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As we move into Spooky Season, we can’t look away from what is going on today with women and children and the double standards warping society today... This one may get grim. You have been warned.
Just wondering as ive been told many os's online and then told to not use certain one aswell, i feel confused on what linux os to try someday. i come from windows 10 and i always find i need windows on atleast 1 device, and put linux on the "outdated" devices, but i keep hoping around, i cant seem to make up my mind.
Everyone has their preferences. That's why there isn't one answer. The problem is almost every distro compares themselves to Windows, and so they all have the same "pros" from that perspective. Personally I have 2 recommendations, and I'll tell you which ones and why:
Zorin: Makes a good mesh of familiarity and ease of use. They maintain a database of different apps and will automatically point you to the most appropriate option. They greatly simplify the process of installing and using WINE. I happen to just like GNOME (looks more modern than KDE), and I like their modified version of it. Comes with a lot of what I consider "obvious" tweaks "out of the box" so you don't have to figure out how to implement them. Their GNOME is also super outdated though, so some extensions don't work.
Bazzite: If you want a console/PC hybrid, this is probably the best way to get it. If you just want a desktop gaming PC you can get that also. Either way it comes with a lot of gaming utilities pre-installed. Best of all is their "Bazzite Portal" which makes a bunch of common apps and tweaks that are otherwise complicated to install, easy, with the click of a button. There's also an app for updates that upgrades everything all in one place, with the click of a button, and also will run automatically in the background if your system is idle.
But if you need support I hope you're comfortable using corporate shithole platforms like Github, Discord, and Reddit, because if you don't want to, they don't give a shit.
Ubuntu is a solid option to start, and stay. Llm's know it well, everything targets Ubuntu and the ecosystem covers server, workstation, IoT, containers and various architectures.
For non-corporate stuff I'm a fan of the antiX and MX ecosystems, Debian with rims on and a lot of user choice, control and toolkits to make things easy to manage.
I'd be wary of peeps saying 'distro XYZ is shit', try stuff and see what you think. Arch is a fragile restrictive toy ime, but loads seem to love it.
If it's just a basic workstation most distros likely fine, pick something you like the vibes of and see how you go.
I've been on Arch or Arch based systems for 13+ years now. It used to be an incredibly annoying joke. I mostly saw it used to mock Arch users. But since Arch is more accepted now it seems to have morphed into a (mostly) funny meme. I never ever said it until this year though lol.
eh, i think arch is the more usable of the "diving deeper" distros. arch, gentoo, and lfs(if you can call that a distro) are good for trying to understand the deeper parts of the system.
When I was looking into replacing W10 on my old laptop around 5 years ago, everyone on Reddit said Linux Mint. I ignored them and tried lots of different distros. I finally tested Mint, it worked so I installed it. I've been using it ever since. For me, I have Nvidia GPUs so Mint gets the correct driver without any hassle. It does have options for customising, but it's minimal which to me is useful if you have work to do. I have a standard set-up for my Mint desktops. Upon initial installation, Mint actually looks basic, simple and, to be honest, outdated. There are enough options to modernise it!
The only other one I use is Kubuntu (on a Huawei Matebook 13 2019) and that's for KDE's better screen scaling on my 2K 3:2 screen.
The “want to learn” is gonna carry a lot of weight here but I think and arch based distro like cachy works well for this. Cachy was my first distro and I really wanted to learn so it gave we a working starting place from where I could tinker and replace parts one at a time until they fit my liking. If I were to reinstall today I’d do plain arch since I know what I want and don’t need Cachy’s defaults anymore. Obviously everyone has their preferences but I think cachy is a really solid approachable distro for beginners, there’s a reason it just passed steamOS to claim the throne of most used distro on the steam hardware survey
An alternative to this kind power users who want control and learn everything, would be EndeavourOS instead CachyOS. I wouldn't recommend anyone starting with bare Archlinux, but depending on the person it could be the right choice, but its hard to know who the person is you recommend it.
You mention hopping, but you don't say what you have already tried, what you dislike about them, and what you mainly want it for, or your hardware config.
Hopefully you have already settled on a Desktop Environment or WM) though?
Ignore everyone who suggests ubuntu, mint, or debian; even though that will be many people (except for the debian suggestion, which is not a common suggestion, and it's bizarre that someone has already suggested that).
Understand that most people will just suggest what they use, even if they have little experience with other distros, many of these people just went with what is marketed well, but they will often be adamant fans of it anyway.
It's easier to remove ones that you do not like (for whatever reason), to reduce the options. That might be to do with: gui vs terminal focused, where they are from, their politics, commercialisation, their community attitude, ai, whatever. I would suggest trying to pick a base (arch, fedora, debian, ubuntu etc) and work from there. Something like the advanced search on distrowatch.com/ can help with that
Ignore everyone who suggests ubuntu, mint, or debian; even though that will be many people
Yeah good advice, ignore anyone who actually recommends a distro. Only listen to the person whose only advice is what not to do. The only valid distro is the hypothetical perfect Linux distro that exists in your head.
It depends what the person wants to do, how "learning Linux" is interpreted and what it is installed on.
If someone is technically versed, likes commandline, wants to have the newest software and complete control and learn how Linux works, then something like EndeavourOS might be the right choice. If the focus is GUI tools only, maybe a laptop just to browse the web a bit and learn slowly what "this thing Linux" is all about, then something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu might be a good starting point, or even Fedora KDE. Is the person going to play games mostly, is experimenting a lot and wants to tap into the wild west of Linux, maybe Bazzite with its immutable concept.
There are a few more distributions I could recommend, for certain use cases. There is no single operating system that fits best for everyone.
Learn basic desktop Linux? Mint. Learn how Linux works and really interested in more of the ins and outs? Arch (Artix if you want systemdless) Learn how Linux works in great depth and are very committed? Gentoo.
I think their are many great options. But I do think a few shut be excluded at least in the beginning. Anything arch based I would not recommend you start on, Yes that includes CachyOS. They are great distros dont get me wrong. Also their is NixOS. And again a amazing distro but not something too start on. It is fundamentally so different then other distros it can be harder to fix issues if you are new.
Instead of giving you a "pick this" distro I will recommend you some flavors 😋. Most Ubuntu based distros are a good start as well as Fedora. Loads and loads of info online.
Maybe a odd choice but if I hat to recommend 1 distro. It is Opensuse Tumbleweed. She isn't the faster but she is a solid rolling release (so very updated) Distribution.
start with debian if you want a stable release update style or arch if you want a rolling release update style
the vast majority of other distros are just nonsense stacked on top of one of those two
most of the big distros that isn't true for are corporate (open suse, fedora, etc.) and should be avoided unless you have a pressing and specific reason
save yourself a headache and just start with debian or arch. what you learn with one of those two will be the most transferrable and they both have huge (comparatively) communities with well developed resources for learning and troubleshooting.
people like to joke about arch being hard but that's mostly just a holdover from installing it being a chore that required a lot of careful manual reading - just use the built in archinstall and it's straightforward while also being a breeze to customize how you want
once you run archinstall and have arch installed it isn't any different than any other rolling release distro in difficulty - just use timeshift (or an equivalent, if you know enough already to pick one) in case you need to roll back an update in the future easily
the advantage is having easy access to the most recent versions of all your software all the time - just, if you use the aur for the additional community managed packages outside the official packages you admittedly need to learn to read the package files to make sure they aren't doing anything funny but otherwise you can just get software you trust the way that the developers recommend
if that all sounds overwhelming instead of exciting, just use debian
My number one recommendation is Fedora. Extremely stable, popular (so there are lots of q&a online), easy on resources. If you go Debian please don't go Ubuntu, its buggy for some people (me included) and snaps are 💩. If you want Debian go Linux Mint, which is very beginner friendly.
If you want to go rolling, try Tumbleweed or Slowroll from openSUSE, the former is right on the bleeding edge and the latter rolls a bit behind. They get a lot more testing than Arch so are less likely to have problems. The advantage of rolling is that you don't have a periodic big update. If rolling doesn't rock your boat, try Fedora or Mint. Fedora is more up to date.
The thing that will influence how you feel about a distro more than anything is the choice of desktop, so try a few out, at least Plasma, Gnome, Xfce, and Cinnamon. They can all be made to look different to a greater or lesser extent.
Edit: You can even test 100s of them out on distrosea.
i don't disagree with /that/ but i think picking a sensible, truly non-corporate distro as your base is important: hence debian as a truly solid option (or arch if you want rolling release)
When friends or family ask me to install Linux for them, I always use PCLOS. Texstar, Bill Reynolds, runs a tight ship and everything is really stable. Linux with training wheels.
Today I learnt that PCLOS is still going. Back in the day, it showed me how good a distro could be. Unfortunately, I was an inveterate distro hopper back then.
I suggest Linux Mint, it just works. I have moved over 10 people to it in the last 2 years. Basically, giving life to their old laptops. Never heard a complaint! Here's the latest one, my niece: mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/1…
If you want to learn Linux, install Gentoo. That'll give you a pretty good understanding of what's going on. It'll be an intense process though.
If you just want to install and use Linux, pick one of the usual suspects: Mint, Fedora, openSUSE Leap/Slowroll, whatever. If you come from Windows, picking KDE Plasma as your desktop environment (DE) is a good choice. Mint's Cinnamon should be good too. Picking a popular distro usually means troubleshooting is easier, since someone else out there most likely has the same issue you have, and documentation is more comprehensive.
Remember that many distros provide a live environment you can run from a USB stick. Try a couple with different DEs and see what fits your needs. Honestly, the distro doesn't matter that much, they all do the same thing, more or less. Maybe try to pick your DE first and then just go from there.
Fir desktop use I personally think Fedora has the best balance between stability and being up-to-date, while staying fairly easy to use and with a large community. If the person wants something even harder to break and doesn't mind a bit of an extra learning curve, atomic variants like Silverblue are alo a nice pick. My cousin went for Silverblue and loved it.
I use and recommend CachyOS. PikaOS is cool too. So try either of those. I hear good things about Fedora as well. Whatever you do, use something with the KDE desktop environment. It's the best.
CTT had a video about it I found quite nice: youtu.be/hnNjFysodRo In shortv - if you want to game: bazzite - if you are a power user: cachy - for office/regular computer usage: mint
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Long time arch user, and I've recently switched to bazzite because maintaining an arch system reminds me too much of my actual job. Bazzite is great for daily use and has excellent support for gaming. I would recommend it as its update system makes it exceptionally hard to break your system and has built in stable rollbacks. As a new Linux user I would say just get stuck into either mint or bazzite. Try to learn more about how updating software works to decide between those, the, UI is entirely customizable and separate to the OS. The main Linux desktop UIs are gnome and KDE, both look nice and don't really need strong resources. KDE used to be really hungry but they've made it a lot leaner in recent years.
I'm sharing this one because I'm curious what more knowledgeable people think about this one. Please take a peek at the article before joining the discussion, as my limited quote might have dropped useful information
The VPN industry runs on a promise. Pick almost any provider and the pitch is the same: "we don't keep logs." You hand over your entire internet connection and, in return, you get a pinky-promise that nobody is writing anything down.
For a lot of privacy-minded people, that promise stopped being good enough a while ago. A no-logs policy is only as honest as the company making it, and even an honest company can be hacked, subpoenaed, or quietly acquired.
Obscura VPN is trying to answer to that problem. Instead of asking you to trust its word, it splits the job across two independent companies so that neither one can tie your identity to your browsing. The first hop is Obscura's own servers; the exit hop is run by Mullvad. a respected VPM company out of Sweden. Your traffic is end-to-end encrypted to Mullvad's keys, so Obscura literally can't read it, and Mullvad never sees who you are.
Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough.
The pinky promise to not look at who you are on the tech side is only useful if it's also accompanied with the promise to not know who you are on the business side ie.: not requiring any kind of payment data.
Easily pay using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for better privacy, instant payments, and lower transaction fees. We also accept Monero.
As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever been identified by a Monero transaction or a Bitcoin lightning network transaction without getting verification from the other party, e.g., you send money to a company that retains records and gets subpoenaed. Bitcoin transactions made on the lightning network aren't even recorded on the blockchain, so it's completely immune to chain analysis.
Yeah but that still means you have to get into crypto which is a well-known scam (and from what I gather even if there might be "legal" crypto exchanges, that "legal" carries its own implications there).
Crypto is not a scam. Crypto is an unregulated transfer mechanism, which has many scammers. If you're just buying crypto to fund your vpn, you're not getting scammed unless the VPN itself is a scam.
There are a TON of scams in crypto, no doubt about that at all. I don't think Bitcoin is one of them, though. I don't think Monero is, either, but I don't think it'll thrive long term. Most of the rest is bullshit just chasing dollars.
I doubt I'm more knowledgeable but the argument made is reasonable. I'm not totally convinced that trusting 2 providers is an improvement on trusting one. The point not canvassed in the article is that if Mullvad is the encrypted end point with keys then it doesn't really matter if they don't know who you are from account info, it's not very hard for them to have an unencrypted data flow split off for inspection which sooner or later will provide sufficient info to identify you.
Tl;dr if you trust mullvad deal with them directly. If you don't trust mullvad this doesn't actually fix that although it makes it harder and more effort to identify you it can still be done.
I wouldnt pay a premium over mullvad's price for this. No real value added.
Hallo, ich suche nach einem Router mit Ethernet Wan Anschluss. Der Router soll möglichst gut konfigurierbar sein, also am besten sollten zb auch so Dinge wie Sendeleistung anpassbar sein.
Große Ansprüche an die Leistung habe ich keine, da meistens 5 Geräte oder weniger verbunden sein werden, ein Gastzugang ist optional, wäre aber trotzdem ganz schön zu haben.
Ich hab mir bereits ein paar Geräte von Tp link angeschaut, allerdings habe ich viel schlechtes über die Marke gehörz, zb das Nutzerdaten weitergegeben werden oder wenige Software updates und daraus resultierende Sicherheitslücken.
Am liebsten wäre mir ein europäischer Hersteller. Ich habe leider wenig Ahnung von Routern, weshalb ich hier frage. Ich würde mich sehr freuen wenn jemand eine gute Empfehlungen hat.
Wenn Du keine besonderen Profi-Features brauchst, nicht groß basteln willst, das Ding "einfach laufen" soll, dann wäre vielleicht eine Fritz!Box etwas für Dich. Einfach zu konfigurierende Oberfläche, Sendeleistung/Kanal/etc. konfigurierbar, Gastzugang, deutsche Herstellung, deutscher Support, gibt lange Updates.
Ansonsten evtl. was von GL.iNet. Da läuft ein OpenWrt drauf und GL.iNet pappt eine benutzerfreundlichere Oberfläche drüber. Die sind oft vergleichsweise günstig für das, was sie können (wenn man weiß, wie). Die Firma sitzt in Shenzhen, China.
Ansonsten ist was von Ubiquity UniFi auch sehr beliebt - kann i.d.R. bis ins kleinste Detail konfiguriert werden. Die sitzen in den USA.
Danke, basteln tu ich schon gerne, ich hab nur nicht viel Erfahrung mit Routern bis jetzt. Ich lese mich aber gerne in die Materie rein. China und Usa sind eigentlich ein klares Nein, aber mit openwrt wäre man damit zumindest nicht abhängig von der einen Firma.
Fritzbox sind leider etwas teuer, weshalb ich nach alternativen dazu schauen wollte. Spricht aber vieles für,die Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten scheinen ausreichend.
Die Fritten sind halt etwas teurer, aber dafür kommt eben alles aus Deutschland, die haben oft auch noch eine VoIP-Telefonzentrale und DECT mit an Bord. Bis auf das 2.4G-WLAN-Malheur bei der 7590 hatte ich eigentlich nie Probleme.
Du kannst sonst auch erstmal mit z.B. einem Mango 1 V2 oder Mango 2 herumspielen. Oder einem der anderen günstigeren Reiserouter (nur nicht den "Opal" - der hat eine steinalte OpenWrt Version).
Wenn Dir das zusagt, reicht entweder das Gerät sogar für Dich, oder Du kannst mit gutem Gewissen ein teureres Modell kaufen und hast noch einen praktischen Reiserouter für unterwegs (lässt sich auch als Repeater für daheim verwenden).
[English]Heute noch eine Nachlese zum Thema Ausfall des 2.4 GHz WLAN bei der FRITZ!Box 7590. Ein Leser hatte mich darauf hingewiesen, dass dies nach ca. fünf Jahren passiert.
Today, with the help of our partner the Interledger Foundation, we are announcing a new program of grants for multimedia software and creators. In this program, we are asking software developers and publishers to partner to make new and better content on the Fediverse.
Multimedia, such as audio, video, and images, provides an engaging experience for Fediverse users. It can give a more visceral social and media experience than text alone. Multimedia software, however, can be difficult to develop, host, and use, and integrating it with other ActivityPub services takes time.
It’s also challenging to produce engaging media on the Fediverse. It can be hard to develop an audience, work with unfamiliar tools, and understand the different dynamics of a federated architecture.
Our intent with the Fediverse Multimedia Grants program is to bring more, and newer, rich content to the Fediverse for people to enjoy. We want to give creators a chance to get their feet under them, develop an audience, and make a permanent home on the Fediverse. We also want this program to help developers concentrate on creators’ needs — authoring, editing, organizing and publishing rich, engaging content.
For this program, we are offering grants of up to US$20,000 to developer/creator teams to start new publications on the Fediverse. We expect the teams to work in close cooperation, providing mutual support and feedback. Our expected outcome is ActivityPub-enabled software that’s better fitted to the needs of creators, and new publications with a foothold in the Fediverse.
Applications are open today at the Fediverse Multimedia Grants round of our grants portal. Applications are only for developer/creator teams. For publishers who aren’t familiar with Fediverse software, or developers who don’t have a good idea for a publisher to work with, please feel free to contact us and we’ll try to point you in the right direction to make a match.
Important dates for the program:
Applications open: 7 Oct 2026 (today)
Applications due: 4 Nov 2026
Decisions announced: 18 Nov 2026
Projects start: 1 Dec 2026
Please ask questions in the comments and replies for this post, or contact us privately. I (Evan) will also be organizing a session on the grant program at Fediforum today, 7 Oct 2026.
Thanks so much to the Interledger Foundation who generously funded this and other programs at the Social Web Foundation and who have been excellent creative partners in crafting this program.
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Grant for the Web to Make the Fediverse More Sustainable, Democratic, and Fun
Thanks to the Interledger Foundation for their generous Grant for the Web to the Social Web Foundation. With the help of ILF, we are launching a new program area focused on economic issues on the Social Web. In particular, we’ll be producing three reports: one on sustainability for social web instances; one for the Fediverse and the creator economy; and one for cooperatives on the Social Web. In addition, we’ll be engaging multimedia Fediverse apps for using the Web Monetization standard. You can read more about grant on our shared announcement: Interledger Foundation awards $200,000 to Social Web Foundation to support decentralized social media.
The Interledger Foundation is a global nonprofit grantmaking foundation, leading the next revolution in payments through Interledger, the global network for inclusive digital financial service providers.
With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening.
@thelinuxexperiment What I like about Epiphany is that it uses a different engine [WebKit] to most other web browsers. I like to use it as a secondary web browser.
It doesn't get past plymouth (I can still get to the console with ctrl alt functionthing ofc)
I've tried setting the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 (i did xbps-reconfigure -fa after that) in console thing in /etc/default/grub. I've enabled elogind as a service. I obviously did
Hey, use namei with some flags to find out if the directory lets the socket be created by that user and if there’s a directory in the tree that keeps that user from traversing it.
Eh, I mean I did look at some tutorial but also some forums and at the archwiki for xorg, Idk if I looked at the one for sddm but it doesn't say anything different from what I saw, I kinda looked into the gentoo wiki for rootless xorg too or whatever but that didn't help much.
I am not expecting you to 100% know everything and help it's like well maybe someone might know what's wrong. idk.
Shouldn't you replace "x11-user" with your username?
If you still can't get it to work, take a look here and try the startx comand on a tty first (a display-mamager is yet another layer of complexity and potential blockers). If you get permission errors, try adding your user to the video group.
If you want to do it manually (without some limitations of startx), take a look at sx.
No apparently you don't need to replace it, if you do it just starts it as root. I can start xfce4 with startxfce4 as user but i can't start sddm as user from console, only as root. I did try changing it to x11-(username) and just (username) it was the same as just doing x11 or not having the file, although I could also have done something wrong there.
At this point just changing the dm might be easier tbh. Although idk if that woulf actually work. I believe it starts x with the sddm user and not your actual user because, well, you're not logged in
I had bought an MSI laptop from Costco. Even though I was happy with the performance and with CachyOS I had to return it. Lucky for me that Costco has such a generous return window, 90 days. My main issues were that it lacked adequate cooling for the X7 358H, had no UEFI support from MSI on their website, and the build quality was atrocious.
I was looking at the System76 Lemur Pro, but I can't seem to find any reviews on the newer models. Build quality and performance is really important to me as my daily driver for the last several years has been a MBP14 with an M1 Pro.
I'm not buying anything from Frame.Work as I've had two issues with them already which prompted me to cancel both orders, once for the desktop and once for the 13 Pro. Their customer service is lacking in my humble opinion.
EDIT: I mostly use my rig to code, game, and to tinker with private local models. In the US currently.
that was the first thing I looked into, but Asahi is very much still in alpha and barely hanging on. If I could install properly supported linux on a MBP I would be all over that. I would not mind paying the Apple tax if I could get the performance, build quality, and battery life without using macOS.
I’ve been daily driving my Asahibook for over a year (as in “I’ve not booted MacOS except one time for demonstrating something”). Other than DP-over-USBC not working, it’s as been as stable as any other computer I’ve used. Even the DP stuff is working on test branch, and I did try it, and it worked almost flawlessly.
I second that, I've been running an M2 for almost a year as my main (and only) PC. Standby battery life is not great and DP over USB C would be nice, but there's an HDMI port.
OP, if you already have the hardware, I would at least give it a try. Linux on Apple hardware is a great combo IMO.
What are you looking for? What are your requirements? I mean, gaming? Programming (if "yes", do your projects require lots of running services/containers?)? Which country are you in?
In Europe, I like using PCSpecialist a lot. They offer thorough customization of the hardware, and their prices are good (they start low, and it gets even lower because they allow you cutting Windows out of the bill). In the US I've bought a ThinkPenguin and was happy with it. I didn't really like my custom-configured Toshiba back in the day. It had weak cooling and was thus very noisy, and it wasn't done well, deteriorated with time a bit too much.
Thinkpenguin is just rebranded clevo stuff. Most small company laptops are like that. Everything from system76, to sager, to eluktronics. Basically if you find a laptop you like through a Linux hardware company, maybe find the chassis model and save a bit bc there usually isn't much different between them. If you play your cards right, you can get software support through another vendor bc they sell the same laptop. (Bios updates etc)
A new laptop with a dvd drive? Sign me up. Not a fan of the ath9k wireless card (I know why they did it, Ive never had particularly great performance from the one I have, even accounting for the fact that mine is 1x1 )
I was also skeptical with newer ThinkPads, but at the end I accepted the risk and bought one last year: T14s Gen 6, the one with AMD CPU. It is perfect IMO except for one small issue that affected me in the first few months and got resolved with a firmware update: battery drain during sleep was significant. It lost around 15-20% charge overnight. After the updates it loses at most 5% in the same duration.
And yeah it can update its firmware on Linux, just like Windows. Pretty rare thing to see. It has official support for Ubuntu and Fedora. I myself tried Arch and it works perfectly as well.
I had feeling I knew what you meant before looking it up. I guess I can appreciate trying to do something different in a laptop, but the detachable keyboard and kickstand just seem like too many moving parts to me.
Like when they added a screen that pops out above the keyboard or the laptop where the top half pivots lower than the base when it's open to angle for airflow. But I'm also the dummy still trying to use a laptop in my lap.
I recently got a last gen HP Omnibook ultra flip. Macbook level build quality but with a flip touchscreen, pen and oled screen. Really happy with it and everything works in fedora.
I recently grabbed a Framework 13 on eBay that "needed to be plugged in to boot and probably needed to have the mb replaced" for $500. Got it, replaced the CMOS battery and laughed all the way to the bank ;)
I can’t give any firsthand recs at the moment, but I’ve had my eye on the ASUS Zenbook A16.
I’m a weirdo who likes ARM Linux, and this is the first non-Apple ARM SoC that has a decent memory bandwidth for LLMs. Not exactly blazing, but should be usable.
The snapdragon X elite chips don't have driver support for linux. From my research, it will not work. I also want a thin and light laptop with good battery life and would have loved the A14 if Qualcomm had not butchered linux support.
I was looking at the System76 Lemur Pro, but I can’t seem to find any reviews on the newer models. Build quality and performance is really important to me as my daily driver for the last several years has been a MBP14 with an M1 Pro.
i've had a galago pro and the build quality on system76 seems to be better than average, but well below the competition at their price points -- they are all clevo/tongfeng rebadges.
however the build quality on the ultra high end models does mirror the build quality and this probably matters to you since you're considering framework, which also has a high price point.
system76 makes sense if you're doing for the support as well as the capabilities like the ones you're looking for (coreboot mattered for me back then) and my experience was overall positive w them; but i learned recently that their support made things so easy for me that it made my linux skills get antiquated.
I've been using Thinkpads since the late nineties... I've only ever had Thinkpads. I'm using my latest as a Steam Deck (Steam OS, AMD throughout) as I'm still using the X260 as a daily driver though I reaaally wish I had maxed out the RAM while it was possible. The old one runs KDE Neon.
The old ones are better than the new ones but the new ones you can charge with USB-C.
IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries.
Red Hat's Lightwell open-source software supply chain initiative that relies on specialized AI agents was able to accelerate the discovery of 400+ vulnerabilities affecting popular Java code. They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Lightwell Clearinghouse to GA, which is an enterprise service for their customers to submit open-source software dependencies for priority review and remediation.
From today's announcement:
"The milestone addresses a growing business risk. As autonomous AI agents become capable of combining several lower-risk software weaknesses into a more serious attack, companies need to do more than identify vulnerabilities. They need a practical way to develop, test and deploy fixes in the software that supports critical applications."
Details are light on all the specific vulnerabilities uncovered. They appear to be ramping up fast in their Lightwell efforts as in the embargoed press release days ago was at 300+ vulnerabilities and then increased to 400+ vulnerabilities. Their AI laden press release announcing these 400+ vulnerabilities can be found on the IBM Newsroom.
Most modern operating systems (including iOS, Android, macOS, and ChromeOS) have been using image-based architectures for a while, and in recent years we’ve been making progress towards this on the...
Jokes aside, I don't see why this would exclude those languages. Just because they need a runtime doesn't mean the runtime can't be bundled (even if it is annoying to do so). I would imagine for runtime-dependent tools, they would just make a generic runtime bundle that can be shared between packages, similarly to how it's done with flatpak.
I think "tools [bundling] all their dependencies" is more likely to mean that you need to ensure that third-party libraries your tool depend on are bundled, which is good. End users, even if they're developers, shouldn't need to hunt those down just to use something.
On the other hand, I feel like many of the headaches of packaging and using packages could have been avoided if static linking were the default. Sure, things like openssl should probably be dynamically linked for more immediate updates when security issues arise, but most of the other third-party libraries for applications should be statically linked.
Otherwise, we end up reinventing static linking for decades, which is what things like Flatpak, AppImages, Snaps (🤢), and presumably Toolpaks exist to solve.
Yes, Flatpaks and Snaps (🤢) also provide application sandboxes, but it would be much better if they could focus more on sandboxing than also having to worry about dependency management for application libraries.
Arguably, if static linking were the default, Toopaks wouldn't be necessary either, even for immutable systems, because static binaries can be easily installed to a mutable part of the system.
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Today, the Raspberry Pi project released today an updated version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS, the new Raspberry Pi OS release ships with battery and squeekboard widgets for the new dock, support for automounting encrypted drives, Control Centre debug code, and new, better-quality Raspberry Pi menu icons.
The updated Raspberry Pi OS also adds tooltips to indicate the function of widgets in Control Centre’s Widget panel, a new color for inactive window titlebars to match window backgrounds, and a hook to update the list of shortcuts in Control Centre’s Shortcuts panel when the defaults are reloaded.
On top of that, the Screens panel in Control Centre has been updated to apply system file changes immediately on confirmation rather than when closed, and setting the size of the taskbar and dock, and the location in Control Centre now automatically sets desktop top and bottom margins appropriately.
Furthermore, the Main Menu will now only reload on cache update rather than before opening, the screen lock button was removed from shutdown options, the old source for standalone control panel applications was removed, and switching between taskbar and dock layouts no longer resets the system appearance.
Numerous bugs were fixed in this new Raspberry Pi OS release to improve various functionality, such as the PCmanFM right-click option to open a terminal from the file manager, dropping files onto list views in the file manager, menu shortcut keys, panel pop-up windows, and local PCmanFM automount configuration overriding global settings.
Also fixed are issues with system tray icons not displaying correctly on scaled screens or being hidden, an icon menu crash, swaybg desktop wallpaper files not loading, panel menus displaying off-screen, icon menu category view crash, a hotplug crash in the panel when no monitors were detected, and a crash when updating notifications.
The new Raspberry Pi OS release also fixes possible segfaults on various Control Centre panel initialisation functions, LibreOffice icons in launchbar sticking after close, keyboard activation of top-level menu item not closing the menu, and application pop-up menu text in new window list containing literal markup.
Last but not least, the updated Raspberry Pi OS release fixes a GTK4 colour representation manager reporting error, window count digits not shown correctly on new task list in Japanese locale, as well as an issue with opening of windows when mouse forward and back buttons were clicked in the file manager’s list view.
You can download the Raspberry Pi OS 2026-10-06 release right now from the official website for all supported Raspberry Pi models, including Raspberry Pi 1A+, 1B+, 2B, 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B, 400, CM1, CM3, CM3+, CM4, CM4S, Zero, Zero W, and Zero 2 W.
Existing Raspberry Pi OS users can update their installations by running the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade commands below in a terminal emulator or by using the built-in graphical package updater. If your system is up to date, you’re running the latest Raspberry Pi OS version.
Canonical is about to release its interim version of Ubuntu, the Stonking Stingray, a.k.a. Ubuntu 26.10, and they are doubling down on security with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, a slimmed-down GRUB bootloader, and more.
Ubuntu 26.10 (codename Stonking Stingray) is scheduled for release next week, on October 15th, 2026, with the latest and greatest GNOME 51 “A Coruña” desktop environment, the unreleased Linux 7.3 kernel series (yes, Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with an RC (Release Candidate) kernel), OpenSSL 4.0, OpenSSH 10.5, and Rust-based core utilities.
To beef up security, Canonical implemented a signed, slimmed-down GRUB bootloader with a reduced attack surface, TPM-backed encryption support on machines that don’t have a hardware root of trust, and dbus-broker as the default message bus with AppArmor mediation intact, using an event-driven architecture with better accounting, reliability, and scalability.
On top of that, Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with ntpd-rs, a memory-safe time daemon that will be enabled by default in Ubuntu 27.04, certificate revocation with upki, authd support for MS MFA and identity-provider-based accounts, hardware-token VPN sign-in support in NetworkManager, and on-device speech recognition powered by AI.
“Ubuntu 26.10 introduces Myna, a desktop speech-to-text feature. It’s designed to bring cutting-edge accessibility, without compromising security,” said Canonical in a blog post. “Myna performs speech recognition locally through an inference snap. Once the required models are installed, dictation works without an internet connection.”
Linux kernel 7.3, which will be released later this month, will also bring numerous updates to the Landlock, AppArmor, SELinux, and Smack security modules for Ubuntu 26.10, along with TPM driver updates and BPF verifier fixes to prevent pointer leaks on speculative execution paths, NTFS3 security hardening, memory-safety fixes, and Rust support for PowerPC.
Last but not least, Canonical doubles down on firmware updates via fwupd, which now asks for a recovery key only when the running system uses TPM-backed encryption and a firmware update could affect the measurements used to unlock the disk, instead of prompting unnecessarily on systems where the update doesn’t affect the TPM-backed unlock policy.
As mentioned before, Canonical plans to release Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) on October 15th, but if you’re eager to try it right now on your personal computer, you can download the beta release. However, please keep in mind that it’s a pre-release version, not suitable for use in production environments.
Is there a way to upgrade from 26.04 to 26.10 without reinstalling everything? I have a plex server I would prefer to not re-index if I can help it.
Bonus points if it reinstalls GNOME along side my KDE Plasma desktop environment. Can’t decide on which desktop environment I like more but the Kubuntu look is slightly jank after I uninstalled GNOME which generally feels more polished imo.
Why not use Gummiboot instead? It's now called Systemd-boot, but the name is giving false impressions of being integrated into Systemd. In fact, one can install and use Systemd-boot without Systemd at all. It's a very slim and basic bootloader without complicated code and features. It's the default on EndeavourOS and I use it as my default since years.
À la une des derniers jours, en ballotage défavorable contre l’extrême-droite suite au premier tour de l’élection présidentielle brésilienne, Luiz Iniacio Lula da Silva, 80 ans, a demandé des conseils électoraux à Joe Biden. En Espagne, le Premier ministre Pedro Sanchez a promis en cas de victoire aux législatives de nommer Maricarmen ministre du Logement.
DE VRAIES SOLUTIONS
Mobilisation des lycéens. Face au blocage de nombreux lycées et à un mouvement qui se maintient malgré la répression féroce, le gouvernement semble incapable de trouver la réponse. Sébastien Lecornu, bonjour. Lecornu — Bonjour. Journaliste — Sébastien Lecornu, vraisemblablement la répression policière violente ne fonctionne pas, peut-être qu’il serait temps de trouver des solutions, non ? Lecornu — Bah on a une solution, on a demandé à tous les lycéens de mettre leurs idées dans des boites à chaussure et ensuite on leur promet qu’on regardera. Journaliste — Non mais Sébastien Lecornu, je veux dire qu’il serait temps de trouver de vraies solutions. Lecornu — Ah, sérieusement, de vraies solutions ? Journaliste — Bah oui, ça semblerait raisonnable. Lecornu — … Envoyer encore plus de flics. Journaliste — Bon j’ai rien dit.
LEÇON DE VIE
Le ministre de l’Intérieur Laurent Nunez est par ailleurs accusé de n’avoir donné aucune consigne de retenue aux forces de l’ordre alors même que la majorité des manifestants est mineure, et que plusieurs d’entre eux ont été gravement blessés. Laurent Nunez, bonjour. Nunez — Bonjour. Journaliste — Laurent Nunez, au début de la mobilisation, un adolescent a pris un tir de grenade en pleine tête, complètement illégal, qui l’a laissé défiguré à vie. Une adolescente a été étranglée par un autre policier, illégalement aussi, un autre encore a été noyé dans une rivière, un autre encore a eu la moitié du bras arrachée, un autre encore n’est plus capable de parler et devra communiquer par écrit toute sa vie- Nunez — Oui bon bah ça va j’ai compris ! Journaliste — Bah visiblement non parce que vous avez eu plusieurs jours et même des années pour prendre des événements aussi atroces en compte et qu’ils continuent de se produire ! Nunez — Mais ça leur fera du bien, à ces jeunes ! Ça leur apprend la vie, bon sang ! Journaliste — Ça leur apprend la vie d’avoir la vie ruinée ? Nunez — Ah bah oui comme ça au moins ils sont sûrs et certains que quoi qu’ils fassent rien ne changera plus pour eux. Quelle meilleure leçon de vie que celle-là ? Journaliste — Euh…
LES INSTIGATEURS
Journaliste — Le parti de gauche La France Insoumise est par ailleurs accusé d’être l’instigateur du mouvement. Mathilde Panot, bonjour. Panot — Exécutez l’ordre 66. Quelqu’un — Bien madame. On entend des explosions. Journaliste — Bon ben je vais vous laisser moi.
PRÉPAREZ-VOUS
Journaliste — Pendant ce temps-là, la primaire des socialistes entre dans sa dernière ligne droite, et l’affaire Glucksmann qui vient tout juste d’éclater pourrait bien rebattre les cartes. Mais au profit de qui ? … … Le sketch c’est une chanson.
Si seulement tu t’souvenais Qu’elle était centriste dans le passé Tu serais effrayée Si seulement tu t’souvenais comment elle traitait ses employés Elle pourrait t’engueuler
Mais laisse laisse le temps Elle compte pile sur le fait que t’auras tout oublié Même s’il faudra du temps pour oublier la bravitude qu’elle conquerrait
Et tu veux voter Ségolène ce soir Même si 15 balles pour ça c’est cher payé Tu voudrais qu’elle soit ta Royal ce soir Toi Glucksmann tu t’en fous c’est pas c’qui t’plaît
Mais je pense qu’un jour tu verras que toi aussi tu l’aimes un peu plus fort Moi je crois aux histoires auxquelles les autres ne croient pas encore
Et tu veux voter Ségolène ce soir Même si 15 balles pour ça c’est cher payé Tu voudrais qu’elle soit ta Royal ce soir Toi Glucksmann tu t’en fous c’est pas c’qui t’plaît
Pour notre entretien du jour, nous nous retrouvons avec la ministre de la Santé Stéphanie Rist. Stéphanie Rist, bonjour. Rist — Buvez de l’eau. Journaliste — La canicule est finie, vous savez ? Rist — Ah oui c’est vrai. Mais buvez de l’eau quand même. Journaliste — J’y manquerai pas. Donc, Stéphanie Rist, la semaine dernière, des millions de tomates produites en France ont été rappelées en urgence à cause d’une teneur extrêmement élevée en acétamipride. Vous confirmez ? Rist — Euh, ouais, ptete. Journaliste — Vous… Vous êtes au courant, au moins ? Rist — Bah moi vous savez je mange que des tomates bio, donc savoir si les tomates normales sont pourries ou pas, ça m’est un peu égal. Journaliste — … Ah. Mais enfin vous savez, le bio, tout le monde ne peut pas se le procurer, notamment parce que l’industrie agroalimentaire pratique des marges beaucoup plus élevées que sur l’agriculture conventionnelle qui fait augmenter artificiellement les prix. Rist — Oui mais moi je m’en fiche, j’ai les moyens. Jouranliste — Mais la question c’est pas vous, c’est les Français. Rist — Ah bon ? Journaliste — … Vous êtes ministre de la Santé, pas vrai ? Rist — … Euh… Ah, peut-être. J’étais pourtant persuadée que j’étais ministre du buvage d’eau. Journaliste — Bah remarque ce serait peut-être mieux. Nous vous souhaitons une fin de journée. À bientôt !
Creating brand guidelines takes a little time, but it pays off every day. You do not need an agency to do it for you. You just need to write down who you are and how you want to look. Pick your colors, choose your fonts, and set your rules. When you finish, share it with your team.
How to Create Brand Guidelines That Unify Your Brand
A brand that feels familiar everywhere it appears earns recognition. Its website, social channels, and emails all carry a consistent identity. That consistency is not accidental. It comes from having brand guidelines in place.
These guidelines serve as a playbook for your company. They tell everyone how to present your brand. You do not need a huge budget to create them. A clear plan is enough. Let's walk through how to build your own brand guidelines from scratch.
1. Establish your brand's core identity
Begin by defining who you are before any visual decisions. Write down your mission, vision, and values. Your mission captures what you do today. Your vision outlines where you want to go. Your values are the beliefs that shape your decisions.
Then determine your brand voice. Are you formal or informal? Witty or serious? List a few adjectives that describe your tone. Also note what you are not. For example, if you are casual, you avoid corporate jargon. Documenting this sets the stage for every design choice. A cheap website designer can use this to align visuals with your personality.
2. Set logo usage rules
Your logo is the central symbol of your business. You need clear rules for its application. Begin by showing your primary logo. Then display any secondary versions, like horizontal or stacked layouts. Explain when each version should be used.
Most importantly, show what to avoid. Do not stretch the logo. Do not change its colors. Do not place it on a cluttered background. Provide visual examples of incorrect usage. This prevents people from weakening your brand identity over time.
3. Choose your color palette
Colors trigger emotions, so select a palette that matches your brand's personality. Pick a primary color that people will see most often. Then add secondary colors to support it. Finally, choose neutral colors for backgrounds and text.
When listing colors, do not just write "blue." Give exact color codes. Include HEX for digital, RGB for screens, and CMYK for print. This detail supports affordable web design by keeping colors consistent across media. Your chosen shade should look the same on a business card and a laptop screen.
4. Select your typography
Fonts matter more than many people think. A poor font choice makes a brand look unprofessional. Limit yourself to two or three fonts. Choose a bold primary font for headings. Then pick a clean secondary font for body text. It should be easy to read on screens.
Set specific rules for font sizes. For example, headings might be 36 pixels and body text 16 pixels. State which fonts to use online and which to use in print. Keep it simple. Too many fonts make a brand look messy.
5. Set imagery and graphic standards
Photos and graphics tell a story. You want them to tell the right one. Decide on a photographic style. Do you prefer bright, natural light? Or dark, moody shots? Are your photos of people or products? Show examples of images you like and dislike.
Apply the same approach to illustrations and icons. If you use flat icons, ensure no one uses 3D ones. Consistency is the goal. When someone visits your website, the visuals should feel cohesive.
6. Apply guidelines to your website
Your website is often the first place people interact with your brand. Your guidelines should cover web design rules. How do buttons look? What color are links? Where do images go on a page?
If you hire someone to build your site, these rules save time and money. When you seek an affordable web design option, clear guidelines make the process faster. A designer can build quickly when they know the exact fonts and colors to use.
Even a cheap website designer can produce great work if you provide a solid rulebook. They do not have to guess what you want. They just follow the rules you wrote. This keeps your site looking professional and on-brand.
A cheap website designer can also work faster with these rules. They spend less time asking questions. They spend more time building.
7. Cover your social media presence
Your brand also lives on social media. You need rules for how things look on Instagram or LinkedIn. Create templates for your posts. If you post quotes, what font do you use? What background color do you use?
Provide these templates for your team. This way, anyone can create a post that still looks like it came from your brand. Write these rules down so your social media does not become a random mess of colors and fonts.
8. Gather everything into a document
Now you have all your pieces. You have your mission, logo, colors, fonts, and image rules. Put them in one place. You can use a simple Word document, a Google Doc, or a PDF. Some people use Canva to make their guidelines look nice.
Organize the document logically. Start with the brand core, then move to visuals, then web rules. Use headers and bullet points. Make it easy to scan. An affordable web design project benefits from a well-structured document. No one wants to read a giant wall of text.
A cheap website designer will appreciate a clear, scannable document. It helps them follow your rules without confusion. Keep your sentences brief and your examples clear.
9. Share the guidelines
A rulebook is useless if no one reads it. Send the document to your team. Make sure your employees know where to find it. Tell them to use it every time they create something for the brand.
If you work with freelancers, send them the document before they start a project. This includes writers, designers, and social media managers. A Singapore cheap website designer will follow your guidelines more closely when they receive them upfront. When everyone follows the same rules, your brand gets stronger.
10. Update the guidelines over time
Your business will change. Your brand guidelines should change too. Maybe you rebrand in five years. Maybe you just add a new color to your palette.
Set a reminder to review your guidelines once a year. Check if the rules still make sense. Remove things that do not work. Add new things that do. An affordable web design strategy stays current when your document is updated. A brand guideline is a living document that grows with your business.
Wrapping up
Creating brand guidelines takes a little time, but it pays off every day. You do not need an agency to do it for you. You just need to write down who you are and how you want to look. Pick your colors, choose your fonts, and set your rules. When you finish, share it with your team. From that point on, every piece of content you make will look consistent. Your brand will look professional, no matter your budget. Start today, and you will build a brand people remember.
This was the first time F-Droid had an official presence at IndiaFOSS, and I honestly did not know what to expect. We actually had quite a lot of people comi...
Basically. I have separate drive for my windowsOS/media etc. And one of my nvme drive now is completely empty.
Is there a way to install Linux onto that empty nvme with windows and then like turn the PC off remove my windows drive entirely, and then have it just boot with the linux drive without needing to do a whole bootable usb through the motherboard uefi?
I don't have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.
Like if there was a linux installer that Ibcan run while logged in to windows that would be amazing...
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
I make a partition on my main drive which I load any .iso on to it. Usually I keep a Linux Mint .iso there in case I need a basic set of tools outside of my main Operating System for when I mess up my main OS. I can load that .iso partition at boot through the BIOS menu.
I'm sure you can do the same with an NVME drive. You may need to check the BIOS boot order to make sure you start your preferred OS when booting your system.
I used to do this too, I confirm this works and is a good idea, it is convenient especially if you plan to distrohop a bit or know you will reset a couple times to experiment a bit
Yes there are lots of methods to do this. Format the disk to something like ext4, untar a distro to it, then with wsl chroot into the disk, finish installing and configuring everything, then reboot to the new disk. You will need specific time to do an this, but should be fairly straight forward.
I essentially did exactly this for my current setup.
There are other ways to.
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You can use a raw disk in VirtualBox. Just make sure you install an initrd and kernel which has drivers for all of your hardware. If you let something autodetect hardware, it will detect the virtual hardware, not the real one.
I had tricks using native disks reliably in VirtualBox which I had been dabbling with for more than 15 years, and I had to move to using QEMU for my NAS disks. I quotient recommend these paths for noob level project.
This is a tricky question, mostly because you tagged it as "Noob"... It is technically possible, but it does require jumping through some hoops I would not normally recommend to a novice. Attempting through a VM is probably the safest option, but pointing a VM to an entire physical disk isn't typically something I would recommend, but is likely much safer than doing live partition editing manually and on the fly.
So...I'm not a noob to computers, I run my own jellyfin server, minecraft server, I almost had a comp sci minor in college, but I've just been so in the windows ecosystem that I don't really know what applies for linux and rather than act like I "know computers" I'll be honest, linux is something I know nothing about, windows I can do basically all my troubleshooting on my own+internet access
Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers.
Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it's an open library. You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free. You can look at the source code of anything you're interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code. And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them.
Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn't explain anything to you. 😅
In that case, I would advise you read the unetbootin wiki about "hard disk install modes" and see how much of it you feel comfortable with. It is a bit of hoop jumping but if you are comfortable with partition editors it seems to be the most straight forward method to me.
Someone mentioned netboot.xyz, but reading their docs I couldn't (quickly) find a way to set it up from windows without having some sort of boot media, and it would require another entire device on the network to boot from, which seems way more expensive than a USB drive.
Just to point it out: Having a USB stick with a Linux ISO laying around can be a lifesaver.
Even if you decide to go back to Windows or whatever.
Because you can actually boot off of the USB stick into a practically fully functional OS, so without installing, and then access the files on the hard drive, in case your installed operating system bites the dust (so long as the hard drive and filesystem is intact).
I and others agree... It's funny when someone says "I want a solution besides X" and we all kinda have to say "uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer" - - also another shout out for Ventoy. Complete game changer. I have a 16GB drive with Win10 IoT LTSC, new install apps and drivers for Windows, and 2 or 3 Linux distros.
Edited, typos
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I'm not doubting a usb is better, i uaed those to install windows in basically every PC I've built for me or friends. But...usually I am borrowing other ppls. Now I work seasonal jobs and don't have a permanent home so...can't really quickly access a store if I'm in the middle of nowhere in a national park
It's funny when someone says "I want a solution besides X" and we all kinds to to say "uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer"
I mean, yeah, you kind of have to point it out. Newbies won't be able to judge how much they're making their life harder by wanting to do it their way. 🫠
If you are not afraid of the command line, then there is dd for windows(or in wsl) which you can use to write an .iso file to any disk. Command usually is dd if=path\to\iso of=path\to\disk bs=4MB
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There are several ways, but they are all quite involved. Reading the comments Helix's comment seems the easiest, given that VirtualBox can really use raw disks, which I have not heard of before. To this I wish to add, if this method works you don't need to worry about drivers. The linux kernel has all the drivers you are likely to need & initrd is taken care of by all the distro installers, so you just need to directly install from the iso normally & not use an automated installer if VirtualBox has such options.
I don’t have USB drives and they cost too much for something i never use.
If you care about Linux it's worth getting a usb drive, $4 gets you a usable drive in most parts of the world. (8GB is enough) If you end up getting one, my suggestion is to make it a ventoy drive, even if you only have one iso file on the drive (which you'll need to boot in grub2 mode) , you'll still get the recovery benefit of ventoy, meaning if something* happens to your linux bootloader, ventoy will still be able to boot it up np most of the time.
*If you have two separate EFI partitions on two disks it's unlikely that Windows would touch the other, but stranger things have happened.
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People are making this to be much more of a fuss than it really is. It’s actually fairly easy:
You can write the linux iso to the NVMe, boot the NVMe, then write the linux install onto the same NVMe. This requires the linux iso load itself into RAM on boot, which is most of them, but not all.
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Kinetic WE V2 (Beta) – Full Feature WalkthroughA complete tour of everything new in Kinetic V2, now in beta. From title bars and cursors to tiling, window ru...
I've been working on reverse-engineering Grindr and creating an open source client implementation for it since March.
When GrindrPlus closed, my project turned out to be its de-facto successor and immediatelly several thousands of people started following it. Now it has 70k+ downloads on Forgejo and the authorship is dedicated to public domain 😀
MIT licensed, no ads, no analytics, no trackers, no diagnostics, no statistics, no telemetry, only opt-in updates checking
Signed releases, reproducible builds on all four platforms, full transparency
And it's now in Google Play (for the time being) and being reviewed for F-Droid!
Already applied for Apple developer enrollment and going to publish this to EU alt stores as well as in the TestFlight. Then a classic unsigned ipa and also going to attempt Apple AppStore just for completeness.
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Use the correct parts and calibrate the system afterward. Keep accurate records for future reference. These steps help return the crane to safe service. They also support longer periods of reliable operation.
When a Manitowoc crane stops working, the Moment Control System often gets attention first. This system, also known as the Load Moment Indicator, protects the crane from unsafe lifting conditions. Understanding its parts and behavior helps technicians diagnose problems faster. This guide reviews system generations, common failures, and replacement options.
MCS Fundamentals
The Moment Control System calculates safe working load from boom length, angle, and radius. It uses electronic sensors and a controller to compare actual conditions against a stored load chart. If the lift exceeds safe limits, the system interrupts the lifting functions. That action helps prevent tipping and structural damage.
The system operates in harsh conditions. Sensors face vibration, moisture, and temperature swings. Wiring can rub against metal edges. Connectors can corrode. These conditions explain why periodic inspection matters. A small fault can grow into a lockout.
Determining Your System Generation
Manitowoc has used several LMI designs across its crane families. Older machines may carry the EPIC system. Newer units often use CRCS or CAN-bus architectures. Each design performs similar safety functions. Their communication methods differ significantly.
Older systems often run dedicated wires from each sensor to the controller. Newer systems share data over a network. That network connects controllers, displays, and sensors. Troubleshooting steps differ between the two approaches. Testing a digital sensor requires different tools than testing an analog one.
Knowing the generation prevents wasted effort. It also helps when ordering components. A part that fits one generation may not fit another.
LMI Components Most Likely to Fail
Several components within the MCS are prone to wear. Recognizing them helps narrow down a fault. The list below covers the most frequent trouble spots.
Length and Angle Sensors: These units mount near the boom head. They report boom tip position to the controller. An angle sensor may use a pendulum or inclinometer. Weather, dirt, and vibration affect its accuracy.
A length sensor uses a mechanical reeling system, and its cable can stretch, break, or wear. If the controller receives a false boom length, the load chart becomes incorrect. These crane parts endure constant movement, which eventually causes wear.
Pressure Transducers: These devices measure hydraulic pressure to estimate load weight. They connect to the hoist cylinders. Moisture, shock, or age can cause failure. When they fail, load readings may become erratic.
The Controller: This unit acts as the system's brain. It receives sensor signals and compares them to stored load charts. Then it sends commands to the display and cutoff valves. Controllers rarely fail without cause, but water intrusion or short circuits can damage them quickly.
Displays and HMI: The cab display shows critical lifting information. Backlights can burn out, screens can crack, and buttons can stop responding. If the operator cannot read the display, safe operation becomes difficult.
Early Indicators of a Problem
An LMI does not always fail with a clear error code. Sometimes readings jump around. Load weight may bounce by several thousand pounds while the load is stationary, and boom angle may drift by a few degrees. These symptoms deserve attention.
Operators often notice subtle changes before a full failure. If an operator reports unusual behavior, investigate promptly. Waiting can lead to a lockout on the job site.
Start with basic checks. Inspect wires near the boom hinge for chafing. Look inside junction boxes for moisture. Corroded crane parts and connections cause many apparent sensor failures. Cleaning or replacing a connector may solve the issue.
Sourcing Replacement Components
When a component fails, replacement speed matters. Correct selection matters just as much. The wrong component can waste time and create new safety concerns. Use the following guidelines to improve outcomes.
OEM and Aftermarket Options
Original Equipment Manufacturer components are built for specific crane models. Genuine Manitowoc parts match the system's electrical and software requirements. They reduce compatibility risk in safety-critical applications. Aftermarket alternatives exist, but quality varies.
Some Manitowoc parts from aftermarket sources may work correctly. Others may not meet output specifications. A pressure transducer with the wrong milliamp output can produce inaccurate load readings. Buy from suppliers who understand crane electronics and ask about warranty and return policies.
The Role of Serial Numbers
Manitowoc updates systems over time. A 2012 crane may have a different LMI setup than a 2016 model. The crane model name alone does not guarantee compatibility. Serial numbers and old part numbers provide the details needed.
Record the crane serial number before calling a dealer. Also note the part number from the failed component. This information helps confirm the correct replacement. It also reduces the chance of ordering the wrong item.
Firmware and Software Considerations
Hardware replacement is only part of the repair. Controllers require correct firmware to read sensors properly. A used controller may not arrive with the right software. A Manitowoc dealer may need to load load charts and configuration files.
Do not assume a replacement controller will plug and play. Even genuine Manitowoc parts may need programming. Confirm software requirements before installation. That step prevents delays after the part arrives.
When Parts Are No Longer Available
Dealers sometimes report that a component is obsolete. This situation is common with older cranes. The original sensor may be out of production. Several options remain available.
You can search for rebuilt or used crane parts online. Verify the seller's reputation and the part's condition. Ask for test results when possible. Another option is a retrofit kit.
Manitowoc and some third-party companies offer upgrade kits. These kits replace older analog sensors with digital equivalents. They may cost more upfront, but they can simplify future maintenance and improve diagnostic capabilities. Some rebuilders specialize in Manitowoc parts for discontinued systems.
Installing and Calibrating Electronic Safety Components
Mechanical installation is often straightforward. Electrical work requires care. Follow these practices to avoid damaging new components.
Disconnect the Power: Remove battery power before unplugging or connecting electronic parts. Hot-swapping can destroy a new controller instantly. This simple step protects the equipment.
Protect the Connections: LMI connectors use small pins that carry low-voltage signals. A bent pin, dirt, or moisture can cause intermittent faults. Use dielectric grease to keep water out. Take time when mating connectors.
Route Cables Carefully: Length sensor cables must follow factory routing. A cable rubbing a sharp edge can chafe through quickly. Use proper ties and guides. Poor routing can cause repeat failures.
Calibration Is Mandatory: A new angle sensor cannot simply be bolted on and used. The system requires calibration. Certified test weights and a calibrated angle gauge are needed. Skipping calibration compromises safety and puts the crew at risk.
Recordkeeping Practices
After repairs, document the work performed. Record the part numbers used and calibration values entered. Note the date and the technician's name. Keep this log with the crane's maintenance records.
This record saves time during future diagnostics. It also helps the next technician understand prior repairs. A clear history supports better maintenance decisions.
Closing Thoughts
The Manitowoc Moment Control System is a vital safety layer. When it fails, repair pressure is high. Avoid rushing the process. Diagnose the exact failure before ordering components.
Use the correct parts and calibrate the system afterward. Keep accurate records for future reference. These steps help return the crane to safe service. They also support longer periods of reliable operation.
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Mobile devices generate more than half of all web traffic. Treat those visitors as your primary audience. A site that works well on a phone generally works well everywhere.
Many site owners carry a quiet assumption that their website performs fine on phones. The pages render, the text adjusts, and nothing crashes. For them, that settles the matter.
It doesn't settle anything. Mobile-friendliness is a question of usability, not mere display. A visitor should be able to read comfortably, tap accurately, and load pages quickly on a typical cellular connection.
Testing is the only reliable way to find out. What follows is a clear framework for doing it well.
Separating Responsive From Mobile-Friendly
These two labels get used interchangeably, but they describe distinct qualities.
Responsive design molds itself to the available screen width. Resize a desktop browser window and a responsive page will reflow to match.
Mobile-friendly design reflects a deeper intention. It means the site was planned around handheld use. Text remains legible on narrow displays. Interactive elements suit a thumb. Navigation tucks away cleanly. Nothing hijacks the screen with an intrusive overlay.
A layout can respond to screen size and still be awkward on a phone. Real usability is the standard.
The Manual Walkthrough
Set the software aside and take out your phone. Open the site on that device rather than a desktop browser. Then attempt to use it as a customer would.
Readability comes first. Is the text comfortable without zooming? Small fonts push people away.
Tap targets come next. Tap every link, menu item, and button. If you keep hitting the wrong one, spacing is inadequate.
Then review your images. Do they scale correctly? Do they crop badly on a tall screen? Desktop monitors are wide, phones are narrow. An image that looks fine on a laptop may lose key details on a handset.
Forms deserve a close look. Open your contact page and complete it on your phone. Are the fields easy to select? Does the keyboard obscure the submit button? A cumbersome form means lost messages.
Finally, watch for pop-ups. If a signup overlay covers everything and the close button is too small to hit, that fails. Google penalizes intrusive mobile interstitials.
Frequent Problem Areas
As you review by hand, keep an eye out for these recurring issues.
Image carousels often malfunction on phones. The navigation arrows may be too small, or slow slides may push content down the page.
Sticky headers create another problem. A header that stays fixed while scrolling can eat up a large share of a small display. That leaves minimal room for reading.
Infinite scrolling is a third concern. It makes reaching the footer nearly impossible. If your contact details or privacy policy sit down there, visitors won't find them.
Google's Free Diagnostics
Once the manual check is done, move to technical evaluation. Google offers free utilities that reveal how its systems read your site.
PageSpeed Insights is a sensible starting point. Enter your URL and study the mobile report. The tool scores speed and usability while listing concrete defects. It might flag undersized tap targets or weak text contrast.
The report also measures how long the largest visual element takes to appear. That measurement is Largest Contentful Paint. Anything beyond 2.5 seconds calls for image compression or code cleanup.
Cumulative Layout Shift matters too. It describes how much the page moves while loading. Have you ever reached for a link, only to have the page jump and send you to an advertisement? That's a layout shift. It's deeply irritating on mobile, and Google treats it as a ranking factor.
Keep in mind that Google relies on Mobile-First Indexing. Its crawlers evaluate the mobile version of your site before the desktop one. A polished desktop experience won't compensate for a poor mobile one.
Simulating Devices in Chrome
A physical handset isn't always needed. Chrome provides a device simulation mode. Right-click anywhere on your site and select "Inspect." Then click the icon that resembles a phone and tablet side by side. The Device Toolbar appears.
Use the dropdown to pick a device. Options include various iPhones, Galaxy models, and tablets. The viewport resizes, and you can interact with the page as if you were on that device. This is convenient for catching layout issues during edits. You can also rotate the simulated screen to check landscape orientation.
Speed Under Realistic Conditions
Speed is central to mobile usability. A page might look flawless on office Wi-Fi, yet struggle on a busy 4G network. Slow loading drives mobile traffic away.
Return to Chrome's Developer Tools. In the "Network" tab, you can throttle your connection. Choose "Slow 3G" or "Mid-tier mobile" and reload. Watch how the page assembles. If the screen remains empty for five seconds, something is wrong. Visitors will abandon it.
Mobile users are impatient. When a page takes longer than three seconds, most of them leave. Compressing images, trimming code, and using a content delivery network can correct these delays.
Involving a Professional
Testing sometimes uncovers problems that quick fixes can't resolve. If your site is slow, confusing, or broken on certain devices, the cause may be an outdated theme or poorly written code.
An aging platform might justify a full rebuild. That's where a capable website designer Singapore becomes valuable. They can restructure your layout, optimize your images, and tidy your code so the site performs well on any screen. A professional works mobile-first, ensuring everything functions before adapting to desktop.
For businesses that rely on online traffic, a broader approach may be warranted. Engaging a web design agency gives you access to a full team. They can manage ongoing performance checks, browser compatibility, and the technical SEO details that influence mobile speed. A dependable agency validates on real devices, not only emulators, so nothing slips through.
Build Testing Into Your Routine
A single test won't stay accurate for long. Every new post, image, or button change alters the mobile experience. Testing should become routine.
After any update, pick up your phone and click through the new material. Confirm that images load promptly. Verify that formatting changes haven't disrupted the layout.
Mobile devices generate more than half of all web traffic. Treat those visitors as your primary audience. A site that works well on a phone generally works well everywhere.
Don't assume your site is fine because it opens on a smartphone. Test it carefully. Run the manual checks, use Google's tools, and simulate slow connections. Repair whatever you find. If the issues exceed your ability to solve them, seek professional help. Visitors will stay longer, and your search rankings will reflect the improvement. Take a few minutes to test your site today. The results might surprise you.
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I'm trying to avoid creating a larger problem for myself, so I figured I'd call in help. Still fairly novice with Linux (especially Fedora), but I'm determined to finally migrate from Windows.
I'm running the XFCE spin of Fedora with a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and Samsung Odyssey G9. I kept my Win11 partition during migration and confirmed the monitor setup still works in windows, just not Fedora. I'm currently typing this on my Fedora install, on a second monitor I set up to troubleshoot (HDMI on the 5070).
"nvidia-smi" returns the following: NVIDIA-SMI 615.71.09 KMD Version: 615.71.09 CUDA UMD Version: 13.4
Did I mess something up in my install? I followed Fedora's official instructions on Nvidia driver installation (sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia -y). As always, I appreciate the help. While frustrating as a start, I'm excited about making the leap.
I spent 10 months building an AI VTuber named Lumi. I trained her on 8 months of manually scraped X shitposts because I refused to pay Elon $200 a month for API access. The result was an AI with the personality of a chronically online shitposter. So I applied her to a real $500,000 job at Coinbase. She passed the resume screen. She passed the AI screening. She passed the online assessment. Then, in the real interview, her speech-to-text hallucinated "Hi Lumina" as an ad for a beading website and ten months of work died in real time. This is the full story. Resume, interview footage, the borrowed US phone number from an immigrant friend who has been rehearsing the line "she's in a meeting" for three months, the VoiceGate bypass I tested three times, all of it.
What company should Lumi infiltrate next? Comment below.
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it's clocking in just above 3%.
The Steam Survey results for September that were published this evening indicate a rather steep decline of 0.85%, down to 3.05%. Meanwhile macOS is at 1.92% and Microsoft Windows at 95%.
As with most months where Steam Survey indicates an abnormally large decline for Linux use, the second stop is checking on the language use... Once again a case of a big spike in Simplified Chinese use. Steam's Survey reports a 7.42% increase in Chinese use, up to 31.39% overall of the Steam population. Usually with those large month-over-month swings where Steam China use shoots up dramatically is a boost to Windows and a detriment to Linux. Some attribute the large increases in Simplified Chinese use to being a reporting/sampling issue.
When diving into the Steam Linux data exclusively, CachyOS has spiked by another 2.65% to now account for 18.12% of the sampled Linux gaming population. That even outperforms SteamOS Holo coming in at 17.37%.
Among Linux gamers on Steam, AMD CPUs still account for the high 60 percentage space thanks to the Steam Deck and Steam Machine using AMD APUs and their open-source/Linux support being popular with enthusiasts.
Those wanting to dive in to all the Steam Survey stats for September can find the fresh data on SteamPowered.com.
China plans to drop Windows earlier than planned in favor of Linux for some government bodies. The move comes as part of China's broader push to reduce dependence on foreign products and services, especially those of US origin.
Not exactly what I meant. They ban for the government, similar to what is happening in Europe. It won't have any effect on gamers, as no one is forced to give up Windows (other than the government bodies themselves).
It's extremely hard to believe that someone that has had a taste of Linux would switch back to Windows, if this is what the stats imply, which I'm not sure. I would need to be paid thousands to willingly use Windows again.
Yeah, you have a point, but still, twice in three years? I don't know how representative it really is, ESPECIALLY when you see 50-100% ups and downs in the Linux user base. 5 to 3 percent and back cannot be the actual stat, that has to be unreliable selection of users.
It happens when they survey China. I don’t know why China isn’t included in the regular survey runs, but if they know the parameters of their surveying, they can make more accurate analysis of it than us.
To be fair, the spike up in the noise in march was reported widely. Now the "correction" can be as well IMO. But oh well, lets hope there is a tleasr a larger trend to Linux
I even ensured I refused survey data on my Windows machine but that it ran on my Linux machine to help game the numbers as I'm sure other Linux users do.
I'm convinced Microsoft would have to mandate sticking a probe up your ass when creating a user account/setting up a computer before significant switching among average users would take place and even then a huge 50% of the population would say it's not that big a deal and switching is a larger hassle and they have no choice, blah, blah.
Linux is kind of still stuck in the doldrums of tech and privacy enthusiasts and a few of their friends and I'm just not sure what if anything can change that in terms of individual actions and markets. Now sure if China or the EU made it harder to sell Windows computers and really pushed people onto a version of Linux that could bump the numbers but in both cases they're just trying to gain some sovereignty by putting government systems on Linux and that transition alone will probably run for a good part of a decade.
Northstar is a minimalist web browser written from scratch in C. One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no Gecko, no WebKit, no Blink. It is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows — on Windows from the Microsoft Store.
Northstar Browser version 1.0.12 released! A sunny ark comic on about:start, a classic Mozilla-style toolbar with address-bar suggestions, relayout and repaint that only redo what changed, popovers per the HTML standard, the Microsoft Store package, an 8 MB engine stack, and a build on Fabrice Bellard’s original QuickJS
I can not tell you how tired of seeing these vibe coded projects I am.
You didn't give nearly enough of a shit to write the application, why should I give enough of a shit to use it? Could you explain, in detail, line by line, what the happy path of a standard web request is in this thing? Could you walk me through the specific engineering decisions that were made and why? Could you point to the specific regions of code that reflect those engineering decisions?
I'm beyond exhausted with these things and honestly I've gotten to the point where I'd like for us to ban non-codeberg repos
Kagi has announced it will stop developing the Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, ending its direct work on these platforms. The good news is that instead of dropping the project, the company plans to open-source both versions so other developers or organizations can keep them going.
For Linux users, this is a big shift for a browser that had just started to show real promise. Orion first came to Linux in early alpha at the start of the year, then officially entered beta in August.
Now, only a few months later, Kagi says the current Linux Beta will keep working, but it will stop getting updates from the company after October 2, 2026. Kagi also warns users not to use the beta as their main browser. The main reason is limited resources.
Kagi says only a small team of developers works on Orion, and the project is funded entirely by Kagi users. Expanding Orion beyond Apple platforms was always a big challenge, especially since the company chose not to use Chromium as its base.
Instead, Orion uses WebKit, which makes it one of the few browsers trying to offer an alternative to the many Chromium-based ones.
Kagi says that keeping a browser running on multiple platforms usually requires either a lot of funding or a big open-source community. Since Kagi has neither, it will now focus its limited resources on Orion for macOS and iOS.
The work done on Linux and Windows will be released as open source instead.
Kagi plans to publish the source code for both versions and share more details within 30 days of the announcement. The company has also reached out to open-source foundations and organizations about possibly taking over the projects in the long term.
However, Kagi makes it clear that it does not plan to be the main maintainer of either open-source project. Any future updates will depend on developers or organizations willing to take over the code.
In short, Orion for Linux’s future depends on what happens after the source code is released and whether a community forms to maintain it. For now, the current beta still works, but without future security updates or maintenance from Kagi, it likely won’t be a good daily browser for long.
This browser was really cool because, despite being WebKit, it was compatible with Firefox and Chrome extensions. That alone made it more worth trying than any non-FF or non-Chromium browser.
I hope that any other WebKit browsers (like Epiphany/GNOME Web) take that from Orion and adopt it in their own browser. That would make them viable.
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency.
X.Org vs. Wayland latency across different compositors and desktop environments has been a heated topic among passionate Linux desktop enthusiasts. Some argue in favor of classic X.Org delivering the lowest latency while others routinely share their own personal anecdotes and argue in favor of modern Wayland solutions. NVIDIA engineer Kamil Łysik took to a Wayland vs. X.Org latency comparison from key press to presentation. For ensuring accurate measurements, a micro-controller was used along with a light sensor for end-to-end measurements. Paired with software for repeatable and automated testing.
Testing with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card and using the company's R610 driver branch, tests were done on KDE KWin 6.7.4 and GNOME Mutter 49.7 and the X.Org Server tests using v1.21.1.24.
NVIDIA latency Wayland vs. X.Org results
NVIDIA's findings were that the latency results between X.Org and Wayland are very close with it being hard to conclude a clear winner. Some notable takeaways include that XWayland no longer introduces extra frame delays where it had in the past with an extra frame latency. Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) was also measured to "drastically improve" responsiveness and deliver roughly the same latency between both X.Org and Wayland based sessions.
Those interested can find the NVIDIA presentation this X.Org vs. Wayland latency topic embedded above.
Seemingly Xorg ever so slightly beat wayland, objectively from the results, but I think given a larger sample size it could just as easily have gone the other way. So that's good. Although if Wayland was way better than Xorg that would also be good of course.
XWayland not sucking as much as it used to is also good news.
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@SocialistVibes01 Latency of either is not an issue for me, what IS an issue is the lack of networking support in Wayland, i.e., I can't do ssh -Y server, then say xclock on that server and have it display locally because Wayland isn't meant to be useful, it's meant for gamers and to try to be as fucked up as Windows.
On my really old gaming laptop, I had to force X because Wayland refused to use the video card drivers for games, so everything would end up on the CPU.
On my main gaming machine, I have to manually run nvidia-smi to make Wayland recognize the video card is still there before I start a game, otherwise it attempts to run games on the CPU.
There's definitely some work that needs to be done. That being said, when it does work, I have no gripes. I just hate the fact it really really wants to use the CPU instead of the (Nvidia) graphics cards for graphical things by default.
[FR] L'An 01 est un film français de 1973, réalisé par Jacques Doillon. Il est adapté de la bande dessinée L'An 01 de Gébé, dont le scénario avait été enrichi par les propositions via le courrier des lecteurs, lors de ses publications dans Politique Hebdo, puis Charlie Hebdo.
[EN] The Year 01 (French: L'An 01) is a French comedy film, directed by Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais and Jean Rouch released in 1973. It is based on the eponymous comic strip by Gébé and has gained cult film status.
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[FR] Le film narre un abandon utopique, consensuel et festif de l'économie de marché et du productivisme. La population décide d'un certain nombre de résolutions dont la première est « On arrête tout » et la deuxième « Après un temps d'arrêt total, ne seront ranimés — avec réticence — que les services et les productions dont le manque se révélera intolérable. Probablement : l'eau pour boire, l'électricité pour lire le soir, la TSF pour dire “Ce n'est pas la fin du monde, c'est l'an 01, et maintenant une page de Mécanique céleste” ». L'entrée en vigueur de ces résolutions correspond au premier jour d'une ère nouvelle, l'An 01.
L'An 01 est emblématique de la contestation libertaire des années 1970 et aborde des thèmes aussi variés que l'écologie, la négation de l'autorité, l'amour libre, la vie en communauté, le rejet de la propriété privée et du travail.
[EN]The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions, beginning with "Let's stop everything," and the second "After a period of total stoppage, let's bring back — reluctantly — just the services and products we can't do without. Probably : water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the radio to say 'This is not the end of the world, this is Year 1, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics." The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 1. L'An 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
After 5 years, Minecraft: Java Edition (version 26.3+) can finally run out-of-the-box on the Rockchip RK3588 ARM SoC using a fully open-source graphics pipeline!
My setup: + Operating system: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion (Linux kernel 7.1) + Drivers: Mesa PanVK (Vulkan 1.4)
If you read scientific papers, you know how hard it is to keep up with the hundreds of new ones published every day. So I built a private app that learns your interests locally on your phone. Your data never leaves your device, and the app shows you the relevant new papers in your field: computer science, engineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, law and more.
Here's the website and the code under GPL-3.0. I hope you find it useful as much as I do!
Aftergleam ranks the day's new papers from arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv and five more preprint servers on your phone, and says why it picked each one. Free on F-Droid, open source, no account.
"His" and "GKH" refers to Greg Kroah-Hartmann, who is maintainer of the stable kernel series and the speaker in the video.
I've included a few slides into text that i thought were eye-opening to me:
From his Kernel Recipes 2026 slide on Mythos
<br /> Mythos's 79 vulnerabilities:
24 - no detail at all "something crashed"
14 - not a bug at all
3 - totally made up data
15 - already fixed in latest release
- 11 by others
- 4 by anthropic
20 - fixes were needed
- 7 "assume a malicious filesystem image"
- 2 "assume you can inject a malicious network packet into the middle of the stack"
- 2 "NOMMU"
- 6 sctp networking issues for untrusted devices
- 2 ipv6 minor network issues
- 1 gpu driver for local malicious user
GHK called this "10 'real' bugfixes", which to me sounds like there's a wild hype machine around these companies and uncritical parroting of every press release they make that falls apart when you engage the affected real experts.
KDE plans to tackle that through two already ongoing projects: Ocean and Union. Ocean is the new design system, while Union is intended to provide a unified theming engine across applications, Plasma, window decorations, and Plasma Login Manager.
I don't think they are the same category of thing. Ocean is a design system. Breeze is a theme.
Edit: now I'm less sure. This seemed to say it is both a style and a "design system" which I took to mean a technical mechanism for styles, but now i'm less clear what they mean.
Throughout this new process at KDE, I believe I have failed to clearly state what Ocean is and what it means for the future for Plasma user interface and experience. In this post, I will try to she…
"Design system" is a way for designers to organize what they are doing with emphasis on structure and central definition of different components, colors, etc. This allows designers to create UI mockups more easily and programmers to implement the designs without guessing.
My guess is that that the new theme will be designed using this new system and then implemented using Union.
Finally, the theming in plasma is powerful but still quite a mess. The settings list a bunch of categories and one global theme, but I am never sure what settings can get saved in a global theme
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar 02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now 05:20 What's the job of an OS? 06:51 Updates break systems. Often. 10:53 You have to adapt to it 15:14 It's highly intrusive 17:44 Debloating tools don't make it good 20:19 Windows fails at being an OS 21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect 27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS
I’ve been a Unix maximalist since I can remember, but I’ve never convinced my peers to follow.
Since windows 11 has dropped, every single one of them now has a Linux machine for one purpose or another. Some are now considering a complete purge of MS products, as I have.
Only thing I’m having a little trouble getting away from is are some office products and email hosting.
Once Gmail has the equivalent of shared inboxes, I’ll switch to them for my business hosting.
In case people here are not aware, I can create free email address with my domain name for receiving only.
This is great because I don’t really need to send mail for each account I receive mail at, but with Gmail you have to pay for each one as far as I know.
In case people here are not aware, I can create free email address with my domain name for receiving only.
You should be able in gmail, under the Accounts tab in Settings, to add accounts to "Send mail as". Not sure how much of your problem that solves, though, if any.
That works to some extent, although certain receivers like Yahoo will bounce messages because it breaks sender authentication protocols. I had to switch from Gmail to Proton (paid, the free version doesn't allow it) to fix that.
Maybe there's some way, but Google didn't want me to know about it. All their docs made it seem like I would have needed to have an enterprise version (no clue what they call it but you know what I mean) of Google services to get it to work, not the free version. I tried for a couple days anyway and couldn't solve it, so I figured it was a good opportunity to de-google my email. Once I switched to Proton I had it set up in hardly any time at all, and all the different authentication protocols too. Longest part of the process was simply waiting for record propagation.
That would actually be better than what I can do with Outlook shared inboxes as that is receiving only. Someone else said, I can send emails as another address, so that might be better.
Your right, but it’s for my business and my understanding is that other email providers may have their emails marked as spam even when it’s just confirmation email, receipt, or appointment reminders.
I don’t want to risk having mail not delivered and having it translate to a lost sale or a poor customer experience.
Of course there is. It's compatible with almost any software and hardware (if you ignore their arbitrary W11 "requirements" which you can in most cases) that you can get your hands on. Microsoft and Windows deserve most of the flack they're getting, but we should be honest.
Take Linux as a comparison. Compatibility is pretty good nowadays and is only getting better, especially with all the work going into Proton from both Valve and the community. But certain things are simply not supported which can make it either difficult or straight up impossible to get to work. Not that Linux is to blame for that, of course, but it is reality.
The depths you have to sink to to get what honestly feels like an attempt at a charity point, but if that wasn't assumed it wouldn't have become the product in its position.
If there was an actual push to get compatibility worked out, it very well could. Seems more like a corporate holdback than a technical issue.
Uh yeah there is. Which that my games and software run without issue on Windows whereas on Linux I have to constantly fiddle with shit to make it work. But no one's ever honest about that.
For me, a decade of Linux user, having been forced to work with a bunch of Windows laptops recently, even the difference between 10 and 11 was palpable. Not only in resource usage but also in just getting around the system, running updates, trying to disable the stock ticker (?WTF?) etc.
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Lately I often reminesce on the time SSD has become available. My previous laptop would take 5 minutes to fully open the system, and suddenly BAM! SSD and it was 30 seconds. I remember being blown away. How the fuck did we end up back here. How is it 5+ minutes to start a stupid OS again.
And yes, the story above was about getting them all up to Win11. It's sad that IT-illiterates see "let's do what M$ says" as the only option wrt security.
I boot my work PC when I get in, then go off to make a coffee. It boots to log in reasonably well, but then takes a good five minutes to run the start up script that connects it to the company's shared drives.
When I could use Linux at work the machine mounted the drives at boot so they were available immediately. I've gone backwards despite being 'upgraded'.
I recently dumped W11 off my wife’s ROG Ally handheld and replaced it with SteamOS. It’s a day and night difference in performance. ASUS is absolutely fucking themselves by shipping it with this vibe-coded trash OS. W11 is total dog shit. The only good thing it does is drive a lot of people into the arms of Linux.
So I am a linux user, but use Windows 11 for work. I am an accountant in the school system.
Windows works fine for my work purposes. Especially when a lot of applications are being removed for web clients. I still use quite a bit of desktop applications, but I see the writing on the wall; soon all my work can be done on any device.
When the desktop application in work spaces finally die, I am curious if industries will switch to linux since its free and can be run on any hardware essentially. That or maybe owners will force their workers to use their own devices (phones, like Samsung DeX) to do work.
Dont get me wrong, linux never been this useable ever. But still not complete in my opinion.
I am working 12 hours a day plus 2 hrs commuting, when I get home, I want to chill.
I dont want to deal with package managers, window managers, network/gpu drivers and random asian guys github repository to fix my issues.
Honestly, windows isnt that bad for me. I never saw a blue screen in my life or some kind of error takes more than 10 mins of tinkering. I believe what I see. (I daily drive fedora w kde btw)
I forgot the name but there was a website calling every software shit, I agree with that guy.
We need more professionals working fulltime on linux and distros, more real tech support. Community support doesnt mean anything if no one maintaining it well...
We need more funding on desktop like how tech giants funding ubuntu server.
You cant tell a company that, oh this software is free but you are depending on a community which isnt promised to be existed in 5 years, but you can still fork it and maintain a whole desktop os.
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I dont want to deal with package managers, window managers, network drivers
Have you tried running Linux without tinkering any of these? I’ve installed Debian on numerous machines, the distro known for its outdated packages, and never had the need to tinker any of these to get them to work out of the box.
It just works
gpu drivers
This you manage for literally any operating system, certainly not a Linux exclusive.
and random asian guys github repository to fix my issues.
It’s okay, just trust the random Asian guys blog instead to fix Windows issues, much fancier experience.
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I am working 12 hours a day plus 2 hrs commuting, when I get home, I want to chill.
I dont want to deal with package managers, window managers, network/gpu drivers and random asian guys github repository to fix my issues.
I also work 12 hours a day (not a 2 hour commute though that's insane you need a new job) and I don't want to deal with broken windows update, bluescreens, advertisements, re-disabling some bloatware that windows re-enabled without my consent, permissions issues, the goddamn fucking registry
Annoyingly, as of a couple of months ago I now have to use Win11 at work, and it really is fucking horrible compared to every other machine I use. And the version I'm using is corporate as fuck, so has very little of the bloatier shit.
It's just so sluggish on the low spec hardware I have to use (a Dell desktop with 8gb RAM and an i3). I have Debian running on an older machine with the same specs which is SO MUCH faster in every way.
I used Macs for 20 years, so like to be able to click the mouse wheel to expose all windows. It's a fiddle to set up in Linux, but works well once it's set up. It's also a fiddle to set up in Win11, but it also feels like it's going to crash the machine every time I use it.
Similarly, I'm used to tapping the Win key, then immediately typing in the menu for the app I want. Every time I do it in Windows I end up dismissing the Start menu because I've begun typing too soon. Every. Time. I want to put the fucking thing through the window.
OH, and because it's a bloated mess that can't run on 8gb of RAM, it's taken up 22gb of the 250gb SSD as a sysfile.
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week, Plasma 6.8 continues to pass through the bug-fixing process in preparation for its release on October 14th, including the release of a second beta version.
The verdict could, "in theory," result in an award of about $219 billion in civil penalties, Attorney General Raul Torrez said in a news conference Friday.
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:23 Ubuntu 26.10 beta released 03:58 Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible 05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools 08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app 10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme 12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS 14:35 PostmarketOS changes name 16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions 18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops 19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser 21:55 Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation 24:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
i just love to wiggle mouse in my free time when i am on my Manjaro kde VM. It just feels so good but them my GNOME based fedora 44 didnt have it because jiggle and wiggle are outdated...and weell wiggly...it just doent work with the similar physics of KDE with incremental size increase.
So , to give myself a break from my work I VibeCoded this.
Yes i openly am stating that this is a VIBECODED project and welll i made it for myself and am sharing it here. It was a break from my sullen work and also from testing and debuuging my main project which i have to do manually , ScreenGuard , which well some people here must know atleast by now after my vigourous campaign about what this is...but nevertheless getting into this topic, I can atleast assusre u one thing, I will continue updating it atleast once every month if i find any bugs or any issues are opened in the repo.
So please feel free to use it, or even contribute. I will be adding the contibuting.md after a few hours, its been a looong day.
Thank you all for co-operating and Please donot tag it as AI slop because yes i myself am stating its vibecoded a lot eventhough i ask people not to do it...So if you really want the kde-ish wiggle, u can try it out, if you dont feel good about the vibecode then dont , completely upto you .
System76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.
I had the same experience with cosmic. It was prone to crashes. I really like the idea of combining gnome with i3wm/hyprland though. I currently have one box using gnome with a tiling shell extension, but the issue there is extensions not being well supported between gnome versions.
I wouldn't be opposed to retrying cosmic now. It's been a few years.
A lot of people have convinced themselves that kdes new policy is that you can now submit full claude vomit prs no questions asked. Its not, but thats how social media goes.
There's literally no change to their policy. They opened a discussion about stricter policy for PRs, but it got derailed by a few non-devs. That's my understanding of it at least.
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Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:23 Ubuntu 26.10 beta released 03:58 Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible 05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools 08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app 10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme 12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS 14:35 PostmarketOS changes name 16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts AI contributions 18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops 19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser 21:55 Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation 24:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
I feel like Firefox should give uses a toggle whether they want the rounded aesthetic! Personally, I like it a lot, and it just so happened when I switched from boxy KDE Plasma to Niri + Noctalia (which has more rounded UI as configured with default settings), Firefox updated to the new rounded aesthetic at the same time! What are the odds? A lot of people love their boxier UI bits though, so it kind of sucks that disabling the new UI requires going into about:config
I still love KDE Plasma, and it's definitely the GOAT desktop environment in my opinion (GNOME and others are great too!), but being able to try stuff like Niri is one of the reasons why I love Linux!
for me pills and jetbrainsmono and borders around everything just screams to me "this was designed by Claude."
I don't like the look. I think it looks amateurish. doesn't look clean. looks slapped together at the last minute by an LLM. Also the corners of my monitor are not round, they're square. if I was back on a early 00 area Apple Cinema Display it would make sense. hell if I was using any screen from the early 00's it would make sense. to me pills on everything does not make sense.
In terms of bad OSS project names, I feel like one of the worst is RawTherapee's fork, called Another RawTherapee, or "ART". No search engine can find it, because search ignores capitalization and it just thinks you're searching for art (as a common English noun). So when you look up "how to do x in ART" it thinks you're searching for regular art tutorials, and when you look up "how to do x in Another RawTherapee", it answers with the non-fork version of Rawtherapee because indexing rules make that come up first, but the UI in the non-fork version is totally different because that's the entire point of the fork, so the tutorial does not apply. In any case, this naming scheme is bound to give you a good headache when you need to look up anything.
About the sponsor #Proton, what does "zero access" mean?
As #eMail is not #e2ee encrypted normally, they will get unencrypted emails and encrypt them before storing them.
This is not zero access in my opinion, as they could access everything if they wanted. But the data is encrypted at rest, which is nice also if law enforcement would subpoena them, as that is all they can do most of the time.
@mailbox_org is pretty open about how they do that, they just use #PGP. I guess Proton and Tuta does something similar.
Hey ! I don't think Nick reads peer tube comments, but does anyone know why peertube videos are 720p, despite the original youtube one being 1080p ? Thanks !
"Hilbert verteilt gerade allen Beigeordneten, Amtsleitern und Verwaltungsmitarbeitenden einen pauschalen Maulkorb gegenüber dem Stadtrat. Beigeordnete und Verwaltungsmitarbeitende informieren uns in Ausschüssen, dass Stellungnahmen, die wir explizit angefordert haben, durch den OB nicht freigegeben werden. Sie informieren uns auch, dass real existente, finanzielle Mehrbedarfe im Zuge des Haushalts nicht mal mehr erfasst und freigegeben werden dürfen.
especially since they're mostly coming about as a rule change that says any attempts to patch will get a cve of it's own in addition to the one that they were responding to.
Every operating system is a buggy mess with tons of issues (from coding perspective). With Ai finding a lot of these issues (not counting false-positives, but only real fixed issues) is actually a good thing.
All of our work laptops just updated this month and everyone's having all sorts of bizarre issues. My KVM switch is fucking up now but only on the work machine, my personal desktop is fine. Classic Microsoft.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the military has outlined near-term long-range priorities and that strikes on Russia’s oil industry are continuing to have an impact.
Ok. There is much work left to do. Oil refineries results are below satisfactory level. Looks like those 100-200 kg charges are incapable to cause really serious damages. So, methodical toil it is...
Well now. Oil refineries tend to be made out of thick steel pipework and vessels, to contain unpleasant chemicals at high temperatures, and they're designed with blast panels and pressure release systems as they're somewhat likely to go boom without external assistance. But the whole site isn't like that
The control room tends to be just a plain old brick building somewhat removed from the main site - you don't want to incinerate your ops team if there's a fire.
The Motor Control Centres (MCCs) tend to get warm due to all the switchgear that they contain, which means they're kept aside, generally in quite thin-walled structures.
Hit either of those, the plant is going to be down for a long time.
If you're looking to render the refinery unusable, you either need enough boom to wreck inch-thick steel to the extent you can't just weld it up again, or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
or enough precision to hit something irreplaceable.
Haven't they been doing that? I can't remember where I heard it. But I heard they were mostly targeting storage tanks until they talked to a petrochemical engineer. They told Ukraine that there's some critical bit that Russia can't manufacture and they've been targeting those as much as possible since.
More like vibe security engineer spamming their claud subscriptions to discover breaches not even hackers cared about.
And then they'll make a story about how ai agent breached out of human control when they specifically prompted "breach this by any means necessary, no I don't care about safeguards you're a security pentester"
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You're mistaking me I guess. I'm not blaming ai, I would even be fine with linux maintainers using ai tools, as assistant, not as vibe tools. Even though I know people dislike even just the idea.
I'm blaming cybersecurity people and corps to make a big deal out of every single CVE. They'll use AI tools to search breaches and no one will say anything. But dare a maintainer touch IA and then it's hell on earth.
Most of the time, the CVEs are irrelevant to any real life situation. It's not a bad thing these get fixed, but in the end stories get inflated that softwares are not protected, and cybersecurity gets into big success story talks, thinking they contributed to something when really they mostly waste people time.
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I just love how Americans think they're the whole world, and that everybody has to care what's happening in their shithole of a country. Truly the most demented nation on the planet.
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This is actually a list of resolved CVEs. The sender has an email address at debian.org so they're clearly not just some random script kiddie with an LLM subscription.
Yeah, it's funny when people shit on Linux just because people care enough to disclose vulnerabilities. Trust me that any proprietary system has just as many; they just get silently patched in this month's security update.
Computers are finicky things; the amount of known CVEs is simply a measure of how many people pentest the software and how big the project is, rather than any statement about its security.
Any insight into the most severe ones, eg is remote exploitation possible and likely?
The Linux project request CVEs for any memory safety bug just in case some turn out to be vulnerabilities, in which case they may be exploited given enough effort. Many are likely not exploitable or unlikely to be, and/or low severity.
There are some higher severity ones given the following message. But this doesn't mean all CVEs listed are severe issues.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
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I was curious too, so I did a quick search & replace to view them on the NIST CVE database. There are so many that I can only post about a quarter before exceeding lemmy's comment limit. I put the full list here: paste.page/debianalertdsa-6528…
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C'est probablement un des sujets qui obsède le plus les médias mainstream français : le voile. Les femmes qui portent le voile, la signification du port du voile, les raisons cachées du port du voile... Tous ces débats polluent notre espace médiatique depuis maintenant plus de 40 ans. Dans cet épisode nous allons essayer de comprendre les raisons de cette obsession, les raisons historiques qui ont poussé le débat public français à se concentrer sur la question du voile. Nous allons aussi nous intéresser aux violences et discriminations auxquelles sont exposées les femmes qui font le choix de le porter.
Ostpolitik et Modiie sont de retour pour une saison 3 de Contraste(s).
Chroniqueurs : Ostpolitik, Modiie Réalisation et montage : Camille Chastrusse Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon Production : Hicham Tragha Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert
So maybe people don’t want to hear this but as a hunter I have to say this area is likely to become a wildlife disaster.
If humans are a regular predator and the predator is removed the fight for food resources among the prey species is going to result in a lot of animal deaths and suffering. This will cause ecological devastation to the area, waste meat that humans would have used, and potentially cause other shifts in wildlife that are harder to predict.
The government, in addition to taxing this land heavily, should procure an easement for hunters to maintain ecological stability.
If this guy is planning to tear everything down and install data centers out there we should build a rocket and yeet him into the sun.
redlib is an interface you may use if you want to read content from reddit but without ads, bloat, tracking and java. You cannot post but you can read.
I found some videos I'd like to download but I don't know how.
To download videos from elsewhere I run yt-dlp and that works fine, but pasting the redlib url where the video is posted returns "Unable to download webpage: HTTP Error 429: Too Many Requests"
To get the best quality version, I had to copy the video address from the default reddit site and feed that address to yt-dlp. The alternative is to inspect the redlib page source, get the video link source and give that to yt-dlp.
Someone else said you should try the most recent version. They’re right. You just copy the file into some place like ~/.local/bin/, set it executable with chmod +x and add its location to your $PATH. You will need to apt remove yt-dlp from your system to get rid of the old apt version. From that point forward using the -U flag when you invoke yt-dlp will first check for and install an update if needed before doing the thing you asked for.
Someone else said Reddit is closing off their api. This is so.
You’re getting 429 so try changing your vpn endpoint and see if that helps you out.
OpenMandriva has published refreshed installation images for ROME, its rolling-release edition, combining the distro’s current software stack in the new 26.09 snapshot.
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 ships with Linux kernel 7.2 by default, while kernel 7.3-rc4 is also available for users who want to test the upcoming series. The distro also provides kernels in both Clang-compiled and GCC-compiled variants.
On the desktop side, KDE Plasma has been updated to 6.7.5, accompanied by KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29. GNOME users get version 50.3, while LXQt moves to 2.4. Xfce remains on the 4.20 series, and MATE 1.28 now includes an experimental Wayland session.
The repositories also contain newer releases of Hyprland, COSMIC Desktop, Niri, Sway, i3, IceWM, Qtile, and several other window managers and desktop environments.
Under the hood, a significant change is the move to RPM 6.1. OpenMandriva has extended it with an optional %pgo section for spec files to simplify Profile-Guided Optimization when building packages. Several packages already use this feature alongside broader Link-Time Optimization.
The development toolchain has also moved forward. LLVM/Clang 23.1.2 is now the default compiler, GCC has been updated to 16.2, and the distribution ships glibc 2.44.
Graphics support comes with Mesa 26.2.3 and ROCm 10.0, including patches aimed at extending ROCm support to older Radeon GPUs. For NVIDIA hardware, the open NVIDIA kernel module has been moved directly into the kernel, avoiding situations where it becomes out of sync after kernel updates. The proprietary driver has meanwhile been updated to version 610.57.
Interestingly, another notable addition is Snap support. OpenMandriva already supports Flatpak with Flathub enabled and AppImage, but users can now install snapd from the repositories. The project stresses that native RPM packages remain its preferred format due to tighter system integration and reduced duplication.
The Plasma and LXQt editions have a new default browser. Helium 0.17.2 replaces ungoogled-chromium and is based on that project, restoring selected Chromium functionality without reintroducing Google services. OpenMandriva has adapted Chromium Embedded Framework to use Helium, allowing OBS Studio to use a CEF plugin based on the browser.
For gaming, ROME 26.09 includes Wine 11.18 with WoW64 support, Proton 11, DXVK 3.0.2, vkd3d 2.0, and vkd3d-proton. The Steam installer available through the non-free repository has also been updated to version 1.0.0.86.
Moreover, the release brings Qt 6.11.2, GTK 4.22.5, PipeWire 1.6.9, FFmpeg 9.0, GStreamer 1.28.6, Firefox 156, Thunderbird 155, LibreOffice 26.8, GIMP 3.2.4, Blender 5.2.2, and Krita 6.0.4, which has now moved to Qt 6.
OpenMandriva has also expanded the selection of local AI software available from its repositories, including Ollama, llama.cpp, Whisper.cpp, Stable Diffusion.cpp, ComfyUI, KoboldCpp, Aider, and several other tools. Many use the system-wide GGML library with GPU acceleration through ROCm, Vulkan, or OpenCL.
For additional details, see the announcement.
The refreshed ROME 26.09 images are available in Plasma X11, Plasma Wayland, and GNOME Wayland editions, with community-maintained LXQt, MATE, and Xfce spins also offered. Plasma and LXQt images are available for regular x86_64 systems as well as optimized znver builds for AMD Ryzen processors. An AArch64 server image is available too.
One exception is COSMIC Desktop: a ROME 26.09 COSMIC installation image was held back because of an issue with the login manager. Existing COSMIC users can continue updating normally, while new users can install it from the repositories.
Unfortunately, OpenMandriva's president (warning, lunduke link as evidence) has declared the project "non-woke" and "anti-DEI", which has resulted in it attracting a hard right community.
The Sequoia PGP is part of the default seed, with the sq package in the main repo and officially supported. It’s said to provide a “modern, and memory-safe OpenPGP implementation”.
Ubuntu isn’t making Sequoia the distribution’s default OpenPGP toolchain. It ships preinstalled, but lives alongside the standard implementation.
However, the goal is to make Sequoia PGP Ubuntu’s default in the near future, with sq and sqv replacing gpg and gpgv.
For now, gpg will still invoke GnuPG, while sq (or an app configured to use Sequoia’s libraries) calls on Sequoia. Users can run e.g., sq sign or sq verify instead of gpg from the command line to try it too.
Canonical says adopting Sequoia will enable Ubuntu to maintain OpenPGP interoperability while benefiting from a “more maintainable and memory-safe foundation”.
It’s not the only Rust-related change in the new Ubuntu release, either. Ubuntu 26.10 ships a full set of Rust-based core utilities out-of-the-box, completing work that began in 25.10. GNU-versions of cp, mv, and rm are now provided by uutils.
Canonical’s engineers plan to ‘oxidise’ more foundational packages in future releases. A Rust rewrite of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) being eyed for inclusion as the default time sync client in Ubuntu 27.04.
The company is also a gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, paying €40,000 a year to help fund work on Rust software.
Η ΕΕ υπόσχεται διαφάνεια για τα data centers, αλλά κρατά μυστικά τα στοιχεία για την κατανάλωση ενέργειας και νερού. Μετά από έναν χρόνο έρευνας και αιτημάτων πρόσβασης σε στοιχεία και στα 27 κράτη-μέλη, αποκαλύπτουμε πώς διαμορφώθηκε αυτό το καθεστώς μυστικότητας — και μια πρωτοφανή νομική προσφυγή που το αμφισβητεί.
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seriously I still have an old laptop running windows 10 for convenience and it amazes me how right clicking a file will then take like a min for the drop down to appear. its absolutely nuts how messed up and slow it is even compared to early versions much less compared to linux.
I'm using Manjaro KDE Plasma. I have currently 3 installations, 1 testing used by me, 2 stable - 1 stable install is a File Server, using the SbK Server spin, the other is used by my partner. I have had zero issues after updates, in 4 years.
Prior to Manjaro I was using Linux Mint, which borked on an Version upgrade.
Manjaro has been incredibly stable (the testing version as well). Oddly it reminds me of Mandrake which I began using in 2000.
I'm using Manjaro KDE Plasma. I have currently 3 installations, 1 testing used by me, 2 stable - 1 stable install is a File Server, using the SbK Server spin, the other is used by my partner. I have had zero issues after updates, in 4 years.
(I'm gonna seem like an asshole but yea eya eya eya ye true like yea)
I basically have no idea what I want (that's mainly why I'm making you do it instead), but I basically want something that's funny/weird/meme-ish(???) rice lowkey. An example could maybe be the wobbly windows built-in to kde?? I'm also on kde plasma wayland btw
I had a hard time understanding, so I asked a local Ai bot. I think a low effort reply for a low effort question is appropriate. This is the answer:
::: spoiler Question In a Linux forum, someone made a post. I have a hard time understanding, so help me out here to help him.
Post Title: (asshole post but oh well) help making a funny/weird/meme(???) rice cause I lowkey don't know what to do
Post Body: (I’m gonna seem like an asshole but yea eya eya eya ye true like yea)
I basically have no idea what I want (that’s mainly why I’m making you do it instead), but I basically want something that’s funny/weird/meme-ish(???) rice lowkey. An example could maybe be the wobbly windows built-in to kde?? I’m also on kde plasma wayland btw
I honestly don’t know send help 😭 :::
::: spoiler Thinking (worked for 1m 2s) * Context: A Linux forum post. * Tone: Casual, self-deprecating, slightly chaotic, internet slang-heavy ("lowkey," "rice," "eya eya eya," "meme-ish"). * Goal of the user: Help the poster by explaining what they want and how to achieve it. * The Poster's Request: Wants a "funny/weird/meme-ish" desktop "rice" (customization) on KDE Plasma (Wayland). They mentioned "wobbly windows" as an example.
* *Rice:* In the Linux community, "ricing" refers to customizing the appearance and workflow of your desktop environment (themes, icons, fonts, window managers, etc.).
* *KDE Plasma:* A highly customizable desktop environment (DE).
* *Wayland:* The modern display protocol (important because some old customization tools only work on X11).
* *Wobbly Windows:* A specific desktop effect where windows stretch/jiggle when moved.
* *Funny/Weird/Meme-ish:* The user wants a desktop that looks ridiculous, non-standard, or humorous rather than "clean" or "minimalist."
* *Step 1: Explain the terminology.* The user needs to know what "rice" and "KDE Plasma Wayland" mean in this context.
* *Step 2: Interpret the request.* What is the person *actually* asking for? (A chaotic, fun, non-serious desktop setup).
* *Step 3: Provide actionable advice/suggestions.* How can someone make a "meme" rice on KDE?
* Desktop Effects (Wobbly windows, magic lamp, etc.).
* Themes (Obnoxious colors, weird icons).
* Widgets/Plasmoids (Funny clocks, weird system monitors).
* Wallpapers (Memes).
* Cursor/Fonts (Comic Sans, etc.).
* *Introduction:* Acknowledge the difficulty of reading internet slang.
* *Glossary:*
* "Rice": Desktop customization.
* "KDE Plasma": The software they use.
* "Wayland": The technical backend.
* *The "Translation":* "I want a desktop that looks silly, chaotic, or funny. I don't have a specific vision, so I'm looking for ideas that make my computer look non-serious."
* *Actionable Suggestions (The "Help"):*
* *Visual Effects:* Mention "Desktop Effects" in KDE settings. (Wobbly windows, Magic Lamp, Desktop Cube).
* *Themes:* Suggest looking for "Retro," "90s," or "Bright/Neon" themes.
* *Fonts:* Suggest "Comic Sans" (the ultimate meme font).
* *Icons:* Suggest something weird (e.g., hand-drawn icons).
* *Wallpapers:* Obviously memes or surreal art.
* *Widgets:* Suggest adding weird widgets to the desktop.
* *User's Goal:* Help him.
* *Tone of Response:* Informative and helpful.
:::
::: spoiler Answer To help this person, you first need to understand the "slang" they are using. Linux forum culture has its own vocabulary.
Here is a breakdown of what the post actually means, followed by some actual advice you can give them to help them achieve their goal.
Part 1: Translation of the Post
"Rice" (or Ricing): This is the most important term. In the Linux community, "ricing" means customizing the visual appearance of your desktop (changing themes, icons, fonts, colors, and window behaviors) to make it look unique.
"KDE Plasma": This is the name of the Desktop Environment (the software that provides the taskbar, menus, and windows) they are using. KDE is famous for being the most customizable desktop in existence.
"Wayland": This is the modern "display protocol" (the engine that draws things on the screen). It’s important because some old customization tools only work on the older protocol (X11), so they are specifying that they need things that work on Wayland.
"Wobbly Windows": A specific visual effect where windows act like jelly or rubber when you move them. It’s a classic "fun" effect.
The Summary of their request: "I want my computer to look silly, chaotic, or funny instead of the usual 'cool/minimalist' look. I don't have a specific theme in mind, but I want it to feel like a meme. I use KDE Plasma on Wayland. Help me find ideas."
Part 2: How to help them (The Advice)
Since the user is asking for "funny/weird/meme" ideas, you can suggest the following specific directions for their "rice." You can copy and paste these suggestions to them:
1. Lean into "Chaos" with Desktop Effects Since they mentioned wobbly windows, tell them to go to System Settings > Desktop Effects and enable: * Wobbly Windows: (The "jelly" effect they asked for). * Magic Lamp: Makes windows shrink into the taskbar like a genie lamp. * Desktop Cube: If they have multiple workspaces, they can make their screens rotate like a 3D cube. * Blur/Translucency: Set everything to be extremely see-through or extremely bright/neon.
2. The "Meme" Aesthetic (Theme Ideas) * The "Windows 95/98" Look: Suggest they look for "Retro" or "Classic" themes. It’s a huge meme in the Linux community to make a modern computer look like a computer from 1995. * The "Comic Sans" Special: Suggest they change their system font to Comic Sans MS. There is nothing more "meme-ish" than a high-tech Linux machine using the world's most mocked font. * High-Saturation/Neon: Suggest "Cyberpunk" or "Vaporwave" themes with bright pinks, purples, and blues.
3. Weird Widgets (Plasmoids) In KDE, you can add "Widgets" to your desktop. Suggest they find: * A giant, obnoxious digital clock. * A system monitor that shows weird stats. * Funny/weird "Sticky Notes" scattered everywhere.
4. The "Meme" Wallpaper The easiest way to make a rice "funny" is the wallpaper. Suggest they find a high-resolution version of a classic meme (like a distorted cat, a deep-fried image, or something surreal) and set that as the background.
5. Icon Packs Suggest they look for icon packs that aren't "clean." They could look for hand-drawn icon packs or even icons that look like emojis.
A suggested reply you can give them:
"Since you want a 'meme' rice on KDE Plasma (Wayland), stop trying to make it look 'clean' and lean into the chaos.
Effects: Go to System Settings > Desktop Effects and turn on Wobbly Windows and Magic Lamp. It makes the UI feel less serious.
Fonts: If you want to be truly cursed, change your system font to Comic Sans.
Theme: Look for a 'Retro' or 'Windows 95' theme to give it that old-school meme vibe, or go full 'Vaporwave' with bright pinks and blues.
Widgets: Add some weird, oversized widgets to your desktop so it looks cluttered and funny.
Wallpaper: Just find a high-res deep-fried meme or a surreal image. That does 90% of the work." :::
This entry was edited (Thursday, October 1, 2026, 7:27 AM)
Sunsets are beautiful. So are sunrises. Every sunset and sunrise in this photo series is on my Instagram feed. Please follow me there for lots more beautiful nature photos. The Changing Light Since I moved to upstate New York, one of my favorite things to see and photograph is the changing light. Sunlight here changes throughout the day and between the seasons in such dramatic ways. Especially in Autumn, the changing light catches my eye and draws me to my camera. Shining Through #sun #sky […]
Since I moved to upstate New York, one of my favorite things to see and photograph is the changing light. Sunlight here changes throughout the day and between the seasons in such dramatic ways. Especially in Autumn, the changing light catches my eye and draws me to my camera.
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Lake Sunrise & Sunset Views
In the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, we have wonderful views of the rising and setting sun against water. The reflections add loveliness to the natural beauty.
A post shared by Stan Stewart (aka muz4now) (@muz4now) on Jul 24, 2016 at 12:47pm PDT
Does It Matter If It’s a Sunrise or Sunset?
Though I try to be careful to tag photos as specifically a sunrise or sunset, when it comes to loveliness, I’m not sure that it matters which one it is. Certainly, in upstate New York there are very frequent marvels when the sun is first rising above the horizon and when it is sinking out of sight.
Stan Stewart is a poet, musician, and human being who enjoys connecting with people and nature. Since his focus is on improvisational music, the inspiration he gets from these connections is often the source of his music.
I wrote this PyQt6 desktop app that plays livestreams via Streamlink and lets you clip them.
It opens a stream, keeps a rolling local buffer, and lets you grab a clip of something that already happened — not just from the moment you hit record. No browser, no login, no telemetry, no "engagement."
Plays live streams through Streamlink + mpv (libmpv), not an embedded Chromium
Rolling HLS buffer, so you can clip past moments off the timeline
Clip export, snapshots, and recording with optional auto-remux to MP4
Python 3.12+, needs mpv/libmpv and ffmpeg from your package manager (Streamlink tags along as a Python lib). Runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS if you must). Source is on GitHub, pip install clippiti-player and you're done.
Not a startup, not a product, no roadmap deck. Just a small tool that does one thing. Patches and complaints welcome.
AI disclaimer
AI is a tool. I use it to generate unit tests, or to rename/refactor something, or other trivial/menial tasks. I've been writing code for 30+ years so I think I know when and for what to use it.
Months ago I made this PyQt6 tray app that watches livestreams via Streamlink.
It sits in your system tray, polls the streams you care about, and when one comes online you click it and it opens in your player of choice. That's it. No browser, no login, no telemetry, no "engagement."
Works with Twitch, YouTube, and anything else Streamlink handles
Opens streams in mpv / VLC / whatever you already use
Per-stream overrides for quality, player, and Streamlink args
Tray icons show status; tracks last-online / last-watched
Launch straight from a URL in your clipboard
Python 3.12+, runs on Linux (and Windows/macOS if you must). MIT licensed, source is on GitHub, pip install lurkiti and you're done.
Not a startup, not a product, no roadmap deck. Just a small tool that does one thing. Patches and complaints welcome.
AI disclaimer
AI is a tool. I use it to generate unit tests, or to rename/refactor something, or other trivial/menial tasks. I've been writing code for 30+ years so I think I know when and for what to use it.
::: spoiler spoiler I am personally against gatekeeping anything Including linux , but young naive me from 6 years ago felt this way, and I wanted to see if opinions had changed from back then
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I asked this same question 6 years ago on Reddit just wanted to see if general opinion has changed now as Linux has arguably gotten way more mainstream
Edit: Progress meant 3rd party hardware and software support, innovation etc. I decided to rerun this question because of the new discourse surrounding LLM use in the kernel; the pretext being a smaller community would have easily taken a binary decision regarding the matter, for better or worse
Well said. And I found computer stuff rarely to be a yes/no thing in the first place. It's almost always a ...well, depends... where are we going with this?... there's ten puzzle pieces which fit here and they all come with consequences and side-effects and form a different bigger picture.
I get the questions, though. And the desire for there to be simple answers to things like, should I install CachyOS? Should I buy 32GB of RAM, put a web application firewall infront of my webserver... There's also a lot of opinions out there regarding those things.
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I would be happy for linux to flatten microslop, it's just a question of whether it would then turn into it in some respects (2026 has already seem some not some awesome changes).
Somewhat along the lines of: If lemmy becomes as large as reddit, lemmy will become trash like reddit.
The world belongs to those who do the work. Capitalism sucks, but it's always capitalists who drive the production of things. It doesn't have to be that way but it is because we are lazy. SteamOS exists because Valve put in the work. Any of us here could have made SteamOS. We didn't because we are lazy.
I don't want usage adoption; I want philosophical adoption which will lead to usage adoption.
I want users to appreciate that they own their software. I want them to realize the importance of being able to inspect and use your software as you see fit (within reason).
I want people to realize the dangers of walled gardens, and opaque black boxes that are doing who knows what.
I hope that makes sense; I get confused and worried when people just push adoption. I'd rather people migrate because they believe in FOSS, and then setup linux boxes for their non-tech family members as a means of protecting them.
I have a lot to say on this...but the words just aren't coming out right now. I guess I need to get in the right frame of mind.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 9:26 AM)
by boxes I just mean, linux computers for those who just use a browser to go on the internet. Those users, they don't have to adopt the Linux philosophy.
But for people who are actively coming to linux, I wish they would come with an appreciation for the ethos of FOSS.
I'm flattered you think I have something of value to say, but what I've learned in life is that you can't convince people of anything unless they want to be convinced. And ego plays a big role in that.
If you go and even imply to someone, "you're using computers wrong," or "there is a better way," depending on their relationship with you, their ego will kick in: what is this guy talking about, I've been using computers for x years and I have it do everything I want it to. Just nod along
I adopted Linux on my home PC about 12 years ago, but I could never get the "Linux box" in a state where I could replace my wife's until Win11 came out. At the time, I noticed a lot of improvements that allowed a seamless transition and I was finally able to replace her Win10 install with a KDE setup. She barely noticed the difference. The only real challenge was her migration from Outlook to Thunderbird.
But I think the reality is that, apart from Linux enthusiasts, no one really cares for using FOSS or not. Most simply want their PC to work and not be a nuisance. And it seems that more and more, that is the case for Linux.
"Linux community" is a similar term in its dimensions like the term "Gaming community" or "Programmers community". It's more of a "meta community" (and I don't mean the company). In a sense all of Linux brings us together with similar shared interests rooted in Linux. So it is no unreasonable to talk about "Linux community", but it depends in what context. If its about supporting Linux compared to other operating systems, then it makes sense to talk about a unified meta community like "Linux".
It bothers me because there is often little understanding or communication and sometimes even an antagonistic relationship between contributor communities and user communities. Users because they see themselves as presentative of THE COMMUNITY often think they get to tell contributora how they run the project.
With Linux as a whole it's even more abstract since the Linux kernel development and distro development is so disconnected and most people don't have a strong connection with the kernel or it's development really.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:02 AM)
Linux adoption is more of technical side of things in my personal opinion. It makes a huge difference to talk about Linux community versus Linux adoption. In example Linux is adopted a lot in webservers, maybe in professional fields and so on. I think the person asking the question is more interested in the effects on and for the community from a user perspective (as we are in a Linux community ourselves right now, context is everything). I do not think the term "Linux community" is precise or the best choice in most cases, but I can understand the context in which way it is meant.
Overall I do not have a better suggestion for the term. The entire question is borked anyway. If you change the term "Linux adoption" then people might think in terms of percentages of adoption, and less about the social impact on a personal level. Overall it would just be the same question actually and everyone interprets it differently anyway. "adoption" or "community", it's the whole Linux. I'm not against any of them, so don't care about it. My problem with the actual question is more about the "making progress" part.
Linux adoption is real. THE linux community isn't real. You can break down Linux adoption into more detailed metrics like Linux desktop adoption, Linux adoption among gamers, etc and those are all real things that we may or may not be able to put numbers on and may or may not desire to grow.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:38 AM)
Adoption and community are separate things. The guy asking seems to be concerned what the community things and what effects it has to them. As for me, I don't care which term you or anyone uses, as long as it is clear from context. I don't know why you say the Linux community isn't real though. As I explained earlier, its just a meta word for collection of communities related to everything Linux.
OP uses community instead of explaining what they mean. They also oppose the growth of said community presumably because of some unexplained concerns which would likely be immediately clear if they would explain what they mean.
And the linked reddit thread actually suggests that OP is opposed to wider adoption because they want to be part of some Linux elite.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:13 AM)
OP uses community instead of explaining what they mean.
I agree its vague title and the body text should have been used to clear things up. The question in this form is not satisfying to me either, and leaves too much for interpretation. I am not arguing against that. I'm just saying that I think I know how to understand the first part of the question and don't have an issue myself, because there is context to it. But its not optimal.
want to be part of some Linux elite.
This is why the term "Linux community" makes sense, if we talk about being part of and 'Elite'. That is what I thought, its about the community and its effects and how to deal with the grows, rather than the growing numbers alone. Either way, both terms "Community vs Adoption" are unclear what the intend of the question is for most people. But the distinction makes only sense when discussing, because both terms are about adoption in this context and its doesn't really matter.
Sorry, but I'm not asking for your permission if something makes sense for me. It's fine if it doesn't for you. The question is vague enough that it is a problem and should have been clarified in the body text, but I understand what it is meant to be from the context. Only the part "making progress" is problematic to me.
The question is too vague to give a direct answer. About growing: Yes, I want the community and entire eco system around Linux to grow. Why? That means more people using, bigger communities, more help, more developers, more money, more support by companies. That's good. However, there is a little bit dark side of this aspect too. More popular also means it will attract bad actors. But that's part of growing up.
About "making progress", I'm unsure what that actually means. What does "making no progress" in example mean? Wish your question was formulated a bit better in the body text, than this vague headline title.
Everything already works, Linux support is ootb for almost every new piece of equipment that comes out nowadays. Literally what is missing?
Your pretext seems flawed too since the kernel llm decision is in keeping with the way it’s been for years and there wasn’t really an alternative to llm use with the number of patches flying in from llm sources.
Just generally what do you think is happening in the world regarding Linux? Are you referring to c/linux on .ml?
Linux is the primary OS supported on all of the major cloud platforms and has effectively replaced nearly all commercial Unix systems in new deployments.
I wouldn't say I really care if the "community" is big or small (it's also a bit unclear what you mean exactly, do you just mean user adoption?)... but I care about Linux (and in general, open source alternatives) being real options when it comes to hardware support, compatibility with services I might want to use, etc.
I don't think you can have proper "progress" in those areas without having Linux be a recognized mainstream system. Like say.. banks are unlikely to make an authenticator app for non-Android Linux phones if non-Android Linux phones are not mainstream, for example.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 3:30 PM)
Dr. Prashant Sharma, Air Force veteran and psychiatrist, joins Popp & Dwarf for some education on the amygdala, fight or flight responses, and more. This should be a particularly informative show!
I want to create a bit-by-bit backup of my DVD and a Blu-ray disc without removing its encryption. Is dd be the best method, and if so, what flags or settings should I use? Also, is comparing the SHA-256 hash of the generated ISO file with the hash of the original disc’s raw data (read from /dev/sr0) the best method for verifying the backup’s integrity?
If so this is clever. In the wild event they get into some sort of trouble with copying, they have a bit-for-bit copy proving they own/owned the BluRay instead of a ripped copy.
A digital or physical copy of a receipt. But then how would they know the receipt is theirs? Well, they don't. There are a subset of users who have bit for but copies. I think if they came into some legal trouble having that vs a rip would be better since the data is in tact the same way it was when purchased. Can I easily be called a backup.
I'm not your lawyer and I'm definitely not a lawyer anyway. Just playing Devis Advocate.
This entry was edited (Thursday, October 1, 2026, 10:42 AM)
There are layers below the bits. Writable CDs are made from different chemicals, so it's obvious they are copies. Heck, some of them are obviously different colours, like blue.
Not OP, but DVD and BlueRays have a shelf life of 3-5 years. Þey will probably be fine for 10, maybe longer, but mass market products tend to be printed wiþout concern for longevity. I've had CDs delaminate; storage conditions definitely play a factor.
Þere is a BD-compatible archival standard called alternatively M-DISC or BDXL which uses different materials and processes and is guarateed for 100 year, with a reasonable expectation of usability wiþin a millenium.
So: OP could be wanting backups in case of accident or loss; or þey want to migrate media from 5y DVD to 100y M-DISC; or maybe every 5y þey reclone þeir entire library, buying þemselves anoþer guaranteed 5ys. Lots of reasons.
Why not strip þe DRM? Scared of the US paramilitary enforcing capitalism? Or þey believe þey'll have perpetual access to it and it's too hard. I dunno.
@Sxan@piefed.zip nailed the main point. I’m making a legal backup copy of the content to store on DVD/Blu-ray discs in case something goes wrong or the disk get corrupted
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 2:11 AM)
In Belgium at least it is illegal to circumvent copy protection. This isn't even exclusive to the US, so I'm not sure where you got that idea from. So it is perfectly legal here to rip a cd from the public library but not necessarily for a Blu-Ray you bought
Een lezer vroeg me: Ik ben bezig mijn oude filmcollectie te digitaliseren naar een home media player. Dus ik converteer nu elke dvd naar een modern formaat, en daarna kunnen die weg. Maar ik zie veel dvd’s met kopieerbeveiliging.
Creating a (usable) backup of a soon failing data carrier should be legal either way. Yeah, a lot of countries have stupid laws there, but as long as you don't share the data on the internet, you should be fine.
Also to note: to legally watch a DVD, you require either Windows or MacOS, with a supported (proprietary) player software, in most jurisdictions. So, there, no legal DVD for Linux, laws are stupid. And instead of cracking it on each watch, better to just do it once.
This entry was edited (Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 10:42 AM)
I would look at the tools that the preservation groups use for doing this. The optical media layouts are funky and IIRC using dd on the block device is not enough to archive a bit-for-bit copy. There are details about the track layout and so on that need to be recorded separately. This is why formats like BIN/CUE exist.
i was going to extol dd_rescue's virtues, but my own efforts to do what OP is trying to accomplish proves that they'll have limited success thanks to drm.
dd is neither the best nor a suitable method (dd is a scalpel not a shovel, use cp or cat). But optical media are tricky either way, with purposedly placed reading errors and stuff. redumper was made for a disc preservation initiative. Does a good job so far for me, but best to use old SATA drives with it. Those between 2010 and 2015 (pre-DRM-crackdown) also don't need libredrive.
Thanks for mentioning redumper. I’ll check it out. In your experience, after completing the disk dump with redumper, did you have a method to verify the copied data matched the original exactly?
Optical media don't even have a bitstream. When you dd from something other than a CD-ROM, it's not clear what you're getting. You might just get an error saying it's not a CD-ROM. Different kinds of CDs use completely different encoding layers in between "the bitstream" and the actual pattern of dots engraved on the disk. Obviously a CD-ROM has "a bitstream" because it's designed purely for computer use and the computer wants to see it as a bitstream, but for other kinds it's not so clear.
You can't fast-forward or rewind an audio CD in a CD player is that the CD player has no idea which sector it's on. At most it can just count how many seconds of audio it's played so far. It just keeps the laser locked on to the spiral, and keeps playing as long as the data keeps coming. And there's some kind of skip code for tracks so you can skip to a track number, but only for tracks. If it accidentally skipped over a bit of audio it would have absolutely no way to know, that's why programs like cdparanoia employ so many heuristics to know they got it right. A CD-ROM by contrast has a sector number on every sector, because that's non-negotiable for computers.
This entry was edited (Thursday, October 1, 2026, 2:39 PM)
This is silly. You're approaching this with wrong-headed thinking. Just use makemkv.
What you will have if you used hacked firmware to bypass physical anti-copying methods present on BluRay discs to actually get a bit for bit copy of your disc is a useless blob of encrypted data that you have no way of verifying for accuracy (that it was copied correct or that the disc itself didn't have subtle physical damage which gave you something damaged because you can't play it to verify) and which you have no way of using. You'll have no way of ripping it or turning it into usable data in future if your disc does go bad because no one else uses this method so there's no software that will allow you to turn this encrypted blob easily back into a playable movie and to burn it to a new BluRay writable disc would break laws anyway because you're engaging in duplication and secondly all BluRay authoring (burning) programs are built around building and burning unencrypted video files to a disc not around burning an encrypted blob to a disc (often specific sectors containing specific data must be written to specific parts of the disc to make it playable, something no public program will help you with when trying to bit for bit copy in reverse and which blindly bit for bit copying at low level isn't likely to achieve).
Everyone else breaks the encryption and dumps a copy of the disc including the AACS keys and certs to prove ownership and you should do the same rather than thinking you're particularly special or vulnerable. If you're that much an enemy of the state or media companies they'll do you just as much for having the encrypted copies and state you had INTENT to break it (and indeed defeated DRM mechanisms on the drive firmware itself first which may be a violation of law in order to get that copy) if they're trying to make an example out of you because you've pissed them off.
In practice no media company is likely to go after someone breaking the encryption while retaining the discs and keeping the copies only for themselves. There's simply no incentive to harassing paying customers in that way if you're not uploading the contents or hosting a for-profit Plex or Jellyfin server of the contents or burning bootleg copies of the films. You'd have to go around publicly bragging in your own name about breaking the encryption and pretty much dare them to get you for them to know or care enough to do anything about it short of you otherwise breaking the law as I outlined above.
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After reading your comment and others', I realize I was wrong about this. I dove into the datahoarding rabbit hole and considered niche use cases. Thanks for the detailed post.
There's no such thing as a bit-for-bit copy of anything, you are always deciding what to copy and what not to copy. When you copy a file you might or might not copy the last modified time.
Optical disks use error-checking codes. You usually don't want to copy those. Even on a non-encrypted disk you don't want to copy a scratch on your disk onto a new disk with a scratch, you want to decode it and then encode it again to one with the scratch patched over. And it would make your file bigger for no reason when copying to a medium that can't scratch.
ISO format is designed for computer disks. It doesn't work for audio disks or other types of things you can put on a CD. ISO has the bitstream as a computer reads the filesystem, which is already after several layers of decoding. Audio CDs don't use that decoding so they can fit more data, so they just can't fit in an ISO file.
Encryption is like this too. If you could just copy an encrypted disk as an ISO and it would still work, that'd be shitty encryption so they wouldn't bother with it. They use tricks to put data outside of the normal copied areas. A really old form of copy protection was to mess up the lower layers - write a sector that would look so scratched it was unreadable, and if you can read it, it must be a copied disk. Or write the same sector several times, so the drive will find a different version of it depending on where it started from. The PS1 wrote the track a bit wobbly, like the CD writer was drunk, but not so wobbly the PS1 couldn't read it, then used the shape of the wobble to encode a signature that said it was a genuine disk. Don't ask me how Bluray DRM works, I don't know it, but it must be using similar kinds of tricks. Storing data in the disk's barcode was another trick some consoles did.
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Other companies. We like to think that companies need end consumers to have at least some money to buy their stuff but that's not true. Theoretically, an economy could self-sustain entirely with businesses and no end consumers.
a small update to this digital wellbeing software since my last post. This is a prerelease version which i have tagged to be stable and slated for future release and add to main branch from the beta branch.
This highlight is less about asking you guys to try out the beta release but more in the honor of over 3+ months of development. What makes me happy the most is that the project which i started even without a repository just to monitor my own system and usage has now come this far with over 50+ downloads 🎉☺️
This beta release now polishes on various little things which are actually necessary for a first time set up and proper user control as Now you can:
carries forward the settings screen from previous beta release
replaces notifications and sounds tab with general which now includes appearance settings
you can now Stop , restart or RESET the Daemon and its preferences in settings
Pomodoro settings which were half baked in the first release have now been added to settings to enable a looping focus mode for people at work with CUSTOM BREAK TIME
Most Importantly (i feel) FIRST time setup issues have been fixed and in an attempt the first time ScreenGuard daemon setup pop up dialog (1st image) has been made
The Release v0.1.1 releases this October by second week, and I will continue testing the beta version to look for sectors that need polishing if any.
This is still limited to GNOME on wayland and x11 for other environments systems and primarily developed by me on my fedora 44 system and the project ScreenGuard still has a very Long way to go;
But working on it alone has given me much exposure to project sharing on platforms and most importantly a lot of invaluable experience and the true zeal of development instead of the boredom of being a 9 to 5 dev at a corporate who don't care for you.
The code for this is visible on the beta branch to keep the main working tree clean for new features additions.
Feedback from other desktop environments is widely appreciated, u can try the application out by switching to x11 session temporarily if you are using any DE which is not GNOME wayland or if u are on a DE which is primarily x11 based (Cinnamon, i3, etc) then u are good to go as they ARE FULLY SUPPORTED.
thank you everyone for your supports, criticisms and feedbacks ever since the project came online on github.
WarningThis is a pre-release / beta build for testing purposes. It will NOT be pushed to the stable APT, Arch, or Copr repositories. The stable v0.1.0 remains unchanged for regular users.
🛠️ Issu...
a small update to this digital wellbeing software since my last post. This is a prerelease version which i have tagged to be stable and slated for future release and add to main branch from the beta branch.
This highlight is less about asking you guys to try out the beta release but more in the honor of over 3+ months of development. What makes me happy the most is that the project which i started even without a repository just to monitor my own system and usage has now come this far with over 50+ downloads 🎉☺️
This beta release now polishes on various little things which are actually necessary for a first time set up and proper user control as Now you can:
carries forward the settings screen from previous beta release
replaces notifications and sounds tab with general which now includes appearance settings
you can now Stop , restart or RESET the Daemon and its preferences in settings
Pomodoro settings which were half baked in the first release have now been added to settings to enable a looping focus mode for people at work with CUSTOM BREAK TIME
Most Importantly (i feel) FIRST time setup issues have been fixed and in an attempt the first time ScreenGuard daemon setup pop up dialog (1st image) has been made
The Release v0.1.1 releases this October by second week, and I will continue testing the beta version to look for sectors that need polishing if any.
This is still limited to GNOME on wayland and x11 for other environments systems and primarily developed by me on my fedora 44 system and the project ScreenGuard still has a very Long way to go;
But working on it alone has given me much exposure to project sharing on platforms and most importantly a lot of invaluable experience and the true zeal of development instead of the boredom of being a 9 to 5 dev at a corporate who don't care for you.
The code for this is visible on the beta branch to keep the main working tree clean for new features additions.
Feedback from other desktop environments is widely appreciated, u can try the application out by switching to x11 session temporarily if you are using any DE which is not GNOME wayland or if u are on a DE which is primarily x11 based (Cinnamon, i3, etc) then u are good to go as they ARE FULLY SUPPORTED.
thank you everyone for your supports, criticisms and feedbacks ever since the project came online on github.
WarningThis is a pre-release / beta build for testing purposes. It will NOT be pushed to the stable APT, Arch, or Copr repositories. The stable v0.1.0 remains unchanged for regular users.
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Infrastructure development can reshape the market for concrete equipment in ways that are not immediately visible from a machine specification sheet. In Ghana, roads, drainage systems, bridges, housing developments, commercial buildings, industrial facilities, and public infrastructure projects create different patterns of concrete demand. A contractor working on a short urban drainage project may need a very different mixing arrangement from a company supplying concrete for a long highway project. These differences influence equipment configuration, production capacity, mobility, transportation, and ultimately the concrete mixer machine price in Ghana.
Price is therefore not determined by machine size alone. Import costs, shipping arrangements, project duration, concrete volume, site accessibility, equipment utilization, and the required level of automation can all affect the purchasing decision. When infrastructure activity increases, demand for certain equipment configurations may also change. Understanding this relationship helps contractors distinguish between a higher purchase price caused by additional capability and a higher price that does not provide practical value for the project.
Infrastructure Project Types Create Different Concrete Demand Patterns
Road Projects Require Mobility Across Multiple Work Areas
Road construction rarely concentrates all concrete work at one permanent location. Culverts, drainage channels, bridge approaches, kerbs, foundations, and roadside structures can appear at different points along the alignment. Equipment that can move between these work fronts may therefore have greater practical value than a machine designed solely for fixed-site production.
Urban Infrastructure Creates Space and Access Constraints
Market infrastructure projects in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi, and other growing urban areas can involve congested roads and restricted construction compounds. Concrete equipment must often operate within a limited footprint while avoiding interference with traffic and other trades. Compact machinery, flexible discharge arrangements, and easier relocation can consequently influence purchasing decisions and market prices.
Large Projects Can Favor Higher Utilization
A machine with a higher acquisition price may become more economical to operate when it remains productive throughout a long construction program. Large road, bridge, industrial, or housing projects can provide enough concrete demand to justify greater production capacity. The relevant comparison is therefore not simply purchase price, but the relationship between equipment cost and expected utilization over the project period.
Concrete Equipment Demand Changes With Project Scale
Small Projects Often Need Flexible Concrete Production
Smaller infrastructure contractors may not require a large stationary concrete production system. Their projects can involve foundations, drainage works, small bridges, residential developments, or localized road improvements where concrete demand fluctuates from day to day. In these conditions, a self loading concrete mixer for sale can provide an alternative by combining aggregate loading, weighing, mixing, and concrete transport within one machine.
Larger Projects May Justify Higher-Capacity Systems
When a project requires substantial quantities of concrete over an extended period, production capacity becomes more influential. Contractors may consider batching plants, multiple mixers, or other centralized production arrangements. These systems can require greater initial investment, site preparation, aggregate storage, and transportation planning, but their suitability depends on whether the project can sustain the required production rate.
Equipment Configuration Influences the Final Price
Two machines with similar mixing capacities can have noticeably different prices because their configurations are not identical. Engine selection, hydraulic components, weighing systems, drive configuration, discharge design, cabin equipment, and optional automation can all alter the equipment package. Contractors should therefore compare the complete configuration rather than using capacity as the only purchasing benchmark.
Project Location Can Influence the Delivered Equipment Cost
Transport Distance Adds More Than the Basic Machine Price
Equipment purchased for a Ghanaian infrastructure project may involve inland transportation, port handling, customs procedures, local delivery, and commissioning. A machine that appears inexpensive at the factory can have a different delivered cost once logistics are included. Project location therefore matters, especially when construction sites are far from major transport corridors.
Site Mobility Can Reduce Secondary Equipment Requirements
Some projects need concrete production at several locations rather than at one permanent plant. A self loading mini concrete mixer for sale in Ghana may attract contractors who want to move production between work areas without establishing a conventional batching site at every location. The machine's mobility can become part of the economic calculation because it may reduce dependence on additional material-handling equipment and repeated concrete transportation.
Remote Projects Put Greater Weight on Equipment Independence
Infrastructure projects outside major urban centers can face longer material-supply routes and less predictable access to ready-mixed concrete. Producing concrete closer to the work area can change the logistics equation. However, the contractor still needs to account for aggregate supply, cement storage, water availability, fuel, operator requirements, maintenance, and movement between sites.
How Infrastructure Demand Shapes Mixer Purchasing Decisions
Contractors Should Compare Price With Expected Utilization
Infrastructure activity can make equipment demand more project-specific. A contractor with several upcoming projects may evaluate a machine according to its expected working hours across multiple contracts rather than the requirements of a single job. Higher utilization can make a more capable machine easier to justify, while irregular project schedules may favor a simpler and more mobile configuration.
Market Demand Does Not Make Every Expensive Machine Suitable
Growing infrastructure investment can increase demand for concrete machinery, but market activity should not be treated as a reason to purchase the largest available model. A machine that exceeds the project's concrete requirement may spend substantial time idle. Conversely, an undersized machine can constrain production and create delays. Capacity should remain connected to actual concrete volume, working hours, site conditions, and future project opportunities.
Future Projects Can Change the Calculation
For contractors operating across multiple infrastructure contracts, equipment selection can include anticipated future workloads. A machine capable of handling several project types may have greater utility than one optimized for a single application. This is particularly relevant when projects vary between road construction, drainage, housing, commercial development, and small public works.
The relationship between Ghana's infrastructure market and concrete mixer prices is therefore shaped by several interacting variables. Project scale affects required capacity; project location affects logistics; site conditions affect mobility; and expected utilization affects the value of different configurations. Instead of treating concrete mixer machine price in Ghana as an isolated figure, contractors can evaluate the machine against the concrete demand, operating environment, transportation requirements, and workload it is expected to serve. That approach provides a clearer basis for comparing equipment packages as Ghana's infrastructure construction market continues to evolve.
Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released as a security-focused update to the popular application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux, addressing six newly disclosed vulnerabilities along with several related hardening improvements.
Among the most important fixes is CVE-2026-97024, which could allow a malicious Flatpak application during installation to overwrite arbitrary files with either an empty file or a symlink. A related issue, CVE-2026-97023, could be abused to delete arbitrary files with elevated privileges.
The release also fixes CVE-2026-97025, an issue affecting authenticated OCI repositories. Flatpak now ensures authentication tokens used when downloading applications or runtimes are not exposed to other local users. CVE-2026-97026 is addressed by restricting permissions on temporary repository directories under /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-*.
Another fix, tracked as CVE-2026-97027, introduces stricter filtering of .desktop and D-Bus .service files against an allowlist of permitted fields. According to the developers, this prevents denial-of-service scenarios as well as unintended interactions with services running on the host system.
Flatpak 1.18.4 also resolves CVE-2026-97029, which could allow an application to send signals to a process group containing a parent process outside its sandbox. In certain circumstances, this could result in denial of service by terminating the user’s desktop environment.
Beyond those six vulnerabilities, the update refreshes the bundled xdg-dbus-proxy fallback to version 0.1.9, fixing CVE-2026-93676 and CVE-2026-94422. Flatpak also received additional protection against symlink traversal related to CVE-2026-97023 and CVE-2026-97024.
Finally, given the number and nature of the security fixes included, users are advised to install the update as soon as it becomes available through their Linux distribution’s repositories.
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls.
NVIDIA engineer Austin Shafer presented this morning at XDC 2026 Toronto around Linux on next-generation display walls: complex display setups appearing in TV production, theaters, and more. Many of these complex display walls today run on Microsoft Windows while NVIDIA is looking to improve Linux usage for such video/media walls.
The display walls running Linux today are typically on the X.Org Server still and making use of NVIDIA Mosaic display features. Using Wayland on its own for such display walls becomes more challenging due to the different compositors and other complexities. There is a path forward though using Vulkan Direct 2 Display "D2D" with the VK_KHR_display extension to let the Vulkan swapchain drive a physical display without any windowing system.
NVIDIA decided to engineer the Display Config Server to improve the Vulkan direct-to-display model by "owning" the displays and then leasing them out to Vulkan clients to avoid the need for every application to contain logic for handling display calibration and configuration. Display Config Server makes for centralized configuration, seamless handoff between clients, and making it easier for applications to implement.
The XDC 2026 presentation shared that NVIDIA is working to support the Display Config Server to run nested with a Wayland compositor. They are also working to improve how the Vulkan direct-to-display API can present on display walls.
The Display Config Server code is to be open-source via this GitHub repository but as of writing doesn't appear to be yet publicly available.
Those wishing to learn more can see this PDF slide deck and the video embedded above.
In diesem Wochenrückblick geht es um den Wechsel der Kieler Staatskanzlei und der Niederlande auf Linux-Systeme. Zudem werden die Pläne einiger KDE-Entwickler für einen KI-Desktop sowie die Updates zu F-Droid 2.0, Garuda Nix und dem Raspberry Pi OS vorgestellt.
00:00 Intro 00:21 Kieler Staatskanzlei auf Linux umgestellt 01:30 Die Niederlande setzen auf Linux 03:50 KDE-Entwickler planen KI-Desktop 06:22 F-Droid 2.0 07:20 Garuda Nix 08:05 Raspberry Pi OS mit modernisiertem Desktop 09:30 Outro
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Wonder what kind if cost we're looking at, when "washing" a library like chardet. And whether that's something available to robin-hood stuff from the rich, or if it's just the other way around.
Wow, I didn't know. Are there any bigger projects out there doing this? Most I find when googling it, is a few YouTubers and people who do it small scale as some sort of tech demo.
It is lacking the "money problem": the high cost is adsorbed by big capitalist organizations (at the cost of the hardware price inflating) that hope to get everyone addicted/dependent on the tool to then surge the prices.
This is not open tech, this is not for everyone, this is not to make a better world. This is business.
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Recent experience, developing in Opus 5.5. Spin up an agent to review the security aspects of the project, write a report. Pass the report to another Opus 5.5 agent and tell it to implement mitigations for confirmed problems found in the report. Implementation agent proceeds to make tests for the described exploits and gets shut down by the guardrails: Opus 5.5 is not permitted to "do that kind of work" had to scale back to Opus 4.8 for the implementation, though 5.5 was still happy to describe the chained attack scenarios, apparently it's not allowed to develop demonstration code as it was trying to do for the test cases.
This is a pretty solid list, besides Code Quality. Most of the links there are user error. It's akin to blaming a Junior dev for breaking production imo and undermines the entire page.
Can the blind anti LLM jerk stop already it's the same 2024 2025 arguments. Agentic coding has massively improved this year even local open source LLM's are getting good
Do tankies tend to put "liberal" on anything they don't like?
I'm sorry, comrade, but that's not how it works. There are many valid reasons people of all political backgrounds stand against using LLMs in (open-source) coding.
Platforms and projects taking direct action on the matter is exactly what communists usually claim to support. They make change where they can, and rally for a bigger one.
Ultimately, the most performative folks are those judging others without making something better themselves.
We'll stop when the AI evangelists finally learn the idea of consent and quit trying to force AI down everyone's throats nonstop.
You want to shrivel up your brain with AI? Go ahead, you're an adult (presumably) and I'm not your mom. Go access it through a browser or separate app. Quit trying to force it into my face by integrating it into the OS or DE. And while you're at it, quit continually going "BuT dId YoU cOnSiDeR tHiS???1?" like a door-to-door salesman that jams their foot in the door so you can't close it
This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.
Many people don't know this but even Luddites didn't oppose machinery. They simply opposed the ownership structure of it. So instead of saying "no LLM" you could say "Open-source/weight LLM's allowed only".
This is the exact opposite. Trying to ban AI from everything despite its use cases.
This is a pure, bold-faced lie. But this is nothing new from AI evangelists.
This is about banning AI contributions from specific open-sourced projects. This is due to a number of legitimate concerns that are still not solved, such as maintainability and how AI development legally interacts with licenses such as the GPL
You want to go and start an open sourced project that uses AI from the start? Go ahead, nothing is stopping you. You want to install AI programs on your OS? Go ahead, nobody is stopping you
But don't cram that bullshit into the OS itself. Doing so then forces AI onto everybody whether they want it or not, and that's bullshit
A single repo hub doesn't want to host LLM-generated code. It's not like there aren't others that are friendly to LLM-code, including the largest one: GitHub. And GitHub will never ban LLM code, they're too integrated with it. And Codeberg is just a specific Forgejo instance. Nothing is stopping you from hosting your own if you really want to.
You're taking a single instance of a provider adding an extra stipulation to their TOS and equating it to governments banning the use of LLM's. It's not, and the government isn't going to be taking away your LLM. Quit acting like it is.
You talk about it being "blind" right under exhaustive list of reasons why.
The fact that these arguments appeared before doesn't make them less true. Yes, the coding quality of LLMs has increased, and, notably, it stopped producing as many bugs all over the place, and even got to review bugs made by humans.
But it doesn't remove all other issues from the table, namely: - Issues of licensing and stolen code, potentially causing copyright problems which most open-source projects are poorly fit to resolve and may go down because of them - Environmental impact of model training, huge data centers threatening water supplies, producing tons of e-waste, creating noise pollution, increasing power demand, including one from unclean sources at the critical point when we should reduce it as much as possible - Deterioration in skill level of human coders and lack of avenues for juniors to learn to code properly, which is likely to stay as an essential thing to have - Outside coding, there are many ethical issues around companies producing LLM models, as many have ties to the military and police, and are heavily misused to fuel fascist regimes - And more.
Issues of licensing and stolen code, potentially causing copyright problems which most open-source projects are poorly fit to resolve and may go down because of them
What, we care about licenses and copyright now?
Big tech has stolen all code and now everything it "open source". You're not going to get into legal trouble for using LLM generated code there's no precedent for that. The only ones getting sued are the big tech companies who stole the code.
Environmental impact of model training, huge data centers threatening water supplies, producing tons of e-waste, creating noise pollution, increasing power demand, including one from unclean sources at the critical point when we should reduce it as much as possible
Sure but that's mostly them training a gazillion new models. You could ban models from providers that are doing all these things and thus promote more efficient models.
Deterioration in skill level of human coders and lack of avenues for juniors to learn to code properly, which is likely to stay as an essential thing to have
Valid but understanding architecture and delegating writing the code and especially tests is becoming much more important than just artisan writing it these days.
Outside coding, there are many ethical issues around companies producing LLM models, as many have ties to the military and police, and are heavily misused to fuel fascist regimes
Like I said there's local models as well. China puts out plenty of great open weight stuff like GLM5.3 which will likely have to run in the cloud but it's still open weight.
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I see your point. I don't think China-made local models are panacea by any means though, even through it's good they try to make it more efficient instead of just throwing gazillions and watching the world burn. It is still a very massive, very problematic operation.
Running LLMs locally, especially considering the pace of development, is just going to distribute the e-waste issue and make parts availability even worse, as I doubt your average hardware would be busy around the clock as it is in data centers (and so we'll need much more of it). It is better for some things (like privacy or reliability or screwing with incentives of those turning the economy and the world upside down for a quick grift), but it doesn't solve the others.
As per legal aspects, time will be our judge. I'd love not to give a damn about copyright, but it still exists.
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LLM's can save tremendous time now. You see projects like C&C Generals running on a tablet, or Lego Racers on web which would require tonnes of manual labour and now they're just a few LLM prompts. It's gotten to the point these kind of projects which would have been multi-year undertakings in the past have become "unimpressive"
Yes they're not perfect and they do make mistakes. That's why understanding architecture is more important than ever. But manual coding is really becoming a thing of the past. Agentic coding progress over the last year has pretty much solidified that. It's still not perfect but it's really good now.
Any industry that throws billions of dollars into something will make progress and now that progress has been made there's not much of a point in just resisting the tech itself. Therefore instead of pleading against all AI I believe it's much better to plead for open weight or open source and efficient AI.
The problem is like with the Luddites that you don't own the machine (AI) and the largest companies want to keep full control over them. It's a problem with the system ruling you not with the technology itself.
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The technology is undoubtedly good. All technologies are, if you ask me. The problem is about externalities, but they do matter and cannot be viewed separately.
Currently, as things stand, the development and, notably, use of the technology comes with a massive threat to several important areas. This is why many pieces of software that ban LLM contributions make a for now caveat.
Relying on it now, under current circumstances, is dangerous and damaging, even if sometimes it is a tremendous help. It may get better once we have truly efficient models and training, do not reinvent the wheel from scratch 20 times over, do not screw entire economy over it, put guardrails on the use of technology against people, and have a cheap, resource-efficient, and long-relevant hardware to run it. But we're not there yet. We're going to space with a gunpowder barrel here. Workable? I guess. Reasonable? No.
If the goal isn't to oppose the technology but instead steer towards better use of the technology then that should be promoted. This blanket opposition means that we get fascists like DHH being the only ones to adopt LLM's because for some reason the left has a hate boner for it.
Hm... [url=https://w3id.org/fep/c0e0]FEP-c0e0: Emoji reactions[/url] details two ways to federate an Emoji reaction:
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[li][code]EmojiReact[/code] activity[/li]
[li][code]Like[/code] with [code]content[/code] (as opposed to a regular [code]Like[/code], which has no content)[/li]
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In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, [code]birb.space[/code]) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out [code]Em
Like with content (as opposed to a regular Like, which has no content)
In testing, I noticed that misskey (or at least, the site I was testing with, birb.space) sends the latter. I don't know what sends the former, and if NodeBB were to start federating out EmojiReact, would it be broadly understood?
Like at least has got the advantage to use the existing vocabulary. At Friendica we currently process both but we can't send - exactly because of the problem that we're still undecided which way to go.
A problem is that you could send a negative emoji - that would be received as a like (which is normally interpretet as positive) for example on Mastodon. And this can be confusing.
it makes no sense to me to turn emoji reactions into likes. They are inherently different things. If one wants to support emoji reactions in their software, go look at how people are actually using them in everyday life. There are a totally different form of communication then a like. You can look at a popular user on Misskey to see how they are being used in reality
The most portable solution we've found is to send a Note with InReplyTo containing nothing but a single emoji (which might be a composite emoji) after removing whitespace. The same algorithm on the receiving side also works for Like activities with single-emoji content. We treat these as emoji reactions internally. You can add one or more of the various 'EmojiReact' platform specific cohorts if you want. Just like punycode usernames - it federates with all the things. Unlike all the other solutions we've seen...
So, few days ago I asked the thread which distro they'd recommend and one of the most recommended was debian and debian based. But I for myself(Even though the post says otherwise) now chose to use an arch based distro, because of the better supported and newer nvidia drivers as well as automatic hardware detection. So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself. I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won't break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they're own non-profit.
Made the switch from Windows to Cachy back in February because Microslop is getting way too invanse and creepy for my liking, and I don't see why I should be connected to the internet for programs as simple as Notepad. Its been a learning curve as someone who's never used Linux before but I actually find great satisfaction in figuring out the challenges that arise, and I can usually have a local LLM I use walk me through the solution as an effective learning tool. As someone who uses their PC for a decent amount of gaming on a regular basis, it's treated me well, and I find that it actually let's my system run better without all the unnecessary fluff of modern iterations of Windows.
I used Arch for a couple years and enjoyed it. Occasionally an update would break the system but there was always a fix on the Arch forum. I found it quite easy to install and use, but I'm a long time Linux user, wouldn't recommend it to a beginner.
Installing arch with the arch install script is the hardest step, but it's quite managable if you've got decent computer literacy, but no linux knowledge (and it becomes a trivial step if you use an arch based distro that uses calamares).
And once you're up and running, it's easy.
As I said, that's how I started with linux a few years back, and I came in to it with no linux knowledge. I moved from Arch to CachyOS at some point, but Arch was easy enough. I can speak to this scenario from first hand experience!
The whole Manjaro concept of delaying Arch updates by two weeks is bullshit, because they don't actually use that time for additional tests or include fixes. They just ship exactly the same bugs 2 weeks later.
On top of this where Arch explicitly warns users about the AUR as unvetted community content and only lets you install AUR helpers manually (increasing the chance that people see the warning and think twice) Manjaro comes with their own AUR helper pre-installed. No warning, no nothing. Oh, and they use the unmodified AUR which is running under the assumption that you have an updated Arch system, not one weeks out-of-date. So welcome to breakages and dependency hell.
Said Manjaro-specific AUR helper also has ddos'ed the AUR on multiple occasions because they don't seem to believe in testing.
Have I mentioned the –by now meme-worthy– fact that they are too stupid to not let their SSL certificates expire and unironically proposed setting your PC's clock/date back as a solution?
I've been running Garuda for over a year and had a great experience. They include a toolbox app that collects and really simplifies lots of core functions like updating mirror lists or cleaning up orphaned packages, but you don't have to use it (I rarely do). It's been rock solid for me, no broken packages or updates the whole time I've used it. I'm running the dr460nized gaming spin, which adds several gaming-specific tweaks. The community is great, and I really have had no complaints. It is a little "opinionated," so you might fell like it's got stuff you don't need, but apart from that, it's definitely worth looking into.
I ran Manjaro for a few years. It worked mostly but I ran into issues sometimes on updates. Got tired of that so I moved to Fedoraworkstation and it’s been rock solid.
I used to use Arch. On x86 it was alright, the AUR was nice and the wiki is really good. When I switched to an ARM laptop they didn't have an official ARM version and at that time Arch Linux ARM was way behind on updates, so the Asahi Linux project switched to Fedora Workstation and I did the same. Now I use NixOS which I like much better than both Arch and Fedora.
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I've used Manjaro daily for 8 years ans I haven't been able to fault them. I now also have an EndeavourOS system and it's also brilliant even though i don't like having updates that frequently.
They're both really good, pick one and don't look back.
MX Linux (debian-based), pre-install software to help you tedious things (installing nv drivers, disk manager, conky, etc), lot's of regular updates, the only downside is you have to reinstall the all OS when a new version gets out (it follows the debian release cycle with a 4-6 month delay).
I love Garuda. I tried Bazzite and CachyOS, but I just keep ending up back on Garuda. I feel like it is the only one that really lets me just use my computer and not think about the OS when I don't want to.
as a longtime fan of looking at other people dotfiles and trying different setups, NixOS speaks to me on a spiritual level. Its dotfiles for your hardware AND software, all contained beuatifully in one place 99% of the time, and thats by choice even! You dont even have to do that much declaratively if you dont want to. Tons of automation tools have been developed, theres appimage support, etc.
can get annoying the first time you have to setup your own flake for a small project that doesnt have one, but once you learn it it goes from a real roadblock to an occational annoyance that i can personally totally live with.
woulsnt reccommend it ti a first timer unless theyre a special breed. Enough fundamentals dont follow most other linux systems that its definitely an added struggle if youre also trying to learn those.
if your idea of FUN is heavily insipired by Dwarf Fortress as mine is tho, its the best thing since sliced bread
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I've been daily driving linux-based OS for about a year and a half now. I started with NixOS per the recommendation of a friend. It's great for stability and the config-based setup is super cool. I found the software to be a bit behind in updates and the way the nix store worked caused some hiccups with certain things I wanted to do. I still use it for my servers, but switched to CachyOS for my clients.
CachyOS has been great. I use the Shelly GUI to install all of the software. I have Nvidia (RTX 3080) and have had a really smooth experience. The one issue that sticks out to me is there seems to be an issue with switching from a single monitor setup (for sunshine streaming) back to my triple monitor setup including my 32:9 240hz monitor - this became an issue recently after some updates. Could be a KDE thing rather than CachyOS thing, though.
FWIW I know nothing about how to get regular arch working - I've heard it's a bit complex, but CachyOS has been anything but that.
I've been using cachyos for a couple years and had no issues with it. For me it has enough 'out of the box' functionality to jump in, but also allows you do do whatever you want to customize it. I will always recommend it to people who have at least a bit of tech knowledge and just want to get started and not have to build everything from scratch.
I switched from EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE tumbleweed.
Not because EOS is bad, the contrary, i had a really good and smooth experience and probably only had one big issue, but my fault for not searching through EOS' forum xD, that caused a total wipe and fresh install.
EOS beeing arch based, you need to keep regularly your system up to date and keep your system clean ! Beeing bleeding edge is a double sword... That's why I switched to openSUSE TW, cause I needed something close to bleeding endge but also very stable for a hybrid server-gaming system.
This is also doable with EOS, but there's way more personal investement to keep it stable.
Would totally recommend EOS to someone who want to tinker and customize his/her system and learning a bit more about how UNIX system works on a deeper level.
I first dove into Linux March 2020 with Mint. The next day the pandemic lockdowns started. I hadn't heard about the pandemic at that point.
My internet was shut off a couple weeks later which made learning how to use Linux significantly more difficult. I had downloaded a wide variety of distro's though and had plenty of time to try them out but only had the man pages to learn from, which don't really make a lot of the connections I needed to get things working right on my computer, a Frankenstein's monster which had a lot of quirks and was made from parts salvaged from the trash or donated out of pity by friends. Oh and the CPU was partially delidded by a tornado and still works like a champ to this day.
I went from Mint to various Ubuntu's, played with a bunch of Puppy's, didn't care for Zorin or Fedora for unrelated reasons, almost settled on MX but messed something up, and long story short, I started using Manjaro KDE since September 2021 and have stuck with it. For my use case and equipment at the time, it just worked.
I've tried a few other distros, breifly, mostly in VM's and almost changed to Open SUSE Tumbleweed but ultimately stuck with the Manjaro. There have been a few frustrations along the way but the issues stemmed more from my low-budget equipment, corrupt and incompetant internet service providers and incompetant and corrupt monitor and cable manufacturers, than anything Manjaro did and some of those problems were solved by their (mostly) friendly forum people.
I got lucky and managed to find a way to build a new computer since then, a fairly decent one for a home desktop in my opinion. I don't foresee myself changing anytime soon. (New PC: AMD 7950XT; ASRock Taichi mobo; ASRock Radeon 6950 GPU; 128GB RAM)
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I don't understand that point at all. How is Arch different in that regard & I'm asking this as an experienced Linux user managing multiple Debian & Arch boxes.
So I wanted to hear some experiences of you, that you may have had in the past considering EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro and Arch itself.
If you want to go down this road & are confident in your technical ability & mental fortitude to maintain such a system long term, then just go with vanilla Arch & go through the installation process once. The real difficulty of Arch is dealing with the every day minor & major breakages that come with updates. Learning something from the install procedure is actually helpful with that. The main point is that not only is the real difficulty maintenance, but none of the popular Arch flavors do anything meaningful to help with that. It's just you and the terminal at the end of the day. Saving a couple hours on the install process is not going to help you at all.
Manjaro is conceptually garbage ran by incompetent people so it's not even worth considering.
I personally have gone for Manjaro now, kind of hoping that it won’t break on the attempt to cut themselves of the company side of Manjaro and becomming they’re own non-profit.
Oh okay, oof. Let me explain then. Their concept of holding back packages by one week & still having / advertising the AUR means additional instability. This or that library or dependency gets an update & then the updated AUR package will break with your one week old stuff. Furthermore far more often than not they still push the broken package, because they would need a similar contributor base to main Arch to actually vet & test everything which they'll never have no matter what they do. What they call an additional safety net is almost never one. Sure if Arch pushed a broken grub update, that's like the one thing you could a avoid with Manjaro, but if you cannot fix / research such a problem (chroot or refind & reinstall grub), then you have no business using such a distro to begin with.
CachyOS is in a weird spot, but I cannot really recommend them, because they push new kernels too soon, to the point of ridiculousness.
EoS is vanilla Arch with a gui installer basically. It's barely a distro, but their community forums are great for new users to ask "dumb" questions. I can fully recommend every noob Arch user this community, they'll help you even if you are not using EoS, they've certainly helped & taught me a lot back then.
Garuda is the same as EoS, but there is some added graphical flare, which you can add yourself to any Linux system if you wanted to.
If you are a new user who is worried about old packages, then you should be using Fedora, that's pretty much it. Arch can be good too, but it's for a technical user who is really interested in Linux beyond just using their computer.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 4:46 PM)
I'll advice you to go with Fedora, because rolling release distro often cause issues, but Fedora has not too old packages like Debian and gets major updates 2x a year, don't worry about driver and app updates you'll get them as you would on amy distro.
Ill put it this way; me and a mate switched to Linux as our main drivers at roughly the same time. Both of us have a background in development (him more), I switched to Fedora, he to Cachy.
It is now roughly two years later. He has switched his distro multiple more times. Im still on Fedora because it just works.
Arch based distros are for tinkerers and customisers. Sure it can just work too, but if you dont tinker then theres no real point/ advantage.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 9:50 AM)
MX is also solid for older Nvidia cards. The installer tool picks patched drivers for you in case they are needed. This is mostly up to preference, I don't like CachyOS as much as I don't like the rolling release model.
This entry was edited (Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 1:34 PM)
Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.
Notable changes (since previous v0.4.5 announce): - [core, fltk] allow to use file patterns (PCRE-syntax) accept or ignore local files into cluster - [core] add start offline option - [fltk, win32, os x] add system tray icon - [fltk] use menu instead of toolbar - [core] introduce services layer (allow stop/start/restart of networking) - [core] dns resolver actor: randomly choose ip address of resolver server - [core, fix] more reliably connect to relays.syncthing.net - [core, win32, bugfix] use utf8 for displaying error messages - [core, win32, bugfix] allow to use long file paths (260+ symbols)
Syncspirit is continuous peer-to-peer realtime syncrhonization tool. It implements BEP protocol and provides seamless interoperability with existing syncthing nodes and clients.
Notable changes (since previous v0.4.5 announce): - [core, fltk] allow to use file patterns (PCRE-syntax) accept or ignore local files into cluster - [core] add start offline option - [fltk, win32, os x] add system tray icon - [fltk] use menu instead of toolbar - [core] introduce services layer (allow stop/start/restart of networking) - [core] dns resolver actor: randomly choose ip address of resolver server - [core, fix] more reliably connect to relays.syncthing.net - [core, win32, bugfix] use utf8 for displaying error messages - [core, win32, bugfix] allow to use long file paths (260+ symbols)
i'm really digging how people are making ui's look like they predate windows xp and mac os 10 -- sometimes, it makes me feel like in in my 20's again. lol
This entry was edited (Monday, September 28, 2026, 4:27 PM)
Have you read the article? If yes which aspects so you disagree with?
Edit: I don't want to change the original, but I didn't mean "did you read the article" as smart assert but as "is that a taste statement or something in relation to what they wrote?"
This entry was edited (Sunday, September 27, 2026, 5:59 PM)
yes i did read it. the original name had pretty good recognition among linux nerds already, it's kinda long but usually shortened as pmOS so i don't see how problematic that is.
and the new name just seems too generic/unmemorable.. imagine you hear "postmarketOS running on Galaxy S10" and you instantly know its some alternate OS ported to that phone unlike "Nura on Galaxy S10". It doesn't even have "OS" in the name..
No? It wasn't? "The OS for your e-waste" isn't a good name for an OS this good. Also the old name was long, and with Google riling up FOSS advocates and annoying a good portion of normal users with their recent decisions, this is the perfect wave of criticism of Android and endorsement of alternatives to ride with some marketing.
I'd say the logo needs a redesign too.
edit: after reading the article, I think "Nurag" or "Nuragh" would've been better, but anything is better than the old name IMO.
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Great call. I'm not sure if they should focus so heavily on the recycling theme. In the end, the goal is a superior Linux operating system for all phones, not just recyclable hardware. But the logo still looks pretty sleek.
This entry was edited (Sunday, September 27, 2026, 7:55 PM)
It is better, because postmarket seemed to suggest that the only goal is to make old devices usable again, while in fact its main goal is to provide a good alternative OS in general.
Graham sounds more and more like a grifter. Is KDE slowly doing the walk towards evil?
A proposal to make KDE an "AI-native" desktop has gone down like a house on fire: screams, flames, people running for safety. There may be no survivors.*
Last weekend was KDE's annual Akademy conference and it included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE. We noted that it seemed likely to polarize the audience. It looks like this was a considerable understatement.
In the days since, a debate over proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions descended into bans and a deleted thread. An outside campaign called for KDE to prohibit AI altogether, a GNOME developer proposed a similar policy for that project, and KDE developer Nate Graham apologized for his role in the uproar.
The Akademy talk was titled "A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE" and the slide deck [PDF] is now available. It ends by saying: "The question is not whether AI. It is how. You choose how much AI – and which."
It seems almost calculated to provoke an argument rather than invite discussion. We do not know if the authors intended this – we attempted to contact both of them, but they have not yet responded.
Graham opened a discussion on Invent, KDE's GitLab instance, about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions. Although we are not a member, we watched this with some interest over the weekend. It rapidly became heated. Moderators issued warnings, restricted further comments, and eventually removed the thread.
There is an archive of the discussion, but we warn you, it contains some highly offensive language, albeit censored by the member who quoted another member's tweets on X. As events unfolded, the participant who drew attention to the posts was banned first. The author of the offensive material was banned later after their identity was verified.
The discussion is gone, but the argument continues.
One response was an outside initiative called KDE for People, which called on the KDE project to adopt a No-AI policy. Around 250 people signed it before its organizers closed it to further signatures.
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis has also published The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want, proposing that LLMs be barred from creating or modifying anything submitted to GNOME or hosted on its infrastructure.
This mentions the recent ballot on AI usage in Debian. We reported on the developer referendum about a month ago, noting that the broad spread of anti-AI options in the ballot was likely to split the vote. (This likelihood was dismissed in the comments.) Well, as The Register's Asia-Pacific desk reported a few days later, Debian did not ban AI contributions.
Graham subsequently explained his involvement in a post titled KDE and AI, and you, and me. He opens by saying: "So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that."
He notes that the Akademy talk met "what I'm told was a fairly chilly reception" and that "the next day, a workshop was held about the topic, also receiving a chilly reception."
Every couple of years, the KDE project sets three goals for the next two years. Earlier this week, after Akademy, it chose its latest three: you can see them in the last column of the goal-setting Kanban board. The ones chosen are:
KDE for Enterprise and Deployments (Issue #5)
Better documentation (Issue #2)
Next Generation Styling for KDE (Issue #3)
We see no mention of AI in there. In context, that may come as a relief to parts of the community.
Bootnote
*A tip of the black Borsalino to the late great Terry Pratchett, for two different "house on fire" references we combined. ®
I'm no luddite, have used it (not quite voluntary) at work. Gotta say has its use use cases but I don't think any of them are in FOSS right now. It seems hell bent on producing unmaintainable slop.
It would be fine for proofs of concepts and/or commercial code, where the time you get for tasks hardly ever is sufficient and most customers want a working solution and don't care what's under the hood. If there weren't the 3 giant red flags of environmental impact, cognitive offloading and dependence on big tech.
So why the fuck would you even consider using it in a FREE and OPEN source project, if it's none of those things?
Heck, that guy who set up a camera in such a way to encourage a monkey to take a selfie didn't win his copyright case.
He likely cropped the pic afterwards and touched it up.
I don't see how that's fundamentally all that different than going back and forth with an AI and then tweaking it's output.
That's even before taking into account the copyrights of the original "training materials".
The camera guy did a lot more to earn the copyright than vibecoders, imo. Had the guy just started a video himself and then grabbed a still frame from when the monkey pressed the button again (or set up the camera to take pics every 1/4 second or whatever), he'd have a 100% valid copyrighted photo unlike the viber who'd at best have some pseudocode.
The main reason open source projects are pushing to formally adopt a policy around (allowing) llm use is that they’re already using it.
If there was a unified front between the contributors and the community against llm use, how much code would have to be reverted and rewritten? Most likely a bunch. How long would that take? Most likely a while.
Now perhaps they handle it quickly or truly didn’t have any llm work in their code base, how will they handle the flood of legitimate bug reports from llm testing?
If you’ve ever worked in a trade where your role is split up in an assembly line you know that the person behind you getting access to a new tool that makes them faster necessitates you get a new tool that lets you keep up.
“I have a reputation as being anti-technology; in fact, as being something of a neo-Luddite. People who have labeled me as such usually know nothing about the Luddites. If they did, they woul…
This post, like all my posts, was written by me. It came out of a lot of conversation and reflection with many people. It is long. I promise you there's valu...
Aside: Are "AI Boosters" the Real Disadvantaged-Marginalised-Subaltern Party?
No, and this is an extremely suspicious framing. The largest structural and monetary support ever leveraged is being put behind "AI" rollout. [...] Pushing back against it is what involves sticking out your neck.
Great article. Still working through it, but full of excellent, clearheaded points like this.
This entry was edited (Sunday, September 27, 2026, 6:37 PM)
This is my opinion as a casual and probably more mainstream linux user: I switched to linux primarily because it's not windows, and what is windows? Bloated, adware, spyware, AI infested, and buggy. I'm starting to worry about the direction some projects are going. We need a whole distro with the core value of being anti- these things.
There's a lot that can be done already with CLI tools and D-Bus APIs, which OpenCode makes easy for LLMs to interface with. And if it needs to look at your screen it can use the D-Bus APIs to take a screenshot and look at it. Security isn't great but it's a problem with Linux in general.
I don't think that it's really surprising that the desktop that always saw indexing all your data as an essential task of your desktop environment would think making your desktop AI first is a good idea.
The gitlab discussion was opened by graham in order to implement some restrictions on AI use to help the maintainers with low-effort slop PRs. Unfortunately it completely derailed.
For the first time, there's a way to carry out software certification on AlmaLinux, and the hardware suite has been rewritten alongside it, with test results from either certification path landing in the same public catalog.
Don't worry about the cost to validate or the uptime of the machine itself. Certifications are free, and the hardware checks no longer require you to install the distro on your setup. Validating, how?
In this particular situation, software certification is basically a listing plus the confirmations that follow it. A publisher adds the product and picks which major versions of AlmaLinux it runs on.
The confirmations come from the people running software on their own hardware across various AlmaLinux releases, though they will need to sign up for an account if they want to post their findings.
Hardware certification is the other half that got some attention.
The alma-certify tool has been rewritten, with the developers claiming it can now achieve sub-10 minute certification runs on most hardware.
Another improvement is that alma-certify doesn't require an AlmaLinux installation anymore because it can work off live media or from an installation already on the machine. There's also a new machine registration flow that makes use of QR codes.
If you didn't know, this tool records what's in the machine, all the way down to drivers and firmware, then starts up a bunch of short checks that decide whether it passes.
Those checks cover a lot of ground, starting from computation and memory errors, storage health, networking drivers, to kernel state, virtualization, GPU, and peripherals.
Tracking results
Everything ends up in the catalog, and each entry is a result anyone can analyze. It holds the systems, components, and software that have been validated, alongside the benchmark figures from the published test runs.
Every major AlmaLinux release is tracked on its own, so provenance can be proved, and everything in the catalog is easily searchable. You can even make use of the free, read-only API to collect data in bulk.
Jonathan Wright, the Infrastructure Lead for AlmaLinux, directed his attention toward potential testers, saying that:
Two things would make all of this worth it. A lot of people and organizations want proof that AlmaLinux runs on the hardware they already own before they’ll give it a try, and now they can get that proof themselves.
Every result that gets submitted makes the case to hardware and software vendors that supporting AlmaLinux officially is a low-effort thing to do.
So if you have hardware sitting in front of you, or software you rely on every day, go tell us that it works. Validations stack, so adding yours to something already listed helps just as much as being the first.
In the end, this will only work if vendors and individual users take the effort to run tests and manually post them on the portal.
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