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Im using framework. my home networks isnt safe (it belongs to my family and google) and i would like to use the internet in public uncensored. someone also has a virus (they will not remove it dont ask why i do not know either) I know qubes is for security but Tails isnt for me. any reasonable ways to make Qubes private in my situation?
btw heres why i want security/privacy (i dont know my terminology)
I will be opening risky files and pirating
Don't like survillence policing/capitalism or censorship
Will be reading political things but dont want to be manipulated by my views
Love disposable identities that are hard to connect together
thanks for reading
Qubes requires a lot of configuring to be properly secure and you have to have a fair bit of understanding about virtualization.
I'd suggest starting with Whonix . It still uses some of the same virtualization technology, and like Tails routes everything over Tor, and provides excellent protection against threats on your local network (due to separating Gateway into its own VM)
Also Whonix is straightforward to set up. You first install VirtualBox, then literally just double-click the Whonix .OVA file to install. It fires up two virtual machines: Gateway and Workstation. You use the Workstation; the Gateway handles Internet traffic (and you generally don't login to it)
You can save files, customize your desktop, use it like a normal computer.
EDIT: just noticed this
opening risky files
For that, your best bet is a burner laptop that you re-image regularly. Qubes is also a pretty good way to do this; you'd set up an extremely locked-down execution environment for the "risky file".
But if the risky file attacks Linux-based OSes, you're hosed even under Whonix or Tails.
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I feel there's a lot of bandwidth with "risky files" anyway. If that's just a select few pirated games, creating two seperate user accounts might do. I did that for a while. Had one regular account for all my files, browsing etc. And another one with Lutris and some pirated games from ye good ol times... If there's some Windows virus included, it can't access any of my files.
If someone does computer security research, or plans to deliberately execute the nastiest malware, ransomware... that's obviously not enough by any means.
But people are in different kinds of situations. So pick what's best for you. And my priorities changed over time. These days I -for example- don't pirate as much software anymore. In case I want some of my Portal2 memories back, I'll just wait for the next Steam sale and buy it for 5 bucks... and for the rest of my software needs I have Linux and the Free Software community. I still keep the separate user accounts for random games and work and personal stuff, though.
system accounts
or even better, fire up a disposable VM
Yes, operating system accounts. And a good follow-up step is to check whether that account is really unable to read the files from other accounts. Sometimes Linux distributions come with weird default settings, I think Debian allows read access to files per default. I'm not 100% sure.
Virtual machines are way better at isolating stuff. Downside might be some extra effort to set them up, and maybe some fiddling with the graphics card.
thanks but i dont have the money for a burner letalone one that is powerful enough for qubes
thanks for the commen it helps other people see this
Look op, you kind of want to drive around without wanting to put in the work to either lern how a car works or what the road rules are.
Security is not something you install and the you got it.
I highly suggest to learn what the common risks are and how they work, then how to counter them.
This whole security and privacy thing requires both effort and knowledge, that is why corpos fuck over people so much, because they ain't willing to put in the work to care.
P.s sorry I reread my answer and I come off a bit harsh, what I mean is that by prompting a community like this with your kind of questions like if we were an AI will not work towards getting you good answers. You need to learn first and one of the first lessons is that there is no security and a casual "I will be opening sketchy files". A better question is: how can I open sketchy files and still be safe?
nah its fine man 👍 thanks for the advice friend )
btw do you have any resources for learning that you recommend?
(ps i meant risky files as in i will pirate or just get curious im not a high profile guy)
You are pretty clearly just starting off on this journey. What I'll say is this:
1) Perfect is the enemy of good, as long as you understand your risk.
2) Know your risk profile as it relates to your level of proficiency. Which means that you should probably not install Qubes and then pirate a bunch of shit, because you don't even know what the pitfalls are.
If you don't know what a risk profile is, then start there. That will help you understand what you should and should not be doing at your level of knowledge. Then, just get started, but be open minded. Nothing is a silver bullet.
I've personally found Qubes to be the best privacy/anonymity solution for my risk profile, but explaining that would be hundreds of pages. You just have to try it. For example, here's one challenge: you know that VPN is recommended for torrenting. How do you use Qubes with a VPN? That is a great road to go down for understanding, and you can start by searching the Qubes forums and documentation.
Accept that this will take a good chunk of your time, especially if you only have one PC and will be daily driving Qubes. So, maybe don't start this journey during a busy time in your life when you have lots of other responsibilities. This stuff is best done as a "deep dive", where you just set aside time and work until you've accomplished your goal.
Finally: interact with the community. Hit a dead end? Post in the appropriate community (or post asking where that is). Join group chats, which are faster than forums and more personal. Don't just go it alone... you will burn out quick!
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Somewhat of a PSA for Qt users:
On Linux, Firefox will now default to the XDG portal file picker if available, rather than the GTK3 one, which is usually better integrated with the user's desktop environment, and more powerful.
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Edit: I talk about a patched version below, but it was an about:config toggle in more recent times.
Always needed a patched version of Firefox before for that. Presumably most distros will transparently throw that patch out of their Firefox package, so likely don't have to do anything.
But well, you don't specifically need a patched version anymore for that, so if that's a separate package on your distro, you could consider using the normal package again. Although, I believe there's also still patches floating about for using the KDE mimetype system...
I'm a "developer edition" user (beta channel) running multiple profiles from multiple system users, and the only change I noticed weeks ago was the file picker not opening at all 😬
Fixed by running firefox with dbus-launch. So that was +1 for dbus over systemd in the race to make less shit work expectedly, while killing unix/posix in the process.
wow sucks if that's true. why wouldn't they just fallback to GTK+3 file picker when dbus isn't working well?
i also kinda have dbus killed on my system, gotta see if i get this issue after my distro gets ESR 153..
I came across an Apple iMac Retina 5K 27-inch (2017) for a really good price, how well does linux work?
Specs:
Fair question, and yet oddly, I kinda don't mind doing that.
I was using Dell windows machines for work for a long time and let me tell you for a premium priced machines and systems, you still put in a lot of support time.
When it's nearly free I'm ok with tinkering.
I used fedora for a couple years on an Intel MacBook Air I found in the ewaste bin.
The camera was the only thing to give me any problems and they were easily fixed.
I spent a lot of time customizing it so that the Mac key combos would work but ultimately gave up, but I learned of a new distro that seems to do a better job at mimicing the Mac ui including the keyboard and I'd be curious to try in your shoes.
the one I use is kega fusion, downloaded from flatpak, last updated in 2009. Being that old not all controls work correctly anymore.
Is there anything being updated nowadays?
Usually I just use whatever core comes with RetroArch.
Nowadays the best option for Sega seems to be Genesis Plus GX.
The Genesis Plus GX dev themselves recommends Ares or jgenesis though.
I have a dejavu, i was sure i already opened this report but it is nowhere to be found so i might just have thought about it and forgot it. Are there any plans to make a GUI for Genesis Plus GX? Re...Maseru898 (GitHub)
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Trump has underestimated Canadians’ willingness to endure economic pain rather than give in to U.S. pressure, Ontario Premier saysRob Gillies (The Globe and Mail)
Trump's ego must be sated.
That's what there is to 'gain'.
He's just literally a raving demented lunatic, a sundowning narcissist. A real life cariacature of a mad king, a comic book supervillain.
I don't think that's true. Trump, his administration, and the MAGA movement are fascists, not idiots. Fascism is an ideology that sees the problems of capitalism through the lenses of idealism and nationalism. They believe society can only be fixed by a visionary leader unencumbered by traditional limits on power. They don't see class conflict. Instead they see national conflict as the source of societal issues.
When the Nazis were overheating their economy in order to aggressively re-arm, their economic minister proposed some sensible fiscal policy to cool things off. However, these policies would slow the re-armament, so he was fired because he didn't have the willpower to do what needed to be done. In the end, the only way to keep getting the resources needed to keep building the war machine was to invade Poland.
This is the ideology that leads you to devalue international cooperation and instead see other nations as rivals to be dominated. Fascism won't be defeated by calling them stupid. Instead it comes from showing people that the problems of society come from class conflict.
I know you weren't trying to give some big analysis of Trump's ideology. But I can't resist an opportunity to infodump.
Another one bytes the dust. Vex is a YouTube (gaming oriented) tech channel with over 200k subscribers. He just switched and started his journey to Linux. It's a 46 minutes video, so there is lot of coverage. I think its always interesting to see of someone switching to Linux and documenting it in public, especially someone with lots of followers (OK its not a PewDiePie... but still).
Video description:
I've had this Windows laptop, the Zephyrus G16. It is fast, has a beautiful display, lightweight, well-built... but it runs Windows 11. That has always been nagging me that it is holding it back, and I have only heard amazing things about Linux for the efficiency and customizability. So let's see what it can actually do.
0:00- Windows
2:27- why stay?
5:49- THE DISTRO
7:32- installing Linux
11:20- onboarding
16:29- attempting a game + Davinci Resolve
20:45- idle power consumption
21:53- window management is incredible
24:12- fixing the brightness
24:52- Davinci Resolve... STUDIO
27:13- choppy audio
27:52- webcam is ugly
28:31- adding 120Hz!
29:24- DLSS Upgrades
30:17- boot times have been BAD
30:37- GPU switching sucks
31:12- it keeps freezing
32:02- modding a game
32:25- playing a WINDOWS game, but not in Steam
32:57- My Pros
34:34- my downsides
36:30- GAMING vs WINDOWS
41:37- creative apps...
42:33- my experience
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he seems to talk about things he doesn’t really understand
Isn't this normal if you just get started?
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I would at least pretend to learn from my mistakes. So when I skip the shader compilation, then experience freezes while shaders get loaded and the whole f***ing chat mentions it, letting them compile first and then seeing if that fixes the issue would be in fact the first thing I would try...
So no, this is not honest "showing common mistakes other people will experience" or "struggling with basics". Because if it was honest there would be any mention of the underlying issue once he understood it. And he obviously did, judging by a later offhand comment about "yeah, shader issues..."
No, you said these videos show common mistakes on purpose because real users would make them. Which is okay...
But it doesn't matter if it was an honest mistake or one made on purpose because it's a common thing.
Ignoring the chat telling him the problem (and that he caused it himself) and also not mentioning the problem's origin anymore later was not an accident. Given the fact that he later made some offhand comment about "yeah, shader thing again" he understood the problem yet intentionally chose to not include the explanation in the video but leave it at "on Linux there are random freezes I don't understand".
No, you said these videos show common mistakes on purpose because real users would make them. Which is okay…
Ehm, no that is not what I said. I mean he made mistakes that many people make, which is a showcase of common mistakes. Not that he made them on purpose.
yes, it's not pleasan to watch people commit the same mistakes you've learned from for sure and:
I just don’t like if newcomers got shamed on and discredited not understanding what they are talking about.
it's definitely gotten better, but the old RTFM sentiment is still very strong in the linux community and there are too many that make it their entire identity.
There is also a new trend, where some newcomers from Windows don't want to rely on the community and ask Ai bots instead. I'm not a big fan of doing that if you are new to a subject, but on the other hand it can be helpful if the community gets toxic, and they (I mean some random people) say it helped them. So that is another thing we have to deal with, hallucinations and such.
BTW I think there are two types of RTFM, The Read the Fucking Manual and the other explaining and helping as much and then pointing to the documentation for more, let's call it Read The Fine Manual. 😀 So yes, I do not like people just dropping and leaving the asking person helpless with the advice they should read the manual. But I'm a fan of helping and giving them a specific link to a part where the documentation can help further than I can.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend Vanilla OS.
That's a lot of churn and issues for such as young project that advertises itself to new users.
it feels like what linux used to be -- with a sole or very few developers trying to maintain this and other projects at the same time.
their (understandable) inability to do everything at once invariably leads to strange results that i used to be thankful for because it forced me to learn how linux works when i had to fix things myself; but looking at it, at this stage in life feel exhausting.
If you read the first few lines of the blog post, you'll see that Vanilla OS 2 can be upgraded to Vanilla OS 3 seamlessly. The project has matured significantly over the past two years, and we're actively working to ensure existing users have a smooth experience, for example, with the new update mode in First Setup.
As for Mirko, his work on Sinty OS doesn't mean Vanilla OS is abandoned. If that were the case, we wouldn't be releasing Vanilla OS 3. I'd kindly ask that you base your criticism on facts, not on presumptions about what we may or may not be doing.
don't know if this is an appropriate community
I don't particularly like this application, but my whole family uses and they simply won't use any foss alternative I've proposed so far.
I'm even thinking about joining them.
I only need audio, no video calls, no file transfers.
ETA: what free droid apps can do simply that, not needing for me to provide a phone number or my current location / country?
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I mean mainstream messaging apps actually used by everyday users. Whatsapp, telegram, etc. While you can use SimpleX without creating an account. It still relies on SimpleX servers to relay to your message.
Briar can work without relays or central servers only using Tor for internet connections if enabled.
It still relies on SimpleX servers to relay to your message.
Wrong again, it's decentralized. You can run your own relay.
what free droid apps can do simply that, not needing for me to provide a phone number or my current location / country?
There's an endless list, but here's a few:
Unfortunately you have to create an account and provide phone number to WhatsApp for communication with your family.
You can disable cloud backups, set auto destruct message timers, not use metaAI and not put any extra info, but not much else to mitigate. At least message or voice content is end to end encrypted, but Meta sure collects a lot of metadata.
Also if you are on grapheneos, you can set up contact scopes, to only include people you communicate with on the service.
Open WhatsApp chats with any number, no contact needed.f-droid.org
One rather complicated method of accessing whatsapp:
Open WhatsApp chats with any number, no contact needed.f-droid.org
So I want to install Debian 12 on my machine, and the installer just -kind of- worked. I couldn't use the live USB with all the cool UI stuff, I had to use the normal installer without the whole DE. But that worked. I have Debian 12 now on my SSD. I can even access it through the "rescue mode" using the Debian USB as shown in the first picture. But actually booting from it is a whole other story. I can select it as a boot option, but it says that this drive doesn't have an operating system on it. It can be seen in the second picture.
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Has anyone an idea on what could be going on here?
UPDATE:
I got it working by messing around in the rescue mode. I selected some option which fiddles with the EFI boot and makes it accessible to the boot loader. So that's cool. Now everything works.
I used linux in the past, both privately and work-related, but the last time was over 10 years ago, so I'm a bit out of touch. I am in need of a new PC, but it'll be a good year before I have the funds, so for now I am making due with an i5 7500 and a gtx 1660. I do have 32 GB so there's that.
I finally feel confident enough to make the permanent switch to linux from windows as all of the programs I use are either available on linux or have a good/better equivalent. The only thing I fear will hold me back is games.
I know Steam has Proton now which will run most games, but how does it compare? The games I play most are Skyrim (heavily modded) , RDR2, Witcher 3, Transport fever, Civilization, Crusader kings 3 and Cities Skylines (uninstalled atm waiting for 2).
I'm on the fence to either wait until I can afford a new PC and dual boot or make the switch now and deal with a few gaming problems. Thing is, what kind of problems may I expect? Anyone able and knowledgeable to give me some advice?
EDIT: Wow, those are a lot of replies; thank you everyone! You really helped me. I will make the switch sooner rather than later.
This might be possible by booting to a live disk and using gparted etc.
Don't attempt to do anything while you're using the Linux partition. That's like trying to work on a car while it's running.
Odyssey Linux: a Void-based rolling-release distribution. No systemd, no telemetry, verifiable supply chain. Unix for human beings.odysseylinux.org
"my brother in christ"
You know, I'm more interested in Unix than in your superstitions.
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Youve gotta be pulling my leg here, no way people are offended by that 😂
also, based
I read the "Why Odyssey" section, and the dev talks about wanting anonymity, then goes on to say that they accept donations on Patreon. I assume they also have that domain registered under their name. And while you say it's a "team," that section sounds like it's a lone dev with patrons; that does not instill confidence in the long-term viability of the project.
On top of that, they sound like an edgelord (probably young). They talk about "no telemetry," but then that means no Steam, no internet browsing, and certainly no taking payments from strangers.
And if that wasn't enough, they hit us with this gem:
Artificial intelligence is an unavoidable tool, powerful and extremely useful, and it will shape the future of our species for the next thousand years. So yes, I use it, and I use it as an intelligent human being and, above all, a conscious one.
Unavoidable? Fuck right off. There isn't some employer holding your paycheck hostage in return for "seeing what you can do with it." The data consistently shows that it makes us dumber, and acting like it is inevitable (which I think is what they actually mean) is one of the most brain dead takes people say when pushing AI. They are choosing to use AI, and even if it's local, the core functionality was built upon the mass theft of people's work.
They do go on to say that they have an issue with who controls AI, which I agree with, but unless they built their own ML algorithm from the ground up or use one that wasn't built with venture capital, they're just reinforcing the same capitalist system that is ruining everyone's future for the benefit of a few.
Overall, I think this is a very young person with a desire to do something good but who is ultimately naive. Coupled with the fact that they use AI without restraint, I expect this project to eventually flounder.
idk seems weird but maybe good
comments on ai are concerning and the person seems like an edgelord
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Sounds like the distro is kinda of a clown show (see this comment: reddthat.com/comment/28643289), but it is really nice to see derivative distros coming off of Void. To me, it's a sign that Void is gaining more relevance in the community which is great because I really think it's the best distro out there these days.
I read the "Why Odyssey" section, and the dev talks about wanting anonymity, then goes on to say that they accept donations on Patreon. I assume they also have that domain registered under their name. And while you say it's a "team," that section sounds like it's a lone dev with patrons; that does not instill confidence in the long-term viability of the project.On top of that, they sound like an edgelord (probably young). They talk about "no telemetry," but then that means no Steam, no internet browsing, and certainly no taking payments from strangers.
And if that wasn't enough, they hit us with this gem:
Artificial intelligence is an unavoidable tool, powerful and extremely useful, and it will shape the future of our species for the next thousand years. So yes, I use it, and I use it as an intelligent human being and, above all, a conscious one.
Unavoidable? Fuck right off. There isn't some employer holding your paycheck hostage in return for "seeing what you can do with it." The data consistently shows that it makes us dumber, and acting like it is inevitable (which I think is what they actually mean) is one of the most brain dead takes people say when pushing AI. They are choosing to use AI, and even if it's local, the core functionality was built upon the mass theft of people's work.They do go on to say that they have an issue with who controls AI, which I agree with, but unless they built their own ML algorithm from the ground up or use one that wasn't built with venture capital, they're just reinforcing the same capitalist system that is ruining everyone's future for the benefit of a few.
Overall, I think this is a very young person with a desire to do something good but who is ultimately naive. Coupled with the fact that they use AI without restraint, I expect this project to eventually flounder.
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i tried tails but google still tracks me and its not for me since the police arent coming after me and the amensia and only being on usb is a bit annoying. i just thought there would be a lot more privacy
i tried qubes with whonix because it seemed interesting but still no privacy even on safest settings in tor (google still knows its me)
Well yes, kinda, not directly to Google, i read it somewhere else that the companies behind those cellular tower may or may not relate to Google
Sorry i cant give you the full detail, i read it once somewhere in the r/privacy subreddit and it make me kinda go back on decision to get a dumb phone
Degradation of privacy and security are not on or off switches, but rather a sliding scale dependent on your actions and choices.
What are you trying to protect and from whom?
What are the probable attack vectors?
What conveniences are you will to give up?
To prevent online services ( like google and facebook) from knowing who you are you have to completely disconnect from them and their networks.
Tails when used in combination with a VPN is secure, but only until the service you are trying to protect your privacy from put together that you are using them (usually by you logging into an account with them ).
When I was younger, privacy was something we were less concerned about. We were more concerned with preventing our systems from being hacked. Folks liked to say that the only secure computer was one that was locked in a solid concrete bunker on the dark side of the moon, with no data connection to the rest of the universe, and even then there would be some fool out there with a space suit and a jack hammer trying to get into it.
You might have a DNS leak. Go to dnsleaktest(.) com to check
If you do, head over to NextDNS.io and set it up. Once that is done, run the test again to make sure it is fixed
Privacy ≠ anonymity
Honestly, Tails isn't great for everyday use because it’s an amnesic, single use system. Plus, if you’re actually hiding from the cops, you shouldn't be reusing that device anyway
If you just want everyday privacy, any solid Linux distribution will do the trick. Just make sure to ditch Google and Microsoft services
Privacy is me knowing you are in the bathroom, but not knowing what you are doing. (For example, I know you are using Linux, but I don't know what you are doing on it)
Anonymity is like wearing a mask. I know you are robbing a store, but I don't know who you are (Tor works like this)
Then what you can do right now is simply change your search engine to DuckDuckGo and use any Linux distro of your liking
Privacy concerns stem from knowing where your data is going and distrusting the receiver. Do not push yourself too hard. It is a long road ahead to fully understand how data and people work
i already use duckduckgo and linux
thanks for the advice though friend )))
Look, just try something already. All those fancy tools mean nothing to you if you're not familiar with them.
For that, I'd recommend Linux Mint.
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From an adtech perspective, switching to different distros is not going to make any difference. Google does fingerprint activity that is not tied to user accounts and can easily associate you. If not to specific user, then to household, if not to household, then to family group, etc. That doesn't make it less private though, just not anonymous (which isn't really a thing on the Internet anyhow).
Your only real option is to just not use Google. There isn't any magic bullet to use their services without providing them details they can then ID you with.
invidious (youtube frontend) recommends me videos ive watched before (not popular channels) on the very first page (so its not behavior fingerprint) on every device i use even if im not logged in and no matter what os i use "privacy friendly" or not. i try these os like tails or qubes with whonix and i dont see any improvements. its pretty sad that it works for everyone else.
(invidious recommending things isnt the problem its that google can idenify me and connect everything ive done across all my sessions devices and ips it makes me sad (( i feel like i have no connivence or privacy)
(google still knows its me)
Seems extremely unlikely, what makes you say that?
im using invidious and no matter what i try i get recommended videos i watched before on there
peopl say its because invidious recoommends stuff people who watch on invidious like but im really skecptical
could you go there and tell me every channel you see recommended to you? (use nadeko)
In that order
When you log into google, no matter what privacy tech you use? Google knows who you are.
Why are you not blocking ads?
It sounds like what you want is a canvas-blocker addon for your webbrowser. Stop the fingerprinting.
With a VPN and anti-fingerprinting, you're so much more anonymous! Expect a LOT more captchas. Captchas that glitch and make you start over frequently.
In peaceful times, people cling to broken systems simply because "that's how it's always been done". Comfort is a prison.
This crisis is a great opportunity to screw Microsoft.
Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.
Canadians should be agressively lobbying their politicians to embrace Linux and the open source ecosystem. Call your representatives. Write to your city council. Contact your town IT department. Do it now.
Ditching Microsoft is only a pure benefit.
Linux is free, better maintained, and way less troublesome for proper work.
Microsoft ecosystem is just an illusion of comfort that keeps breaking itself the moment it encounters a printer, a virtual machine having issues, or whatever else.
Better invest that money into real human employees rather than paying for all the licensing costs.
While at it, the cybersecurity mafia should also get sanctioned out of existence by making the SOC 2 charade an irrelevant thing. It’s just an overpriced, silly report, not even a proper certification anyway.
I have been laughed out every time I've mentioned it for years.
I got approval from my managers and IT to install a Linux based OS on my work desktop, then a half-wit Windows-fanboy dev chimed in claiming our insurance would not cover the operating system if there were ever a security breach, data loss, etc. to say I was infuriated was an understatement.
All we use is a Web-App to accomplish our tasks, no in-house proprietary executables or anything along those lines, hell they claimed their Web-App wouldn’t work on Firefox browsers, which of course was a lie.
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The average office worker has a good chance of a complete meltdown if an icon on their desktop is moved. Government and business are not going to move to Linux on the desktop.
I fully recognize the absurdity of this, particularly in an era when a huge number of office jobs are basically just interacting with a web browser. I've just spent enough time writing software for "regular folks" to see why it's not going to happen.
Lookup "Gendarmierie Linux Switchover"
It's already happened.
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The Gendarmerie Nationale has run a Linux desktop environment continuously since 2008. By June 2024 it had reached 103,164 workstations, around 97 per cent of the force's computing estate.
They even have their own Ubuntu fork, GendBuntu
Fuck knows, I doubt 97% of all workstations run just the one app though
But I ain't french, or a cop (ACAB), so I don't know for certain
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernelwww.phoronix.com
CIFS / Samba? You mean that thing I have never ever in decades of work seen consistently work properly?
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Right, that tracks.
I mean in all seriousness I'm sure it was useful for some people so RIP. I shall selfishly hope this means we move onto something a bit more functional.
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I've been using Mint for a number of years and I encrypted the drive. An annoyance is I have two drives and the second one needs a different encryption and needs to be mounted seperately when I log in (besides if I tell it to automount with a saved password) I've been looking to change distros and finally chose one, this time though it uses BTRFS. I read over a number of differences but am not technical enough to know what it all means.
My question for now is with BTRFS, when installing the distro, can I tell it to use my second drive as an extension of the main drive so it all gets recognized as one, seamless?
Your best options when you are already doing a fresh new install:
But that's not related to BTRFS at all and can be done with any file system
If you can do this is mostly depending on the specific installer (I would assume only the first option works by default...). It's definitely possible in general but "I'm not technical enough" doesn't go well with all the details you have to figure out yourself when the installer doesn't do all the work.
I've seen the recommendations of software raid0. The answers are all technically correct.
Don't do this. Especially with real hardware. If you lose one drive, you will lose both the drives.
Could you give us more info on how your other encrypted drive is mounted and meant to be used?
It all depends how the encryption is being done, and where the mount points are.
Could you give us:
I can't seem to find anything like it, neither as a Fuse fs. Is there really no file system, that just evicts the oldest entries once it's full? I mean, it could be a simple queue.
This would have been the ideal tool for cache; no bothering with size limits and background daemons.
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RRDtool refers to Round Robin Database tool. Round robin is a technique that works with a fixed amount of data, and a pointer to the current element. Think of a circle with some dots plotted on the edge. These dots are the places where data can be stored. Draw an arrow from the center of the circle to one of the dots; this is the pointer. When the current data is read or written, the pointer moves to the next element. As we are on a circle there is neither a beginning nor an end, you can go on and on and on. After a while, all the available places will be used and the process automatically reuses old locations. This way, the dataset will not grow in size and therefore requires no maintenance. RRDtool works with Round Robin Databases (RRDs). It stores and retrieves data from them.
I guess I was thinking about it too abstractly.
Uncomplicated cache/trash management
But sadly, doesn't seem to exist. Maybe i will have to learn how to create a fs? It's only a stack, would also be fast...
Not 100% on what 'stack-based' means here, but if 'stacking' = 'tiering', you could use a normal filesystem like bcachefs that have tiered storage ?
You can declare different tier devices for speed, availability or what you prefer, and have different compression, managed cache, auto-move hot data from cold storage, cold data to cold storage, and what not..
However, I've never actually tried it, so I'm likely exaggerating the possibilities. I think ZFS have tiering too, but maybe a filesystem specialist can chime in with some advice.
Alternatively, if it doesn't bother you, it could be a great task for a sota ai, to help/create/setup a simple fuse fs for your needs.
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In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel versionwww.phoronix.com
I exclusively use EXT4, so this is welcome improvements. It's really rock solid and performance is good too. Not sure how relevant these improvements other than measuring them in specific cases will be for my daily usage, but it can't hurt I guess. Article also talks about:
avoiding possible soft lockups or RCU stall conditions, and a variety of bug fixes
Which is impressive, because its pretty darn good already. I wonder if anyone ecountered a bug in the filesystem on a live system in recent years or if this is just some cleanups they found when inspecting the code, without affecting anyone in real world?
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This release also restores NSS-based user/group lookups by default and improves the keystore locking mechanism.RPM 6.1 has been released today as a major update to this package manager system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Linux-based distributions.
Coming almost a year after RPM 6.0, the RPM 6.1 release introduces a new release model inspired by the Linux kernel, new %define options for expansion at definition and global context, a new macro modifier syntax to support literal and one-shot macros, and new man pages.
RPM 6.1 also restores the NSS-based user/group lookups by default, after being somewhat eagerly disabled in RPM 4.19, improves the usability of the rpm-plugin-syslog(8) command with systemd journal, and improves the keystore locking mechanism to use a separate lock instead of the transaction lock.
This release also allows for users and groups to be provided by the system runtime environment, and closes file descriptors more efficiently on Linux kernel 5.11 and later and GNU C Library 2.34 and later to reduce installation time by about 26 percent.
The rpmuncompress(1) utility now honors the rpm-common(8) options and received support for CAR files, while the rpmuncompress(1) and rpm-setup-autosign(1) tools have been moved to the standard $PATH to make them easier to use as standalone tools, and symlinks are now installed in /usr/lib/rpm for backwards compatibility.
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Last but not least, RPM 6.1 improves and fixes build and verification error handling, fixes the rpm --undefine and Lua rpm.undefine() commands to no longer bypass sanity checks, updates rpmsign(1) to sign files with PKCS11 tokens, and fixes Clang compilation errors and warnings.
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Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027.Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently estimated to run out of stock in three months time. Just pre-warning everyone in case people start asking when things are going to be in stock again.
Meanwhile, devices like the PineTime, PineVoice and Pinecil will continue production as usual!
As for the PineTime Pro, currently the demo firmware has basic drivers for the display, touch, motion, GPS, buttons, heat rate sensor (chip id only), battery charger, motor, microphone and the speaker. Though some issues do need to be ironed out first before a pilot batch begins production.
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As part of the collaboration between Canonical and the University of Bristol, the project will target AppArmor and snap-confine as industrial case studies. Both are critical to Ubuntu’s security posture, and provide a substantially harder test than isolated translation examples. They will help us evaluate whether the techniques can cope with the structure and constraints of mature production software.Note that this is not a commitment to replace AppArmor or snap-confine with what is generated, rather that we have a vested interest in the software and are keen to see the results.
The most optimistic outcome would be a system capable of translating substantial C repositories into Rust with strong evidence of behavioural equivalence and relatively little manual intervention. The research could also produce better methods for decomposing repositories, stronger validation techniques, reusable translation datasets, improved program-repair tools and a more precise understanding of where automated migration stops being reliable.
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IMO this rust shit is just an attempt to convert a GPL licensed ecosystem into the Corpo-CHUD preferred MIT license.
Just like with Clang, the Corpo is simply intolerably offended by being asked to contribute back to the community.
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Using Rust in no way requires the usage of pushover licenses. While it's true that many devs are using pushover licenses, there are plenty of GPL Rust projects. You are just focusing on the sensationalized ones that get mentioned in news cycles.
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Which speaks to my other comment: nothing about Rust necessitates using corpo licenses. The reason so many things are being rewritten in Rust is that it's a great language and it provides tangible benefits to users. The owning class doesn't need a special language as a pretext to de-GPL an ecosystem. They could do it with C, OCAML, or any other lang.
Using Rust in no way requires the usage of pushover licenses. While it's true that many devs are using pushover licenses, there are plenty of GPL Rust projects. You are just focusing on the sensationalized ones that get mentioned in news cycles.
- AGPL Rust projects on GitHub
- GPL Rust projects on GitHub
- Unfortunately, Codeberg doesn't support filtering by license, but there are Rust projects on Codeberg, some of which will use copyleft licenses here.
- GNOME's GitLab is also rife with GPL-licensed Rust projects.
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The language, as an inanimate object, doesn't have an ideology, sure. However, people running the show in partnership with the ruling class have.
IMO any speech about Rust rewritings must denounce how the language can be, and it is, being used to attack software freedom.
IMO it isn’t in bad faith any speech making that apparent.
I'm not sure I understand what you meant (there may be a typo in there).
The language, as an inanimate object, doesn’t have an ideology, sure. However, people running the show in partnership with the ruling class have.
This, I agree with. It is very concerning that Rust has so much corporate buy-in. And the structure of The Rust Foundation being operated more like a business than something like the Zig Software Foundation does worry me.
But I often feel the need to chime-in and correct the common misconception that Rust rewrite == corpo-relicense. It's false and I think the conspiratorial coupling of Rust to corporate embrace-extend-extinguish only serves to discourage people from writing better software.
I would love to see a community fork of Rust and its ecosystem one day, but I don't think we get there by discouraging people from writing or using Rust software.
This is a bit of a tangent, so I didn't include it in the above comment, but I don't think "open source" is sufficiently anti-capitalist, so the (A)GPL was never going to save us to begin with. "Open source", as defined by the OSI (a.k.a. a handful of megacorps in a trench coat) and the FSF, prevent "discrimination of use". So if you want your software to be "open source" or "free software", you have to accept that your software can be used by for-profit entities to exploit your labor, and potentially to perform heinous acts, such as military or surveillance usage. What we currently call "copyleft" is actually just copylib 😭
No open source license, not even the (A)GPL, allows you to forbid this. Unfortunately, I don't see an alternative framework being widely adopted anytime soon. It seems that the best you can do for now is use niche licenses like this and just accept that your software can't be considered "open source" :/
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gccrs is that it merely provides a way to compile Rust software with GCC instead of LLVM, which is great! But it's such a small piece of the Rust ecosystem (it's merely a frontend). Maybe it'd be a good starting point for a more copyleft ecosystem in the future though.
Wow! What an observant smart thought.Well, except for the fact that code conversion doesn't give you the permission to change licenses or remove copyright. And the small matter of fact that both projects mentioned are Canonical projects, where whatever code that is not directly copyrighted by Canonical, is contributed by someone who signed an agreement with this stipulation:
(b) To the maximum extent permitted by the relevant law, You grant to Us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, irrevocable licence under the Copyright covering the Contribution, with the right to sublicense such rights through multiple tiers of sublicensees, to reproduce, modify, display, perform and distribute the Contribution as part of the Material; provided that this license is conditioned upon compliance with Section 2.3."Us" being Canonical of course. So they could actually "re-license" the projects right now, without changing a single line of code.
It's always astonishing how condiment in their ignorance people are when it comes to these matters.
You geniuses are getting too predictable with your ignorance.
I literally wrote what's quoted above yesterday replying to someone else.
From what I get, Rust proposes to make low-level coding easier by forcing programmers into a certain workflow.
Yes and no. It forces programmers to a certain workflow like using a borrow checker to manage memory, but it actually makes programmer's lives easier, because it prevents bugs from runtime. The compiler will throw a fit, over your buggy code if you try to compile, unlike C.
The funny part is that rust is actually a high level language that can do low level stuff.
But functioning C code is as good as functioning Rust code right?
Yes. I prefer C because it is easier to learn than rust, and feel like rust is more comparable to C++. I also feel like llm plus rust is a good combo, these days.
But functioning C code is as good as functioning Rust code right?
Practically yes, but also no. The C pointer aliasing rules limit the optimizations the compiler can apply, since any int * might point to any int in scope. It’s even worse than that in the Linux kernel: since it has to be compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing, the compiler has to assume that any pointer can alias any variable in scope.
In contrast, Rust simply disallows aliases to mutable variables and the compiler prevents them in safe code (you can write them in unsafe code but it’s instantly undefined behavior, which is why unsafe Rust is harder to write than C). Every variable that can change has one and only one name. This can sometimes allow the Rust compiler to optimize in ways that wouldn’t be possible in C.
But in practice the impact of this is pretty close to nil as long as you write smallish functions.
The grub menu displayed as if the system knew which partition contains the bootloader. The root partition mounted by itself. Neither dmesg nor my init/process manager threw any errors. The boot partition was not mounted, neither was swap.
I did manually create an fstab from within the installed system and all is fine, so my question is purely academic. Do modern systems not need an fstab in order to know which devices and partitions to mount where?
The root partition ID is in the grub configuration, it's mounted when the system boots. Then fstab is read and the other partitions are mounted.
fstab is needed for root mount options and other partitions, but as you saw with your system if the only partitions other than root are not needed to boot your system will boot fine (I don't know which options grub uses when mounting root though)
defaults,noatime, but I wonder what GRUB defaulted to without the fstab. Thanks!
Grub typically stores the uuid of the root filesystem in the kernel command line arguments (I can't quite remember if that's the right name it not).
Have a look at the grub configuration when in the grub menu and you should see it there.
Thanks! That seems to be the case exactly!
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To be clear, grub itself doesn’t mount your root partition. Grub provides the root partition device path or id to the kernel via kernel command line. Then kernel mounts the root partition early in its boot sequence with a limited set of options (typically read only).
Logically, the root partition should be mountable without fstab because otherwise it would be a chicken and egg problem 😀
Usually once the userspace starts, an init script will remount the root partition with its normal options from fstab.
(It’s a bit more complicated if initramfs is involved, but the principle is the same).
Thanks! I guess I need to read up on the boot process. 😅
Logically, the root partition should be mountable without fstab because otherwise it would be a chicken and egg problem 😀
Don't I have egg (or chicken???) on my face... 🤣
Me doesn't follow anything you suggested. 😁 Never had a second bootloader in almost 20 years and never didn't encounter an issue where it would solve the problem. Although I just distro hopped once, or twice if you count same family of distro.
Recently (years ago) switched from grub to systemd-boot (note, it is badly named, as it is not a systemd component and just a different project taken over and renamed from gummiboot, so technically it should be usable without systemd), as it is much simpler and less prone to issues than grub (and because it is the default recommendation by EndeavourOS too). I have only one operating system installed and from day to day work, I never noticed a difference in the operation.
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I can sell you a 15” dell with a quad core and 32gb of ram.
E: this is not a joke, I have a 3520 from a couple of years ago with an 11th gen i7, a 256gb nvme, the sata kit included and 32gb of ddr4. HMU.
Do NOT get a think pad. They were good when they were IBM, but Lenovo got caught putting a rootkit in their BIOS. So even if you flash to Linux, you run the risk of the Chinese government or any dedicated hacker having full access to your machine.
If you're on a budget, Acer is good bang for the buck, if you're not, HP has quality builds.
Lenovo got caught putting a rootkit in their BIOS
The model I mentioned supports coreboot though?
HP has quality builds
Lol I find that hard to believe
They haven't been IBM in almost 2 decades and they are still decent. Acer is absolute bottom of the barrel crap.
I'd go Lenovo or Dell over HP. But I'd not recommend to get just anything from any of those brands, but to stick to the business model lines if you are buying used.
does it still work for software development?
... Why wouldn't it? Like you could do other things but not write code?
5825u laptops are like $300 for the same amount of ram and storage as a T480. They are much faster and quite efficient.
T480s are around the $200-300 range. I will be honest, it's not worth it at that point.
Buy a different thinkpad (an older gen T/L/E 14) (but check the upgradability), there is too much demand for it for it to be normally priced.
I wanted one in ~2023 and couldn't find one under 300€, I then bought a Dell Latitude 5290 with the same CPU (i5-8350u) as the T480. The Latitude is working well enough, Dells (Latitudes and Precisions) are also a great thinkpad alternative - keep in mind they don't have a trackpoint (since 2018).
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As someone else mentioned the framework pro is a good pick and also the cool new kid on the block with the repair and upgradablity(however you spell that). However spec and build quality wise, any high end business laptop will have full linux support since their be used for IT/software dev and robust enough construction to not break in a few years
That Dell looks good, ive heard good things about the new Lenovo too, really just go with whichever option is cheaper
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خطاهای پراکندهٔ input/output، خراب شدن پروندههای چند گیگابایتی و حتی چند بار read-only شدن فایلسیستم حین کار... هیچکدومو جدی نگرفتم؛ تا اینکه بالاخره کار به جایی رسید که btrfs دیگه سوار نشد و رایانه بالا نیومد! اول به خود دیسک اساسدی و کابل ساتا شک کردم، ولی یههو یادم افتاد که حافظه این سیستم از همون قدیم مشکل داشت. دیگه گفتم بهتره بهجای حدس زدن، اینبار قشنگ بررسیش کنم.
با یه SystemRescue زنده اومدم بالا و memtest86+ رو اجرا کردم. نتیجه عملاً فاجعه بود: حدود ۷۰۰-۸۰۰ خطا فقط توی یک pass! با قیمتهای فعلی هم که اصلاً امکان تعویض RAM وجود نداره. پس دنبال این گشتم که ببینم میشه همینو یهجوری نگهش داشت و فقط قسمت آسیبدیدهشو کنار گذاشت؟
برای پیدا کردن دقیق ناحیه مخرب، گذاشتم چند دور دیگه هم روی حالت badram آزمایش کنه تا شانس اشتباه بیاد پایین. تستهای ۰، ۷ و ۱۰ رو هم خاموش کردم، چون برای این منظور بهشون نیازی نبود و فقط سرعت بررسی رو پایین میآوردن. بعد از حدود ۴–۵ دور، نزدیک به ۲۵۰۰ خطا ثبت شده بود؛ اما نکتهٔ جالبترش این بود که همهٔ این خطاها روی فقط ۸ بیت مشخص اتفاق افتاده بودن!
۸ بیت در برابر ۱۶ گیگابایت تقریباً هیچی نیست، ولی همین خرابی کوچک کافی بود تا دادههایی که رایانه موقتاً توی حافظه نگه میداره آسیب ببینن و بعداً راهشون رو به دیسک باز کنن، حتی با وجود btrfs checksum!
حالا باید کاری میکردم که لینوکس دیگه از اون قسمت استفاده نکنه. ازونجایی که کوچکترین واحدی که میشه در این سطح از حافظه کنار گذاشت یک صفحه چهار کیلوبایتیه، نشونی محدودهٔ آسیبدیده رو گذاشتم تو تنظیمات GRUB:
<br />badram 0x000000036b642d20,0xfffffffffffffff8<br />avid@avid:~$ sudo cat /proc/iomem | grep -i '36b64'
100000000-36b641fff : System RAM
36b642000-36b642fff : Unusable memory
36b643000-46effffff : System RAM
So, I'm finally getting around to buying a Linux first laptop. I'm familiar with Macbooks, and so far liked them. I've also live stick used Fedora w/ KDE (though Gnome might fit too) and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and liked them.
But I do want to have more freedom and privacy. My most important considerations are:
The four main laptops I'm considering are in no particular order:
If any of you know something better, please do tell!
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As someone running Debian on an old MacBook Pro from 2012, MacBooks are not Linux first. You can run it on all but the newest M-series, but be warned you're likely to encounter some broadcom driver issues with the wifi/bluetooth. They can be fixed, then they may break again with some random kernel update. It's not a fire and forget solution.
Have you looked at Framework yet? Linux friendly, designed to be upgradeable and user-repairable. Definitely plan to buy a Framework for my next laptop (ideally once ram/storage prices stabilize)
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Yup, I noticed wifi and bluetooth issues as well when running Linux on my Intel macbook.
RE Framework: I did check it. It looks nice, but it is American and I'm a bit wary of whether they have ties to rabidly right-wing tech bros, considering the Hyprland controversy.
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Not what you've asked, but I'll give you this as a perspective (which you can discard if you wish):
Gaming laptops combine too many compromises to be worthwhile. Big, hot, noisy, expensive, nerfed performamce. Portable gaming can't really be portable if you have to find a desk and a power socket and carry around a controller separately.
I would recommend:
Both of the above combined will probably still be cheaper than most decent performance options for gaming laptops.
If you're going to have a desk based workstation then the handheld console alone might be good enough with a USB C dock as your desktop PC too. This is how I got into Linux in the first place..... Sold my laptop to fund a new PC build and had to use the Steam Deck as a full time workstation for 2 months while I waited for good deals on PC parts. Works out surprisingly well.
I bought the Starbook Mk VII Ultra in 2025.
I... would definitely not recommend it. I already sold it. The build quality is mostly pretty nice, but everything else is not great.
ctrl-v not ctrl-vv.Next time I get a laptop I'll probably try a Tuxedo laptop.
(I ended up trading the Starlabs for a Lenovo T14 Gen 7, which works well with Linux, but doesn't meet your criteria.)
Looks - I like the Macbook touch and feel
I would just like to caution you about wanting to maintain the Apple taste, but runs Linux. You may have to adjust your taste preference if you want a laptop that runs Linux well.
Thanks for your explanation, I appreciate it 😁 - this was the kind of answer I'm looking for; someone who had experience with one of these models.
As for the Macbook touch and feel thing, it's moreso the general 'feel'. I don't mind if keys are a bit different, but I like the sleek feel. The models I gave all kind of satisfy that requirement, so Tuxedo should also work!
Here are my old notes: lemmy.world/post/35121451
Is there no way to adjust key sensitivity?
I never found away. I think I remember opening a support ticket, but it didn't go anywhere.
What do you mean with the wrong keycode?
Technically, the keyboard doesn't have a "Print Screen" key. It has a Sysrq key, which is used for the same purpose, but it's actually a different keycode. See github.com/StarLabsLtd/firmwar… Maybe Cheatsheet programme could help?
What do you mean with the LEDs from the laptop?
So above the function keys, but below where the screen actually starts, there are some LEDs. lol. I just checked and realized they conveniently edited out those LEDs from promotional material. Above the F2 and F3 keys there are BRIGHT LEDs that used for different statuses. There are also some LEDs on the side that turn on when the laptop is charging, which are also SUPER bright. I would normally toss a shirt on top of the laptop so I could charge it at night and not be bothered.
I noticed if I accidentally hit the SysRq key on elementary OS, my StarBook takes a screenshot of the current window. This is set to Alt+PrntScr by default, so it seems that's what is being interpr...cassidyjames (GitHub)
Tbh you should just get a mac.
You can have privacy on them with a little less effort than on windows and they’re already decently secure. They can play cyberpunk and you already have the linux (bsd) toolkit. They’re already the kind of computer you like with the good trackpad etc.
I would drop your “be European” requirement.
Framework 13 pro. Its US, but it looks like a solid laptop with excellent battery life, premium build quality, it has modular forward and backwards compatible upgrades between generations, and ships with Linux. Not a lot left to be desired with this one in my opinion.
System76 is Linux first. They're the ones developing the cosmic desktop environment, which is a gift to humanity, and may help ease your mind when buying from the US.
Bazzite uses the Steam rpm, not flatpak.
Though I think other launchers like Heroic may be flatpaks. But that's no different to SteamOS.
I don't believe the Steam flatpak is responsible for those issues
openSUSE recently added some more security policies. By default, Wine cannot run normally. There's a package you can install that sets SELinux security policies to allow it to work. If you install the openSUSE Steam rpm, that security policy automatically gets installed too.
This is a downside of flatpak's approach to sandboxing. It aims to work everywhere on every distro, using bubblewrap instead of something like SELinux or AppArmor. But it also does not interact with AppArmor or SELinux, so if they block something, flatpak can't override that.
Meanwhile, snap uses AppArmor for sandboxing. So even if there was a policy like openSUSE's that prevented Wine from working by default, since snap speaks AppArmor, it can give itself the necessary permissions to make Wine work.
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You absolutely can sandbox using SELinux. Red Hat even has a tool called "sandbox" for just that: docs.redhat.com/en/documentati…
Edit: and Android sandboxing is built heavily around SELinux: source.android.com/docs/securi…
I use both. SteamOS on my SD OLED, and Bazzite on a gaming PC. I don’t notice a difference because all I use the machines for is gaming.
I eventually moved to Kubuntu from Bazzite because it was easier to manage my media servers. I’m not a huge fan of Bazzite’s quadlet system.
But for 99% of my use case the two systems were identical.
I use bazzite on my gaming PC and few months ago I wanted to set up steam deck without using steam account using bazzite.
I can't quite remember what happened but I think it was too buggy, and I went back. Might have been the requirement for steam to run to register any input from the controller.
So I'll answer the other way, and explain Bazzite's advantages. Mainly it comes down to the fact that installing system packages is easier, and Bazzite comes with most of the useful ones pre-installed. For example:
Basically, Bazzite gives you the reliability of SteamOS, because it's also immutable, and well tested on the Deck. But Bazzite gives you the power and customizability of a full desktop PC, letting you mod it more heavily and use it for more than just gaming.
get_flat_ccs_offset() reads the base of the flat CCS storage from the hardware, scales it by the number of enabled L3 nodes, and rounds the result up to 128K. Everything below that offset is then ...GitHub
I don't have the time to write out the full response to this I want to right now, so I just want to say there is an almost immeasurable gulf between someone like Linus Torvalds using AI for debugging vs a coked out techbro junior engineer vibecoding the next Spotify but for access to water.
In my heart of hearts I still wish he wouldn't touch the stuff just for the message this is going to send to all the wrong kinds of people but here we are.
Ha! I recently went through a similar process, trying to get some hardware working for a different project that would close some 15+ year old bugs. AI helped me find it, getting sidetracked by several other small bugs in the same few files along the way.
I then wrote the actual fixes myself as a series of very small PRs. They’re all just a handful of lines each, enabling certain hardware flags, properly bounds checking loops, getting a timer initialization corrected, etc. They are all the sort of thing that once you see where they are, the fix is extremely obvious.
In the meantime, the project has adopted a very strict no AI assistance at all policy after some internal debate that almost tore the project apart.
So now I’m sitting on almost a dozen fixes for longstanding problems and have no idea if I should lie and say yes, I found these entirely by myself, or tell the truth, probably get kicked out of the project, and see how much of a shit storm they cause.
Not really... "Education" and real world are vastly different. Getting accustomed to a mailing list other maintainers etc is not something you learn with your education.
And leaving bugs for hardware no one has touched in ages is not too big of a deal. And a nice gateway for new comers who actually want to learn it instead of trow a LLM at it.
That's in the Linux staging tree, where they have banned ai contribution for exactly that reason.
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While Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman does use AI / LLMs himself to success in the Linux kernel, given the 'onslaught' of kernel patches produced by large language models and the intent on the Linux kernel's staging area being an area fo…www.phoronix.com
Both extremes are absolutely maddening here. I'm getting as sick of the anti-AI crowd as I am the vibe-code-tech-bros. At this point you could just put them all in a sack and start hitting them with sticks and wouldn't care who got the worst of it.
There's a definite middle-ground here. Linus is one of the ultimate pragmatists and it shows here. It was helpful - so he used it. It helped you so you used it. I've found it to be incredibly helpful so I use it.
Not all usages are equal just as all hand-written code is not equal. There are good ways to use these tools and bad ways. But the tools themselves are still just tools.
But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep
adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed.
Well, no shit, all they can do is follow instructions. We just really can't help avoid anthropomorphizing something that speaks language and think it was a good boy for stopping whining and trying again
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I remember when version 1 of cgroup went out to the world with 2.6(or was it 2.8)? I thought it looked interesting and had a couple ideas to try but I never found the free time. Next thing I know I am in the audience at PyCon listening about this Docker thingy. youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSL…
Me and two of the other DevDave's were here. Pretty easy to spot me, I am the sexy & suave one.
At PyCon Solomon Hykes shows docker to the public for the first time.dotcloudtv (YouTube)
Yes. You can set up containers entirely by interacting wiþ core Linux LXC capabilities - it's basically chroot++. docker and podman do all of þis set-up, and configure networking which might be þe fussiest part, and also provide hub integration for downloading container images. Þey're convenience scripts, but don't do anyþing magic.
Videos like þis are educational if you want to see how þe sausage is made. @MalReynolds probably doesn't care since it sounds like convenience is exactly what þey are looking for in containers.
... convenience is exactly what þey are looking for in containers
isn't that the whole point of containers? to make shipping software easier.
Bazzite Deck 44 Launches Today Don’t worry desktop users, there’s major improvements in here for you too! Hello folks! It’s been a hard few months with over 700 commits just to the Bazzite repo.Universal Blue
Partial HDMI 2.1 FRL support is huge (even if it's from upstream)! I finally have 12bit color on my home theater PC! Content looks amazing now 😍
Unfortunately, it does flicker occasionally if VRR isn't enabled, but that's why it's behind a debug flag to begin with. I can't wait for Linux 7.3 to complete the implementation.
Eat shit, HDMI Forum.
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Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem on Wednesday accused the Peace Council of failing to pressure Israel to adhere to existing agreements following an Israeli airstrike on a police facility in Gaza City.
In a statement, Qassem described the strike as a “dangerous and brutal massacre” and said it demonstrated disregard for efforts to maintain the ceasefire.
Palestinian sources said Israeli aircraft struck a municipal police headquarters in Gaza City, killing nine people and injuring approximately 15 others, some of them critically.
Qassem argued that the Peace Council bears responsibility for failing to use its influence to ensure implementation of agreements reached between the parties. He said the latest developments represented a test of the Council’s ability to effectively oversee mediation efforts.
The Hamas spokesperson also criticized recent statements by Peace Council officials, claiming they were inconsistent with previously agreed arrangements and could encourage further Israeli military crimes in Gaza.
I’m aware of /proc but usually use lsof to find open fd’s for a process.
Is one better than the other?
/proc/self automagically points to the directory of the current process. So if you're writing a program, you can just look there for information about itself
/proc/net/ for routes and bonding config etc.
Got to love UNIX's everything is a file.
ProcFS is from Plan9.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_f…
Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)
That is super rad. I wonder how hard it would be to replicate today.
We could have a "RAMcore" subgenre. I wonder how running different processes affects the sound?
Imagine if the German underground scene discovered RAM noises. . .damn, RAMmstein is already taken. XD
All seriousness though...I now wanna know what my RAM sounds like. Lol
I have some of her paper zines on my desk, warmly recommended.
Might look esoteric at first but if you think we will be using Linux at least on desktop, servers, consoles and more for decades then totally worth learning about.
Washington (United States) (AFP) – The US gross national debt has surged past $40 trillion for the first time, government data showed Wednesday, outstripping earlier forecasts at a pace fuelled in part by President Donald Trump's invalidated tariffs.The uptick in borrowing comes as longer term US obligations linked to social security and health care have been growing, while interest payments have climbed as well.
Total public debt outstanding stood at $40.05 trillion at the close of business Tuesday, according to data released Wednesday by the Treasury Department.
This stands in contrast to an earlier forecast by the Congressional Budget Office that overall borrowing would hit $39.4 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2026.
Rising US debt comes as concerns over inflation, war in the Middle East and government spending have been driving investor worries, and the cost of borrowing has grown.
Yields on long-term Treasury bonds rose Tuesday to the highest level since 2007, reflecting growing price pressures due to war on Iran and anxiety over US deficit spending.
The increase forces the US government to refinance debt at the highest rates since before the 2008 global financial crisis.
But the US Treasury Department moved to steady the long-term bond market early Wednesday, sending yields lower.
The federal government operates at a deficit and borrows money to help cover its obligations, including its war spending and tax cuts.
"It's been well known for a while that the United States government was on a pretty unsustainable path with deficits," said Jessica Riedl, a budget and tax fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"Over the last few years, the United States has moved into roughly $2 trillion deficits, even during peace and prosperity," she added.
While deficits of three percent to four percent of GDP used to worry financial markets, she noted that levels are closer to six percent to seven percent of GDP now.
"That has made markets more nervous," she said.
As inflation pushed interest rates higher, interest costs on the debt have risen as well, and costs linked to an ageing population are pushing up deficits.
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Linux 7.2 has landed, dragging x86 timing clean out of the nineties by making the Time Stamp Counter mandatory.
I wrote up a quick article on why ditching those ancient legacy fallbacks is good housekeeping, plus a few other bits like cache-aware scheduling and memory tweaks worth noting.
Is anyone still using legacy hardware? If so, what do you use it for?
As Linux 7.2 makes the Time Stamp Counter mandatory, we look at why dropping legacy x86 fallback timing code is long overdue.TheIPW (The Unknown Universe)
major upgrade like from kernel 6 to 7
What do you mean? The Linux kernel doesn't follow SemVer.
The 6.19 -> 7.0 version bump didn't have any more inherent meaning than 7.0 -> 7.1 or 7.1 -> 7.2.
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Is anyone even likely to be curious enough to look?
Well, can only speak for me, but first thing I do.
I mean, you can never know which administrative scandal you might uncover...
I stop the moment I find private stuff, though.
Had that three or four times already, the only case I was considering doing something about it was a completely unsecured and unerased phone still containing a bunch of business emails that clearly were sensitive or even confidential stuff.
I just told the seller how he screwed up here, instead of making a bigger fuss out of it.
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Not really great on SSDs, though. It'll likely make them slower because now the controller thinks 100% of the memory is allocated. And some small percentage of the data will still be around, because they do overprovisioning.
Shouldn't matter for OP, though. If they set up LUKS properly, there's no way to decrypt the data.
But I mean secure wipe isn't hard... It's copy-pasting 2 more commands from the Arch wiki, compared to the dd command.
some small percentage of the data will still be around, because they do overprovisioning.
That's why I wrote "directly accessible data". You are certainly right that safely erasing all data on SSDs is hard to impossible to achieve, but so is the read access to it.
That means if we disregard the drug distribution or similar scenarios, should be enough for the normal person.
But I mean secure wipe isn’t hard… It’s copy-pasting 2 more commands from the Arch wiki, compared to the dd command.
But it will take significantly longer (typically using /dev/random and multiple passes) without noticably increasing security for SSDs.
It will have also have the same possible write-speed-penalty issue as the zero-overwriting, but this won't be OPs problem any more because he is selling the SSD.
I don't think so. I did a secure erase on my Samsung SSD and I forgot how long it took, but I still remember being surprised how quick it was. I think it was quicker than overwriting the entire disk, even with zeros. I even double-checked whether it did it because it was done so fast. But yeah, it didn't return any data after that.
I mean I'm generally not a big fan of all the compromises. Sure maybe most of it is deleted. Maybe it's not that easy to recover the rest of it. Maybe there's an easy tool out there... I mean the issue with it is, we have all kinds of personal data on our laptops. One nude left, or the tax filings document and you might be in trouble anyway, if you do some half-assed compromise. Maybe you'll give it to a regular person and nothing will happen... But I think generally it's not good advise to hand out to people. They might not be aware of all of the consequences, we might not know the full picture... And the exact phrasing is doing way too much heavy-lifting.
Luckily there's a clever way. Use LUKS and encrypt your disk right from the start. (As OP did?!) That takes care of everything. And once you give it away, just discard all the blocks. Mainly as a service to the next person, because that's going to make the drive fast again. Should also be the fastest option, since SSDs do TRIMs all the time and are optimized for it. Quicker than a dd over the entire drive.
just use a hammer, a microwave and a blowtorch.Not really great on SSDs, though. It'll likely make them slower
Yup. I agree. XD
I'm assuming when you "reinstalled the OS" you just repartitioned the drive and installed normally without encryption for the person? If that's the case then all your old data is encrypted and will be unrecoverable without your password and the LUKS header.
If however you reinstalled the OS within the already made LUKS partition and are giving them the password (for some reason) then yeah, you wanna secure erase it.
If you were selling on eBay or something I would still recommend a secure erase (they're really quick on SSDs)
Yep, he'll probably sell it in a laptop I put it in. I'm kinda skeptical about an ONDA laptop with a 4-core Celeron selling. Might as well keep it, give it away or something.
Yes, I have to complain about this laptop. It's worth less than just the SSD.
You said that:
I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it's lifetime.
This leads me to assume that it is not now? Is this the case? If it still has LUK2 on it, you can run cryptsetup-erase on the luks2 container.
This won't wipe any unencrypted data, though.
One needs to be careful and avoid block level wipes wherever possible for SSD as this will wear it out quicker. Obviously, if you have sensitive data unencrypted, you may have to. Shred is your friend, here. It works on entire devices as well as individual files. The individual files option is preferable if you the sensitive data is at known locations.
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Is it possible to disable or enable journaling on an ext4 filesystem?Sohail Qamar (WebConn)
Secure erase just drops the ssd controllers table of where logical blocks are in the physical memory and trims the disk. Which is good and you should do.
That means a person would have to address the memory directly with flying leads or a bed of nails or something. Or have special software that makes the controller tell them what’s on each physical block and then put that data together into a bunch of files.
If that worries you, do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ before you secure erase.
Then everything on the drive will be random static before the secure erase drops the block table and trims, so even if someone uses magic power to read the block contents directly they just get to see static.
That has the benefit of speeding up the drive by resetting read fatigue at the expense of one layer of writes which is always worth it.
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That’s only true for some environments.
E: this is the first time I’ve read that blog post since it was published (or at least a long time ago) and there’s now a comment specifically referencing the actual behavior I observed in the wild when I tried to sub other things in for “normal” uses of dd:
Nobody says:
2016-12-30 at 15:17
cat /dev/cdrom > myfile.iso
Works
cat myfile.iso > /dev/cdrom
Won’t – dd allows you do handle writes in various block sizes, so if a device can’t handle a one-byte write, cat could well end up writing your byte followed by zeros (and because of where the pointer now is, do it again for the next byte).Still, all your other points stand – nice piece.
While that comment was written seventy years ago, in this age of people with questionable intent, capability and integrity rewriting system tools in rust there’s no better time to linger thoughtfully over cp or cat or any number of other commands that begin with the letter “c” before grabbing the ol’ reliable footgun whose fifty years of script backwards compatibility ensure that no one can get their dd replacement accepted in normal use until it behaves as expected.
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Everything that was luks encrypted is unrecoverable once you overwrite the luks header. Trying to guess the master key takes longer than the lifetime of the universe.
Just make sure that is gone and you are good. If you deleted all partitions and installed another (unencrypted) OS on the drive there is a very good chance the luks headers are gone for good.
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cat /dev/urandom > /dev/your-disk should do it in your case. And in 99% of cases.
nope, i mean that's just useless. (it does kinda do the job, but wears it down, and not as effective since SSDs aren't really predictable because of wear leveling stuff and lie to the OS) there's an ATA Secure Erase feature that can be used instead.
some relevant link grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?arti…
GROK Knowledgebase is Louisiana State University's online support environment.grok.lsu.edu
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Do this: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid…
Takes like two minutes.
You don't have to reinstall the OS, just plug the drive into your motherboard.
Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...GitHub
Do not dban an SSD.
SSDs do not physically store data the way platter drives do. It may reduce the lifespan of the drive.
There are other methods for securely erasing SSDs.
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Follow the steps here to perform a secure erase that resets the cells and wipes any on-device encryption keys:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid…
You can do this from a live-boot environment if you wish. I would very strongly recommend disconnecting ALL other drives before performing this step as the best precaution against accidentally nuking the wrong drive. However if you choose to do this with other drives connected triple check you have the right drive selected before each step.
hi, in the past I’ve got a pretty weird issue while I was getting ready to make a switch: every USB that I tried failed to boot
turns out, the “safer” way to get it out from the PC (the eject function) messed up its file system
it was long ago, but the other day I made another bootable USB and it happened again, I thought it was just a bug that would be eventually fixed
it happens both for Linux Live ISOs and Windows Install Media
am I the only one?
Agricultural production generates substantial quantities of woody residues, including branches, pruning waste, sawdust, bark, and other lignocellulosic materials. When these residues are poorly managed, they may occupy valuable storage space, deteriorate rapidly, or be openly burned, resulting in avoidable resource loss and atmospheric emissions. A wood coal making machine provides a thermochemical route for converting such biomass into a more stable and commercially useful carbonaceous material.
Converting Agricultural Residues into Stable Carbon
The fundamental principle behind a wood coal making machine is carbonization. Under controlled thermal conditions and limited oxygen availability, organic components in wood-based agricultural waste undergo thermal decomposition. Volatile compounds are released, while a carbon-rich solid residue remains.
Unlike uncontrolled burning, carbonization can transform biomass into a concentrated solid product while retaining a significant proportion of its carbon content. The resulting charcoal can be easier to store, transport, and utilize than bulky raw residues.
This conversion also addresses a common agricultural challenge: seasonal biomass accumulation. Instead of allowing pruning residues or sawdust to remain in open piles, agricultural operators can process them into a standardized carbonaceous product.
Reducing Open Burning and Waste Accumulation
Open burning is still used in some agricultural areas to dispose of excess biomass. However, uncontrolled combustion offers little opportunity for resource recovery and can contribute to particulate emissions and other pollutants.
A wood coal making machine establishes a controlled thermal environment for biomass conversion. The process can therefore shift agricultural waste management from simple disposal toward resource utilization.
The reduction in waste volume is another practical advantage. Woody residues contain considerable moisture and volatile matter, whereas carbonized material is substantially more concentrated. This can simplify downstream handling and reduce the physical burden associated with transporting untreated biomass.
Producing a Useful Carbon-Based Product
The output of carbonization is not merely a waste residue. Depending on feedstock characteristics and processing conditions, the resulting wood charcoal can serve several downstream applications, including solid fuel, activated-carbon feedstock, metallurgical applications, and other carbon-based products.
For agricultural enterprises, this creates an additional value pathway. Residues that previously had little direct economic value can become an intermediate product with potential commercial applications.
Process parameters matter considerably. Feedstock moisture, particle size, carbonization temperature, heating rate, and residence time can all influence fixed-carbon content, volatile matter, ash content, and overall product characteristics. Consequently, appropriate feedstock preparation and process control are important for maintaining consistent output.
Supporting Circular Biomass Utilization
Sustainable waste management depends on keeping resources within productive cycles for as long as practical. A wood coal making machine contributes to this principle by converting agricultural residues into a reusable carbon-rich material rather than treating biomass solely as refuse.
The approach can also complement other biomass utilization strategies. For example, residues unsuitable for direct combustion may be processed through carbonization, while the resulting charcoal can enter downstream industrial or agricultural applications. In this sense, carbonization functions as a bridge between waste management and biomass valorization.
Improving Agricultural Resource Efficiency
The sustainability value of a wood coal making machine extends beyond waste reduction. It can help agricultural operations establish a more integrated biomass management system in which residues are collected, processed, and converted into products with defined applications.
Such a system can reduce dependence on disposal practices while creating opportunities for additional revenue from agricultural by-products. At larger scales, centralized biomass collection and continuous carbonization can further improve logistical efficiency.
Ultimately, the wood coal making machine represents a practical thermochemical solution for managing woody agricultural waste. By converting dispersed biomass residues into a stable carbon-rich product, it supports waste reduction, resource recovery, and more circular utilization of agricultural materials.
Wood charcoal machine provides wood into charcoal solution. It achieves a win-win situation of 💲profitability and ♻️sustainability.Beston Group
Agricultural production generates substantial quantities of woody residues, including branches, pruning waste, sawdust, bark, and other lignocellulosic materials. When these residues are poorly managed, they may occupy valuable storage space, deteriorate rapidly, or be openly burned, resulting in avoidable resource loss and atmospheric emissions. A wood coal making machine provides a thermochemical route for converting such biomass into a more stable and commercially useful carbonaceous material.
Converting Agricultural Residues into Stable Carbon
The fundamental principle behind a wood coal making machine is carbonization. Under controlled thermal conditions and limited oxygen availability, organic components in wood-based agricultural waste undergo thermal decomposition. Volatile compounds are released, while a carbon-rich solid residue remains.
Unlike uncontrolled burning, carbonization can transform biomass into a concentrated solid product while retaining a significant proportion of its carbon content. The resulting charcoal can be easier to store, transport, and utilize than bulky raw residues.
This conversion also addresses a common agricultural challenge: seasonal biomass accumulation. Instead of allowing pruning residues or sawdust to remain in open piles, agricultural operators can process them into a standardized carbonaceous product.
Reducing Open Burning and Waste Accumulation
Open burning is still used in some agricultural areas to dispose of excess biomass. However, uncontrolled combustion offers little opportunity for resource recovery and can contribute to particulate emissions and other pollutants.
A wood coal making machine establishes a controlled thermal environment for biomass conversion. The process can therefore shift agricultural waste management from simple disposal toward resource utilization.
The reduction in waste volume is another practical advantage. Woody residues contain considerable moisture and volatile matter, whereas carbonized material is substantially more concentrated. This can simplify downstream handling and reduce the physical burden associated with transporting untreated biomass.
Producing a Useful Carbon-Based Product
The output of carbonization is not merely a waste residue. Depending on feedstock characteristics and processing conditions, the resulting wood charcoal can serve several downstream applications, including solid fuel, activated-carbon feedstock, metallurgical applications, and other carbon-based products.
For agricultural enterprises, this creates an additional value pathway. Residues that previously had little direct economic value can become an intermediate product with potential commercial applications.
Process parameters matter considerably. Feedstock moisture, particle size, carbonization temperature, heating rate, and residence time can all influence fixed-carbon content, volatile matter, ash content, and overall product characteristics. Consequently, appropriate feedstock preparation and process control are important for maintaining consistent output.
Supporting Circular Biomass Utilization
Sustainable waste management depends on keeping resources within productive cycles for as long as practical. A wood coal making machine contributes to this principle by converting agricultural residues into a reusable carbon-rich material rather than treating biomass solely as refuse.
The approach can also complement other biomass utilization strategies. For example, residues unsuitable for direct combustion may be processed through carbonization, while the resulting charcoal can enter downstream industrial or agricultural applications. In this sense, carbonization functions as a bridge between waste management and biomass valorization.
Improving Agricultural Resource Efficiency
The sustainability value of a wood coal making machine extends beyond waste reduction. It can help agricultural operations establish a more integrated biomass management system in which residues are collected, processed, and converted into products with defined applications.
Such a system can reduce dependence on disposal practices while creating opportunities for additional revenue from agricultural by-products. At larger scales, centralized biomass collection and continuous carbonization can further improve logistical efficiency.
Ultimately, the wood coal making machine represents a practical thermochemical solution for managing woody agricultural waste. By converting dispersed biomass residues into a stable carbon-rich product, it supports waste reduction, resource recovery, and more circular utilization of agricultural materials.
Wood charcoal machine provides wood into charcoal solution. It achieves a win-win situation of 💲profitability and ♻️sustainability.Beston Group
The motivation of the development is using GCC code generation by rustc for architectures not supported by LLVM but are supported by GCC. There are a number of CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel and GCC but not supported by LLVM like m68k, Alpha, and other embedded/micro-controller ISAs.. This also allows employing GCC's compiler optimizations. The latest rustc_codegen_gcc code can be found via rustc_codegen_gcc on GitHub. This isn't to be confused with gccrs as the GCC front-end for Rust.
gccrs is sorely missed.
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submittedwww.phoronix.com
gccrs is sorely missed.
github.com/Rust-GCC/Reporting/…
Status Reports. Contribute to Rust-GCC/Reporting development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
After the clickbait-y headline that's just Canonical sinking into mediocrity once again, there's this:
Ubuntu is preparing for the AI PC, not just Linux desktopsSeager also described a push toward proper GPU, NPU, and DPU support, hardware partnerships with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, and CPU architecture optimization that makes Ubuntu run faster on newer chips without dropping support for older ones.
Ubuntu is also betting on local-first AI, building “inference snaps” that pick the right model and quantization automatically, along with early exploration into agentic workflows at the OS level. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS already ships with native support for both NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm.
Ubuntu's VP of Engineering says WSL usage on Windows 11 is growing faster than native Ubuntu installs, and could overtake them within months.Abhijith M B (Windows Latest)
When getting into linux it was easy to remove ubuntu from the list due to them being like this.
Fedora considering ai earlier this year, and now debian talking about maybe slopping it too, is starting to creep me out even more about the future.
I don't see any of those 3 as good, or even decent choices. I distrohopped initially, and did it again recently out of interest. Most people will just go off of searches, forum posts, and trashtubers though, which may lead them to believe that linux is crap due to ending up with crappy distros, and/or de's
The variety of options are a pro, and a con, as are of course the opinions
Do these numbers include "WSL" installs?
linuxvox.com/blog/windows-linu…
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a revolutionary feature introduced by Microsoft that allows users to run a Linux environment directly on Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, without the need for a traditional virtual machine or dual-…linuxvox
“In a year, the growth in our WSL numbers is significantly higher than the growth in Desktop usage numbers.”“I expect to see more Ubuntu WSL users than ‘native’ Ubuntu users over the coming months.”
Of course, Canonical isn’t saying Windows now has more Linux users than Linux itself. Seager is comparing Ubuntu through WSL against Ubuntu installed natively on a Linux PC, and the WSL side is on track to win.
wsl --install installs Ubuntu by default. If I had to use WSL, I'd try this first too.
It doesn't surprise me. After all it's the default way to start using WSL.
But for people running full distros, it seems to me most are avoiding Ubuntu these days except if they are required to use it by their employer or something. In DistroWatch it seems Ubuntu's popularity is slowly sinking.
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I think there are two sides to this.
WARNING they may suffer from less bugs, less annoying updates, better performance, less spyware and functional package management.
Before anyone says anything I am aware there are trade-offs due to switching from what you know.
I guess the base version of windows is relatively ok but Microsoft Office and Overdrive/SharePoint are both completely unusable. Which is insane considering they are industry standards.
Although Linux seems to be generally much more stable in my experience. Of course it depends on the distro.
I was part of tech support for work until last year.
My list of ridiculous bugs is quite long.... Even down to basics like the microphone, using Microsoft office at all, windows explorer, and opening teams had bugs where people's work laptops were unusable for day to day tasks.
I may have just had ridiculous luck to avoid all bugs on both linux and windows
Most of the bugs i have seen on linux were actually from a friend i convinced to move to linux
Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!
Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!
So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex
Sorry, you what???
Some were really adamant about it being like android it's very annoying
Kinda wish grapheneos had an x86 ChromeOS-esque build. If waydroid had better integration (e.g. lepton) it'd have been an easier sell. It's on a terribly old laptop. I run different DEs on similar laptops and they didn't like kde, cosmic, or gnome's ui, very picky.
I was partially kidding. I mean, sure, if that's what they want, then what could anyone do about it.
But since they came from Windows, wouldn't they adapt to something like Linux Mint Xfce or Q4OS (that mimics Windows XP)? These are very lightweight distros.
ChromeOS
🤦♂️ My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.
edit: it's not just "becoming tech support person", but becoming the default person to blame for everything.
Switched my parents to mint probably 10 years ago and I haven't heard any complaints, just had to remind them to update every so often and had to upgrade once EOL came. It has been the same with my very non technical girlfriend that switched to mint probably a year ago.
If you make sure they have supported hardware (and most of it is supported these days) my bet is you won't have to support them at all.
I just said no. I'm not going to help you with your computers unless you install Linux on your computer. I can fix all these other dumb operating systems. But I'm not going to do things that are not in your best interest, especially when I'm one doing the tech support.
Like.
I'll still love you if you're shooting up heroin but I am not gonna go buy your fucking drugs.
🎼I just said no. No. No. No. No. No. No. Fuck no. No. No. Do this. Now. No. I won't do that. Do this. Now.🎶
Just..... like the world we live in now, I only want to hang out with people that use open source. Period. End of story.
Also, phone etiquette is super important. I will not waste my time around you while you diddle with your thumbs on your phone. Also, I don't want my fucking picture taken unless I know that you have good hygiene and I'll never find myself on the interwebz.
I'm an extremist, and I have no shame.
I just say no.
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I just put Fedora on my mum's Chromebook and told her it was an update
It made it easier for her to access email anyway
-sshole move, but it's definetely A move.
Funny tho ngl
Switching her OS wasn't to force her into conforming to my ideals or something. I tried setting her up on Chrome OS first, but it's ass. For anything outside of Google's ecosystem, you need an Android app designed for phone displays. There's no real email client, no real office suite, no real way to harden her browser against scams (which she's fallen victim to in the past).
A simple Linux distro with silent automatic updates is genuinely a better fit. Everything she needs is right there on her GNOME dock. She hasn't called me for laptop support in months.
WASHINGTON—Saying he would not hesitate to use force if she continued to disobey his orders, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered a military blockade Monday of a woman attempting to walk away from him in a D.C.-area bar.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/69895885
Is there a CLI/TUI start menu like tool, with favorites/categories?Or even better, a whole status bar at the top/bottom (also without X/wayland/framebuffer), with time, battery, maybe even launched background processes listed you can bring to front?
No reason that we can't have some Desktop metaphor niceties on shell too, no?
No, as it's own small applications, no multiplexing.
I've made a small battery/time indicator script years ago, that launches in top right corner using tput. But i'm sure something ncurses/Rust could do better.
Especially a "task bar" with background & processes seems a new idea for cli. Could use kill to bring them to front again or even freeze or save & restore them.
A list of awesome resources for tmux. Contribute to rothgar/awesome-tmux development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Over the past year I have spent a fair amount of time running local Stable Diffusion setups for personal experiments and small client work. A few notes for anyone getting into this space or looking to compare local vs. browser-based generation tools.
Running a local WebUI gives you full control over checkpoints, LoRAs, ControlNet models, and extensions, which is great once you know what you are doing. The tradeoff is setup complexity - GPU drivers, Python environment conflicts, and VRAM limits are a common source of frustration for newcomers. If you are on a laptop or a machine without a dedicated GPU, it is often faster to prototype ideas with a browser-based tool like Automatic1111 style interfaces before committing to a full local install, especially when you just want to test a prompt idea quickly.
Once you do have a working local setup, a few practical tips that saved me time:
Happy to compare notes with anyone else running local generation pipelines, especially around extension management and reproducible environments.
Create, edit, enhance, and download images and videos with automatic1111. Turn prompts and reference media into polished visual content online.Automatic1111
Piratage des impôts : comment en est-on arrivé là
La France de 2026 est au niveau de la Bulgarie en 2019
I have a fedora workstation pac connected to the living room tv, running some server duties in the house and playing games over streaming and on the tv it is connected to.
I want to forbid reboot/shutdown from the UI. I want only sudo in the terminal to be able to do that.
I'm no certain of the best way to do that. I cant go just hiding the options on a per UI basis as I'll be playing whack-a-mole until I'm dead. Instead, Id like things like plasma and steam to understand they aren't permitted to make that request, but if they try anyway, the OS just ignores them.
I don't know if Fedora (or plasma) do things differently but the normal default is that you need sudo to reboot/shutdown/etc.
Then on basically all distros using systemd this behavior is modified via logind session and polkit. So the first thing to look at would be if a shutdown rule exists in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ that allow users in a certain group to shutdown/reboot in the first place.
Mine looks like this:
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-shutdown.rulespolkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {if ((action.id == "shutdown" ||action.id == "reboot") &&subject.isInGroup("wheel")){return polkit.Result.YES;}});
So every user in the wheel group can do it without password prompt. Without this UI elements for shutdown/reboot will try assuming they have the right but simply fail.
You'd probably want to look into dbus or PAM.
Or google, how people fixed that they were not able to shutdown from GUI. That's a more common occurence than limiting it.
You’re barking up the wrong tree and fucking up your life by doing this.
Split the streaming/gaming duty to a different device that can be operated in the way the user expects.
Wherever you disconnect shutdown signals from will be relied upon by something down the road and you’ll end up with a weird messed up broken update when that happens.
The 40-year-old father grabbed 73-year-old man’s arm and threw him downMaroosha Muzaffar (The Independent)
Apple’s home products (primarily HomePod mini and Apple TV) have been the talk of the town for the past couple...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
mbirth 🇬🇧 doesn't like this.
I've used pavucontrol throughout pretty much all my Linux life. But it only controls pulseaudio side of things. I found that it does not work that well with pipewire.
For example if I do something like wpctl set-mute 56 toggle, the mute state is not reflected in any way in pavucontrol, but I see that the device is muted for example in alsamixer.
Any good pipewire-native volume control?
I just had to duckduckgo it lol
github.com/saivert/pwvucontrol
yeah this one works better
Pipewire Volume Control. Contribute to saivert/pwvucontrol development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The recommended way of installing pwvucontrol is through Flatpak.
It's in Arch repo btw.
amixer -q set Master playback 75%Or whatever percentage you want.
Open CAD Studio: 2D + 3D CAD-applicatie in Rust met GPU-versnelde rendering. Native DWG/DXF lezen en schrijven, paper space, ACIS solids — een open source community-project door Hakan Seven, herkend door de OpenAEC Foundation.OpenAEC Foundation
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A full-featured 2D + 3D CAD application built in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering. Native DWG & DXF read and write, paper space, ACIS solids, dimensions, layouts. An open source community project by Hakan Seven, recognized and promoted by the OpenAEC Foundation.
Besides all the whining here, is the program actually good? Does it work? Is it buggy?
If people can create useful working open source software using LLM's then I don't really care an LLM wrote it.
California created a free service that deletes your personal information from over 600 registered data brokers. Tom Kemp, Executive Director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (Cal Privacy), breaks down how the DROP system actually works, why data brokers face fines of up to $40 million a day for non-compliance, what to do if you live outside California, and more.
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00:01:44 CPPA VS. CAL PRIVACY
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00:04:39 CAL PRIVACY RELATIONSHIP WITH BIG TECH
00:07:38 CAL PRIVACY INSPIRATION
00:12:23 THE PRIVACY PARADOX
00:15:15 CALIFORNIA'S APPROACH VS. OTHERS
00:18:04 UPCOMING BROWSER REQUIREMENTS
00:19:15 DELETE REQUEST AND OPT-OUT PLATFORM (DROP)
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00: 37:14 WHO RUNS THE DROP TECH?
00:39:43 DATA SECURITY & INFRASTRUCTURE
00:46:14 LEAVING OR CUSTOMIZING DROP
00:46:46 TIMING
00:47:33 DATA BROKER REGISTRY
00:49:41 DATA BROKER REACTION
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00:54:45 HOW TO ADVOCATE WHERE YOU ARE
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The Epic Games Store launcher is to run natively on Linux. There is no date, and Linux is not yet included in the preview of the new client.Daniel Herbig (heise online)
I'm really glad for all Valve has done for Linux, but Microsoft is not the monopoly it once was. Chromebooks are the new frontier and Epic is the one taking on the Play Store monopoly.
Add in GOG to the mix with their anti-DRM advocacy and I'm left with a tough choice for who I would rather my 30% store tax to go to.
This is something we should honestly ignore and show a big fat middle finger to anything Epic ever does with Linux until Tim Sweeney is gone.
The company has been actively undermining Linux gaming for years, and they’re only switching gears because it is now convenient and profitable to do si
If you care about Indie games, you should definitely support them to put some pressure on valve in regards to:
They should have different tiers for the 30% cut, but they offer developers much more than any other platform. It's all bundled in their universal 30% cut.
Regarding your second point, they can have lower prices on other platforms. They just can't sell steam keys for less on other platforms.
For example, I can sell a game for $30 on steam, a steam key for $30 on another platform, or the same game for $10 but with no steam key on another platform.
allowing to have lower prices on other platforms. That's genuinely monopoly behavior and I do hope they lose their lawsuits in this regard.
They do allow to do so, what they don't allow is selling Steam keys at a lower proce outside of Steam, if you sell the game on GOG at a lower price (for example) you totally can but if you sell on your website a Steam key for 20€ while on Steam it's at 30€, you can't
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GeForce NOW's native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontendJoey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu)
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You can just use a different distro and benifit off all the work that went into developing steam by using the open source tools they threw money at or directly helped along.
I can pirate games, buy from gog, use a different distro, run the game through lutris/bottles with proton ge, and never open steam, yet they still kind of help bring the community there.
Sense the steam deck came out there have been so many github projects for linux and gaming just due to the fact people feel like they are apart of the community. Steam tinkers launcher has been amazing and I wish I had that 8 years ago when I barely knew how to make a wineprefix.
And that shits happening all over again and we are going to get a lot of improvements with fex, and waydroid with the soon release of the steam frame. Fex and waydroid will be crutial for someone trying to fork android, or make a Linux based arch64 os. The work is already benifiting lots of people. Sadly gamesir seems to be the only one taking advantage of this and they're rather shitty of a company.
Say what you will of steam being a monopoly, and still being a evil corperation I'm all for it. But the world is not so black and white and sometimes you gotta side with the bad guys because at this moment it benifits you more. At any time steam can start forcing digital ID to play mature games, or start doing weird shit.
I can't say the same for companies like nvidia or epic who are now trying to weasle in. Who are completely closed source and don't have anything that directly helps the community at large. Steam at least gives you the tools to make your own open source steam deck/steam machine competitor because if despite all odds you make a popular consolex most people are still going to end up putting steam on it. That dynamic can change at any moment, but in the now I'm allowed to pick my favorite corperation and willfully ignore a lot of glaring issues, because to me the benifit outways the down sides. If I'm going to get fucked I at least want it to be comfortable, maybe missionary with some mutual kissing. I don't want someone just raw dogging me doggy style rough, and I don't think it's that wrong to have a preference.
The goal of these requirements is to ensure that the applications hosteddocs.flathub.org
Good for Linux and flatpak, but seriously fuck nvidia
Jensen sucks trumps shriveled orange flower
The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testingwww.phoronix.com
Lately I mostly see only minor improvements when I hear about Gnome updates.
I mean, I like quality of life improvements, but is it me or the project is becoming stagnant over time?
With this and the GPU reset handling, it looks like it's not just ReactOS that's starting to catch up with Vista
you gotta admit the phoronix comment section can do ok sometimes.
but blur does look pretty good on gnome with blur-my-shell, a good official implementation would make it look finished and refined ootb, imo.
Publicação original no Reddit aqui.
Algumas pessoas se fixam muito na ideia de quais bandeiras de orgulho são "oficiais", quando, na realidade, não há órgão que pode obrigar pessoas a não usar bandeiras diferentes ou criar novas bandeiras para uma determinada identidade. É verdade que a bandeira amarela/branca/roxa/cinza escura feita por Kye Rowan vai ser mais facilmente reconhecida como "a bandeira não-binária", mas é sempre possível divulgar bandeiras diferentes ou usar bandeiras menos conhecidas em situações onde não há urgência para que as bandeiras sejam reconhecidas como as mais populares, como imagens de perfis pessoais ou de grupos.
Por isso, para inaugurar o flair de cunhagem/bandeira, estou apresentando algumas outras bandeiras que podem representar a não-binaridade. 😊
Também já vi uma de cinco cores contendo as cores da bandeira mais popular (talvez um pouco modificadas) + verde, com as cores reorganizadas da mais clara para a mais escura. Não incluí na publicação original por não ter conseguido a encontrar, mas, ao editar esta publicação para este blog, a encontrei: é esta aqui. Também encontrei esta outra bandeira, que usa as cores da bandeira mais popular mas as faixas coloridas estão na diagonal por cima do fundo horizontal preto e branco.
Postagem de apreciação por bandeiras não-binárias alternativas byu/applepowder innaobinarieapplepowder (reddit)
like 95% of the time this happens its when i play minecraft (on lunar client) and in a discord call at the same time, PLEASE help 😭😭😭
distro: endeavourOS
gpu: nvidia rtx 3060 ti
cpu: amd ryzen 7 5700G
de: kde plasma wayland
if i need to add any extra info then please say so
Here’s the basic tests to run, one of them will show you what the problem is
- memtest.org
- sysbench memory
- sysbench cpu
- stress-ng
- gpu-burn
This article will give you the details on how to use most of them: fosslinux.com/42630/best-cpu-s…
Be to do them in that order, you don’t want memory issues to show up looking like cpu issues, or cpu issues to look like gpu issues.
Memtest86+ is an advanced, free, open-source, stand-alone memory tester for 32- and 64-bit computers (UEFI & BIOS supported)Memtest86+
Stop guessing about hardware stability. I expose the thermal forensics and stress-ng logic used to certify production servers.Arjun K. (FOSS Linux)
sudo journalctl -b 1 -e -x. What errors are logged?
Traditionally, "freezing" means that the system doesn't respond at all. More than likely, your system is just swapping heavily and slowing down to a crawl. If that's what's happening, the hard drive activity light will be on constantly.
The best fix for this is more memory, but RAM is currently expensive. If you can't afford to buy more, you may have to try to cope in software. First, do The Bleeding Obvious: close any programs that you don't immediately need before you start that Discord call. This includes not leaving unnecessary webpages open, just in case.
See what your distro has to say about swappiness and how to set it. You probably want a value lower than the default 60, maybe even as low as 0.
If it gets worse over tme, it's possible that something you're running has a memory leak. You may be able to figure out what using top or similar and seeing which programs' memory use grows over time. Restarting the greedy ones periodically may be able to keep your system from bogging down, at the cost of some inconvenience.
Moving to a bare compositor rather than the relatively heavyweight KDE might also free up some RAM, but I'm not sure how much that will actually help.
As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechani...hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com
This is happening because you touch yourself. It’s punishment from god for the sin of onanism.
E: actually probably everyone itt is forgetting about ssd read fatigue. Rewrite every block on your ssd and the problem will go away.
holy cow thanks!! ill probably forget about this and be too lazy to do all of these but still ykyk
EDIT: i now lowered the allocated wam (ram) in lunar client so it should be better? before i changed it my used ram was like 14/15 (idk why its not 16 but okay) and now its like 10/15. I will update you guys soon
No prob. Most of these things won't take long, a few mins each. I tried to order them roughly by easy to difficult/time consuming.
Good luck!
I'm conflicted by this post. On one hand, I appreciate another distro to learn about (thank you). But anytime Hyprland comes up, I am always reminded of that dev and community being transphobes/racists.
itsfoss.com/news/framework-hyp…
I've never looked at Hyprland and felt the need to switch from Sway, maybe thats just because I've been a user of it for long enough now. Years ago I read that Hyprland handles Teams screen shares better but I'm not sure.
The announcement has generated quite some buzz but for all the wrong reasons.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Disruptive by design?
Is this 2015 VC backed slop or something?
It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
like this
Endymion_Mallorn likes this.
Though I have something more to add here.Don't unleash your army of clankers (I believe the formal term is 'AI agents') on this project; it's already happening to many open source projects lately, and this one has just been revived. It doesn't need to be inundated with hallucinations and pointless fixes.
The maintainers also request that anyone opening a pull request for a bug fix show a way to reproduce the problem first.
Yeah, the modern kiss of death to any project.
I use LightDM on my daily driver and hadn't noticed it hadn't received any updates, but yep, it's there in this morning's batch, nice.
What do you think it'll happen and what do you want to happen?Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not.
The choices being considered for this Debian general resolution (GR) include:
[ ] Choice 1: Ban LLM contributions from Debian via Social Contract
[ ] Choice 2: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions with conditions
[ ] Choice 3: Reject LLMs as far as practical, update Code of Conduct
[ ] Choice 4: Accept AI contributions for Debian specific work
[ ] Choice 5: Responsible Use of Generative AI
[ ] Choice 6: A cautious approach to generative AI
[ ] Choice 7: Debian is created by humans
[ ] Choice 8: Avoid the use of LLM: climate destruction is a deal breaker
[ ] Choice 9: None of the above
All the details on each of those choices can be found via the Debian.org vote page.
Additional details in this mailing list post with the voting details on the general resolution. The voting period began at midnight and is set to run through end of day 28 August.
Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the projectwww.phoronix.com
What is this, a Monty Python skit? How the fuck are they gonna come with a consensus with all these choices?
There's really just choices 1 & 2. The rest are just elaboration. And what the fuck is even 'none of the above'?
Really, there's just 'yes' and 'no'. If it's a 'yes', there would certainly be condition, which can come later. If it's a 'no', who give a shit why; it's a vote, not a fucking book club. They can definitely put the reason in the comment, but do they really need to put the reasons as the choice?
Where did you pull that number from? vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_…
The smallest difference between a systemd option and a “not-only-systemd option” I see is
Option 2 defeats Option 4 by ( 211 - 177) = 34 votes.
And bear in mind that condorcet selects the most agreeable option, not just the majority option.
And it makes sense: the most likely contender at the time was upstart, which didn't stand the test of time AFAIK (I don't think the systemd hater crowd still uses that)
So it ended up the right decision. Would they have decided differently if other good init systems had existed already? Maybe, but they didn't.
lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/ke…
it was fun trip down memory lane looking for this... thank you github for being down today. lol
Yeah, no matter the truth content of this piece of tinfoil, the vote I linked shows that systemd continued being agreeable among voters.
The handful of conspiracy myth believers are now on Devuan if that still exists. Presumably mad about something else that exists only in their head.
The 1st round should be yes, or no.
Choice A in the developer poll still allows for ai
"It does not include:
Upstream projects using LLMs for development
AI-related software
Upstream patches/security fixes etc."
The correct link:
I thought debian was better than ubuntu, hopefully I was right. I only have it installed as a back-up/look more into later distro, so it is very easily deleted if they wander down the nuclear wasteland path.
BALLOT OPTIONS
::: spoiler
Preamble
--------
This proposal aims to expressly forbid any contributions to Debian
written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or
other generative AI tools.
The scope of this GR is (non-exhaustive):
- Debian source packages
- Official Debian project software, such as lintian
- Debian web resources
- Documentation and translations added by Debian contributors
- Official communication from Debian
It does not include:
- Upstream projects using LLMs for development
- AI-related software
- Upstream patches/security fixes etc.
Rationale
---------
Debian has a well-earned reputation for stability. This stability is
crucial to Debian's position in the free software ecosystem. It is our
belief that widespread LLM usage comes from the "move fast, and break
things" attitude that, while common in many parts of this industry, is
contrary to what makes Debian Debian, and is inappropriate for Debian
contributors.
In practical terms, LLM usage raises the following concerns:
1. Copyright
-------------
LLM output has very unclear legal status: it may be possible to
copyright on its own merits, or not; it may be affected by all of the
licenses and copyrights in the training data, or not. Debian Policy
and the DFSG require absolute clarity for licensing and
copyright[1][2]. Software and other contributions written
conventionally by humans with unclear copyright or license status are
not allowed in Debian; LLM output should not have a special exception
to this.
2. Quality
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LLM output has many well-known problems with accuracy.[3][4][5] A LLM
can never "know" if its output is correct since it merely produces
syntactically likely combinations of the training data. In some
environments this is good enough. In Debian, it is not. For instance,
in packaging, each Debian source package is unique. Since packaging
syntax and best practices have changed over time, a LLM-produced
package will have a mixture of contents spanning the age of the
archive, with watch files that do not work, overrides out of context,
imaginary copyright, and will generally be unfit for upload. A
seasoned Debian contributor with packaging expertise may find some
limited usefulness here, but a new contributor cannot, and would not
know how to fix it. These same quality and accuracy concerns apply
clearly to all of the areas listed in the scope of this proposal
above. If Debian were a closed organization comprising only domain
experts who never leave, this might not be an issue; however,
3. Community
-------------
Debian is a project that is more than just code: it is a community
built on shared interests in free software and solving technical
problems. Debian intentionally grows this community through many
means, and new contributors are always encouraged to join. Allowing
LLM contributions breaks this. New contributors submitting LLM output
for review places an unnecessary strain on the reviewer, which can
lead to burnout. Furthermore, LLM-dependent new contributors do not
actually learn and understand the details of Debian packaging or
processes, so they cannot come to replace a former burned out DD.
4. Ethics
---------
LLM companies directly hurt the free software community as whole by
scraping the whole web for training data without any regard for
license, copyright, or even established conventions such as
robots.txt.[6] This has had a major negative impact on Debian's public
web resources, effectively a large scale and perpetual Denial of
Service attack on sites that many users rely on. As a consequence
parts of our infrastructure were not reachable at all, and JS-based
checks had to be enabled. Many other projects were similarly affected.
Furthermore, LLM training consumes a staggering amount of
resources[7], and the user verification systems that we have been
forced to implement as protection waste resources as well. This is
blatant disregard for the internet as a public resource, wastes system
administrator time, and although individual LLM sessions do not
directly use massive resources or DoS the public web, the fact that
they can be used at all is a direct result of these unethical
behaviours by the LLM companies.
Debian has a Social Contract. [8] Our priorities are our users and
free software. Debian is Stable. [9] Users and organizations choose
Debian because it is reliable and secure.
Debian is not here to generate as much code as possible requiring
manual review by a shrinking number of human volunteers, or to package
every piece of software, or to rush new features, but these are what
LLMs are used for.
In conclusion, allowing LLM contributions is contrary to the social
contract and the common cause of creating a free operating system with
a focus on quality and stability.
Proposal
--------
In the interest of not eroding Debian's reputation or further damaging
the community, LLM-assisted contributions should be prohibited from
inclusion in Debian.
Though our position is that LLM contributions are contrary to
documents already ratified by Debian, in order to remove all doubt, we
propose the following addition to the Social Contract:
6. Works Created through the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)
We will not allow direct contributions to Debian written with the use
or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI
tools. Direct contributions are defined as packaging, native Debian
software like lintian, documentation and translations written by
Debian contributors, and official Debian web resources, etc. Other
categories such as upstream projects written with LLM assistance may
be included at a later date. This ensures that Debian remains a
stable, trusted, and reliable operating system, and protects the
interests of the Debian volunteers who make it possible.
Possible Issues
---------------
Other projects exploring similar decisions have elicited a common
reply: "How will you enforce a ban on LLM contributions?" While
enforcement could be a challenge, this is a statement of intent by the
Debian community, and we trust this community to adhere to it in good
faith.
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in reply to Karna • • •I like Wayland just because it lets me easily use two monitors of different resolutions and refresh rates.
I used X11 for about 6 months when I first used Linux because I still had an Nvidia GTX 1080 at the time and Wayland wouldn't even load for me then.
I did manage to get my monitor setup somewhat working on X11 through a lot of manual editing and the trade off constant screen tearing on my low hz 2nd monitor.
When I finally got an AMD card I loaded KDEs Wayland session on the same Linux install and it automatically set the max res and hz for both monitors including the new 1440p 170hz main monitor I got along with the GPU.
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in reply to HouseWolf • • •Doesn't KDE kinda have that same refresh rate issue on Wayland? I remember seeing a bug that Qt has a limitation in this regard, In the video I saw the workspace transition ran at the lower refresh rate when multiple monitors were used.
Thankfully I stopped using multiple monitors so I can't personally confirm.