He said “Well thats what it says in the textbook so I have to mark it wrong”

The mark of a great teacher. It's nice however that he had the patience to wait for your experiment (or maybe he was expecting it to fail miserably?): no prof of mine would have went along with something like that (not to mention, I'm pretty sure we couldn't take apart the lab PCs at our leisure).

Death warrant? Maybe, but I expect companies (maybe not the EU, but - let's be frank - probably the EU too) to go back into X as soon as they feel they are done cashing in this virtue signaling.

There were plenty of reasons to leave twitter before this idiotic tweet from Musk (reasons due to twitter's action as a company, and not just Musk's drunken posts) and they were all happily tweeting and advertising.

Is this drop that breaks the camel's back? Maybe, but I wouldn't be holding my breath.

To me, saying "wayland breaks things" is putting it backwards: at this point, it should be "[thing] still doesn't work on wayland".

User: "I have to waste my whole life fixing this" Dev: "you are complaining that you have to spend a few minutes"

Savage.

It's not like a judge said it's illegal... what happened is that a huge multinational company sent a menacing letter to a developer regarding their hobby project, and the developer —understandably— decided to comply.

Creepy tracking, less functionality than the old alternativeto.net (also less content, but of course content takes time so that's understandable), plus desperate-looking "enroll to our newsletter" and "advertise" pleads. Looks like a cheap attempt at making a couple bucks to me.

I actually found the tone of the article (which is in tune with the title) quite refreshing, to the point that I read it all despite the fact I couldn't care less about cars :)

IDK about the US press (I live elsewhere) but sometimes I feel the news could benefit from more candidly opinionated articles like this one and less professional-sounding pieces crafted to influence the readers' opinions instead of informing them of the writer's.

capitalism in a nutshell

Its funny how podcasters and commenters seem to have taken Redhat's spin about "contributing value to the community" seriously, while to the rest of us the whole thing was obviously only about money (same as all the follow-ups from other parties... I would say "including Alma" but that would probably deserve its separate debate).

The really important sosftware gets ported to all the platforms

I can't wait for chatGPT to learn it should answer every disjunctive question with "por que no los dos?"

No idea but I found this: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20839

Don't you mean a markdown editor?

Chances are, your favorite text editor can handle markdown well enough... unless you want WYSIWYG, in which case your text editor would still be good enough for the job and you would be wrong :-)

The US have not signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, while Canada and most (all?) other western states have (Russia has not, BTW).

The peculiar stance of the US on this matter should not surprise since there are lots of international treaties that the US have not signed or ratified, including some that one might expect any "decent" nation to uphold [my opinion, of course], such as bans on anti-personnel mines and torture, the Kyoto protocol and many, many others treaties.

Notably, the US are the only nation that has yet to ratify the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child... 'nough said.

linux rules because it's the only os built for its users rather than some company stocks

It may not be a scam per se, but it certainly is a misnomer at this point... it's one of those words (like "enterprise" or "pro") that have been appropriated by marketing and devoided of any meaning. AI as a word will gradually die while people gradually realize it doesn't mean anything. Marketing consumes words (and people too).

To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.

That's the news... is it newsworthy?

I'd say install virtualbox on your windows, download a few isos and check them out; once you've made your mind on which one seems a decent one (don't worry too much: it's not like you can't change distro later on) and have found out replacements for all the apps you use (well, some of them will have a linux version too) save your windows data somewhere, format and reinstall.

I'd say to stay away from dual booting if you can: honestly, it's a pain. Ah, check that your hardware works well on linux before switching!

Just reinstall :)

Copying back the files to the right partition/directory works, but if you didn't backup the owner and permissions for each file it's gonna be a pain to restore those.

After reinstalling, you can compare your new system with your backup to see what changes/configs you had made

Didn't know about the flower!

Qualcomm didn't actually choose the name because of it (they choose it because it "sounded fast and fierce"), but now that I know about the flower I'll think of it instead of snappy dragons whenever I hear the SOC name.

The problem is that rm -rf shouldn't scare you?

What are the chances something like

~/projects/some-project $ cd ..
~/projects $ rm -fr some-project

may delete unexpected stuff? (especially if you get into the habit of tab-completing the directory argument)

Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

Errrr... why would you try to trigger people, especially while asking for their help? Don't you think it's plain rude?

Honestly, IMO the end-user benefit is mostly that it sounds cool.

All the benefits I've heard (including the ones in this discussion) don't actually derive from "immutability" but from releases that stay the same for longer (which is what "more stable" used to mean), or the ability to roll back your system to some "known" working state (which you can do with snapshots and in a plethora of other ways).

What immutability means is that users are unable to alter their system, or at least not expected to... basically, it means what in corporate lingo would sound "altering your system is not supported" and that the distro actively makes it hard for you to do so.

This means users will not break their system because they followed badly some instructions they found on some badly written forum post anymore and blame the distro for it, but it also means that users who actually have a reason to alter their system and know what they are doing will have a hard time doing it (or be unable to), which is precisely why I left macos and went back to linux for my work computer some ten years ago (I spent half a day doing something I could have be done with in five minutes and said to myself "never again").

For the team/company that builds it, an immutable distro will likely be easier to test and maintain than a "regular" one, which should then indirectly benefit the users (well... as long as the team/company interests are aligned with the users' of course: shall windows get easier for microsoft to maintain, how much benefit would trickle down to its end users?).

Users who switch to an immutable distro should see a decrease in bugs short-term. In the longer run, I'd expect distros (especially the "commercial" ones) to reduce the effort they spend in QA until quality drops again to whatever level is deemed appropriate (if bread costs less I'm still not gonna buy more bread than I need... same goes for quality).

Basically, it all boils down to "immutable distros cost less to maintain" (which, don't get me wrong, is a net positive).

I must say I find it slightly concerning to have heard several "veteran" linux users say that immutable distros are so great that they will install one on their parent/child/SO/friend's PC but on their own.

It's also a bit unnerving to notice that most of the push for immutability seems to come from companies (the likes of debian/arch/gentoo/etc. are not pushing for immutability AFAIK, and they certainly don't have the initiative in this field).

I'm not sure how much immutable distros will benefit the community at large, and... I'm not even sure they will end up being very successful (windows/macos follow in whatever makes is more profitable for microsoft/apple, linux users have choice).

I hope that immutable distros will prove both successful and good for the user community at large.

Well... google mainly optimizing for its own profits and gray SEO being profitable are both consequences of the prolonged monopoly google held on search.

Most filesystems (I'd say all the relatively modern ones?) have extended attributes.

How does it compare to crypto?

but this most likely is against the ToS of every anime tracking website

AFAIK scraping publicly accessible websites is fine in most countries (IANAL, look into it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Microarchitecture_levels

TLDR: extra x86 instructions supported by modern chips

Wow! This is almost as useful as neofetch ;-)

Rasperry PIs have micro-HDMI outputs, so you can use those (with an appropriate cable/adapter) to hook the PI to any monitor (or to your TV) for the initial setup (you'll also need a keyboard and - possibly - a mouse). After that, you can unplug everything and use the raspberry pi without keyboard/monitor/mouse (pi hole has a web interface).

Note that you don't strictly need a raspberry pi to run pi hole: any old x86 PC or a cheap thin client bought on ebay will do just as well (actually, they will most probably perform better).

Tangentially OT:

"Snapdragon X Elite"? Wasn't the name "Snapdragon" already enough cringe? :)

(only tangentially related) what does 'driver' mean in windows lingo? I thought it was hardware-related stuff but I'm probably wrong.

RHEL ultimately comes from Fedora (plus Redhat has a great say in where Fedora is headed), so... RHEL won't become sort of an AIX or HPUX anytime soon.

That said, Redhat's move opens up the position of "enterprise-like distro for scientific/technical shops and other people who do their own support" (think, from CERN to small software houses) that so was the reign of RHEL clones (together with Ubuntu, of course).

Those are people who will probably never buy RHEL licenses for all their machines no matter what, so in a sense it stands to reason that RH doesn't care about them (if you think their move is about money rather than falling for the "value to the community" PR spin), but those same people are also trend setters whose choices, in time, trickle down to universities and then companies, and to me it looks like there's a huge opportunity there (and that Alma is currently in the best position to harvest from it in the long run).

Windows is getting worse and worse

and so is the press :( websites and content creators enshittification is as bad as other companies (one could even argue they have been among the first to do that)

Same here (thumbleweed, kde, amd), I've been using wayland for around a year with zero issues.

vi or vim [...] :q to quit

you are depriving OP of an experience there... getting stuck in vi is a rite of passage nobody should be denied (but, alas, a lot of distros carry nano nowadays)

Faster than current planes? Past planes that have been retired because they weren't as efficient

Well, the simplest way to go if you want opensuse-like rollbacka would be to just run opensuse... if you need ubuntu-specific stuff (you don't) there's distrobox.

BTW I've been running tumbleweed for a few years now and didn't roll back once... IDK if the craze about rollbacks and immutable distros (arguments in favour of which often boil down to "easy rollbacks") is justfied or not.

Most newbies would have a hard time and most experienced people would grab the "unofficial" non-free image for installing just in case and then disable non-free if it wasn't needed.

I've not verified this, but does the installer actually install the non-free firmware if it's not needed?

Thinkpad A485

I had one of those, but the trackpad occasionally wouldn't work until I rebooted several times (I was using fedora). Did you run into any similar issue?