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Yes, back in days of yore when the cyberbunnies had to run their lines through the bare wastes of the great Dave's router, there existed a tool so coveted by the eunuchs that they named it twice, and would beg for degrees of release depending on how gimped up they were. "More" some would scream, "less" others would whisper.
So after trying out Mint on my old laptop for a few months I wanted to go straight to Linux on my new build what with it being surprisingly user friendly once past the initial jank.
I started with Mint Cinnamon edition which did install after some initial teething (Boot USB on safemode) but just refused to work with the wifi adapter on that motherboard, it also couldn't see the GPU but I never got to trying to resolve that since the Mint setup is pretty wifi dependant and I wasn't sure it wouldn't fix itself once it could finish sorting itself out.
I then had a friend who's been using Linux for 10 years (Some distro called tumbleweed?) reccomend I try Ubuntu as it generaly supports more hardware. It did work with wifi right out of the box but had this weird issue where it could recognize my GPU and load the right driver but then just give up and use the IGPU on my CPU anyway. Also janky with software with steam (Which I never had issues with on Mint on my laptop) just refusing to work properly and at one point getting into a cage match with snap, even when installed from steams own website rather than the application manager (with an uninstall of the old one in between of course)
We spent a good couple of hours getting slapped with weird behaviours and bugs my friend had never seen before until calling it a day.
So once again I'm here politely asking what the fuck linux!? Seriously though what do I do here, I can just about manage running windows software on afformentioned laptop mint install but linux as a whole just seems to hate this hardware setup.
Alright I'm just going with a stripped down version of windows 10, I've spent 2 days trying things from here and from that friend and from random forum posts of people with the same issue and at this point it seems no one has a consistent fix and I don't feel like building an entire operating system from scratch (nor would I know how)
Bizarre, I wouldn't expect issues with Linux on that hardware config. Perhaps try something with newer packages, I have a pretty similar setup like yours except for the CPU (7800X3D) with no issues on EndeavourOS. Fwiw, I have the Powercolor Reaper 9070XT which runs hot and loud out of the box but is pretty good now with a slight undervolt and tweaked fan curve
You hardware is very new and Linux Mint I believe has kernel 6.8. You switch to more up to date distro. Ubuntu 25.04 or Fedora 42 would be good choices. I also have a similar setup but one generation older. I have disabled the integrated GPU completely (from the BIOS) just to avoid my nightmares from using laptops with hybrid-graphics.
Today I found out that on this platform, "block" is just a fancy word for "filter". Just had an individual user go through my entire profile and downvote everything. So I blocked them, thinking that this would make me safe from any future stalking. But I was just informed that no, any user that you 'block' is actually still able to see everything that you post and vote freely.
All that 'blocking' actually does is hide the person from you. But they're still free to stalk and do as they please. I just tested this out for myself using my other account and sure enough, it's true.
I just want to know, how is this acceptable? I bet you that if I called out this user publically, I would probably end up in hot water myself for harassment or something. And yet 'blocking' is completely fkn useless too. So what recourse does a user actually have here when faced with a hostile user that wants to ruin their experience on Lemmy?
Coming from Blåhaj, I thought I would try 'moderating' my own experience for a bit. But you can't 'moderate' your own experience if the tools to do so are fkn useless and only trick you into thinking that something has been achieved, without actually doing anything useful.
And now I'm starting to see a new value in instances like Blåhaj. Because you actually need admins that give a shit around here or else you're just left to the wolves on a platform that seems more interested in protecting abusive users than allowing users to protect themselves.
Edit: watching you all upvote the person talking shit about how this works on other platforms while downvoting the actual correct information that comes with a source has certainly taught me a thing or two about this platform and the people on it. You all actually prefer misinformation to fact as long as it suits your vibe or opinion more. Like a bunch of fkn MAGAs. I really wish there was a way to disable notifications for this post (another feature missing here) because watching you people upvote misinformation is enough to make me no longer give a flying fuck what anyone here says or thinks.
I want to know when and why younger people seem to think that blocking inherently works both ways. It's almost never worked like that. If you block someone, you are hiding them from your sight; not hiding yourself from theirs. This is the most common way blocking works.
Can you give examples of platforms where it works like this? I know that blocking someone on Facebook blocks them from being able to see you. Pretty Twitter is or was the same before Musk. And I just looked it up, blocking a user on Reddit does in fact block them from seeing you. I'm pretty sure it's always worked this way on smaller platforms I've used too.
So I'm curious to know, which platforms have you always used that have apparently always worked this way?
Literally every forum, chatroom, and social media site outside of TikTok, and I think Imgur, works the same way it does here. Including Facebook and Reddit. The only thing Reddit does special in this, is that blocked users engagement doesn't appear to you either. So if you block user ABC, they will still see your posts, but if they vote on it, you won't see that vote.
Not much of an example these days, but pre-mainstream social media (forums, chat) block was always hide on your end.
To be honest I never blocked back in the old days (the mods would take care of outright spam and users being disruptive).
For me, the new method seems counterproductive. Hiding your post/messages that can still be accessed via another container and/or account just seems strange to me.
So, 20 years ago before Facebook? I know for a fact that blocking has always worked properly on Facebook, I had a very toxic 'friendship' there another lifetime ago where we were blocking and unblocking each other every 5 minutes. But it's funny how everyone here keeps upvoting the incorrect information and ignoring the correct information about this. Not funny haha but funny peculiar. If Facebook only filtered out people instead of blocking them properly, it would be a disaster as far as stalking goes. And I think that everyone knows it because normally people on this platform seem quite rational. Except for when there's any criticism of the Fediverse, that is.
I agree with you that all mainstream platforms (FB, Twitter, Reddit - this just the ones I have experience with) work like that.
Believe it or not, but there still exist modern forums with large user bases (stable or growing), so it's not like it's an archaic model.
It's fair to criticise Lemmy for using this approach. I genuinely see where you are coming from. But if we approach Lemmy as an evolution of old style forums, then the "hide" approach makes more sense.
With admins, mods (not relevant for default UI?) actively dealing with mass downvotes, stalker-like behaviour and so on.
Part of the adoption of the dual-side block method is because large corps want automation and don't really care about quality (all about engagement).
I think the utility of blocking people on a public platform is kind of fake anyway. If someone is harassing you, and you block them, it's obvious that you did it so they'll just log out and suddenly they can see your posts again. Accounts are trivial to make on the fediverse too so they can always just spin up a new one to harass you.
I think silent filtering is better for that reason because they can't tell that you did it so they won't just immediately switch to a new account and keep going.
Active blocking like you're talking about only makes sense if there's such a thing as "follower-only" posts imo. Otherwise it's a false sense of security because they can see everything anyway just by logging out or switching to another account.
Good old ed(1). I don't know why, but every now and then I like to edit my files using ed(1). Are there frequent ed(1) users around here? What is your motivation to use it?
GMKtec EVO-X1 Review: Mini PC shows big performance can come from small packages
The GMKtec EVO-X1 is a mini PC that combines a versatile set of ports with a powerful 12-core, 24-thread AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Strix Point processor with 16-core RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics and an NPU that delivers up to 50 TOPS of AI performance. And all of that fits inside a compact body that’s smaller than a typical 4×4 NUC computer.
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as my thread from yesterday about shredding SSD's the right way already was very helpful, another follow-up topic came to my mind, which may also be interesting for me and maybe others too.
Since many PC's often use SSD's and less harddrives nowadays it may be interesting to discuss the full-disk encryption of it.
First of all some questions, which came to my mind: - Does the encryption of a SSD decrease its performance (read/write-speed) significantly? - How does the encryption affect the wear-leveling of the SSD and what should be considered to ensure a safe encryption? - Will functionalities like hibernation still work? Are maybe other functionalities affected in a negative way?
I already successfully full-disk encrypted my old laptop (harddrive) with the instructions from StackExchange. My computer has a 1TB SSD + 1TB harddrive and I wish to encrypt completely everything, that's not technically necessary. I want to use Debian as my distro. Could this instruction work the same way as with harddrives?
Hehe, no stupid questions I guess! When googling about this type of stuff, I often stumble across some claims I simply cannot verify myself. Some people say it's unsafe, some people say it slows down everything and so on and some answers are from >10 years ago, so I feel the need to clarify what's the status quo. Thanks for your view on that!
I read this week that one should use LUKS2 on SSDs. That is block based encryption so some information is leaked, like how much data is on the drive and how much changes. But I guess this makes it easier for the SSD to manage its health.
As far as I understand it with LUKS1 the whole partition is filled with random looking data and when something changes it does so at random points which doesn't let you see how much data really changed or how much is actually useful data.
But my knowledge is really really spotty, so I might have understood something incorrectly.
There's a certain controversial user on here (am I allowed to mention her name) who mentions she uses a Wii U as her main console, and that the internet on Wii U's is weird, and that it turns out that not only is lemm.ee the only Lemmy instance that works on the Wii U, but the way it works on there is so unfitting in just the right way that it causes posts and bans to half-federate like they're in a zombified state of existence. I tried a Wii U and could confirm every part of this I experimented with.
After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI).
From June onward, commercial and scientific development teams of any size as well as interested individuals are welcome to access and make use of almost a petabyte (and growing) of open web data under a general research license or – upon request – under a designated commercial license as well.
Given that the European Commission has launched the InvestAI initiative to mobilize €200 billion of investment in artificial intelligence, the Open Web Index comes with perfect timing.
The OpenWebSearch.eu consortium actively calls early adopters to pioneer innovative projects surrounding vertical web search, argumentative search, LLM applications including RAG and more.
“The OWI symbolizes a first step towards true European digital sovereignty and is a fundamental step in paving the way for a comprehensive open European AI landscape.“ says Community Manager Ursula Gmelch and further:
“Our goal behind this initial pilot phase is to onboard a range of projects from diverse domains to get early feedback in. We look forward to users confirming the quality and value in current functionalities and/or helping us pivot in such ways that real market demands can be met and further expanded upon.“
An official kick-off event will be hosted on 6 June from 10 am to 12 am CEST via Zoom.
Registration to the event is open under the following link:
Everything seems fine, but I have no network access 😅 happened after I restarted for a System update. Can't figure out what is wrong - help please 😊 Wired connection.
Enabled Wifi, but same problem; connect but cannot reach gateway. (other computers and pads are connected, and they work fine).
@corsicanguppy It's an issue I've encountered more than once and this has always resolved it. If you want to load Spywar back onto your machine, be my guest.
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:
It's a subsystem of Windows. Therefore, a Windows Subsystem. I don't know what else would make sense. A "subsystem of Linux for Windows" wouldn't make sense. They don't call their other features "Notepad for Windows" or "Defender for Windows."
@randomcruft @fakeplastic I'm not real comfortable with my data on someone else's computer, but triply so if that somebody is Microsoft, Gargoyle, or Amazon.
If I say "the life support system for the USS Enterprise", nobody thinks that that's a system running on the life support that gives you the USS Enterprise. It's a system running on the USS Enterprise that gives you life support. Windows Subsystem for Linux sounds like it's a system running on Linux that gives you access to Windows.
If I say “the life support system for the USS Enterprise”,
Unfortunately contact mean that example dose work both ways.
If we say enterprise system for life support. People will also understand.
But voyager system for enterprise could apply either way. To be fitted to enterprise or allow enterprise activity on voyager. Or voyager activity on enterprise. For is just bad language in this context.
Here Microsoft should've used a possessive. Voyagers enterprise support system would be more normal.
Or Windows Linux support system.
But marketing and a history of no other OS matters means Mickey$oft insists on it's own layout. Over language clarity.
It's a Linux subsystem for Windows. As in, you run Windows and within it run Linux. Thus Linux is the sub-system, while Windows is the "overarching" system. Therefore, it's Linux running as a subsystem on a Windows machine. Therefore, a Linux subsystem on/for Windows.
\ That was just setting the two viewpoints equal.
Now, to add why this one is more "correct": when talking about Windows (or Linux or anything else fir that matter) subsystems, you don't call the Windows file system the Windows subsystem for Files or the Windows subsystem for Networking or Linux subsystem for RNG - You call them the filesystem, the networking system or the RNG system. And since none of them get the "for host" suffix, it seems natural to assume it't te guest system that's the "sub" system, with the other one being the whole.
Microsoft really has a knack for that. I also like WoW64, which contains the binaries for running 32 bit applications on Windows 64 bit. For historical reasons, the 64 bit binaries live in system32, obviously.
They already had WoW (Windows on Windows) which was Win16 on Win32. The new one is Win32 on Win64.
And if say “Windows on Windows 64” it is makes sense. It is Windows emulation on top of Windows 64 (64 bit Windows). When they named it, all Windows was 32 bit Windows and 64 bit Windows was the future thing. So “emulating current Windows on Win64” was what WoW64 was doing.
Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
Meh, a permissive license + a copyright transfer means this shit is just a potential rugpull. MSFT can change the license of the project to source-available or even proprietary at any time and you'll be powerless to stop it.
You're correct, but I don't believe that a company shouldn't be allowed to take my code and change its license in the future. If they want to take something proprietary, they can go ahead and remove my contribution from it first.
CLA is basically a requirement for any larger scale open source project. It would be mental to add a "this single edited line is licensed under X license" to every tiny commit. Microsoft's CLA does not tranfer rights btw, it just licenses your contribution to M$ under "basically BSD 0 clause license" terms.
I guess sure they could do a ragpull but it does not make much sense. Reasons:
1) they have open sourced it themselves
2) It's made by M$ for M$. They don't have competition in the Windows space, so there is no point to hide the code.
Also what would be the worst thing that could happen if they did that? You would either use a fork, because WSL2 is basically feature complete at this points, or you would be have to use a proprietary app on a proprietary OS. Imo the licensing of WSL specifically is the least of Windows' issues.
You absolutely do not need a CLA with a copyright transfer. There are plenty of large projects that use a Developer Certificate of Origin that protects the company while not allowing them to change the license of your contribution.
I'll grant that my original post was pissy and angry and not a great take, however. You make good points here.
Does the DCO really offer a real guarantee? it looks like it just adds a Signed-off-by John line at the end of the commit, with no actual signature checking that enforces any particular version of a particular document is being acknowledged. IANAL but it doesn't look like something proven to work in court to give legal protection.
Sure, it's easier to simply add a sign-off-by line than actually accepting a legal agreement, so it reduces the barrier of entry, but if this were really enough to establish the conditions to shift liability then I don't see why companies wouldn't start using their own DCOs and extending them, essentially being the equivalent to a CLA (which is a license agreement, not a copyright transfer, even if some might add terms that allow relicensing.. which anyway is moot point when the original license is MIT anyway).
Sure. Let’s make sure that people know what this really means though.
Microsoft cannot “undo” the current license. If such a “rug pull” happens in the future, we all retain access to the code that exists at that time including all contributions from Microsoft. We can also all continue to not only use it but contribute to it under an Open Source license and keep it a vibrant, useful project if we want. Microsoft is powerless to stop us. We could fork it then or even now without the copyright assignment requirement. We have that freedom.
What the “rug pull” allows Microsoft to do is to decide, in the future, to change their policy and to make further changes themselves and not give us access to those future changes. They have that freedom.
Again, even if Microsoft did this, we could fork and carry-on. Look at Valkey and Reddis as an example.
So, the situation is that Microsoft is Open Sourcing a bunch of work that they did. The maximum possible downside is that they could stop giving us even more in the future. Our reaction is “meh”.
What concerns us is not that Microsoft can take away our freedom. They cannot. What upsets us is that they may retain or receive freedom we do not want them to have.
That is all fine. We are all allowed to think about it as we like and I guess we al value “freedom” in different ways. Sometimes though I think people misunderstand and think somehow that all the code could be “taken back”’. It cannot. Similarly, we might worry that our freedom (even the 4 freedoms) could be lost. For this code, that is not the case.
These are good points. I was in a shitty mood when I made my comment and upon reflection, it's an overstatement and not a very good take. I do still strongly support copyleft licenses and DCOs over CLAs, but I shouldn't turn my nose up when something is released without those.
I used to be excited when companies open-sourced stuff, and that is no longer the case. I suppose I'm just frustrated and bitter and cynical when it comes to large companies doing good things.
Open source or not WSL is just a long game embrace, extend, extinguish and particularly designed to stop *NIX OSs gaining a foothold in the enterprise development space.
I am not defending Microsoft but I have a different take.
Microsoft has already lost a the enterprise to Linux. They know it but no longer care that much. This is because the real money is in Azure (the Cloud and “the agentic web”). Microsoft makes a tonne of money off Linux and Kubernetes in the cloud. They hope to make even more money off AI. They are ok that this stuff is all Linux based. They get plenty of lock-in from volume contracts and Azure only APIs and services (especially AI sandboxes ).
However, Microsoft knows the importance of developer mindshare and influence. It is still “developers, developers, developers”. They know they cannot really stop devs from using containers and Linux but they want devs using MS software. So, they are building Linux into the Windows desktop.
They hope, I believe, that the devs will prefer the “best of both worlds” Windows experience over the “all in on Linux only” Linux one.
In some ways, they are competing more with macOS. Devs using Linux on the server had been flocking to macOS on the desktop because it is “also UNIX” but with commercial software support and a nice UX. If Linux had won on the server, Microsoft is defending the Pro desktop.
I'd been using ZFS with Void linux on both my laptop and desktop for a couple of months. And ZFS is cool! But I'm thinking not great for my use case, especially for my laptop with it's more constrained resources. Memory usage was a real problem, even after imposing low ARC limits. And the kernel module compile time was long enough to be a bit annoying, especially for a few kernels (I like to keep the last few around, to be safe) as it happens fairly often on a rolling release.
I switched the laptop to LUKS/btrfs a couple of days ago. And I'm thinking that was the correct choice for that. And now I'm considering doing the same for my desktop. As they seem comparable but btrfs is in-kernel and seemingly more system resource friendly. But before doing so I figured I'd ask the community about it. Maybe some important factors or features for either setup that I might not be considering.
Here's the stuff I care about. All of which both offer, but I'm not an expert at either and I don't know how equal they are.
Disk encryption. For ZFS everything (except the EFI partition) is encrypted. I use ZFSBootMenu in this scenario. For the btrfs setup I have the kernel/initramfs on an ext2 partition. I do not store any decryption keys in the initramfs. I know grub can decrypt LUKS with limitations, but I prefer this setup. And it feels secure enough to me. Any pitfalls I'm missing?
Pools/subvolumes
Snapshots. ZFSBootmenu has an option to load a snapshot. For btrfs it looks like I'd need to create a subvolume from a snapshot, which in a recovery situation might mean doing this from recovery media. That's ok, given this is an unlikely thing to encounter. But if anyone knows of an easier way, I'd love to hear it.
I wasn't familiar with timeshift so I took a look at it. My primary use case for snapshots is to take one before updates. So I can load from the snapshot if there's issues. It doesn't look like using it with ext4 would fulfill this use-case. But it looks like it also supports btrfs snapshots so could be useful as a UI to configure that.
The backups with time shift are incremental, hence most of the time the backup is taken within seconds and it only stores changes over time, something similar to git.
I used to do it exactly for that uses case, the backup was quick because there generally are not much changes outside the home directory.
I used to have Daily backups and monthly backup like 20 different dates stored in a relatively small space.
Like if my system is 30 gb then a 50 gb backup partition would store months of daily backups.
IME, btrfs is easier to work with than ZFS. It has all of the features you asked for; its RAID ≠ 0/1/10 are buggy, but 0/1/10 are considered reliable. In the past year, I heard a rumor that they were going to announced RAID > 1 to be also stable, but that's hearsay; I haven't read anything authoritative on the subject - the Arch btrfs page and the btrfs man page both still say 5/6 are not reliable.
I've been using btrfs on a variety of computers and VMs, from tiny little ODROIDS, to laptops, to VPSes, to desktops for... over a decade? I've had much better reliability than ext4. I was attracted to the POLS of the commands, vs ZFS.
I don't know how much my opinion weighs; I have a feeling a data center person would suggest ZFS as being more "enterprise". I've been really happy with it. I've been watching bcachefs for the caching and target options - really neat features useful for home gamers - but otherwise I wouldn't bother - btrfs has been solid and done everything I could want. It was a huge upgrade from mdadm and lvm in UX, and was only possible when disks got so cheap they outpaced my need for RAID5, and I could afford multiple backup drives that held years worth of nightly incremental backups.
Hearing roughly a decade of successful use, especially on systems with constrained resources, certainly makes me lean further towards btrfs.
its RAID ≠ 0/1/10 are buggy, but 0/1/10 are considered reliable.
btrfs has been solid and done everything I could want. It was a huge upgrade from mdadm and lvm
@ikidd@lemmy.world said that btrfs is poor at software RAID. I'll do a little research in to how it fares for RAID 1 vs mdadm. I don't see any reason I couldn't do mdadm>luks>btrfs if that's the better choice. But if btrfs is reliable and with comparable performance, I'd certainly rather do that.
I have no doubt ZFS is solid, too, FWIW. I leaned toward btrfs because it was simple, the commands straightforward and clear, nothing required more than one step - this is all super valuable to me because there are other things I want to spend my time on than fiddling with the filesystem.
@ikidd@lemmy.world said that btrfs is poor at software RAID.
You should check for yourself. I haven't used software RAID in years - RAID 0+1 gives me no value - but the btrfs team and Arch wiki say 0, 1, and 10 are solid. You should not use 5 or 6, as they're known to be buggy and even the btrfs man page tells you to not use it. So, yeah? btrfs is poor at RAID 5/6; to my understanding, it's good at 0/1/10.
btrfs can do encryption, compression, snapshots, and some RAID. I found combining mdadm and lvm and FS built a jenga tower, of which if part failed, the entire end result was borked. I once did an OS upgrade and lost the mdadm config, and spent two days recreating it. I never used it on a new machine after that. Separation of concerns is great, but having an all-in-one that can self repair and boot into snapshots is better.
I can't speak to performance. No doubt Toms of someone like that's looked into that in detail.
Personally I found ZFS far more simple. The userspace tools make more sense to me. Also I like, that volumes can have a default (relative) mount point attached. So in a recovery scenario, I simply have to open the zpool with a relative bath path, and then have all my volumes ready to go. If I want to recover a btrfs system with multiple subvolumes, I typically need to know exactly which ones and where to I have to mount (each individually).
if you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It's in couched language but reasonably clear. I don't think you're thinking of using those (RAID56) but don't.
Never had any btrfs problems that weren't self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs's history (years ago). I've used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.
Haven't tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM, albeit a bit more computationally intensive.
how much does running a mastodon instance of 1000 users costs? Disabling Images and allowing only text is one of my condition. So if I do that, will that change cost? I am thinking of a VPS so that i can have greater control over instance functionality
How much Storage and RAM will be required roughly?
In all seriousness, we can't really give a cost estimate because you haven't given us your hosting scenario. Are you hosting on your own hardware, on a VPS, or using a provider that specializes in hosting Mastodon servers?
Digital Ocean is used as an example because they have a quick setup Mastodon option. It looks like $14/mo minimum if you're going to run Elastisearch. Without that tool in memory you might get away with 1GB of memory which is $7/mo. But the author also notes that with Elastisearch his VPS uses about 2GB of ram so he's actually running the 4GB $21/mo plan.
Even without images, you'll still need quite a bit of space. I'm not sure 50GB would cut it for 1000 semi-active users. Also you'll need to pay for the domain name.
Why do you want to run an instance for that many people? Do you have 1000 people already, or is that just a number that you decided to work with? Why would people be interested in joining an instance with less functionality than the bigger ones?
Also: does it have to be Mastodon, or would you consider other alternatives? Pleroma and GoToSocial would be a lot easier to manage.
It is number of people necessary for instance to be functional as intended. I am trying to run an instance where only people verified using legal Documents should be able to post, comment, vote. That is to increase transparency and keep spammers away. I Intend it to be a political website I will read about GoToSocial and Pleroma
Speaking of mastodon, any recommendations on lightweight & featureful Android apps for Mastodon ?? (I understand that this may not be the right post to ask, but still....)
I have a new WD Blue 1TB ssd hard drive that doesn't want to get formatted or mounted. When I attach the drive via USB I get an error message of:
Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume
An operation is already pending
Eventually I get:
Unable to Mount 1.0 Tb volume
timeout was reached
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T570 running Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base. "GParted" and "Disks" don't see the drive. Is there something I can do to access the disc or is it toast?
usb 2-4: new SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211819.412449] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=2537, idProduct=1068, bcdDevice= 1.00 [211819.412468] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [211819.412477] usb 2-4: Product: NS1068 [211819.412484] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Norelsys [211819.412491] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 0123456789ABCDE [211819.415262] usb-storage 2-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [211819.415608] usb-storage 2-4:1.0: Quirks match for vid 2537 pid 1068: 800000 [211819.415722] scsi host1: usb-storage 2-4:1.0 [211821.975537] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WD Blue SA510 2. 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [211821.976781] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [211821.985294] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) [211821.985686] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [211821.985704] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [211821.986069] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [211822.033052] sdb: sdb1 [211822.034239] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [211851.555550] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211877.091031] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [211902.626842] usb 2-4: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
I/O errors, nice. What kind of disk is this? Removable USB case? Fixed one? Are you able to test the disk in another case or directly plugged into a mainboard?
As @catloaf@lemm.ee suggested, try plugging it in directly on an internal port, not via USB. Then you figure out whether the USB converter is faulty or the SSD itself is broken.
@floppingfish It says operation already pending. In Ubuntu and many other Linux distros, when you plug in a USB device it mounts automatically, take a look at df and see if you don't have a new partition mounted somewhere you didn't expect.
The problem with your new WD Blue 1TB SSD that won't format or mount could be related to several devices, from hardware issues to improper disk organization. Here are some steps to help you understand the situation and possibly get your drive back up and running. 1.Checking the basic connection and power 2. Checking the disk visibility in the system Open the terminal and run: lsblk See if the disk is displayed as /dev/sdX (where X is the drive letter). If the disk is not displayed, the problem is either in the hardware or in the USB interface. 3. Plug in the disk and immediately run: dmesg | tail -n 30 This will show the last kernel messages related to the disk plug-in. If there are any errors or timeouts, this is an important diagnostic sign. 4. Using fdisk or parted If the disk is visible in lsblk as /dev/sdX, sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdX and sudo parted /dev/sdX print If the commands do not respond or give errors, this also indicates problems with the disk. 5. If the drive is not visible or constantly "freezes" Perhaps the USB-SATA adapter or the drive case is faulty. Sometimes USB ports on laptops provide little power - try connecting to a port with a higher power supply or through an active USB hub with power. If possible, remove the drive from the case and connect it directly to SATA in another PC. 6. If you have access to Windows, check the disk in programs such as Victoria HDD/SSD, CrystalDiskInfo If the disk does not appear in the system at all, it is most likely a hardware failure. If the disk is visible but not formatted, you can try "wipefs" and creating a new partition table. If nothing helps, and the disk is new, we recommend contacting the WD warranty service.
@Mirokhodets Perhaps because nvme requires different treatment than a rotary drive and so is treated as a different device. I'm not psychic or at least not to the degree necessary to read the developers mind, but if it were I that would be why I would do so.
I want to shred/sanitize my SSDs. If it was a normal harddrive I would stick to ShredOS / nwipe, but since SSD's seem to be a little more complicated, I need your advice.
When reading through some posts in the internet, many people recommend using the software from the manufacturer for sanitizing. Currently I am using the SSD SN850X from Western digital, but I also have a SSD 990 PRO from Samsung. Both manufacturers don't seem to have a specialized linux-compatible software to perform this kind of action.
How would be your approach to shred your SSD (without physically destroying it)?
but: it depends on how you connect the nvme ssd to your system. if you use an external enclosure/adapter the nvme would show up as /dev/sda because it is not attached to the proper interface. i did not manage to get nvme cli to work in that case.
but, and that is the much easier way to solve that issue: the bios is your friend. most modern bios provide a secure erase nvme option. so just stick the nvme ssd in your computer and try to do it that way. only took a couple of seconds due to the way it works on nvme ssds as far as i understand.
that said: i've got two older WD nvme ssds that i could't format using four (!) different PC's and their bioses, non of the manufactures software for windows or bootable usb sticks would work either (tried the latter on three different PC's) and the external enclosure solution provided no help either. only the bios of an older asrock board easily accepted the nvme and managed to secure erase it. no clue what went wrong the first times but at least they are clean now.
My response would normally be: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdX ba=1024M, followed by a sync. Lowest common denominator nearly always wins in my book over specialty programs that aren't part of minimal core; tools that also happen to be in BusyBox are the best.
What makes this situation special enough for something more complex than dd? Do SSDs not actually save the data you tell them to? I'm trying to guess at how writing a disk's worth of garbage directly to the device would fail. I'm imagining some holographic effect, where you can actually store more data than the drive holds. A persistent, on disk cache that has no way of directly affecting, but which can somehow be read later and can hold latent data?
If I were really, I'd dd, read the entire disk to /dev/null, then dd again. How would this not be sufficient?
I'm honestly trying to figure out what the catch is, here, and why this was even a question - OP doesn't sound like a novice.
SSDs don't store the data like HDDs, where you'd overwrite the same part on a magnetic platter. The controller on a SSD will instead handle it, do some magic and decide what to do. So if you use dd to replace some part with zeros, it might instead invalidate the old data, allocate new memory to you and not really overwrite anything. That's why SSDs have separate commands for wiping content.
I agree dd isn't useful for individual files. I contend that if I have an SSD of size X, and I write X amount of random bytes to it, there's nothing magic about the SSD construction that will preserve any previous information on the drive. Wear leveling can not magically make the drive store more data than it can hold.
Well, in fact it can. That's "overprovisioning". The SSD has some amount of reserved space as replacement for bad cells, and maybe to speed things up. So if you overwrite 100% of what you've access to on the SSD, you'd still have X amount of data you didn't catch. But loosely speaking you're right. If you overwrite the entire SSD and not just files or one partition or something like that, you'd force it to replace most of the content. I wouldn't recommend it, though. There is secure erase, blkdiscard and some nvme format commands which do it the right way. And 'dd' is just a method that get's it about right (though not 100%) in one specific case.
Hum. I read that blkdiscard only marks the blocks (cells?) as empty, and doesn't change the contents; and that a sophisticated enough lab can still read the bits.
In particular, the disk has to claim to support "Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM"; if it doesn't, you have no guarantee of erasure. Without knowing anything about the make and model, blkdiscard would be categorically less secure.
Yes, thanks. Just invalidating or trimming the memory doesn't cut it. OP wants it erased so it needs to be one of the proper erase commands. I think blkdiscard also has flags for that, so I believe you could do it with that command as well.
I did read (on the Arch wiki) that blkdiscard -z is identical to dd if=/dev/zero, so that tracks. It's (blkdiscard) is easier to use. However, given my memory and how infrequently I'll ever use it, I'll have forgotten the name of the command by next week. I'll never forget dd, though, mainly because it's more general purpose and I use it occasionally.
I'm not sure about that. I think OP wants something like ATA secure erase. That would be hdparm and a bunch of options, and not blkdiscard. Unles they specifically know what they're doing and what options to pick.
Simple solution is to use cryptsetup to encrypt it, forget the key, and optionally overwrite the first megabyte or so of the disk (where the LUKS header is).
Any NVME worth it's salt these days is an OPAL adhering self encrypting drive for data storage.
This means in Linux you simply install nvme-cli, then do a mode 2 crypto erase and the crypto key is dropped and all data on the drive becomes unreadable.
Y'all could stand to get with the times a bit more and learn about what NVME's actually bring to the table
I did some light reading. I see claims that wear leveling only ever writes only to zeroed sectors. Let me get this straight:
If I have a 1TB ssd, and I write 1TB of SecretData, and then I delete and write 1TB of garbage to the disk, it's not actually holding 2TB of data, with the SecretData hidden underneath wear leveling? That's the claim? And if I overwrite that with another 1TB of garbage it's holding, what now, 3TB of data? Each data sequence hidden somehow by the magic of wear leveling?
Skeptical Ruaraidh is skeptical. Wear leveling ensures data on an SSD is written to free sectors with the lowest write count. It can't possibly be retaining data if data the maximum size of the device is written to it.
I see a popular comment on SO saying you can't trust dd on SSDs, and I challenge that: in this case, wiping an entire disk by dumping /dev/random must clean the SSD of all other data. Otherwise, someone's invented the storage version of a perpetual motion device. To be safe, sync and read it, and maybe dumb again, but I really can't see how an SSD world hold more data than it can.
You reduce every single cell's write lifespan by 2 times; with modern life spans of 3,000-100,000 writes per cell, it's not significant.
Someone mentioned blkdiscard. If you really aren't concerned about forensic analysis, this is probably the fastest and least impactful answer: it won't affect cell lives by even a measly 2 writes. But it also doesn't actually remove the data, it just tells the SSD that those cells are free and empty. Probably really hard to reconstruct data from that, but also probably not impossible. dd is a shredding option: safer, slower, and with a tiny impact on drive lifespan.
in this case, wiping an entire disk by dumping /dev/random must clean the SSD of all other data.
Your conclusion is incorrect because you made the assumption that the SSD has exactly the advertised storage or infinite storage. What if it's over-provisioned by a small margin, though?
Then over-writing the size by a few gigs, reading the entire disk, and writing it again - as I put in my example - should work. In any case blkdiscard is not guaranteed to zero data unless the disk specifically supports that capability, and data can be forensically extracted from a blkdiscarded disk.
The Arch wiki says blkdiscard -z is equivalent to running dd if=/dev/zero.
I don't see how attempting to over-write would help. The additional blocks are not addressable on the OS side. dd will exit because it reached the end of the visible device space but blocks will remain untouched internally.
The Arch wiki says blkdiscard -z is equivalent to running dd if=/dev/zero.
Where does it say that? Here it seems to support the opposite. The linked paper says that two passes worked "in most cases", but the results are unreliable. On one drive they found 1GB of data to have survived 20 passes.
I hate using Stack Exchange as a source of truth, but the Arch wiki references this discussion which points out that not all SSDs support "Deterministic read ZEROs after TRIM", meaning a pure blkdiscard is not guaranteed to clear data (unless the device is advertised with that feature), leaving it available for forensics. Which means having to use --secure, which is (also) not supported by all devices, which means having to use -z, which the previous source claims is equivalent to dd if=/dev/zero.
So the SSD is hiding extra, inaccessible, cells. How does blkdiscard help? Either the blocks are accessible, or they aren't. How are you getting a the hidden cells with blkdiscard? The paper you referenced does not mention blkdiscard directly as that's a Linux-specific command, but other references imply or state it's just calling TRIM. That same paper, in a footnote below section 3.3, claims TRIM adds no reliable data security.
It looks like - especially from that security paper - that the cells are inaccessible and not reliably clearable by any mechanism. blkdiscard then adds no security over dd, and I'd be interested to see whether, with -z, it's any faster than dd since it perforce would have to write zeros to all blocks just the same, rather than just marking them "discarded".
I feel that, unless you know the SDD supports secure trim, or you always use -z, dd is safer, since blkdiscard can give you a false sense of security, and TRIM adds no assurances about wiping those hidden cells.
So Ive been using linux for a long time and mostly with gnome. I know about window managers and how using them will reduce the memory usage by system a lot because they are less bloated etc. I want to try a window manager on my nixos machine - this will be my first time trying one, I have good knowledge in programming so technical stuff wont bother me that much. Which window manager do you suggest? Customization is my priority.
gnome + paperwm, on a laptop I found there are so many things that are a headache to configure, like battery alerts, bluetooth, wifi that it's just a hassle for what amounts to like half an hour longer battery life
If you like programming Python, then Qtile is a good option. Qtile is written itself in Python, but more importantly, the configuration file of it is a ~~Qtile~~ Python program. Meaning you can use all programming skills like functions and loops and other stuff in your configuration file directly. It works in Wayland and in X11.
Wayland: SwayWM, River (the most customizable wm I've ever used).
X11: DWM (configured via C, a little bit of effort if you're not a minimalist), xmonad (via Haskell, on par with River).
My recommendation for getting started is Sway, but the others are definitely more customizable, as they use PLs for configuration. BSPWM and i3 are also good for X11, and a good middle ground between DWM's nerdery and xmonad's Haskell barrier. Wayland offers a much better experience if you're not using Nvidia though. Some will recommend hyprland, but I really don't like (IMHO). There are also some controversies around it's leadership....
One thing that has kept me on dwm for so long is that my patched configuration no longer needs any more changes and I take it with me wherever I go. it was challenging but rewarding.
Never an upgrade needed.
I eventually want to go to Wayland and River seems nice!
I liked using open box, looks pretty decent and user friends from the get go and uses fewer resources then most desktop environments. If you do use open box I would use the tint2 task bar with it. I hadn't explored window managers in some time but that's what I would suggest for getting a tip top performance out of any device. (maybe not the max but pretty close, while looking more modern like.
It really depends on whether you like the keyboard and tiling widow managers, or if you like dragging windows around and resizing them. Tiling widow managers are popular, but they're definitely a taste.
hlwm and bspwm are a - "configurationless" breed - I think river on Wayland is the same. This has become my one requirement for a window manager. Every configuration is done through a command line client call, and it's game changing. The "configuration" is just a specific shell script hlwm runs when it starts up, and it's full of whatever client calls needed to configure the system. Every call in that script can be run outside the script; it's literally a just shell script. I run all sorts of things in that script: launching "desktoppy" programs like kanata, setx, autostart programs that start on a specific screen; one script lays out one screen in a complex 2x1 layout where each pane is tabbed and contains three terminals each, and then launches terminals that connect to various remote computers - that's my "remote server" screen, and it's all set up when I log in.
However - definitely for tiling enthusiasts. I used i3 for a decade before I found bspwm, which converted me to configurationless WMs, and I ended up with hlwm. It's honestly what's preventing me from giving Wayland a serious go, although river might do the trick.
Hm? Both bspwm and herbstluftwm have tabbed layouts. It's been so long since I've used i3, but it has them too, right? Sway's a mostly config-compatible, mostly client compatible i3 clone for Wayland, so I'd expect it to have tabs, too. As well as floating windows, which every tabbing WM I've used also supports.
I think I missed your point. What are you saying? Did I say something that made you think I thought tiling WMs could only do tiling?
What I'm opinionated about is configuration files. Technically, even a desktop could be configuration-less, although I've never seen one. I have become insistent that my WM have no configuration that isn't set through a client call. Sway still uses a config file like i3; mostly the same config file, unless it's drifted significantly. That was Sway's whole killer feature: i3 users could switch from X11 to Wayland with only minor configuration file changes.
Tiling widow managers are popular, but they’re definitely a taste.
Oh, I refered to that in your post. To me all WMs/compositors are a matter of taste, including stacking ones (on wayland from the stacking ones I only like labwc though it's xml config is not what I would prefer). And you already clarified, but it gave me the impression that it was implicit that tiling was a matter of taste, when those WMs/compositors also offer tabbed/stacked mode, which to me it's not tiling at all, and offers something really appealing not so easily to achieve on any stacking WM/compositor.
Regarding config, well yes, if one is looking for no config at all, and still get the WM/compositor to be useful and also to one's liking, then that's hard to find. But the config files once achieving what one likes and is productive with, then one barely looks at it again, and they are usually portable (usually not only across PCs, also across distros).
But I got your point, sort of "plug and play" as they said before, just install it and without any config be productive with it... I can't imagine that. I heard river is pretty close to dwm, but I can't tell much about it. The river idea of dynamic tiling, which seems to be the default doesn't really appeal to me, so I would need to do tabbed mode any ways, which doesn't seem to be the default, so at least for me it wouldn't be that configless... But maybe it would be to dynamic tiling people.
Been seeing a lot of these threads with impossibly open-ended barely tenuous one-liner quotations being posted around technical communities. Is those a new AI thing?
If I install software from .deb file, do I still get the updates & upgrades when I run sudo apt update / upgrade ? Or is flatpak the way to go? I'm not very familiar with flatpak, so I'm trying to avoid, but it seems that cons are limited. I'm currently running mint cinnamon (how original, I know), and asking because i can't seem to add mullvad-vpn stable repo. Thank you for your help,
My bad, just read further in mullvads documentation and they do state that Mint requires manual installation. If I understand it correctly you will need to follow these instructions to install updates as well.
Flatpak has annoyances like sometimes not following your icon theme, or just generally looking out of place because not picking up system defaults.
It works but I avoid it. On arch Linux, there is a huge AUR repository where users have made native packages, and thats usually much better than Flatpak. But on Ubuntu, Flatpak is the only option sometimes.
Doesn't always work - for example the mullvad browser won't install on mint with the ubuntu instructions as OS version gets reported as Xia not noble (if I'm recalling the issue correctly it was 6-9 months ago)
Yes you can amend the commands to get it to work but it's definitely not beginner level, I had to faff around for an hour or so before I worked it out
What do you mean by "won't install"? If you install it with apt from repo, apt doesn't check the distro codename, it just checks if the package dependencies are satisfied.
Really sorry, it's too long ago to remember the exact error,
but IIRC
when you followed the ubuntu instructions for adding the repository it would kick an error because the command included a reference to noble and mint os name is xia so the contents of the osrelease when checked didnt match and it threw an error.
Could be wrong, I didnt document it.
The work around was to edit the commands.
All a moot point now as
a) the instructions now on the mullvad site don't reference noble and
~~b) mullvad now appears to be in the mint store (which is how you should always install if possible~~
Not correct, only true if you've manually added the repo
Hi everyone! I know im not good with technology. I brought a surface pro 8, 3 years ago. I obviously understand that was a mistake and i should have listened to programmer cousin. Its gonna be slighty difficult to install linux on it.
I've researched several youtube videos, but i was wondering if anyone had any tips?Obviously the attachable keyboard has to work and i want the touch screen to work. The surface appealed to me when i brought for those features.
With all the privacy concerns of windows, i want to commit to switching my operating system! Thank you everyone for their help with all my privacy questions. Ive been getting into foss and learning kotlin.
Yes, I have a surface pro5, I have been installing iterations of linux on this thing for the better part of 3 years now. Custom kernels, drivers, a pain, a real pain.
Until i came across aurora. Holy shit, I installed it and poof, all the efort of custom kernels, matching drivers just evaporated, I know I sound like one of those nuts that found a distro that he thinks is good, but I swear for the surface pro, this distro works excellently and I have tried ALL OF THEM.
Just know that you are saying goodbye to your cameras. Below I have linked the aurora ISO, the aurora install guide for surface and the linux-surface initiative, in case you strike out with aurora. Best of luck and if you have questions feel free to PM me.
I have a surface go 3 and a surface pro 7. I installed Arch on both and also enabled secure boot. Installing Arch works, but wifi on the installation drive doesn't work. I plug in a usb hub with Ethernet and I'm fine after. Enabling secure boot is harder, but it can work.
Lemmy needs AI features integrated, this would help increase the efficiency of poster and commenter workflows, allowing for maximal upvotes per minute, and as a consequence it increases engagement across all communities. The direct increase in output of posters when they enhance their workflow with LLMs is staggering, and comments per minute for each post go through the roof. This allows for discussions to be longer, and LLMs can be deployed on the site in such a way as to write comments that leave the reader desperate to see what the next reply is, even further boosting how many hours people spend on each post.
Lemmy not integrating AI workflows is denying a choice that everyone should be making, AI will replace posters that don’t keep up, so learning AI workflows is now essential for posters and commenters. AI will be completely different tomorrow, the workflows are going to be completely different in a months time, and it will produce even MORE text, and even MORE images. You hear me, you should learn AI right now, otherwise the posters and commenters who use AI will overtake you in terms of upvotes, and then, well you all know how important upvotes are.
I propose that accounts have a mode that can be turned on to auto generate posts overnight, and on top of that AI should try to autocomplete every sentence people type into the editor. This will maximise the benefits to Lemmys written communities. I also propose having an AI art generator built into each post, so every post can have an image, further maximising engagement. Moderators can benefit from the shift in paradigm that AI have brought about, with AI being able to create and moderate communities that no one has even asked for! Lemmy should not only allow but encourage the adoption of these tools, and everyone should be jumping on this revolution like there is no tomorrow.
I also think that the developers should integrate AI into their workflow, it could automatically add features that people don’t even know they want. I am SHOCKED that the developers are still creating Lemmy at this point, as AI can already do 110% of their job, the other day ChatGPT wrote me a sorting algorithm that it told me was totally new, and that it was able to sort any list instantly regardless of size.
My stock portfolio has nearly doubled since I went all in on AI stocks, and I expect it to double in coming months, this tells you just how amazing AI is. Since all the companies are valued this highly despite having quite a small consumer base.
This is a really interesting and forward-thinking perspective on how AI could enhance Lemmy! I definitely agree with the idea that AI could bring some significant improvements to the platform, and your points about increased efficiency and engagement are spot on. Thinking specifically about the Lemmy platform: * Enhanced Content Discovery: Imagine AI tools that could analyze the content of links and posts to help users discover relevant communities and discussions they might be interested in, even across different instances. * Improved Content Summarization: AI could assist in providing concise summaries of linked articles or lengthy discussions, allowing users to quickly grasp the main points before diving in. * Automated Content Categorization and Tagging: AI could help communities automatically categorize and tag posts, improving organization and making it easier for users to find specific types of content. * Enhanced Moderation Tools: As you mentioned, AI could assist moderators by identifying potentially harmful content, spam, or rule violations, freeing up their time for more nuanced community management. * Personalized User Experience: In the future, AI could potentially help tailor the content displayed to individual users based on their interests and engagement patterns. Your point about the fear of being left behind is also valid. As AI continues to evolve, platforms that embrace these tools could offer more dynamic and user-friendly experiences. The ability to automate some tasks and enhance content management could allow communities to scale more effectively and foster richer discussions. It's exciting to think about how AI could unlock new possibilities for the Lemmy ecosystem! Thanks for sharing your insightful thoughts.
Wow, you weren't lying about them "running a very old Lemmy version." For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.
They tend to lag behind on purpose for stability reasons, but a year out of date is pushing it.
Part of the issue they have is that one of the most popular apps for lemmy, Sync, has been abandoned by its dev. They said they have roughly 5k/month sync users, and if they update, their experience will break further. The egregious part is that app has subscription options, and it's still been 10+ months since the last update.
I left Sync for summit a couple of months ago due to the above, and boy howdy is it better. ~~Actual FOSS,~~ huge amount of options, very similar ux and flow as sync. It's a champion.
Here's hoping more people trickle off of sync to a better app and lemmy world can drop that from their issues list.
Hey I'm new to Linux and mint seems like the easiest to switch over to coming from windows. I have had trouble with pairing Bluetooth PS4 controllers and emulating them as xinput. I used ds4drv but that's a little outdated now. Also I noticed that catchyos just works after pairing it on my other PC. So I spent a while trying to get mint to work without the need of ds4drv, it kept pairing as a wireless controller that wasn't detected as an actual controller through steam or anything else.... I tracked that down to an issue with the Bluetooth manager and maybe missing udev rules so now I can connect using a different manager and it comes up as a PS4 controller....but now I think I need ds4drv to emulate it as xinput so I've came full circle.
My question is do I need ds4drv to be using a Sony controller as xinput and also how does catchyos do it without ds4drv? And should I just screw Linux mint and switch to Catchyos?
I thought the drivers were already merged into the kernel as hid-sony or hid-playstation?
Have you tried removing ds4drv and just trying to connect the pad via USB? If that works, you can try pairing via Bluetooth.
It could be your Mint kernel is old and doesn’t have the drivers. I’m on Arch so I’ve had no issues and the pads just work and Steam handles them with no issues.
Vim is a powerful text editor that improves coding speed & efficiency through its shortcut-based Vim language. While learning Vim can be challenging, it is a valuable skill that can enhance your career as a computer professional.
Seems like one loves vim or one does not. I learned vi back in the mid 80s, hated it then, probablty not going back. These days I thankfully use Geany or nano. Learning vim seems like a right of passage or something.
I saw the video by noBoilerplate. How useful is knowing and using Vim-Shortcuts when writing a letter or an email? Does it only make sense to learn it if you write or code all day or is it useful enough for moderate tech users or office workers?
The best way I've heard it described is that learning all of the motions, shortcuts, commands, etc is the best way to remove all of the possible friction between you having a thought and you putting that thought into text.
It's like using Word and learning that CTRL+B toggles Bold. You don't NEED to know that, you can click the bold icon. The extra 2 seconds that it took to grab the mouse and click the icon and then move your hand back to the keyboard seems trivial, but if you're doing a lot of writing that can add up to a lot.
In addition, having to stop your train of thought in order to fiddle with a GUI can cause lapses in concentration. Constantly having to stop typing in order to fiddle with a GUI is annoying and requires you to switch context from what you were typing to looking for the icon or menu that you need to click.
Multiply that by everything else you need to do in editing text (moving the cursor to different places, selecting text, finding text, opening and saving documents, etc. That's a lot of time that you're spending messing around with a mouse and GUI annoyances.
Also, if you're using Linux, a lot of tools use vim keys as their interface. So learning the basics (mostly hjkl for moving, / for searching, etc) can help you in a lot of programs.
For example, I'm using vimium in Firefox, so I can operate the entire browser without using the mouse. Press f and all of the links and form fields on the page are tagged with a 2 letter combination, pressing those two letters is like clicking the link/field. I can access shortcuts, open bookmarks, etc all without needing my mouse. In addition, the browser has hotkeys for tab manipulation (ctrl t for new tab, ctrl f4 to close tab, ctrl shift t to re-open/undo last closed tab, etcetc).
I try to have all of my programs be keyboard driven (and use a lot of terminal applications where possible). Vim keys and motions, in all of the various programs that use them, along with the shortcuts from the window manager (everyone knows alt + tab, but there are many more) and even individual applications make that possible (except for Freetube, which requires the mouse :/).
Overall, I would say that it's not a requirement, but if you're willing to spend a week or two learning (and moving very slow as you force yourself to learn and use the keys) then I think you'll have a better time in Linux.
Also, it feels pretty '90s hacker movie hacker' to just flail on the keyboard and have things happen on your PC.
Given that Windows 10 is going to be unsupported by the end of this year, I was planning on switching to Linux since my laptop doesn't meet the requirements to run Windows 11.
My current laptop is an HP Pavilion x360 and by far, my favourite part about it is how it's not only a touchscreen, but the hinges allow the laptop screen to lay completely flat just like a tablet, (the interface even changes to a more tablet ish version) it's great for watching movies and drawing. When I switch over to Linux, I want to be able to keep as much of this feature as much as possible. I was planning on installing Elementary OS as it's designed to be more 'plug and play' as I'm not super tech savvy. When I was looking into if converting a touchscreen laptop to Linux, I read that Ubuntu has some touchscreen support which Elementary OS is based on, but I'm not sure how good it is, as all the Reddit threads on the topic were pretty old.
Whats the touchscreen support on Ubuntu like now? If you have a touchscreen laptop running Linux at the moment, how responsive is the screen? Is there other distrios that support touchscreen that are don't have a steep learning curve?
I have a similar convertible device, and it's almost good with KDE. KDE components switch to a layout with more whitespace and bigger icons so they are easier to touch, and some KDE programs like the file manager also opens a special menu on long press on files that is an easier to use version of the right click menu.
firefox also handles it well, I can easily scroll a page with momentum, but I can also select text.
my device also has a plastic pen (no buttons or battery in it), and linux knows to ignore touch input when the pen is near the screen so that I can rest my palm on it while writing.
but a major pain point is that so far I haven't found a real touch keyboard. there is Maliit, which is much harder to build locally than other programs, and if you get it to work it is hard to use. then there is squeakboard, but last time I was looking into it that depended on wayland protocols that were not implemented yet in KDE's compositor
The screen with my Lenovo Yoga 720 (I think) is a convertible touch screen. The brightness never stays consistent in Mint. It constantly changes brightness no matter what I'm doing with it. However, I'm not sure it worked right, even with Windows 10. Still a decent machine.
LILYGO T-LoRa Pager is an ESP32-powered communications device with LoRa, NFC, and GPS
Pagers may have largely gone out of fashion in the age of the smartphone, but the T-LoRa Pager from LILYGO puts a modern spin on the class communications device. It’s a portable device with a 2.33 inch widescreen display, a thumb keyboard for tapping out messages, and support for LoRa, NFC, and GPS (GNSS), theoretically allowing you to communicate without relying on cellular networks.
Title, I am unsure if games are using my GPU or if using my CPU, or maybe my GPU through my CPU, I do not know, something is using my GPU, but I think its just KDE plasma, and I would like to know definitively how to find out
You can use Bumblebee and ensure your game is the only thing that gets the GPU by running only it through optirun (AMD support is probably not coming soon)
You can also use taskset to ensure that only your game gets physical CPU cores, and everything else gets efficiency CPU cores
It's confirmed that the concept for Bumblebee also works for AMD Hybrid graphics: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909802.html (via http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?68327-Bumblebee-Has...
New this release
Intel XE driver support thanks to @Steve-Tech
Supports more metrics when CAP_PERFMON is given to nvtop. See the intel section of the README
Broadcom V3D support (Raspberry Pi) ...
If you've got an nvidia gpu+drivers installed, you've probably got 'nvidia-smi' already which will show you utilization and which processes are using it.
So one comment saying "I'm glad your cat is ok", made after they created a post trying to witch hunt me, constitutes "following them around and harassing them"?
Yes out context it can seem that way, but when you’re following a user around commenting on their stuff when you’re clearly in the middle of an argument with them makes it clear you probably aren’t just dropping by to wish their car well. OP post is 2 hours old. Your comment is an hour old. You just happened across another (8h old) post by OP to comment about their cat? Come on.
Down votes are public on Lemmy, and your account alone did enough harrassment, but yes I am pretty sure you also have at least two sock puppet accounts you also use to harrass people.
See, I was right. I'm being accused of "following them around and harassing them" because they're assuming everyone who disagrees with them is secretly me. (And a lot of people are disagreeing with them because they've been going absolutely all out defending suppression of opposition to the Palestinian genocide.)
Please stop lying. I never defend Rhodesia in any shape or form. I simply stated that afaik Zimbabwe is considered the successor state by international law and shared some historical facts that you can also read up on the Wikipedia or any history book.
While it's unquestionable that them posting this here is not the appropriate place. It's also unquestionable knowing how you behave that you are harassing them. Even if you are not "following them around".
It's unquestionable that it's false. Also lol "it's unquestionable knowing how you behave". Great standard of evidence there.
Anyway, I notice you keep showing up under my posts. I guess I too should make a post about how you are following me around and harassing me. Given your behavior its unquestionably true, after all.
Also, are you going to have your mod friends ban me again when I respond to your insults by pointing out your a right wing asshole who pretends to be an anarchist?
For example, I didn't follow you here. But, because I have your account tagged as 'Rhodesia Lover' I know whenever I see your account elsewhere, like here, you're the racist that believes that unless there is a complete destruction of everyone involved that there is continuity of government.
So, by your definition, basically the only governments that don't have continuity is....
...
I guess Paraguay before and after the War of the Triple Alliance?
Your post is about Palestine and Israel... How did Russia enter the discussion? I'm so confused I don't even know what I should be feeling. Go to sleep dude.
!fediverse@lemmy.world is not a place to file your grievances with “free speech”, disrupting users, moderation, etc.
If you have problems with users: File complaints to the mods or just block them.
If you have problems with mods: File complaints with admins of the instance or just migrate to an alternative community.
If you have problems with an entire instance: Just leave it.
And to add: If you do want/need to highlight misbehaviour, stalking or even just rant about injustices happening publicly, there are places like !fediverselore@lemmy.ca (rules prohibit stuff you are personally involved in, though) and !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com where it concerns mod/admin abuse.
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:
If you want more information before donating, consider the comparison with Reddit. It began as startup funded by rich investors. The site is managed by corporate executives who over time have become more and more disconnected from normal users. Their main goal is to make investors happy and to make a profit. This leads to user-hostile decisions like firing the employee responsible for AMAs, blocking third-party apps and more. As Reddit is a single website under a single authority, it means all users need to follow the same rules, including ridiculous ones like censoring the name "Luigi".
Lemmy represents a new type of social media which is the complete opposite of Reddit. It is split across many different websites, each with its own rules, and managed by normal people who actually care about the users. There is no company and no profit motive. Much of the work is carried out by volunteer admins, mods and posters, who contribute out of enthusiasm and not for money. For users this is great as there is no advertising nor tracking, and no chance of takeover by a billionaire. Additionally there are no builtin political or ideological restrictions. You can use the software for any purpose you like, add your own restrictions or scrutinize its inner workings. Lemmy truly belongs to everyone.
Dessalines and I work fulltime on Lemmy to keep up with all the feature requests, bug reports and development work. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. Previously I sometimes had to rely on my personal savings to keep developing Lemmy for you, but that can't go on forever. We partly rely on NLnet for funding, but they only pay for development of new features, and not for mandatory maintenance work. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached Dessalines and I can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. Please use the link below to see current donation stats and make your contribution! We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.
Don't know what the exact cause was/is for this big surge - but I am glad to see it. No matter what personal problems people may have with the main devs, they are doing great work on the platform.
An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks …
Dev posted few weeks ago about donations being a little short and having lowered making it more difficult to support development. A lot of people then started to donate or increase their financial support.
They posted asking for people to stand up for them. Dirty communists like myself (okay, and others) stood up and pushed that message everywhere we could. Because you have to want freedom and democracy. It does not come for free.
That joke was actually pretty funny. But what were those other posts mate? Show a little respect to the people giving you the opportunity to post here at all.
This reminded me that I wanted to support. Just did a yearly payment. Thanks for the amazing work guys! I can't believe a just a few people can maintain such an amazing ecosystem. One day people will understand that, in 48 hours, we could destroy the entire gafam system and replace it with a fair alternative: the Fediverse and FLOSS.
I'm here exactly because ml doesn't represent us. Hopefully those losers lose so much funding that they abandon the project and somebody else picks it up.
Even if nobody picked it up that would still be better than paying those .ml dictator-cocksuckers.
I recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a laptop, and I'm having a two-sided issue. Web searches have yielded no solution. I'm also very new to Linux.
Problem 1: When alt-tabbing out of a fullscreen application (at this moment, Helldivers 2), the application will minimize, but I cannot restore it. It will appear for roughly half a second, and then re-minimize. I can hear the game still running in the background.
I have tried alt-tab, super+number, and right-click>restore. None seem to work. I have tried disabling thumbnails for windows, no fix. Disabling effects, no fix.
Problem 2: As a workaround for problem 1, I tried borderless fullscreen. It works, but there is a white, 1 px border around the screen. I have tried changing themes, no fix. Same thing with disabling effects. I do like the Mint-Y theme, but there's no longer an option to change window borders, from what I've researched. Again, trying a different theme didn't seem to get rid of the white border.
I just get a quick black flicker and it goes back to minimized. I also tried changing the win argument to :SELECT: from the documentation you linked, but it still doesn't pull up the window and keep it there.
The command does work for other windows, for clarification.
An extra detail: I'm using 2 monitors. When playing with borderless window and moving the mouse rapidly, I've had my mouse escape the focused window a few times and start clicking stuff on my desktop.
I have a N150 mini PC running F42 (KDE), it runs basically perfectly. N150 is a pretty new CPU so you will need a recent kernel, and F42 already using 6.14, so it is fine (just don't run Debian on it).
However the only thing that worries me is the battery of that tablet. The N150 use around 10-20W under load, and with the 25WHr battery, it probably going to latest around 1 to 2 hours only.
@pastermil If you want a newer kernel than is provided in the apt package manager, you can download the latest from kernel.org, unxz it with unxz kernel-version.tar.xz, then untar it. It will give you a directory like linux-6.14.6, cd to that directory and do a make mrproper to remove any residual crap that might have been left there by the maintainer or a previous build, then if you want the stock debian configuration copy the current config file from /boot to .config, then make any adjustments to the .config, including some automatic adjustments that get made for your environment with make config, make menuconfig, makexconfig, make gconfig, whatever you prefer. For xconfig and gconfig which are graphical configuration GUIs you may need to install some libs that aren't installed by default on Debian but ARE provided in your apt package manager. Then make -j$(NPROC) bindeb-pkg, for example on my machine 18 cores, 36 threads, I would do make -j36 bindeb-pkg to fully utilize the CPU cores, on the 18 core machine this takes about 7 minutes, on my 8 core workstation about 18, when it's done you'll be left with three or four .deb packages (depending upon whether or not save DEBUG is turned on or off in the kernel config). When you are done install the packages with dpkg -i *.deb, check /boot and your new kernel should be installed.
Maybe a dumb question. But is this just a matter of copying over? I have 6 hdds I've accumulated and want all the data from them on one big drive now. They are all ntfs as they are from windows, but I am going to boot from my mint drive to move the files, just so windows isnt running or accessing anything on the drives while I move the data. I'm transitioning to full linux, but I want to consolidate these drives first. I dont want to clone drives, so no dd here, just copying files from 6 different drives onto 1.
@applemao Yep, I would just mount the windows partitions on /mnt one at a time and copy the data where you want to go, cp -a /mnt/data/ /newlocation/data/
Have you looked into building a simple NAS? Storing files on single disks is generally bad since it is inefficient and can lead to data loss and theft.
It might sound like overkill but it gives you a lot of power and flexibility. Get an old desktop with at least 8gb of ram and then install a few drives. Next install TrueNAS, configure the disks, configure file share and call it a day.
@Possibly linux @applemao I wouldn't worry so much about efficiency as redundancy, better to have at least two drives and set up a RAID1 array, and given that the Linux kernel already has RAID, NFS, etc, I don't see the point in being dependent upon additional software such as TruNAS. That said yes it's just a matter of copying files to move the data over BUT a windows executable often will not work in a LInux environment even with wine, particularly if it contains what is known as a rootkit anti-cheat. You can however fairly easily setup a windows vm under linux.
@Possibly linux To be sure, but I assume since he was formerly running Windows performance wasn't an issue. No, it's obvious he is more concerned with getting the clutter factor down so he stated a preference for a single large drive, and if data isn't important or backed up some other media fine. If not, then you risk losing your data because sooner later drives fail. If performance was really the goal he'd raid a bunch of nvme drives together. This, by the way, is what I do for the system that runs this friendica node, along with an 18 core processor and 256 gb of RAM.
If I want to install something, I can either do "dnf install [program name]" or "flatpak install [program name]". Same goes for when I want to remove a program. And for flatpak at least, I typed ONE WORD from a game I was uninstalling because I didn't remember to exact tag and flatpak asked me "do you want to install [full tag of game]? y/n" like HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE THAT IS SO CONVENIENT
Something else you can do. Install oh-my-bash or oh-my-zsh, either, with zoxide jump around. Any of the directories you visit are tracked and weighted with a frecency weighted value. Then all you need to do is type in parts of the name to go there.
For instance, if I had directories ~/code/dev_repo/project-one ~/code/dev_repo/project-two ~/code/dev_repo/project-three
Then you just type z dev one or z co re pro two You know, the parts of the directories you remember. The more you visit various directories and the more recent, the weighting is higher and the more likely you get the correct directory you want with even less and less characters. Also check out atuin it adds a fuzzy finding to your bash history or zsh history.
Some stuff is better, but I overall prefer chocolatey because it is closer to classic package manager experience. Winget will still open the installer windows of some applications. But you can use both, no need to decide for one, they install into the same directories and will manage the other's applications just fine (as they're all standard Windows installers).
Hello, I would like to customize the Raspberry Pi Ubuntu image before I flash it to multiple SD cards. I tried to use Cubic: I downloaded the official image which is an img.xz file. I extracted it, and converted the img to iso since Cubic only accepts iso files. However, when I try to add this source iso in Cubic, it complains about having a wrong file format. Can you suggest a better way to try and customize it? I just need to uninstall some software that are there by default, and install others that are not there, nothing crazy really.
Hmm I don't know if there's a "correct" way, but you could flash the stock version on the first SD card and fire Ubuntu up. Then configure your system and shut down.
Next I would dd the whole SD card into an .img file which then you could flash to all other SD cards.
Be aware of changing hostname and static IP for each new sd card to avoid network trouble
I am running Bazzite and downloaded the google fonts from github and extracted all the .ttf files into a folder. I then drag and dropped them into the font manager. All installed correctly.
When I rebooted, I notice that some of my apps now show the fonts as italics. Firefox and Thunderbird show italics, certain websites (like reddit and homarr) all show in italics no matter what type of browser I use.
I rebuilt my font cache multiple times to troubleshoot but no dice. I tried changing the sytem font to something else, no dice. Wondering where to go from here? I am running KDE.
Some fonts may require additional configuration to display properly, so usually manual installation should be avoided.
Please run (and post the result here) fc-match sans and fc-match serif to check fontconfig picks wrong italic font. If that's the case, try to remove the TTF files you've installed via the font manager you're using, then install the fonts via the package manager - it should configures fonts properly.
So from this thread it looks like I need to disable this font. I'm not able to as it gives me errors :/
I'm going to restart and see if I still get these errors.
Edit: still have the errors. Nuking this install because I’ve exhausted all troubleshooting. Moved all files to new user and redownloaded and configured my apps. Gives me an excuse to start fresh because the home folder was getting cluttered.
My question is in the titel: What is a good approach to deploy docker images on a Raspberry Pi and run them?
To give you more context: The Raspberry Pi runs already an Apache server for letsencrypt and as a reverse proxy, and my home grown server should be deployed in a docker image.
To my understanding, one way to achieve this would be to push all sources over to the Raspberry Pi, build the docker image on the Raspberry Pi, give the docker image a 'latest' tag and use Systemd with Docker or Podman to execute the image.
My questions:
Has anyone here had a similar problem but used a different approach to achieve this?
Has anyone here automated this whole pipeline that in a perfect world, I just push updated sources to the Raspberry Pi, the new docker image gets build and Docker/Podman automatically pick up the new image?
I would also be happy to be pointed at any available resources (websites/books) which explain how to do this.
At the moment I am using Raspbian 12 with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and the whole setup works with home grown servers which are simply deployed as binaries and executed via systemd. My Docker knowledge is mostly from a developer perspective, so I know nearly nothing about deploying Docker on a production machine. (Which means, if there is a super obvious way to do this I might not even be aware this way exists.)
So you're building your own images? I'm sure there's a way to build, transfer, and run an image. But you might just set up a local registry. Or just throw them up on a free registry like GitHub.
My development machine is an AMD64 and the Pi is an Aarch64... I have no clue how complicated cross-building images for a different architecture is?!? (I am thinking about using something like Erlang/Elixir, so I honestly don't know at all.)
I am not totally opposed to use a registry (free or payed), but, correct me if I am wrong: If I just build the image on the Pi, it is already exactly at the one spot where I need it, so what problem is solved for me by using a registry?
Edit: Someone above mentioned docker buildx, so seems cross compilation is solved.
Gitlab is relatively heavy, so I dont know how it will go on a raspi (I run on a Intel nuc). You can run gitlab on a separate machine, and the CI runner on your Pi.
I actually have no sense how common that is. My experience is with very small non-production docker environments, and with Kubernetes, but I have no idea what people typically do in between.
It's common with rootless docker/podman. Something needs to start up the services, and you're not using a root enabled docker/podman socket, so systems it is.
Step 3: Assuming you've got a grub bootloader, boot into Linux Mint, use GParted or Gnome-Disk-Utility
Step 4: Identify your NTFS Windows 11 partition, the utility should show if it is mounted or not (it should not be mounted unless you added it to /etc/fstab
Step 5: resize your Linux mint partition (ext4fs), & make sure you don't accidentally move the partition
Step 6: sudo update-grub to remove the entries for Windows 11 since it doesn't exist anymore
More info on if you've got an HDD vs SSD, MBR vs GPT partitioning, or a screenshot of your partition table from either of the disk utilities in step 3 would help us help you
Edit I haven't tried this myself, but from what I can find the gparted part is not necessary. You can get rid of Windows and re-use it for Linux with a single command: btrfs device add / /dev/old_windows_partition. The rest of the considerations below still apply.
The answer to the question you asked is: make sure you know which partition it is and run dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<partition> bs=1024. Then you'll probably want to find which boot loader you're using and remove the Windows option. That will delete Windows.
To re-use the free space, which most folks are focusing on, might be far easier than all of the other comments.
Odds are decent that you're using btrfs. Most reasonable Linux distros default to it, so unless you changed it, it's probably btrfs. With btrfs, you can simply reformat the Windows partition and add it to your existing filesystem.
Use the program gparted. You can do all of this on the command line with fdisk, but gparted is a GUI program and is easier if you're more comfortable with GUIs. Find the Windows partition, make sure you now it's the Windows partition and not the boot partition (the boot partition will be the really tiny one), click on the Windows partition and choose the "change partition type" function to switch it to a Linux partition. There will be warnings; heed them, double check, and then save and exit.
Add the old Windows partition to your existing filesystem with: btrfs device add / /dev/sdx2 . This adds the partition /dev/sdx2 to the filesystem mounted at / -- your root partition. Replace /dev/sdx2 with whatever partition Windows used to be on.
That's it. Now your Linux filesystem is using the old Windows partition. Without changing the boot options, when you reboot your system may still believe there's a Windows to boot into. If you're using EFI, it should just disappear, but with grub you'll have to tell grub that Windows isn't there anymore or else it'll keep offering it to you at each boot.
You are almost certainly not using RAID, so you don't need to worry about rebalancing.
Summary: it is very likely your distribution used btrfs for your Linux partition. In that case, the absolute easiest way to get rid of Windows and use it for Linux is to wipe and change the Windows partition with either gparted (GUI) or fdisk (command line) and simply add the partition to your btrfs filesystem. No reformatting, repartitioning, reinstalling; just tell btrfs to use it and you're done.
Do not ask people how to do this. If you don't know from a web search, you shouldn't try this without backing up a full disk image and understanding how to roll it back. Or at least backing up everything you care about
It's not a particularly hard thing, but it's a very irreversible one
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Feddit.org announced today that they are changing their rules to match German law despite their server not being hosted in Germany.
Feddit.org now bans:
The sentence "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
Comparing Israel to the Nazis
Calls to end Zionism
Calling for the dissolution of Israel
And much more. The full original post can be found here, or
::: spoiler Click here for full text of original post:
Hi.
In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this post.
While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany. Speaking of, our server admins have also posted a write-up on the same topic.
And with that, let's go:
In Germany, antisemitism is specifically sanctioned in German criminal law, both for speech and as a motivation for other criminal behavior. In addition, Germany seeks to protect the Jewish state of Israel (the so-called "Reason of State" introduced in 2008) and thus verges toward protecting Zionism as well. Certain criticism of Israel/Israelis is also categorized as "Israel-related antisemitism".
Since criminal law is involved, enforcement can mean things like police raids and device confiscations. After such police action, it does not really matter if it was appropriate or if cases are dropped or never charged: The damage is done. All told, it's not that fun.
There is also no point in engaging in discussions about the veracity of statements that could get us into legal trouble. In addition, we believe that you can express most opinions without breaking rules.
If your comment contains the following, it will be removed from this community:
Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular.
Calling for a destruction, annihilation, an end of all Zionism or the like.
Equating Israeli actions and (historical) Nazism.
The slogan "from the river..."
Endorsement of or justifications for Hamas or Hezbollah, or slogans or graphics positively referring to these organizations. These are considered terrorist organizations in Germany.
... and obviously: Any of the common antisemitic tropes or calls to violence against Jews or Israelis
Comments will not be removed for the following:
Denouncing genocide.
Denouncing Israeli war crimes.
Criticizing Zionism as an ideology or political movement.
Referring to the current Israeli government as "criminal," "expansionist," or "far-right".
If your comment is removed nonetheless, these are not the reason. I'd also like to stress that this community was never a free-speech-absolutist zone: It is a (usually lightly) moderated community. There may also be times when bans go too far. In such cases, please DM the @EuroMod@feddit.org account (which all mods have access to).
:::spoiler To help you understand why, I'll leave an assortment of sources here (translations via DeepL).
Berlin in mid-May [2024] around 6 o'clock in the morning. A loud, continuous "banging" against the apartment door wakes student Alina T. from her sleep. [...] When her husband opens the door, several LKA officers, two employees of the district office and the SEK "storm" past him into the apartment. Puzzled, he looks at the search warrant. [...] The background to this was a Facebook entry in the student's profile: "From the river [...]
In November 2023, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs also issued a prohibition order against Hamas.[60] According to the order, "the slogan 'From the River to the Sea' (in German or other languages)" is a distinguishing mark of Hamas[61]. [...] the current legal situation [regarding "Denial of Israel's right to exist"] is - contrary to what the statements of the Federal Ministry of Justice suggest[63] - anything but clear. Whether incitements to eliminate the State of Israel are prosecuted depends on the respective legal opinion and the prosecution will of the respective public prosecutor's office.
In this context, Section 111 StGB, which covers public incitement to commit crimes, may also be relevant. Incitement to extinguish Israel's existence by force may be punishable under this provision. The same applies to calls to publicly display the Hamas flag. If Hamas attacks are publicly cheered and celebrated, this may also be punishable. This means that people who cheer on Hamas's actions or publicly express their sympathy with the attacks may constitute the criminal offence of "approval of criminal acts" under Section 140 of the German Criminal Code (StGB).
Another news report > In connection with the controversial Palestine Congress in Berlin, the German authorities have also imposed an entry ban on former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. "In order to prevent antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda at the event", several entry bans have been issued, the news agency AFP learned from security sources on Sunday. One of these concerned Varoufakis. (Notably, Varoufakis would have spoken about one-state solutions ...)
Seit dem 7. Oktober haben antisemitische Vorfälle in Deutschland stark zugenommen. Doch nicht hinter jedem Fall steckt eine strafbare Handlung. Auch bei bloßem Verdacht kann es zu Durchsuchungen kommen - und sogar zur Abschiebung.
It is because their admins are in Germany and they fear the extreme repercussion that the German State has done recently. Did you even read the post you pasted? Are are you intentionally trying to stir up drama?
Not everyone lives in safety these days. Fascism has made it hard to do things like host a volunteer run online forum safely. There are cases where the heavily armed anti-terrorism unit SEK search peoples houses at gun point for this. Do you think online moderators should be required to catch a bullet for your posts?
~~Not being able to criticize leaders that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against is bonkers and simple censorship.~~
EDIT: After reading the official announcement thoroughly, I have to say the title seems... wrong? There are very specific things that are not allowed, some of which I can agree with. Others however, I do not.
Despite all the culture of remembrance, despite all the memorials and despite all the history lessons, the general public is simply not aware of how efficiently, ruthlessly and industrially the Nazis carried out the Holocaust.
At its peak, in Operation Reinhard, from April to November 1942, 2.5 million Jews were murdered. 10,000 every day. In specially built camps to which people were transported by rail and sent directly to the gas chambers, where there was practically no chance of survival. In Majdanek, over 18,000 people were murdered in 9 hours. By 1945, two thirds of European Jews had been murdered and in the end only the advance of the Allies prevented the rest from being murdered as well.
This is the much-vaunted singularity of the Holocaust, namely the systematic, industrial murder in special murder factories. This industrial rate of murder is unique in the long history of genocides. Stalin's camps were cruel, but they were not extermination camps with gas chambers. This also applies to other genocides.
So if you honestly compare the Gaza War with the Holocaust, you quickly realize that it is something completely different. And anyone who seriously equates the two is trivializing the Holocaust to an extent that almost borders on Holocaust denial. This is guaranteed to lead someone here to call me a “genocide denier”, but: if Israel acted like the Nazis in the Gaza Strip, all the women and children would be dead by now and a few last surviving men would be maltreated to death as work slaves. And yes, we all know why Israel of all places is constantly compared to the Holocaust, even though there is no factual basis.
*automatically translated from a feddit.org user I very much agree with. Not citing the account to not disclose them to save them from brigading.
This is the much-vaunted singularity of the Holocaust, namely the systematic, industrial murder in special murder factories. This industrial rate of murder is unique in the long history of genocides.
The Israelis used goddamn IA and bombed entire block because a software established a high enough probability that a some hamas goon might be there.
That's bullshit. The parallel is extremely warranted.
This kind of seems... reasonable? Like, they have and convey a compelling legal reason for needing to do this. There's plenty of other Lemmy instances where these opinions and statements can be freely expressed. Further, they're explicitly allowing discourse that conveys similar sentiment but doesn't go against German law.
I guess my question is, what's the objection here?
Mostly that they host the main Europe-centric comm, !Europe@feddit.org. You can see the problem when criticism of Europe's most powerful country is censored in said comm, and users banned, for relatively innocuous comments.
They do not. Their servers are not hosted in Germany. If their moderators feel like they would be endangered for not following German law they should step down instead of applying their German censorship to a European server.
Their moderators and German users appear to proudly agree with these German censorship laws in the comments beneath their post. So the legal part looks more like a convenient excuse.
I’m not calling for the admins to be burned at the stake. If you don’t perceive an obvious slant in their words that’s fine - I’m sharing my take just like they’re sharing theirs.
Y'all should actually read the post. They're clear that they don't want to do this but fear extreme repression by the German government, and they even listed examples of what exactly they're trying to avoid. I'm no Israel apologist, but I'm convinced.
I agree. Nobody should be risking their safety / livelihood / whatever to host a random internet discussion site. That doesn't mean we should leave the situation as it is. I believe the main concern is to move off the !europe comm there and onto the new one at !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Zionism is a fascist ideology. There is nothing to gain from hosting in a country where people feel compelled to suppress opposition to and liberation against that fascist ideology out of fear of incarceration and police brutality
Feddit users commenting beneath it support this. One of them made this "meme":
Feddit.org has also been banning users for things such as comparing Israel to the Nazis before they made this post. Then they owned up to it as their personal views. This is why they do not say they disagree with the German laws but they "do not wish to discuss it."
I get their concerns but we shouldn't be bullied into silence. The Israeli government is a piece of shit and we should all be allowed to say that until they've proven otherwise.
From the text of their original post it sounds like you're still allowed to say that. It's worth reading the post text itself (not saying that to change your stance, I have complicated feelings about this choice by them, but knowing what they're actually saying is worthwhile)
You can do anything except demand things which could meaningfully resolve the issue.
People are not being allowed to call for the dissolution of the Israeli Apartheid government . They are only allowed to voice slight discontent with Israel.
Forcing people to call a major crime a minor crime is a massive form of repression in itself and it serves to downplay reality while pretending there is no censorship.
Calling a state criminal, expantionist, genocidal, brutal, saying that they should answer for their crimes, give back palestinian territories immediatly, be boycotted by the whole world, even be subject to military intervention is still perfectly fine, and that's clearly not "slight discontent". If you were conscious of this, you message is huge bad faith.
What they do not allow is calling for the end of Israel, in any way. That's indeed a major crackdown on freedom of expression, but it does not leave you wordless for Israel criticism, unless your only goal is to be against Israel, and you don't care being alongside Palestine.
Genocidal : again, genocide is NOT a nazi-only thing. And yes it's bad to not be able to equate, yet alone compare Nazis and Israel government. But you can still say 'Israel is genocidal'.
Palestinian territories : this is my bad, not an expert on the matter + did not think through. I meant territories destined to Palestinians in previous two-state solutions and at least recent territory annexion. From what the message says, you can still say that.
Military intervention : you can support the intervention without supporting people doing it. Also, you can support official interventions of other countries instead of guerrillas groups. The fact that most of those groups use terrorists methods, like targetting civilians (yes, those one that Israel and most states in the world also use) does not help with terrorism part, and i think we all agree that there should be no support for hamas or hezbollah directly, though they fight for objective we should defend. (and yes, Israel is doing worse for religious and racist reasons too, and they have a kind of immunity partly because of the anti-antisemitism rethoric partly because they are a state and states are rarely condemned for use of terrorist tactics, all of this is compatible).
I don't think they are actually zionist or pro-genocide. But they are definitely not good mods, and they just didn't handle it in a good way. It's not the first time I've seen problems with that community moderation team, they tend inho to powertrip. I suppose they are friends or the same people as feddit.org admins and that's why they defend them so much. But I don't think that moderation team is up to the task of moderating a big community.
Nothing wrong with it, moderation is hard, very hard. And not everyone is qualified for it. They should just step back. Or just close the community if they are so heavy censored by their country legislation.
It reeks to me of living in a bubble your whole life and never having experienced police repression - so your only response is "it can't be the police, they've never done anything against me, it must be the protestors that are wrong"
Usually I'm one that hates leftist infighting but defacto trying to suppress a genocide because the "law says so" is rather weak. Still I totally understand wanting to protect yourself from repression but surely if you cared about both justice and your well being you would just hand over the community to someone else? Unless of course you actually agree with the "law"...
I'd like to never boot into Windows again. I have VirtualBox installed where I can install Windows 11 if I need to but is there anything that it(Windows on a VM) wouldn't be able to do like accessing hardware devices? Thanks in advance
It depends on what you’re studying. Some majors like accounting might require you to use Excel, for example. On the other hand, when I was getting my BS+MS in computer engineering, running Linux was actually advantageous
Yes, the price is the point. Excel (Office) is that dirt fucking cheap, industry standard, and comes with a bunch of other shit included that can be legitimate value add for a small business.
If you're at a firm that has legitimate need for specialized accounting software, you'll have enough money to get those. But even those generally export to Excel format. Without outing myself too much, I've had comsiderable exposure to financial tech over the last decade and less than 10 specialized accounting softwares I've seen couldn't export to Excel. All of those still exported to csv, or "software agnostic excel" if we want to bend things a bit.
The power of being industry standard for going on 30 years now cannot be overstated.
I got through University running Debian testing. It was mostly fine, some Linux based subjects were way easier without dealing with a VM (they recommended against WSL for some reason).
However there were a couple units that absolutely required you to use Visual Studio (non-code), I occasionally used a VM, the Uni IT also provided me with a remote VM (there's a form to fill and and it's all automated). But I mostly used Rider, which for one unit it confused their CI and I got mark down for (otherwise got top marks so it's fine).
For office, it didn't matter. Group projects mostly used Google Docs, occasionally Microsoft Office where the online version worked fine. All my units wanted PDFs at the end anyway, so it does not matter that you used LibreOffice or whatever. Some units provided you with DOCX templates, I had no issues opening them with LibreOffice.
Edit: People are mentioning online exams, my Uni did 'online quizzes' which worked fine, and some had to be done in class on their PCs anyway. Final exams where always done on paper.
Currently studying Computer Engineering. I did manage to get most stuff working without needing Windows.
It came usually at the cost of extra work, but I'd say it was worth it. So far I even got to writing makefiles for C++ projects targetting some Atmel chip (Microchip Studio is Windows only). And in some cases I even found better tools than what they privided us with.
Unless you need some very very specific program or run into some wierd constrains you will be fine.
Cannot speak for other schools in other countries (and I guess this question was targeted at colleges in USA), but I am currently studying Open informatics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Czech technical university in Prague and all the courses I have that are not mathematical, but require to use a computer do take into accoun t that you may not be using only Windows, but also MacOS or Linux. I haven't yet encounterered a software that we would be required to use and wouldn't work on Linux, nor did I have to go through any more hassle because I use Linux, but rather contrary to that. In some cases using Linux made things easier for me.
Hi, I've recently discovered that steam client on linux requires the XTEST extension to handle input from controller. However, I can not enable XTEST on gdm no matter what I've done. Switch to lightdm solves it instanly but I prefer gdm.
Could you provide some hint how to debug it and have you experienced that before? Thank you very much!
I have never heard about this, can you link to your source for this? Also what's the symptom here exactly?
AFAIK steam and games directly use the kernel devices for controller input, not any X11 extensions.
Edit: Wait!? Do you want to use the controller as keyboard + mouse? Inside of GDM? Because that might use XTEST after reading about it, since XTEST seems to be some kind of testing protocol that allows one to emulate a mouse.
No steam uses XTEST under the hood for controller. You can see a bug report here. You could try to disable the XTEST extensions and the steam client will crash if you connect with a controller.
For the symptom, If I do a xdpyinfo it will print a list of enabled extensions and no matter what i've tried it does not have the XTEST extension.
Your system information Steam client version (build number or date): Latest as of June 22 Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Debian bookworm Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No Have you checked for...
Interesting. I will say I suspect still this is to make the controller act as a mouse or keyboard somehow, which steam can do.
One interesting thing is that it says in the bug report, that steam also requires uinput, which is used to create virtual input devices from userspace. And maybe (speculating) you need that for XTEST to work on wayland or something, or maybe steam can use uinput instead of XTEST if it's not available.
Or maybe it's security-related somehow (Regular programs being able to create virtual keyboards is kind of a security issue).
For me the output of getfacl /dev/uinput will list my username with read/write permissions. I have no idea what is responsible for giving me this permission but there it is.
Unfortunately I can not login with GDM using X. I am having the same bug as in here :/ For wayland, I have both read/write permissions for my username.
Also I can use the PS5 controller as a mouse just fine. Another symptom I see is when I run xdotool mousemove 150 150, it will print Warning: XTEST extension unavailable on '(null)'. Some functionality may be disabled; See 'man xdotool' for more info.. The null here is concerning to me. Not sure how it says on other system.
When you use lightdm, do you use it to log into a Gnome wayland session, same as with GDM? Or is there any other difference between using GDM and LightDM? What exactly is/isn't working, and how can you tell it is related to the XTEST extension?
Also I can use the PS5 controller as a mouse just fine.
Ok, this could maybe be the kernel driver creating a "real" touchpad device. Steam is able to create fake/virtual mouse and keyboard devices, I suspect that's what steam uses XTEST and/or uinput for. So even though your PS5 touchpad works, that does not invalidate my theory that steam wants XTEST for mouse/keyboard input fakery, because that's what exactly what XTEST is for.
So technically, Steam wouldn't require XTEST for controller input, it would require XTEST to map controller inputs to fake mouse or keyboard inputs. I don't know what exactly steam does if XTEST isn't present, like what exactly doesn't work?
And XTEST is an X11 protocol extension, it probably doesn't work properly under Wayland anyway.
The null here is concerning to me.
Dunno, '(null)' might just refer to the default connection (or server or screen or whatever X11 object this refers to), so not sure if this something to be concerned about. I presume X11 clients in general do work? Like xterm or xeyes work, right?
I am having the same bug as in here :/
The fact that you cannot log in may seem/look like that exact issue you linked to, but that's from 2019 and may have a different cause. In general, GDM will start some executable, (i.e. gnome-session or something like that, or at least it used to be gnome-session, haven't used gnome in a while) which if it exits/crashes this will kick you back to GDM. It could crash for many reasons.
You should check the logs for sure for both issues. X11 session logs (relating to Gnome X11 not starting), should be in ~/.xsession-errors (or ~/.xsession-errors.old for the previous session, I think). There may be a /var/log/Xorg.0.log for xorg, which I guess could also be the thing crashing (maybe). There may be other things logged with journald that could be relevant. journalctl --user should show all the logs for the user session. Logs from Gnome, since it runs as your user, would presumably show up there. My guess is all the relevant logs for a Gnome wayland session would also be there, as well as (hopefully) Xwayland errors/warnings, since Xwayland is actually the thing that would report it doesn't support XTEST.
Note that journalctl likes to show the oldest logs first, so look at the timestamps. You can press G to scroll to the end. There are various ways to filter messages, look at journalctl --help. You might want to use --grep to look for anything related to XTEST or xwayland.
Lightdm and GDM are systemd units (systemctl list-units), the logs would show with something like sudo journalctl -u lightdm.
Have all new stuff all AMD. Running bazzite and the gpu ( 9070 xt ) does not work, when I plug in the monitor to either port type it just compresses everything up at the top of the screen all warped. Everything works fine on the MB ports not sure what I might have done to screw it up. Saw some posts talking about proper versions for the kernel and mesa and both those seemed to be new enough for the GPU ( 6.14.4-104.bazzite.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) ) and Mesa 25.0.1
Those errors seemed to be in games from their posts though my monitor will not even display the desktop or anything else properly what am I missing?
edit
I was waiting for the card to come down in price and I put my old 3060 TI into this new system at first. How do I check if the drivers updated to new ones or if I have to do it manually? Maybe that is what is wrong
It's to verify if either a configuration in Bazzite is the cause(such as your drivers), or if it is hardware related. The other comment asking if you installed the Nvidia version of Bazzite suspects driver issues as well, so a live USB would be able to rule it out or confirm it.
Alternatively, and probably the better option is to just take backups of your files and such and then reinstall Bazzite to the system, making sure you are using a version that is compatible with you graphics card. You don't seem as though you know a tonne about Linux, so I would probably recommend that over trying to rebase the OS, as it will generally be easier for you to do I think, and more completely insure system stability.
Someone fixed a similar issue by setting their display color accuracy to "Prefer Efficency" instead of "Prefer Accuracy"
you can boot ostree:1 change the setting, run sudo ostree admin pin 1 then rebase back to testing (not reboot to ostree:0) that should hopefully work around it
The card requires linux kernel 6.13.5 with split lock detect off, Mesa 25, and the latest linux firmware. Wendel from level 1 provided information in his post.
I have to use Zscaler on my work PC. I use Sway (Moved from Gnome -> i3 -> sway).
Whenever Zscaler is launched, I used to get a weird error "proxy server not found" but it continued to work otherwise. Now at my company, we used a proxy at one time but we shifted to a no-proxy connection recently.
So I checked all my environment variables, output of set command. Everything was fine. People said it could be because of some weird compliance issue, or kernel etc etc. After a week or so, I gave up on debugging it because most of my work was fine with the 50% functional Zscaler.
One day, I opened Gnome instead of Sway to check something else, and saw that my proxy was on. This is the proxy set in Gnome Settings, not environment file.
I initially dismissed this finding because I thought Gnome is not active during sway so it should not affect it. But then i remembered it's possible to access the gnome settings using gsettings from any distro.
I switched to Sway, and sure enough, when I ran gsettings get org.gnome.system.proxy.http host, I could see the proxy IP. I set it to null and behold! Zscaler was working perfectly.
I'm like "Who the hell designs software like this? The application should read the environment variables, not Gnome variables!"
Anyway, this was just a reminder to software makers to kindly follow the norms. Don't design your software for one Distro. Follow the guidelines as mentioned in freedesktop.
I am not sure whos advocate i am being here but theres class of vibe coding enthusiasts that get heavily demotivated by being told to do things a certain way.
The trade of for this chaos is. At least know how to code and participate in open source projects and once in a full moon some creative actually designs something nova and inspiring.
It's an issue but its a pretty niche one. Even software that works great on most distros might misbehave when you have multiple desktop environments installed. And http_proxy use doesn't appear to be standardized by freedesktop, LSB, etc. Though it is pretty well adhered to: about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/…
So yeah, I agree with the spirit of this but its tough to follow the standard when there is no standard
Because various people have asked for it, I’ve mirrored all the GitLab Bookface and Postbox repositories to GitHub: github.com/randompenguin1?tab=…
The canonical location is still on GitLab, that's where I'll still be making the actual commits. The Bookface wiki is also still on GitLab (it apparently doesn't get included when mirroring to GitHub). And the actual Releases are still on GitLab because GitHub apparently only mirrors the version tags.
My projects website page, however, is hosted at GitHub because I ran into problems setting one up on GitLab: randompenguin1.github.io/
For some reason Calibre won't let me do anything because "drive is full" which I assume has to do with this.
Update: I believe I "fixed" the error with Calibre by using FlatSeal to add environment variable CALIBRE_TEMP_DIR that changes the Temp directory to something else.
How'd it get full then? And if it's supposed to be 100%, any ideas on how can I get Calibre (so far the only app I've noticed that is giving trouble) to ignore it?
I have Linux Mint installed on my work PC. As I work with IT I am sometimes tasked with doing stuff like restoring Iphones and such, which is normally done through Itunes. But there's no Linux support for Itunes, and I haven't been able to install it through Wine. I also can't use a VM as my PC isn't powerful enough for it. I'm hoping there's a solution for this, as I will have to re-install Windows if I can't get it to work on Linux, and I really want to avoid that.
Wine can't properly access USB devices, so even if you got iTunes installed, it wouldn't work.
I'm sceptical that a VM is out of the question, one should run on almost anything, though not necessarily perform well. I would give it an attempt, if you didn't already.
Still, it might be simplest to set up a windows install with itunes on a usb, or second partition, and boot into windows only when you need to.
One would think, but so you haven't actually done it, right? Because I might be misremembering, but I'm pretty sure I tried to install Windows onto a USB drive one time, but I couldn't get the installer to show the USB drive.
1,Getting a Mac with apple silicon and install asahi , dual boot. 2. Add a new SSD and some ram to your current one and enable virtualization in bios. Might need a bios update as well. 3 Dual boot windows , might want to check out ameliorated.io/ 4 Get a old crappy Mac just for the itunes. 5. Use the Linux tools mentioned earlier
Hello, I'm still a noob when it comes to computers. I had a dual boot Windows 11 and OpenSuse Leap 15.6. My problem is that I was using my laptop as always and I was simply searching through internet when the system glitched. So I tried to restart my laptop, but then it showed screens with sth like Bios corrupted, blue screen etc. And then it restarted but only with Windows 11. When I check the settings partition has fully free memory, so it means that my OpenSuse is gone.
What could have gone wrong?
Sorry for the noob question and thanks for any help. I'm just really davastated.
I've figured out that after the Event 41 Task 63 I've must have clicked Enter at some point during the restart (I don't remember) and Leap got deleted. It's not about showing partitions correctly but it's really just gone. Eh Thanks for the answer anyway
but to repeat: windows dies not understand linux partitions to any extent. it shows them as "uninitialized space" or something like that, so that it looks like it's gone. It's always best to check the partitions with gparted on a live system (e.g. systemrescue linux)
Divine D. project is developing a Linux phone with a RK3588s processor
The Rockchip RK3588 processor family has been around for a few years now, and it has proven to be a popular option for single-board computers, laptops, and other devices that generally run Android or Linux-based software.
More recently we’ve started to see folks tap this chip for use in Linux smartphones. The first was the Liberux NEXX that was announced earlier this year ahead of an […]
So, for context, I have an HDMI dummy plug that is disabled most of the time, but enabled through command-line to use as a virtual display for game streaming with Sunshine.
In GNOME settings, the display is disabled, and that works just fine. I can enable/disable it at will whenever I want to stream games using the new gdctl utility added in GNOME 48.
I want this “monitor” to be disabled in GDM as well since it keeps trying to use the dummy plug as the default display and I can’t see and of the UI elements and have to type my password in blindly. I’ve copied over my monitor config from /home/user/.config/monitors.xml to /var/lib/gdm/.config/monitors.xml as per the Arch Wiki’s recommendations, but when I log out/reboot, nothing changes on GDM. It still tries to show the password entry UI on the dummy plug and my actual display just shows a gray screen.
I know the configs are different for X11 and wayland, but both GDM and GNOME are running under wayland, so that shouldn’t be the issue.
Just checked the ownership of the monitor config, it was gdm:root, so I changed the ownership to gdm:gdm and rebooted. Still facing the same issue.
Didn’t see any error messages in the logs about not being able to load wayland, but just to confirm, I ran loginctl show-session {gdm session id} -p Type which returns Type=wayland, so it’s definitely running under wayland. I have an AMD GPU though so I wouldn’t expect there to be any problems there.
Not seeing anything else weird in the logs that are jumping out as strange to me either, so a bit at a loss here. Any other suggestions?
The disabled dummy plug is the “Evanlak8K V2” device while my functional monitor is my Samsung Odyssey OLED G9. This config is the same as the one currently running on my GNOME desktop config, but in GDM still defaults to the enabled dummy plug, even with the fixed ownership.
At this point, do you think I should issue a report on GDM’s repository? Maybe the devs there would have more insight
My monitors.xml has two <configuration> blocks, with the only real difference being that one has <layoutmode>physical</layoutmode> and the second has <layoutmode>logical</layoutmode>. I don't really think that'd be the issue here though, because if the dummy plug is listed as disabled it shouldn't be trying to use it anyway...?
I think you're right in reporting it to the GDM repo, at a minimum someone there will know where to point you towards figuring this out. Maybe the GNOME Mutter repo might be a related stop for this too, seeing that's the part generating the monitors.xml...
The things that are supposed to be simple are always the bits that suck the most!
Very well said. Thank you very much for your help. I wouldn’t have known to check the ownership issues or if GDM were properly running Wayland were it not for your help. I’ll reach out to the GNOME devs on the relevant repositories and see if they might be able to point me in the right direction. Thank you for your time and expertise.
I’m working on a custom Linux Mint ISO (using Cubic) for a dedicated system with auto-login. I’m trying to automate Vino (VNC server) setup during installation using preseed, but I’m running into two issues:
Changing Vino settings in preseed commands
I need to set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods to ['vnc'] for the autologin user. I’ve tried variations of:
in-target su -c "gsettings set org.gnome.Vino authentication-methods \"['vnc']\"" username
But the setting doesn’t persist. I’ve also tested in-target sh -c and direct gsettings calls without luck.
What’s the correct way to apply gsettings changes for a specific user during preseed?
Autostarting Vino Server
I need /usr/lib/vino/vino-server to start automatically after login. Since this is an auto-login system, I’d prefer a method that:
Works via preseed (e.g., adding to startup apps).
Can be toggled later via Cinnamon’s startup settings (if possible).
What’s the best way to set this up? .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/? Or another approach? Preferably, it would be more easily configurable in userspace, but if this is the only option then I understand.
I have a thinkpad lying around. I have used Linux over the last 5 years and I an NOT a power user. I use Mint and it gets the job done for me.
Lately though, the whole libre software bug bit me and I want at least one machine that is libre compatible through and through. I have heard some stuff like Parabola and GNUIX or something like that, but thought it best to ask around first before even thinking about something like this.
My work essentially involves writing documents (LaTeX and LibreOffice), doing statistical analysis, and making lectures. I access emails via Thunderbird. That's it.
Does anyone here daily drive a fully libre laptop?
When exploring the libre distributions recommended by GNU.org or broader FOSS communities, I find myself questioning whether being „blob-free" is truly enough. Some suggested distributions - such as Guix - host their code on GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.
Similarly, systemd is maintained by Red Hat, a company closely tied to IBM and known to collaborate with Microsoft. It's used in distributions like Parabola and Trisquel. This raises concerns about centralization and corporate influence, which makes me wonder whether these choices truly align with the spirit of software freedom.
That said, maybe I’m misunderstanding what „libre“ fully entails.
If you do not want to use software written by Red Hat, you have to stop using Linux. Quite frankly also much of the GNU suite such as Glibc and GCC. You would absolutely have to stop using either Xorg or Wayland. Systemd is just an example of something Red Hat created but they are massive contributors to a lot of other surf too.
I you want to avoid software written by profit motivated companies, you are down to about 15% of the open source ecosystem.
This is misleading. While Red Hat contributes significantly to Linux and some open source projects, they did not create the Linux kernel, GCC, or glibc - those are GNU or community projects. You can absolutely use Linux without Red Hat software, especially with distros like Alpine, Gentoo, or Guix. Red Hat is influential, but not essential.
You can absolutely use Linux without any GNU software. I use Chimera Linux for example (no Glibc, no GCC, no GNU utils). I even get away from some software that Red Hat created according to your definition like SystemD. However, even still, I know that Red Hat is responsible for much of the software I run since I use software like X, Wayland, Mesa, Podman, KVM, PulseAudio, and PipeWire.
It is VERY hard to run a Linux system without using code contributed by Red Hat.
No, Red Hat did not “create” glibc, GCC, or GNOME. They just contributed tens of thousands of lines of code to them. Perhaps more than anybody else over the last 20 years. Ever heard of Ulrich Drepper?
Actually, it is impossible to use Linux without using code contributed by Red Hat as they have been one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel itself for multiple decades now.
And to clarify, the Linux kernel is absolutely NOT a GNU project. Very few packages in a typical Linux distro are actually. The full list of GNU packages is here:
GNU has been influential but is not essential as you can create a complete Linux distribution without any of it (again see Chimera Linux). Code contributed by Red Hat however is totally unavoidable and completely essential. It is not possible to run a Linux system without it. All the distributions you listed heavily rely on code contributed by Red Hat.
To say otherwise is not just misleading. It is wrong.
I do not use any Red Hat distributions. I do benefit from their contributions and am thankful for them.
Very impressive. The M1 Macs at least seem to be quite functional at this point and everything either has been or is in the process of hitting the mainline.
Lots of work to do of course but many would have bet against getting this far. But there is a big difference between “could be better” and “stuff doesn’t work”. Getting the Rust based GPU driver into the kernel is a major achievement on its own and may do a lot to silence the “Rust isn’t used for anything real in the kernel” crowd as well.
With all the recent drama, I think some assumed the project was on the ropes. But the updates on the M2 and the reduced support burden of their past work leave me pretty hopeful that good progress will continue.
Release highlights: New protocol implementations: color-management-v1 for HDR10 support (note, renderer and backend bits have not yet been merged) ext-image-capture-source-v1...
I use Silverblue and MacOS daily, I enjoy the former so much more.
Unfortunately my relatively new Lenovo laptop has a small but also major driver bug that hasn’t been fixed in all the time I’ve had it. Bad to the point I got the Mac to have actual working hardware. But I do not enjoy MacOS.
Laptops specifically have been such an Achilles heel for Linux due to driver issues and battery issues. I honestly would just rather stick with OSX and containerize. The thing that might test that is X86 support lapsing at least for some of my MBPs.
I just found out about TLP - a module to download with apt, which is a good utility for maintaining the laptop battery. You can set a minimum charge value, and a maximum charge value. But it is not sufficient for my use case. My question is - is there any utility I can use to discharge the battery WHILE connected to AC?
The reason behind this is: I want to use the solar power during the day to charge up the battery to 80 or 90% and then discharge the battery in the evening to 15-20%. Afterwards use AC power again. The solar energy during mid-day is cheaper and available in abundance.
On a big level with many computers this could make a good impact on the energy network, or am I wrong?
I've got a 2021 Dell laptop. In uefi, you can set charge times and type of charge, 50%,80%, full, and smart. I think it's in like 1/2 hour blocks by day. By that I mean on (day of week) from 9:30am to 6:00pm charge full, different day may have different settings. .
@Intheflsun @Floopquist What I meant is that I do not think you can have it discharge the battery when AC is present without altering the PD chips firmware.
The converter says "Output: 65W" So it would be something, and a good place to start as the battery is there anyway and is plugged in all the time too, anyway.
That's the absolute maximum output, a typical laptop uses more like 2-6W while running.
Plus cycling the battery like that will wear it out faster, and they're generally only rated for 500 or so cycles. The replacement cost would likely easily over come any savings.
I created a simple Bash script that will always disable the default/internal monitor on your laptop when using AR glasses (or any other external monitor). I find this useful for when using AR glasses such as the XReal One which allows you to change the mode from regular mode to ultra-wide mode and when doing this, it will act as your unplugging the XReal ones and plugging in XReal one again in a new mode, causing the interal laptop display to become enabled.
To keep the laptop display always off, weather the laptop lid is either closed or open, this simple bash script will always disable the laptop screen every X seconds (You can change it by changing the wait variable)
Simply copy this script and create a new bash script such as disable-display.sh, make the script file executable and add it to your startup applications and it will run in the background. You will need to run xrandr command with all of your displays enabled to get the names of the displays and change the variable names in the script accordingly.
NOTE: This script may not work with a full Wayland setup and may only work on X11.
Enjoy
\#!/bin/bash
\#RUN xrandr TO GET THE NAMES OF THE DISPLAYS AND SET THE VARIABLES TO THESE NAMES
readonly default_display="eDP"
readonly external_display="USB-C-0"
readonly wait=5
while true; do
#Check if there is an external display connected
if xrandr | grep -q "$external_display connected"; then
#Disable the internal display
xrandr --output $default_display --off
fi
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I got the XReal One as a portable ergonomic monitor and I may use them as my main monitor going forward. I have a sit/stand desk with monitor arms which I can adjust the height and position for an ergonomic design to always look straight at the monitor and not looking down.
From my research currently the XReal Ones are the best AR/XR glasses on the market due to the chip built into them, not needing any other devices or software to run, just plug in play. The XReal One Pros which I think are coming out soon have some better specs but to me, not worth the extra money.
I been using them for regular desktop/laptop task and coding and I prefer to use the anchor mode when doing this. I sometimes also use the ultra-wide mode to simulate 2 monitors. I also been using them for gaming and I will either have it in follow or anchor mode but never use ultra-wide mode for gaming.
Interesting, thanks for sharing the use cases and clarifying your choices.
I do also have a standing desk with a relatively large screen on a monitor arm. I also have a walking pad under the standing desk. The goal being to ergonomically have as much freedom as possible while still being efficient.
I did try the XReal months ago but I don't think I tried the Pro.
Otherwise I worked with pretty much everything (Google Glass, Vision Pro, Quest (all models), Monocle/Frames, my own DIY ones, etc) but my main focus is WebXR and 6DoF, so not really replacing a screen. I do understand it is useful, and sometimes as I travel I use the Quest 3 or Vision Pro to work in there but that's typically a temporary measure. My professional perspective is that 6DoF with hand tracking and accessories (6DoF pens, BT keyboard, etc) is the most novel way to interact with information hence why I build open-source WebXR prototypes on that topic.
Does the rolling release model mean Nobara is based on Fedora Rawhide now?
Edit: I found the answer from the developer on Reddit.
the VERSION updates are rolling. (N41->N42->N43+)
nothing is changing in the update process. we still do a monthly snapshot of fedora and provide that to users. we are -not- using rawhide.
the "rolling" simply means when its time to go 42->43 you'll receive those updates as standard package updates without needing to do any specific commands/changes.
Jesus. Another one of these? Every freaking day. (Promise it's different)
I personally like mint and pop!os for new users, but for this user I want to try something windows like with more sex appeal. I don't want to have to touch this computer again. Proprietary software is not an issue/consideration. User is techier than most. What has your experience been with kbuntu? Pros/cons? Other suggestions?
Well there are no operating systems that you can install and forget, unless they never plan to go online with the machine. They all need updating which can be set automatically. The only problem is if it requires manual intervention, sometimes updates don't go as planned, then a roll-back might be necessary. They could try an immutable linux distribution if they are worried about screwing up their installs or something. Fedora kinoite may be their thing, or Bazzite which is based on that.
The embedded IoT crowd would like to refute your claim that there are no operating systems that you can install and forget.
The collective would like to stress that any operating system can be installed and forgotten. Please note, that usefulness and security may be impacted.
/s
Also, to be technical there is CollapseOS which is an install once and forget sort of thing.
I'm personally a fan of Debian. Default KDE isn't bad looking from what I can remember (I personally don't use it - I neither hate or love it just because I love XFCE). I'm personally a big XFCE fan, but you do have to do some work to get it working good, and there are still jank parts here and there.
While no distro is completely set and forget, I think Debian Stable is as close as you can get. Once you install it and get it working the way you want (depending on your setup, you might encounter minor issues as with any distro), it will pretty much stay that way until you upgrade to the next version, and you can go up to 5 years before upgrading.
I would recommend you use the KDE (or whatever DE you want) live installer, though, as the default installer is quite unintuitive. You can find it in the list of installers at debian.org/distrib/.
I've never used Kubuntu specifically, but I would personally avoid Ubuntu these days if just because of Snaps. Also, Ubuntu is heavily bloated - base Ubuntu is almost unusable in a VM now, while vanilla GNOME and PopOS run well in VMs on the same machine. Personally, when I need to test Ubuntu builds, I always prefer working with PopOS.
Overall, I'd say if you don't end up using Debian (I don't blame you - while I like it, you might not), just please don't use anything Ubuntu-based that isn't Mint or PopOS.
I think you overestimate the average persons need to configure their computers. Most people just use a web browser, email, and maybe some light gaming. No one new to Linux is going to be really upset that they can’t do complex system operations on the command line.
It's based off of Fedora Silverblue, so it's atomic, rock solid and basically guaranteed to work (more secure by design as well). But uses KDE Plasma instead of Gnome and has a bunch of improvements here and there, including proprietary codecs and Nvidia drivers preinstalled (latter depending on the image you choose)
I used to recommend Ubuntu. Now that immutable distributions exist, I prefer to recommend openSUSE Aeon or Fedora Silverblue to new users. However, check this website before installing Linux.
I know I'll get down voted for this, but from that site:
"Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?"
Kind of a sensationalized statement. I've upgraded tons of machines from 2015 and newer to windows 11 without issues. Sure, not all of them, but I'd say a majority of them, and the "upgrade" is free.
I guess I wanted to point out this piece isn't as doom and gloom as it seems.
I think you underestimate how many computers that are in use today that can’t be updated to Windows 11.
I, and many others, have run Windows 10 on unsupported hardware. Difference is that Windows 10 didn’t care and Windows 11 actively try to stop you from doing so. So, what is this if not Microsoft now forcing people to buy new hardware, if they have unsupported hardware?
Edit: What where the CPUs on the 2015 computers you upgraded?
soundtrack [01(?)]: Vorschlag -> Zeilen einer Strophe
Hochgeflogen auf #BlackRock gelandet alle Demokraten verprellt sich Freundschaft mit Alice eingehandelt #NiemandWillMerz und seine unfähige Rasselbande .. (Linnemann, Klöckner Spahn, CXU) deren w'politische Ufähigkeit passt auf keinen Bierdeckelin edition
Publicacion scheduled for monday 2025-02-03 18:00 Dear studi0 community
We decided to add an #element #matrix #privateSpace #chatRoom to our setup and called it: tupambaeORGstudi0 Please be patient in any case as this is complete #Neuland for the admin in charge.
At least he managed to onboard a filmmaker, photographer and writer as the first step to understand how invites work!
So, hi there! .. self-hosting based in Paris, France newbie @ elena@aseachange.com, director of The Illusionists documentary and #FOSDEM2025 traveler for your new proyect: 💌 #TheFutureIsFederated The one who host's here 📷 photos apparently at @ ele@photos.elenarossini.com.
To begin with we created 3 rooms:
studi0 community
APP tutorials and as the first officialy approved project @jesuiSatire …ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ managed to trigger:
Next step will probably be creating a activityPub #podcast handle on cast.tupambae.com by @utopiArte, the admin over there, as content colection and conversation about the idea itself in the EDITing post is already up and running. Part of the details concerning the cast domain is to figure out how to organize the tools #castopod gives us at hand as it looks like it has quite interesting options to organize cooperation, as stated briefly in a tutorial page created on that site, result of the #learningBYdoing process while installing it: brief Castopod tutorial
Last but not least, we are still trying to drag @lizzischmidt the creator and promotor of the #sundayGimp community experience that is alive and running for over a decade on #diaspora* on to our shores, but federation with diaspora, from a technical point of view, definitely has seen better times in the past. Maybe this very cross community chat option, added right here and now, can help to improve the communication for all of us.
This inicial publication will federate quite well out into the vast space of the #fediVerse, but to see comments from the diaspora bubble and the #activityPub sphear, youll have to visit this original page on this friendica server. Unless of course you are friendican yourself.
So, with no more further introduction, let's jam the #fediFolks!
Trying to drag others into this we mentioned: @aiquez who had joined forces in the first @studi0 project #fallVonMerz and re-shared the first version of this post already. @crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts, a decade long contact out here in the fedi, kinda reference, who does audio recordings and has experiences with podcasts publishing on funkWhale. He fav'ed the first version of this post and added a thinking face to it. @Mina became the self-proclaimed patovica bouncer, a contact that owns all three involved languages (spanisch/german/englisch), has apparently real life knowledge of the region down here (or there, or anywhere), and claims to see everything. @Red the Bean, a confused squirrel. @Daniel Prieto, a quiet confused local interested in mushrooms.
Right now mysteriously we might have gotten our hands on a local contact that can or could help, as pointed out in the initial audio take, when it comes to check the truths behind our virtual reality out here.
As a means of tools, besides ourselves and our very own skills, we do have:
fediVerse profileseach and every ones profile(s)peerTube profileshere and there and everywheremedia pages the subdomain concept as exemplified in the fallVonMerz projectpodcast instances tupambae dot.org and dot.comphpBB permacultureforumThe Permacultureforum added actually forum and image sections related to aspects that came up in this thread and that actually were overdue. element/matrixmatrix channelsthe tupambae principlesas defined in Impressum and TOS common ground | CC-BY-SA-NC Terms of Service unknown contain lot's of small written rules change every day depend on the country you are posting from and the country you are posting to can't be breached until declared in the very moment Rules be kind to each other do not intent to be rude do not intent to be hurtful try not to suppose
To begin with, this sounds like a lot, what do you people think?
layout consideration to work onAs a howTo proposal, let's try to make this post a comprehensive communication about a project. Instead of adding a eternal list of comments, let's try o edit and reedit our comments here so we keep this kinda compact and tidy. We can even come up with posting links to new conversation strings on specific topics or off-topic conversations.
Let's play and reinvent another wheel!
(we mentioned the @permaCulture community profile to reach more people that are involved in the underlying goal which is to preserve and evolve the earth of our grand children, creating a permanent human culture based on principals that enable in the first place a permanent agricultural development) ((please feel free to reshare, spread and comment))
En hora buena, llego el mensaje que mando la patronal guardado por #fediLab la primera noche que el @bitpickup estaba en el hospital para que el supiera cuando hay omnibus de regreso. Se lo mandaron la misma noche que llego cuando estuvo pensando de salir rajando despues de que le dieron el antidoto porque tenia la perra en el coche en la policlinica del pueblo y no solo que es rearisca, estaba por estar al sol encerrada por un par de dias. Sin agua, ni comida ni nada, por no decir .. lindo panorama.
La que el @bitpickup se olvido de subir al llegar a la entrada de los vecinos, porque la deja correr detrás del coche cuando sale para que entrene un rato?
Just stumbled in the very same channel that harbors the #Kleene inviting to play a first sum up of pictures and data that came together on that "event" for editing and content creation. Not sure if this was posted yet somewhere here. tube.undernet.uy/w/iZPwbDx7cxn…
the peertube initial material sum up is to slow and should be seen at least at speed 1.5. Also It actually could need a remake cutting it down to a 5 minute short attention span tictoc version by anyone who'd like to help out and btw add to the @studi0 proposal of cooperating in content creation and working out on how to do that.
The final language of the sum up has to be spanisch and in any case a dubbing into Brazilian language too, as those represent the main public to address and an important audience for the entire project to catch.
Why didn't anybody responded to the #Houston distress call?
What happened to: "Quien la vuelve a molestar ( @SinMisterios ), se liga una. Je je." ?
There is still floating around a claim that some transcript of the initial audio take exists some where in time and space, is there any truth to or prove for that claim at all?
Who did the mention of the mastodon.uy admin and what for?
> @dprieto@mastodon.uy is still into mushrooms, has already decided to ignore our virtual illusions, or maybe even denounced us to his landlord @admin@mastodon.uy .
Yeah that profile play's quiet quiet. Probably the best an admin profile can do. In any case I guess they would need to contact @admin first. At least that's how it should be. Those security checks became quiet common since the mobbing incident on diaspora. That one left the venom deep down in the psyches of more than one out here. Oh, and the call of attention by the social.tchncs team in the early stages on @jesuisatire.
Mas les vale @bitpickup! Forma parte de nuestro contacto local, y tiene datos importantes como de sessiones IP y datos de pago para apoyar la instancia y los esfuerzos de @ santiago, asi que mas les vale que se comportan como la gente. Por no decir: "¡ Que hizo @jesuisatire ahora ?"
Suillus luteus: sobre hongos comestibles de Uruguay
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@tierranietos @bitpickup @jesuisatire Bueno, sé que he estado en silencio, pero ahora que se ven junto a los pinos va una nota inédita que escribí hace más de 10 años sobre los /Suillus luteus/ u hongos de panal.
Seres sociales.
Por desconocimiento, o por su escaso carisma, los hongos pasan desapercibidos en la vida de la mayor parte de los seres humanos. Sin embargo, comemos pan, tomamos cerveza, sidra o vino, que existen en virtud de las levaduras que por supuesto, son hongos. Con los años y la formación científica, me he ido maravillando con la infinidad de cosas que son capaces de hacer los hongos. No sé si es específicamente eso lo que me asombra, o es el penoso desconocimiento que hay acerca de ellos en la población en general. Acaso sea más peligroso esto último que nos lleva al peor enemigo posible: la ignorancia. En el hemisferio sur abundan las coníferas. Son grandes, verdes, primitivas y hermosas. En Uruguay abundan los pinos (Pinus spp.) y ellos han colonizado infinidad de ecosistemas costeros desplazando al relicto a nuestro autóctono y petiso monte psamófilo. Es difícil encontrar un lugar arenoso tanto en las costas del Río de la Plata como en la costa atlántica del Uruguay donde no hayan pinos. Los pinos crecen muy bien en esta región, y ello es fruto de una poderosa interacción de sus raíces con el más variopinto plantel de hongos imaginables. Esta asociación, que produce beneficios para ambos miembros de la sociedad, se conoce en biología como simbiosis. Cuando comienzan las lluvias de otoño y los montes de pinos se tornan húmedos y las temperaturas aún son moderadas, los hongos se ven invadidos de un frenesí reproductivo y comienzan a formar estructuras sexuales. Algunos hongos producen los conocidos sombreros o setas, que portan las esporas que aseguran la dispersión y perpetuación de la especie. Muchos de estos sombreritos son de gran belleza para el observador atento, y también pueden representar pequeños tesoros en función de sus posibles utilidades en el hogar. La recolección de hongos debe hacerse con cuidado y con asesoramiento de personas que conozcan perfectamente lo que se colecta. Algunas de estas especies pueden ser muy tóxicas, por lo que no debe tomarse a la ligera su utilización, especialmente en la alimentación. Uno de los grandes amigos de los pinos es el comúnmente llamado hongo de panal. Su nombre se debe a que en la parte inferior del sombrero, sus esporas están contenidas en pequeños tubos apretados que le dan aspecto de panal. Hay una especie particularmente interesante desde el punto de vista gastronómico de estos hongos de panal, Suillus luteus (o Boletus luteus) es su nombre científico.
Menospreciado por desconocer sus excelentes cualidades aromáticas al secarse, este hongo de panal ha convivido discretamente con los uruguayos desde hace mucho. Los que conocían su potencial gastronómico eran los inmigrantes italianos que llegaron a fines del siglo XIX o a principios del XX escapando de la guerra a lugares menos agitados. Algunos de sus descendientes todavía esperan con la paciencia del sabio y los cosechan ávidamente cuando aparecen en la superficie. Son hongos limpios, es decir, muchas veces crecen sobre el césped en los alrededores de los pinos y, por lo tanto, no exigen lavados exhaustivos para retirar la arena como ocurre con más conocido en Uruguay como hongo rosado o delicioso (Lactarius deliciosus). Su nombre genérico Suillus refiere a su aroma fresco que es buscado por los cerdos (suinos), aroma que recuerda a aquel de la manteca fresca, y que se exacerba luego de un ligero hervor. Aún hoy los micológicos italianos llaman a este hongo funghi porcini. Son hongos con gran contenido de agua, por lo que debe evitarse sumergirlos para su lavado y, de hecho, es preferible evitar por completo su lavado para evitar que queden excesivamente acuosos. Para su consumo, tanto secos como frescos, debe removerse la cutícula gelatinosa que recubre el sombrero; actividad que requiere de paciencia pero que es esencial ya que la cutícula resulta además de desagradable, indigesta. Un excelente medio de conservación es su deshidratación, lo que además resulta práctico para su almacenamiento por el reducido espacio que se requiere para una gran cantidad de hongos una vez secos. Este sencillo método que consiste en colocarlos con el pie hacia arriba sobre una rejilla – cubiertos con un tul o una malla para evitar los insectos – y colocarlos al sol durante aproximadamente una semana, cuidando de ponerlos a resguardo de la humedad de las noches de otoño y volviéndolos a sacar al día siguiente, representa además una forma de potenciar su sabor. Probablemente durante el secado ocurra algún tipo de fermentación parcial, que permite obtener y concentrar un perfume imprescindible a la hora de preparar arroces aromáticos, salsas, e innumerables otros platos.
Suillus luteus: sobre hongos comestibles de Uruguay
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Fascinante lectura.
Un poco embolante el tema de tener que sacarles la cutícula pero considerando que a la mayoría de los hongos hay que limpiarlos muy bien, quizás no tanto.
Ante que nada, genial @dprieto, gracias por el aporte. A ver si lo podemos integrar aun mejor a nuestros hilos y documentación. Por cierto, se agrego al reubicado sitio de huerta, ahora con nombre #permacultura y apellido #tupambae.com una sección "Fungi | Hongos | Setas": permacultura.tupambae.org/view…
Por el momento sin tema ninguno, sin embargo con la idea de ir agregándole contenido, así que, si te parece bien usaremos estos textos tuyos con enlaces hacia aquí, o mejor, te damos acceso y lo aprovechas como mas te place. De hecho siempre esta la opción de hacer una copia completa del y pasártelo así como viene. Probablemente borrando a lo que no corresponde pasar, pero en si la idea y la oferta esta es es bien simple. Los sitios phpBB se pueden cambiar bastante fácil de dominio y son de código abierto. De hecho undernet monto uno recientemente. El de tupambae.com es un sitio cerrado, no solo que los foros han muerto, abierto se llenan de SPAM y si realmente ay gente que quieren participar con invitación por mail alcanza y sobra. Y actualizaciones a versiones mas nuevas tampoco tiene mucho sentido. Así como esta funciona, el diseño aun copa y ta. Tiene todo lo que hace falta, incluyendo robots.txt que manada a los crawler a donde corresponde, el internet de hoy ya no es lo que era. Por decirlo de alguna manera.
@mina > Un poco embolante el tema de tener que sacarles la cutícula
Si, aunque sale bien fácil. Habrá que volver a hacerlo, el primer intento este año si bien aporto una forma nueva y excelente de secado, usando el coche al sol, por razones de urgencia medica se nos complico y se perdió la muestra.
@tierranietos @bitpickup @jesuisatire úsalos con toda tranquilidad. Darme acceso de edición no tendría sentido. Mañana subo otra nota que podría servir. Es cierto eso de la internet de ahora, enshittification total.
Lo que si parece que @Daniel Prieto se recontra confundio de boliche aqui, en realidad sus cometarios deberian ir en el siguiente hilo, eso al menos parece desde el punto de vista de aca: mastodon.uy/@tierranietos/1143…
(y no, no importa mucho, mas bien una nota aparte ..)
En el fondo "la culpa" es del formato que plantea mastodon. Es friendica que lo evidencia de verdad. Al menos que mires estas cosas desde pantalla de compu y desde un punto de vista de "hilos secundarios" tampoco que importa mucho. Ejemplo, el hilo de #buenosDias de este perfil: mastodon.uy/@tierranietos/1144…
Todos los dias simplemente actualizo el tema inicial con la(s) imagen(es) del dia. Una respuesta diaria incial despues aranca "el hilo del dia". Si abris el ultimo comentario de este hilo veras solo el contenido de este dia onda "en una sola pagina web": mastodon.uy/@bitpickup@troet.c…
Sin embargo, si lo miras desde el tema inicial se transfoma en un eterno hilo poco comprensible y de poco encanto.
Por ello en parte la propuesta tanto de friendica como ademas de un sitio tipo foro, o las paginas html del projecto subdominio "media" o paginas wordpress. Microbloging es tipo rollo de papel de cocina. Arancas una hoja, la usas y la tiras. Para el chiveo diaria es genial, sin embargo, para textos y contenidos elaborado bien "y con cariño" es un insulto. (en mi humilde opnion)
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#díasDeLuto en el #Uruguay
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* En el correr del mes de #mayo este mismo tema se actualiza editando según el día y la ocasión.
@tierranietos @bitpickup la verdad que como no estoy interesada en tener friendica y estoy bien con mastodon desde el celu, todo estas complicaciones que veo innecesarias desde mastodon, me aburren, ni siquiera me dan ganas de entender cómo funciona el sistema que solo vos con tus 47 cuentas activas usás, me agobia. Me gusta mastodon por la simplicidad, esto lo veo como uan complicación innecesaria. Preferiría que el contacto cin friendica fuera como otros mensajes con mastodon. Por ejemolo al ver cuentas de pixelfed no se ve todas las fotis oero eso no me interesa, el resto se ve como mastodon
Vos dijiste lo que estuve pensando todo el tiempo:
"todas estas complicaciones que veo innecesarias […] me aburren, ni siquiera me dan ganas de entender cómo funciona el sistema que solo vos con tus 47 cuentas activas usás, me agobia."
Y ahí está el secreto del "éxito" de Mastodon entre todos los sabores del Fediverso:
Que me gusta contexto y coherencia no implica que no sepa apreciar chiveo y las pavadas.
Es mas, voto @pranger para @utopiarte no solo porque usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres, incluso montan instancias y construyen puentes interconectando gente e informacion.
Deben de ser unos atrevidos sabelotodos que solo quieren hacerse ver de aquellos!
.. porque con su quickcomment puedo definir mis #gifComments preferidos para seleccionarlos sencillamente con un par de clics y dejar un comentario de puta madre, envés de escribir un montón de palabras como tu para explicar lo evidente en un mundo de mentes enshittificados.
Por cierto:
porque no solo usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres,
Me parece que debería decir:
no solo porque usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres,
> no solo porque usan, comprenden y explican las redes libres
Si fue eso lo que escribi, que decis, acaso no sabes leer?
Y ya que estamos @jesuisatire@tupambae.com: Ahora que te haces el friendicano, que por cierto marca textos escritos en castellano como si fueran escritos en aleman para que el sistema de traduccion no funciona y por lo tanto @resl no entiende nada, te crees algo mejor?
Con la introducción de las especies del género Eucalyptus al Uruguay, llegaron otros seres que seguramente vinieron como pasajeros en el mismo barco, los hongos de los eucaliptos Gymnopilus spectabilis (antes descriptos como Pholiota spectabilis). Esta introducción, que debe haber sido involuntaria, ha tenido consecuencias insospechadas en el territorio uruguayo. En primer lugar debe destacarse el enorme valor utilitario de este hongo, que se ha especializado en degradar los restos de troncos de los cada vez más ubicuos eucaliptos. Pero más allá de su descacable posición en una red trófica degradando productos que de otra forma resultarían enormemente recalcitrantes, el hongo de eucalipto posee un valor extra en la dieta de los uruguayos. Contrariamente a lo que ha ocurrido en la mayoría de los países donde infinidad de autores han escrito en desmedro de estos hongos, en el Uruguay, ha permeado en la mayoría de los hogares y, con escasísimas excepciones en los locales callejeros de comidas rápidas o carritos. Al referirnos a hongo de eucalipto, en realidad nos referimos a sus estructuras sexuales, o cuerpos fructíferos (basidiocarpos) – los sombreros o setas, como gustan llamarlos los europeos. El hongo en sí (su cuerpo vegetativo) es esa maraña de pelillos delgados que habita sin pena ni gloria la mayor parte del año alimentándose de los deshechos de los eucaliptos sin siquiera ser percibido por los humanos. Estos cuerpos fructíferos aparecen en grupos, y maduran de forma escalonada. De modo que el grupo de hongos tiene algunos muy grandes y otros muy pequeños, como si se tratara de una pequeña familia.
Las escuetas referencias bibliográficas a su utilización en alimentación se deben principalmente a que para ser consumidos requieren un procesamiento previo, simple pero fundamental. Si los hongos no se hierven previamente, no son aptos para el consumo humano. Tan sencillo como eso. Naturalmente estos hongos son duros y amargos. No contentos con eso, es un hecho bastante difundido que producen sustancias alucinógenas y tóxicas. Es por eso que en casi todas partes del mundo están catalogados como tóxicos. Personalmente, no he visto jamás un testimonio de nadie que los haya utilizado como droga de uso recreativo; probablemente porque son tan duros y tan amargos y picantes en estado fresco, y dejan una sensación tan desagradable en el paladar que hasta el psicodélico más entusiasta los prefiere en un choripán.
Difusión
En Uruguay hay una industria de los hongos en conserva, pero más del 99% de los hongos que se preparan para su comercialización son hongos de eucalipto. Para ello se los procesa en vinagre y agua con sal. Así, se los conoce como hongos en vinagre, y son utilizados como acompañamiento en hamburguesas, salchichas (o panchos como los llamamos en el Río de la Plata), o chorizos (especialmente al pan). Es muy común encontrar hongos de eucalipto frescos para su venta en las verdulerías de Montevideo en otoño. Desconozco cuántos kilos se comercializan de estos hongos en vinagre al año, pero por ser omnipresentes en los locales de este tipo de comidas y en los supermercados imagino que su volumen de venta anual ¡debe aproximarse al de las aceitunas! Tal es el apetito fúngico de los uruguayos. Lamentablemente puede constatarse la profunda ignorancia de los proveedores industriales cuando al observar algunos de los envases del mercado que contienen hongos de eucalipto (Gymnopilus spectabilis), el consumidor encuentra que luce en las etiquetas “hongos (Lactarius deliciosus), vinagre, agua y sal”. Este es un ejemplo no sólo de una aberración taxonómica, sino un reflejo de un desconocimiento supino de la entidad biológica involucrada. Llamo la atención sobre esto, porque resulta evidente la falta de asesoramiento por profesionales adecuados, así como la ridiculez de los contralores bromatológicos, llevados a cabo por quién sabe qué clase de funcionarios que adjudican una habilitación para la comercialización de un producto de consumo humano por parte de empresas que claramente carecen de asesores debidamente formados.
Hay quienes hierven los hongos de eucalipto hasta que quedan tiernos, y ese proceso puede llevar un rato. Otros, más puristas de su sabor, indican que la detoxificación debe realizarse con sucesivos cambios de agua – como se hace con las aceitunas. Este último procedimiento es el que me ha resultado más placentero al paladar porque respeta el sutil sabor, y el hermoso color amarillo de estos pequeños habitantes de los montes de eucaliptos. Lo que dicta mi experiencia personal, y he insistido en probar muchas variantes es que tanto si uno los colecta o los compra debe preferir aquellos más pequeños ya que resultan más tiernos. Los más grandes los utiliza la industria y funcionan bien como condimento, pero si uno desea saborearlos con algún detalle personalizado y respetando su color, aroma y sabores naturales, es preferible hacer esta selección, que permite evitar una intensa etapa de hervor. Otro punto radica en la utilización excesiva de vinagre, que por supuesto asegura la conservación, pero sacrifica los pequeños sabores en beneficio del penetrante y desagradable olor del ácido acético. Cada receta que he encontrado que refiere a un escabeche utiliza al menos partes iguales de aceite y vinagre, cosa que me resulta sensorialmente inaceptable. Mi recomendación es utilizar como máximo una medida de vinagre por cada dos de aceite. La receta que se presenta aquí es una variación de una disponible en el ciberespacio bajo el título de hongos adobados, y que se atribuye a algún instituto de enseñanza de la gastronomía.
Hongos de eucalipto en escabeche
1 kg de hongos de eucalipto 1 taza de vinagre 1 taza de agua 1/2 cucharada de sal gruesa Pimienta recién molida (para evitar la desagradable sorpresa de morder un grano de pimienta) 5 dientes de ajo pelados (sin picar) 1 morrón (preferentemente rojo) picado en cubitos o en tirillas, a gusto del usuario Aceite de girasol (o de maíz, lo importante es que sea de sabor neutro) 1 taza de aceite de oliva 5 Hojas frescas de laurel Albahaca seca
Poner los hongos en agua durante varias horas (4-5) cambiándoles el agua varias veces (cada 30 minutos da buen resultado). Escurrirlos y colocarlos en agua limpia y darles un hervor de 1 minuto. Volver a escurrirlos bien con un colador. Si elegimos hongos pequeños sólo deberemos cortarlos por la mitad, o a lo sumo en 3 partes. Los más pequeños no necesitan ser cortados y resulta muy agradable a la vista verlos enteros. Cocinarlos tapados en el vinagre, agua y sal durante cinco minutos, y escurrir bien. Colocarlos en el aceite de girasol con los dientes de ajo, el laurel, la pimienta, la albahaca y el morrón. Calentar brevemente para unificar sabores y mezclar. Retirar del fuego, y agregar el aceite de oliva. Envasar en frascos esterilizados, tapar a media rosca y colocar en agua hirviendo, en olla tapada durante 20 minutos. Tapar completamente y almacenar.
@Friendica Support As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.
What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation. 🤔
until finally the browser told me "redirection error".
I then tested with some arbitrary PHP file if PHP worked. It did (in the root directory and the friendica subdirectory).
Then I tried stuff that was recommended in the forum (where I also found people told to become developers if they had problems), like entering database details into config files, some changes in .htaccess, but, alas, to no avail.
Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page: /help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script
I have a laptop and a phone in which termux is installed. I want to move files from my phone to my computer using rsync if all files are older than 30 days. I think I should use find command with -exec rsync.
find . -mtime +30 -exec rsync something
but the problem is my phone's IP address is always changing so how do I transfer file? I have to run this script in my laptop
solution
i wrote a script which move files and runs in my laptop 1. i can't use hostname because I am on android 9 and don't want to install anything else. 2. most of the time I am offline so using any internet service is not a good idea ( my devices are connected in themselves )
here is my script
\#!/usr/bin/bash
\#checking if script not already running and exit if already running
[ "${FLOCKER}" != "$0" ] && exec env FLOCKER="$0" flock -en "$0" "$0" "$@" || :
set -e
TARGET_MAC="d2:1c:3c:3d:6a:a7"
RSYNC_LOG="$HOME/log/rsync_log.txt" # Rclone log file
function get_ip() {
# need to edit sudoers file to run sudo nmap -sn 192.168.43.0/24 without password
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# 'username' ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nmap -sn 192.168.43.0/24
sudo nmap -sn 192.168.43.0/24 | grep --before-context=3 -i "$TARGET_MAC" | tail -n 3 | head -n 1 | awk '{ print $6 }' | sed 's/[()]//g'; }
# run command only if wifi is connected
if echo $(nmcli general status) | grep -q -w "connected" ; then
# for ssh to work in a changing IP address, a configuration line has to be enabled so that it does not ask for yes/no while connecting to a changed ip address
TARGET_IP=$(get_ip)
ssh -p 8022 "$TARGET_IP" 'find /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/shared/Pictures/ -mtime +30 -type d,f -printf %P\\0' | rsync --append --update --times --atimes --mkpath --verbose --human-readable --remove-source-files --log-file="$HOME/log/synced.log" --exclude='.dtrash' --files-from=- --from0 -e "ssh -p 8022" "$TARGET_IP":/data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/shared/Pictures/ $HOME/Pictures
VPN.. This is a specific problem that VPNs were created to solve.
On your Wireguard network (or whichever), note your vLAN IPs, and configure rclone/rsync with them like normal. Ensure you're connected to Wireguard and then run your command;
LDAC is proprietary, so I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't available on Linux. You can probably use SBC-XQ, though, which is open source and lossless. Try installing pavucontrol and check what codecs it offers you for the headphones.
Pine64 ALPHA-One is a fanless RISC-V mini PC with up to 20 TOPS of AI performance
Pine64’s upcoming ALPHA-One is a small, fanless computer that stands out for a few reasons. One is that it’s made for AIL: the computer has an NPU with support for up to 20 TOPS of AI performance ad ships with a 7b Deepseek/Owen LLM pre-loaded and Pine64 says it supports about 3.5 tokens per second using that model.
Another reason is that the ALPHA-One doesn’t have an Intel, AMD, or Qualcomm […]
I also think it's time for the open source and/or fediverse Trakt alternatives to get some love.
The price change is listed as going from $30 a year to $60 a year, and they're also changing everyone to that price:
Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, all VIP memberships will renew at the new standard rate going forward.
Seems to be some kind of centralized streaming service catalog. Never heard of it before now and no idea why anyone would be willing to pay $30 for it let alone $60.
Edit: I think I need to clarify further that this is a one off thing. I've never had AI build anything for me. This is just one time that I wanted to test it out, and the test came out with a good app that I thought I could share to maybe benefit some. Just to be clear, it's not thinking for me, I still learn on my own, and have AI ONLY explain concepts for me, not code, and it does very well. Asked for opinions, got downvotes. lol
Hi all, I do code on my own without AI, but in all honesty, I'm not that great (I'm a junior dev at my job, and don't have a lot of experience). I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me. I made that my mission, so I don't let it think for me because I want to learn. It explains things very well and I've been learning a great deal.
Today, I decided to test it out. I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.
I use some appimages for some apps. I tried appimagelauncher and gear lever and had some issues with them.
I want to integrate appimages into my system. So, I did a small workaround where I created a small script in ~/.local/bin that has one line after the shebang exec /<path to app image>/<appimage>. Then created a .desktop file that points to that script. I made one for Suyu and VIA and they both worked. I wanted to do it for more apps, but it got repetitive, so I gave AI some requirements and told it to add what's necessary if needed.
I've never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let's go with it. It made a pretty nice app. The app does 5 things: 1. Creates that little script I mentioned earlier 2. Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)....etc) 3. Copies the appimage into a "appimages" folder in the home directory 4. Adds an icon of your choosing to the app 5. It makes everything executable
I had it package the app into an appimage (that's something I've never done before and it was pretty freaking cool to learn) and I'm planning on making an .rpm and a .deb packages of it, too.
The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside. But then I look at it and I see an app that could help some people. Who cares how I created it? I have always wanted to contribute something to the Linux world, and this feels like it.
What I'm asking for: your honest opinion. Should I feel that little shame? Should I put it up on GitHub? It would of course be GPL licensed. Maybe some folks want to make it better or contribute or fork it. I love open source and I feel like this could be useful to some.
(I’m a junior dev at my job, and don’t have a lot of experience).
You're robbing yourself of gaining legitimate experience.
I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me.
Ok.
I made that my mission, so I don’t let it think for me because I want to learn.
Alright.
I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.
Seems like the exact opposite of just having it explain concepts to you, and not letting it think for you, and not letting it write code for you.
I’ve never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let’s go with it.
Ok, so you aren't actually learning any python, and it is just generating python code for you, which you made no attempt to change such that it would just be explaining concepts to you preferably in a language you do know. Sounds a lot like you aren't doing a lot of the thinking in this process, or writing the code.
Creates that little script I mentioned earlier
Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)…etc)
Copies the appimage into a “appimages” folder in the home directory
Adds an icon of your choosing to the app
It makes everything executable
Instead of asking AI to make this in a language you don't know, you'd probably be a lot better off learning some BASH and discovering that this is likely doable in a one-liner or function which you can associate to an alias.
I had it package the app into an appimage
So it is thinking for you, writing the code for you, and packaging it for you.
The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside
You should.
Who cares how I created it?
Programmers, artists, your boss, your future self when something breaks in prod and you realize that you have robbed yourself of so much experience by outsourcing any opportunity to obtain skill, knowledge, and wisdom that you have no idea what the fuck to do or why the problem is happening, and then someone sues you over it because it turns out in the mess of AI code which you haven't even looked at 60% of up until this point there are out of scope variables from a thread the AI found on 1337codeForum.fuck circa 2008 which lead to a disaster where some guy who actually knows how code works half way around the globe stack buffer overflowed the fuck out of you.
If you want honest opinions from people, then this is mine. That little shame you feel is probably larger than you think and it's because you aren't doing yourself any favors.
It was a one time test. I thought I have expanded on that specifically. English is my second language, so I could have explained it wrong, or not enough I guess. Appreciate the input regardless 😀
Edit: to add, those 5 steps I asked it to do are the work around I did myself without AI. I know bash. I just wanted it to make what I did in bash into an app. Hope this makes sense.
You learn so much more doing it yourself instead of having AI write code for you. When I first learned how to admin an Apache server I had 0 understanding how it worked, but with some effort I'm now confident enough to do a simple setup on my own. I did follow along with tutorials and examples configs, but I made sure I knew what each part did at least on a high level. The reason I'm confident in this is that I know how to read the docs and how to troubleshoot issues when they happen.
When you let AI do all the work you don't learn the inner workings of a system and are only hurting yourself. If you want to use AI use it for writing some boiler plate you've already written hundreds of times or taking simple functions and converting them to another language. I use AI for basic and repetitive tasks, which is something it's great at. I don't use it for making large design decisions since that will (not "if", but "will") bite me in the ass later on when something breaks. Examples of good uses of AI (in my opinion): generating a list of US states in JavaScript, take a function that converts a strijg to a date object and try to translate it to another language, use it as a tool to bounce some high level ideas off of when you're at a development block.
Holy shit! Has anyone actually read and digested the post? I even edited it to clarify. What else do I need to say to make it known that THIS WAS A ONE TIME TEST. I'VE NEVER HAD AI BUILD ANYTHING FOR ME, EVER. 😂
It was a one time test. One off. Never happened before and won't happen again. I just wanted to test it, and the test came out with a nice app and I thought maybe I should share it. I could've just not said anything and put it on GitHub and no one would've have known. I am not sure how to say it better and make it make more sense. Is my English really that bad that people aren't getting what I'm saying? lol
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.
Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.
Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
This is sad news. Hopefully the comms can migrate to other smaller instances.
This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.
Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.
That's kind of sad but also isn't surprising. They didn't exactly put in a huge amount of effort to maintain it, nor did they put in much effort to grow it or make it appealing as a server for people to join.
I'm a bit bummed as lemmy.one was my introduction to the ecosystem. 🙁
OTOH, when they were having server problems, I set up a kbin account, but left it when it became clear I could only use the kbin app to access it. Looks like that's shut down now too!
I'm excited for both Piefed and MBin. Both projects are progressing rapidly and have communities that seem to have their heads and hearts in the the right places
I'll add to the bias. I created both a kbin account and a Lemmy.one account when the migration happened. Preferred kbin's look and feel, then changed over to mbin when Ernest started having issues. Haven't looked back, mbin is great.
Lol, I think we might be closer than you think. Lemmy and reddit are both basically unusable in web form on mobile, but Ernest took the time to make the layout of kbin in such a way that it compresses down to a PWA/Mobile layout without becoming a complete clusterfuck, something the mbin maintainers have maintained support for and I think is one of the key distinguishing features of the platform. The way it works feels very similar to the old RIF layout, and as such was everything I wanted from a reddit replacement from day one 😀
Everyone thinks the moderation/admin features need to be improved. I'm curious which improvements people are really needing. Whenever I see big complaints about it (beehaw, lemmy.one) I never see any specifics. Link the filed Github issues for them otherwise the feature requests don't really exist, and I'd like to give them thumbs up reactions so they get prioritized more.
we have a game mode called "Zero Rando" (no randomization) that's basically vanilla with QoL improvements and bug fixes
the Randomizer had so many compatibility fixes, QoL improvements, and bug fixes over the original game, this ended up being really useful for new first time players
since you've played before we also have "Zero Rando Plus" which is the same thing, but also includes the balance changes we've made for Randomizer
and we also have "Rando Lite" and "Rando Medium" to get started with the randomization stuff before going up to Normal Randomizer or Full Randomizer
0:00 Vanilla Fixer: automatically applies compatibility fixes without changing the game at all.0:21 Zero Rando mode: features many quality of life improvemen...
our "Zero Rando" makes way less changes to the gameplay than GMDX or Revision, which are often recommended to first time players but they're actually totally different games from the original
our "Zero Rando Plus" would be more similar in the amount of changes to them
I think that was the patch I ended up using my first playthrough (I'm away from my computer at the moment or else I'd check), but I might want to use something else my second time.
Transcended seems good. I haven't played it, but it sounds like it still has changes from Revision left over in it (it was forked from Revision). Like cameras seeing bodies, pawns reacting to unconscious bodies, and dogs having the jump attack. But idk if those can be turned off. If they can be turned off then it's pretty similar to our "Zero Rando".
But we have more QoL features available that you can enable which aren't included by default in "Zero Rando". A big one being Password Autofill which isn't enabled by default in "Zero Rando" but it's huge for Steam Deck players.
We also allow selectively enabling balance changes. Like auto augs, or general aug balance changes, there's an option for skill changes, map changes. Here's some of the settings menus:
I wish I remembered if my first playthrough was vanilla or not. I feel like it was. I can't remember when it was exactly but it would have been when the game was already roughly 10 years old. Roughly maybe 2010-2012?
A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don't have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn't exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior
These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.
does Reddit have any of these tools built-in? they sound cool, but they can also be built externally (I believe an automod exists?), and I would say correctly take a back seat to bug fixes
Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it's a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don't have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.
I think it's better as separate software. It means it can be developed more efficiently. And this seems to have a lot of features, so it seems it is efficient to develop this way.
You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren't summed up by default in lemmy anyways.
you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points
Ironically enough, even though "imaginary" this aspect might be key to moderation. Assuming (and that's a flawed assumption) that people would upvote/downvote based not on their opinion but rather on how healthy/unhealthy to the discussion a comment is, then those "points" would be useful to see above/below a threshold one would want to interact, e.g. show content or not (or even now show even as to unfold).
Nah the points are laughably easy to game even in centralized reddit since this moderation aspect never made any sense. As if bad actors can't upvote themselves, buy upvotes or just repost any random garbage to /r/funny.
Its a terrible system that turned Reddit into a content desert. Once you decline some new person because "they dint have enough karma" they're never trying to contribute again and you end up with power users who have a moat around content production.
Shared moderation lists already do all of this in an actually functional way. You can subscribe to Bob's list of douchebags and have the client block them. This is something bluesky added quite recently but it already exists on fediverse to instance admins tho afaik not individual users yet.
to be fair, they're both correct. Lemmy.world could go solo with no federation and still have a decent user base, maybe add db0 and ani.social and it would cover nearly all of the bases.
Inkscape 1.4.2 is here! This update brings more than 70 bug & crash fixes, a fresh splash screen, new path cleanup tools, updated translations and enhanced support for file formats like Affinity Designer and Vectornator.
As someone who uses GIMP very effectively for commercial work, I am increasingly feeling like people who say that GIMP isn't a capable alternative are simply ignorant of it's capabilities. Yeah, it doesn't work like Photoshop. Yeah, it doesn't work like Affinity Photo. Yeah, it doesn't work like Photopea.
But yeah, it does work, and works well. If you apply a bit of patience to learn how it works, then it's also very easy to use, eventually. Maybe it doesn't cover all the use-cases, but it's ignorant to say that it categorically isn't capable for commercial use.
I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.
I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.
Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.
IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It's like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.
Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it's due an ancient codebase that's probably really hard to work with.
I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).
For a free app, you need to support it, to have it being worked on. A lot of people just say "yeah, it's free!" and they don't support it. I find that supporting free apps is a good investment. I give some, to NOT have to pay a lot to greedy companies who want me to sign up and pay monthly to use their apps.
I economically support other foss projects. Not just gimp really, as I have not probe whatsoever, but I have this feeling that there's some development issues with it.
Godot is one of the ones I think is going to grow bigger than commercial alternatives (like Blender) for instance.
Lately every big GIMP update would be a minor version bump in other projects. Gimp 1 to Gimp 2 was some of a big upgrade. 2 to 3 not so much. Great software. But some of the things introduced in 3.0 are just fixes and patches to try to merge some of the decisions made 20 years ago with the current expectations on UX.
i have found gimp very intuitive over the years, but inkscape has left me totally be befuddled which is a shame because ad*be illustrator was my first digital design love
Yes, im doing le funy Meme. And yes, I am an autist, with some signs towards something adhd adjacent
I first tried Linux Mint when I was 12, eventually changed to Ubuntu when I was 13 or 14 because I saw the Windows 11 copilot button, installed arch at late 14, and got to gentoo when I was 15.
Debian and Mandrake in the late 1990s. And I was already almost three times as old as you were when you started. These days I'm happy with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for daily use. I tried NixOS but it threatened to break my old brain.
I was always curious about this linux thing, from when I was in 7th grade, I only knew Kali linux then, and I thought one could hack anything if you had kali linux 😀, But I seriously started using linux in 10th grade, fell into the rabbit hole of ricing, and to this day still cant get over it although it has become more stable and I know what I am doing.
My dad had a Knoppix boot CD in a case with all the games, of course I messed with it as a curious child, I have no idea how old I was, but it was my first foray into the wonderful world of not Windows.
Started messing around with it some time in 2003, on Mandrake Linux when I was 21 years old. Experimented and ran servers with various distros in the years since but it didn't become my daily driver until about 2014-15, with Debian.
I had a Linux beginners class at my HS in 10th grade but I've forgot about Linux, until 12th grade when 2 of my really nerdie friends started shilling Linux to me, especially pointing out that now you can play windows games on Linux, and not too long after I eventually did the jump when starting my comp sci uni with Manjaro as a first, but I have found happiness in EndevaorOS due to Manjaro being unstable.
I'd love to make Linux my daily driver, but there's an issue with 2d animations on any Linux distro I install on my laptop. Windows 10 does not have this issue. So that means like half the Internet is stuttery.
Until that is fixed, I cannot use it as my daily driver.
I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (Ryzen 7 5800H + RTX 3060). This happens across EVERY distro I've tried (Debian 12, Fedora 42, Mint Cinnamon, EndeavourOS, Nobara, PopOS) and EVERY browser (Firefox, Brave, Chromium).
Key symptoms: - 2D browser games stutter badly with low framerate - 3D WebGL browser games actually run fine (???) - Native games run perfectly (Captain Claw via Lutris works great) - Same exact game runs perfectly on Windows 10 on the same laptop
Someone else with an RTX 3060 tested the exact same game, seeing the same ~20W power draw, but has zero stutter issues.
Here's everything I've tried so far:
Graphics drivers: Both nouveau and NVIDIA proprietary drivers (570.133.07), both with open and proprietary kernels
Display settings: Tested at both 60Hz and 160Hz refresh rates
Hardware acceleration: Enabled and disabled in all browsers
Power modes: BIOS set to both Dynamic and Discrete graphics
BIOS tweaks: Disabled virtualization, no power management features available in BIOS apart from that
Added kernel parameters for power management (pcie_aspm=off acpi_osi=Linux)
Lenovo-specific: Installed the Lenovo Legion Linux drivers from johnfanv2/LenovoLegionLinux
NVIDIA power management: Tried enabling Nvidia dynamic boost with nvidia-powerd.service
I've monitored GPU power draw during gameplay and it hovers at 20-25W even when the light is red (performance mode) and the card is locked at P0 performance state. This is considerably lower than the ~80W it should be able to draw under load. It might not need to draw much more, but right now it's not drawing any more.
When I run the Firefox profiler to see what's happening, I can see the frame drops but there's no clear cause. And the fact that 3D browser games work fine but 2D ones stutter makes no sense to me.
If you have any idea at all I'm listening, I'm all out of ideas 🙁
Started with Ubuntu's initial 4.10 release back in '04. I wish I still had the Live CD they mailed me. When Ubuntu ditched Gnome for Unity I switched to Mint. Up until a few months ago I was dual-booting Windows alongside it, but with 10's EOL approaching I'm ditching it.
I do keep an old laptop running Win10 specifically for some Audio-related software I just can't get to work in Linux.
I started using linux with dual boot in June 2024 where I installed Fedora/Fedora immutable kde and bazzite. Tried GNOME on my brother's old Laptop but using Extensions for changing one thing(and breaking every update) was annoying I have been using Fedora till I stumbled across CachyOS I switched to Cinnamon around this time from KDE Around December 2024 Where I used Linux full time (no windows dual boot) this is when I found Cachyos (or arch variants) and Cinnamon comfortable the only problem is that Cinnamon doesn't have Vrr,HDR and Wayland for me
It just has this beige win 7 look, that is somehow both new and old at the same time. You dont have the Macros and Costumisation of Plasma, but you also dont have the rigidness and tablet-style interface of Gnome. You dont have the ressource friendlyness of xfce. The only thing it has is that it can both render qt and gtk in its own style, but xfce already does that with its very win xp like interface, which both qt and gtk have themes for
It just has this beige win 7 look, that is somehow both new and old at the same time. You dont have the Macros and Costumisation of Plasma, but you also dont have the rigidness and tablet-style interface of Gnome. You dont have the ressource friendlyness of xfce. The only thing it has is that it can both render qt and gtk in its own style, but xfce already does that with its very win xp like interface, which both qt and gtk have themes for
I agree with this kinda but I find Cinnamon more comfortable to use then Xfce but I could use xfce
My son's first computer was Linux. ;) He was still toddling but wanted to hit my computer, so I set up an old one for him.
I was 14 in 1991 I should add. I switched from minix not long after I could get Linux to boot. I think that was actually 1992. Both the computer and Linux weren't very good back then ..
2002, I was 11. My dad had bunch of Linux install CDs that came with Dr. Dobbs. I fucked up my XP MBR and asked him to bring home a XP install disk cause i lost all mine.
By the time he got home I had installed Mandrake Dolphin Linux on my PC.
in 2002 when my windows me computer start looping on the blue screen of death, with all of my college papers/essays/tests/assignments trapped in it.
the recovery media refused to work because i had upgraded the computer several times and i couldn't afford the $180 windows xp cd. so i bought a linux magazine for $5 that included a copy of mandrake linux installation media and used paper printouts from my college's computer labs to help me rescue my work from the computer.
lol. This is my story as well! Except the CD was in Dr. Dobbs that my dad had a sub thru his work from. I was too impatient to wait for him to bring home an XP install CD.
I first heard about it in about 1994 when a Unix guy I knew told me about a type of Unix that could run on regular computers. He loaned me a POSIX book, but I didn't really hear anything until 98. I started getting fed up with all the problems with Windows 98, and I started installing it and breaking it on any machine I could get access too. I don't know how many floppies I formatted with each disk image of RedHat and Debian. I broke the school network a few times with things like accidentally setting up a DHCP server. I sent a patch to the kernel. I Learned a whole lot those first years.
I googled it and it's a higher form of number theory that involves things like"abelian extensions" and "absolute Galois groups". I've taken a course in Galois theory so I understand a little bit of that, but how is it related to number theory?
I found the wikipedia article mostly incomprehensible but it says a few things. You are probably better off asking on MSE or Reddit, sorry to say. Wikipedia's math reference desk has slowed down a lot in recent years though that's possibly another place to try.
At least here in the US, lots of mobile phone plans have free or cheap international calls, depending on the countries involved. Example. Some home landline plans also have that. So far that has been enough for me on the few occasions when I've wanted to make an international call. If more frequent, I'd use a VOIP provider, maybe Twilio (I'm sure there are others too, but I know Twilio supports this and has a decent API).
VOIP providers will often also sell you inbound phone numbers in the destination country, if you want the other person to be able to call you from their landline without it getting rung up as an international call for them. Those aren't always so cheap, but there are obvious use cases.
Build your own plan with minutes, texts and data starting at only $5/month. No contract, no lock-ins! You can also buy a new phone from Tello or bring your own. It's all up to you.
I’ve found an Inspiron with an FX8800P and 1 3.5” slot and a DVD slot. I intend to use it in my 3-2-1 backup with two drives (one hot, one warm) and the third backup in AWS Glacier (inb4 fuck Amazon - it’s cheap). It will also function as a NAS.
Have you placed a 3.5” drive in the 5.25” DVD bay? I understand you may need an adapter. Not sure if I can skip that.
The reason I can’t use a consumer NAS is because I want to power one of the drives off for power, longevity, and I don’t want to use RAID (also they’re quite $$$).
Although the theory is promising, the duo point out that they have not yet completed its proof. The theory uses a technical procedure known as renormalization, a mathematical way of dealing with infinities that show up in the calculations.
So far Partanen and Tulkki have shown that this works up to a certain point—for so-called 'first order' terms—but they need to make sure the infinities can be eliminated throughout the entire calculation.
"If renormalization doesn't work for higher order terms, you'll get infinite results. So it's vital to show that this renormalization continues to work," explains Tulkki. "We still have to make a complete proof, but we believe it's very likely we'll succeed."
At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach.
ToE is generally taken to mean a theory that accounts for all four fundamental forces in physics, 1) strong nuclear force, 2) electromagnetism, 3) weak nuclear force (unified in some way with electromagnetism now), 4) gravity. The "standard model" only handles the first three, with gravity being separate and very mysterious. I'm skeptical of this new paper on various grounds but who knows.
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My primary OS is Windows (I use it for work) and I have Linux as my second OS. If I upgrade my linux distro to the paid version so I can have more features, will Windows be okay? Thanks I'm a newb
As others have said, there usually is no such thing, and if there is, your distro is probably practically a scam and you should find another.
What distro are you running?
Some legitimate distros may have extra support available for a cost, but that just means support, not extra features. Also, they sometimes have things like live patching, but that really is more an enterprise grade feature.
I'm using ZorinOS and I really like how simple it is and I want to support the project. If I upgrade to the Pro version then I get more desktop themes/options.
But I understand what you mean. I could just install for example Debian with KDE desktop and have more customizing options for free.
ALL of the listed features from zorin pro have free alternatives, unless you really want microsoft office, screen sharing, adobe premier, etc... just stick with the free version and find free viable alternatives. Libreoffice, kdenlive, etc. How did you land on zorin to begin with? Most new users are recommended to use fedora, ubuntu-gnome, and linux mint. To me, just looking at zorins website they do not share the most basic principles of the linux space (being free and open source). I highly recomend switching, if you could run
echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
This will output the name of your display manager like gnome, kde, etc. The version of zorin you are running is more than certainly using a popular one. Just find a distro that uses the same one. And your user experience will be almost exactly the same. Zorin might have some QOL features but definitely not anything you couldnt implement yourself.
Feel free to reach out here for more help if you run into any brick walls. You already dual booted your pc so i have faith that you have a pretty good grasp on what you are doing. If time is a factor and you just need a distro that "works" stick with what you have, and find FOSS alternatives for zorin. Best of luck
As far as I know Zorin is FOSS, for what it's worth. It's mostly just bundled FOSS software with some slick themes and accessibility features, plus a few in-house system apps which they do seem to provide sources for.
They mention that it's open source on their website but they don't mention FOSS probably because the libre/gratis distinction is confusing for people.
Zorin itself is foss but paying for features like themeing and software Is imo against the spirit of linux, they should, (again imo) release zorin pro as the default and simply accept donations. Like most distro maintainers. Even more frustrating, is the advertised features are just normal features and software readily available for free on other distros being paywalled. Its very likely that a user could get all of the listed features on the free version without paying. I also misread the website, ms office and adobe premier are not even what is included. In fact they do not list the specific names of the alternatives that they use in the pro version. I would bet that the pro version Has all foss software that is being hidden behind the price tag. I will do more quick research and edit this comment if that is the case.
Edit: Yeah i nailed it, its all foss software available through most package managers or flatpak heres a list.
Additional Software Included in Zorin Pro: Office & Productivity:
LibreOffice: A comprehensive office suite compatible with Microsoft Office/365 documents: https://www.libreoffic...
I installed the paid version of Zorin on my Parents machines, because while I could set it up for them just the same and then maintain it until they die, I'd rather pay 50$ and have nearly 0 work to do.
I make way over 50$ for 1 hour or Linux tech support, so there is no world where it would be worth.
But besides that I don't think your attitude is particularely useful for people that would rather shit just work than spend hours on setting it up themselves.
It's kind of creepy, weird, and unusual. However, I can see someone building a distro and creating a bunch of non-OSS themes and basically selling the themes. That's not beyond the pale, although it is (again) questionably moral given that they probably created all of those themes using free software that they didn't pay for. But whatever.. just keep that in mind.
The usual way of commoditizing Linux is to sell service - so you get, like, 4 tickets a month or something where someone is guaranteed to be there to try to fix whatever problem you have within a reasonable amount of time, and you don't have to either rely on the kindness of strangers.
Zorin is mainstream enough that I suspect if they were really violating the GPL, someone would be on their case already. You can't - usually, depending on the license - just repackage OSS and sell it. So if that's how you wanted to spend your money, you do you and don't worry about the comments on this thread.
Oh, about your question: according to the upgrade page, the "upgrade" is just access to more packages, probably in another repos. You won't have to re-install the distribution, and there won't be any impact on your dual boot. You're just getting more packages to install.
You can't - usually, depending on the license - just repackage OSS and sell it.
I'm pretty sure you can. GNU's Selling Free Software is for the GPL & doesn't specifically address selling someone else's OSS. But you should (I think?) be able to, so long as you don't violate the license. There are multiple views to selling foss, but I don't think that many will object, if you for example sell Linux DVDs at a low cost. (Not common any more, but this has been done before, I've heard)
I don't know much about Zorin, but selling foss is not inherently evil & illegal.
The whole thing about selling DVDs was that you were selling the DVD, not the distribution on it. You were "charging a reasonable price for the service of burning the DVD, for the media, and for distribution." Much of that went away with the internet, when people could download and burn ISOs themselves. It used to be quite common; not just distributions, but CDs full of OSS software. Again, the assumption and expectation was that you weren't selling the software, but the media. There was no such thing as a "Pro" version of Linux. There were commercial distributions, and there was a period when companies were trying to figure out ways to commoditize OSS, but there were also lawsuits, and it mostly settled out to be service agreements, which were in the end more lucrative anyway.
I disagree about the immorality of selling FOSS. Even in the very rare case that you built the entire program, from scratch, using no FOSS libraries, you probably still used gcc, or the Python interpreter, or go or rustc. And on most cases, you are using libraries that other people created and gave away for free. And instead of giving back to the community, so that the people who's software you're implicitly selling that your software is built and depends on, can't use it similarly for free. And odds are also good that, despite your shim is utterly reliant on their hard work, you're not splitting up the profit and sharing it with them. How much money do those people send to Linus Torvalds? Or the countless kernel contributors? To the people who've worked on libc?
I have absolutely no issue with people who request donations for the software that they built and regularly and consistently maintain. And people charging for OSX or Windows software? It costs more than just free time to develop and release on those platforms - the entire chain is commercial. But when your product is an unmeasurably tiny fraction of all of the gratis effort that went into the end product, well. It doesn't seem right to profit on other's work, does it?
Look, we're a capitalist society. It takes someone time and material to make a chair from scratch, and when you take it, they don't have it any more. They used nothing free except maybe YouTube videos, or their parent's training. The FOSS software ecosystem is the closest thing we have to a functioning communism in the world; it works because, while it may take my time to create something, it doesn't cost me more than my time, and once it's done it can be endlessly replicated and used by innumerable people at no significant cost to me. When actors take advantage of the free ecosystem and don't contribute back in like fashion, in my book that's unethical.
Stallman's usual take is "Yeah sure you can sell it, as long as you respect the 4 freedoms.". So I don't think selling Free Software is against the spirit of FOSS. The issue is rather that the Free Software is against the spirit of selling because realistically you can sell it to one entity which can then just make 7 billion copies of said software. At that point it's no longer financially viable to sell it for you.
I also think that the majority of people creating Free Software would be fine with someone else selling it. Remember how much permissive-licensed software is out there. If authors really cared, they would have licensed the software under GPL, but instead they even allow it to be used with commercial licensing. Obviously I'm not taking away your opinion, but I don't think your opinion represents the majority of FOSS.
Personally, I dislike Zorin, but I can see your point. I didn't know it was Zorin at the time I I just find paywalling some FOSS stuff that isn't entirely yours very weird, and I also don't think users should touch almost anything Ubuntu-based, especially new ones. Mint might be the exception, but it's not to my tastes as well personally.
I think I agree with my university's Linux Users Group recommendation of Fedora, though I personally use Debian.
Honestly, if Debian would tidy up their website, make the Calamares-based installers the default, and perhaps had an installer with backports kernel built-in, it could be the easiest distro out there - I think everything else in Debian is almost perfect for most people. They don't even have to compromise on all that "universal operating system" stuff - they could just offer multiple installers. As for the website, I can get why they need to use a static site with HTML4, but that shouldn't stop them from designing a simple-to-use website.
Also, had no idea you were also in this community. Pleasant surprise.
They're not really paywalling FOSS, though. You can absolutely install it all and configure it yourself. You're paying for them to do the work so you don't have to.
I think it's pretty benign to charge for that to support development.
Ignoring Red Hat which according to the Software Freedom Conservancy organization are GPL violators.
But with Ubuntu it depends on whether you consider paid repositories features or support. Sure you can just compile it yourself but that's kinda the same thing Zorin is doing: lemmy.world/post/29546682/1701…
If you want to support a *nix distro, that's awesome and I fully support you. What you shouldn't support is distributions locking features behind a paywall.
This is how you get Microsoft Windows and Copilot.
To answer your question--Windows is destructive to *nix boot sectors. When you update Windows, it will bork your *nix install. Dual booting with Windows is a real PITA.
Hey folks, We have been working on a project called InlineStyle
A European, open-source, fediverse based alternative to the Google ecosystem.
It’s a single platform with these services: * 📧 Email address @inlinestyle.it * 📹 Video sharing via PeerTube * 🎵 Music streaming with Funkwhale * 📝 Docs and Drive via Collabora/NextCloud * 📒 Markdown based notes * 🎮 Browser-based FOSS games (Celeste Classic, Tyrian, SuperTux, etc.) * 🌍 Static personal site hosting
All hosted in Europe. No telemetry, no ads, no corporate BS.
It’s not a startup pitch, just something we built because we got tired of being locked in.
The idea is to keep it sustainable with a simple support plan (€1.90/month) that unlocks upload features and personal email/webspace. Free tier available too, no login needed to browse.
Would love your thoughts. What should I improve? What’s missing for you to consider switching?
Our goal is to try to build a real #DeGoogle fediverse based path that doesn’t feel like a downgrade. It will take time, but we are willing to try and stay committed to the mission.
We’ve been exploring the idea of adding a chat service. But we haven’t yet decided which protocol would provide the most value for most people.
Right now, we’re considering XMPP and Matrix — both are solid, privacy-respecting options. Our goal is to offer something that lets people communicate with their existing contacts, not start from scratch.
We’d love your input: what would you actually use? What works best in your daily setup?
Not sure I'd use either, but may I suggest both, with a clear caveat that one or both may disappear or change ? Throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks...
It seems to have plateaued and increasing more slowly.
Look like 1 year "growth then plateau", like 2021-01 to 2022-01. But 2022-05 to 2024-09 linear growth again. Analysis/forecast of human behaviour not easy.
Also combine data of different source not easy, please handle with care.
Good point, thanks. The way I modeled the adjustment was by assuming that most usage is captured by Statcounter but there's movement back and forth to a reservoir that flies under its radar, in bursts, with zero net movement in the long run. So I used a geometric mean of the source data scaled by the square root of their averaged ratio.
Possibly controversial point, but I don't want Linux to go mainstream.
I like that there are very few viruses developed for Linux. I like that most countries don't regulate Linux in the way that MacOS or Windows are regulated (I live in the EU, so I know a thing or two about regulations), and most of all, I like that Linux apps are mostly Free as in free beer, and a labour of love for all involved.
All these things would go away if linux were to reach 10-15%+ market share. Is it really worth it to invite all this scrutiny for a chance of having hardware companies make hardware run better on linux?
How do you see Linux being regulated if it grows? I imagine that Windows and MacOS are regulated because they’re for profits that e.g. harvest our data, create proprietary limitations on apps, and so on. Genuinely curious how regulating Linux would look similar - or how it might differ.
Well, the first thing that comes to mind would be some sort of "security features" that the regulatory body might believe linux should have in order to be a mass consumer product, that the linux community might not agree with/have the structure to keep up with.
Another would be, if the EU goes ahead the introducing backdoors in encrypted communications (hopefully not), what implications could that have for the current spyware-free linux distros we use?
Overall, my concern is that more eyeballs on Linux might mean increased regulation even when it's unwarranted because some bureaucrat needs to justify his salary. I'd rather avoid that.
I'm qute happy with where Linux is ATM. 4-5% market share means there's enough of a market that things can develop, but not so much that regulation is used to force Linux to be a particular thing.
We can argue that Cannonical and Red Hat do force Linux in a certain direction of course, but that's another matter entirely.
I see - but given that Linux isn’t one thing, couldn’t we instead see regulation of for-profit distros (or distros managed by for-profits), while volunteer-based, open-source remains largely unregulated?
Sadly when the EU regulates, it's the same for everyone across the board.
It's a mess. They require that small, one-man operations or simple corner stores treat personal data with the same diligence that banks do, under the GDPR.The concept of scale is something that is foreign to the EU.
I have a few friends that work for the government in their countries and they say GDPR requirements is destroying their local municipalities.
The only regulation from the EU that I've seen makes a distinction at scale, is the Digital Markets Act.
People online complain that Linux is hard to install for new users. But who are these people and why do they levy these complaints? The biggest barrier for the new Linux user isn't the installer; i...
The vast majority of people have no experience installing an OS and likely never will.
The typical user uses whatever is preinstalled when the get the hardware.
My father-in-law wrecked his windows pc with malware over and over so I bought him a Wow PC mywowcomputer.com/ and he loves it. I don't think he has any idea its running linux.
A Simple to use computer designed especially for Seniors! Easy to use! New programs and updates are provided automatically for the life of your WOW! Computer.
The source files can be found by following 3 links deep to telikin.com/source/ doesn't look like they include their frontend though, which might be proprietary, idk.
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Or users could maybe learn how to do things without having their hands held and treated like babies every step of the way; or at least how to search for information to find what they need... 🤷🏻♂️
They could. But you and I both know they won't because most people don't care about anything beyond 'make the magic box work so I can do my job / play my game / etc.
Because we keep feeding them stupid pills and encouraging them not to think. Microsoft was a pioneer of the whole "water down software and call it user-frienfly'" thing.
That's not it at all. You don't think accountants who juggle numbers and Excel formulas all day couldn't learn? Lawyers whose entire job involves absorbing and filtering vast amounts of information? Doctors who diagnose machines that are far more complex than computers (people)? Of course they could; I worked around these people in IT for 20 years, I can tell you that despite how stupid these folks seem around computers they feel the same way about your capabilities in their field of expertise, only they don't have the arrogance to assume that everyone should learn to be a mechanical engineer or dentist in order to understand their job.
What they are is too busy doing other shit that they care more about. They don't have the time or interest to be farting around with a computer to do anything more than the absolute minimum requirements needed to do the shit they actually care about. Human society functions because people specialize, and people who don't specialize in making computers go just don't care enough about them as anything other than as a tool and maybe an occasional source of entertainment to waste their time learning. Just like you don't waste your time learning about how to run a nuclear power plant.
And I say this as someone who used to love tinkering with computers, turned it into a career, and slowly grew to hate it. I too no longer care about optimizing or fiddling or tweaking, I just want the magic box to work so I can do the stuff I care about (writing, gaming, etc.)
Well, lucky for them their fields aren't under constant attack by droves of idiots constantly being catered to. There is no watering down of those fields in the name of "user friendliness".
Also, they don't expect people to understand their field, but people don't interact and touch legal stuff or doctor stuff on a daily basis like people do with computers. If they did, then they would no doubt feel the same way about idiots who can't grasp the basics and refuse to learn the slightly more advanced shit.
It's 2025. There's no reason for anybody - but especially the older group - to not know what the start button is, or keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, for example.
What does 'watering down' even mean? Why is 'user friendliness' bad? Do you want computers that are harder to use for some reason? If that was the case why don't you also give up your favorite OS or interface or language and go back to carting around stacks of punch-cards or flipping physical switches to set memory registers? Or are you just trying to make yourself feel useful as an IT person?
Also, I dunno if you know this, but people interact with health and legal shit all the time, that's why there are people who only do that job. Reading some email and punching some numbers into an excel sheet are about the equivalent of signing a lease or getting a flu shot. It's not their job to know how things work behind the scenes, just like it's not your job to know how to make vaccines or write legally binding contracts.
And finally, you're forgetting two important facts. 1. Older people tend to have been in their jobs longer and at higher levels 2. Companies, especially in certain industries, don't update their hardware/software as often as IT would like them to.
So that old guy you think ought to be able to know what a start button is might have never seen one because the only computers they use at work are old SPARCstations from the early 2000s, or might've worked in a bank for the last 50 years that is still using AS/400s from the late 80s or whatever that can't even run windows. You tell me, what are the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste hotkeys on a DEC Alpha? Where's the power button on an SGI Onyx? I worked IT in a hospital in the late 90s that was still using computers from the early 70s for shit, it happens way more often than you think.
"Watering down" is the MS approach to design - take all the power user features, and make them less useful and less efficient to use (or just get rid of them altogether). It's a slow burn to "Take that to the nearest certified Microsoft Store so they can repair it for you".
The entire design is focused around making things HARDER to use. Less reliance on a terminal, dynamic menus whose contents are clusterfucked into little panels instead of proper menus. Hell, look at the Printers dialogue in Windows 7 and prior, then compare that to the trash they've thrown in Win 10 and 11. Everything is designed to look flashy, and be as impossibly inefficient to use. But it looks less intimidating, so stupid users love it!
Reading some email and punching some numbers into an excel sheet are about the equivalent of signing a lease or getting a flu shot.
Not sure where you're from, but when I get a flu shot, I sit in a chair and somebody who knows how to administer the shot gives it to me. I also don't get a flu shot for several hours a day several days a week. Same with leases, I may sign one every few years at most, and if it's for something serious then I would get a lawyer involved. That said, I am at least competent enough to sit in the chair and get the shot without asking "what's a chair? How do I sit? Where is my arm?" Likewise, I can read a lease and not have to ask "What is a lease? What is a signature? How do I sign this page?" I can't say the same about people in 2025 who say "What's the start button?" or have no idea that decades-old shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v are things.
Also, if you consider the amount of marketing and exposure to computers that people have had by now, yes, I would expect just about everybody to know what the fuck a Start button is. Shit, if you hold your mouse over it, I'm almost certain it even pops a tooltip that says "Start". Some of these people have worked at this same company for decades, and have no doubt touched generations of Windows software.
As for how to copy/paste on those older computers - I guess it depends on how you're accessing them as to whether or not you even can copy/paste. But at the same time, I wouldn't be nearly as frustrated if somebody wasn't quite sure how to navigate through something that isn't as commonplace as a Windows computer - you might as well say you're "not very competent with pencils and paper".
It has not been my experience that MS removes or weakens tools like that. What they do is hide them, like what they did in the transition from the control panel to the modern settings interface in 10/11. It's easier for people who don't know what they're doing to navigate (and harder for them to stumble into settings that could really mess things up), but it's just slower to navigate and harder to find the shit you want when you're not doing bog-standard end-user stuff. But also the control panel is still there and still works exactly how it used to, so you can just use it instead. If there's a 'watering down' there it's that the search function prefers to return results for for the settings menu rather than the control panel so you have to navigate to it by hand, but you can just pin that shit to your start menu like everything else and keep using it like it's still 2005.
The entire design is focused around making things HARDER to use. Less reliance on a terminal, dynamic menus whose contents are clusterfucked into little panels instead of proper menus.
Only for people who are doing complex technical stuff and accessing features that aren't commonly needed by the end-user. For everyone else not having 400 options that they don't understand and will never use cluttering everything up makes it easier to use, not harder. Most end-users never want to see a terminal, and those clustered toolbars make it easier - when coming at it fresh without years or decades of expectations - not harder to find what what you're looking for. Especially if you're visually impaired like I am. This strikes me as just 'the way I learned is faster' without the awareness that it's because you took the time to learn it and don't want to have to learn something new. And I get it. I spent hours and hours learning all of the menu hotkey combinations for Lotus 1-2-3 in the late 80s, and I was fast as shit at plucking out those obscure features from 12 menus deep with a few keystrokes, so I was very salty when Excel came along and displaced it with its graphical menus and mouse pointer that was so much slower than the hotkeys I had learned. But also Excel was vastly more popular than Lotus 1-2-3 ever was because it was a lot easier for accountants to use, and Excel has (or had, I haven't used it in a while) hotkeys for most of its menu items anyway (alt+key to pull down a menu, then each entry had a letter underlined so you could quickly pick that option, much like using /, (w)orksheet, (c)olumn, (a)dd or whatever from Lotus 1-2-3.)
That's not 'watering down', that's improving: making things better for the vast majority of people, while requiring folks like us - whose entire job is to learn and understand computer shit - to bear the burden of having to relearn a few things. I guarantee you there were programmers out there complaining about the widespread adoption of early high-level languages because 'by god the best way to code is to manually flip the bits in core memory with a magnet' or whatever, but it's no different than when new laws get passed or new diagnostic or treatment standards get approved. Technological progress and reinvention is just the nature of living in an industrial society. If you don't want to keep up with it, pick another field like I did.
when I get a flu shot, I sit in a chair and somebody who knows how to administer the shot gives it to me. ... Same with leases, I may sign one every few years at most, and if it’s for something serious then I would get a lawyer involved.
Exactly my point: you and an accountant both have a very shallow, straightforward experience with a complex technical subject because others have gone to considerable lengths to take care of the immense volume of technical details and obscure them from your view. I'm going to guess that you understand as much about how to safely store and administer vaccines or which of 12 related statutes applies to your particular case as he does about the SMTP protocol or Ethernet, so why do you expect him to not get a professional involved when he runs into 'something serious' just like you do? And keep in mind that what seems trivial to you or I can be quite serious and intractable to him.
I am at least competent enough to sit in the chair and get the shot without asking “what’s a chair? How do I sit? Where is my arm?” Likewise, I can read a lease and not have to ask “What is a lease? What is a signature? How do I sign this page?” I can’t say the same about people in 2025 who say “What’s the start button?” or have no idea that decades-old shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v are things.
This is a straw man. You are exaggerating the stupidity of others to create a false example against which you are arguing, and while a few of those people certainly exist (I had a guy tell me his computer wouldn't turn on and then when I asked him to try his response was to loudly say 'Computer, on! -- see? Nothing happens'), most people can muddle through simple stuff like navigating menus even if they don't know what they're called.
I did tech support for a couple of years in the late 90s, I have walked people who have literally never touched a computer before through replacing their motherboard (CPU, RAM, cables, even DIP switches and jumpers.) It's been my experience that there's a kind of mental line that most people draw that separates technical stuff into two categories: 'I can probably figure this out', and 'OMG this is way too much I don't even know where to start.' I have talked to many, many people on both sides of that line, and there seems to be no middle ground. People go from 'I think I can swim?' straight to 'holy shit I'm drowning'. When they've assigned computer stuff to the far side of that line they actively reject thinking about it, especially when jargon is involved. If you ask them where their files are stored they might gesture vaguely at the box under their desk, but if you ask them what a hard drive is they will shrug and go 'Iono man, must be some of that wacky technical shit I don't understand'. They have some idea what a hard drive - or a start button - is, they use it every day, but if you put them on the spot while they're in 'I dunno anything' mode they're not even going to try to make the connection and ask 'wait, is that the menu that all my programs are in?', they'll just go 'Dunno man, that must be some of that technical shit that's beyond me.'
And it works both ways. I have had certified network engineers tell me 'Of course it's plugged in, what kind of an idiot do you think I am?' when it turned out not to be plugged in. There's the stuff you know and the stuff you feel confident stretching for; everything else just doesn't even get considered.
As for how to copy/paste on those older computers - I guess it depends on how you’re accessing them as to whether or not you even can copy/paste. But at the same time, I wouldn’t be nearly as frustrated if somebody wasn’t quite sure how to navigate through something that isn’t as commonplace as a Windows computer - you might as well say you’re “not very competent with pencils and paper”.
The point is that you don't know because you don't have to, you've never had to use them (and what's 'commonplace' for you isn't necessarily common at all for others.) The same is true for those people who have been working in banks for decades and haven't seen anything more modern than an IBM PCjr. Your frustration that people don't understand stuff that's common to you is equivalent to their frustration that you don't know how to write programs in RPG2 or Fortran. They probably don't think you're stupid for not knowing why certain kinds of RAM can cause 'make world' on BSD systems to fail halfway through, so why do you think they are for not knowing stuff that they may not have been exposed to very much?
I think your expectations might be rather skewed. For example, do you know how common it is to just not own a PC in the days of ubiquitous consoles and tablets and smartphones? I have 11 adult nieces and nephews, two of them own PCs, and only then because their mother wanted someone to play WoW with her when they were kids and they stuck with PC gaming. But every one of them has a phone, at least an xbox or playstation, most of them own a Switch or Steam deck or similar, etc. Meanwhile the last console I owned still had wood paneling on the front (Atari 2600.) Peoples' experiences with technology are different, some are intrigued by it and drawn to learn more, some just see it as a tool that sits in a drawer until they need to turn some metaphorical bolts. It's absurd to assume that everyone has the same experience and interest and understanding with a subject that you do.
The biggest hole in your argument is that it isn't 1993 anymore, and the internet has a whole wealth of information on how to do shit, not to mention how hard it would be to have never touched a computer if you're any more than 5 years old.
People could take the 30 seconds to get the answer, but instead they'd prefer to just be stupid and allow big tech to slowly repeal rights to repair.
I've done corporate IT. I've talked to people who somehow use a computer every day but still haven't grasped basic 30+ year old concepts.
The reliance on IT to do the most basic shit is great for me from an employment standpoint, but we are equitr clearly being herded slowly toward the "Take that to your certifies Microsoft repair center for service " path. It'll only be a matter of time before Computers are as pathetic as the pocket computers we call smart phones.
Google and Apple have not just convinced people that they don't need full ownership of their phones, but that having that level of access is actually somehow a bad thing.
We're already seeing laptops with batteries sealed in, and not just Surface Pro tablet style ones, either.
We shouldn't be coddling and encouraging ignorance of everyday things. If you can do a jigsaw puzzle, you're overqualified to build a computer - you may need help picking the right parts, but assembly should be straight forward. If you work a job that requires computer usage, you should know at least the basics of the OS. If you worked in a shop where your job was to cut a pipe to length using a saw, would you really have that job for long if you had no idea how to use a saw, and refused to learn the basics of using the saw? A computer is a tool no less than a saw is.
Didn't watch the video... but the premise "The biggest barrier for the new Linux user isn't the installer" is exactly why Microsoft is, sadly, dominating the end-user (not servers) market.
What Microsoft managed to do with OEMs is NOT to have an installer at all! People buy (or get, via their work) a computer and... use it. There is not installation step for the vast majority of people.
I'm not saying that's good, only that strategy wise, if the single metric is adoption rate, no installer is a winning strategy.
Most people who go out and buy a computer doesn't understand what an OS is. If Linux was standard when you bought a PC, it would be the dominating OS. I mean, you could switch the OS to Linux on the computers and I think most people wouldn't realise when they buy it lol
I think they would. I tried Linux again for the first time in 10+ years and kept running into issues like my sound would randomly die or change to headset, when I tried to update the video driver it hard- locked the system, etc. I just installed Ubuntu the other day and whenever it boots the monitor just goes into standby with no signal. It's been nothing but trouble, and I have pretty normal hardware. Most people aren't going to know or care how to deal with those problems. As far as Linux has come, it's still not ready for widespread adoption by most people on the 'it just works' front.
TBH do you actually think that there's some chance that nobody is testing these releases and this is happening to a massive number of people?
I've installed linux countless times on a SHITLOAD of computers and never faced any of these problems, realistically, you're very unlucky, and these sorts of things happen with windows all the time too.
I'm not saying your issues don't matter, but unless you have statistics that back you up, you can't say "it just works" to either OS.
I've had more of an "It just works" experience with linux literally hundreds of times.
I actually think there's some chance that linux has a lot of parts that were developed individually and thrown together and they don't always work great together. I think linux still has markedly worse driver support (especially for nvidia GPUs apparently) than windows, and that in terms of just working out of the box on a wide range of hardware and use cases that windows has it beat and it's not even that much of a contest. Yeah it can work, but it also seems to not work at least some of the time and then you don't have repair shops, tech support, etc you can call to figure out why. The best you can hope for is to trawl through old reddit threads and hope the answer is contained within, that it applies to your distro, and that the commands and files it tells you to run and edit are in the same places with the same name, which is frankly by no means as guaranteed for linux as it is for windows. When I tell someone to go into their windows/system32 folder and find foo.dll then 99 times out of 100 there is a file called foo.dll in the windows/system32 folder that does exactly what I think it does. Linux is too varied. And that's not a bad thing for most use cases, but it very much is for the widespread adoption use case.
Don't get me wrong, I hate windows and would love to switch to linux full time, it's just not working for me with some pretty bog-standard hardware on two different distros now with no indication as to even how I might go about fixing it other than 'lol buy an AMD GPU', so the odds are pretty good that I'm not the only person in history that that has happened for. I've never had problems like this on windows, I've never installed windows on normal hardware and had it just fail to work for no explicable reason, etc. I did IT for more than 20 years on both windows and linux computers and while I don't have statistics I can tell you that anecdotally linux was generally more stable and had fewer problems once it was running, but that was also on servers doing (often-headless) server things, not desktops playing games or doing stuff with sound or multimedia or running general software and shit.
I think that until most people can figure out how to install linux - and I would say probably 80% of them, minimum, lack the time, patience, or technical knowledge to do so because it's not just 'press button, receive OS' like windows is - and have it just work the vast majority of the time then it's not ready for widespread adoption. Preinstalling on known hardware is a different matter and could probably work for many cases until something goes wrong though.
Same issue though. If manufacturers actually had linux preinstalled, they would ensure compatibility. This isn't a windows/Linux problem, this is a manufacturer/default os problem.
I am amazed by what you say though. I've had 0 hardware problems installing Linux on many different machines in the past 5 years. All the incompatibility issues of old are gone by my perspective
Even then those who have to installers don't really have a good experience with distros of wide market share (narrowing to Linux distros only), especially with whatever fresh hell Calamares is. (It doesn't even support LVM or just installation with specified mounts points if you already set up your partition layout!) Seriously, I've had better experience with the installer Ubuntu Server uses.
It does "support" LVM, but with a wacky/hacky workaround and that's a real shame !
Also, there is some talking on github on how they will probably completely drop LVM in the near futur... That's not what someone should expect from a Linux installer!
Also, there is some talking on github on how they will probably completely drop LVM in the near futur... That's not what someone should expect from a Linux installer!
It's a shitshow. Looking at their repo's issues list has lots of noise, but the worst of them is that the LVM issue has been open for over a year now. Sure, open source, anyone's free to work on it by why would distros use such a feature incomplete installer?
Linux definitively does dominate the end user market. You just mean the end user desktop/laptop market.
I agree though that preinstallation is the biggest deal. The fact that people have to install Linux at all is the problem. The installer itself is already 100x better than the Windows one, but that's not enough.
Not to mention it means manufacturers ensure all the hardware is compatible, drivers etc are installed and working, which is why windows users feel it works better.
Just saying, not my experience. I have used linux for over 25 years and nontechnical users in my family have also for almost 20 years. Buy in large it has worked just fine.
The big issue is Linux is not the OS that is supplied when people go to the store and buy something (well except for Android and Chromebooks which are Linux and are popular). It is also not the system or have the apps their friends use. It also does not have the huge supply, support, and word of mouth ecosystem. Buying hardware especially addons is confusing. Getting support is hard unless you have friends that use. Buying Linux preinstalled often costs more. Change too is hard and there has to be some driver and for most people there is not.
I've been a "heavy" user(/admin) of Linux in the server space for about 12 years now, but only recently through a new employment opportunity have I become a daily Linux desktop user. Last weekend - slowly coming to the realization that Linux can really satisfy all my personal needs (including gaming that supports DLL injection) - I thought I'd like to see how feasible this would now be for the kind of end-user that I encounter as customers and friends, family members etc.
Having chosen CachyOS for myself a lot of my needs are now met brilliantly by the AUR, but of course I don't see this being a realistic proposal for an end-user. Flatpaks on the other hand I am now (and previously through my Steam Deck) encountering as a super straightforward way of covering a lot of ground in terms of the kinds of apps people may need, and having them remain usable across system upgrades and such. I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but with Flathub I feel that there's not just everything there that probably covers 95% of non-tech-savvy people's needs, there's even stuff in there that you can't get anywhere else with a simple install button. Like a youtube-dl UI for example.
Anyways this isn't even the story I'm trying to tell, sorry for the tangent. So I thought if I'm ever going to recommend any distro to someone it's gonna have to be an immutable one, but based on what I just said I'd say any distribution (immutable or not) is going to be dead in the water if it doesn't come with Flatpak support out of the box. And so the choices in terms of popular ones (according to ChatGPT) were VanillaOS and Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. (Personally I use KDE now but I think the most approachable DE is always going to be Gnome hands down unless you're talking outdated hardware.)
So I set up VanillaOS in a VM, latest ISO from their website, went through the installer, all went fine until the reboot where I was basically just met by a lengthy splash screen and then some GTK error saying it failed to launch or whatever and then the screen just remains black indefinitely. Obviously this isn't supposed to happen, it's probably something to do with my virtualized setup, but if there's any chance of this happening on the physical machine of a person in need of a digital revolution in their life then this is certainly not what I'm going to recommend to them.
Next up, Fedora Silverblue. Went through the installer, the Fedora one is already a great starting point in terms of simplicity. Rebooted into a working Desktop Environment, so already winning on that front. I had one minor problem there where the last step of the Initial Setup process would just hang if I wanted it to enable Third party sources straightaway. If I left that off I could finish and finally get to my Desktop. Then I would open the Gnome "Software" app and it would basically ask the same thing in a more convoluted manner but basically that means there's a second "chance" to enable third party sources without having to find something in a settings menu. It's a little more fussy than if the checkbox had just worked on the Initial Setup but I guess I could see many people work through this if I told them "don't check that last checkbox and then check it in the Software app".
It's weird that both avenues I tried came up with problems that seem way too on the nose to be overlooked. Or who knows what factored into those problems, but really they shouldn't even be within the realm of possibility. For a setup process to yield a black screen or hang itself if the wrong checkbox is clicked are the kind of things that (imho) are going to define when the "Year of the Linux Desktop" meme will stop being a meme. If you can give me an immutable Linux with Flatpak support out of the box which can be booted on a SecureBoot enabled computer and which will reliably install to a working Desktop then we're talking. For now, my recommendation is Fedora Silverblue. Slap that onto a USB-Stick and you have a somewhat attainable Linux installer that mere mortals can make use of.
Keep in mind you choose basically uncommon niche distributions. Go to distrowatch and choose one of the top 5 or so and use the distro repos and security updates. No flatpack is not needed for a well supported distro. That is especially true for one of the common Debian based distros.
Of course people can have different opinions on this, but the point for me is that I am of the firm belief that immutable is a must for people that just want their OS to work indefinitely without having to take care of that aspect. And once you got that covered, I feel that you need some sort of "App Store" app out of the box where you can get whatever people may need. Ubuntu has Snaps, which to my understanding is just a different take on what Flatpaks are accomplishing.
Currently the Top 5 of the past 6 months on Distrowatch are all mutable, 2 of them are Arch-based, one comes with Xfce. I have been a Mint user myself and again, of course this is a matter of opinion, but for me the ship of using Debian derivatives has sailed, which might also subconsciously be the reason why no Ubuntu-based immutable distro has made it into my experiments. (No disrespect to Canonical and what they have done for the community since 2004, my first ever hands-on with Linux was on their 04.10 release.)
Either way I just can't see myself recommending any of those Top 5 to people who just want to use a PC reliably. And if I'm going to be the one they turn to with their problems I don't want those to potentially be about system-level breakages. When filtering by the "Immutable" tag on Distrowatch it seems that they just bunch those spins into their main distros like Ubuntu, Fedora and SUSE. I guess you can say VanillaOS is niche in comparison, but Fedora Silverblue is basically an immutable version of a well established distribution with Red Hat backing no less. And once it is set up like my pilot is now it works just fine. I guess the plan now is to keep that installation running and see how it behaves across updates/upgrades and such.
But we know why Snaps and Flatpaks started existing. I also think they are architecturally ugly.
And I think you have a point in terms of patches potentially coming too slowly onto an immutable system. But that problem isn't an inherent one, it's just a problem if distribution updates are slow because community support is lacking. At which point you're just trying to compare Open Source to Proprietary solutions where support is explicitly paid for. I'll trust a year old Linux kernel over the latest and greatest Windows release any day.
Actually I both do and do not understand why they exist. I use Debian based distros and do not use either well except when I am using Ubuntu which is forcing more and more snaps.
I do actually use exactly one appimage. I use to use the snap but found it was not that stable. One also generally has to have relatively new distro releases too as both flatpack and snap need to be fairly current which can be problem for near EOL Debian stable. Hence neither flatpack nor snap is that portable.
Where flatpacks and snaps look a lot better is smaller distros with smaller repos. Hence, not that interesting for Debian based distros.
Yeah I love linux, but it's user experience , while light years ahead of what I used in the late nineties and early aughts, is still clunky compared to others.
That being said, honestly most of linux's issues are GUI related, when it comes to going mainstream. The capabilities and efficiency are far ahead of windows and mac os but most users don't care.
Directions, examples and mundane work should all be seamless for mainstream consumers.
A good rule of thumb is, " if a user has to look for it to fix it, or open a terminal window to install software, then it won't be accepted fully.
Mainstream users don't want to type commands in a prompt. Why does everyone think windows blew DOS out of the water in sales? It wasn't because DOS wasn't working. It was, hell early windows ( I started on 3.11 so that's my limit of knowledge ) still used DOS.
So bottom line. Start putting the non tech consumer first or we'll forever be stuck in this "almost mainstream" category forever.
I don’t see them as mutually exclusive - can’t Linux be user friendly for the non-techie while also offering a techie lots of flexibility and command-line joy? 🤷♂️
They can and should. But they don't. They really only cater to the techie, because that's who uses it
Then they got pissed when their "marketing" efforts fall shorts.
Stop acting like non Linux users are dumb. They aren't. they've used the time others spent learning other thing, while others spent their time on techie things . Their priorities were different. Or maybe their poor and don't care about that as they need a PC but have to work 80 hours to feed their family.
But no. Instead of making life better through foss for those who need it, you're making Linux some unattainable nerd toy.
We can tell ourselves we don't care. But we do. Or the thread wouldn't be here
Oh look. Yet another post demanding things from a volunteer-based community without actually volunteering their own time to work on solving the problem they're insisting needs solving.
I'm sure these demands will totally make a difference in ways that putting their time into actually writing code wouldn't.
ROFL. Kiddo, I've been contributing to OSS for over two decades. The day I start caring about what non-contributors think is the day I stop writing code. Either show up with patches or STFU.
I think it should be encouraged for non technical users to share their insights regarding UI/UX. People who are skilled in building applications often don’t have great skills in that area anyway. Actual UI/UX specialists are even harder to come by it seems.
The issue with this video is that it doesn’t bring in a ton of new insight. Issues regarding the variety of package management solutions are well know for example, and some distros are already solving this by having system packages and flatpaks managed by the same installer.
Correct. There are actual efforts going on to resolve those issues. Which begs the question, why post vague exhortations for people to "do something" about this, rather than focusing the efforts in places where it will make a difference?
This isn't a post saying "hey, come to this project and pitch in." This post is just bitching into the ether and then some folks getting butthurt when the pointless performative nonsense is called out for what it is.
Posts like this one happen on a near-daily basis all across FOSS mailing lists. It's trivial to find numerous, often young, often inexperienced people who think their idea is the one that "fixes everything". These people reason that everyone should fall over one another to put effort into their magical idea once they see the obviousness and correctness of the idea. Clearly, it's simply incorrect to find fault in an obviously perfect idea such as this one.
It's just so weird that literally none of the people with these amazing ideas are the ones doing a "git init" and getting started on the work of actually implementing their amazing ideas. Bizarre how so many spectacular, world-changing ideas need to be worked on by literally anyone BUT their champion. What a horrible world we must live in filled with nasty, evil people who simply won't volunteer their personal time when we should feel so blessed with this holy relic of an idea.
I don't know what you mean that I want to be thought of as special, I'm in IT, not software development, and I don't contribute to code so these "special" people wouldn't include me.
Edit: Also, most paid products do the same thing so you should be paid for those as well. You get function from FOSS software and thus it is a used product. If it isn't functioning you swap to a better one, maybe a paid one, or circumvent the functionality. The thing is with FOSS the feedback is part can be code suggestions. I personally don't do it as all the FOSS software I use I tend to be happy enough with it. However, if something is truly that mission critical for you to use the software, you can contribute. I have friends who have done so. Also just about every software I use takes feedback and suggestions. What makes FOSS special is the ability to contribute when the suggestions you want to see are not the priority. I have had an MS Teams bug I've been dealing with for several users for going on a year now and MS has told me to kick rocks, I don't have much more to do from there. For FOSS, I could try to directly implement the solution, or fork the project to meet my needs. There are dozens of projects that have come into existence because of this principle and it is one of the core parts of FOSS software. I wasn't being smug, I was being very genuine in that you are a user benefiting from the software. Obviously, if someone wants their FOSS software as widely adopted as possible they will cater to their users. Many FOSS products don't operate on that principle though, particularly smaller ones that are for needs the developer had and everything else is secondary. In those cases, often someone else will come along and fork it and create their own version. It's one of the benefits of FOSS.
I've put loads of regular users on Linux and on average they have less issues than they had with windows
That is ignoring the installation. Linux install is download iso, burn it on USB, boot computer with said USB, run the install program, go through the 5-6 pages which takes about 15 minutes, reboot and the machine is done.
Windows 11 install is downloading ISO, burn it on USB, boot computer with said USB and then the boot up immet fails with this vague error. Spend a good hour on Internet searches to find that it's some bios setting which is fine for Linux, but whatever. Make setting, reboot USB! Setup now crashes again on other gauge error. Spend another 4 hours on sraxhes only to find out that windows iso burning requires a special windows only burning program that will "fix" it and is totally not done on purpose to sabotage Linux users, but fine, were only 5 hours in and still have to start so boot up a VM in Linux, find that usb burner somewhere, download and install that, then download the iso again, burn it, dump it again in the machine and presto, er have an installer, yay!
Go through the pages, and more pages and more crap and install this sponsored content and watch ads and now you need an account at Microsoft and more pages and do you love me? Please let me know that you love me, more feedback because I'm Microsoft and I need feedback and now do you want these games that you hate, and you must install office you will love it even though you'd rather commit sepuku, and a fucking hour of clicking a thousand times later, windows is finally installed ..?
Seriously, if I say that installing Linux was ten times easier than windows, it would be the understatement of the year.
In it's general use, nobody will run into weird shit like they do on windows and to top it off, you got no issues with viruses, no ads nor spyware in the operating system itself, and shit just works.
Yeah, Linux has bugs, just like windows, but the experience is ten times better, I'll die happily and proud on that hill
"shit just works" I'm sorry but you're fucking high if you think shit just works on linux. Every problem is a rabbit hole of 3 new problems with 3 more new problems.
I am by no means saying windows is any good, or any better necessarily. But this "Linux works great and is easy to use" is a load of shit and I'm sick of hearing it.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Saturday that federal, state and local officials are investigating the outbreak linked to foods produced by Fresh & Ready Foods LLC of San Fernando, California. The FDA says the 10 people who fell ill were in California and Nevada, and required hospitalization.
The agency said the products were sold in Arizona, California, Nevada and Washington at locations including retailers and food service points of sale, including hospitals, hotels, convenience stores, airports and by airlines.
Federal officials said they started investigating the recent outbreak last year but didn’t have enough evidence to identify a source of the infections. They said the investigation was reopened in April when FDA investigators found listeria in samples collected from Fresh & Ready Foods that matched the strain from the outbreak.
If you are interested about how and why Hungary is as it is, this is a documentary just released by Partizán, the most viewed Hungarian news outlet independent from the Hungarian government.
The subtitles are not autogenerated but hand-made by the news outlet.
The outlet has a decidedly leftist slant even by European standards, but are considered mainstream in Hungary.
Laki Gergely és Klopfstein-László Bálint filmje, a 10 év gyűlölet tucatnyi szakértővel járja körbe és mutatja be, hogyan betonozta be a hatalmát Orbán Viktor...
Thanks for posting, might be removed because it is a video, not an article. I'd just find some recent news article about Orban's shenanigans and post the link to the video it under it, because documentary or video subs don't have much subscribers 😀
[this is a 2-part article, the first is very short and is about the Hamas-US deal.]
"#Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of #Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual #American citizen, ahead of President #DonaldTrump’s trip to the region. #Israel was reportedly not involved in the discussions, but informed about the deal afterward. "
[The second, much longer part, :] "[Michigan AG] Dana Nessel continues to do damage control in the wake of her failed prosecution of student protesters at the University of Michigan...This week, in public remarks on the prosecution, she claimed without evidence that Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan had been the one who urged her to charge students involved in protests over Gaza."
Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual American citizen, ahead of President Donald Trump’s trip to the region.
[this is a 2-part article, the first is very short and is about the Hamas-US deal.]
"#Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of #Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual #American citizen, ahead of President #DonaldTrump’s trip to the region. #Israel was reportedly not involved in the discussions, but informed about the deal afterward. "
[The second, much longer part, :] "[Michigan AG] Dana Nessel continues to do damage control in the wake of her failed prosecution of student protesters at the University of Michigan...This week, in public remarks on the prosecution, she claimed without evidence that Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan had been the one who urged her to charge students involved in protests over Gaza."
Hamas and the United States announced an agreement today that will lead to the freeing of Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual American citizen, ahead of President Donald Trump’s trip to the region.
It's a substack (ugh), but you can click "no thanks" under the email field and it takes you to the article, which is by Ryan Grim. The article is somewhat hard to understand though, as it jumps between a few different topics.
I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.
Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?
Is there a quick explanation of what signal actually does? I don't understand the need for a phone number either. Jami doesn't ask for a phone number. It has other deficiencies that make me not want to use it, but those are technical rather than policy, more or less. Similarly, irc (I'm luddite enough to still be using it) doesn't ask for a phone number either. So this is all suspicious. There are a bunch of other things like this too (Element, Matrix, etc.) that I haven't looked into and tbh I don't understand why they exist.
Signal is a messenger service. You can expire messages after a certain amount of time.
They ask for a phone number to limit bots. I used my Google voice number and it worked fine. I like Telegram which banned me after a day of use for using Google Voice.
I get that Signal is a messaging system (not sure if "messenger service" has a specific meaning). What I don't understand is why I'd want to use it instead of any of the million others that are out there. I've never used Signal and don't have the slightest clue about how it operates, but apparently it tries to mess with the contact list on your phone? That sounds bad. I use Nextcloud Chat sometimes and its web design is ugly, but it works ok and you can self-host it fairly easily. It doesn't do anything with your phone contacts. Jami is distributed but (maybe unrelated) I often have trouble getting it to work at all.
It doesn't "mess with your contacts". You can choose to give contacts access if you wish to have secure contact discovery. Contacts are not uploaded.
It's robustly encrypted and quantum secure, without metadata leaks like the sender of a message.
It's recommended by Edward Snowden.
If you want to message someone, have the ability to verify there is no man in the middle attack, have perfect forward secrecy, very strong crypto, use open source software and still have all the conveniences of a modern message app, use signal.
Do you mean the client side is open source? What about the server? If you're required to use Signal's server, how do you know it's not disclosing metadata? If you can self-host it, why the phone number?
Messages sent don't contain a readable sender field
Mobile numbers may not be necessary long term, architecture depends on accounts being created Witt phone numbers. Usernames were very recently introduced. Soon we may see requirement for phone number dropped, unless related to spam control
It's not suspicious. It's been talked about for years. People know exactly what the phone number is used for. Easy discoverability, quick and seamless onboarding of new users by providing a way to bootstrap their social graph, and it being very similar to the process of the other biggest player that people just understand. And spam prevention. The phones are not leaked or used for anything else. The other alternatives exist and you are welcome to onboard the people you want onto them if you think it's simpler.
The code is open, if you don't trust other people and can't read the code to understand then hire someone you trust to validate the claims and assure you. But spreading FUD and saying it's suspicious is not productive to anyone.
1) I don't understand what you mean about discoverability: is my presence on the network advertised to strangers and spammers? That doesn't sound good. What does the onboarding process look like?
2) You still haven't said what Signal's advantages are supposed to be over alternatives, though I can guess some (e.g. better/more crypto than irc has). Jami seems conceptually ok, but buggy in implementation. Nextcloud Talk works but is kind of clunky. Matrix is popular though I've never used it: is it the main alternative to Signal these days? I thought it was what all the hipsters had migrated to while luddites like me were still on irc. Jitsi Meet looks nice though again I haven't explored it much. I've been puzzled for a long time that there is so much work in this area yet everything has deficiencies. Are there difficult problems to solve?
3) If Signal's code is open then of course I'd want to self-host the server. Can I do that? Does that get in the way of the onboarding process you mention? Where does the phone number come in, in that case? If I to use Signal's server, that doesn't sound so open, and normally there's no way for me to verify that it's running the same code that they claim.
I don't see where I'm spreading FUD. Ignoring a question and calling it FUD doesn't invalidate the question.
You can't easily selfhost Signal. They engineered it purposefully to only run on Big Tech Clouds with specific Intel CPUs they put (too much) trust in.
Very interesting, thanks. Do you mean they use SGX (Intel's buggy secure enclave feature)? Any idea what they use it for? If not SGX, do you know what the issue is? AMD Epyc processors have something similar but different, fwiw. If there is such highly secret info on the server though, that makes self-hosting even more important. It also makes the architecture suspect.
Thanks. The more I think about it, the more this seems like outright evil behaviour on Signal's part to pursue user growth, similar to Facebook etc. Imagine that you and your boss are in each other's contacts for obvious work-related reasons. Do you really want Signal notifying your boss that you registered for Signal? For some of us it's fine, but in general it seems like a terrible idea.
Bots. If it makes you feel better, you can disable other people finding you via phone number and just give them your username. All messages are private.
They can "request" it all day long. Signal doesn't store them beyond the time needed to deliver to the end user device, and while (temporarily) stored, it's encrypted in a way Signal's service cannot read.
The claim is that Signal's phone verification step doesn't cause privacy problems because Signal doesn't retain the phone numbers after verification. That claim is falsified because the phone carrier stores the call record even if Signal doesn't. They store it because of the same law that makes them turn it over to Big Brother on demand. The phone verification step is, therefore, a privacy problem. Obviously there are similar issues with IP routing, but at least I can use a VPN with an endpoint in another country.
No, that wasn't the claim. Phone numbers are used for sign up, but the post's OP was talking about messaging meta data. Messaging meta data doesn't go through your carrier and is encrypted.
If you check the publication of signal's cases where they had to hand out data, and in reverse the FBI leak that listed analysis of all messenger apps by what data they were able to acquire in most cases, Signal came out as one of the top options.
Telling the govt that you registered for Signal sounds like a bad failure as far as I'm concerned, e.g. if you are a user in a repressive regime. Do you think Trump would like to get his hands on a list of all the Signal users in the US? Probably yes. What would he do with the list? IDK but it has to be bad. So it should be an objective of Signal to make it impossible for anyone to create such a list.
Anyway, it sounds like Signal has wised up and is getting rid of the phone number requirement. I don't understand why people here keep defending the misfeature. I've heard such things explained as "system justification" but I still don't understand it. All of us make poor decisions all the time, but we should at least make some effort to recognize them, and fix them when possible.
Ignore the comment saying signal is "end to end encrypted" "private" etc They are simply stuck in a delusional state where they try to convince themselves that signal is the best option so they can continue using it. Nothing is private if it isn't fully libre because you never know what the proprietary code is doing. The signal protocol itself has its source code released, and the encryption and security code is publicly available, but the signal Foundation has stated that it uses both free code and proprietary code. Their reason is UI, but it's hard to make sure whatever proprietary code is being used for because you simply can't see it. As GNU puts it: "You're walking in a pitch black cave". Jami is fully libre and is a GNU project. You don't even need any phone number!
Yeah I'm on their Discourse forum, but the situation isn't that great, and it's unclear to me if the problems are fixable. Particularly when there are incompatibilities between version X and version Y, where both versions are already in the wild. You can't travel backwards in time to fix those versions, and this (like email clients or telephones) is an application area where you can't tell people to update their clients all the time. You have to keep things interoperable.
It's also often inconvenient to reproduce bugs like that in order to diagnose them. If you try to talk to someone over Jami and it doesn't work, you generally can't borrow their phone to analyze the issue. If you're one of the core developers, maybe you have access to a room full of different kinds of phones and OS versions to test with, but a typical user/contributor won't have anything like that.
Yeah, this is just the reality of unpaid free software developers, they don't have the recourses to work on every single bug as quick as a paid developer, but that doesn't justify not reporting bugs and working with the developers to fix them. Like you said, Jami is grest ethically so why not make it great function? Also, don't you have a computer and a phone? Test on those. I don't own a phone, so I can't test the phone, but I do gladly test on my laptop.
Those are nice generalities but I think they ignore reality. Jami seems like sort of a side project to its developers. Bug reports often are answered with a suggestion to make sure everyone is running the latest version of Jami, which is often useless advice. Like if you try to call your friend with your new phone and the call doesn't complete, it's unhelpful for your phone manufacturer to say your friend should get a new phone. You might be interested in helping fix the problem but your friend just wanted to have a phone conversation and doesn't want to get dragged into a debugging project. It's even worse if the other person is not your friend but rather is someone you just met and exchanged numbers with. If you try to follow up with a phone call and there is a problem, GAME OVER. You permanently lose contact with that person. You can't possibly suggest Jami as a Skype replacement after that happens to you once or twice.
Another thing with comms programs in general is you really can't debug them with just one computer. Their whole function is to let two computers talk to each other, so you need two computers where you control both ends and ideally control the network as well, so you can insert delays, network faults, etc. If the Android version has trouble talking to the Iphone version, you need both kinds of phones. I'm not sure if Jami's devs really understand that. I've worked on telecom stuff in the past and it's just the reality of that field.
Yet another (I'm not sure of this) is that Jami is a peer to peer program so I suspect some of the problems revolve around firewall traversal gotchas of various types. I don't know if there is a cure for this while keeping the basic architectecture intact. I do like it in principle and I know that people get BitTorrent working reliably without too much trouble, so maybe Jami is just missing some trick.
Finally, Jami is pretty old and back in those days, people hadn't really thought about the subtleties of encrypted group chats. Signal does a better job, and these days there is a standard (RFC 9420) for how to do it (I don't know if Signal follows this standard). It would be good if Jami were revamped for that, but 1) that would break interoperability again, and 2) I don't know if it's workable at all with Jami's architecture (serverless, using a distributed hash table for peer discovery).
For now I've sort of given up on Jami and am trying to figure out what to use instead. It's unfortunate that the main devs don't seem to have that much interest in making Jami reliable. Randos like me capable of making small contributions can't really help much with more involvement from the experts.
thousands of threads on this topic since decades ago.
it's an eternal debate (since signal has no plans to change)
just read the history and join the rest of us waiting for them to change. using signal before that change is completely optional. go ahead and don't use it. no problem.
Is there a url for the history? Or for a good answer about the phone numbers? If the topic keeps recurring and the answers don't satisfy people, that suggests that there is no good answer, and that there are possibly misaligned interests between Signal and its users.
Because their founder (Marlinspike) is probably under a National Security Letter, maybe it's just that, maybe he's done some crimes they're also holding over him. If you look at his behavior it's that of someone very paranoid that they're going to be found out to be cooperating with the feds and get hit with charges for not upholding the bargain, someone straddling one or two big lies that have to be maintained to keep their life going. Very controlling of things they should be open about if they care about privacy as they claim. But exactly the behavior of someone under an NSL who's terrified of getting hit with charges for that and maybe other things but who is expected to front and run a purported privacy first messenger. The secrecy, the refusal to allow others to operate their own servers, the antagonism towards federation, the long periods without publishing source code updates.
This doesn't necessarily mean that signal message content is compromised, the NSA primarily scrapes metadata and would most care about knowing who is talking to who and to put real names to those people and building graphs of networks of people. Other things like what times they talk can be inferred from upstream taps on signals servers without their knowledge or cooperation via traffic observation and correlation especially when paired with the fourteen eyes global intercept network. With a phone number it's also a lot easier to pinpoint an exact device to hack using a cooperating (or hacked) telecom. Phone numbers can also be correlated to triangulated positions of devices, see who in a leftist protest network was A) heavily sending messages and B) attended that protest and left last and begin to infer things about structure and particular relationships.
And those saying it has to do with spam prevention, that's kind of nonsense. First I still get the occasional spam, second a phone number that can receive a confirmation text is something all these criminal organizations have access to which the average person doesn't. Third it's possible to prevent spam just by looking for people (especially new accounts under 120 days old) sending very small amounts of messages (1-3) to a very large amount of other users especially in a short amount of time. Third there's no reason to keep the phone number tied to the account, a confirmation text could be required with a promise to delete the phone number immediately after (would still be technically useful to the NSA though less useful for keeping track of people changing numbers or using a burner for this who might be higher value targets).
That is a pretty weird post that doesn't make much sense, but I remember meeting Moxie and asking him about Android security and being surprised at how defensive he was about it. Is Signal the app he was working on? That helps somewhat. I get them confused with each other.
The Signal app doesn't appear to be on F-droid, which is a bit discomforting.
0) Yes, and in that time you would visit a website with your own IP address likely, likely over HTTP without SSL/TLS, likely with your vulnerable browser fingerprint. Point?
1) Privacy, not anonymity. Two completely different things.
2) Because the way Signal is built hosting it requires a lot of resources (storage especially), so they want spam prevention and fewer accounts per person.
2) Your asserting "two completely different things" doesn't make it true. Privacy and anonymity are not synonyms but they are overlapping areas. Also ISTM you are redefining terms to suit your purposes. Anonymity to me means the message recipient can't tell who you are. If a THIRD PARTY (the server operator) can ALSO tell who you are, that's a privacy failure, not just an anonymity one.
3) Why does it take so much storage per user? Does it have video uploads or anything like that? A user account should basically just be a row in a database.
In August 2022, Signal notified 1900 users that their data had been affected by the Twilio breach including user phone numbers and SMS verification codes.[105] At least one journalist had his account re-registered to a device he did not control as a result of the attack.[106] ...
This mandatory connection to a telephone number (a feature Signal shares with WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, and others) has been criticized as a "major issue" for privacy-conscious users who are not comfortable with giving out their private number.[142] A workaround is to use a secondary phone number.[142] The ability to choose a public, changeable username instead of sharing one's phone number was a widely-requested feature.[142][144][145] This feature was added to the beta version of Signal in February 2024.
[146]Using phone numbers as identifiers may also create security risks that arise from the possibility of an attacker taking over a phone number.[142] A similar vulnerability was used to attack at least one user in August 2022, though the attack was performed via the provider of Signal's SMS services, not any user's provider.[105] The threat of this attack can be mitigated by enabling Signal's Registration Lock feature, a form of two-factor authentication that requires the user to enter a PIN to register the phone number on a new device.[147]
They are overlapping areas, but they are "two completely different things". They overlap by sharing common goals, not by being interchangeable.
Anonymity to me means the message recipient can't tell who you are.
Right. And Signal doesn't provide that at all, it ties your private messages to your identity (phone number), it explicitly does not provide anonymity. In fact, it proudly advertises you as a signal user to other signal users that have your number saved. It allows you to post public status updates, it encourages you to save your first and last name on your account.
If a THIRD PARTY (the server operator) can ALSO tell who you are, that's a privacy failure, not just an anonymity one.
Okay? And? In this hypothetical world where Signal offered anonymity but still tied you to your number for other practical reasons, then you're be correct that it would be a privacy concern.
But they don't offer anonymity, they offer private conversations.
They are overlapping areas, but they are “two completely different things”. They overlap by sharing common goals, not by being interchangeable.
They aren't interchangeable but they intersect. Completely different means they are disjoint.
it proudly advertises you as a signal user to other signal users
That sounds terrible, a private message service shouldn't advertise anything to anyone. If I subscribe to a subversive magazine, it shouldn't advertise me to other subscribers. It's a terrible invasion if they do. Signal and PGP are both comparable to subversive magazines in that regard, even if the PGP manual tried to say the opposite.
I think most of us these days recognize that the whole concept of public key directories and signature chains on PGP keys was a conceptual error in how people thought about privacy back then (they only cared about encrypting message content). We like to think we know better now, but maybe we don't.
Okay? And? In this hypothetical world where Signal offered anonymity but still tied you to your number for other practical reasons, then you’re be correct that it would be a privacy concern.
According to Wikipedia, they do record some of that info and report it to the government when required. In fact there is further disclosure to them (they might not retain or use the info, but they do receive it) every time you connect to the Signal server.
Anyway the Wikipedia article indicates they have introduced usernames as an alternative to phone numbers, so they have finally acknowledged the problem and done something about it.
1) When people would complain about JS on webpages, they were not. 2) Completely different things overlap all the time. 3) Because your status updates and messages are encrypted and stored (until retrieved, of course) once for every recipient, and that includes your other devices and their other devices.
Because your status updates and messages are encrypted and stored (until retrieved, of course) once for every recipient, and that includes your other devices and their other devices.
I'd like to see a numerical estimate of how much data this is. But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.
I don't see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.
But, it sounds to me like more reason to want to self-host.
So do that. You can do that with Signal.
I don’t see any point to rehashing the other stuff. Non-TLS websites mostly went away once DNS spoofing at wifi hotspots became widespread.
Maybe I wasn't clear, someone said that back in the day registration on a website was a new and bad thing, connecting it with privacy and comparing to Signal asking for phone number. I answered with the idea that not much commonly thought from that time about privacy has aged well. You wouldn't register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.
Do you know of anyone doing it? Other people have said there are difficulties.
You wouldn’t register on websites, but you would communicate with them over plaintext. I hope that makes it clearer.
It is ok, in that era (dialup or wired internet) unencrypted http was basically as secure as unencrypted landlne phone calls. People still have unencrypted phone calls all the time. Typicalally sites would show public content (like product pages on an e-commerce site) by http, then switch to https for checkout to protect stuff like credit card numbers. Encrypting everything became important when wifi became widespread. Wifi hotspots would hijack DNS and spoof entire web sites to steal credentials. Also, LetsEncrypt made it possible to bypass the CA scam industry, making https-everywhere more popular. Public awareness also increased due to Snowden's disclosures.
The RSA encryption patent also expired in 2000. Before that, US website operators were potentially exposed to hassle if they didn't use a commercial server with an RSA license ($$$). But, it didn't apply outside the US and FOSS SSL servers existed for those wanting them.
or something of the sort. It's the only explanation I've got...
One or two days old accounts with a single post related to something that will generate replies for sure (AMA has a lot of them, like "I'm a Romanian girl that has lived most of my life secluded, ama" or something or the sort...) and both the post and account are deleted 24h later.
Latest suspicious one is about the guy who is short with long feet, second time it's posted by the same account who deleted the original but has no other comment history in-between.
One week ago on the shit post community, Dad ranking Instagram screenshot from "op's kid school", called it in the discussion, OP replied it was nothing of the sort, account and post are now deleted...
I'm not sure if that's LLMs. I long suspected people to copy popular Reddit posts/stories here to gain attention. I've searched for some and they don't all seem to be dumped here from other places, so it has to be something else. But so far I didn't use any LLM detector service to find out if people made them up on their own or used ChatGPT... We might want to do that to gain some more insight.
But it's very annoying. I've unsubscribed from asklemmy and several other popular communities, because of this.
It could just be karma whores expanding to other platforms than reddit. Idk if it's still a thing but there was a time on reddit where people would steal posts, repost old top posts and aquire as much karma as they can on new accounts. Then sell the username to shills so they can push their agenda without looking like an obviously belligerent shill. They might try the same approach on lemmy before realizing karma doesn't mean shit here which is where you see them deleting their accounts.
While possible I do think it's a stretch, I also think it would be completely inefficient to try and train any LLM by feeding it data from lemmy. I wanna say the average number of active users on lemmy at any point is around 40,000. Compared to what google says reddit's avg daily active users which is 52,200,000 users per day, it would seem like a complete waste of resources.
It's not an LLM, at least one of the accounts you're referring to. The person you're talking about has a fetish, and they like telling fake stories about unusually-sized non-sexual body parts. They have a few accounts on Reddit on 9gag where they do the same thing. There's a few different versions of their disfigurement that they tell, but they're all fake and by the same guy.
Is that the same guy with the big belly? I remember a couple posts about him claiming to have sympathetic weight gain with a pregnant wife. Pretty sure it was just a male pregnancy fetish.
There was also someone who paid women with long feet to step on pizza, but he was very clear about it being a fetish and he wasn't weird about it.
Trying to set up clamonacc to watch /home, /tmp and /storage (where I mount other drives). It keeps failing due to ERROR: ClamInotif: could not add element to hash table for ... that causes ERROR: ClamInotif: issue when adding watch for /home/lojcs and ultimately ERROR: ClamInotif: could not watch path '/home/', Invalid argument passed to function.
The initial error was triggered by the steam folder, empty cache directory of starship, firefox cache directory, my 'Games' folder and after that I stopped excluding the directories. I don't see the point in having on-access scan if I need to carve out large chunks of the filesystem to make it work for reasons I don't understand. I don't see anything common with those directories or what makes them different than the ones it has no problem watching.
Has anyone successfully set up clamonacc? This is like the 3rd time I'm trying in the last couple years and it never works.
I didn't, I followed the arch linux guide which uses a systemd service. But there doesn't seem to be anything the documentation says to do that I didn't neither, it's written as if it's supposed to just work
How to Create ISO Image from DVD Disk on Linux tagged Command, Command line, dd, disks, Fedora, How to, iso, Linux, mount, System, Tutorial, umount, unmount.
This may not be a complete solution, but it might get you started. This should work for -most- DVDs, unless they're using some unique copy protection.
The following packages are needed: dvdbackup, libdvdcss, cdrtools
To get info on an inserted DVD (and check it can be read): dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -I
To rip the DVD to a directory (-M will mirror the disc): dvdbackup -i /dev/sr0 -o /path/to/store/dvd/ -M
And then to write the directory contents to an iso image: mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -o /path/to/save/movie.iso /path/of/ripped/dvd
From there you can archive the iso, mount it for playback, etc. My next step was a combination of MakeMKV and Handbrake to encode the main movie ( H.265 MKV 480p30) for storage on a media server.
I think the best bet to preserve them as is, would be dd or ddrescue (if there are read errors). You might be able to write a small shell script to automate stuff. For example open the tray, read a filename from the user, then close the tray, rip it and then repeat. That way you'll notice the open tray, change disks, enter the tiltle and hit enter and come back 10mins later. Obviously takes something like 20 days if you do 10 each day. And you're looking for roughly 1TB of storage, if it's single layer DVDs.
Honestly for something repetitive like this I'd suggest trying to avoid user interaction completely. It's probably better to get that info from the DVD drive itself (blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/dvd), or if that fails assign a number.
Sure. Are the labels human-readable? Otherwise I'd rather type it in while I'm in front of the computer anyways, with the new DVD in my hand. Rather than end up with a directory with 200 cryptic filenames... I meaan the interaction with changing the disks can't be skipped anyway...
dvdbackup with the -M option makes a 1/1 clone if your dvd aswell as decrypts the video. One of the best ways to backup old dvds. Takes alot of storage tho and is cli rather if thats a plus or minus for yah.
I'm way too lazy for such an endeavor... so what I would do instead is
buy a DVD player on a standard interface (right now seems to be USB-C) that seems to (wow... seriously?!) about the price of a lunch, so 30 EUR.
download RIPs from a Torrent tracker
once that's done then I would only do the additional content of a per-need basis which I would then upload back to a Website that cares about this kind of content, potentially the Internet Archive.
You can get around it a few ways. Some are drive agnostic, some aren't. Also your drive might not be super affected by it. My dad's Sony AIO PC didn't have an issue ripping while a USB DVD drive I borrowed did.
Edit: the Sony AIO PC was also from 2012. It was running windows 7 when I did this.
accept reality. just like vhs...all those formats die. and no one will ever look at the shit again. your future tv will be bazillion K resolution, have another aspect ratio and so on... and if you really ever want to watch that one movie again there''ll be better ways and better copies of the movie somewhere. you are wasting energy, polluting the environment and overestimating the value of your past memories.
Automatic Ripping Machine can pull the main movie off a disc automatically, but I'm not sure about imaging the full disc. Once it's set up, you just put a disc in and wait.
I came here for this. with 200 dvds, you put the ripping system somewhere you pass by often. pop one out and pop one in whenever you happen to walk by.
you can rip all features - though that may not include the menus.
Basically want something with decent performance and durability. Cost matters, but I'm not trying to hit rock bottom. I'm particularly wondering, is an HMB-type PCIe SSD ok combined with a SATA adapter? I think HMB is supported if your machine can use a PCIe or NVMe disk directly, but I'd be using an older Thinkpad with a 2.5" SATA slot at least for now. So I'm wondering if I'd lose a lot of performance if the SSD combo doesn't have its own RAM buffer.
I see good deals by today's standards for PCIe SSD's at of all places, Office Depot.
I think a SATA connection might be the bottleneck with its maximum throughput of 600 MB/s. So for that use-case you don't need to be worried about the SSDs speed and cache, it won't be able to perform due to the SATA slot. But I don't know how exactly you plan to repurpose it later. Maybe skip the adapter, buy a cheap SATA SSD now and a new, fast PCIe one in a few years once you get a new computer.
The purpose of the cache is to improve latency and save SSD wear. It doesn't help much with throughput as far as I know. Although if it's on the host side, maybe it does.
Is a SSD's cache even about wear? I mean wear only happens on write operations. And I would expect a SSD to apply the writes as fast as possible. Since piling up work (a filled write cache) means additional latency and less performance on the next, larger write operation. Along with a few minor issues like possuble data loss on (power) failure. And on read, a cache on the wrong side of the bottleneck doesn't do that much. A SSD has pretty much random access to all the memory, it's not like it has to wait for a mechanical head to move into position on the platter for data to become available?!
But I haven't looked this up. I might be wrong. What I usually do is make sure a computer has enough RAM and it is used properly. That will also cache data and avoid unneccessary transfers. And RAM is orders of magnitude faster, you can get gigabytes worth of it for a few tens of dollars... Though that might not be easily done on the more recent Thinkpads... I've noticed they come with a maximum of one RAM slot these days, sometimes none and it's soldered.
@solrize You want to use nvme rather than sata if possible, particularly if a high end ssd as the absolute max speed you can get with sata is 6gb/s and also using a sata ssd will often make one or two sata ports not function.
@solrize Well it could be worse, I still have an old Dell Inspiron with it's original 2.5" 3600 RPM ultra-slow hard drive. Now that the battery has finally given up the ghost, I am going to replace it with an SSD while I have it open to change out the battery, but because the nvme slot on this machine only supports a max of 500GB, I am going with SATA.
Insightful article. I have to confess I never realized the accessibility situation was this bad.
I also want to highlight this excerpt from the comments:
Making things accessible isn't hard technically. But it requires coordination and people to care about it enough to work on it at the expense of other features. If [I] developed an application on a team and said I had 'one security guy that works on that stuff as long as it doesn't interfere with the rest of our work' I'd be dragged over the coals and have my project forked by the public.
But with accessibility? There's really no sense of priority or urgency despite it being broken for years and not putting much effort in to fixing it.
This is devastating and truly an indictment on the "code it yourself" mentality that is leaving accessibility as an exercise for the user... which is the opposite of accessibility.
Woah their partner, major software developers have been having similar issues with accessibility for decades now. For instance the ability for the blind to deal with Windows if it crashes or errors out is pretty much non-existent.
Please read the article I referenced. Most of their gripes are also issues found in Windows. Also OP's article is clearly written from a constructive criticism point of view that I appreciate. Keeping software accessible is hard work and proprietary software is not some magic bullet.
I think you are taking this all out of context hence why I told you to get off your high horse. Apparently you decided to climb onto an even higher horse instead. You are not echoing anything but your rather alarmist perspective. See below for excerpts about Windows accessability.
"A concrete example of a product that simply cannot be used by the blind, but which is an integral security component used in employment situations, is Microsoft's BitLocker software, which provides full disk encryption. BitLocker requires the user to enter a PIN (personal identification number) before the full Windows operating system is started. While competing full-disk encryption programs have offered the ability to generate an audible tone that can be used to alert the blind user that information needs to be entered, BitLocker offers no such indication. Despite years of repeated entreaties by blind people for Microsoft to fix this problem, we have yet to see a version of BitLocker that addresses this issue. A blind employee who is required to use a computer with Microsoft BitLocker installed will be unable to turn the computer on and get it running—not to mention use it.
Microsoft SharePoint, a program used by many institutions (many of which employ the blind), is not fully accessible to the blind. SharePoint has been found to be so frustrating for the nonvisual user that a third-party vendor believes that it can sell an add-on solution to large enterprises (e.g., state or federal agencies) that costs as much as $12,000 for a single user license. If Microsoft's accessibility effort were working, a product that is as widely used as SharePoint would already be as convenient and effective for the nonvisual user as it is for everyone else.
There does not appear to be any user-experience research being conducted by Microsoft into improving efficiency for keyboard-only users, including the blind. This has already had a negative impact on keyboard-only users of the spell checker in Word 2013, which no longer provides accelerator keys to speed up the selection of options when spelling errors are detected.
Microsoft struggles to implement an API (application program interface) which makes it easier for screen-access software to get information about application states, messages, and controls. Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and User Interface Automation (UIA), two examples of existing accessibility APIs, have existed within the Windows operating system for many years, but they have apparently not done much to solve the accessibility problem. While I applaud the fact that Microsoft has worked hard to ensure that Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 have worked with updated releases of screen-access software on the day they were released to the public, it must also be recognized that, in order for this to have happened, the screen-access software vendors (very small companies in relation to Microsoft) had to devote considerable resources to make this happen. It would be better if these relatively small companies could spend more time and effort coming up with innovations that improve the efficiency and productivity of blind users of their software.
Unlike its main competitors on desktop and mobile platforms, Microsoft has failed to provide built-in support for refreshable Braille displays to be connected to and used on its various platforms. This is particularly vexing for users who are both deaf and blind for whom refreshable Braille displays are the only way to interact with computer software. The Apple Macintosh and the Apple iPhone support a variety of refreshable Braille displays without requiring the customer to install device-specific drivers, and these products entered the market well after Microsoft began working on accessibility.
The maintenance, setup, and recovery of Microsoft Windows continue to be inaccessible to the blind. Consequently, there is an added cost in time and/or money to the blind user, who has to bring in (and often pay for) sighted assistance to install, upgrade, or repair a Windows system. This situation is unacceptable—especially given the fact that Apple OS X and iOS operating systems incorporate accessibility tools that enable the blind computer user to perform maintenance, upgrade, and recovery tasks without sighted assistance. Moreover, this problem curtails the ability of the blind to accept Windows system support jobs in information technology."
At no point did I even begin to insinuate proprietary code is better. That's you deciding that is what I must mean despite me not mentioning it at all.
This is a really well written article. It's unfortunate that this person has to deal with all these issues.
I suspect the reason that both MATE and the Debian installer have good accessibility support is because their codebases are quite old. In general, it seems like older software is more likely to have better accessibility support than newer software.
Accessibility should be something that's built into software from the very beginning, but I totally understand that not all developers have time for it or properly understand it. It's unfortunate.
Edit: I forgot to mention that accessibility is going to be mandated for some types of sites and apps in the EU thanks to the European Accessibility Act (EAA) coming into effect later this year, which should help somewhat. Won't really help with Linux itself though.
One thing I've had troubles with when trying to implement accessibility is in web dev. There's so many attribute tags and I think a few different software based standards as well? I'm not entirely sure. The documentation on it felt a bit hard to follow and implement. Then I'm not sure how to go about testing it fully either without having those proprietary softwares either. I'm on an all Linux machine and the only accessibility software I know of is Orca and it's so and so last time I tried it.
While I slowly figure that out however I make sure to follow tag recommendations and keep things in sections, only one h1 tag per page, descriptive and short alt tags, and so forth. At least that helps a tiny bit.
Web is a bit easier than native since the browsers handle all the platform-specific details across all common platforms, and you mostly just have to follow some guidelines that aren't overly technical or arcane. Some examples: - Use ARIA roles where appropriate - Ensure sufficient contrast between text and background colours. Should at least meet the WCAG level AA which is a 4.5:1 contrast ratio, but ideally meet AAA which is a 7:1 ratio for body text and a 4.5:1 ratio for headings. - Ensure you use <label> tags for all your <input>s, alt attributes on all images, title attributes where appropriate (e.g. on <table>s to describe the data contained inside the table), etc.
If you use Firefox, its developer tools have an "Accessibility" tab that can audit for common issues - things like missing labels on checkboxes and radio buttons, colours that don't meet WCAG contrast ratio requirements, etc.
It's a good time to learn more about building accessible sites and apps given it's becoming a legal requirement in some jurisdictions. For example, the European Accessibility Act (EAA) goes into effect later this year, and it mandates that sites and mobile apps for various industries (like ecommerce, airlines and other transport, media streaming, social media, banks, and some others) meet accessibility guidelines.
I’m on an all Linux machine and the only accessibility software I know of is Orca and it’s so and so last time I tried it.
It's probably worth spinning up a Windows VM to test in NVDA. It's one of the most popular screen readers and probably the most popular open-source one, but only works on Windows since it deeply hooks into the Microsoft Speech API, accessibility APIs, and and other Windows APIs.
ARIA roles provide semantic meaning to content, allowing screen readers and other tools to present and support interaction with an object in a way that is consistent with user expectations of that type of object.
Edit: I was able to recover my partitions by creating new partition starting and ending from same exact sectors.
I was copying files from my previous installation to my new Gentoo installation. After I was done. I ran wipefs on /dev/nvme0n1 thinking it is my old nvme drive which is connected through usb. I am in disbelief. Lost all of my configuration files. My perfect installation of gentoo. Just gone. How do I never make such mistake again? Thankfully I had backup of passwords file. Rest is gone. I am sad.
I have nothing to offer but some sympathy and one advice: I have two critical backups running: my personal files and the various folders containing my config files.
As I learned more or less the exact same way you just did how critical it is to backup those files too as, losing them by formatting my drive, I instantly realized they're as personal as my 'real' files are.
I've recovered my boot partition but my other partition was formatted with luks. The boot partition is working and not throwing any errors. How can I restore the luksheader? Is it even possible?
Guys, I managed to recover my partitions. I used test disk to write the detected efi partition which was of 500MiB. The gpt partition table backup uses 33 sectors to I created second partition starting from where the previous ended to totalsectors-33. I was able to luksDump the header after this and successfully decrypt and mount my device. I had to grub-install and now my system is up and running. Thank you so much everyone for their help and their kind words.
It's prettier than a TTY and you can pick whether you want a Wayland or an X11 session without having to know the correct startup commands. You can pick between different desktops too. And a Display Manager can offer on-screen keyboard and touchscreen support while a TTY can't (at least GDM does, I'm not sure about SDDM off the top of my head).
Aside from that whatever command you are using in the TTY to launch Plasma might or might not be the same commands SDDM uses, which might or might not lead to issues in setting up the environment. If your environment is fine and you don't care about having to use a physical keyboard then of course you can remove it. It's not exactly load bearing.
Most people expect a GUI interface to get into their desktop. But you dont have to use one if you dont want. SDDM can log into any desktops you have - KDE but also Gnome or XFCE etc. It can also help select X11 vs Wayland sessions.
There are alternatives like LightDM if you dont like SDDM. Or TTY is fine too. But generally they're not large pieces of software and while they are undoubtedly bloated from what they could be, they are still small and lightweight in the era of Tbs of storage and Gb of memory. The savings you'd get in not using them would be small on the scale of the rest of the OS. Obviously they're useless for none GUI machines / servers.
They're called display managers because historically the concept was added to X11 system where you'd have a stand alone X terminal running locally for the end user with an X server which would then connect to an X display manager on a central machine. This was in shared spaces like governments, universities or corporations and the set up was potentially less hardware intensive allowing cheaper X terminals and an expensive central server.
The concept has gone now (PCs are vastly more poweful and can easily run the OS locally, and thin clients are the modern set up if you do want terminals/clients and central servers). The most common scenario is now the display manager runing on your local PC, alongside everything else and essentially replicates the TTY login in a GUI form. So yes its basically a session manager but the name is historical and probably won't be going anywhere fast.
It's interesting because instead of "display manager" it should be "graphical login manager", and the current "login manager" should be called "session manager". I don't know the origin of the name, though.
The term Display Manager is a vestige of the use of X11.
X11 is a Server/Client protocol.
When a user logs in to an XServer, they are given an Xsession. The user can use that Xsession to create one or more X11 Displays (they are just IDs). The X11 Display ID is passed to the X11 client application (that's what the XDISPLAY environment variable is for) The client apps render their content to that Display ID. This whole thing allows for more than one user to be able to use a single operating system on a single XServer at the same time.
All of that is pretty cumbersome for a user to do themselves in their terminal, that's what Display Managers are for. They:
Start the XServer if it isn't started yet
Provide a method (eg, login with username and password), to start a new XSession.
Use that XSession to create an empty X11 Display.
Look up which is your configured default DE or WM
Launch the DE or WM with the right parameters, passing it the new XSession and XDisplay
If you're using Wayland, then the architecture is very different. The Display Manager then simply operates as a login screen.
On-screen keyboard was already mentioned, but there are some other small things that might be useful for some:
Reboot/shutdown without having to login (Your husband/wife/partner can shutdown your computer without first having to login and be greeted by the porn folder on your desktop...nah seriously, this can be useful at times when your turn on the computer, get called away and someone else can easily shut down the computer after you didn't return for some hours)
Keyboard language selection before password entry. Very useful in multi-language households/companies.
The WM selection also allows kiosk-like behaviour in special cases...like you don't start a WM but start in kodi media player for a movie evening or you create your own WM session file for a single game that runs as soon as you login.
I don't know whether it's me or my hardware, but display managers seem to absolutely hate me. I've tried quite a few, and I've always encountered some sort of issue within a few days. Even on distros that install and set them up automatically for me.
Since I'm the only user of my computers, I've set mine up to log me in and startx (well, now the Wayland equivalent) automatically, bypassing DMs altogether. If I decide to experiment with other window managers/desktop environments, I just change the line in my bashrc.
I've started to collect good computers that are stuck on Windows 10 that are being discarded. I want to put Linux on them and give them away to less fortunate people in need of a computer. It would be easier if user names and passwords were not part of the install process but part of the first boot after installation. What distros should I look at?
You can try NixOS, there you can declaratively create users even set their passwords by providing the hash of their pass in the config file. It can also set the config of all your apps and have different sets of apps installed and configured depending on certain conditions.
Debian (and I suppose a lot of derivatives) can use preseeding. That gives you pretty much full control to the whole installer where you can just start the installer and it does everything for you, including users, partitioning, installed software and so on.
where you can just start the installer and it does everything for you, including users,
that sounds exactly what OP does not want? especially because they still habe to wait it over until the installation completes, before they can create the users and show them around the computer
Ah, you're correct. I somehow misunderstood the assignment, OEM installation is a bit different and I don't think there's a Debian version of that readily available. You could of course write scripts to manage that, but that's a quite a bit more difficult than just set up preseed for the installer. Or you could just include instructions on how to set up your accounts afterwards, but that's not the same either.
it would be pretty useful if we could do this with the more popular distros, but I think we may be stuck with the way where you create an admin account for yourself for maintenance, and when you give the machine to them you make a new account for them too.
but I'm curious. how will you solve keeping the system up to date? Especially the web browser, but all the other things too
sure, then already open programs will start malfunctining left and right, because they assume they have x version of files and libraries on a path, but in the meantime it has been replaced with version y. firefox and thunderbird are especially sensitive to it, but are not the only one.
unattended upgrades work fine on a server with relatively simple programs, but on the desktop world things are different.
Firefox hasn't broken like that for me in years, it tells me it needs to restart because it was upgraded in the background and restores the session perfectly, usually
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