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They pretty sure may and pretty sure will.
At other extinction events deep water dwelling creatures had good chances to survive. Also sharks don't have complex food needs, are widespread over the globe and procreate without much ado (no familie structures and such, their approach is quantity based)... They will do fine.
They are likely not totally immune to the effects of climate change, however
The fishes’ ability to swim and feed could be compromisedRachel Nuwer (Scientific American)
An online course founded by far-right influencer Andrew Tate was breached by hackers, revealing the email addresses of roughly 325,000 users.
The self-described online university, known as The Real World, offers users “advanced training and mentoring” for around $50 per month. Formerly known as Hustler’s University, the platform focuses on topics such as health and fitness, financial investment, and e-commerce businesses.
“Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”
On Thursday, the hackers made their actions known by flooding the course’s primary chatroom with emojis they uploaded while Tate was streaming an episode of his show “Emergency Meeting” on Rumble.
The emojis included a transgender flag, a feminist fist, an AI-generated image of Tate draped in a rainbow flag, another where his buttocks are enlarged, and the cat character used in the “boykisser” meme.
Oooooo You Like Boys You're A Boykisser, and its twin variant You like Kissing Boys Don't You, refers to a GIF Caption of a cat character lightheartedly accusing the meme's viewer that they like boys and are a "boykisser" (a slang term predominantly …Owen (Know Your Meme)
The Daily Dot was provided with approximately 794,000 usernames for what are believed to be the site’s current and former members, as well as the contents of the platform’s 221 public and 395 private chat servers. [...] The Real World claims it currently has over 113,000 active users. If accurate, the site at minimum would generate upwards of $5,650,000 every month.
Jesus, why is this bullshit that large?
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AR & MD officials reject marijuana to treat orgasm disorders
Now that is a use-case I hadn't previously considered... 👀
pacman -Syu was too awkward
Fresh Nvidia GeForce rumors abound, with the RTX 5090 graphics card price again bringing a tear to the eye in the run up to CES 2025.Joel Loynds (PCGamesN)
Journalists [...] suggest the upcoming GPU could cost around $1900. Manufacturers have allegedly been told anywhere from $1899 to $1999 will be the expected range, lining up with pricing rumors from last month.For reference, the RTX 4090 launched at $1599 for its Founder’s Edition but has since crept up to nearly $2000 or more for overclocked cards.
Ouch. I was a sap who built my first gaming rig in 2015 and I thought I was dumb for buying a Titan X (Maxwell) for $999. Hard to fathom paying double that for one GPU
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Maybe it's the shit market that I'm applying to, but when I apply for a retail job, they want a fully filled out application (that auto fill always Borks, so I have to type everything in manually) as well as a cover sheet and some places want you to take a personality quiz that you have to pass for hr to even see your application. I couldn't imagine applying to 4 jobs a day, let alone 40.
I imagine we are talking about corporate postings where you just paste a link to LinkedIn and that does most of the work?
British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.MARK CURTIS (Declassified Media ltd)
you weren't kidding,
The term privatizing first appeared in English, with quotation marks, in the New York Times, in April 1923, in a translation of a German speech referring to the potential for German state railroads to be bought by American companies.[5] In German, the word Privatisierung has been used since at least the 19th century.[6] Ultimately, the word came to German through French from the Latin privatus.[7]The term reprivatization, again translated directly from German (Reprivatisierung), was used frequently in the mid-1930s as The Economist reported on Nazi Germany's sale of nationalized banks back to public shareholders following the 1931 economic crisis. (link)
It always felt, in my adulthood, like they are trying to sell off anything they can in the US like we're a defunct company about to go out of business and the new ceo is trying to scam as much as possible. Guess that's just another point for America being like Germany before a fascist takeover.
after trip-digit linux installs in the past year or so, here's my list for a seamless transition for people escaping windows/macOS who need to get work done:
1) don't tailor linux to your hardware, do it the other way around. get hardware that works OOB. no nvidia. no latest hardware. no weird realtek chipsets in budget deal-of-the week e-waste, no gaming (i.e. nvidia) laptops.
that don't mean breaking the bank, a thinkpad with 8th gen or newer CPU can be had for $100ish; add $50 or so to expand RAM and storage and that covers like 90% of use cases. a competent all AMD desktop a gen or two behind current tech that can game almost anything can be easily assembled for less than $400.
fedora and adjacent forums are littered with cries for help about stuff breaking or not working at all; 90% of those are nvidia related. can you make it work - absolutely. is that something you're willing to dick around on a deadline - hell nah.
2) no theming. no icons, no fonts, no plymouth screens, nada. as few extensions/plugins as you can, run it as close to stock as possible. shit's gonna break, this is a work device, you can't afford downtime because the single dev maintaining the thingy hasn't updated it for the newest Gnome of Plasma. Gnome don't feel like macOS? you'll get used to it; muscle memory is a removed but it's a tameable one.
an additional moment, especially if you're on a laptop, is to make the thing as fungible as possible. that's an easily breakable/losable thief-magnet, you want a setup that can be reproduced with as little fuss as possible so you can be operational again.
3) don't dual/triple/whatever boot. that's an advanced scenario, it's gonna break eventually and if that's a device you depend on for work or education, you don't want any of that. run it as a single OS occupying the whole disk; encryption on a mobile device is mandatory. if you absolutely need multiple OS, a 2nd device is stupid cheap and it compartmentalises your shit, i.e. one for work, one for private/gaming, etc.
4) no weird distros. no arches, no gentoos, no immutable thisisthefuture shit. when it becomes mainstream, we'll switch. until such time, middle of the road - fedora for newest hardware, mint for ancient stuff, ubuntu for everything else. a lot of people made sure they're operational OOB, it's less likely stuff will break and if it does, there's an army of folks who asked and answered whatever's bothering you.
5) no weird DEs. wayland only, gnome for laptops and tablets, plasma for desktops, there is no third option. you're transitioning from an infinitely polished UI and the best tech that money can buy, you want the closest possible experience and the widest used environment, worked on by the largest dev community aware of the widest possible usability issues, working towards fixing/implementing them. you're already relearning shit, invest that time wisely.
6) separate your system stuff from your applications as much as possible. purge all user-facing apps, like firefox and media players and such from the system's package manager (apt or dnf) and reinstall them from flatpak. that was a headache a few years ago, nowadays almost everything works OOB on wayland. the apps include everything they need to work, the setup is easy to maintain and recreate, upgrades are better (no reboots necessary) and all your settings and data are in one place.
this covered 90% use cases of 90% of the users I've dealt with. naturally, edge cases are gonna have a bad time - you want to ollama this and that and rock bleeding edge hardware and have a normal desktop experience? it's gonna hurt. you need mac-like power management and days away from power? doable but that needs work.
remember, this is a work device. for the same reason you don't decide to "upgrade" the suspension on the car that's supposed to get you to work the morning of, you don't mess with what's likely the only device you need for work/education.
greybeards dunking on you because you're not a "real" linuxer? enamoured with the spicy screenshots from linuxporn? get a $20 thinkpad and go wild - arch it, sway it, have the scrolling text on boot, rice it till it bursts. but leave your workhorse be.
I don’t know man, I run Linux on all my stuff and I am lazy as shit.
I run Arch on my desktop with a 3090 and xfce (forced xorg) and have had no issues.
I run Opensuse on my laptop that gets really great battery life and isn’t even listed in the Wikis. This is my primary work laptop
I dual boot Asahi on a MBP.
I agree with the sentiment of your post being doing go balls out on a work machine but it’s not nearly as bad or unstable as you make it sound
I can't tell if you're serious, but if so - you're the literal opposite of a noob transitioning and making their first steps. if you're like any of the things you mentioned - arch, nvidia, xfce, let alone all of them combined - is something a noob should even entertain of doing, then I don't know what to tell you.
the post is aimed at people a) transitioning and subsequently b) doing actual work, based on a bunch of people I've converted over. the input of dudes like you, while welcome, is in no way indicative of the path they should be taking.
90% of those are nvidia related.
I'm not a Fedora user (Debian and Mint are my go to) but I don't have a similar impression. Also, my own NVIDIA GPU has always worked OOB (even without installing its proprietary drivers, it just works better after installing them) and still is, but it's also considered old being a 970.
Imho, a simpler advice would be along the line of what you mentioned already. Something like: don't rush for the latest/greatest hardware. Often, new stuff will lack support.
2) no theming. no icons, no fonts, no plymouth screens, nada. as few extensions/plugins as you can, run it as close to stock as possible.
I agree with the idea of not wasting time but configuring the theme/look (which is part of the OOB experience, on Mint and Debian at least) can be essential to work in decent conditions.
As a matter of fact, theming is one of the technical reasons why I switched to Linux from Mac. The ability to have the text as large as I wanted it to be: getting older, one slowly realizes that small thin light-greyish designer cherished fonts lose a lot of their appeal in favor of those non-fancy but larger and bolder dark fonts that are more easy to read 😛
So, I would object that theming can be a very legit, like 100% legit part of the process of turning a Linux machine into a usable working machine one will be able to work on for hours (like tweaking the keyboard layout would be for anyone, like me, writing in more than one language). And that is not even mentioning people with disabilities.
3) don’t dual/triple/whatever boot.
Unless one has too, sure. Try running any recent edition of Photoshop in Wine and do real paid work...
My own solution was to keep a dedicated machine for anything like that: Photoshop and video. Note that for video one may decide to let go of FCP or Premiere and switch to DaVinci Resolve, instead.
6) separate your system stuff from your applications as much as possible. purge all user-facing apps, like firefox and media players and such from the system’s package manager (apt or dnf) and reinstall them from flatpak
Why would that be a good idea?
I mean, I do my best to avoid all those third-party installer (like Flatpak) because they are not as well integrated to the system as the native installer is (in my case it is 'apt'), and because they also waste much more disk space for the reason that, like you said:
the apps include everything they need to work,
Which, sometimes/often, means a real lot of extra stuff.
the setup is easy to maintain and recreate
That's the exact reason why I use the native installer and not those third-party ones. That and the faultless integration with the system (menus, themes and stuff like that).
And in the odd case I would have to reinstall Linux (an even stranger need on a work machine, since that machine I would not tweak it beyond what I deem necessary for me to be able to, well, work on it and therefore it would be rock stable), even in that case I would need to reinstall it, I find it so quick to reinstall all my apps by typing a single line: "sudo apt install app1 app2 app3 app9999", no matter how many apps.
I am keeping such a list in a text file, I update every time I start using a new app, just in case one of those days I truly am forced to reinstall my system. So, I know it would only be a matter to copy-paste said command line in a new shell. Not pretty but real easy and quick ;)
Flatpak (...) upgrades are better (no reboots necessary)
Once again, I'm not a Fedora user but does Fedora really need to reboot after updating a bunch of apps? I have hard time imagining that.
Sorry if my comments sounds critical, it's not my intention. But while I was reading your post I was very surprised how affirmative you were on certain decisions/choices and how much my own personal experience was different.
greybeards dunking on you because you’re not a “real” linuxer?
And if you're wondering, nope, I am not one of those 'real user' either even though my beard would be grey, if not plain white now... if I had one. I come from 35+ years (happily) using Apple hardware and software for work and for personal stuff ;)
Edit: clarifications.
downtime because the single dev maintaining the thingy hasn’t updated it for the newest Gnome of Plasma.
is this really that bad? I remember seeing a Win7 theme for KDE, and I really want to install something like that on a spare laptop. will it break something with each update from the distro?
is this really that bad?
As someone who slightly customize his Linux DE, I would say that the real but potential issue when using some non-official theming (or very niche ones) is that one does indeed risk having issues after a major system update, thing breaking off or just plain not working anymore. It's no 100% certain, but the risk is real. And that is something that, on a work machine at least, is never an option (the machine is supposed to be available and work in a predictable and reliable manner, hence why I'm so madly in love with Debian plus it's so well optimized 😀). On a personal machine? Well, that's up to anyone to decide what their priorities are.
Luckily one is not required to use extreme theming. Personally, I limit myself to whatever is provided with my version of Linux in order to change font size, colors/theme, wallpaper, cursor appearance and so on. So, everything is easier to see for my old eyes.
It works very well and since it's part of the distribution I know it will not break after an update. The downside is that it's often much more limited than what some other dude may have done somewhere on their own machine and then decided to share online. I don't mind it ;)
Nice list, thanks for sharing your experience.
no weird distros. no arches, no gentoos, no immutable thisisthefuture shit. (...) fedora for newest hardware, mint for ancient stuff, ubuntu for everything else
Do you have an opinion on opensuse?
separate your system stuff from your applications as much as possible. purge all user-facing apps, like firefox and media players and such from the system's package manager (apt or dnf) and reinstall them from flatpak. that was a headache a few years ago, nowadays almost everything works OOB on wayland. the apps include everything they need to work, the setup is easy to maintain and recreate, upgrades are better (no reboots necessary) and all your settings and data are in one place.
Not sure I get this. When did you need reboots for upgrading user-facing apps?
Where are those settings and data for flatpaks? Is there no separation between default settings (systemwide) and user-defined (in $HOME)?
Does flatpak work well on Ubuntu and is it easy to get rid of snap?
this is not a "which distro is better", this is which is appropriate for a noob. you want something that has a lot of attention devoted to preventing issues and that when you search "distro + problem" you get a solution, or close to it. it's way more likely you'll succeed with ubuntu than with opensuse.
once you're an intermediate user and don't need the kiddie wheels no more, you're free to wander further, replace DEs, rice, switch distros, whatevers. but a noob will have his hands full with the transition and doesn't need the extra baggage.
a user doesn't discern user-facing and system apps, to them it's a notification asking for a "software update" and that shit pops up daily. the mess that's Gnome software, a horrid creation that's OOB configured to prompt for reboots for every tiny little thing, because it updates system shit along with apps, is the number one complaint generator for converts; they're used to a couple of those per annum (macOS) or per month (windows).
flatpak apps settings are in ~/.var/app and as such easy to include into backups.
I myself have been using linux for 15 years and disagree with what you've said.
Fedora always breaks on me, whether it be nvidia or amd. I used to love Fedora but found it breaks far more than otherwise.
The Linux vernal is designed to work on up to current gen hardware. If anything the current gen nvidia stuff is rough (40 series). I've had no issues with 30 series or 7000 series amd GPUs.
My dual boot has never broken on multiple computers. Whether is be Debian, Ubuntu, fedora, or arch.
That's great, but it's still shockingly common and not something newbies should have to try to fix
It's a personal list for newbies and it's probably a good idea to follow this list for them. However end users are a much bigger cluster, I'm an end user too. Last time I checked I didn't have a grey beard.
It's my workstation and I'm using it as how I'm comfortable with it. It just requires a familiarity which newbies don't have.
Because it's less standard
The more default and mainstream you go the easier it's gonna be to do things and get help
I tried getting a friend of mine on silverblue a while ago, worked for a bit but he hated how the package manager worked and I wasn't able to help him much because I'm on nix
Ubuntu, various versions of, fedora for a bit, suse for a bit, Debian for an RPI
Nixos is my home distro and I've spent probably double the amount of time with it as I have all other distros combined, the distro hopping phase a given distro lasted about 2 weeks before I threw it out
I'm not comfortable enough with other distros to able to help someone who already knows enough about Linux in general, and given he's familiar with fedora silverblue seemed like an obvious choice
Maybe because your friend isn’t the average user (specifically when you mention they don’t like the package manager).
In Fedora silverblue on KDE, all updates are handled through the discovery store which is similar and as easy as on windows.
An open letter from independent app developers to the wider GNOME communitystopthemingmy.app
Who hurt you?
greybeards dunking on you because you’re not a “real” linuxer
Oh, right. I see.
here's a combo reply that doesn't need to be there, but people have issues reading titles, I don't know...
first off, do you realize where we're at? normies don't frequent lemmy, you have to put in considerable effort to find it and interact with it. your average lemmyst's tech expertise is way, way above the average user, compared to say reddit or, heaven forbid, facebook or such.
I'm not answering dudes (no gender inferred) who are like "X years linuxing". have you read the title of the post? can you deduce who it's directed at? you're seriously suggesting endeavor and arch and friends to people who've opened the command prompt a total times of never and don't understand what regedit is/was for?
this is a post directed towards people transitioning from windows and macOS. people who have issues comprehending bootloaders and kernels and DEs, WMs, etc - and frankly, it's 2024 and they don't need to. people who close the laptop when they're done and open 'em in the morning, basically people who don't do a lot of sysadmining in their daily lives.
when was the last time you handed over a laptop with a fresh install to a linux illiterate being? I did so three times this week, and that's below average; can't get cheap SSDs right now to upgrade the the discards we get. my point is, I know what they come back with in terms of problems and grievances and none of them include "spending more time tweaking xorg.conf" or "learning systemd". they have issues printing and sharing files and laptops sleeping/waking when they're supposed to and counter-intuitive touchpad gestures and the like.
I've also had my share of devs trying to convert their issued laptops with fully functioning installs to this weird rice after reading DHH's blog and the amount of lost time and productivity spent undoing that crap is staggering.
linux has this problem of experienced users raining downright useless and often counterproductive advice on noobs. the shit that works for you doesn't work for them and you know that; the same way a racing car driver's advice is useless in everyday traffic
first off, do you realize where we’re at? normies don’t frequent lemmy
No need to be passive aggressive, but if you think all people on lemmy are so tech savvy, then why post it here?
linux has this problem of experienced users raining downright useless and often counterproductive advice on noobs.
Not to be rude, but you might want to take your own advice. I see a lot of hyperbole in your two, frankly, rants. "Greybeards" might have ruined your experience, but most people around here just want to help.
I'm going to actively voice my support for this mentality, more than just an up vote. People saying things like dual booting and rolling distributions are good ideas for genuinely new users who, like you said, have never opened a command prompt or regedit, really shouldn't be suggested those types of things.
The average dev/tech enthusiast has a horribly bad habit of drastically over estimating the average person's technical ability. While I believe it's reasonable to expect new uses to want to try and learn (I'd hope everyone would want to learn sometimes), the reality is that most folks won't.
The one that just makes me want to scream is when people suggest installing Arch via the wiki. I did this around 2015 or 2016 on a VM and couldn't get it working. To be fair, I wasn't terribly motivated to really dive into what was wrong, but people act like it's really magically simple and clear cut when it's not. (With the major caveat that perhaps it's gotten better since last time I tried.)
I think so many of these discussions go to shit because of who the target audience is intended to be and who the responders believe the target audience to be.
As far as stability goes, its hard to beat my nixos setup. I use the venerable xmonad with xfce in no-desktop mode, and the command line for things like wifi and etc. Because I do most stuff with the command line I can get around fine on servers with no GUI. There's no bling and hardly anything ever changes.
I used to fancy up my desktop and so forth, but those things break eventually and don't really help me get work done. I don't want to waste time on that anymore.
That said, getting it set up has been a gradual evolution and there have been awkward times. Like zoom screen sharing goes kind of insane with a tiling window manager (stop helping, zoom). And of course nixos itself is fantastic if what you need is already packaged and ready to go, and doesn't do anything weird like download binaries. Stuff outside the norm, well now you have two problems - understanding how the software expects to be installed on debian or the like, and understanding how to subvert that process to make it work on nix.
The all flatpak thing took me aback but, you are right the app maintainers fix their stuff there first.
Solid advice.
1: Agree, mostly. I bought a Thinkpad E16 for its Linux support, though I accidentally got a Realtek one that had few bugs that I've since ironed out. My only thought is if you own existing hardware that is still usable, it is worth your time at least trying.
2: I somewhat agree. On my note taking laptop, I go by this philosophy. On my desktop, though, I theme away and still get lots done.
3: I sort of agree with you; I think like you said, if you have one drive for each OS, you won't have problems - dual booting is fine. I've got 2 internal drives in my Thinkpad, though honestly, I hardly use the Windows one. I remember 2 partitions being livable on my Surface Go, but again, I barely touched Windows, so I don't think it had much chance to bork the bootloader.
4: I agree on the Arch and Gentoo part - after trying to use Debian Testing on several laptops, I found rolling release just isn't conducive to a no-frills productivity device. Honestly, though, I don't see that much problem with immutable, especially if you go with Flatpak. I also think any stable distro you like should work so long as it has a backports kernel - I'm using Debian 12 that way on an E16 and it's been pretty smooth (besides the Realtek thing at the beginning, but I fixed that months ago).
5: Wholeheartedly disagree, mostly because XFCE was excluded. 😭 I feel like X11's still not that far off the beaten path. This feeling will probably change when XFCE switches; 4.20 comes out with preliminary support in a few weeks, and my bet is 4.22 in 2026 will have full Wayland support.
6: I don't totally agree with this either. I feel like when it works well natively, go for the native package. If you're having trouble, switch to the Flatpak. I've actually had problems with the VSCodium Flatpak on my laptop not using system environment by default, though there is a fix.
I think I agree with most of what you said. My one doubt is about Wayland. I was under the impression it was still a relatively new/niche thing that had problems. Is this no longer the case? I ask because you recommended against things like immutable distros because they're not super mature yet.
Note: I'm technically inclined but don't use a Linux distro daily. My personal laptop is my old work Mac and my work laptop is a Mac. My older personal laptop runs Xubuntu.
wayland is default on fedora for 5+ years, similarly on ubuntu and is plenty battle-tested and more than ready for everyday use, edge cases notwithstanding.
there's an argument to be had against every major switch in recent years (systemd, pipewire, etc). progress isn't achieved by waiting until there's full feature parity, it's by forcing it onto users and working out the issues in vivo; those who won't deal with it can keep using the old stuff, either by using conservative distros or ripping out the new stuff and replacing it.
be that as it may, the point of the post is directing converts to the easiest, safest, and most straightforward path through this scary wonderland, and preventing them from wasting time on "true scotsman" endeavors, not changing the habits of seasoned veterans.
I've addressed it in another comment; it's not a big deal as such, but the result is a huge distraction for people who just want to open their laptops in the morning and start working and I hear about it constantly. the standard install has a barrage of notifications to update this and that and it wants to restart for every tiny little thing, be it necessary or not. by separating all "apps" and putting in a systemd timer that auto-updates all flatpaks, all user-facing apps are always the latest version and then the system stuff can get updated bi-weekly, when they eventually reboot.
edit: this is them, to the letter - https://redd.it/1gyirfw
Immutable was the only thing that got me to switch back from QubesOS on my desktop. I was doing Qubes with a win10 HVM with my 3070 passed through and it was a couple frames off from native performance. Still keep Qubes on my T480 for infra specific work but my "dev" machine with no creds is the desktop now.
Couldn't get the performance quite right for a Linux based HVM and was wanting the HW accel for some of my work (CAD, figma) so I loaded Bazzite with KDE which runs Fedora Atomic and it's been amazing for both gaming and work.
Distrobox with boxbuddy and rootful containers where needed has been extremely pleasant and they all live as a subdirectory of my home with a ZSH install script I have to load the terminal styles I want into any new containers. Any apps you install in the container you can export to your start menu and launch seamlessly without tainting your host with any weird dependencies you might need for a project.
We use ddev a lot so needed a rootful container for Docker but other projects I just treat like a VM almost (R projects for instance), install whats needed to get an env going real quick and fire up the IDE in the container and get to work.
EVERYTING I care about is in /var, including my home which makes backups and snapshots stupid simple which I love coming from a traditional Linux distro
Not just asking about lemmy communites(would be cool if there is one), but other websites, forums etc.
If you know any good youtube channels, please share them too. When I searched for stuff, it's mostly 5 min craft stuff.
Actionable stuff that most people would benefit from, the simpler/easier, the better.
For example Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Enterprise Linux.
I'm considering switching to RHEL, to get a "professional" Linux, since it's free if you register an account, but is it worth it?
Is the experience very different from Fedora?
Older software is the most noticeable thing. Enterprise does not mean it is better - just that it is supported for a long time and they do that by not changing much on them. They are more designed for servers rather than workstations and generally not a great experiences unless you are running hundreds or thousands of them in an enterprise situation.
Professional just means payed for. What you are paying for is support in managing the systems, not a great user experience.
For home desktops it is far nicer to be on newer software rather than things that came out 5 to 10 years ago.
Can I assume you're not actually running an enterprise distro?
I mean, me neither, yet, but:
- Both SUSE and Red Hat have had a minor release this year, with their software being less out of date than Debian
- I feel like enterprise distros seem to be very different in the areas where differences between distros actually matter: Package management (which can be fine-tuned a lot more with application streams, security updates, package modules, etc.) and complete, up-to-date documentation (which is the thing most people miss in Linux).
I was really looking for real world experience, not a re-hashing of unvalidated opinions that have been around for >10 years (when they might have actually been true).
I think I was pretty clear with what I was asking in this thread:
"Is anyone here using an enterprise Linux distro?"
You also asked
I'm considering switching to RHEL, to get a "professional" Linux, since it's free if you register an account, but is it worth it?
Is the experience very different from Fedora?
Nobody cares when someone tries to preemptively qualify incoming advice. It's an open forum. Everyone will just ignore your criteria because you admittedly don't know much about this. If you gave us a reason that didn't vibe as "I think I know more than I do" I bet people would consider not chiming in.
What a normal person does is simple: just ignore the advice that they don't value.
Not anymore because all the reason I mentioned. Has the experience change in recent years? Not likely. It is the same software as in other distros - just years out of date. That has not changed as the goals of these projects have not changed. They might be on newer versions then 10 years ago but they are still way behind more frequently updated distros - or at least will be very shortly. That is fundamentally how these enterprise distros work. Their target audience is businesses needing support, not lots of end users.
The big attraction towards these distros are the support that enterprise people will pay for - which you do not get with the free version. If you don't mind older versions of things then it might be nice for you. If not then I would stay clear of them.
their software being less out of date
It almost sounds like we need to review how and why and when RHEL bundles software to be released within their distro, and the difference between an old snapshot and a relatively new fork.
Try it out maybe? You're not buying a car... There's not much point going around and asking if you spend 20 mins trying it out and realise you don't want to use a 5 year old DE.
Basically expect the system will change only when you update to a new version, and that you'll need to use external PMs like flatpak or nix for all user packages if you plan on doing anything more advanced than browsing and office work.
If you're looking for something like this, but not paid for, try Debian stable. Same idea but free. Ubuntu also have an LTS version and I'm sure others.
The "Enterprise" in the title just means "support", which is a check box for a lot of organisations. Not so much home users.
I think it depends on your use case. For my gaming desktop I use Fedora to get the latest packages. For professional scenarios I've been using Almalinux the past couple of years. It started life as a RHEL clone, but since RHEL changed their code distribution rules I see them more parallel in the stream rather than down. It's completely free, but there are options to purchase support and live kernel patching if required.
If you want to go the Suse route, Opensuse Leap will give you the closest experience to Suse enterprise. I believe Suse actually offers conversion tools to convert Leap to the full enterprise OS. I don't have personal experience with it, but have considered it in the past and this is the information I recall.
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These days, you also have the options of Flatpaks and Distrobox. Do not nearly as big a problem as previously. No need to build from source.
I mean, for most things, why even rely on EPEL when you can install something like Arch in Distrobox. A super stable base with totally up to date apps is a great combination.
We use Alma Linux at work and it's fine, I suppose. I see two main reasons why you'd choose an EL linux distro:
1. You have (professional) software that officially supports it. RHEL's release model makes it an attractive target for proprietary software and many vendors choose to support it.
2. You need/want very long support cycles. You can run 10-year-old software even though you probably shouldn't.
Apart from those, it's a competent distro, Red Hat know what they're doing. If you want the equivalent to an Ubuntu LTS / Debian in the Fedora world, it get's the job done. I quite like their approach of keeping the core OS stable while updating drivers, tools, and compilers (e.g., the kernel version number has very little meaning in RHEL).
Is the experience very different from Fedora?
Yes. the age of the core packages is very noticeable. The number of fully supported packages is also very small and you need to go to EPEL very quickly (at which point you're no longer getting enterprise support...). On the plus side, it's much more stable than Fedora in my experience.
Edit: My main recommendation for a stable distro would probably be Debian unless one of the above points applies.
So Technically No. Our proprietary CAD was only supported and certified to work on RHEL or SUSE.
I wanted to test before commiting to a distro. So I went with OpenSUSE leap since it shares SUSE binaries and has same release and service cycle.
It installed and functions well on OoenSUSE
While not identical to SUSE, I can say all the complaints I saw online of things not working in Linux were working for me. They sort of have to on a paid distro with support, so it seems to carry to OpenSUSE with the same binaries
1) nVidia hosts a repo specifically for SUSE and OpenSUSE ( probably RHEL too) it meany adding that nvdia url and updating in Yast2 GUI. Everything works, no tearing, no glitches, nVidia app for thermal settings or tweaking.
2)btrfs works. I saw lots of complaints of people saying btrfs filled their drive, etc.
SUSE / OpenSUSE as jobs establishes to monitor number and age of snapshots and remove automatically as needed as well as cleaning tools. It all runs behind the scenes.
3) patches, people complain they don't know if a CVE affects them, if they have applied a patch or not, what package etc. On SUSE/OoenSUSE you have several patch, patches, lp commands that show you what has been released, what level and whether your system has it installed, not required, critical etc. Keeping up with CVE and patches is easy.
I assume RHEL will also have these types of perks to make some aspects easier
RHEL will also have these types of [perquisites]
Yeah. Yum upgrade . The work that goes into a reliably safe, brain-dead, boring update process with a rollback and by-the-checksum validation of installed product is the most unsung part of the distro.
And people really should value the ability to answer
yum update --cve <CVE-ID> will settle it)rpm -V some-RPM)And 'how do we know' is an amazingly powerful question that's easy to answer on EL and hard as heck to answer on debs or anything with flatpak/snap/pyp/npm nonsense.
Much more stable but much, much older packages at some point. Can you tolerate that?
It is a lot easier these days as Distrobox and Flatpak offer great escape hatches to get newer software when you really need it.
Some of us fiddle with the base OS more than we should. In many ways, I think using something that changes less often is a great idea.
One great thing about RHEL is the documentation. First Red Hat themselves make great stuff. Then there are mountains of third-party materials. Finally, since it changes slowly, whatever issues you are facing have probably been seen before by others and what you find about it on the Internet will still apply.
Sometimes older, tried and true packages is what you want in prod.
Drives me nuts but so does debugging issues because someone ran yum install on some unsupported package
I have some RHEL machines at work. They are used as VM hosts for windows VMs (CAD software). I set them up, but I also have a huge list of other apps and servers that I manage,develop and support, and so the person that wanted these mahines wanted professional services as an option if I am out or busy with other projects. Plus it allows us to offload liability for security if need be, whereas when I do it, there is anyone else to blame, legally speaking. ( Although so far we have not had a breach on my watch knocks on wood )
I just use fedora at home, I find the they are about the same and I personally wouldn't pay for the additional services. The package manager is different, but that's about it.
I know pretty much everyone knows this but distros like Alma and Rocky give you a pretty much identical experience to RHEL for free.
And RHEL itself is free for individuals.
The biggest difference between Fedora and RHEL is that the packages in Fedora change far more frequently, are much more up to date, and are supported for a far shorter period of time.
And RHEL itself is free for individuals.
RHEL is (was) great, but the 'free' thing is an absolute annoyance to renew periodically and - importantly - the subscription crap is needless hassle. I use Rocky for the dev stuff and RHEL when it's prod customer stuff. That spreads out the infrastructure plan to be 1. everything working, and then 2. glue in the subscription bullshit.
If the distribution does not have it by default, please include the instructions to use it on the system.
Note: I can't compile the libre kernel from the source.
Trisquel provides a good experience out of the box imo, as long as your hardware is supported and if you don't mind the dated looking interface. I used it for a while on my corebooted laptop.
I didn't used much any other "100% libre" distros. As much as I wanted to use it, I never managed to have Guix to run on that machine.
[edit:] to answer OP's question, I would use a distro that ships with it.
Short answer is Trisquel if you like Ubuntu/Debian, Parabola if you like Arch, and Guix if you like frustration.
The libre kernel is a bit of a pain regarding wifi and bluetooth, and depending on your graphics card the drivers aren't going to run quite as well. You might need to get new a wireless card/usb, since there's only a few modern chips that work with it.
There's a list of distros on gnu.org that use the libre kernel by default, if you want to look at more options. PureOS is based on Debian focused on privacy and security. Hyperbola is based on Arch with 32 bit and BSD options.
Personally I use Guix, which is an amazing abomination with awesome features that most people don't care about. I wouldn't recommend it for most people unless you are coming from NixOS, know a lisp dialect, and/or are willing to put in a lot of effort.
Not sure why you mentioned this. At least on Arc, or any distro based on it like Artix, the ucode per CPU is offered as a separate package:
% pacman -Ss ucode
system/amd-ucode 20241111.b5885ec5-1
Microcode update image for AMD CPUs
world/intel-ucode 20241112-1 [installed]
Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
world/iucode-tool 2.3.1-5
Tool to manipulate Intel
galaxy/amd-ucode-xz 20230625.ee91452d-4
Microcode update image for AMD CPUs
extra/intel-ucode 20241112-1 [installed]
Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
extra/iucode-tool 2.3.1-5
Tool to manipulate IntelSo it's true that some hardware won't properly work out of the box by using libre-linux, but nothing prevents you from getting the required firmware from other packages or sources. Granted that doesn't make things easier. And granted that might defeat the purpose of using linux-libre, but you might at least only add only strictly required binary blobs for your current hardware.
linux-libre is harder because if you want cpu ucode plus hardware firmware support in general so that you can make your bad citizen hardware work, you'll need to add it out of the linux package.
Someone mentioned Guix as a gnu + linux distribution was hard, and in general that's true, but not because of linux-libre since there's a non official Guix repository providing non libre/free cpu ucode plus hardware firmware, see:
https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
The complex part of Guix comes from it being a inmutable distribution based on the ideas from NixOS, though it's not a fork from Nix since it's even based on Guile rather than the Nix language, but their packages and configurations are quite different than any other distribution, the same as its inmutable system and I believe on both reproducibility is a thing...
But bottom line, for Guix you can even get packages to make linux-libre work with your hardware provided you find the corresponding firmware in the non official repo, and in general (not just Guix) as long as you find the firmware somewhere else (not in linux-libre) you would be OK, and depending on your distro that might be a really hard task.
I use Artix, and though I haven't explored it yet, I've been wondering how hard it'd be to install linux-libre, and get the strictly required firmware from the AUR, perhaps it's possible. The package is actually offered from AUR:
% aur search linux-libre
aur/linux-libre 6.11.9-1 (+37 0.35%)
The Linux Libre kernel and modules
aur/linux-libre-docs 6.11.9-1 (+37 0.35%)
Documentation for the Linux Libre kernel
aur/linux-libre-firmware 1.4-1 (+3 0.00%) (Orphaned)
Firmware files for Linux-libre
aur/linux-libre-headers 6.11.9-1 (+37 0.35%)
Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux Libre kernel
aur/linux-librem5 6.6.57-1 (+0 0.00%)
The Linux kernel for Purism Librem 5
aur/linux-librem5-docs 6.6.57-1 (+0 0.00%)
The Linux kernel for Purism Librem 5 (documentation)
Guix channel for packages that can't be included upstream. Please do NOT promote or refer to this repository on any official Guix communication channels.GitLab
The complex part of Guix comes from it being a inmutable distribution based on the ideas from NixOS
That's not the most significant factor in what makes it hard/different. There are immutable distros that come with less complexity and are arguably more immutable than NixOS or guix.
What actually sets it apart and can make these harder to use is:
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I was doing some "algorithm surfing" (i.e. VPN+private tab+click enough youtube videos on a topic=temporarily immersed in someone else's rabbit hole). In a patriotism rabbit hole, I found this video about a fearless teenager defending himself and his father against police misconduct with knowledge of Utah law.
Question: how can a layperson possibly know that much about the law to rival a cop's situational power like that?
I'm already familiar with shutting up (I vaguely remember there being a way funnier video but I can't find it)
but I think not shutting up, and instead sheer CYA, was instrumental to that kid and his dad winning the counterlawsuit. And being friendly has turned a speeding ticket into a warning for me (anecdotal evidence)... once...
Apologies if this question is too American. Also please don't hit me with another All Cops Are Benzene or something -- I could use a usable answer ^ .^
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Pot Brothers! That's the video I was thinking of.
Stfu is widely best (better to do nothing than go negative), but there's the caveats of self-identification being necessary in some places, and drawing police hostility, isn't there? (e.g. oh, we're all nice and joyful? oh... no? nvm... hmm, I sense a traffic violation)
I'm primarily concerned about that part. What if stfu lets me get framed or get a short end of a stick? How do I prepare? Is stfu the be all end all?
Haven't seen the Regent one, I'll give that a watch.
anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law
There is no situation outside of basic ID verification where any statement you make will benefit you in any way. If a cop has decided he's going to arrest you then you're getting arrested. The proper time to fight against that is in court, not at the time of arrest.
I can speak from direct experience here.
You do not argue law with police in the United States. Period. Any example of it working out is overshadowed by hundreds of deaths. Even giving off the impression you're some kind of sovereign citizen is a good way to get killed.
You quite literally — and this is triple true if you're a POC — must submit to them and pay a lawyer to interact with the Corrections Department and the courts. Doing anything other than this, e.g., resisting arrest, arguing law, is a surefire way to get hurt or killed.
The police in the United States are not there to help, you should never talk to them. This includes arguing law.
And never open your front door for any reason. If the cops or anyone else really needed you that bad, they'd be busting the door down anyway and you're already fucked six ways to Sunday.
Also cameras. Lots of them. Different brands. Offline recording. INSIDE AND OUT. Ask me how I know.
Does the adage "know your rights" simply denote "self-identify then stfu then get a lawyer" -- and nothing else? If not, where can a layperson find the useful-to-knows? (Yes, look up local law, but it's basically all scholarly articles or superficial news reports)
This part is the crux of my question
Don't be a sovereign citizen. The worst mistakes I've seen people pull is argue the law with cops. Cops are like robots, they're going to be spamming commands after commands. There is no room to debate, so shut up and comply, debate the rest of the shit in court later.
And when you get to court, the worst mistake here is running your mouth about things you only have an idea of, but not the complete story. This is why it's advisable to get a lawyer.
I've watched a court case where my sister tried to defend herself, least partially even with a lawyer. She lost a custody case because she tried driving her narrative to sway court judgment. Don't be an idiot, like her.
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I’ve found that LLMs can help you with refining incoherent ramblings into understandable questions. Even if you don’t know what words to use or how to ask something, it still somehow works anyway.
Just try dumping a wall of text on an LLM of your choice, and see what happens. You may need to have a proper conversation with the LLM to get what you’re really after, so don’t expect the first answer to be the final one.
So I was thinking of silly things I've done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :
exit
in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.
I'm curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.
Short: I forgot the /etc/fstab mount entry
I'm not sure if the following counts as stupid, but here is one where I almost wiped my system and reinstalled everything. I have some entries in the /etc/fstab to bind certain directories to specific locations in my home, to keep it modular (doing this since over 10 years). One day I replaced one of the internal harddrives and then the system would no longer boot up, because the it tries to mount a non existent drive.
Due to my long years of experience and wisdom with Linux, I thought that either the new drive was broken or I something from my body sparked over the board. It took me several minutes until I realized what actually happened and then everything was fine.
BTW in EndeavourOS when this happens again (and it did) then while boot the system asks me to ignore that entry and continue. Which is soooo useful and don't know why this was never asked before (before I was on EndeavourOS).
I wanted to reinstall my Gentoo system. A SUSE (back before OpenSUSE) disc was the newest distro I had lying around. I thought it shouldn't matter from which system I do the install, Gentoo won't care.
So I repartitioned /dev/hda, installed the base system and went to set up my mount points. Only to discover that my data drive was gone. Stupid SUSE labeled the drives differently. /dev/hdb was my old system drive and I had repartitioned my old data drive.
Taught me to really check which drive was which. I wouldn't touch SUSE again for decades because of this.
I think I posted this before in some other thread, but one time back when I used to use Ubuntu, I opened my laptop and the screen was upside-down. Everything worked perfectly, but just upside-down. I went through every display setting I could find, trawled through forums for hours (on a different, non upside-down computer) and got absolutely nowhere. It was at the point where I was thinking I'll probably have to reformat and start over and this will forever be a mystery.
Then I accidentally solved it when my Playstation controller battery got low and I plugged it into the nearest USB port to charge, which was my laptop. As soon as I plugged it it, the screen flipped back the right way. As it turned out, Ubuntu was talking to the controller and had for some reason interpreted the gyroscope movement as 'rotate screen' the last time I charged it. After a couple of minutes of waving the controller around and watching the desktop spin while going "huh", I just unplugged it when it the right way round and crisis averted!
I deleted my desktop environment during an apt upgrade, not once, but twice. Bad habit of not actually reading the messages that pop up properly - it did ask me if I wanted to delete it all, and I just said "yea lol lfg". There was some conflict with a third party PPA that caused this.
Didn't know that had happened to begin with. I was stuck on the session manager login screen and it just wouldn't proceed after entering password. First time I just reinstalled Linux, and the second time I found out how to reinstall it from tty. This is how I learned about tty as well.
I may have posted this before, but...late last year I realized my Debian server with circa 2009 hardware, with 4 gb of RAM and Core 2 Quad processor, was no longer up to the tasks I wanted it to perform; in particular, running a Home Assistant server. Back in 2018 or so, I added a software Linux RAID5 array with 5 active 3 TB drives and one hot spare, along with a "cold spare" that I've never actually used.
So, early this year, I bought hardware to upgrade my desktop machine, which was still plenty fast for me, and move the guts to my server. This is how my server usually gets upgraded. Upgrade the desktop machine, give it a few days or weeks to make sure it's stable, and then upgrade the server.
I installed the hardware without a problem, booted it up, and everything seemed okay, except that I ...couldn't access the RAID. At first it was like, well, I'm sure it's nothing serious, but then when mdadm could even FIND it, I started to get extremely worried. Fear set in.
Long story short: When I built the RAID, I followed directions that used the entire discs as the RAID, instead of making a partition on the disc and using that partition. The old motherboard didn't care, but the new one saw the bare discs and was like, "Hey, those are messed up, I'll fix the partition table for you!" Turns out, building Linux RAIDs by using the full discs like that is a VERY BAD IDEA for exactly this reason - but there are still guides out there showing that method and not mentioning the risks.
I was panicking. I spent days trying to figure out what to do and nothing was working. I was asking for help on the Linux-RAID list (and most of them were as helpful as they could be). Unfortunately my backups were NOT up to par (something I should have checked before starting), and I was at the point where I was like, well, I've lost x, y, and z.
I had basically given up and was just recreating the RAID using the "create command" then trying to see if I could mount the drive read-only. With 6 drives, there are quite a few possible combinations that could be the right one. If I remember correctly, I was able to figure out which drive was the spare, so I could limit my searches to the other 5, and knowing all 5 were in use, it was a matter of trying different orders. I think I got close one time and ext4 gave me weird read error, so after that I swapped two drives, and hit the right order.
Eventually .... I found it. I found the right combination and could reload it! Everything was there, untouched! As quickly as I could, I copied everything to a 10 TB drive I bought and installed into the desktop system. I saved the command, rebooted, and the same thing happened again - so it was definitely a motherboard problem - but this time I knew how to recreate it, and did so.
Since I now had a backup, I partitioned each drive and rebuilt the array using partitions...and I saved every piece of data I could think of about building the array, outputs of mdadm, outputs of /proc/mdstat, partition IDs, etc. Naturally, having that info likely means I'll never need it.
I was so relieved when I saw that mount command work without error. I spent close to a week worrying about it, and in that moment it was a huge rush.
New setup handles HA and other duties with aplomb and is very reliable, so in the end it was very worth it.
This is less "silly" and more "horrifying". Sorry.
A few years back, I was installing Arch on an external hard disk. I was basically done, so I powered off the system, but I forgot to unmount the hard disk.
Then I tried to boot to the OS on my computer, which was also Arch, and it got stuck at the BIOS splash screen. No luck rebooting.
I remember panicking (because that was my only machine) and asking my computer teacher what to do and he also had no idea.
I ended up manually unplugging and replugging the hard disk inside the case and it worked. To this day I still don't know what went wrong.
It seem just an error. Computer shouldn't have a problem with not unmount HDD. It should just not detect the HDD
Sorry if my english is wrong
My worst one was accidentally overwriting my backup when trying to clone it.
I was using a standalone drive cloning device and I mixed up the "source" and "target" slots. It was a 4tb drive so the operation took about 3 hours.
At the end, i plugged in the clone to check it and saw that it was blank. I ended up having to make a new backup before i was able to try the cloning again.
Since it was a backup, nothing of value was lost, but it sure was a waste of an afternoon
I had an accident when i tried to change my Debian from using APT package manager to Slackware Pkgtools. When i made a package for Pkgtools, i used Pkgtools built-in chown (which is "Sloppy" according to manpage) and it didn't just change ownership of the package but also my user folder and files inside my user folder. Because it, my Waydroid had errors
Sorry if my english is wrong
This is one of the features I miss on Windows (https://github.com/Collective-Software/ClickPaste), I was wondering if there was an alternative to this for Linux?
Essentially instead of pasting all the text from your clipboard, it will type out the contents as though the letters were typed on the keyboard. One by one. This allowed me to "paste" into VMs and other places that I normally couldn't.
The ol' google gave me nothing but "How to paste into terminal" posts which is not what I want.
Windows 10 notification area app in C# that can paste clipboard contents as keystrokes to whatever location you click. - Collective-Software/ClickPasteGitHub
If you are coming from the legacy version, the concept of default.yml file will be familiar to you.espanso.org
xclip -o -selection clipboard | xdotool keyup Super_L type --delay 100 --clearmodifiers --file -I use the code above with Win + T in KDE shortcuts to type the content from the clipboard.
I'm on Wayland these days, but if you happen to be using X11 this is the homebrew solution I used to use:
xdotool type --delay 50 "$(xclip -o -sel c)"--delay argument specifies the delay in milliseconds between keystrokes; if you go too low on that it tends to break things.Interested to see what solrize comes up with because this method definitely has drawbacks -- no way to interrupt it and if you accidentally paste something large it takes a long time to finish due to the forced delays.
I've never really had the need for a Wayland version, but I don't see why subbing ydotool for xdotool and wl-paste for xclip wouldn't work.
https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/xdotool/xdotool.1.en
https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/wtype/wtype.1.en
Pipe your clipboard contents through either of those depending on your windowing system.
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I’m not trying to be judgmental here, just curious.
What about the library makes you anxious that any other task required to leave the house doesn’t?
May be an obvious question, but have you seen a doctor?
I know that’s hard depending one where you are. I say this as a person who suffers from some pretty intense anxiety but not anything to your level.
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The problem for a person in Germany is that torrenting copyrighted stuff can get you sued for thousands.
So a third-party VPN provider is mandatory, or does anybody know of no pay solutions? I don’t mind slower speeds, as my media (movie)?consumption is pretty low.
I don't think there's really a free vpn. Because unlike movies/tv or games that can be infinitely copied with basically zero cost, VPN is a service that requires constant electricity, internet connection, and eventually the hardware that the VPN runs on needs to be replaced. There's ProtonVPN that have a free version has limited servers to choose from and intended for people living in authoritarian countries to bypass censorship, therefore it blocks all P2P connections.
Well there CalyxVPN, provided by the Calyx Institute, a non-profit. P2P doesn't appear to be blocked, but the download speeds are slow as a snail. It'd take a day just to download a movie with 2GB file size. This VPN is supposed to be for educational purposes so like torrenting seems to be not in the spirit of what its supposed to be for, but like nothing is stopping you from using it.
There's also many cheap vpns that cost only like 2-3 US dollars a month but it seem like those require you to pay upfront for an entire year which would average out to be 2-3 US dollars a month.
And there are also many direct download options when it comes to piracy, those will usually not get you in trouble, since your IP wouldn't be a part of a swarm so theres nothing for copyright trolls to report on.
Sucks to be a Chrome user today since Google neutered uBlock.
But really, people undervalue the capability of uBlock. It blocks a lot. I can watch Tubi content - adfree. I can get Netflix's $7 base plan with ads and no ads with uBlock. Same with generally any streaming service. Has a bit of a trouble working with Twitch which lead to me dropping Twitch altogether.
But man people are missing out a lot and just putting up with so much shit that they don't ever have to if they'd just shut up, download Firefox and uBlock and just get with the rest of us.
Distributed Proofreaders - if you want to volunteer to proofread scans of books for Project Gutenberg.
Distributed Proofreaders provides a web-based method to ease the conversion of Public Domain books into e-books. By dividing the workload into individual pages, many volunteers can work on a book at the same time.Distributed Proofreaders
LibreOffice. It's free to download and use and it is on par with Microsoft Office.
Even though it's free, I donated to them as it's quality software that I support.
If you are a fan of pokemon and want actually challenging games with stories that vary in quality, fan games and ROM hacks are your go-to.
My personal recommendations right now are Pokemon Vanguard and Unbreakable Ties, both phenomenal fan games despite not even being completed yet. You'll get well over something like 20-30 hours alone with Unbreakable Ties and it's just in its 4th beta. Both feel like passion projects in the best way possible and Unbreakable Ties is looking to be a master craft in the art department as well (minus a few fullscreen art scenes that pop up).
At most, you'll have to join a discord server, as annoying as it is, if you want more up to date info on the game and download links.
I mean the title should be "... time to move to the other browser".
Safari is the new IE with extra iCrap on top.
Random browsers usually use one of the 3 web engines, but without browser polish, or functionalities like a working adblock. Those that don't are just someone's toys.
So the only real option is Firefox, and the Mozilla foundation lost 80+% of their funding because they can't get the Google money anymore. Maybe they'll start actually funding FF instead of some BS humanitarian work that I can bet was primarily lining their pockets...
Smaller browsers built on webkit do exist; see 'Epiphany', 'surf', 'luakit', and 'Nyxt'.
Qt's web component used to be based on webkit as well, though they've switched to Blink (Chromium).
Unfortunately, none of the browsers listed above are 100% sufficient to replace Firefox. They all rely on GTK bindings on webkit, which has its own quirks; and none have support for webextensions.
I said they're the new IE for a reason.
The w3c standard: ok so we all agreed that this feature will be placed in the body tag
Blink: ofc, that's what I've been telling you
Gecko: sure, idc
WebKit: yeah nah, put it in the html
So many little senseless gotchas like that that exist for no reason that to be iSpecial
Really looking forward to this new browser tbh.
As comfortable as I am on Firefox, I kinda just want something totally new to enter the space at this point.
Zero loyalties.
If Firefox did something similar, they'd be off my drive before I finished the article.
Chrome is a web browser created and maintained by an advertising company. This whole situation was never going to go any other way.
Firefox is equally doomed since so much of their current revenue comes from Google.
We have a foundation dedicated to the development of an entire kernel, but a web browser is a stretch.
(It indeed may be a stretch)
Who's "we", though? Here's the list of Linux Foundation members: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
It's a foundation by, and for, commercial interests; not the users. If the same interests made up a foundation to develop a browser, it wouldn't be different from Chrome; because in the realm where browsers are supposed to work, those 'commercial interests' would demand doing what Chrome does.
It's a 'happy accident' that with respect to a unix-like OS kernel, the interests of the industry ended up being compatible with the interests of the user.
Linux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources while accelerating their own innovation through open source.www.linuxfoundation.org
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it's more warped than that. the anti-teen pregnancy parents where themselves kicked out for committing the same teenage pregnancy and it's been happening for 5 generations so far.
its like watching generational trauma on meth since it literally happens every 14 or 15 years and to everybody and the thought process is just a completely circularly reasoned clusterfuck like our elections every time; i will never be able to see how kicking out your daughter is supposed to help when all it does is, effectively, deprive them of things she needs for her and her child's future (their grandchild) like an education for that future; a stable and nurturing home environment; access to medical care; a built in family based support system; etc.
watching my family repeat this surprise-to-kickout-to-squabbling-to-truce cycle every 14 or 15 years informs my opinions of the phrase "history repeats itself" and i wish that the education that would help prevent us from repeating this history wasn't so difficult to realize for everybody.
Disowned may not be the right word.
But Fucking Ryan is kind of the one member of the family that everyone dreads to some degree or another.
Notice I called him Fucking Ryan. This is what he is called by everyone that curses. Which, since the last person that didn't call him that died years ago, that's essentially nobody.
And both of his parents are alive. They don't call him that all the time, but they slip up sometimes.
So, we're not talking about him being totally cut off from everyone. He lives with his parents, and some of the family as a whole will put up with him. However, he is fully, strictly banned from my home on pain of having his ass beat again. That's again because when I told him that if he ever darkened my door again, I would beat his ass down the road, he didn't believe it and got his ass beat down the road.
So, going backwards from there.
He shows up after being warned never to come back or I would beat his ass down the road. He pulls into the driveway, gets out, and is coming up the steps when I make it out the door and start beating his ass. Now, I'm not speaking figuratively. I took my damn cane and was beating his actual ass with it, down the steps, down the walkway, and then down the road. Once he was down there and fell into the ditch, I told him to gtfo. He said he'd go back to his car in a minute, and I said "the fuck you will. Step in my yard and see if I don't beat your ass right back here."
He believed me. Asked me to call his mom to come get him. She drove his car, he drove hers. When I called her, she said something to the effect of "jesus, he didn't show up did he? How bad is he?" Not shocked I beat his ass, not upset I beat his ass, just disappointed she was going to have to pick him up, and wondering if he would need a doctor.
So, backtrack to why he was banned from my house. The straw that broke the camel's ass was him standing in my living room, doing a southern goodbye that was one sided. He picks up DVD I had sitting on the entertainment center and slides it into his pants. Right in front of me. I told him to put it back and gtfo. He asked what I was talking about. I pointed and said that fucking dvd you just put in your pants. He said he did no such thing.
I grabbed him by the arm and pulled the DVD that was still visibly poking out of his pants out and told him I was done with his bullshit, to leave and never come back.
He starts trying to talk his way out of it and picks the DVD up again. I tell him to put it down, or I was going to beat his ass.
He says "what DVD".
So I beat his ass. Popped him in the nose and then literally kicked his ass out the front door and down the steps. I told him if he ever came back, I would beat his ass down the road. I meant it more figurative, in that I would just whup him again until he left, but once he came back, I kinda wanted to make a point.
So, why did that merit assault and battery?
Wellllll, pull back to a long history of shit disappearing into his pants, pockets, or coat. Never anything huge or super valuable. Like, a fork. Or a post-it note pad. That kind of shit.
One time, we're having dinner. Hamburgers. My wife had never seen him go full fucktard before, she thought I was exaggerating.
He gets up, says he needs to use the bathroom. He picks up his burger and takes it with him.
He comes back out, and there's fucking ketchup and mustard on his left pocket. He starts making another burger. Now, I know Fucking Ryan. I know damn good and well he didn't eat the burger in the bathroom. He put it in his pocket. But I tell him, "dude, if you wanted a burger to take home, you didn't have to pocket it." Dude straight faced asks me what I'm talking about. I point at the juicy bulge in his jeans, and I'm not talking about his cock. I'm talking about the hamburger that's now dripping juice through the denim.
He then spends fifteen minutes playing dumb until I tell him to go the fuck home.
That's Fucking Ryan in a nutshell.
Like, years and years of that kind of thing.
Back in the late nineties, I go over to his place. Well, his parent's place. His bed is gone. There's just a mattress on the floor. I ask him what happened. He just says he ordered a new one. Knowing Fucking Ryan, on my way out after we fuck around gaming for a while, I ask his parents what the deal is. His dad starts saying they took the damn thing before Ryan's mom shushes him and says the posts were in the way and refusing to elaborate.
Just one of those Fucking Ryan things, right?
Well, a few weeks later, I'm at the hospital pulling a shift as a fill-in down in the er. Talking to some of the folks there, swapping war stories, I hear that some guy came in with anal injuries from having gotten stuck on the post of a bed.
Again, I know Fucking Ryan, so I know damn good and well it was him. Years later, his dad tells me the story of Fucking Ryan yelling for help and him having to figure out how to pull his adult kid off of a bedpost
So, you may be thinking that Fucking Ryan at that time must have been some teenage idiot. No. He's only a year younger than me, and I was creeping up on thirty. The hamburger thing? We were in our forties.
You may also be thinking, "Gee, this sounds like someone with some kind of serious neurological issue, maybe something like autism combined with other things." Nope. His parents spent a good bit of his teenage years and early twenties schlepping him for various tests and exams because he's always been a fucking twat. His IQ is well above normal, no autism, no obscure disorders, no brain abnormalities.
Nor is there any hint of abuse from his parents or anything like that.
Dude pulls down mid to high six figures, does freelance computer shit, like security, cryptography, that kind of thing, not just tech support.
He's just Fucking Ryan.
Oh! Back in the eighties! So, his mom is my grandmother's niece. My grandparents did really well for themselves overall. Had a decent sized house, a few acres of land, that kind of thing. One section, where my grandfather built us kids a treehouse, is basically a half acre of trees we called "the jungle". So, this was when I was maybe 14 or 15, during the summer.
All us kids were out running around and playing and such one Sunday. Ryan has disappeared. I go looking for him because I was the oldest kid, so it was in my head that I had to take care of everyone. I head towards the back of the jungle and there's Fucking Ryan fucking a tree. Not humping, not grinding. He's got his pants around his ankles, and his dick shoved into a hole in the tree, fucking it.
He later on, maybe a year or two after that, dug a hole in the ground and fucked that. How do I know? Because I'm the one he asked to put bandaids on his dick. I told him if he didn't tell me how it happened, I was telling his mom because I was worried someone had done it to him. I didn't believe him, because even though I had seen him fucking a tree, I didn't think anyone would fuck a hole in the ground.
Nope. He took me to the hole and there was jizz in it.
So, allll of that is what justified beating his ass twice.
Oh! And I fucking forgot!
After beating his ass the second time, dude calls me maybe six months later, asks if maybe we can go shooting over at our uncle's farm. I'm kinda dubious, but a bunch of us had been talking about a family get together and shooting session. So I call around see if he's welcome. Strangely, nobody objects.
So, we're all out there and he comes walking around the old barn. No gun, no ammo. Of course he wants to borrow something, and be provided ammo. But, hey, it's whatever, wouldn't be the first time his dad wouldn't let him borrow one of his guns for a family shoot.
I loan him my 22 rifle (ruger 10-22 for anyone that cares), load him up a few magazines, and fun is going to be had.
And it was, for a while. He's actually got a great sense of humor usually, and he's a good listener. However, he's also Fucking Ryan.
He pops off a few rounds at a target, misses, then swings around to crack a joke, while the rifle ends up pointing at multiple people, including me. And, as luck would have it, guess when his finger hit the trigger. If you guessed it was right as it was pointing at my leg, you win the prize.
Luckily, it just barely creased my leg. No damage to muscle at all. Hurt like a motherfucker, and I thought for a few minutes I was going to put a bullet in him, but my family includes a few smart folks, and they secured all the firearms well away from the angry, cursing dude with a bleeding leg and a ruined pair of pants. They were also smart enough to bustle him away and into his car and send him the fuck home, because shot leg or not I would have beat the fuck out of him if I'd seen him again.
So, yeah, Fucking Ryan.
Yeah, I couldn't help reading this and feeling extremely sad for Ryan. If they're in their 50's-60's, the parents had tried to get him diagnosed as a kid in what, the 70's?!? I'm not sure what they're expectations are for people with a mental disorder, but it sounds like they're expecting a trope and someone halfway functional is completely fine.
There is apparently a childhood full of sexual deviancy, which was never properly addressed and caused more anxiety and strain on his relationships his entire adult life. Dude's stealing post-it notes and anything/everything regardless of value, that's kleptomania 101
Kleptomania (klep-toe-MAY-nee-uh) is a mental health disorder that involves repeatedly being unable to resist urges to steal items that you generally don't really need. Often the items stolen have little value and you could afford to buy them. Kleptomania is rare but can be a serious condition. It can cause much emotional pain to you and your loved ones — and even legal problems — if not treated.Kleptomania is a type of impulse control disorder — a disorder that involves problems with emotional or behavioral self-control. If you have an impulse control disorder, you have difficulty resisting the temptation or powerful urge to perform an act that's excessive or harmful to you or someone else. (link)
He's doing these things, but I think the expectation is that he should "just stop" or "get over it". He's so out of control he can't even stop him self while in front of other people or performing dangerous sexual acts, this is a person who has been untreated and needed help for decades.
If you have this impulse control disorder, you can't resist urges to steal items that you generally don't really need and that usually have little value.Mayo Clinic
Well, let's break it down.
First, he's been through the whole diagnostic process multiple times, with multiple doctors. This includes psychiatry and psychology, as well as neurology. No diagnoses of anything that would excuse petty thievery as something outside of his control.
Second, the first time I beat his ass was after roughly thirty years of bullshit. A little longer tbh, but still. We aren't talking a recent change here. We're talking a pretty damn full lifetime of fuckery. Support was shown through all of that. The dude would pilfer some shit in an obvious way, and I'd just take it back, tell him to cut his shit, and try and figure out what the living fuck had him doing it. Every time, over decades.
Seriously, support has a limit. Even if it was something like schizophrenia (and I don't know how that many damn doctors would miss something like that), it reaches a point of absurdity.
And, once someone tells you they're going to beat your ass if you come to their house again, and you go back, that's on you. The first one, if you choose to ignore the decades of fuckery, you can blame on me if you like. I could have just removed him from my home using less intense force, but it's still force, and he was going to gtfo one way or another. But that second one, nope, dude needed his ass beat.
Then, no injuries beyond bruising. I trained in martial arts for pretty much all of the nineties and into the naughties. No broken bones, no internal injuries, no joints damaged. Minimum amount of force to get the job done and make sure he knew I wasn't joking or fucking around. I didn't explicitly say that in the original comment, but the dude was saying he'd walk back to his car. And his mom picked him up, and he drove her car. Obviously, a very limited use of force if you're whacking someone's ass with a stick and they can still drive.
I mean, ffs, I can't even count the number of times I tried to talk to the dude and figure put wtf was in his head. Nothing but outright denial, the same as when he's standing there with a fucking hamburger in his pocket saying he doesn't know what I'm talking about.
I want to be as gentle as possible and just kinda point some things out that I'm reading as a stranger. I don't think anyone is blaming you or trying to shame you about the ass beatings. You've put up with a lot and not calling the cops kept it from escalating. It sounds like you've got solid boundaries in place now so hopefully you can look back on all of it a little more relaxed and from an outside perspective like I'm forced to have.
You gotta understand, we're all a little crazy dealing with life. Mental health ranges from having a stretch, to full on institutionalized psychiatric care. A person can sit down with a therapist for years and never open up to get a proper diagnosis. Behavior disorders can have no neurological symptoms, chemical imbalances can go for decades without being discovered. Sometimes the systems just aren't able to provide the right support because there's no flashing red sign to point too.
He seems like a functional adult from what you've described. Probably have a lot of "ok" moments with him where it just makes you want to smack him upside the head when he starts doing the fuckery shit. There are so many other things to do in life besides shoving hamburgers in your pocket and giving your parents the worse algorithms after searching "help son stuck on bed post" online. I enjoy gaming and tinkering while also coming on here. I could be carving a special tree in my back woods for some play-time, but I never learned and/or didn't have the wiring to enjoy sexual pain as a release and gratification (not kink shaming, just not built that way).
We all have stupid shit we could be getting into, thoughts that come into our minds or dark paths we decide not to go down. It's that impulse control that keeps you floating above water. You could argue that he "physically has the ability to use that control", but regardless of the wiring, it's not being used. His actions have a negative effect on the people around him and are harmful, even if it's behavioral and a "daddy didn't love me enough" kinda excuse, you will still need support and proper guidance to address the issues (sometimes shit's just too tough for people to handle on their own, a lot of us suffer in silence and some don't even want to know anything's wrong).
Support can have it's limits. But at that point you seek other support mechanisms, we don't really have a functional mental health system that can lead you to the next steps properly. I'm sure there was more recommendations to address his behavior but it probably became circular with no real progression.
A lot of "Ryan's" are in jail because they stole from the wrong person or didn't have a community like you guys were to him. There's a lot of Ryan's running around everyday that you pass by but they keep their shit together for those fleeting moments to seem normal. idk what else to say really, I hope you don't have any more run-ins with the guy. Just sounds like a horrible experience and that's gotta be stressful as a family. I feel sympathy for him though, hopefully he finds what he needs for a more peaceful rest of his life where he's able to make the decisions that benefit him and those he loves around him in the future.
One family member is disowned by 2 of her 3 children and by proxy, 2 of her grandchildren as well. She's just one of those people who can excuse anything. She's an alcoholic, she's mean to people, and she's selfish. She has one son left making an effort, but it's pretty pointless.
One of her other kids that disowned her is turning out the same way. He's disowned both his parents and keeps finding new ways to be angry at the world. He keeps making excuses and justifying his anger and eventually will have no one left. The only time he reaches out to family is when he needs something, so they are all on thier last straw already. He's borrowed money from them by falsely using his brother's name, stolen from family, made an ass out of himself at every turn, and still thinks all his problems are everyone else's fault.
My uncle is banned from any and all family functions. He's an angry conspiracy whackjob, the prototype to the modern MAGA chuds. He was delusional, he was violent, and he would push his insane conspiracies onto everyone without consent.
Nearly every family get-together that he attended, he turned it into chaos, violence, and rage. The final straw was when he hard slapped my 8 year old little brother across the face for playing some phone game.
That was about ten years ago.Occasionally he'll call my dad (his brother) asking for money or if he can visit, but dad never forgave him for the slap.
I find this hilarious. Is this an easter egg? When shaking my mouse cursor, I can get it to take up the whole screens height.
This is KDE Plasma 6.
It's by design as mentioned in this bug report.
There is a hidden config to cap the over magnification on shake
[Effect-shakecursor]
OverMagnification=0"Time for my favourite game, is there a limit?
--several hours later --
if there is I couldn't find it but check out my frame rate now"
Ahh another sophisticated LetsGameItOut enjoyer. Right on. 😁
"Got it, got it, goooot it..."
(DrKonqi coredump)
"Perfect!"
(Fanfare)
Feels like a feature. The first time I tested this feature it was first: not dynamically textured, meaning that a small 32x32 pixel imagine got 256x256 or smth. And the size was limited.
Now its actually rendered like a vector graphics and funnily enough, its shaking never stops increasing the size. I love when fun is allowed on your desktop
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22759126
New version 24.3 of the Mesa opensource 3D graphics library and drivers has been released. New features:
- Expose Vulkan 1.3 on v3dv, both rpi4 and rpi5
- VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer on nvk
- VK_EXT_post_depth_coverage on nvk
- VK_KHR_video_maintenance1 on radv
- VK_EXT_legacy_vertex_attributes on nvk
- GL_KHR_shader_subgroup on radeonsi
- VK_KHR_maintenance7 on nvk
- VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering_local_read on nvk
- GL_ARB_timer_query on Panfrost
- GL_EXT_disjoint_timer_query on Panfrost
- VK_KHR_pipeline_binary on RADV
- VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on anv
- VK_NV_compute_shader_derivatives on nvk
- VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on nvk
- VK_KHR_compute_shader_derivatives on radv
- VK_KHR_shader_relaxed_extended_instruction on anv, hasvk, hk, nvk, radv, tu, v3dv, lvp
- GL_OVR_multiview and GL_OVR_multiview2 on zink
- VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 on radv
- VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2 on nvk
- VK_EXT_device_generated_commands on nvk, radv
- VK_EXT_host_image_copy on nvk/Turing+
- VK_EXT_depth_clamp_control on anv, hasvk, nvk, radv
- VK_KHR_shader_quad_control on nvk
- GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 on etnaviv/HALTI5+
- GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend on etnaviv/HALTI5+
- VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate on NVK
- GL_ARB_draw_indirect on etnaviv/HALTI5+
- VK_EXT_depth_clamp_zero_one on NVK
- GL_ARB_framebuffer_no_attachments on etnaviv
Skill issues.
Just joking. These are Vulkan features to support. Normal users usually don't read those and are not meant for anyway. The first part tells you the feature itself such as VK_EXT_descriptor and the second part with "on" tells you on what hardware driver it connects to, such as nvk for Nvidia Vulkan or radv for Radeon AMD Vulkan driver.
You can actually lookup the Vulkan features supported on your hardware. Depends on what driver and hardware you are using. The Nvidia panel list them somewhere (I'm no longer Nvidia user) and on AMD you can in example lookup in KDE Info Center. I'm also a noob and that's all I know. 😁
Premier Danielle Smith can expect new tariffs, fewer revenue streams, and a provincial deficit brought on by lowered oil prices.Mitch Anderson (DeSmog)
Microsoft wants some Windows 10 users to upgrade their hardware. It’s using fullscreen prompts to tempt Windows 10 users to switch to Copilot Plus PCs.Tom Warren (The Verge)
I say this in a lot of threads lately but, here I go again:
I’m so glad I swapped to linux
“I think they got chicken,” Washington said of the scene that didn’t make it into the movie.James Factora (Them.)
Just to educate, Romans didn't have an issue with homosexuality as long as there was a clear power dynamic. A Roman man could have sex with a younger, lower status person and he would be looked at as virile. The boy would also not face backlash. However as they grow into adults, the "bottom" would be looked at as a woman or unmanly.
Caesar was mocked as the queen of Bithynia due to a gay rumor between Caesar and the king, but the making fun wasn't because of the gay act, but because Caesar was rumored to be the bottom.
I'm guessing two Gladiators going at it would not be an issue for anyone as they were slaves and prisoners.
Additionally, Gladiators were extremely sought after as male prostitutes to women of wealth.
Summary
Concerns mount over how a Trump administration could handle clean water policies, including PFAS (“forever chemicals”) regulation and lead pipe replacement.
PFAS, linked to cancer and other health risks, contaminate much of the U.S. water supply.
Biden’s administration mandated utilities to reduce PFAS levels and replace lead pipes, with billions in federal funding. Trump’s team may delay or weaken these efforts, influenced by industry lobbying and Project 2025’s deregulatory goals.
Critics warn such rollbacks could worsen public health risks and increase long-term costs, despite bipartisan support for clean water protections.
the lawmaker acknowledged Trump may want to use Gaetz to make it easier to get some of his other controversial picks — such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), nominated to serve as director of national intelligence — to get through the confirmation process.
That's just what the anonymous Republican senator quoted in the article suggests
Programmer and engineering manager working at GitHub. Co-founded Dependabot, and helped build Monzo and GoCardless.hmarr.com
almost fall off my chair at the end
is there collection of best comment in gnu? or kernel? or foss in general?
My wife is looking for a portable device primarily for modeling in Blender and optionally for drawing in Krita. So we looking for something with a GNU/Linux support from manufacturer.
We considered https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityFlex-14-Gen1, it looks nice, but maybe you have other suggestions? Do you have experience with convertibles, how convenient is to draw on them?
We also considered https://earth.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite for drawing and a separate device for Blender, but having two devices might not be convenient...
Its fanless design ensures your StarLite will never make more than a whisper - unless you want it to. The Mk V supports coreboot open source firmware which you can effortlessly configure to your preferences via our coreboot configurator.Star Labs®
They will run Linux, but you might fry them if your fans don't work properly.
The EFI will control the fans just fine.
Agree! That's why we are looking for something for a manufacturer support. We don't consider used market only because thinking about something powerful.
I have a SteamDeck and very satisfied with how GNU/Linux runs on it. Windows even run worse on it 😅
Does linux support from manufacturer really matter?
The tuxe laptop convertible may seem nice and if she wants to draw on the screen then you are going to be limited on other options. But I would be worried about that intel gpu.
If you want to do 3d modeling you will need something that is gaming grade. I would rather game on a crappy card than model using one. But i also confess i am not up to date with the last few years of developments in that space.
In my very humble experience with digital art a proper dedicated drawing tablet beats any kind of touchscreen drawing.
So if you comfortable installing a chosen linux distro from a usb. (It really is not difficult, ai and YouTube can guide you trough it) and she is not already adept at touchscreen drawing i would suggest:
Lenovo Legion Both my partner and their mom have one with a different graphics card. Most of this line have nvidia rtx cards and all of those will do the job. Naturally more expensive models will have newer/faster cards.
Wacom intuos i am biased to call wacom tablets great because i have never used any others. I can say the intuos line is much nicer then the older bamboo pen and touch/fun line. Models come in different sizes
Does linux support from manufacturer really matter?
Only they can truly answer for themselves, but from a business standpoint, yes. It might. Being able to get support direct from the people who made/sold the laptop, whether it be in the form of a warranty or tech support, could save you from having down time when you need to be working.
Does linux support from manufacturer really matter?
Not really, but from my experience Linux on laptops sometimes have issues with things like battery life.
I have a SteamDeck to compare and it works just perfect, this is why I were looking at manufacturer support.
For blender nvidia gpu is a the best for cycles as it has optiX support.
If she does ONLY modeling and uses eevee renders without viewport previews then integrated graphics could work.
If she wants viewport preview then dedicated GPU is a must. IDK how fares AMD gpu in blender as I didn't have one for years.
Some gaming laptops with dedicated GPUs need external kernel modules just to work if they even have one.
My best bet would be to go for old gaming laptop.
My second best bet would be to go for system76 as they have some gaming laptops
Can you explain a bit what did you do?
How is cycles in viewport behaving?
I'm dumb, it was prolly running on my i7-3632qm because cycles needs dGPUs for gpu acceleration
it's still a 12yo processor though
Yeah, I have an Nvidia GPU on my desktop and I regret that I didn't buy an AMD card.
We looking for a laptop with good manufacturer support because they quite often have either battery or sleep issues.
To be honest. I had a similar question for my girlfriend for drawing with krita. A drawing tablet + a traditional laptop is better for almost everyone except students who will be taking notes in class and people who have to be drawing in a chair or meeting room with no desk setup.
Otherwise a drawing tablet is more accurate, faster, and with better features than a 2-in-1. Much better sensitivity, generally better pressure and tilt functions, and a much better feel (more like paper)
You don't even have to spring for a Wacom. They have been resting on their laurels for over a decade and have become completely uncompetitive in the past 5 years (kind of the Intel of drawing tablets).
An XPPen Deco Pro Gen II (as an example) has good ergonomics, rotary knobs for zooming, rotating, and scaling, and works over Bluetooth. Their Linux drivers (4.0.x) are pretty great at a fraction of the price of a Wacom or the price difference between a traditional laptop and a 2-in-1.
It ends up being way more ergonomic also to look at a screen and not having to hunch over a tablet. It just takes a week or so to get used to not looking at your hands.
Thanks!
We just planning to travel a lot soon and wanted to avoid carry a lot of stuff with us. But you probably right, it's better to have a dedicated device...
Thanks, will take a look!
We looked for convertible because planning to travel a lot. But judging by what others say, it's probably better to have a dedicated device for drawing...
Consider giving devices offered by NovaCustom a look.
When it comes to Linux-first laptop vendors, it's definitely my favorite out of the bunch.
On purchasing one of their devices, they offer:
- 3 years of warranty
- 5 years of firmware update support
- 7 years of (guaranteed) spare parts availability
I'm simply unaware of any other (Linux-first) firm that can compete regarding the above.
And I haven't even mentioned how vast their customization options are, or how well-praised their support is.
I'm actually stunned why it's not mentioned more often in these conversations.
Btw, I'd actually recommend you to consider the whereabouts of the respective support centers before you buy a device. You never hope to be in that situation, but it makes a real difference when it matters. So, in case you're unaware, AFAIK:
- NovaCustom; Netherlands. But as long as you're in EU mainland, it should be good enough.
- Star Labs; UK. EU outside of Great Britain is OK.
- System76; USA.
- Tuxedo; Germany. Again, EU mainland is fine.
About NovaCustom - Here you will find information about us, the latest products and information about what we offer.NovaCustom
First time hear about it, but sounds very cool!
I’d actually recommend you to consider the whereabouts of the respective support centers before you buy a device
Totally agree, I take this into consideration. Tuxedo is very attractive to me because we planning to visit Germany personally. But I will take a look at NovaCustom as well since it's in EU.
From Star Labs their StarLite tablet looks very attractive. Right now I considering buying a tablet for drawing and a laptop for 3D modeling instead of 2-in-1.
From Star Labs their StarLite tablet looks very attractive. Right now I considering buying a tablet for drawing and a laptop for 3D modeling instead of 2-in-1.
Honestly, this makes a lot of sense. It's unfortunate that all of your needs aren't satisfied by a single device. Assuming that the drawing capabilities of the Starlite and Infinityflex are up to par, their hardware specs don't come even close to Blender's recommended. So opting for a second device may indeed be necessary.
Whatever you'll end up picking, I hope you and your wife will be satisfied with the end result 😉!
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if she can do the blending at home and everything else on the move, your options expand dramatically. namely, you can equip a laptop with an eGPU so you can attach a desktop GPU to it.
an ultralight used convertible 2-in-1 in the sub$200 region is plenty powerful for everyday use, drawing, whathaveyous. a $50 eGPU slot, a $15 PSU and a used 8 GB GPU in the $100 region will blow out of the water anything new for up to $1K and possibly beyond. double the budget for the graphics and there's nothing comparable but the top of Apple's line-up (no drawing on those, though).
Thanks for the suggestion, eGPU sounds nice!
We don't planning to actually work on the go, just planning to travel a lot. eGPU could be considered portable. Maybe we even don't need a laptop, just a mini PC 🤔
Bit of a joke suggestion but purely hardware wise steam deck might do the trick, its graphics processing is very good considering the size and lack of discrete GPU
Also quite subsidized because valve expect people to make up the value in buying games, so more bang for your buck
Plugged into a keyboard and possibly monitor could do the trick
That's exactly what I planning to use on travel 😅
I don't planning to work on the go, just wanted a portable PC.
We are considering just a portable PC for her and a tablet for drawing right now...
Since lots of ppl already cover laptop different options, i will skip this part.
Blender is a huge topic. What exactly does your wife exactly do? Something like sculpting, rigging don't need much gpu power. How complicated the scene is it? For a complicated scene with un-optimisted mesh, it can be expensive. The most expensive part should be high quality rendering. But you can use render farm to "outsourcing" jobs to remote hosts.
Also, it's 2024. Ww can already launch and run blender remotely thru vm and streaming technology smoothly.
My 4 generation i7 4g desktop is still fine to do that. Lol.
I won't use that pc for complicated scanned un-optimisted scene though.
I move every 2 weeks in an RV. So I roughly wake up in 26 different places over the year.
Internet is rough. But has gotten better over the years since I started.
I could imagine that socially it might be difficult for some.
But largely my routine is similar to if I were in a house/apartment:
Weekdays: work, cook/eat, walk/hike/explore, games, sleep.
Weekends: groceries, cook/eat, chores/maintenance, relocate if needed, walk/hike/explore, games, sleep.
Oh - I usually remind people they’re giving up a dishwasher and laundry machines unless they’re going pretty big on their RV purchase.
Recently I’ve been parking during the summer and flying to different countries. It’s more or less the same - solid internet is a challenge and you get to work on a potential language barrier.
There are mailbox services, you get a permanent address, they can email you your mail.
Banks are more sticky, they don't just want a permanent address, they want your place of residence. If you're always on the move, you can have an intended place of residence... They may not accept the commercial mailbox service addresses, and in that case most people use a friend or a relative as their official banking location, but use the mailbox service for all of the mail. I live here, but I get mail there. That works for most people
Probably for the same reason people put other sensitive stuff in mystery software: if it's not physically visible the threat doesn't seem real to them. Obviously, that's dumb, but you did directly ask.
There's a lot of overhead involved in making it untraceable like that, and it's not clear how much of it can be achieved using postquantum algorithms. Ripple is also nice in that it doesn't bother with a blockchain at all.
Okay, then in that case you know more about it than I do because I've been under the impression for a very long time that it was blockchain-based.
Edit: https://xrpl.org/
Yeah. A blockchain is a chain - new stuff is built on top of old, and it grows forever. Ripple's ledger is all relatively up to date information IIRC. It doesn't actually need the chain, because as long as a critical number of nodes agree on a single order of transactions, they can agree that only the first spend of a set is valid if it would otherwise lead to double-spending (which is the main challenge of a distributed currency).
How that agreement is reached in an asynchronous network with possible malicious nodes is the real trick, and at that point I do start getting fuzzy on the details. Byzantine fault tolerance is hard. I think I'm actually going to read the whitepaper (again?), now that I'm thinking about it.
Edit: It's still not. I guess "blockchain" has just become just a marketing term at this point. The current crypto market is dumb even if crypto isn't.
out of interest, whats the deal with banks needing to know where you sleep at night?
is it a serfdom thing?
or is it only in the case of eg. that being the place you hold a mortgage with them on?
My residence is registered at my parents house. I’m fortunate for that – not sure what I’ll do when they pass.
The companies I work for are typically smaller - my bosses and teams usually know I’m a bit of a vagrant. When I get acquired by larger companies I’m a little more tight lipped and vigilant with VPN use.
Verizon wouldn’t sell anything larger than a 15gb plan - glad those days of juggling SIM cards are past.
But yeah - Starlink has helped a lot. I still have 3 big cell prover SIM cards and modems/router for redundancy.
I spent about 4 years traveling the world working remotely, as a digital nomad you might say. Before the name was popular
Put things I didn't want to throw away into long-term storage. Had a laptop. Flew from place to place. The most important thing was securing a good internet connection in a place. If I couldn't get a good connection move on to another place, or back to a known good place.
Libraries, coffee shops, hotels, co-working spaces, all viable options for internet requirements.
Mail digitized through a mailbox service, and emailed to me.
Google voice for an international phone number that just needed internet connection
The day to day living was pretty cool. You could stay in a place as long as you want, you could leave as quick as you want. Finding people was fun. Sometimes you weren't sure about where you would be, could you book the hotel for more time? If you couldn't you had to find the next place. So you always had a plan of where you are, and where you want to go next.
I move around every 4 months in the US. I stay in long-term Airbnbs (min 1 month stay). I work remote; so, the issue I mostly deal with is my working setup. No standing desk, comfortable chair, multi-monitor setup (using portable external monitor), etc.
Otherwise, the surroundings of the place I stay at is always a gamble. You never know if its a loud or safe neighborhood just by looking at the posting or street view on google maps. Sometimes there could be construction going on next door.
Eating around and exploring the country is the best part.
Terrible as I only find joy in a few things and the van life makes almost all of them impossible. I guess that's the difference between choosing the van life, and the van life choosing you.
What is life worth if you cannot do what is most important to you?
Absolutely nothing. Less then nothing. Negative Nothing (sweet band name)
I’ve been living in a motor home for five years. It’s pretty good for me, I work from home and have spent a good long time at dozens of national parks and other awesome places.
Also boring places. Moving all the time and fixing broken things can be stressful and staying in nice places can be expensive. But overall it’s been way better for me than sitting in a house and staring at the walls.
Planet Fitness is your friend.
Don't treat places like your backyard. Thats why everyone stopped allowing overnight parking.
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet published a Patreon post this evening entitled "Trouble in the kernel" where he explained:"TLDR: the future of bcachefs in the kernel is uncertain, and lots of things aren't looking good.
Linus has said he isn't accepting my 6.13 pull request, per "an open issue with the CoC board", and at this point I have no idea what's going on with the CoC board. I, for my part, have felt for quite some time that there are issues about our culture and the way we do work that need to be raised, and that hasn't been going anywhere - hence this post."
It appears that the source of this violation can be found in this Linux kernel mailing list thread.
While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board.www.phoronix.com
He's also giving more material to the CoC board by posting this. He's free to do it but it's not helping.
I wish he would avoid commenting and stay away from the drama, until he hears from the board if there's any complaint and what it is.
Almost universally, any time there's a power vacuum (whether in the first larger-than-tribes societies, or in societies where state power has become weak), the first authority figures that fill the power vacuum are dicks
- Main authority on bcachefs
wielding real power, in ways that feel quite uncomfortable.
Yes, it's called feeling guilty about others calling out your attitude. Most people who aren't power seeking assholes experience that feeling regularly and have learned to deal with it.
Couples therapists say they can tell within a few minutes if a couple is worth working with or not: if it's anger they're displaying, then that's something that can be worked through. If it's dismissiveness, all hope is lost.
Imagine getting told by a couples therapist that they can't see your relationship working out... And then you go on a big rant saying how you should still be together?
Imagine getting told by a couples therapist that they can’t see your relationship working out… And then you go on a big rant saying how you should still be together?
Honestly, if someone has to go to couples therapy, they're already at a point where their judgement is written off.
Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.
Yes, language like this is clearly unacceptable in a productive discussion.
Offtopic, but this reminded me that the Linux kernel has a CoC. Aren't the recent comments by Linus on the removal of russian maintainers, where he called several kernel developers paid actors, a CoC violation as well? Or have these comments w.r.t. to the CoC already been discussed?
where he called several kernel developers paid actors
He didn't. He (rightly) called out people who have never contributed to the kernel and posted flame replies to the initial announcement on the mailing list.
This isn't some wild conspiracy theory either, this is a thing Russia actually does: cause disarray and split "western" communities; divide and conquer. It's an their explicit goal of the Kremlin to do this; there's credible accounts of that.
If you want a community that's resistant to such influences, you ought to call this sort of thing out whenever you see it.
Thanks for your reply! Linus didn't only call out people posting flame replies, but also folks interested in a serious discussion on that topic, who also contributed to the kernel before (see PeterCxy's blog: https://typeblog.net/55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linus-torvalds). Most people simply wanted to know specifically which compliance requirement lead to the removal of russian maintainers. Linus never responded to these questions and called out people asking for that as russian trolls. AFAIK we still don’t know the exact reasons for the removal, which is just intransparent.
IMO By not answering these reasonable questions and calling people out as russian trolls, Linus did exactly what russian trolls want: cause disarray in the kernel community.
Update: I am not participating in this whole shitshow anymore. I don't retract any of my comments made, but I also probably don't want your attention. If you wa...typeblog.net
Linus didn't only call out people posting flame replies, but also folks interested in a serious discussion on that topic, who also contributed to the kernel before (see PeterCxy's blog: https://typeblog.net/55833/getting-called-paid-actor-by-linus-torvalds).
Here's what he actually said:
I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random
internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have
been riled up by them.
That's ambiguous at best.
I find it more likely that it's targetted at the greater crowd replying to that thread rather than this person specifically due to it's general tone. If Linus thinks you are full of shit, you can be that he will call you out specifically rather than wording it like this.
AFAIK we still don’t know the exact reasons for the removal, which is just intransparent.
We do: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements.
Update: I am not participating in this whole shitshow anymore. I don't retract any of my comments made, but I also probably don't want your attention. If you wa...typeblog.net
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From the little I've been reading Kent Overstreet just sounds like an incredibly arrogant developer with some talent.
It reeks of someone whose opinion of themselves exceeds their ability.
Every single time. I know how I'm supposed to read it, I know what it means and where it comes from, but I physically cannot read it any other way.
Worst name ever.
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source treewww.phoronix.com
In 2003, Hans Reiser answered questions from Slashdot's readers... Today Wikipedia describes Hans Reiser as "a computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer...news.slashdot.org
For me it's DJ Peach Cobbler. I've been watching his videos since he had around 2,000 subscribers. Now it's nearly 450,000.
He used to mostly make videos on games, now he does a lot of history stuff too. He also has a little satirical news show, and a few tasteful shitposts. A really diverse YouTube channel.
What's your favorite YouTube channel that's not a mainstream big-name like pewdiepie, mrbeast, ksi, etc...?
Purveyor of fine internet garbage. For business inquiries: djpeachcobbler@ellify.com For fan correspondence: djpcbusiness@gmail.comYouTube
Kyle the Scott. A Scottish cisman with a kinda effeminate voice who once did a dramatic shirt rip to prove he is in fact cis, in the middle of a half hour essay about why it shouldn't even matter and "transvestigations" are bullshit.
But his normal schtick is media criticism, covering franchises like Star Wars, Halo, and Assassin's Creed. They're just genuinely good reviews that aren't afraid to get into the politics where appropriate (including explicitly rejecting some of the more popular bigoted takes) but honestly feel it's about the way that particular lens affects the media, rather than being an end into itself.
This is the personal channel of Kyle Scott, I have no idea what will be put on this channel but it will be a surprise for both of us.YouTube
who once did a dramatic shirt rip to prove he is in fact cis, in the middle of a half hour essay about why it shouldn’t even matter and “transvestigations” are bullshit.
Based
I make beautiful things, then see them buried. A bit like God. x You can buy me a coffee here if you like. https://ko-fi.com/bobbyfingers Or become a Patron so i can quit my job as a Butcher and do this full time patreon.com/bobbyfingers Thanks xYouTube
Matt Brown - security researcher and bug bounty hunter
Robert Murray Smith - general mechanical engineering tinkering, lots to learn
TheCod3r - console and other electronic repairs
Wesley Kagan - builds cars but is just an overall genius and entertaining
Joe Grand - hacker, genius
There are more popular/sometimes better people and channels in each genre but I've stuck to those with under 1 million sub's. I'll assume people like Colin Furze, Ben Eater, Computerphile are already too well known for this thread
My name is Matt Brown and I'm an Hardware Security Researcher and Bug Bounty Hunter. This channel is a place where I share my knowledge and experience finding vulnerabilities in IoT systems. - Soli Deo GloriaYouTube
Chef Jean-Pierre is a James Beard Nominee Chef, TV Personality, and the Author of 3 Cookbooks with 54 years’ experience as a Professional Chef.YouTube
Blind Drunk. I know for a near fact that nobody's heard of them because they have like 2K subs, but they're good as hell. They make a drinking game out of reading trash right wing books by people like Boris Johnson, Ben Shapiro, and the dork who wrote the Turner Diaries. But despite how messy and dark things could get with that premise, it's some of the funniest, best put together and most insightful content I've ever seen on the subject of fascism and fascist psychology.
Love me some Peach Cobbler too.
Hello and welcome to our channel! Here on Blind//Drunk we read right-wing junk and get increasingly drunk! But what does that mean? Well, each episode we read a right-wing novel we've never read before, or BLIND if you will, and we get DRUNK while …YouTube
Inside China Business
Its a chauvinist doing 10min reports on China's business practices. Its mostly a guy presenting well researched information about how China is eating the us' lunch and being frustrated about it.
Combo Class is a neat math education channel where things are often on fire or falling apart in the background in a way that’s fascinating on top of the math itself
Side note, I have no idea how many subscribers counts as obscure. It seems relative to the size of the niche. Or maybe I have no idea how big people are relative to how much I care about them. Like I would expect Ben Levin (music theory and production creator) to be closer in subs to Adam Neely (same) but he’s an entire order of magnitude lower. Like is CJ The X (video essayist) obscure enough at 341K subs?
Hey, I'm Domotro. Welcome to Combo Class! Get ready to learn some crazy things about numbers, nature, language, philosophy, and more! This is the home of my main youtube series, but also check out my @Domotro channel for all of my shorts, livestream…YouTube
@PaddysBushcraft
@TheMapReadingCompany
@VideoTechExplained
Fresh from the Farm Fungi - he is a mushroom farmer from Colorado. He has a ton of valuable information on growing mushrooms and running a business. He also has a few series of videos on very interesting experiments such as growing boletus, morelles, and cordyceps.
Microbehunter - he is a biology teacher that runs a microscope channel. His videos are very useful for learning the basics of microscopy.
Huygen Optics - I'm not sure about this guy's background. He worked in R&D for Phillips in the 90s and he knows a lot about optics and chemistry, but I don't know much more. He has built some equipment in has garage for sputtering metals on surfaces and has some pretty cool videos.
MissOrchidGirl - she is more popular than the others. She has great info about caring for orchids and a fantastic orchid collection.
Ben Felix - he is a portfolio manager with very solid financial advice. He supports his claims with research articles.
Premium Gourmet Mushroom Farm located in Denver, Colorado 📕 👨🏫📕 “Growing Gourmet Mushrooms for Market” EBOOK: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1189456792/growing-gourmet-mushrooms-for-market 🍄🍄🍄HOME: http://freshfromthefarmfungi.YouTube
CGP Grey kicked me off on this intense obsession with getting rid of First Past The Post voting, but he has many other very well made videos. Cannot recommend him enough.
Notable runners up:
Steve1989MRE (let's get this channel out on the tray)
JoergeSprave ("welcome to the slingshot channel" evil genius laughing)
Campingwithsteve (for info on how to be homeless more effectively)
DuskTillShawn
Does mostly just kinda essay like videos going over cartoon episodes (or even whole characters in the case of Hey Arnold!). Seemingly just nickelodeon right now, though there are others like a CtCD video.
Don't feel as out of place sharing a 159k sub channel when OP brings up a nearly 450k channel.
Also, this post motivated me to look through my subs and found a couple I unsubbed to and found some shocking things like some channels last videos were more recent than I thought. Also keeping myself away from going on a nostalgia trip of over a decade ago.
Vindsvept, fantasy music
https://youtu.be/ZDokgvuuS7E
Also I didn't think it was a small channel but apparently he only has just over 1m subs: Karl Jobst, he mostly covers video game speedrunning achievements and cheating
https://youtu.be/AFrQ1_2bbsI
https://youtube.com/@FishingHistoricPlaces - Brief visits to places, mostly in New England, with interesting historic and natural history info. Rarely any fishing.
https://youtube.com/@EarlyMusicinadifferentway - talented multi-instrumentalist and composer playing early music and his own compositions and improvisations in an early music style. Interesting videos too.
Fishing and History come together as we explore the Northeast trying to catch FISH and discover the HISTORY behind and around the places where we are doing it.YouTube
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You hated Discovery because it was too woke.
I hated Discovery because it wasn’t woke enough.
We are not the same.