I’m curious to see how they will handle immutability and what will it set apart from other distros like fedora atomic.

Most immutable distros have limitations on installing CLI tools because they are designed to have flatpak as the main package manager. It’d be cool if they had some tricks for installing software in the user/data partition like you can do with homebrew in bazzite, but better integrated into the system package manager (I’m imagining a gentoo prefix integrated into a unified package manager)

IMHO the power of gentoo is the customization, not the optimizations you can do when compiling. You can change the dependencies and config of software to get exactly what you want instead of a config somebody else has chosen for you.

I used Sabayon back in the days for a few years and you are expected to accept the defaults for most packages and use it as a mostly binary distro, but you also have the option to use emerge(gentoo’s package manager) to customize only some packages via USE flags. It was working quite well as far as I remember.

It might be nice to use in some very specific cases (e.g. addition-operation is a binary-operation AST node which is an AST node).

In most of the cases it just creates noise though, and you can usually do something different anyway to implement the same feature. For example in rust, just use enums and list all the possible cases and it’s even nicer to use than inheritance.

And dependency injection!

Every class needs to use DI for calling other classes, even though we’ll have anyway just a single implementation for all of them, and we won’t be using this flexibility at all (not even for tests where it might be useful for mocking dependencies).

Oh wow I was not aware of the drama behind Bazzite.

Years ago I installed manjaro and I want to rebuild the system soon, I use that computer for gaming so Bazzite seemed the most suited to that, but when I tried it in a VM it gave me the feeling of being unpolished compared to Kinoite (the documentation of how to use fedora silverblue is excellent, and bazzite deviates quite a bit from that and adds a lot of custom tools and utilities).

I think I’ll go with Kinoite after reading this, hoping that it works relatively well on nvidia…

I looked at some examples of what it generates, and it has some of the same problems of AI video: disfigured human crowds and it “forgets” the environment you are in, which sometimes results in the room around you changing from when you looked last time (in addition to these “games” being basically walking simulators without any interactivity or animations). This for now makes very boring “games” where nothing really matters because there’s no object persistency, and I don’t see how they are going to solve this issue because it looks like an inherent flaw of current AI technology (managing context windows is challanging also for LLMs).

IMHO this can be used at best a rendering technology, or to make a photo become explorable in 3d (with some made-up parts), but not games.

In case you want to also have a look at more than the cherry-picked examples posted by google, i found this video that has no commentary (not made by me - I hope it’s ok by the rules to post youtube links?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTWCx8UPlI

I use a raspberry pi 3b for running home assistant. even though it’s not officially supported it runs quite well for my uses.

In the past when I had a public ip I had it run a small personal website and a wireguard vpn server to allow me to always ssh into my desktop at home (it was joining the vpn-connected device into the LAN, to the point where it was even getting the IP from my router’s DHCP server…).

The solutions in the other comments (lutris, heroic, … ) are better, but if you get stuck a bad but easy solution is to install the epic launcher as a “non-steam game” in steam…

Download the epic launcher installer, add it to steam, force it to use proton as compatibility layer (in the game properties) and install it. After the install is complete you have to find where on your filesystem the launcher exe got installed (it’s in a special wine prefix managed by steam). Change the path in steam to point to it instead of the launcher. Now you can launch the epic launcher in steam and play all of the games you have there using the steam-managed proton. You can use this trick to also install and run windows software that are not games.

Note that the name you give to the “game” in steam will be broadcasted to your friends, so they will see you playing “epic game launcher”

I think you got a bit confused… FEX is used in the steam frame (VR headset) because it uses an ARM processor to save battery. The steam machine uses a normal x64 CPU and appears to be using some relatively standard pc hardware, so no compatibility layers are needed for windows (only drivers are needed) I doubt you’ll be able to install windows on the steam frame though, for the reason you say (arm compatibility is a mess).

If it changed the frequency of crashes depending on the usb port it’s connected to it might be struggling with the power supply. If you have some external, powered USB hub or a docking station you can try to connect it there and it might fully solve the issue.

The worst is when you get promoted, and people start to recognize you as an expert. At that point you realize how everybody is sort of winging it, including the people in all other professions that you’d really prefer not to (doctors, pilots, politicians …).

If you have some malicious code running on your computer, you have already lost. Nothing stops it from impersonating another app and asking the permissions to see your screen, accessing local secrets from the files or doing who knows what.

You can still download a tar file with an static executable inside, and double clicking that exe will happily run it unsandboxed, and it’ll be able to do whatever with your secrets or files of other apps, unlike firefox, which is not able to share your screen easily. If you get a really malicious app, it could probably also exploit debugging tools to inject itself into the memory of processes that do have the permission to access the screen without asking…

Preventing apps from accessing what you see on screen or sending keypresses, or stealing your focus, is not going to protect you against anything, but it’s just going to make it impossible to use legacy tools, autohotkey-equivalents (look up how to send a key programmatically to a wayland app… wayland provides no interface for that. You have to create virtual evdev devices and run your app with root permissions…) or making it clunky to have a calendar appointment notification pop up right in front of the screen (grand theft focus luckily fixes that on gnome…).

Performance on 3d games is also much better on X for me.

Interestingly enough, in Denmark most of the MEPs came out against chat control. The only party in favour of it is the socialdemocrats (generally the biggest party). Given that 1% of danish voters signed the petition against chat control, it’s not looking great for them.

Also many other politicians of other countries did not express an opinion at all, which makes informed voting difficult to do. When voting do read the political manifestos (most parties publish one) and do look into what you are voting for! Don’t just blindly go with gut feeling!

I really don’t get all this attention to focus prevention. I personally can’t remember the last time I had a window popping up without it being something I want and expect. IMHO It looks like a theorethical attack vector (steal focus right when typing a password), but in practice I’ve never heard of it happening, not even on windows were focus stealing is fully allowed and expected.

If I had any app stealing focus randomly, the app would be nuked out of existance in no time.

I did experience though focus stealing prevention breaking apps (for example the open folder dialog in vscode not appearing in the front). It also breaks some interruptions that I really really want, like the evolution calendar notification window popping up on top of everything telling me I really should be in a meeting right now (and no, a slowly fading notification on the corner of the second screen I’m not looking at right now won’t work)

A big thank you to the authot of grand theft focus for bringing a bit of sanity back.

It might be something that is pretty different than what you are looking for, but for interactivity it might be funnier and less repetitive if you demonstrate some sort of bucket/radix sort to not have comparisons at all “choose which buket this number should go into”

Maybe also mergesort would be fun to simulate. You can split the array as usual and then ask the user to pick which number should go next from the two lists.

The problem with the “it’ll go away at some point” is that the “at some point” might be much longer than what a few years.

This period feels to me like some “calm before the storm” or a “slow motion car crash”. We have AI possibly disrupting a lot of the service economy, while automation is slowly eating away the manual workers jobs, possibly resulting in mass unemployment. People are really fed up with politics and electing more and more nationalistic/extremist politicians because they don’t feel represented. The economical crysis and this dissatisfaction is an environment very similar to when hitler got elected. Last time we had millions of people dying and europe being destroyed, what will it take today to remove a dictatorship in the biggest military spender of the world? Who is going to save the US if it slides into dictatorship?

For fstab editing, try running “mount <path>” and check if it succeeds before rebooting, so you can still edit if there are mistakes. FYI if you do a sytax mistake in fstab the entire OS might fail to boot. If it happens don’t panic, it’s easy to fix: you can use the install usb drive to edit fstab on your disk and try again (no need to reinstall!)

There are also graphical tools. I never used them, but it might be easier if you are not feeling super sure on what to do: https://superuser.com/questions/346606/is-there-any-gui-tool-to-configure-etc-fstab

I also use steam to manage external launchers. It’s a bit clunky, but it keeps proton updated and works quite well once it’s set up.

Welcome to linux, and do ask around for help / tips if you need!

Pyanodon changes factorio so much. The byproducts are a big issue, and you need to get in the mentality that often it’s fine to burn up items just to avoid the logistical nightmare. The biggest change for me is how expensive infrastructure is. You often need buildings that eat up 10 minutes of production just in materials. Scaling up is a challenge also because of how huge he buildings are (both a blessing and a curse) and how expensive everything is. Even conveyor belts are expensive at the beginning.

I played py hard mode until py science 1, then later on I started what was supposed to be an easier playthrough in pyblock, but i still stopped with a few parts missing for logistical science.

I still consider it one of the best mods out there (it’s really well balanced), but you should start playing it only with a “I will not finish it” mentality, since it’s thousands of hours long.

There are some surviving national circuits like PagoBancomat (as the sibling comment from Scrollone) and Dankort (Denmark) and girocard (Germany). My personal impression is that they are slowly going out of fashion in favor of visa/mastercard only (probably because they can’t offer better prices than them).

I don’t see a solution to the duopoly, apart from lobbying politicians to support this national payment infrastructure. Especially in recent times I can also see how some governments might not want to rely entirely on two US companies for running their entire economy, so something might move on that side, so there’s hope on that side.

The EU has already been moving on this front in the last years by forcing the banks to provide programming interfaces to initiate bank payments, and that’s why you can now see more and more options to “pay by bank” online in EU. These online payments generally skip card circuits and run over normal SEPA bank transfers.

More info here on the last part: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive

Depending on how much customization you have done, it might be easier and safer to just install the OS from scratch to the new disk. You’ll also end up in a much more “clean” state afterwards.

• Your program settings, browser favorites, etc should all be stored in /home/<user>
• Your system settings are generally stored in /etc

I would take a backup of the whole system (important!), then take a second copy of only these two folders (save all the permissions and ownership info, and also use sudo to access all the files in /etc !). After you have saved everything, wipe both disks, set them up like you want and reinstall all the software you need. Finally you can restore from these two folders.

You will not want to restore everything in /etc, just the files you have manually/indirectly edited, and also you will need to preserve the correct file permissions, so be careful on what you do there. Some files like /etc/fstab hold the information on how your disks are mounted, so you really don’t want to restore those (same for /etc/passwd, systemd units, and many others). Basically restore selectively only what you need, or reconfigure the software again and just restore your /home

It shouldn’t take as much time as it sounds, because most of the settings should be in your home folder, and you can reinstall all the software pretty quickly when you need them. You also won’t have to fight all the problems if you end up with a weird/incomplete setup when moving the root.