Afaik GPS can be jammed to prevent using it for geolocation. Especially in warfare this is quite common

It is?

Wow this is awesome! Waydroid is insecure (outdated, rootful container), slow in development and only sandboxed on Fedora.

But that they take Newpipe... which is notoriously broken as Youtube tries to block everything...

Other apps are

• OSMAnd~
• OrganicMaps
• Grayjay
• Jerboa, Fedilab, Pixeldroid
• Amethyst, Voyage

Those are really unique on Android

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.amit9838.mousam

Damn thats beautiful

~/Git

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7054#issuecomment-1916315391

They auto download binaries, even proprietary ones, unsigned and without user interaction.

YEAH security!

This has nothing to do with ADHD... mixing up stuff is just confusing people

I mean of course, they never shipped big parts of their orders but got the money anyways.

That company is fucked up completely.

A library is paid though.

Donate to your instance, and decentralize the Fediverse.

Funny how he praises immutable Arch + KDE and then uses Ubuntu (Snaps, broken packages, themed GNOME, not immutable)

I hope he finds his way to Bazzite, Aurora or plain Kinoite, as this would suit him way better

• proprietary server (snap store), unlike flatpak
• snapd only allows one server (but it is foss so you could just patch it), unlike flatpak
• nonexistent security on snap store, multiple times malware, unlike flatpak
• no sandboxing without apparmor and specific profiles, so not cross platform, unlike flatpak
• the system apps are also requiring apparmor, so not cross platform
• they lack granular permission systems afaik
• they concur with flatpak, which is horrible as we need a universal packaging format, not 3
• seemingly no reproducible builds?
• no separation between all, opensource, verified repo, unlike flatpak
• they pollute the mount list with all the loop devices

And people complain abour resource usage etc, but that is just separating apps from the system. Flatpak does the same.

In short: all are Crap, use UBlockOrigin

(ABP is worse, Adguard "intelligently shows ads", Ghostery is spyware)

We plan to run programmatic research to reduce risk in decision-making so that users benefit when our stakeholders translate user insights into product development.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Edit: I see the point of studies, which are not needed. But especially, feeding users stuff their stakeholders want, is a crazy thesis.

Their users are their biggest stakeholders, arent they? Or is it Google?

That phrasing tells me its Google.

Pro apt:

• storage efficient
• may be optimized for stuff like x86_64 v3 or v4
• runs as many users and easily from terminal
• needed for some low level stuff like system packages

Contra apt:

• a ton of stuff comes from outside the main Ubuntu repo. Debian doesnt have that difference afaik but still many packages may be more abandoned
• 3rd party packaging 99% of the time, i.e. "unverified". I had a lot of strange bugs especially with Ubuntu packages
• the apps ars not isolated at all

Pro Flatpak

• a ton of verified apps, nearly unavailable on other repos (that still doesnt make unverified apps insecure!)
• all apps have a sandbox that can be graphically hardened to be more secure, if the defaults are too broad
• by defaults the sandbox is pretty good
• many many apps that run everywhere

Contra Flatpak

• not suited for some apps like terminal apps or system stuff
• some apps are less maintained and use EOL runtimes etc
• some more storage space needed
• need user namespaces, nearly all distros have them enabled
• a bit slower startup time but okay
• a bit more RAM usage

TLDR: Easy installation of something like Termux, GUI, Kwin and KDE, and a graphical display.

This is really good!

I prefer KDE a lot, because:

• the UI is simple, material-ish and beautiful
• it doesnt sacrifice usability or waste screen space like GNOMEs minimalism. I especially like the buttons etc. of Qt apps, where GIMP is already struggling with the huge hugeness of GTK3.
• it runs 100% on Wayland
• it runs GNOME apps without modifying them a bit. There is an issue where Fedora doesnt want to use Adwaita icons, but a short autostart entry solves that. KDE Breeze dark/light can sync to adwaita dark/light
• KDE has tons of legacy support features, have a look at my experiment where I explored many of them
• it is modular and can be pretty minimal (I would like a more barebones version, without all the floating stuff etc)
• all the settings are in the same app! This is a huge issue with all the small ones, where nontechnical users need to know the difference between "GTK settings" "lightDM settings", etc.
• Systemsettings are searchable, all settings pages are accessible from the global search, some pages are even shown when you use an alternative word, you can always search in english and your local language
• it is very actively developed
• it has tons of unique features.
• it has the biggest most complex apps situated in a DE on Linux. Period. KDEnlive, digiKam, Krita, Kate, Dolphin, ...

Nobody asking themselves how they got all these details of that person?

Reddit doesnt require a full name.

Not using Windows helps a ton :)

Damn, we are finally indexed??

And neither Arch, nor Ubuntu, nor Debian, nor OpenSUSE, nor any other distro using systemd belongs to IBM.

systemd has nothing to do with any corporation doing bad stuff to "our Linux".

It is just newer software, doing more things more easily.

Sure, the centralization is pretty damn bad. But for example replacing sudo is needed.

I tried to install an OS to a USB stick. This is Kubuntu specific.

You need to create a GPT partition on the stick, then you should be able to just use the installer and install on another USB stick.

I went through it, selected the usb stick... was not sure if everything was right and went a menu back, was correct, went forth again, past the install target selection and installed.

Well... turns out the Kubuntu installer (Calamares) selects the first disk always. And that selection seems to reset to default when going a menu back....

I deleted my complete normal disk, with like everything I had.

No Backup no mercy. Luckily did one only a few weeks before. The first since half a year! Damn... had my uni stuff on Nextcloud, a lot of personal stuff synced to my phone with syncthing.

@petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de you might want to add that warning to the post.

They also tried to submit the app to Flathub, but had way too broad permissions with no explanation why. "Users expect filesystem access" etc. In the end it was rejected and they publish a .flatpak file themselves.

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/5233

The other points are far worse though.

These messages are damn useless

Distros take care of the kernel, either ship LTS releases or do the backports themselves. Only rolling release people run that kernel.

So this post is literally only useful for the 4 LFS users that now need to recompile their kernels.

Not Stallman approved

Thats a huge release.

• KDE Plasma 6
• KDE and GNOME Wayland only
• testing images for COSIC (well not officially Fedora)
• atomic distros now are less broken (can update grub)
• LUKS screen on the atomic distros now supports non US layout
• Anaconda webUI only on Workstation?

There is literally not a single useful comment here.

You have packages from outside the official main repo, in the universe repo.

You are using a stable Distribution so packages are frozen and need backported security updates.

You dont get them for the optional universe repos, but if you give them a bit of money (or afaik Ubuntu pro is even free for a few devices) then they will also support these 3rd party packages.

It is an optional service, they warn you that you use outdated packages, and offer a solution.

I dont use Ubuntu and Snaps are crap, but this is totally fine.

No, KDE is just as well supported on Fedora, dont worry. I use it daily.

I also highly recommend using Fedora Kinoite from https://ublue.it

It is way more reliable, you cannot imagine how much. It is the best distribution model in my experience, you never have to worry about updates breaking anything, and you can always go back to vanilla.

He obviously wants to use only proprietary Windows Software.

There is little reason to force him to use Linux. Of course Linux may have less overall tracking, annoying behaviors, better performance etc.

Win10 will be EOL veeery soon. Win11 is really bad on old hardware.

I second uBlue Bazzite and ProtonDB, check what you run first.

Respect that you even came that far lol.

This must be her "superpower base"

I have no idea why anyone would do that, but for the bookmark collectors, checkout "404 bookmarks" which detects websites that are down.

Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though

Arch is just a distro. What DE or Window manager are you on, Wayland or still XOrg?

rofi and wofi are a good example how this question makes no sense.

Thinkpads are not cheap as they have that reputation.

But they have good Linux support

Btw that link has tons of tracking BS in it

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134956529143

I recently did raster graphics editing in inkscape instead of GIMP, simply because GIMP is often pretty unusable. Worked out really fine!

there’s been a lot of concern that Snapdragon X-based PCs might be locked down to Windows, and while it remains unclear just how easy it will be to install a GNU/Linux distribution on a Snapdragon X PC that ships with Windows, it’s nice to know that at least one company is looking to release a model that will come with Linux pre-installed.

What does that mean? Are they not using UEFI?

I just hope they use Coreboot.

Btw are there any FOSS Coreboot compatible ARM Chromebooks worth looking at?

My dentist recommended me a stupid toothpaste called "Pearls & Dents" which also contained literal plastic balls. Such a stupid and corrupt person. I believe Dentists are paid by Elmex in germany too.

If you dont have a machine, you can still imagine one 😉

https://virt-manager.org/

Well... it is an out-of-tree kernel driver that is made by the same company, and the userspace drivers are still proprietary.

This says NOTHING other than "wow NVIDIA can write good code (open source) that doesnt suck"?

A Therapist told me that there is a lot of nonsense on the web, especially in the AuDHD space, and yeah it tends to go in a "you are a scorpio, you do X" way

Lol

1. Bug with high priority
2. A person clones it, assigns themselves
3. doesnt have time, unassigns themselves
4. Priority gets set lower
5. A guy wants to work on it
6. That guy doesnt work at Mozilla anymore
7. The bug went from priority P5 to P1 and doesnt block anything anymore

This is really bad. Especially as it seems like not that big of a change.

Tbh I am fully behind KDE as flagship desktop. Dealing with GNOME users problems all day in the forum, KDE is just better for usability?

GNOME is reduced over the amount that makes sense. KDE could use a bit of reduction, but not as much as GNOMEs. People need the Terminal or random extensions for basic things, this is not a good experience.

On the other hand, GNOME and KDE both have really nice features, GNOME with their Microsoft integrations being particularly powerful (their account system works at all, unlike KDEs which I think nobody uses. But when using Thunderbird, which has standalone Exchange support, you dont use that account system anyways so it doesnt matter again).

Also GNOME has like all their apps on Flathub. GNOME Boxes is particularly crazy, having sandboxed virtualization. This means you can mix match GNOME Flatpaks on a KDE desktop without any problems, KDE even handles the theming for you. On GNOME on the other hand... it actively breaks Qt apps, its insane.

So I think GNOME has some great apps (snapshot, decoder, simplescan, carburetor, celluloid ...) but you can install them anywhere.