
As for the PineTime Pro, currently the demo firmware has basic drivers for the display, touch, motion, GPS, buttons, heat rate sensor (chip id only), battery charger, motor, microphone and the speaker. Though some issues do need to be ironed out first before a pilot batch begins production.
That's it for this post, all in all it's a bit bleak for the Linux devices, but in the meantime PineStore still have a great lineup of MCU powered devices which will continue to expand with more exciting devices.
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PINE64 isn't the only Linux-focused hardware provider caught in this price surge.The Orange Pi Neo, a Linux-first handheld built with Manjaro, has been sitting on ice since earlier this year for the same reason. The project has been in development for two years and still has no launch date, all because DDR5 and SSD prices refuse to come back down.
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As part of the collaboration between Canonical and the University of Bristol, the project will target AppArmor and snap-confine as industrial case studies. Both are critical to Ubuntu’s security posture, and provide a substantially harder test than isolated translation examples. They will help us evaluate whether the techniques can cope with the structure and constraints of mature production software.Note that this is not a commitment to replace AppArmor or snap-confine with what is generated, rather that we have a vested interest in the software and are keen to see the results.
The most optimistic outcome would be a system capable of translating substantial C repositories into Rust with strong evidence of behavioural equivalence and relatively little manual intervention. The research could also produce better methods for decomposing repositories, stronger validation techniques, reusable translation datasets, improved program-repair tools and a more precise understanding of where automated migration stops being reliable.
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IMO this rust shit is just an attempt to convert a GPL licensed ecosystem into the Corpo-CHUD preferred MIT license.
Just like with Clang, the Corpo is simply intolerably offended by being asked to contribute back to the community.
Using Rust in no way requires the usage of pushover licenses. While it's true that many devs are using pushover licenses, there are plenty of GPL Rust projects. You are just focusing on the sensationalized ones that get mentioned in news cycles.
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From what I get, Rust proposes to make low-level coding easier by forcing programmers into a certain workflow.
Yes and no. It forces programmers to a certain workflow like using a borrow checker to manage memory, but it actually makes programmer's lives easier, because it prevents bugs from runtime. The compiler will throw a fit, over your buggy code if you try to compile, unlike C.
The funny part is that rust is actually a high level language that can do low level stuff.
But functioning C code is as good as functioning Rust code right?
Yes. I prefer C because it is easier to learn than rust, and feel like rust is more comparable to C++. I also feel like llm plus rust is a good combo, these days.
The grub menu displayed as if the system knew which partition contains the bootloader. The root partition mounted by itself. Neither dmesg nor my init/process manager threw any errors. The boot partition was not mounted, neither was swap.
I did manually create an fstab from within the installed system and all is fine, so my question is purely academic. Do modern systems not need an fstab in order to know which devices and partitions to mount where?
The root partition ID is in the grub configuration, it's mounted when the system boots. Then fstab is read and the other partitions are mounted.
fstab is needed for root mount options and other partitions, but as you saw with your system if the only partitions other than root are not needed to boot your system will boot fine (I don't know which options grub uses when mounting root though)
defaults,noatime, but I wonder what GRUB defaulted to without the fstab. Thanks!
Grub typically stores the uuid of the root filesystem in the kernel command line arguments (I can't quite remember if that's the right name it not).
Have a look at the grub configuration when in the grub menu and you should see it there.
Thanks! That seems to be the case exactly!
Source: gnu.org/software/grub/manual/g…
To be clear, grub itself doesn’t mount your root partition. Grub provides the root partition device path or id to the kernel via kernel command line. Then kernel mounts the root partition early in its boot sequence with a limited set of options (typically read only).
Logically, the root partition should be mountable without fstab because otherwise it would be a chicken and egg problem 😀
Usually once the userspace starts, an init script will remount the root partition with its normal options from fstab.
(It’s a bit more complicated if initramfs is involved, but the principle is the same).
Thanks! I guess I need to read up on the boot process. 😅
Logically, the root partition should be mountable without fstab because otherwise it would be a chicken and egg problem 😀
Don't I have egg (or chicken???) on my face... 🤣
Me doesn't follow anything you suggested. 😁 Never had a second bootloader in almost 20 years and never didn't encounter an issue where it would solve the problem. Although I just distro hopped once, or twice if you count same family of distro.
Recently (years ago) switched from grub to systemd-boot (note, it is badly named, as it is not a systemd component and just a different project taken over and renamed from gummiboot, so technically it should be usable without systemd), as it is much simpler and less prone to issues than grub (and because it is the default recommendation by EndeavourOS too). I have only one operating system installed and from day to day work, I never noticed a difference in the operation.
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I can sell you a 15” dell with a quad core and 32gb of ram.
E: this is not a joke, I have a 3520 from a couple of years ago with an 11th gen i7, a 256gb nvme, the sata kit included and 32gb of ddr4. HMU.
Do NOT get a think pad. They were good when they were IBM, but Lenovo got caught putting a rootkit in their BIOS. So even if you flash to Linux, you run the risk of the Chinese government or any dedicated hacker having full access to your machine.
If you're on a budget, Acer is good bang for the buck, if you're not, HP has quality builds.
Lenovo got caught putting a rootkit in their BIOS
The model I mentioned supports coreboot though?
HP has quality builds
Lol I find that hard to believe
They haven't been IBM in almost 2 decades and they are still decent. Acer is absolute bottom of the barrel crap.
I'd go Lenovo or Dell over HP. But I'd not recommend to get just anything from any of those brands, but to stick to the business model lines if you are buying used.
does it still work for software development?
... Why wouldn't it? Like you could do other things but not write code?
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As someone else mentioned the framework pro is a good pick and also the cool new kid on the block with the repair and upgradablity(however you spell that). However spec and build quality wise, any high end business laptop will have full linux support since their be used for IT/software dev and robust enough construction to not break in a few years
That Dell looks good, ive heard good things about the new Lenovo too, really just go with whichever option is cheaper
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خطاهای پراکندهٔ input/output، خراب شدن پروندههای چند گیگابایتی و حتی چند بار read-only شدن فایلسیستم حین کار... هیچکدومو جدی نگرفتم؛ تا اینکه بالاخره کار به جایی رسید که btrfs دیگه سوار نشد و رایانه بالا نیومد! اول به خود دیسک اساسدی و کابل ساتا شک کردم، ولی یههو یادم افتاد که حافظه این سیستم از همون قدیم مشکل داشت. دیگه گفتم بهتره بهجای حدس زدن، اینبار قشنگ بررسیش کنم.
با یه SystemRescue زنده اومدم بالا و memtest86+ رو اجرا کردم. نتیجه عملاً فاجعه بود: حدود ۷۰۰-۸۰۰ خطا فقط توی یک pass! با قیمتهای فعلی هم که اصلاً امکان تعویض RAM وجود نداره. پس دنبال این گشتم که ببینم میشه همینو یهجوری نگهش داشت و فقط قسمت آسیبدیدهشو کنار گذاشت؟
برای پیدا کردن دقیق ناحیه مخرب، گذاشتم چند دور دیگه هم آزمایش کنه تا شانس اشتباه بیاد پایین. تستهای ۰، ۷ و ۱۰ رو هم خاموش کردم، چون برای این منظور بهشون نیازی نبود و فقط سرعت بررسی رو پایین میآوردن. بعد از حدود ۴–۵ دور، نزدیک به ۲۵۰۰ خطا ثبت شده بود؛ اما نکتهٔ جالبترش این بود که همهٔ این خطاها روی فقط ۸ بیت مشخص اتفاق افتاده بودن!
۸ بیت در برابر ۱۶ گیگابایت تقریباً هیچی نیست، ولی همین خرابی کوچک کافی بود تا دادههایی که رایانه موقتاً توی حافظه نگه میداره آسیب ببینن و بعداً راهشون رو به دیسک باز کنن، حتی با وجود btrfs checksum!
حالا باید کاری میکردم که لینوکس دیگه از اون قسمت استفاده نکنه. ازونجایی که کوچکترین واحدی که میشه در این سطح از حافظه کنار گذاشت یک صفحه چهار کیلوبایتیه، نشونی محدودهٔ آسیبدیده رو پیدا کردم و خروجی badramی که خود memtest86+ داده بودو گذاشتم تو تنظیمات GRUB:
<br />badram 0x000000036b642d20,0xfffffffffffffff8<br />avid@avid:~$ sudo cat /proc/iomem | grep -i '36b64'
100000000-36b641fff : System RAM
36b642000-36b642fff : Unusable memory
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So, I'm finally getting around to buying a Linux first laptop. I'm familiar with Macbooks, and so far liked them. I've also live stick used Fedora w/ KDE (though Gnome might fit too) and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and liked them.
But I do want to have more freedom and privacy. My most important considerations are:
The four main laptops I'm considering are in no particular order:
If any of you know something better, please do tell!
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As someone running Debian on an old MacBook Pro from 2012, MacBooks are not Linux first. You can run it on all but the newest M-series, but be warned you're likely to encounter some broadcom driver issues with the wifi/bluetooth. They can be fixed, then they may break again with some random kernel update. It's not a fire and forget solution.
Have you looked at Framework yet? Linux friendly, designed to be upgradeable and user-repairable. Definitely plan to buy a Framework for my next laptop (ideally once ram/storage prices stabilize)
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Yup, I noticed wifi and bluetooth issues as well when running Linux on my Intel macbook.
RE Framework: I did check it. It looks nice, but it is American and I'm a bit wary of whether they have ties to rabidly right-wing tech bros, considering the Hyprland controversy.
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Not what you've asked, but I'll give you this as a perspective (which you can discard if you wish):
Gaming laptops combine too many compromises to be worthwhile. Big, hot, noisy, expensive, nerfed performamce. Portable gaming can't really be portable if you have to find a desk and a power socket and carry around a controller separately.
I would recommend:
Both of the above combined will probably still be cheaper than most decent performance options for gaming laptops.
If you're going to have a desk based workstation then the handheld console alone might be good enough with a USB C dock as your desktop PC too. This is how I got into Linux in the first place..... Sold my laptop to fund a new PC build and had to use the Steam Deck as a full time workstation for 2 months while I waited for good deals on PC parts. Works out surprisingly well.
I bought the Starbook Mk VII Ultra in 2025.
I... would definitely not recommend it. I already sold it. The build quality is mostly pretty nice, but everything else is not great.
ctrl-v not ctrl-vv.Next time I get a laptop I'll probably try a Tuxedo laptop.
(I ended up trading the Starlabs for a Lenovo T14 Gen 7, which works well with Linux, but doesn't meet your criteria.)
Looks - I like the Macbook touch and feel
I would just like to caution you about wanting to maintain the Apple taste, but runs Linux. You may have to adjust your taste preference if you want a laptop that runs Linux well.
Thanks for your explanation, I appreciate it 😁 - this was the kind of answer I'm looking for; someone who had experience with one of these models.
As for the Macbook touch and feel thing, it's moreso the general 'feel'. I don't mind if keys are a bit different, but I like the sleek feel. The models I gave all kind of satisfy that requirement, so Tuxedo should also work!
Here are my old notes: lemmy.world/post/35121451
Is there no way to adjust key sensitivity?
I never found away. I think I remember opening a support ticket, but it didn't go anywhere.
What do you mean with the wrong keycode?
Technically, the keyboard doesn't have a "Print Screen" key. It has a Sysrq key, which is used for the same purpose, but it's actually a different keycode. See github.com/StarLabsLtd/firmwar… Maybe Cheatsheet programme could help?
What do you mean with the LEDs from the laptop?
So above the function keys, but below where the screen actually starts, there are some LEDs. lol. I just checked and realized they conveniently edited out those LEDs from promotional material. Above the F2 and F3 keys there are BRIGHT LEDs that used for different statuses. There are also some LEDs on the side that turn on when the laptop is charging, which are also SUPER bright. I would normally toss a shirt on top of the laptop so I could charge it at night and not be bothered.
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Tbh you should just get a mac.
You can have privacy on them with a little less effort than on windows and they’re already decently secure. They can play cyberpunk and you already have the linux (bsd) toolkit. They’re already the kind of computer you like with the good trackpad etc.
I would drop your “be European” requirement.
Framework 13 pro. Its US, but it looks like a solid laptop with excellent battery life, premium build quality, it has modular forward and backwards compatible upgrades between generations, and ships with Linux. Not a lot left to be desired with this one in my opinion.
System76 is Linux first. They're the ones developing the cosmic desktop environment, which is a gift to humanity, and may help ease your mind when buying from the US.
Bazzite uses the Steam rpm, not flatpak.
Though I think other launchers like Heroic may be flatpaks. But that's no different to SteamOS.
I don't believe the Steam flatpak is responsible for those issues
openSUSE recently added some more security policies. By default, Wine cannot run normally. There's a package you can install that sets SELinux security policies to allow it to work. If you install the openSUSE Steam rpm, that security policy automatically gets installed too.
This is a downside of flatpak's approach to sandboxing. It aims to work everywhere on every distro, using bubblewrap instead of something like SELinux or AppArmor. But it also does not interact with AppArmor or SELinux, so if they block something, flatpak can't override that.
Meanwhile, snap uses AppArmor for sandboxing. So even if there was a policy like openSUSE's that prevented Wine from working by default, since snap speaks AppArmor, it can give itself the necessary permissions to make Wine work.
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You absolutely can sandbox using SELinux. Red Hat even has a tool called "sandbox" for just that: docs.redhat.com/en/documentati…
Edit: and Android sandboxing is built heavily around SELinux: source.android.com/docs/securi…
I use both. SteamOS on my SD OLED, and Bazzite on a gaming PC. I don’t notice a difference because all I use the machines for is gaming.
I eventually moved to Kubuntu from Bazzite because it was easier to manage my media servers. I’m not a huge fan of Bazzite’s quadlet system.
But for 99% of my use case the two systems were identical.
I use bazzite on my gaming PC and few months ago I wanted to set up steam deck without using steam account using bazzite.
I can't quite remember what happened but I think it was too buggy, and I went back. Might have been the requirement for steam to run to register any input from the controller.
So I'll answer the other way, and explain Bazzite's advantages. Mainly it comes down to the fact that installing system packages is easier, and Bazzite comes with most of the useful ones pre-installed. For example:
Basically, Bazzite gives you the reliability of SteamOS, because it's also immutable, and well tested on the Deck. But Bazzite gives you the power and customizability of a full desktop PC, letting you mod it more heavily and use it for more than just gaming.
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I don't have the time to write out the full response to this I want to right now, so I just want to say there is an almost immeasurable gulf between someone like Linus Torvalds using AI for debugging vs a coked out techbro junior engineer vibecoding the next Spotify but for access to water.
In my heart of hearts I still wish he wouldn't touch the stuff just for the message this is going to send to all the wrong kinds of people but here we are.
Ha! I recently went through a similar process, trying to get some hardware working for a different project that would close some 15+ year old bugs. AI helped me find it, getting sidetracked by several other small bugs in the same few files along the way.
I then wrote the actual fixes myself as a series of very small PRs. They’re all just a handful of lines each, enabling certain hardware flags, properly bounds checking loops, getting a timer initialization corrected, etc. They are all the sort of thing that once you see where they are, the fix is extremely obvious.
In the meantime, the project has adopted a very strict no AI assistance at all policy after some internal debate that almost tore the project apart.
So now I’m sitting on almost a dozen fixes for longstanding problems and have no idea if I should lie and say yes, I found these entirely by myself, or tell the truth, probably get kicked out of the project, and see how much of a shit storm they cause.
Not really... "Education" and real world are vastly different. Getting accustomed to a mailing list other maintainers etc is not something you learn with your education.
And leaving bugs for hardware no one has touched in ages is not too big of a deal. And a nice gateway for new comers who actually want to learn it instead of trow a LLM at it.
That's in the Linux staging tree, where they have banned ai contribution for exactly that reason.
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Both extremes are absolutely maddening here. I'm getting as sick of the anti-AI crowd as I am the vibe-code-tech-bros. At this point you could just put them all in a sack and start hitting them with sticks and wouldn't care who got the worst of it.
There's a definite middle-ground here. Linus is one of the ultimate pragmatists and it shows here. It was helpful - so he used it. It helped you so you used it. I've found it to be incredibly helpful so I use it.
Not all usages are equal just as all hand-written code is not equal. There are good ways to use these tools and bad ways. But the tools themselves are still just tools.
But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep
adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed.
Well, no shit, all they can do is follow instructions. We just really can't help avoid anthropomorphizing something that speaks language and think it was a good boy for stopping whining and trying again
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I remember when version 1 of cgroup went out to the world with 2.6(or was it 2.8)? I thought it looked interesting and had a couple ideas to try but I never found the free time. Next thing I know I am in the audience at PyCon listening about this Docker thingy. youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSL…
Me and two of the other DevDave's were here. Pretty easy to spot me, I am the sexy & suave one.
At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.dotcloudtv (YouTube)
Yes. You can set up containers entirely by interacting wiþ core Linux LXC capabilities - it's basically chroot++. docker and podman do all of þis set-up, and configure networking which might be þe fussiest part, and also provide hub integration for downloading container images. Þey're convenience scripts, but don't do anyþing magic.
Videos like þis are educational if you want to see how þe sausage is made. @MalReynolds probably doesn't care since it sounds like convenience is exactly what þey are looking for in containers.
... convenience is exactly what þey are looking for in containers
isn't that the whole point of containers? to make shipping software easier.
Bazzite Deck 44 Launches Today Don’t worry desktop users, there’s major improvements in here for you too! Hello folks! It’s been a hard few months with over 700 commits just to the Bazzite repo.Universal Blue
Partial HDMI 2.1 FRL support is huge (even if it's from upstream)! I finally have 12bit color on my home theater PC! Content looks amazing now 😍
Unfortunately, it does flicker occasionally if VRR isn't enabled, but that's why it's behind a debug flag to begin with. I can't wait for Linux 7.3 to complete the implementation.
Eat shit, HDMI Forum.
Bazzite is one of the coolest Linux operating systems out there. It's what I chose for my DIY Steam Machine – which I'll be covering soon so make sure you get subscribed – and it's partially the reason I've become a Fedora convert recently.Gardiner Bryant (The Bryant Review)
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem on Wednesday accused the Peace Council of failing to pressure Israel to adhere to existing agreements following an Israeli airstrike on a police facility in Gaza City.
In a statement, Qassem described the strike as a “dangerous and brutal massacre” and said it demonstrated disregard for efforts to maintain the ceasefire.
Palestinian sources said Israeli aircraft struck a municipal police headquarters in Gaza City, killing nine people and injuring approximately 15 others, some of them critically.
Qassem argued that the Peace Council bears responsibility for failing to use its influence to ensure implementation of agreements reached between the parties. He said the latest developments represented a test of the Council’s ability to effectively oversee mediation efforts.
The Hamas spokesperson also criticized recent statements by Peace Council officials, claiming they were inconsistent with previously agreed arrangements and could encourage further Israeli military crimes in Gaza.
I’m aware of /proc but usually use lsof to find open fd’s for a process.
Is one better than the other?
/proc/self automagically points to the directory of the current process. So if you're writing a program, you can just look there for information about itself
/proc/net/ for routes and bonding config etc.
Got to love UNIX's everything is a file.
ProcFS is from Plan9.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_f…
Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)
I have some of her paper zines on my desk, warmly recommended.
Might look esoteric at first but if you think we will be using Linux at least on desktop, servers, consoles and more for decades then totally worth learning about.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – The US gross national debt has surged past $40 trillion for the first time, government data showed Wednesday, outstripping earlier forecasts at a pace fuelled in part by President Donald Trump's invalidated tariffs.The uptick in borrowing comes as longer term US obligations linked to social security and health care have been growing, while interest payments have climbed as well.
Total public debt outstanding stood at $40.05 trillion at the close of business Tuesday, according to data released Wednesday by the Treasury Department.
This stands in contrast to an earlier forecast by the Congressional Budget Office that overall borrowing would hit $39.4 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2026.
Rising US debt comes as concerns over inflation, war in the Middle East and government spending have been driving investor worries, and the cost of borrowing has grown.
Yields on long-term Treasury bonds rose Tuesday to the highest level since 2007, reflecting growing price pressures due to war on Iran and anxiety over US deficit spending.
The increase forces the US government to refinance debt at the highest rates since before the 2008 global financial crisis.
But the US Treasury Department moved to steady the long-term bond market early Wednesday, sending yields lower.
The federal government operates at a deficit and borrows money to help cover its obligations, including its war spending and tax cuts.
"It's been well known for a while that the United States government was on a pretty unsustainable path with deficits," said Jessica Riedl, a budget and tax fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"Over the last few years, the United States has moved into roughly $2 trillion deficits, even during peace and prosperity," she added.
While deficits of three percent to four percent of GDP used to worry financial markets, she noted that levels are closer to six percent to seven percent of GDP now.
"That has made markets more nervous," she said.
As inflation pushed interest rates higher, interest costs on the debt have risen as well, and costs linked to an ageing population are pushing up deficits.
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Linux 7.2 has landed, dragging x86 timing clean out of the nineties by making the Time Stamp Counter mandatory.
I wrote up a quick article on why ditching those ancient legacy fallbacks is good housekeeping, plus a few other bits like cache-aware scheduling and memory tweaks worth noting.
Is anyone still using legacy hardware? If so, what do you use it for?
As Linux 7.2 makes the Time Stamp Counter mandatory, we look at why dropping legacy x86 fallback timing code is long overdue.TheIPW (The Unknown Universe)
major upgrade like from kernel 6 to 7
What do you mean? The Linux kernel doesn't follow SemVer.
The 6.19 -> 7.0 version bump didn't have any more inherent meaning than 7.0 -> 7.1 or 7.1 -> 7.2.
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Is anyone even likely to be curious enough to look?
Well, can only speak for me, but first thing I do.
I mean, you can never know which administrative scandal you might uncover...
I stop the moment I find private stuff, though.
Had that three or four times already, the only case I was considering doing something about it was a completely unsecured and unerased phone still containing a bunch of business emails that clearly were sensitive or even confidential stuff.
I just told the seller how he screwed up here, instead of making a bigger fuss out of it.
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Not really great on SSDs, though. It'll likely make them slower because now the controller thinks 100% of the memory is allocated. And some small percentage of the data will still be around, because they do overprovisioning.
Shouldn't matter for OP, though. If they set up LUKS properly, there's no way to decrypt the data.
But I mean secure wipe isn't hard... It's copy-pasting 2 more commands from the Arch wiki, compared to the dd command.
some small percentage of the data will still be around, because they do overprovisioning.
That's why I wrote "directly accessible data". You are certainly right that safely erasing all data on SSDs is hard to impossible to achieve, but so is the read access to it.
That means if we disregard the drug distribution or similar scenarios, should be enough for the normal person.
But I mean secure wipe isn’t hard… It’s copy-pasting 2 more commands from the Arch wiki, compared to the dd command.
But it will take significantly longer (typically using /dev/random and multiple passes) without noticably increasing security for SSDs.
It will have also have the same possible write-speed-penalty issue as the zero-overwriting, but this won't be OPs problem any more because he is selling the SSD.
I don't think so. I did a secure erase on my Samsung SSD and I forgot how long it took, but I still remember being surprised how quick it was. I think it was quicker than overwriting the entire disk, even with zeros. I even double-checked whether it did it because it was done so fast. But yeah, it didn't return any data after that.
I mean I'm generally not a big fan of all the compromises. Sure maybe most of it is deleted. Maybe it's not that easy to recover the rest of it. Maybe there's an easy tool out there... I mean the issue with it is, we have all kinds of personal data on our laptops. One nude left, or the tax filings document and you might be in trouble anyway, if you do some half-assed compromise. Maybe you'll give it to a regular person and nothing will happen... But I think generally it's not good advise to hand out to people. They might not be aware of all of the consequences, we might not know the full picture... And the exact phrasing is doing way too much heavy-lifting.
Luckily there's a clever way. Use LUKS and encrypt your disk right from the start. (As OP did?!) That takes care of everything. And once you give it away, just discard all the blocks. Mainly as a service to the next person, because that's going to make the drive fast again. Should also be the fastest option, since SSDs do TRIMs all the time and are optimized for it. Quicker than a dd over the entire drive.
just use a hammer, a microwave and a blowtorch.Not really great on SSDs, though. It'll likely make them slower
Yup. I agree. XD
I'm assuming when you "reinstalled the OS" you just repartitioned the drive and installed normally without encryption for the person? If that's the case then all your old data is encrypted and will be unrecoverable without your password and the LUKS header.
If however you reinstalled the OS within the already made LUKS partition and are giving them the password (for some reason) then yeah, you wanna secure erase it.
If you were selling on eBay or something I would still recommend a secure erase (they're really quick on SSDs)
Yep, he'll probably sell it in a laptop I put it in. I'm kinda skeptical about an ONDA laptop with a 4-core Celeron selling. Might as well keep it, give it away or something.
Yes, I have to complain about this laptop. It's worth less than just the SSD.
You said that:
I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it's lifetime.
This leads me to assume that it is not now? Is this the case? If it still has LUK2 on it, you can run cryptsetup-erase on the luks2 container.
This won't wipe any unencrypted data, though.
One needs to be careful and avoid block level wipes wherever possible for SSD as this will wear it out quicker. Obviously, if you have sensitive data unencrypted, you may have to. Shred is your friend, here. It works on entire devices as well as individual files. The individual files option is preferable if you the sensitive data is at known locations.
Secure erase just drops the ssd controllers table of where logical blocks are in the physical memory and trims the disk. Which is good and you should do.
That means a person would have to address the memory directly with flying leads or a bed of nails or something. Or have special software that makes the controller tell them what’s on each physical block and then put that data together into a bunch of files.
If that worries you, do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ before you secure erase.
Then everything on the drive will be random static before the secure erase drops the block table and trims, so even if someone uses magic power to read the block contents directly they just get to see static.
That has the benefit of speeding up the drive by resetting read fatigue at the expense of one layer of writes which is always worth it.
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That’s only true for some environments.
E: this is the first time I’ve read that blog post since it was published (or at least a long time ago) and there’s now a comment specifically referencing the actual behavior I observed in the wild when I tried to sub other things in for “normal” uses of dd:
Nobody says:
2016-12-30 at 15:17
cat /dev/cdrom > myfile.iso
Works
cat myfile.iso > /dev/cdrom
Won’t – dd allows you do handle writes in various block sizes, so if a device can’t handle a one-byte write, cat could well end up writing your byte followed by zeros (and because of where the pointer now is, do it again for the next byte).Still, all your other points stand – nice piece.
While that comment was written seventy years ago, in this age of people with questionable intent, capability and integrity rewriting system tools in rust there’s no better time to linger thoughtfully over cp or cat or any number of other commands that begin with the letter “c” before grabbing the ol’ reliable footgun whose fifty years of script backwards compatibility ensure that no one can get their dd replacement accepted in normal use until it behaves as expected.
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Everything that was luks encrypted is unrecoverable once you overwrite the luks header. Trying to guess the master key takes longer than the lifetime of the universe.
Just make sure that is gone and you are good. If you deleted all partitions and installed another (unencrypted) OS on the drive there is a very good chance the luks headers are gone for good.
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cat /dev/urandom > /dev/your-disk should do it in your case. And in 99% of cases.
nope, i mean that's just useless. (it does kinda do the job, but wears it down, and not as effective since SSDs aren't really predictable because of wear leveling stuff and lie to the OS) there's an ATA Secure Erase feature that can be used instead.
some relevant link grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?arti…
GROK Knowledgebase is Louisiana State University's online support environment.grok.lsu.edu
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Do this: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid…
Takes like two minutes.
You don't have to reinstall the OS, just plug the drive into your motherboard.
Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...GitHub
Do not dban an SSD.
SSDs do not physically store data the way platter drives do. It may reduce the lifespan of the drive.
There are other methods for securely erasing SSDs.
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Follow the steps here to perform a secure erase that resets the cells and wipes any on-device encryption keys:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid…
You can do this from a live-boot environment if you wish. I would very strongly recommend disconnecting ALL other drives before performing this step as the best precaution against accidentally nuking the wrong drive. However if you choose to do this with other drives connected triple check you have the right drive selected before each step.
hi, in the past I’ve got a pretty weird issue while I was getting ready to make a switch: every USB that I tried failed to boot
turns out, the “safer” way to get it out from the PC (the eject function) messed up its file system
it was long ago, but the other day I made another bootable USB and it happened again, I thought it was just a bug that would be eventually fixed
it happens both for Linux Live ISOs and Windows Install Media
am I the only one?
Agricultural production generates substantial quantities of woody residues, including branches, pruning waste, sawdust, bark, and other lignocellulosic materials. When these residues are poorly managed, they may occupy valuable storage space, deteriorate rapidly, or be openly burned, resulting in avoidable resource loss and atmospheric emissions. A wood coal making machine provides a thermochemical route for converting such biomass into a more stable and commercially useful carbonaceous material.
Converting Agricultural Residues into Stable Carbon
The fundamental principle behind a wood coal making machine is carbonization. Under controlled thermal conditions and limited oxygen availability, organic components in wood-based agricultural waste undergo thermal decomposition. Volatile compounds are released, while a carbon-rich solid residue remains.
Unlike uncontrolled burning, carbonization can transform biomass into a concentrated solid product while retaining a significant proportion of its carbon content. The resulting charcoal can be easier to store, transport, and utilize than bulky raw residues.
This conversion also addresses a common agricultural challenge: seasonal biomass accumulation. Instead of allowing pruning residues or sawdust to remain in open piles, agricultural operators can process them into a standardized carbonaceous product.
Reducing Open Burning and Waste Accumulation
Open burning is still used in some agricultural areas to dispose of excess biomass. However, uncontrolled combustion offers little opportunity for resource recovery and can contribute to particulate emissions and other pollutants.
A wood coal making machine establishes a controlled thermal environment for biomass conversion. The process can therefore shift agricultural waste management from simple disposal toward resource utilization.
The reduction in waste volume is another practical advantage. Woody residues contain considerable moisture and volatile matter, whereas carbonized material is substantially more concentrated. This can simplify downstream handling and reduce the physical burden associated with transporting untreated biomass.
Producing a Useful Carbon-Based Product
The output of carbonization is not merely a waste residue. Depending on feedstock characteristics and processing conditions, the resulting wood charcoal can serve several downstream applications, including solid fuel, activated-carbon feedstock, metallurgical applications, and other carbon-based products.
For agricultural enterprises, this creates an additional value pathway. Residues that previously had little direct economic value can become an intermediate product with potential commercial applications.
Process parameters matter considerably. Feedstock moisture, particle size, carbonization temperature, heating rate, and residence time can all influence fixed-carbon content, volatile matter, ash content, and overall product characteristics. Consequently, appropriate feedstock preparation and process control are important for maintaining consistent output.
Supporting Circular Biomass Utilization
Sustainable waste management depends on keeping resources within productive cycles for as long as practical. A wood coal making machine contributes to this principle by converting agricultural residues into a reusable carbon-rich material rather than treating biomass solely as refuse.
The approach can also complement other biomass utilization strategies. For example, residues unsuitable for direct combustion may be processed through carbonization, while the resulting charcoal can enter downstream industrial or agricultural applications. In this sense, carbonization functions as a bridge between waste management and biomass valorization.
Improving Agricultural Resource Efficiency
The sustainability value of a wood coal making machine extends beyond waste reduction. It can help agricultural operations establish a more integrated biomass management system in which residues are collected, processed, and converted into products with defined applications.
Such a system can reduce dependence on disposal practices while creating opportunities for additional revenue from agricultural by-products. At larger scales, centralized biomass collection and continuous carbonization can further improve logistical efficiency.
Ultimately, the wood coal making machine represents a practical thermochemical solution for managing woody agricultural waste. By converting dispersed biomass residues into a stable carbon-rich product, it supports waste reduction, resource recovery, and more circular utilization of agricultural materials.
Wood charcoal machine provides wood into charcoal solution. It achieves a win-win situation of 💲profitability and ♻️sustainability.Beston Group
Agricultural production generates substantial quantities of woody residues, including branches, pruning waste, sawdust, bark, and other lignocellulosic materials. When these residues are poorly managed, they may occupy valuable storage space, deteriorate rapidly, or be openly burned, resulting in avoidable resource loss and atmospheric emissions. A wood coal making machine provides a thermochemical route for converting such biomass into a more stable and commercially useful carbonaceous material.
Converting Agricultural Residues into Stable Carbon
The fundamental principle behind a wood coal making machine is carbonization. Under controlled thermal conditions and limited oxygen availability, organic components in wood-based agricultural waste undergo thermal decomposition. Volatile compounds are released, while a carbon-rich solid residue remains.
Unlike uncontrolled burning, carbonization can transform biomass into a concentrated solid product while retaining a significant proportion of its carbon content. The resulting charcoal can be easier to store, transport, and utilize than bulky raw residues.
This conversion also addresses a common agricultural challenge: seasonal biomass accumulation. Instead of allowing pruning residues or sawdust to remain in open piles, agricultural operators can process them into a standardized carbonaceous product.
Reducing Open Burning and Waste Accumulation
Open burning is still used in some agricultural areas to dispose of excess biomass. However, uncontrolled combustion offers little opportunity for resource recovery and can contribute to particulate emissions and other pollutants.
A wood coal making machine establishes a controlled thermal environment for biomass conversion. The process can therefore shift agricultural waste management from simple disposal toward resource utilization.
The reduction in waste volume is another practical advantage. Woody residues contain considerable moisture and volatile matter, whereas carbonized material is substantially more concentrated. This can simplify downstream handling and reduce the physical burden associated with transporting untreated biomass.
Producing a Useful Carbon-Based Product
The output of carbonization is not merely a waste residue. Depending on feedstock characteristics and processing conditions, the resulting wood charcoal can serve several downstream applications, including solid fuel, activated-carbon feedstock, metallurgical applications, and other carbon-based products.
For agricultural enterprises, this creates an additional value pathway. Residues that previously had little direct economic value can become an intermediate product with potential commercial applications.
Process parameters matter considerably. Feedstock moisture, particle size, carbonization temperature, heating rate, and residence time can all influence fixed-carbon content, volatile matter, ash content, and overall product characteristics. Consequently, appropriate feedstock preparation and process control are important for maintaining consistent output.
Supporting Circular Biomass Utilization
Sustainable waste management depends on keeping resources within productive cycles for as long as practical. A wood coal making machine contributes to this principle by converting agricultural residues into a reusable carbon-rich material rather than treating biomass solely as refuse.
The approach can also complement other biomass utilization strategies. For example, residues unsuitable for direct combustion may be processed through carbonization, while the resulting charcoal can enter downstream industrial or agricultural applications. In this sense, carbonization functions as a bridge between waste management and biomass valorization.
Improving Agricultural Resource Efficiency
The sustainability value of a wood coal making machine extends beyond waste reduction. It can help agricultural operations establish a more integrated biomass management system in which residues are collected, processed, and converted into products with defined applications.
Such a system can reduce dependence on disposal practices while creating opportunities for additional revenue from agricultural by-products. At larger scales, centralized biomass collection and continuous carbonization can further improve logistical efficiency.
Ultimately, the wood coal making machine represents a practical thermochemical solution for managing woody agricultural waste. By converting dispersed biomass residues into a stable carbon-rich product, it supports waste reduction, resource recovery, and more circular utilization of agricultural materials.
Wood charcoal machine provides wood into charcoal solution. It achieves a win-win situation of 💲profitability and ♻️sustainability.Beston Group
The motivation of the development is using GCC code generation by rustc for architectures not supported by LLVM but are supported by GCC. There are a number of CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel and GCC but not supported by LLVM like m68k, Alpha, and other embedded/micro-controller ISAs.. This also allows employing GCC's compiler optimizations. The latest rustc_codegen_gcc code can be found via rustc_codegen_gcc on GitHub. This isn't to be confused with gccrs as the GCC front-end for Rust.
gccrs is sorely missed.
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submittedwww.phoronix.com
gccrs is sorely missed.
github.com/Rust-GCC/Reporting/…
Status Reports. Contribute to Rust-GCC/Reporting development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
After the clickbait-y headline that's just Canonical sinking into mediocrity once again, there's this:
Ubuntu is preparing for the AI PC, not just Linux desktopsSeager also described a push toward proper GPU, NPU, and DPU support, hardware partnerships with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, and CPU architecture optimization that makes Ubuntu run faster on newer chips without dropping support for older ones.
Ubuntu is also betting on local-first AI, building “inference snaps” that pick the right model and quantization automatically, along with early exploration into agentic workflows at the OS level. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS already ships with native support for both NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm.
Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.Abhijith M B (Windows Latest)
When getting into linux it was easy to remove ubuntu from the list due to them being like this.
Fedora considering ai earlier this year, and now debian talking about maybe slopping it too, is starting to creep me out even more about the future.
I don't see any of those 3 as good, or even decent choices. I distrohopped initially, and did it again recently out of interest. Most people will just go off of searches, forum posts, and trashtubers though, which may lead them to believe that linux is crap due to ending up with crappy distros, and/or de's
The variety of options are a pro, and a con, as are of course the opinions
Do these numbers include "WSL" installs?
linuxvox.com/blog/windows-linu…
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a revolutionary feature introduced by Microsoft that allows users to run a Linux environment directly on Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, without the need for a traditional virtual machine or dual-…linuxvox
“In a year, the growth in our WSL numbers is significantly higher than the growth in Desktop usage numbers.”“I expect to see more Ubuntu WSL users than ‘native’ Ubuntu users over the coming months.”
Of course, Canonical isn’t saying Windows now has more Linux users than Linux itself. Seager is comparing Ubuntu through WSL against Ubuntu installed natively on a Linux PC, and the WSL side is on track to win.
wsl --install installs Ubuntu by default. If I had to use WSL, I'd try this first too.
It doesn't surprise me. After all it's the default way to start using WSL.
But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu's popularity is slowly sinking.
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I think there are two sides to this.
WARNING they may suffer from less bugs, less annoying updates, better performance, less spyware and functional package management.
Before anyone says anything I am aware there are trade-offs due to switching from what you know.
I guess the base version of windows is relatively ok but Microsoft Office and Overdrive/SharePoint are both completely unusable. Which is insane considering they are industry standards.
Although Linux seems to be generally much more stable in my experience. Of course it depends on the distro.
I was part of tech support for work until last year.
My list of ridiculous bugs is quite long.... Even down to basics like the microphone, using Microsoft office at all, windows explorer, and opening teams had bugs where people's work laptops were unusable for day to day tasks.
I may have just had ridiculous luck to avoid all bugs on both linux and windows
Most of the bugs i have seen on linux were actually from a friend i convinced to move to linux
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!
Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!
So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex
Sorry, you what???
Some were really adamant about it being like android it's very annoying
Kinda wish grapheneos had an x86 ChromeOS-esque build. If waydroid had better integration (e.g. lepton) it'd have been an easier sell. It's on a terribly old laptop. I run different DEs on similar laptops and they didn't like kde, cosmic, or gnome's ui, very picky.
I was partially kidding. I mean, sure, if that's what they want, then what could anyone do about it.
But since they came from Windows, wouldn't they adapt to something like Linux Mint Xfce or Q4OS (that mimics Windows XP)? These are very lightweight distros.
ChromeOS
🤦♂️ My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.
edit: it's not just "becoming tech support person", but becoming the default person to blame for everything.
Switched my parents to mint probably 10 years ago and I haven't heard any complaints, just had to remind them to update every so often and had to upgrade once EOL came. It has been the same with my very non technical girlfriend that switched to mint probably a year ago.
If you make sure they have supported hardware (and most of it is supported these days) my bet is you won't have to support them at all.
I just said no. I'm not going to help you with your computers unless you install Linux on your computer. I can fix all these other dumb operating systems. But I'm not going to do things that are not in your best interest, especially when I'm one doing the tech support.
Like.
I'll still love you if you're shooting up heroin but I am not gonna go buy your fucking drugs.
🎼I just said no. No. No. No. No. No. No. Fuck no. No. No. Do this. Now. No. I won't do that. Do this. Now.🎶
Just..... like the world we live in now, I only want to hang out with people that use open source. Period. End of story.
Also, phone etiquette is super important. I will not waste my time around you while you diddle with your thumbs on your phone. Also, I don't want my fucking picture taken unless I know that you have good hygiene and I'll never find myself on the interwebz.
I'm an extremist, and I have no shame.
I just say no.
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I just put Fedora on my mum's Chromebook and told her it was an update
It made it easier for her to access email anyway
-sshole move, but it's definetely A move.
Funny tho ngl
WASHINGTON—Saying he would not hesitate to use force if she continued to disobey his orders, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered a military blockade Monday of a woman attempting to walk away from him in a D.C.-area bar.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/69895885
Is there a CLI/TUI start menu like tool, with favorites/categories?Or even better, a whole status bar at the top/bottom (also without X/wayland/framebuffer), with time, battery, maybe even launched background processes listed you can bring to front?
No reason that we can't have some Desktop metaphor niceties on shell too, no?
No, as it's own small applications, no multiplexing.
I've made a small battery/time indicator script years ago, that launches in top right corner using tput. But i'm sure something ncurses/Rust could do better.
Especially a "task bar" with background & processes seems a new idea for cli. Could use kill to bring them to front again or even freeze or save & restore them.
A list of awesome resources for tmux. Contribute to rothgar/awesome-tmux development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Over the past year I have spent a fair amount of time running local Stable Diffusion setups for personal experiments and small client work. A few notes for anyone getting into this space or looking to compare local vs. browser-based generation tools.
Running a local WebUI gives you full control over checkpoints, LoRAs, ControlNet models, and extensions, which is great once you know what you are doing. The tradeoff is setup complexity - GPU drivers, Python environment conflicts, and VRAM limits are a common source of frustration for newcomers. If you are on a laptop or a machine without a dedicated GPU, it is often faster to prototype ideas with a browser-based tool like Automatic1111 style interfaces before committing to a full local install, especially when you just want to test a prompt idea quickly.
Once you do have a working local setup, a few practical tips that saved me time:
Happy to compare notes with anyone else running local generation pipelines, especially around extension management and reproducible environments.
Create, edit, enhance, and download images and videos with automatic1111. Turn prompts and reference media into polished visual content online.Automatic1111
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La France de 2026 est au niveau de la Bulgarie en 2019
I have a fedora workstation pac connected to the living room tv, running some server duties in the house and playing games over streaming and on the tv it is connected to.
I want to forbid reboot/shutdown from the UI. I want only sudo in the terminal to be able to do that.
I'm no certain of the best way to do that. I cant go just hiding the options on a per UI basis as I'll be playing whack-a-mole until I'm dead. Instead, Id like things like plasma and steam to understand they aren't permitted to make that request, but if they try anyway, the OS just ignores them.
I don't know if Fedora (or plasma) do things differently but the normal default is that you need sudo to reboot/shutdown/etc.
Then on basically all distros using systemd this behavior is modified via logind session and polkit. So the first thing to look at would be if a shutdown rule exists in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ that allow users in a certain group to shutdown/reboot in the first place.
Mine looks like this:
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-shutdown.rulespolkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {if ((action.id == "shutdown" ||action.id == "reboot") &&subject.isInGroup("wheel")){return polkit.Result.YES;}});
So every user in the wheel group can do it without password prompt. Without this UI elements for shutdown/reboot will try assuming they have the right but simply fail.
You'd probably want to look into dbus or PAM.
Or google, how people fixed that they were not able to shutdown from GUI. That's a more common occurence than limiting it.
You’re barking up the wrong tree and fucking up your life by doing this.
Split the streaming/gaming duty to a different device that can be operated in the way the user expects.
Wherever you disconnect shutdown signals from will be relied upon by something down the road and you’ll end up with a weird messed up broken update when that happens.
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I've used pavucontrol throughout pretty much all my Linux life. But it only controls pulseaudio side of things. I found that it does not work that well with pipewire.
For example if I do something like wpctl set-mute 56 toggle, the mute state is not reflected in any way in pavucontrol, but I see that the device is muted for example in alsamixer.
Any good pipewire-native volume control?
I just had to duckduckgo it lol
github.com/saivert/pwvucontrol
yeah this one works better
Pipewire Volume Control. Contribute to saivert/pwvucontrol development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The recommended way of installing pwvucontrol is through Flatpak.
It's in Arch repo btw.
amixer -q set Master playback 75%Or whatever percentage you want.
Open CAD Studio: 2D + 3D CAD-applicatie in Rust met GPU-versnelde rendering. Native DWG/DXF lezen en schrijven, paper space, ACIS solids — een open source community-project door Hakan Seven, herkend door de OpenAEC Foundation.OpenAEC Foundation
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A full-featured 2D + 3D CAD application built in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering. Native DWG & DXF read and write, paper space, ACIS solids, dimensions, layouts. An open source community project by Hakan Seven, recognized and promoted by the OpenAEC Foundation.
Besides all the whining here, is the program actually good? Does it work? Is it buggy?
If people can create useful working open source software using LLM's then I don't really care an LLM wrote it.
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00:07:38 CAL PRIVACY INSPIRATION
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The Epic Games Store launcher is to run natively on Linux. There is no date, and Linux is not yet included in the preview of the new client.Daniel Herbig (heise online)
I'm really glad for all Valve has done for Linux, but Microsoft is not the monopoly it once was. Chromebooks are the new frontier and Epic is the one taking on the Play Store monopoly.
Add in GOG to the mix with their anti-DRM advocacy and I'm left with a tough choice for who I would rather my 30% store tax to go to.
This is something we should honestly ignore and show a big fat middle finger to anything Epic ever does with Linux until Tim Sweeney is gone.
The company has been actively undermining Linux gaming for years, and they’re only switching gears because it is now convenient and profitable to do si
If you care about Indie games, you should definitely support them to put some pressure on valve in regards to:
They should have different tiers for the 30% cut, but they offer developers much more than any other platform. It's all bundled in their universal 30% cut.
Regarding your second point, they can have lower prices on other platforms. They just can't sell steam keys for less on other platforms.
For example, I can sell a game for $30 on steam, a steam key for $30 on another platform, or the same game for $10 but with no steam key on another platform.
allowing to have lower prices on other platforms. That's genuinely monopoly behavior and I do hope they lose their lawsuits in this regard.
They do allow to do so, what they don't allow is selling Steam keys at a lower proce outside of Steam, if you sell the game on GOG at a lower price (for example) you totally can but if you sell on your website a Steam key for 20€ while on Steam it's at 30€, you can't
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GeForce NOW's native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontendJoey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu)
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You can just use a different distro and benifit off all the work that went into developing steam by using the open source tools they threw money at or directly helped along.
I can pirate games, buy from gog, use a different distro, run the game through lutris/bottles with proton ge, and never open steam, yet they still kind of help bring the community there.
Sense the steam deck came out there have been so many github projects for linux and gaming just due to the fact people feel like they are apart of the community. Steam tinkers launcher has been amazing and I wish I had that 8 years ago when I barely knew how to make a wineprefix.
And that shits happening all over again and we are going to get a lot of improvements with fex, and waydroid with the soon release of the steam frame. Fex and waydroid will be crutial for someone trying to fork android, or make a Linux based arch64 os. The work is already benifiting lots of people. Sadly gamesir seems to be the only one taking advantage of this and they're rather shitty of a company.
Say what you will of steam being a monopoly, and still being a evil corperation I'm all for it. But the world is not so black and white and sometimes you gotta side with the bad guys because at this moment it benifits you more. At any time steam can start forcing digital ID to play mature games, or start doing weird shit.
I can't say the same for companies like nvidia or epic who are now trying to weasle in. Who are completely closed source and don't have anything that directly helps the community at large. Steam at least gives you the tools to make your own open source steam deck/steam machine competitor because if despite all odds you make a popular consolex most people are still going to end up putting steam on it. That dynamic can change at any moment, but in the now I'm allowed to pick my favorite corperation and willfully ignore a lot of glaring issues, because to me the benifit outways the down sides. If I'm going to get fucked I at least want it to be comfortable, maybe missionary with some mutual kissing. I don't want someone just raw dogging me doggy style rough, and I don't think it's that wrong to have a preference.
The goal of these requirements is to ensure that the applications hosteddocs.flathub.org
Good for Linux and flatpak, but seriously fuck nvidia
Jensen sucks trumps shriveled orange flower
The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testingwww.phoronix.com
Lately I mostly see only minor improvements when I hear about Gnome updates.
I mean, I like quality of life improvements, but is it me or the project is becoming stagnant over time?
With this and the GPU reset handling, it looks like it's not just ReactOS that's starting to catch up with Vista
you gotta admit the phoronix comment section can do ok sometimes.
but blur does look pretty good on gnome with blur-my-shell, a good official implementation would make it look finished and refined ootb, imo.
Publicação original no Reddit aqui.
Algumas pessoas se fixam muito na ideia de quais bandeiras de orgulho são "oficiais", quando, na realidade, não há órgão que pode obrigar pessoas a não usar bandeiras diferentes ou criar novas bandeiras para uma determinada identidade. É verdade que a bandeira amarela/branca/roxa/cinza escura feita por Kye Rowan vai ser mais facilmente reconhecida como "a bandeira não-binária", mas é sempre possível divulgar bandeiras diferentes ou usar bandeiras menos conhecidas em situações onde não há urgência para que as bandeiras sejam reconhecidas como as mais populares, como imagens de perfis pessoais ou de grupos.
Por isso, para inaugurar o flair de cunhagem/bandeira, estou apresentando algumas outras bandeiras que podem representar a não-binaridade. 😊
Também já vi uma de cinco cores contendo as cores da bandeira mais popular (talvez um pouco modificadas) + verde, com as cores reorganizadas da mais clara para a mais escura. Não incluí na publicação original por não ter conseguido a encontrar, mas, ao editar esta publicação para este blog, a encontrei: é esta aqui. Também encontrei esta outra bandeira, que usa as cores da bandeira mais popular mas as faixas coloridas estão na diagonal por cima do fundo horizontal preto e branco.
Postagem de apreciação por bandeiras não-binárias alternativas byu/applepowder innaobinarieapplepowder (reddit)
like 95% of the time this happens its when i play minecraft (on lunar client) and in a discord call at the same time, PLEASE help 😭😭😭
distro: endeavourOS
gpu: nvidia rtx 3060 ti
cpu: amd ryzen 7 5700G
de: kde plasma wayland
if i need to add any extra info then please say so
Here’s the basic tests to run, one of them will show you what the problem is
- memtest.org
- sysbench memory
- sysbench cpu
- stress-ng
- gpu-burn
This article will give you the details on how to use most of them: fosslinux.com/42630/best-cpu-s…
Be to do them in that order, you don’t want memory issues to show up looking like cpu issues, or cpu issues to look like gpu issues.
Memtest86+ is an advanced, free, open-source, stand-alone memory tester for 32- and 64-bit computers (UEFI & BIOS supported)Memtest86+
Stop guessing about hardware stability. I expose the thermal forensics and stress-ng logic used to certify production servers.Arjun K. (FOSS Linux)
sudo journalctl -b 1 -e -x. What errors are logged?
Traditionally, "freezing" means that the system doesn't respond at all. More than likely, your system is just swapping heavily and slowing down to a crawl. If that's what's happening, the hard drive activity light will be on constantly.
The best fix for this is more memory, but RAM is currently expensive. If you can't afford to buy more, you may have to try to cope in software. First, do The Bleeding Obvious: close any programs that you don't immediately need before you start that Discord call. This includes not leaving unnecessary webpages open, just in case.
See what your distro has to say about swappiness and how to set it. You probably want a value lower than the default 60, maybe even as low as 0.
If it gets worse over tme, it's possible that something you're running has a memory leak. You may be able to figure out what using top or similar and seeing which programs' memory use grows over time. Restarting the greedy ones periodically may be able to keep your system from bogging down, at the cost of some inconvenience.
Moving to a bare compositor rather than the relatively heavyweight KDE might also free up some RAM, but I'm not sure how much that will actually help.
As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechani...hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com
This is happening because you touch yourself. It’s punishment from god for the sin of onanism.
E: actually probably everyone itt is forgetting about ssd read fatigue. Rewrite every block on your ssd and the problem will go away.
holy cow thanks!! ill probably forget about this and be too lazy to do all of these but still ykyk
EDIT: i now lowered the allocated wam (ram) in lunar client so it should be better? before i changed it my used ram was like 14/15 (idk why its not 16 but okay) and now its like 10/15. I will update you guys soon
No prob. Most of these things won't take long, a few mins each. I tried to order them roughly by easy to difficult/time consuming.
Good luck!
I'm conflicted by this post. On one hand, I appreciate another distro to learn about (thank you). But anytime Hyprland comes up, I am always reminded of that dev and community being transphobes/racists.
itsfoss.com/news/framework-hyp…
I've never looked at Hyprland and felt the need to switch from Sway, maybe thats just because I've been a user of it for long enough now. Years ago I read that Hyprland handles Teams screen shares better but I'm not sure.
The announcement has generated quite some buzz but for all the wrong reasons.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Disruptive by design?
Is this 2015 VC backed slop or something?
It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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Though I have something more to add here.Don't unleash your army of clankers (I believe the formal term is 'AI agents') on this project; it's already happening to many open source projects lately, and this one has just been revived. It doesn't need to be inundated with hallucinations and pointless fixes.
The maintainers also request that anyone opening a pull request for a bug fix show a way to reproduce the problem first.
Yeah, the modern kiss of death to any project.
I use LightDM on my daily driver and hadn't noticed it hadn't received any updates, but yep, it's there in this morning's batch, nice.
What do you think it'll happen and what do you want to happen?Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not.
The choices being considered for this Debian general resolution (GR) include:
[ ] Choice 1: Ban LLM contributions from Debian via Social Contract
[ ] Choice 2: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions
[ ] Choice 3: Reject LLMs as far as practical, update Code of Conduct
[ ] Choice 4: Accept AI contributions for Debian specific work
[ ] Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI
[ ] Choice 6: A cautious approach to generative AI
[ ] Choice 7: Debian is created by humans
[ ] Choice 8: Avoid the use of LLM: climate destruction is a deal breaker
[ ] Choice 9: None of the above
All the details on each of those choices can be found via the Debian.org vote page.
Additional details in this mailing list post with the voting details on the general resolution. The voting period began at midnight and is set to run through end of day 28 August.
Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the projectwww.phoronix.com
What is this, a Monty Python skit? How the fuck are they gonna come with a consensus with all these choices?
There's really just choices 1 & 2. The rest are just elaboration. And what the fuck is even 'none of the above'?
Really, there's just 'yes' and 'no'. If it's a 'yes', there would certainly be condition, which can come later. If it's a 'no', who give a shit why; it's a vote, not a fucking book club. They can definitely put the reason in the comment, but do they really need to put the reasons as the choice?
Where did you pull that number from? vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_…
The smallest difference between a systemd option and a “not-only-systemd option” I see is
Option 2 defeats Option 4 by ( 211 - 177) = 34 votes.
And bear in mind that condorcet selects the most agreeable option, not just the majority option.
And it makes sense: the most likely contender at the time was upstart, which didn't stand the test of time AFAIK (I don't think the systemd hater crowd still uses that)
So it ended up the right decision. Would they have decided differently if other good init systems had existed already? Maybe, but they didn't.
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it was fun trip down memory lane looking for this... thank you github for being down today. lol
Yeah, no matter the truth content of this piece of tinfoil, the vote I linked shows that systemd continued being agreeable among voters.
The handful of conspiracy myth believers are now on Devuan if that still exists. Presumably mad about something else that exists only in their head.
The 1st round should be yes, or no.
Choice A in the developer poll still allows for ai
"It does not include:
Upstream projects using LLMs for development
AI-related software
Upstream patches/security fixes etc."
The correct link:
I thought debian was better than ubuntu, hopefully I was right. I only have it installed as a back-up/look more into later distro, so it is very easily deleted if they wander down the nuclear wasteland path.
BALLOT OPTIONS
::: spoiler
Preamble
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This proposal aims to expressly forbid any contributions to Debian
written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or
other generative AI tools.
The scope of this GR is (non-exhaustive):
- Debian source packages
- Official Debian project software, such as lintian
- Debian web resources
- Documentation and translations added by Debian contributors
- Official communication from Debian
It does not include:
- Upstream projects using LLMs for development
- AI-related software
- Upstream patches/security fixes etc.
Rationale
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Debian has a well-earned reputation for stability. This stability is
crucial to Debian's position in the free software ecosystem. It is our
belief that widespread LLM usage comes from the "move fast, and break
things" attitude that, while common in many parts of this industry, is
contrary to what makes Debian Debian, and is inappropriate for Debian
contributors.
In practical terms, LLM usage raises the following concerns:
1. Copyright
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LLM output has very unclear legal status: it may be possible to
copyright on its own merits, or not; it may be affected by all of the
licenses and copyrights in the training data, or not. Debian Policy
and the DFSG require absolute clarity for licensing and
copyright[1][2]. Software and other contributions written
conventionally by humans with unclear copyright or license status are
not allowed in Debian; LLM output should not have a special exception
to this.
2. Quality
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LLM output has many well-known problems with accuracy.[3][4][5] A LLM
can never "know" if its output is correct since it merely produces
syntactically likely combinations of the training data. In some
environments this is good enough. In Debian, it is not. For instance,
in packaging, each Debian source package is unique. Since packaging
syntax and best practices have changed over time, a LLM-produced
package will have a mixture of contents spanning the age of the
archive, with watch files that do not work, overrides out of context,
imaginary copyright, and will generally be unfit for upload. A
seasoned Debian contributor with packaging expertise may find some
limited usefulness here, but a new contributor cannot, and would not
know how to fix it. These same quality and accuracy concerns apply
clearly to all of the areas listed in the scope of this proposal
above. If Debian were a closed organization comprising only domain
experts who never leave, this might not be an issue; however,
3. Community
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Debian is a project that is more than just code: it is a community
built on shared interests in free software and solving technical
problems. Debian intentionally grows this community through many
means, and new contributors are always encouraged to join. Allowing
LLM contributions breaks this. New contributors submitting LLM output
for review places an unnecessary strain on the reviewer, which can
lead to burnout. Furthermore, LLM-dependent new contributors do not
actually learn and understand the details of Debian packaging or
processes, so they cannot come to replace a former burned out DD.
4. Ethics
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LLM companies directly hurt the free software community as whole by
scraping the whole web for training data without any regard for
license, copyright, or even established conventions such as
robots.txt.[6] This has had a major negative impact on Debian's public
web resources, effectively a large scale and perpetual Denial of
Service attack on sites that many users rely on. As a consequence
parts of our infrastructure were not reachable at all, and JS-based
checks had to be enabled. Many other projects were similarly affected.
Furthermore, LLM training consumes a staggering amount of
resources[7], and the user verification systems that we have been
forced to implement as protection waste resources as well. This is
blatant disregard for the internet as a public resource, wastes system
administrator time, and although individual LLM sessions do not
directly use massive resources or DoS the public web, the fact that
they can be used at all is a direct result of these unethical
behaviours by the LLM companies.
Debian has a Social Contract. [8] Our priorities are our users and
free software. Debian is Stable. [9] Users and organizations choose
Debian because it is reliable and secure.
Debian is not here to generate as much code as possible requiring
manual review by a shrinking number of human volunteers, or to package
every piece of software, or to rush new features, but these are what
LLMs are used for.
In conclusion, allowing LLM contributions is contrary to the social
contract and the common cause of creating a free operating system with
a focus on quality and stability.
Proposal
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In the interest of not eroding Debian's reputation or further damaging
the community, LLM-assisted contributions should be prohibited from
inclusion in Debian.
Though our position is that LLM contributions are contrary to
documents already ratified by Debian, in order to remove all doubt, we
propose the following addition to the Social Contract:
6. Works Created through the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)
We will not allow direct contributions to Debian written with the use
or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI
tools. Direct contributions are defined as packaging, native Debian
software like lintian, documentation and translations written by
Debian contributors, and official Debian web resources, etc. Other
categories such as upstream projects written with LLM assistance may
be included at a later date. This ensures that Debian remains a
stable, trusted, and reliable operating system, and protects the
interests of the Debian volunteers who make it possible.
Possible Issues
---------------
Other projects exploring similar decisions have elicited a common
reply: "How will you enforce a ban on LLM contributions?" While
enforcement could be a challenge, this is a statement of intent by the
Debian community, and we trust this community to adhere to it in good
faith.
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For my personal workstation, it's such a rare thing I always use that an excuse to start from scratch again. If it's like a business system or something, usually build a new system and migrate data and services to it gradually.
I so rarely do in-place upgrades of system drives unless it's a recovery or something.
Last time I did this I used btrfs.
Add the new drive to the system, create partitions, add the new volume and then remove the old one, btrfs moves all the blocks to the new drive.
The ESP partition is small enough and FAT- enough to just use cp.
Huh.
I never thought of using that feature of btrfs that way. Brilliant.
I would add that a slightly better way would be to do it in raid1 mode instead of single mode.
That way you can move the data over by running a balance, instead of by removing the old volume, which would survive the process being interrupted by a reboot or whatever else.
Then after the balance you can remove the old volume and turn the new one back into a single volume.
cp /dev/sda /dev/sdb.
Same thing you suggested, plus a btrfs scrub to check integrity when finished. I suspect btrfs provides a more elegant mechanism for this, which I have been too lazy to look up.
I could never reinstall ... I end up customizing so extensively that a few years ago, I centralized all of my customizations in a VM image that I clone if I do need a fresh install.
this is why i use lvm's.
i add the new drive to the lvm and afterwards remove the old drive from the lvm.
E: please read the entire post before replying...
Hi all. For the last several years I've been using Bazzite/Gamescope on my desktop, and even before that I was using it with ChimeraOS. It's been really great and I've enjoyed it thoroughly. Unfortunately I've begun to experience issues with games freezing. Within an hour of firing up a game, the image freezes. Audio continues playing on a loop. I'm able to pull up the menu and exit out of the game no problem. But then I fire it up and the same thing happens again.
I don't really know how to diagnose this issue but I reinstalled Bazzite fresh, same issue. Installed CachyOS-Handheld, same issue. However I tried launching games from the desktop mode and I've now spent ~20 hours gaming with no issue, but this is certainly not ideal. Any ideas on potential fixes?
E: AMD 5700x + 6800XT 16GB
Step one for me whenever I run into an issue, is to load up an earlier system snapshot and see if that fixes it.
If it does, it was an update that changed something. If it doesn't, it's likely a hardware issue.
By going back in time to a version that you know worked.
If that doesn't fix it, then you can be sure the problem is hardware related, because it still happens on the exact same software that used to work.
And if it does work on older software, then you can go forward one update/snapshot at a time, until you find the change that causes the problem.
What you need to do is compare different points in TIME (older versions), not the same software just installed differently.
because it still happens on the exact same software that used to work.
It also doesn't happen on different software, which suggests it's not a hardware issue.
I don't have the slightest clue how to do anything with snapshots and it's been months since it began anyway so I wouldn't even know where to start. And even if I did know which version caused the problem, I wouldn't know where to go from there.
A different distro is not different software. Distros are really just different ways to install the same exact software.
Gamescope on Bazzite is the same as Gamescope on Cachy. Same for Plasma/KDE.
Why would they be different?
A different distro is not different software.
...what!? LOL
Gamescope on Bazzite is the same as Gamescope on Cachy. Same for Plasma/KDE.
Gamescope on either is also not the same as Plasma.
Yes.
A distro or distribution is just a collection of software packages, and usually a package manager.
The actual software itself is the same. The list can be different, but where the items overlap, they are the same. How up to date they are can vary, but Plasma 6 on Bazzite is the exact same as Plasma 6 on Cachy.
Systemd is the same systemd across arch, ubuntu, mint, endeavour, fedora, and any others that use it.
Is this not obvius?
Changing the distro does not tell you much. Especially as you're running the exact same program in the exact same DE, you should absolutely expect the same result.
Is this not obvius?
Not only is it not obvious, it's not accurate.
A distro or distribution is just a collection of software packages
Software packages that are different . That's what makes one distro different from another. Is that not obvious?
Software packages that are different.
No? The same software is the same software, regardless what distro you install it on.
Gamescope running on top of KDE/Plasma in one distro will not be different from Gamescope running on top of KDE/Plasma in another distro.
Distros are just presets. The vast majority have far more similarities than differences.
What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.
Or any other litany of alternative packages that do the same things.
But if you use the same software, then there is little difference between one distro and the next. The main difference is going to be that you installed the same code from a different distributor.
That's literally where the name "distro" comes from.
Software packages that are differentNo?
What makes one distro different from another, is that it might come with gnome instead of KDE, pacman instead of apt, initd instead of systemd, systemd-boot instead of grub.
So...different software? Those are all software.
That’s literally where the name of “distro” comes from.
The name comes from different distributions of Linux that come packaged with different software .
I don't know what semantics game you're trying to play here or how it's supposed to help me fix my machine but I'm out.
No.
We use the word distro because they're not really a fully separate OS. Just a different preset with either a lot or almost nothing swapped out as compared to the next.
You are so hung up being correct here you're missing what I'm actually trying to teach you.
You need to be comparing different versions, not distros. Because the same version of the same software is going to have the same problem, no matter what distro you use.
You don't even know how to access system logs, and you expect to understand enough about this stuff to successfully correct me on why trying a different distro isn't that helpful for troubleshooting?
AND I AM TELLING YOU TO DOWNGRADE THEM SO YOU CAN SEE IF AN EARLIER VERSION WORKS CORRECTLY, INSTEAD OF SWAPPING OUT THE ENTIRE DISTRO
ONLY TO TRY THE EXACT SAME COMPOSITOR AS IF THAT WOULD FIX IT
So instead of that, try earlier versions! Different distros from the same date are obviously likely to be running similar versions of Gamescope or whatever else might be the cause.
I don't have the slightest clue how to do anything with snapshots and it's been months since it began anyway so I wouldn't even know where to start
Well, if you didn't create any, you can't go back to them.
My suggestion is to find the archival ISOs of older versions and try them WITHOUT updating after installing them offline.
Though, if you end up having to install gamescope from the internet, then you're likely getting the exact same latest version no matter what distro you use.
Hence, maybe just easier to learn how to install older versions of packages on cachy. The Arch archive repo makes that quite doable.
And even if I did know which version caused the problem, I wouldn't know where to go from there.
You pin the package/system and prevent it from updating so it keeps working for you. And report the bug so it can be fixed.
All of this stuff is a community effort. You can wait for someone else to figure out the problem of course, but the fastest solution is usually to volunteer yourself.
Yeah, they have. The problem is that I don't know understand anything they're talking about. And I'm not interested in starting a new career. So I guess I should have known better.
I already wiped Bazzite. But the only communities they support are Reddit, Github, and Discord. None of which I have any interest in participating in. The top pinned thread in their Discourse says no one looks at issues there, and to go to the corporate platforms for support.
I appreciate the effort though.
TL;DR
Install an archival version of Bazzite or whatever else that corresponds to a date when you know it worked correctly.
Bazzite in particular makes this fairly easy. They have straight forward instructions on how to roll back to a given version.
If that fixes it, just use that version and don't update.
If you want to stick with Cachy, you can use the Arch Archive to downgrade your entire system to an earlier date, or just Gamescope.
PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
In my case it wasn't a total freeze but rather just a massive slowdown. It would happen at random, especially in Desktop mode when I had too many things open. My device is a ROG Ally Z1 Extreme (16 GB of unified memory), Bazzite in gaming mode.
I permanently solved the issue by simply adding a bit of swap memory.
Update: Thank you all for your kind and quick responses! I installed Void and antiX and cruised around in them a little. I ended up defaulting back to Artix in the end. The hardware issues with the NIC seem to have gotten resolved. Whatever toxicity and bigotry is present among their larger demographic, I'm going to spread as much light and love as possible. That is, until I switch OS again. 🤣
I have literally never whined about distros before. I went through some Debian based ones, some Arch based one and also installed a base version of Gentoo.
I am most fond of Arch, but after trying Artix, I found that I'm more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.
In addition to the latest Artix making my NIC unrecognized by the OS, the Artix forums also seem to house at least some transphobia. This is as good as any opportunity for me to finally ask the question to the world wide web:
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T480 on which I want to use mpv to play video. What Linux flavor do you recommend for a non desktop setup? I looked briefly at Slackware, but it seemed somewhat prepackaged, as opposed to configured by me.
You don't know how to swim? Well buddy, let me introduce you to the 38 ft deep whirlpool zone!
(I've never used it either but it sounds cool lol)
Arch (based) - if you like to customize every detail of your OS
Nixos - if you like to customize every detail of your OS and you are tired of breaking your system constantly
PopOS - if you would like to stop customizing your system and want to get used to great defaults
Mint - you just want things to work
CachyOS or Bazzite - if you want to play games
IMO, NixOS is like arch but it forces you to declare everything up front.
I’ve seen people create advanced configs with Arch then bring them over to the locked-in world of NixOS. I’d add that Home-Manager is crucial if you decide to do that (less so if you are building headless machines or VM’s). Ps. You can even build a super customized config then run it as a NixVM in your favorite container manager/k8s cluster.
I’m more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.
this community is dominated by the systemd fanboys and you will be punished accordingly for your heresy. lol
this community is dominated by the systemd fanboys
Hey now. There's dozens of us who had that thing force fed for us. I've been on Debian for decades, so even if I don't really like systemd it's the lesser evil than switching a distro to something without it.
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Meh. As long as it's a local only field on /etc/passwd or whatever I don't really care. Actually I'd be for it if browsers and other internet-thingies could send rough idea of users age to the services. Not actual age, but something like child/teen/adult -scale. That would make it super simple to reputable services to block underaged users and parents could set that to their kids accounts as they see fit.
But obviously the surveillance tool "they" are building is something totally different where the age is actually verified via some online service. For that I'm strictly against and if that becomes mandatory on Debian or whatever distro I'll start my own with blackjack and hookers if nothing else is available.
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Alpine is great for a minimal headless system and it uses OpenRC.
Edit: and also great for a single app setup
I use Alpine Linux for my two Rasberry Pi servers and for my laptop with Sway. I enjoy it a lot. The setup scripts are quite nice to work with.
Documentation is decent but I found myself supplementing the Alpine wiki with the Gentoo and Arch wikis.
Building a system from the minimal starting point felt quite rewarding and I really enjoy tinkering with it still. Learning to script for ash has been quite the experience too.
But what is it that you like about Arch in the first place?
The ability to keep it small and customize from there. Going basically kernel + base (which includes some packages I remove afterwards anyway).Like, do you want to limit your options to distros that are well supported by OpenRC? Or, is this simply a preference kind of thing?
I'm not well versed enough in OpenRC to understand what a distro that has "bad" support for it looks like, but I did find it easy to understand it's layout/directories and the syntax of its scripts.Do you want to engage in distro-specific forums or was your engagement in there mostly out of necessity?
I was investigating whether a certain thread had been closed to the public, requiring sign-up, or not.Excellent, so you’re a builder/tinkerer that prefers a clean slate to work from.
Yes. Litterally, give me CLI and I'll take it from there. xD
Devuan and Peppermint Devuan edition are good ones. These basically are Debian but you can use OpenRC.
I don't recommend Alpine, it is a non-GNU Linux and was not developed for desktop/workstation usage, so you might encounter undocumented issues.
The closest thing to Artix is Gentoo, a DIY distro with OpenRC, but it is for the real geeks.
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Good luck to you.
And here's a discussion about void from this community a few days ago:
I've never used Artix but I saw someone bought it up recently about their toxic community. Didn't know about that, glad I do now.
[From Portuguese to English] Are you ready to embrace Void Linux?
Are you ready to embrace the Void Linux void?
In 2008, a developer with previous experience in NetBSD began work on a new package manager for Linux called XBPS, an acronym for X Binar...felaktig.[info]
Use the filters (including init software) to narrow your options:
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.distrowatch.com
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hey printf. just wanted to drop in and say its been really cool to follow your Linux journey. I don't have suggestions for you, but please keep it up.
can I ask: what is it about OpenRC that you like? I personally haven't tried artix yet (for personal use i'm on arch) so I'm not familiar with the differences.
Thank you so much for your kind comment! It made me smile!😊 Never realized that my Linux journey is being "watched", so I'm kind of blushing from unexpected self-consciousness 🤣
I have no knowledge of the inner workings of OpenRC, but what I like from just having used it a few months is the fact that I understand the "architecture"? How there are system scripts and user scripts, how they belong to run levels. Also, this of course depends heavily on one's specific setup, but I have a smaller pstree on a fresh install with OpenRC than what I had with systemd.
With that said, I am going to look into "simply" switching to OpenRC on Arch down the road, since I have been on Arch for many years now.
I see this question a lot. The old me would've used whatever Stallman / the FSF recommends.
My take now is just use whatever gets the job done. Ubuntu, fedora, debian, etc. I would recommend stable bleeding edge distros like fedora
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Be careful posting articles like this. I'm quoting some parts of it before anyone jumps to conclusion without reading it.
What does the policy say?The policy summarizes itself this way:
It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.
Pre-arranged, non-critical, high-quality, well-tested, and well-reviewed code changes that are originally created by an LLM are allowed, with disclosure.
Moderation rules
You must disclose LLM-generated content. You can choose to not post LLM content, or you can choose to post it and disclose its origin. You may not hide LLM involvement.
Peace be with you, F-Droid Community. 🌹
As many probably know, Google will block Android starting 2027.
Here is my hope: Google has shot itself in the foot with this Darth Vader move, because many People who loves privacy will now switch to de-googled systems, because ( Since to my knowledge), the blockade won't affect those systems.
So this is just my Openion and my HOPE.
What's your take on this?
And I kindly say to all developers: Please don't register in Google.
There are so many people using de-googled systems now, including myself. Please keep going for us, and four you too. Please
Best wishes from Germany 🌹
Is there a program or a way to tell what apps currently on ones phone will be affected by this?
Hi.
As far as I know, there is no program with which you can check this.
But, I know that for example F-Droid apps on Google-certified devices will no longer be usable, because these apps are not registered in the Play Store. According to the KeepAndroidOpen page, this will no longer work.
I want to add: According to the Samsung Galaxy Store Seller Portal, apps that are already installed will remain usable, just without updates.
Hopes, that helped.
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.keepandroidopen.org
Not fully what you're asking but this was posted on their official Reddit
Google has already had to change how they plan on implementing their blocking app installs from unregistered developers after a lot of backlash. "Sideloading" will still be possible, as we've all learned from recent news. The 24 hour wait does add some friction to the whole process, which is the point of course, but it's far less bad than some people are trying to make it seem. 24 hours, then it's over and the user is free to install apps as they please.This "sideloading" restriction is not even the biggest problem right now. Play Integrity is worse and does affect us directly. The effects of Play Integrity are showing up in multiple places, like now apps can't be installed via Play Store, maybe Aurora in the future, apps refuse to run, Play Integrity verdicts are worse if an app was installed via another source than Play Store, and Automatic Protection has Play Integrity features being added. It's a far bigger problem. It causes enough friction for some users that they give up on GrapheneOS or other non-GMS OSes to go back to whatever stock OS they had before, one complete with Google apps with privileged access and awful privacy. This other issue just got a lot more attention, and I'm guessing because it's easier for people to fully understand.
We have been in touch with EU regulators about Play Integrity and I hope that can continue in the future. Google isn't going to change things because a small group of people are complaining. We need regulators to help with big issues. We need to find a way to make them understand what is happening. Play Integrity is a big example of them locking things down under the guise of "security." Fixating on other smaller issues is, in my opinion, less effective and a waste of time and resources. The "sideloading" thing has enough attention and opponents to the change have had some success.
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The nonprofit GrapheneOS Foundation was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by Daniel Micay, Dmytro Mukhomor, and Khalykbek Yelshibekov in March 2023. It received large contributions from donors such as Ethereum developer Vitalik Buterin and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. As of April 2026, the operating system had approximately 400,000 active users.
obviously thats just graphene. i use e/os on my phone. not sure how many other distros there are...
Indeed. Users like us might think we are in larger amounts. But sadly enough we are the minority.
Same with Linux.
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A rounding error that many friends and family rely on for tech advice.
I actually got surprised how quick people around me reacted to remove/avoid the tracker before sharing url links for example.
It's not always about "winning". Sometimes it's about what you do and what you become while doing it. Do I want to be able to influence google directly? Yes. Do I need to? No. I just need a big-enough community that shares my values, and it's OK for me that there's an even bigger community nearby that shares something else.
It's important. We're not doing an election.
I think it is great that you are putting your energy into something that feels meaningful to you. But we also need to make sure that we don't waste our energy on something that doesn't burn us out.
The current message has low energy, which means that the energy doesn't spread so easily. What we need is high energy which means that energy spreads easily.
We need a high energy message. A message that empowers the individuals, makes us dream, makes us want to contribute to the movement.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts so openly. Sorry my message came off as "low energy" to you. But to me, it still holds up logically. Google makes money mostly from ads and our data. The more people boycott their products, the less funding goes to things like Project Nimbus. De-googled setups, a phone, an app, a browser, give me hope. This isn't just about privacy for me, it's about human rights! And i hope ther will coming more Alternatives.
Again: Thanks for sharing your openion so openly.
I'd expect us to be organized enough to be prepared for google removing our foundation. Instead all we've got is a countdown timer and a call to pressure a fucking evil company into "doing the right thing".
it's as if we are begging on our knees to extend our execution date. I don't feel any motivation about putting my energy on the line for this weak ass energy.
To be fair, this has been an issue from the start, and barely anyone cared about it until now. To put into perspective, the whole PC environment has evolved to be open within its fundamentals - Standardised components, user servisable parts, and ability to control what OS is put on.
In the case of phones, propriatery is the norm. No standardized components nor freedom, just the fact that we are doomed from the start as a single corpo essentially owns your phone not the other way around.
If something where to change it would be separation of the manufacturer from the OS and the premise of a free bootloader. Of course this is what's happening right now with google-free phones; of course, this should've been done sooner - but at least this will work as a catalyst for the future devices.
we're not "fucked", things will continue working just the same on any phone without Play Services installed.
This is a shitty situation but let's not pretend like it's the doomsday.. Even after it goes into effect android will still be incomparably more open than ios
I tried to open up an issue (and did a PR) suggesting a developer strike as a tactic (IE open source devs adding their names to a list to promise to remove our apps from google play if developer ID goes through) on the KeepAndroidOpen repo. As a dev whose made many android apps and have them on both f-droid and google play, I thought this would mean something.
The maintainers of that repo have been ignoring me to death since April. I was told by the maintainer that the project was "leaderless", but in reality it seems they're very opposed to a developer strike, otherwise my PR would've gotten more attention.
I'm an open source developer who distributes my apps both on google play, and f-droid. I'd like to be part of this effort, and it would really help for google to see how many open-source developers...dessalines (GitHub)
There are some really popular FOSS apps for android, that are also on google play. Things like tasks.org , all the fossify apps, termux, joplin, ankidroid, thunderbird / k9, and many more.
These being potentially removed from google play by developers due to a developer strike, would have more of an impact than KeepAndroidOpen's current top strategy, which is for users to mass email their country's regulators, which are easily ignored by either politicians or google.
Must be a US based/themed online "protest"
"We want something to change"
"We aren't going to do anything drastic for the change"
"Nothing changed? Oh well!"
They almost always seem like a controlled opposition set up to make people believe, gain support (artificially at first to deter competeting protests that are more radical), but once it gets popular it doesn't accomplish anything, won't listen to ideas, input and feedback from the community and fold as soon as they aren't required.
Is there a change to an app in Google TOCs that can get folk to get app from F-droid?
For example: "Free features for this app only available on play. New features and enhancements available (paid or) for free through f-droid." Or if you cannot openly advertise in the app, "Visit our website to get enhanced features and updates" with clear documentation on how to install and permit f-droid and get app through there.
That way, big app devs can create moves to f-droid, normalising it and chipping away at googles power. The more apps, the more legimate f-droid seems to normies.
Ideally done as soon before switchover as possible. Even reach out to content creators.
It moves from protest, to protest and solution.
We need a mobile Linus Torvalds, one that's not Finnish-American.
Alas that's not happening.
He himself sprouted some fucked up lines in the episode of banning Russian devs from the LKML that could be resumed to "lol, cry me a river. I'm Finnish and you know what that means, right?"
And I guess you (is a Finn) too?
no?
why are you making such assumptions about me
i'm not sure which one you're referring to, me "knowing what being finnish means" or saying those lines
i know what he's referring to cus there's a lot of finns that are russophobic and trying to excuse it with political stuff but it's not something specific to being finnish... not all of us are like that
I know not everyone is like that. Sorry if it sounded that way.
But nobody can excuse Linus here.
I'll be serving as the tester for a de-googled phone, hopefully, next month for my family. If all works within expectations, we'll be moving towards no google phone until the end of the year.
I'll be getting a Murena phone.
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That's great to hear. Good luck! I wish I could de-Google my family too.
I'm currently testing /e/OS from Murena myself, but on a Fairphone 6, not a Murena device. The system itself is fine. Takes some getting used to, but no problem. Hope you enjoy it =D
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User counts are still pretty low from my understanding. Device support is spotty at best, and even devices with support might not have every piece of hardware working properly, so just how usable it is depends on your device and your technical skills. If manufacturers made it any easier at all to make drivers, that'd probably change quickly, but that hasn't happened yet.
Things are coming along, though. More and more apps work well with the mobile form factor, though definitely not all. There are Android emulators so you can run Android apps when you need to. I think we're currently at the point where if you have the right device, some technical skill, and some stubborn will to make it work, you could actually daily drive it. Most probably won't want to yet, though.
it's a 1984 move
Step 1: Personally identify all deveopers
Step 2: Make impossible to run software from non-identified developers
Step 3: Maintain full control over all software, What? You want to make a Youtube substitute? Blocked.
So, did I understood correctly that just getting pixel with GrapheneOS is way out?
I can't really say anything about that, sorry. I'm not familiar with GrapheneOS or Google Pixel. As far as I know, Play Services can apparently be installed in a sandbox?.... but I didn't quite get it either. So I can't say whether the system will be affected by Google's rules. Sorry I can't help further.
Yes. Bonus if you get it used just make sure it's completely unlocked. A carrier phone is not unlocked and is a pain in be butt to get unlocked. I can't remember what instance it's on but there's a graphene community.
Edit it's !grapheneos@lemmy.ml I know some instances don't interact with .ML though
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
it's a way out, probably the easiest and most reliable way, but not the only one.
Also you don't have to use graphene, it kind of annoys me that it keeps being pushed as THE option when lineageOS also works perfectly fine and has a long reputation as well..
Whether in the US or elsewhere, no, unless you're willing to make major concessions (like not having banking apps)
The best you can do is a de-googled android, but even that is getting tricky with some apps
because many People who loves privacy
almost 12 of us ... i jest but seriously, everyone using Apple and >90% of Android users don't care. Google knows this and they just bang on about this being best for Android users to ameliorate any concerns around governance issues.
Even many supposed staunch, so called privacy advocates, will complain they can't change because banking or some such, so they stick with the status quo as every minor inconvenience is seen as an insurmountable wall.
So i expect some bloviating initially and then acceptance. In 5 years, no shits given (headphone jack, expandable storage saw the same sort of thing)
tl;dr press x for doubt (x)
I like KDE Arianna.
Unfortunately, while in the past (I think version 24) it would show 2 columns in portrait mode, now it only shows 1 page in the middle, which I personally consider a regression.
Aside from that there've been some improvements. While in the past I had to flip pages by pressing arrow buttons at the bottom, it now supports swiping the pages, which is much nicer on a touchscreen.
pandoc file.epub -t plain > file.txt
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A TUI ebook reader with Text-to-Speech (TTS).terminaltrove.com
Flow is a free online EPUB reader, support all platforms (Web, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS). Read multiple books at the same time. Read seamlessly between different devices.www.flowoss.com
I really like Foliate. Great interface, easy to use, enough customization. It's available through Flatpak.
If you want something more feature rich and don't care too much about UI, then Calibre.
I mostly use Foliate, but I actually do most of my ebook reading on my phone.
For actual reading on linux I use fbreader. For eBook management I use calibre.
But 95% of my reading is actually on old eInk devices (kindle, nook).
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You could look at the screen, but there’s also braille terminal support.
Some people do tts but that’s questionable, even if you don’t recognize that audiobooks aren’t reading, why burn power doing tts when you could just dl the mp3s instead and make it easier on yourself.
"don't recognize that audiobooks aren't reading"
What a cringe take.
If you could read youd be very upset by my reply.
E: it’s really cruel to just make a funny one liner response to you. Reading and listening are two wildly different types of cognition. There is no argument against that and I don’t intend to engage with anything you present claiming otherwise. If you want to win an internet argument by having the last word about it, here’s your chance.
For your own sake please incorporate reading, actual looking at the written word and translating it into ideas, into your life especially if you’ve moved away from doing so. The process of reading has been linked in many studies with improved cognition as you age. For your own sake and the sake of the people around you, read. Do not fool yourself into believing that listening or watching is the same as reading. It will only hurt you and people who go by your example.
Your name is literally troll account 69.
What a loser.
Listening to audiobooks engages a different way of thinking than reading the written word does. Listening to audiobooks is not reading.
That isn’t to say it’s not fun or interesting or a way to occupy your mind but it’s not the same as reading.
You do not need to keep replying to me with insults and vitriol. I’m not trying to fight you.
I’m trying to make sure that anyone who reads your comments understands that audiobooks are not in any way a substitute for reading. I want you and anyone who also listens to podcasts or audiobooks or even those long yts to understand that they are different things.
I think that’s an important thing to do because one of the biggest differences is the type of thought each one requires and reading the written word is associated with better cognitive outcomes as a person ages.
I want you to live a long healthy life so I’m still replying 😀
Firefox with some extension when in a pinch.
Otherwise, Calibre.
TUI Ebook Reader. Contribute to wustho/baca development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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The White House launched "The Fraud Ledger," an interactive dashboard tracking $230 billion in suspected fraud uncovered by JD Vance's task force.Louis Casiano (Fox News)
On a cold, windy, wet summer evening last month, Pete Beachy giggled as he peered into his binoculars and prepared to do something even he admitted can seem very, very stupid. “There she is,” he muttered. “That’s a wave.”Parked along the Seward Highway in Alaska, Mr. Beachy had spotted the first hint of foam curving around Bird Point, 30 miles southeast of Anchorage, and heading toward an inlet known as Turnagain Arm. The “wave” was a tidal bore, a twice-daily surge of water formed when the incoming high tide from the Pacific Ocean is forced into the narrow arm of Cook Inlet against the outgoing current.
The resulting breaker can reach 10 feet in height, with speeds of 10 to 15 miles an hour — and surfers can ride it for miles if they’re tough enough to withstand the cold and skilled enough to stay upright.
“One moment it’s still, and you’re looking up at the mountains and eagles and goats, and the next you feel like you have the entire ocean coming up behind you,” Mr. Beachy said. “It’s magical, man.”
Hydrologists have documented more than 60 tidal bores worldwide, but only about a dozen are surfable. The Turnagain Arm bore is among the world’s most accessible. The secret is getting out, to big-wave surfers seeking one of the world’s most unusual rides, and to a small but growing number of Alaskans who have embraced the homegrown extreme sport. The tourism agency in Girdwood, a nearby ski town, posts tide charts on its website highlighting the days with the biggest potential waves.
Every newcomer increases the risk, and fears the authorities will decide to shut their fun down.
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Since people are talking a lot about AI and whether an artist has used it , I've done a little video in which I state clearly that everything in the Dreams of Amarna is a All My Own Work. It may have come across a little brusque , but why in Heaven's name would I allow a computer to do the bits I enjoy?
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Cool video!
I wonder, this #espanso should be an IME like #PlasmaKeyboard right? So it would conflict with that, even if it had support on Wayland. Odd choice to recommend if it is broken on Wayland tbh.
About #Melia, every single feature you named also exists in #Thunderbird!
Connection monitor maybe not?
Theming, well you can install easy theme extensions or actually use UserChrome.css which I bet you can't on Melia. Though of course that is hacky.
Thunderbird is a very complex piece of software. Also it has #PGP support which is crucial at least for signing to proof your authenticity. There is no alternative!
It has soo many features and I suppose a lot of services will be included in Thunderbird Mail.
I am a big fan of the "Store and Release" model regarding #proprietary software.
A public entity would get access to all the source code and store it securely, and if a company stops operating or simply warranties and patents are expired, all source code gets released.
It is cool if a company says "if we were unable to publish any updates for 12 months, we will for sure be able to clean up the codebase and #opensource it".
That is simply not the case most of the time, unless they already use a single or a few private #git repos / forges with good git hygiene (cough #Winamp)
So... Ferdium is a Chromium wrapper and basically a browser? Does it isolate Cookies in these "workspaces"?
This is such an odd tool too, as you constantly complain about the Chromium dominance XD
The lack of a competent and standardized Webview on Linux is an interesting thing though. QtWebengine vs WebKitGTK vs... nothing on other desktops?
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Does anyone here have an email address (or web form address) for Cloudflare support?
I'm asking because increasingly often, Cloudflare-protected sites give me an endless loop:
Performing security verification
This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot.Verifying ...
After a few seconds, a "Privacy" and "Help" link are shown next to the word "Verifying". Then they all get replaced with a spinner icon, and the cycle starts again.
The help link goes to this page, which says:
You may encounter a challenge loop where the challenge keeps reappearing without being solved. This is in very specific cases where we detect strong bot signals. If you are a legitimate human, you can follow the troubleshooting guide below to resolve the issue or submit a feedback report.
Well, I am a human - even if my legitimacy is debatable.
The troubleshooting guide takes me here, which says:
Turnstile Failed Despite Passing All Checks
All diagnostics passed, but Turnstile still couldn't complete successfully. This is unusual and may indicate an edge case.
...
Since the local diagnostics did not find a clear cause, this may require investigation by Cloudflare.
- Copy your Session ID from the top of this page
- Click "Copy Full Results" in Technical Details below
- Share both with Cloudflare support
But it gives no contact details for Cloudflare support.
A web search turned up this page, but it only lists contact methods available for Cloudflare customers. I am not a customer.
Hence my question at the top of this post.
Fix challenge loops, unsupported browser errors, and other solve failures.Cloudflare Docs
Cloudflare is already wrongly flagging this Linux box as a bot when it connects from an ordinary domestic ISP.
Surely it would be more likely to flag it if it was connecting from a VPN exit node.
I'm telling you the one button solution for this issue that works for me. When their garbage bots don't like the IP you're using, simply use a different one.
You're not going to get any help from cloudflare, obviously. The only thing to do is work around their bullshit.
I eventually managed to find contact details for the webmaster for the site on which I most recently encountered this. Hopefully they'll fix it in their Cloudflare configuration.
Failing that, I'll try User-Agent spoofing. Failing that, another ISP, or VPN.
i haven't been having issues atm besides getting challenges more frequently than what used to be the norm.
that said, i find cloudflare, recaptcha and others easier and scarcer when using all default chrome(ium). they might not like something about your browser or what it reports to them.
i don't think they will change this behavior from user reports.
They consider you a bot, if you have not typical signals from
* referer (there was a time, where even Firefox' referer trimming was a problem)
* request header
* js-fingerprint, including cookies and DOM-storage
So yeah, surveillance state of the internet.
Do you maybe have a extension/settings that interferes with those signals for increased privacy?
Thanks. What’s your source for that list? I think you’re right that those measurements are factors in the final “bot score”, but I expect there are many other measurements also factored in.
If you look at my OP, though, you’ll see my browser passed the checks but was still blocked, which Cloudflare said shouldn’t happen.
Experience with Firefox privacy-tweaking.
my browser passed
Ah, sorry, overlooked that.
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Thanks, I’ll try that.
The issue has happening on an increasing number of websites, though: Ecosia, ScienceDirect, TrainSplit (which thankfully has a fallback to hCaptcha), Indeed, and more.
As said in the title, it is an immutable, secure-by-default distro based on Arch Linux and the COSMIC desktop environment. It uses similar tooling as GNOME OS and KDE Linux. Unlike most immutable / atomic distros that use rpm-ostree or bootc, we use systemd-sysupdate which is most known from GNOME OS. It is currently at beta and considered stable enough for daily use.
What makes AstrOS special is its immutable base, which is shipped as a hashed and signed /usr image that is booted by signed UKI images. Root is LUKS protected and unlocked by TPM2. This combination protects your system from outside modification.
AstrOS base can be extended with currently five extensions, including a Steam gaming extension with the SteamOS gamescope session.
Why:
Okay you are probably reading this and asking yourself, "What's the point in another distro?". Considering that multiple new distributions get released every week I can't blame you, but I can try to explain it. 😀 So let me start at the beginning. I always loved the concept of GNOME OS. Later, KDE Linux came to the list of distributions using the systemd tooling. Systemd sysupdate being that low level tool that was simple and just seemed to work, was a massive plus point imo. Then COSMIC went stable and I was fascinated by that desktop. It has the simplicity I loved about GNOME and the tiling and customizability I always wished GNOME had. After using it for a while on Arch, I got to a point where someone asked me to install Linux on his device, and he wanted COSMIC. In my opinion immutable distros are just better for beginners (which doesn’t mean the distro is only for beginners). I mean take a look at smartphones, it is what most "normal users" prefer using nowadays. So I went ahead and wanted to create the distro combining what I love about the rolling release of Arch, the user friendliness & stability of immutable distros, and the simplicity of systemd sysupdate.
The Distro Model:
AstrOS consists of the usual ESP and LUKS root partition. Root is using btrfs and perfectly writable. What's making the distribution immutable (or atomic if you want so) are two (A/B) sets of /usr partitions. Each set consists of 3 partitions: the erofs /usr partition itself, a partition containing its hash, and lastly a partition containing the signature of the hash. The system is booted using signed UKI images. This partitioning model promises a boot sequence that is completely verified. If someone tries to tamper with the partitions / uki's from the outside, then the signature / hash won't match anymore, and the system refuses to unlock the root partition. This raises the bar considerably against offline tampering.
The TPM and recovery key both get enrolled on first boot using systemd-repart. Yes that means we require a TPM2.0 chip. We think that's acceptable for a new distribution, as we force no one to upgrade to it. A workaround to install AstrOS without a chip may or may not be added in the future.
I wanted to keep the base minimalistic, while allowing people to do more advanced stuff. That's why we offer system extensions (systemd-sysext). For example, most people prefer system-packaged installed Steam over the Steam Flatpak. For that, we have the steam-gaming extension. Additional extensions provide virtualization tools, firewalld, waydroid, and most important: Nvidia drivers.
For most GUI apps software can be installed using flatpaks. For non-flatpak apps / terminal applications we have distrobox.
Generally, the whole distro is designed to just work, without the user having to take care of it. Because everyone has a byte-for-byte identical /usr partition, fixing bugs applies to everyone.
Mini FAQ
Here's the complete one: astros-linux.org/astros/faq/
Is this vibe coded?
- Nope, our contribution guidelines even forbid it. I want to write all the code / configs etc. myself. Our contributing guidelines require people to know what they are doing
Is nvidia supported?
- yes
What about secureboot?
- currently only with our own custom keys
Dualboot?
- not officially, there's an unofficial guide for dualbooting with windows in the docs
The projects future
The biggest goal is to build a bigger community. Getting more contributors.
I additionally plan to write a small GUI utility using libcosmic to graphically update and install system extensions. Once we are stable, auto-update probably gets enabled.
And yeah, just improving the distro.
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Thanks for asking. There are plenty of bootc / rpm-ostree projects based on fedora. Systemd-sysupdate is way more low level tooling. We just want new and close to upstream packages which arch exactly provides. Arch allows us to not have to build the packages ourselves. Pacman and the aur can still be used in distrobox.
So yeah we just found arch to be the most reliable option for the systemd-tooling.
I mean take a look at smartphones, it is what most "normal users" prefer using nowadays.
prefer? Do you know how difficult (or often impossible) it is to modify your phone's OS?
That's not a 'preference', that's an imposition!
beep.
for my OS i want complete mutability. I've spent the last 2 days learning NixOS because it's bringing something completely different to the table. It made me like Arch more 😀
Most of the "fork of a fork of a fork" distributions of today will probably disappear in a couple of years. At least you'll learn from this endeavour.
Not to be mean but atomic and arch are two opposite things and if one needs atomic then they hardly need arch and vice versa. You basically created endeavour with cosmic and flatpaks.
I'm also not quite sure that this construction with hashes is a reliable one... I might miss additional technical details though.
Why can't people differentiate the distribution model from the release model. It is quite common to have rolling atomic distros: nearly rolling built GNOME OS, arch based KDE Linux, tumbleweeds based aeon. Arch gives us close to upstream packages that aren't heavily modified. Its a solution to have low level packages without having to build them ourselves. Our features require the newest systemd version to work. Having the latest cosmic version doesn't cause any harm either.
dm_verity (the hash stuff) has been extremely reliable
No one will use GNOME OS except for GNOME ecosystem devs. Even the DE itself has two long-term active forks and a flashback edition because virtually no one wants to use GNOME as is.
Same applies to KDE except it is accepted as is, but again, what's the point of using it if you are not one of their devs? And why do we even need two KDE distros?
I wasn't speaking yet of Aeon, this one seems more promising, but again, people who don't want to bother themselves much just don't use rolling release, it has always been for the fearless ones.
UPD: The third Ubuntu based I meant was Pop OS
booted by signed UKI images. Root is LUKS protected and unlocked by TPM2. This combination protects your system from outside modification.
This is cool. I remember hearing even all the Fedora-based atomic distros don't use UKI, so they are vulnerable to initramfs modifications
Sounds interesting! And welcome to Lemmy if you're a new user indeed! (Otherwise, cheers.) Few personal thoughts below.
Atomically upgradable images and the added security sound interesting to me. I'm not specialized enough to say whether that's really going to help for my threat model, personally. I mean, in /boot I currently only have the Linux images. Verifying those seems sufficient, because the actual system is only decrypted afterwards when I enter my password.
I must also say, accepting a concept is harder for me if the proposed line of thought is "GNOME OS is to be loved, and %project_name% is a bit like that". Because personally, I remember Gnome since version 2 and I dislike what they've done with the system since. I only use gnome-disks from the entirety of them. From KDE I use more (kate), and from XFCE I use way way more. And I also dislike how GNOME pushed systemd onto all of us as a hard requirement. Not that systemd is necessarily bad, but the push for it didn't feel right.
bootc update is one command? No grub in dakotaraptor you can build right from bst with systemd-boot.
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cpak installs applications from OCI images while keeping package metadata in a Git repository. It provides native desktop integration, shared content-addressed layers, atomic updates and a rootless Linux sandbox from one Go binary.
It seems interesting. I've never heard of it before, but apparently Bottles packages with cpak along with flatpak. The main reason I use flatpaks are its sandboxing capabilities, so it would be cool if cpak brings new stuff to the table while matching or overpassing the sandboxing capabilities.
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Yup, that's simply a deal breaker. [For me].
If it's for you, too, you could maybe even mark the post with [SOLVED] or "Update:...". If you wish. No obligation.
What about this? This basically forbids you to fork the software if you want to - e.g. because they're maybe going closed source in a few years?
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They have already cracked Xbox game downloads, and macOS support is also being worked on.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
meh, i can't tell if this is good or not
xbox game pass feels like it's against everything linux stands for
Being dogmatic about how people use the use-it-however-you-want-OS is a bit silly, no?
Hell Linus even made the call to stick to the GPL v2 and allow Tivoisation.
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I think overall it will be good. We already rely on windows dependent games anyway for 90% of the gaming on the platform. So I don't see why gamepass would be any different than wine or proton.
If we were gonna hold that line, then really we should have been super against having any type of transitional layer as a whole. But I don't think that's the right choice because the Linux ecosystem is a minority and you're not going to get that to change anytime soon by making it actively harder for people to want to jump in. I think that it needs all the help that it can get currently.
It's also basically destroying Xbox. I'm surprised they're still offering it.
But sometimes a product comes with free month of gamepass or something, and I don't fault anyone for using that to game. And if I were going to do that, I'd rather do it on Linux.
I will not be using this workaround, even if it works perfectly. However, if this gets people away from Windows, that's a good thing as a step towards getting them away from Microsoft in general.
The fewer data points Microsoft can exploit the better.
I know people who are ready to leave Windows, but this and kernel level anti cheat games are keeping them away from Linux.
And my constant reminders that they didyn't need those games doesn't work.
Yeah, I actually had a similar instance regarding Game Pass.
The Series X was my first Xbox ever because I had been a Sony fan all my life, but the launch of the PS5, the supply was non-existent. And the only way I could get a Series X was doing their All Access Pass deal, which was the two-year payment plan that gave you Ultimate alongside it.
I feel like it worked against Microsoft's favor, because yes, it hooked me on Xbox for two or three years. However, since they forced you to have Game Pass Ultimate along with it, I never purchased any games to get with it. So therefore, when I cancelled my Game Pass subscription at the end of it, I had no reason to turn the console on again.
I particularly couldn't care less about Game Pass at this point. I'm just fine without paying Microsoft for anything. But I suppose that's good for those who still use Windows just for that.
At least I find it interesting to have Linux supporting software that it wasn't technically suppose to.
Yep, I've already got an emulator for my cherished Xbox games I bought when they were new.
I'm not letting them resell me the memories of when they weren't a joke. Lol
OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form.www.phoronix.com
Is that just an Electron wrapper?
Edit: looking at the phoronix comments it seems to be. I really don't get why they though this is even worth a twitter post. Just an inefficient wrapper for an even more inefficient text generator...
What makes this Chatbot client different from just using it in the browser? My first thought was, it might get special permission to better interact with the system, like the agentic tools do. I assume it can better integrate into system with the taskbar maybe. Or maybe this is more efficient than just running the webbrowser. Or it might have special commandline arguments with special options?
Oh... wait its just an entire browser running a single tab. Alright then. Why does this need to be an app on its own? To me this is as useless as a native browser based Discord app... Just bookmark it in your browser and open it there. You can even customize it even more with browser addons.
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You were right from the start – if reproducibility and GitOps count, Nix is the only option. Void can't deliver that.
Why be productive with your computer when you can spend your time refactoring your NixOS configs into a dendritic pattern?
Half-joking. I use NixOS and I enjoy it, but I'm not gonna pretend I don't spend a lot of time managing it (not that it needs managing per se). I obviously enjoy doing that though.
As for systemd avoidance, there's also Guix which uses Scheme and their own init (Shepherd I think). It looks pretty cool, but I went with Nix anyway since it's so much more popular. There's also the fact that Guix Systems is an FSF approved distribution which means that discussing proprietary Guix channels is strictly forbidden, which while admirable gets kind of old quickly.
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I’ve sold like 3 to get 18 cents or so, but this seems to be really inefficient when it comes to time.
Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo kn…Michał Górny
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I don't know the first thing about Gentoo but just the first 3 points
Gentoo aims to be independent
Gentoo aims to be secure
Gentoo aims to be made by humans
Damn I want to try it now.
If only I had 72 hours in a day...
the point of gentoo is spending all your time watching packages compile.
not talking shit, i love it.
I literally installed it 5 days ago on my 14 yo PC: Fedora was too much ahead for my hardware, Slackware had some incompatibilities with it, Debian was crawling slow.
Gentoo is really good: took a day to install it because I needed to learn how to use lvm with initramfs on uefi and some other small things. Not much recompiling thanks to binary repository.
And its blazing fast, my PC is flying like its 2014 again!
Today I have to recompile qtwebengine because I need digikam, and this will take time I guess. But for now I think its worth it.
I think Gentoo users fall into two main camps.
Those with old and/or niche hardware requirements.Those who like to micro manage their systems.
The guy who talked me into trying Linux years ago ended up on Gentoo after Arch ended up not being modular enough for him, He was constantly tinkering...and breaking his system.
After his free time got taken up by a job he ended up switching to Fedora.
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in reply to MonkderVierte • • •I guess I was thinking about it too abstractly.
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