To be fair, I think they cut out the part where a bunch of people meditate in catacombs after ingesting mushrooms caps picked from dead bodies.

Ugh. Bougie homeless. Just sleep in your car like normal people. 🙄 /s

I do want sleep pods at airports.

He’s recreating Venmo. 😂

He’ll have more time to spend on the Phoronix forums now. 🙂

Or, you know, the govs make this illegal like they should.

Gotta appreciate the pettiness of this. 😆

Yes, I’m using flatpaks.

Yes, I’m trusting flathub. LOL about people repackaging applications. Wait until they find out the Linux distro they use is a collection of software repackaged by 3rd parties. 😂

Userland hasn’t had any concept of security, so it’s nice people are trying to fix it.

This is really cool. I install extensions to remove the Activities button and display a workspace indicator.

A lot of Workspaces might present a problem though. Currently, the Workspace indicator extension with collapse into a number after 8, or so, and I’m not sure how that scenario would work with the proposal.

For real. AOSP is open source, and Google is taking more things private. MS could start driving AOSP since FOSS projects go where the group contributing the most wants it to go.

They’re spot on. I had this thought last week while trying to find an ISO. It’s like it’s a state secret or something. 😆

Fedora, OpenSuse, Arch, Gentoo, Kali, and Armbian all make it easy to find an ISO or image to get started. The free RHEL downloads are the only thing more hidden then Debian downloads.

That’s a good question, and who is the mysterious 3rd party SUSE is going to be merged with?

Debian is looking better and better everyday.

Aral is promoting the Fediverse.

He’s also saying neoliberals/centrists are largely performative, and they are fine with fascism. It’s a variation of the Nazi bar story.

There were always problems with Twitter’s moderation as it was lighter on the right than the left. The famous comment about not banning Republicans congresspeople comes to mind. It was never as right leaning as Facebook though.

Yay! No Nvidia this time.

This is so cold. Savagely dumping her into the friends zone.

StarLabs StarLite is the closest device I’ve seen to those requirements. It’s a 12” x86 tablet without a cell modem or water resistance.

https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

I’m trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a few personal servers as I wait for Slowroll, I want to get back to trying to get Gentoo running, and I should check out Guix as a server in a VM.

Gentoo having a binary option should help since I seem to mess up the kernel part of the installation.

A mobile home. Don’t worry you’ll be able to rent one from Uber for the night soon enough.

This is the answer for desktop Linux. Have NM create the drop in for systemd-resolved when the settings are changed. This is NM’s job.

That dachshund is so done with that trip. 😆

I don’t think he meant to. He’s just an idiot.

Right wing control of Twitter was always my hypothesis, since, as people have pointed out, Twitter gave regular people access to people with influence. Destroying Twitter destroys that access, but it was more valuable as a tool to manufacture consent, like most media.

That was the Unix wars of the ‘80s.

Linux started in ‘92 as a hobby project to create a x86 desktop Unix clone. Most Unices were tied to expensive proprietary hardware which most people couldn’t afford, but x86 equipment was fairly common.

There was 386BSD project which had the objective of porting BSD Unix to x86, but they were sued by AT&T. In the end, AT&T was using more BSD code then BSD was using Unix code.

The lawsuit chilled use of BSD code, and a young CS students decide to write a kernel from scratch rather then fork a BSD.

About the same time Linux was first released, IBM was looking for a Unix-like OS to sell on its x86 servers. The idea was, companies would get started on the low cost x86 servers and graduate to the expensive Power AIX servers. Linux fit the requirements, and it was under the GPL which meant competitors would have to release any changes they distributed to clients as a bonus.

Linux did not immediately kill the propriety Unixes. It wasn’t until after the dot com bubble burst (~2000) that Linux really started taking market share. The tech companies needed to shed expenses, and an easy way was to ditch the expensive Sun equipment running Solaris in favor of commodity x86 running Linux.

The GPL played a role since it meant people distributing Linux needed to release their changes. Linux distros can be fairly different though, so I’m not sure how much of a part it played.

Wow, 30min is really generous.

I bet that was really nice. 🙂 As someone who takes red eyes, showering when I get there would be preferred.

My list overrated list additions:

• Ubuntu: They break shit, it’s half baked, snaps, and Canonical is really into vendor lock in.

• Arch: I really have better things to do then baby sit my install.

• RHEL: Containers were created for reasons, and one of them was RHEL.

• Any Linux without systemd or glibc: Mistakes were made, and then different mistakes were made trying to prove systemd made mistakes. Musl based Linux distros are going to have compatibility problems, so I might as well run a different OS. The BSDs are *nix-like systems without glibc with a history and larger communities.

The prevalence of FOSS software is amazing.

Linux distros, BSDs, GCC, LLVM, GNU tools… The equivalent stack in the 90s was expensive, proprietary, and rare. I was getting software from magazine CDs, and none of the expensive tool chains were showing up on them.

Free DVCS in Git is also great. No manual versioning schemes anymore. git init for a new repo. There was SVN, but it required a server.

As an alternative idea…

A using a spare desktop as a headless VM server would be a good way to practice your CLI skills. Don’t install a GUI, or web admin tool, and only use SSH to admin it.

From there, setup a couple of VMs for Arch or Gentoo testing. Eventually, a Linux From Scratch attempt would provide a lot of learning opportunities.

65 to match Social Security.

Definitely this.

I gave up on thumb drives as they are kind of trash. External NVMe drives are affordable, and the speed difference is BIG.

It’s everything after the install I don’t have time for. The install is the easy part. 😆

There are distros which are semi-rolling (Fedora) or rolling (Tumbleweed) which make it easy to maintain the install without lots of configuration.

The kernel isn’t, but distros, as people think of Linux, kind of are package management projects.

It was funny seeing people say they’re going to leave RH for Canonical.

Like okay. RH uses the GPL like Stallman intended, and people run to Canonical who make as much of their stuff as proprietary as possible.

No judgements here if it is for personal use. This is a safe space.

Gentoo installs are able to be maintained.

LFS not so much.

It’s more about your software requirements then anything else.

Stable distros can be a pain when run as a desktop, so that might need to be rethought.

OpenSuse Tumbleweed is a rolling distro which deserves a look.

Endeavor OS for something Arch based.

Debian Testing is rolling for something Debian.

Fedora is semi-rolling for something in the red hat ecosystem.

OpenSuse Leap is a stable distro which gets bumped once a year, so that might be an option.

Thanks! I didn’t want to give Bezos traffic.

Also, I would skip that thinking it’s a hacked, religious dating site. 😆

Proprietary software is one of the last anchors holding people to Windows or macOS.

Ideally, people would switch to FOSS alternatives on a FOSS OS, but proprietary software on top of a FOSS OS is better than FOSS software on a proprietary OS.

Also, people are going to charge for software in some form or fashion. The economic model would need to change in order to allow people to develop software without any economic motives.

The task scheduler in the Linux kernel was using a max value of 8 in its calculations rather than the actual number of cores in the machine.

The machine could have 128 cores, but the scheduler would base its calculations on 8 cores. As a result, the processes on the machine would run for less time than they should.

You might have anger issues.

This is awesome, thanks!

I’ve been wondering what I could do with the Bluetooth in some of my headless RPi servers.

Not bumping the PCIe lanes to 4-8 is disappointing. So is now requiring active cooling, not using USB-C for the USB3 ports, and PoE being unusable without a hat.

It’s probably time to add a higher end “pro” line to let the “education” line focus on power efficiency, tiny form factors, and low cost.

Also, did they fire the cop they hired?

I thought they already did, so this is unexpected.