gnuplusmatt

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gnuplusmatt ,

I always prided myself on driving a manual, never bothered paying for an auto. Then I bought and EV and dont even have a transmission any more

gnuplusmatt ,

terminal does support a bunch of different shells, including cmd

gnuplusmatt ,

If they dont use wine, they'll sell you a subscription to a cloud machine running legacy Windows to run your legacy apps in. They already have this product Windows cloud pc is a thing

gnuplusmatt ,

Why is the headline so incredulous of the literal developer who authored the patches?

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risk of being eaten

yeah they were

gnuplusmatt ,

I’ve heard that Bazzite can be a little more locked down

No this is generally put out there by people that don't understand the workflow of an atomic distro. Yes the file system directories are generally readonly. You can still layer packages, or use flatpaks and sysexts to add software or install things in a container. There is nothing much that can't be achieved in an atomic/immutable distro, its just a different workflow. If you want something unbreakable an atomic distro is the way to go

We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human ( www.windowscentral.com )

The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

gnuplusmatt ,

odds are pretty good these days, and if you're worried dont switch now, but next time you buy hardware buy it with the intention that you may switch and opt for some Linux friendly hardware, which is pretty simple - avoid nvidia and realtek (avoid realtek on windows too if I'm being honest), make sure things are compatible with standards.

gnuplusmatt ,

waydroid wont pass widevine beyond Level 3 which limits you to 720p, same as using firefox or chrome on desktop

HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification for open-source (Linux): according to AMD, they had submitted a functional, HDMI 2.1-compatible driver [for linux?], which the Forum rejected. ( www.heise.de )

I do not really have a body for this. I was not aware that this is a thing and still feel like this is bs, but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum's decision that I am missing.

gnuplusmatt ,

displayport is starting to appear on some higher end tvs

gnuplusmatt ,

are USB-C ports that do display using displayport standards to do it anyway?

gnuplusmatt ,

why the hell aren't people running this shit in isolated containers?

gnuplusmatt ,

can I just throw it on my mortgage?

gnuplusmatt ,

create problem, offer to fix problem if you pay... seems kind of like extortion, or in the very least abuse of monopoly powers

gnuplusmatt ,

Have you used windows recently? Microsoft doesnt bother implementing anything, the last 30% of the product is controlled by pwsh cmdlets. I spend just as much time in the terminal on Windows as I do on Linux

gnuplusmatt ,

I honestly dont know what would drive a Windows refugee to choose such a niche and likely unable to support them distro.

gnuplusmatt ,

I get the impression a lot of people think that framework are a lot bigger than they actually are, in reality they are not much more than a start up

gnuplusmatt ,

I'm not sure why google is over engineering this, proper mainline distros have this solved since forever. Let the community setup trusted repos with gpg keys, then let me trust the repos. If Fdroid trusts the package and I trust Fdroid, who should care?

gnuplusmatt ,

don't stream, download your porn from usenet like a civilised person

gnuplusmatt ,

Here in Australia, they are almost gone. Disney doesn't release anymore and other studios only release the biggest of titles, smaller movies get less and less releases. Some TV shows only get DVD. Its got me importing discs for things I really want and importing a lot of stuff from the high seas

gnuplusmatt ,

Funny BYD is the battery OEM on heaps of non-chinese EVs. If you saw for example a Mercedes EV in traffic today, it likely had a BYD battery. They've been doing battery tech for literal decades. Their blade battery system is one of the safest and efficient ones on the market.

gnuplusmatt OP ,

I've never had issues with Discover on Fedora KDE and then even when I moved to Kinoite. I didnt have any issues using it on my Bazzite machine. I wanted it back, I also wanted to see if it was something I could do with a SysExt, which as I said is something I'm excited about, as I have started using them to add stuff on my Kinoite work machine.

It doesn't take Bazaar away, it just puts the items back for anyone who wants it. Spoiled for choice

gnuplusmatt OP ,

I thought so, and its not something Ublue has started using yet to my knowledge - there's some good potential that a lot of stuff they add could just become a set of extensions you can plug in like Lego bricks

gnuplusmatt ,

The removal of KDE Discover has me considering going back to plain Kinoite on my HTPC. I figure I can build a sysext with the handful of bazzite bits I actually use and keep the unbutchered plasma experience

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I couldnt see one - I also dont want to layer it, because it will pull in a couple of hundred megs of kde dependencies every time you update. I tried doing it as a sysext (myrepo) but it keeps segfaulting and I havent worked out the issue

gnuplusmatt , (edited )

the ublue project / bazzite decided to make their own flatpak first app store called Bazaar. Fair enough its their distro. However they created it with GTK4/Adwaita libraries, so its a Gnome native app and looks completely ugly on a KDE Plasma desktop. Also as a flatpak first app store it doesn't update anything else on your machine like what discover is capable of (cant update ostree, knew stuff etc). This means you have to use the ujust terminal app to access updates, which I dont agree with.

I think technically you could layer it back in with rpm-ostree install kdediscover - however this pulls back a couple of hundred meg of plasma dependencies, which if you're not aware, when you update your system would be redownloaded and reinstalled with each new ostree snapshot, slowing down the update process even further. I I tried doing it as a sysext (myrepo) but it keeps segfaulting and I havent worked out the issue edit: I have fixed the segfault issue and readded the ostree backend. Sysexts are new experienmental alternative to package layering which hold a lot of potential (check out tim ravier's development of them here https://travier.github.io/fedora-sysexts/)

gnuplusmatt , (edited )

I also said ublue is free to do what they want, why are you attacking me for suggesting I want to put something back the way it was? I never asked for your attention, I'm not pestering the developers about it, instead I attempted to author a fix for anyone who also is not a fan of the change.

Yes, I dont like a core system tool not being part of my desktop, I dont want my updates to fire via a timer, and I have updated my ostree via discover on my bazzite box. I understand a lot of your target audience does want those things, an appliance type experience - I even suggested 2 posts up that perhaps bazzite was no longer for me as the target audience.

I appologise for drawing your ire

edit: FYI I'm not some bad faith poster, having defended bazaar - Also my particular bazzite box has been rebased between Fedora and Aurora, probably accumulated some artifacts in the process, which may explain why my discover had not been previously hobbled. Have a good night

gnuplusmatt ,

Yes I use Kinoite as my work machine and I've used Tim Ravier's sysext repo for adding libvirtd, distrobox, wireshark and vscode to that machine. I also authored my own that adds nmap, iperf, telnet, screen and a few other command line tools I make use of at work. I find this easier than juggling toolboxes for it

gnuplusmatt ,

you don't need my permission mate, I honestly don't know why I have earned your derision??

gnuplusmatt ,

they know they can fork it and compile their own build for free right?

gnuplusmatt ,

I was being facetious

gnuplusmatt ,

I wasn't trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time

gnuplusmatt ,

my friend and I used to use net send to message each other on the school network (this is back in the 90s), then someone worked out you could send to all PCs on the network, sysadmins were not happy

I've worked IT in schools and the hoops kids have to jump through to do similar stuff on our networks is so much harder

gnuplusmatt ,

Its the small window where Debian is relatively modern, in a couple of months it'll be stale again.

gnuplusmatt ,

are you archiving it until the patents expire? I use AV1 because of the license

gnuplusmatt ,

see what they need to mimick a fraction of our power?

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not sure if you're aware thats a real thing https://www.ipv10.net/

gnuplusmatt , (edited )

you could assign every square meter of the planet an ip and use it for location, and still have addresses left over

gnuplusmatt ,

Firefox

gnuplusmatt ,

I mean I still use the iso attached to a virtual cd-rom to create virtual machines

gnuplusmatt ,

what's wrong with conduit proper?

Anyone have trouble with their Beelink?

I got this Beelink mini pc from Amazon planning to hook it up to my living room TV and play movies and stream TV with. And I was shocked and amazed to discover that this little thing could run games like Hi-Fi Rush and MGSV:PP on max settings! Sure the fans made it sound like a small jet engine, but it never skipped frames or...

gnuplusmatt ,

what exactly got nixed? Its all right there on the sys tray with a handy slider

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/8e723002-49a5-4f29-81cf-2aa1cba90da6.png

gnuplusmatt ,

as a non-american, no one really wants to go there at the moment anyway

gnuplusmatt ,

Thincast on flathub?

Krdc is pretty good too

gnuplusmatt ,

The fact that Waterfox is owned by Advertising Company System1, doesn't bother you?

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the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output

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The way they promoted PulseAudio, SystemD, Gnome 3, now Wayland. All that.

I agree Gnome 3+ is bad, but we do need modern components and honestly when the next biggest player in these things in Canonical with there NIH / throw it over the fence and like it attitude, I know which I'd prefer. Especially when these components truly are upstream projects, and they do indeed take community contributions.

almost no development of Xorg, but they don’t surrender the control of the project to someone who’d want to.

Yeah the xorg thing is shit for those that feel they still need it, but no one else really had the resources to maintain it. Its critical infrstructure, they can't just hand it off until they're done with it (RH10). Xlibre is happening by one of the biggest community contributors, but honestly it'll end up like KwinFT.

gnuplusmatt ,

Its not like they're blocking all contributions, if it was more than niche, they wouldnt ignore the needs of other big players. I'm not fully across it, but the BSDs still make more use of xorg and maintain their own trees IIRC.

I really only saw headlines about Xlibre, hadnt followed up on it