I think I have to say this. Please don't harass, bully or pester dylanaraps or otherwise spam the neofetch repository with Amogus memes. Dylan has confirmed the reason for removal was the braille and a pull request is already pending that redraws it with ASCII.

If you want to help get AmogOS back into neofetch, please contribute to this repository.

here: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/antonioguillem?searchterm=disloyal+man&search_source=base_gallery

Found it on this blog over google image search: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/distracted-boyfriend?utm_term=.slzppypJr4#.svJPPLP1ex

What you're referring to as SystemD, is in fact systemd, not SystemD, systemD, SyStEmD, or any other variation. It is stated on https://systemd.io that the only official names are "systemd" (all lowercase even on the beginning of a sentence), or "systém D" on high holidays (whatever that means)

The use case many people have for TeamViewer is that they can help non technical friends/relatives with their computer problems over the phone. The most important feature is for those non technical people to be able to allow remote control as easily as possible. i.e. just download and run an executable, tell me the code it displays and be done with it. It's unreasonable to have them set up a VNC server on their computer by themselves, including opening ports, telling you their IP address, making sure the VNC session is actually encrypted, and this is all ignoring some convenience features (file transfer, audio, multiple monitors, etc.) that solutions like TeamViewer have.

That said I'm planning to set up a Remotely instance one day which will hopefully prove good enough for my basic tech support needs to fully ditch TeamViewer.

It produces output. What you do with that output is up to you :)

Look up presentation templates, might see something you like.

beamer is a popular option

>You claimed you'll participate in nnn for a month

this is refering to no nut november

>while I've used nnn for years

this is referring to nnn the terminal based file manager(A.K.A n^3)

Snap is not portable, meaning that snap programs are target for vanilla ubuntu and it’s a huge hassle to get it to work on other distros. Also, snap programs don’t have to be open source and aren’t scanned for malware as well as pacman or other pkg managers and so can contain malware such as crypto miners

here's the link: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/mautrix-whatsapp

If you look down other comments in this post I've answered a few questions on this bridge.

>Only "stable" (from 2001 or before) software is included in the Debian core distribution. In Debian project parlance, the term stable means that the software is no longer under active development or widespread use and that the authors are long dead; if software is still under active development, it undergoes changes too rapidly for the Debian project to incorporate them. Due to pressure from users, obsolete versions of certain software that is still under development may be included in the unstable section, but its use is broadly discouraged, since it does not strictly adhere to the project's guidelines, sometimes including software from after the Renaissance.

(source)

What you're referring to as SystemD, is in fact systemd, not SystemD, systemD, SyStEmD, or any other variation. It is stated on https://systemd.io that the only official names are "systemd" (all lowercase even on the beginning of a sentence), or "systém D" on high holidays (whatever that means)

Plenty of those on sites like Amazon, eBay, proshop, aliexpress, etc.
nothing too crazy about them.

Link for a Pi 3B+, there's also some for the Pi 2 and 4.

https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-320x480-Monitor-Raspbian-RetroPie/dp/B07N38B86S

They "bridge" matrix chat to other services, such as Whatsapp, facebook messenger, instagram, IRC, etc... So you can chat with your friends that use those apps, without actually having them.

Here some more info

Why not Mullvad as VPN? They give you a random ID and then you just send a letter, I mean... offline, via postal service, with a paper you have written that ID on and a 5€ note, and get a month VPN in return...

Sounds more private to me than the VPN that throws ads everywhere and into every Youtube video ever, and even convinces content creator to talk about it, while they ask for your name and your banking details...

Also... I dunno if VPN really is that great. Basically you just decide to share your entire browsing history with someone else than your ISP. I don't think that's more private... I mean, your ISP probably doesn't even care. Like, I worked at UPC Austria and when we got a letter from a company about piracy we just threw it away. As long no court asks the ISP to give away user data they don't give away user data. At least in my country...

>Mac OS is just as customizable as Linux it is unix so all dotfiles from vim etc work. There is a tiling window manager yabai which isn't just a window layout like on windows or pop os but a proper tiling window manager https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai . You can make Mac OS do what you want which you cant on windows some features even work without disabling SIP.

yes I think you are correct

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/ubuntu-removes-the-amazon-web-app https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-20-04-lts-drops-amazon-web-app/

"Thesedays it’s literally just a shortcut that opens a locale-specific version of the Amazon website a new browser tab (with Canonical’s affiliate code appended automatically so they can earn small % of sales made, giving users a passive way to support Ubuntu)."

so not that big of a deal tbf.

but I think it was more of the action of doing so and if Cononical would do this what else would be next.

I noticed nobody mentioned postmarketOS yet. If you don't know about it you should definitely check it out. It's in its beginings, but the tooling is good and the community is growing. It's just a matter of (a little bit more) time.

> If you want to greatly reduce cheating, the server needs to only provide enough information to render what's on the screen at the moment (for example, only tell the client about players that aren't behind walls, and only give the position to the nearest pixel) and should only take action requests (such as moving directions, and not absolute positions) from the user and verify that the actions are valid itself.

First this would sound like a good solid solution until you run in issues like missing packages, the ability to maybe shoot thorugh certain objects that hide a person etc. etc. etc.
Information about picked up things etc. Also it would inflate the costs for a single server and the amount of data packages that need to be send to everyone by a lot, because you can't just send 1 Package to everyone (simplifed speaking)

Most of modern Anti Cheat systems work on a combination of detecting unwanted Software (the cheat software) and validating actions.

> You can never trust that someone else's computer is running any specific software, and even if you do, users can easily have another computer interact with the first one by taking the monitor as input and emulating a keyboard and mouse.

That's why, for example, Valorant doesn't run on Virtual Machines, not even a commercial run Shadow.tech System.

“When you hear voices in your head that tell you to shoot the pope, do you do what they say? Same thing goes for customers and managers. They are the crazy voices in your head, and you need to set them right, not just blindly do what they ask for.”

— Linus Torvalds Featured in: Linus Torvalds Quotes

Damn, imagine if Terry got a hold of himself, he would have made the next Linux.

Also, Torvalds isn't autistic or borderline. It's Richard Stallman that IS autistic and borderline (and creepy).

Well, with evil-mode, you have all of Vim right within Emacs, but it's even more extensible ^[1] . And then with Spacemacs, you have all of Emacs redesigned and remapped to be Vim-like. You can even do a hybrid mode of Vim keybindings, but Emacs when in insert mode.

I guess the winner is both, together.

^([1]: Well, for one, you can create custom text-objects, but only fake them in Vim.)

How about Linux From Scratch: The distro whose installation instructions are a literal book.

Who needs an install iso when you can spend a few hours manually compiling an environment where you can start to install.

Hot take: I'm pretty glad this phenomenon happens. It weeds out the people who want to uphack the mainframe through the java html through KidPix Mathblasters in 2.5 seconds with a 12 gigabit GPU USB.

For others, myself included? It's a sobering reminder that you don't get good overnight, and you might need to... Backtrack a little bit before getting swept up by your ambitions. I was definitely using Ubuntu, and later Mint for a couple of years before trying out Backtrack, and then Kali - I can't imagine how people without any experience in Linux tried to navigate it.

That being said, I do hope Offensive Security comes out with with a Kali Novice distro that idiot-proofs it for newcomers and intro courses. https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-default-non-root-user/ I'm happy they've done this as afaik this was one of the chief criticisms of running it as a DD. While easy enough resolve with just a bit of linux understanding, you definitely can't count on a complete newcomer to the ecosystem to know what to do, let alone knowing that it's an issue in the first place.

Do you happen to have a link to that interview?

> would lead to him having to manage pull requests

This part works the same no matter what software license you use. You need to ensure that the people contributing to your software project do in fact own the copyright for the code they are submitting.

Larger projects will tend to become more bureaucratic about this. For example, the Linux kernel asks contributors to sign a developer certificate of origin.

> answering questions of developers trying to figure out licensing issues

This isn't really a problem if you stick to a popular FOSS license. But yes, this is one very good reason to use an extablished license instead of rolling your own.

> if I release some code under a GPL license, do I have to do anything?

If someone does not follow the terms of your license and therefore infringes on your copyrights then you may need to sue them to force them to comply.

> Can I just add the GPL license on my gitlab page, and have no more responsibilities?

If you just want to throw some code on the web and truly do not care about what people do with it then a permissive license might reflect your wishes.

That said, you don't really lose anything if you release code as GPL, if that more accurately represents your wishes. License-conscious users like Linux distros and big companies (Google, etc) generally do a good job of complying with the copyright notice.

It's currently v0.1. The v1.0 milestones seem to make it a more fleshed out package manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/windows-package-manager-v1-roadmap.md#v10-scenarios

> Does Claws Mail allow me to write HTML styled messages?

> No. A discussion has gone around over this topic, and the outcome was that HTML mail is not wanted. If you really need to send HTML, you can of course attach a webpage to an e-mail.

• http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/General_Information

This is a required feature for me regardless of the mental gymnastics they do to make it seem unimportant.

hahahahahaha NordVPN xD Why dont just take your PC/Smartphone, put it in a box and just send it via express to the NSA.

Everyone who falls for NordVPN's stupid misleading ads deserves to be spyed on. Fuck NordVPN.

Yes, I just posted, deleted and re-uploaded this. Got a problem with that? Blame Reddit for not allowing us to edit links.

Anyway, Su-san is actually an original character/idea I've had for a while, now.

BEHOLD! The true "best girl", as defined by the great POSIX, born of the mighty Linux kernel, ROOT HERSELF. Unrivaled by any power throughout the land of /dev/sda/ (except maybe the BIOS gods, or the dreaded sorcerer IME)... The character "Su-san" is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence, version 4.0

Name pronunciation: Either Susan (like the real name), or つさん (Tsu-san)

Hello, do you have a few minuets to talk about our lord and savior Arch Linux?

https://www.archlinux.org/download/

In a few hours you'll learn why so many Arch users are so happy!

I was once like you -- without distro. But the Arch helped me. It can help you too.

• Arch User, 15 Machines, 3 years

Debian is GNU/*, and the * is even not necessarily Linux.

BTW there is /r/debianinrandomplaces for these kinda posts (thank me later if you're also a Debian lover).

Again, gotta plug micro, it's got even better defaults (like ctrl-S to save, like literally every other app you use), syntax highlighting so you can more quickly see if you fucked something up when editing a config file, quality mouse support so you can highlight and copy and paste text just like a GUI editor, multiple cursors so you can so shit like change indents quickly, and a plugin system. All without complicating the whole ordeal, it's a nano replacement and not vim, emacs, or a complete IDE by itself.

while you are at it, don't forget about this one:

hide_edge_borders both

Saves you nice 2 px of horizontal space :)

I guess you already know about User Guide - [https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html]https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

Busybox ash is pretty good, the point was that it's like a folding bicycle - definitely kinda worse than a proper bicycle (bash), still definitely by far better than an old velocipede (/bin/sh), and also extremely lightweight and portable, being part of Busybox.

fish is represented by a scooter because it's more streamlined, easier to use and more modern than the rest, and far more powerful than the bicycles much like zsh.

xonsh is a cross-platform shell and a Python 3.4+ superset. Basically, a shell inside of Python. You can combine all the capabilities of Python with shell scripting - parse command output with Python, generate command arguments with Python, access your $PATH as a Python list and lots more. It can also source bash, zsh and cmd.exe scripts. And interactively, it's still on point, it has syntax highlighting, dropdown completions, great line editing, PS1 as a Python lambda, and rich history files. It's represented by an Aventador because of how it's a completely different animal and how ridiculously powerful it is. Here's a 30-minute talk on Xonsh and its official website.

Public key is a thing you encrypt stuff with when you want to send something encrypted. Only a person with a private key can decrypt the data. In the meme, u/VanillaWaffle_ refers specifically to the GNU Privacy Guard. More info

> hosted by someone

It's hosted by Drew DeVault, lead maintainer of sourcehut. In fact, sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut is where SourceHut's source code is hosted

Edit: fix link

Well, there might have been fast microkernels and there certainly are use cases but because of the overhead required they are inherently slower in higher performance systems.

(here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-251-262.pdf)

Well yes, but have you tried installing Steam on it? I know you might not need Steam, but as an all-rounder daily driver it should run things out of the box (at least for me).

The core of gitlab is open-source, but a lot of features are proprietary

Gitea is fully open-source (and if you don't want to self-host it, there's codeberg

AOSP is, yes (and even that is more so conceptually than practically), but not Google's or any OEM's Android, which make up more than 99% of all currently used Android systems - they're full of proprietary blobs and software.

The closest to actually usable fully open source Android is Replicant OS, and it has about a dozen of available devices, even fewer of which are actively supported.

What you're referring to as SystemD, is in fact systemd, not SystemD, systemD, SyStEmD, or any other variation. It is stated on https://systemd.io that the only official names are "systemd" (all lowercase even on the beginning of a sentence), or "systém D" on high holidays (whatever that means)

> also I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux

It's copypasta. Supposedly from Richard Stallman.

I see the chart verry misleading.

1 most people don't "pay" for windows. It is there with the laptop. Furthermore, there is a free technical support for any issues with windows.

2 On windows and on Ubuntu I can buy a lot of software. I can even pay for Ubuntu itself: https://www.ubuntu.com/pricing

This claim is misleading and utterly wrong.

3 Also ubuntu or Gnu/Linux can slowdown over time. I got a massive decrease in performance from snapd on fedora.

Most of the time slowing performance is connected to user behaviour. Tons of software is installed and most of them are in autostart.

4 What is ment with forced updates? For people who just want a PC that works they just take the updates the repository is giving them. No question asked. Sure I can say when I want to update and when not but I really does not fully get this point either.

5 I had system chrashes on gnu/Linux & win10.

6 every it system is vulnerable. Even offline systems.

7 windows and Gnu/Linux have security counter measures. I think the windows defender and brain.service and don't open office files from emails with makros should be enough.

8 a lot of opensource projects also take some time to update there packages. The distribution process ist just a lot better on the most distributions.

I think this table is utterly wrong.

That's from the live-disc installer ISOs, not the repos. The xbps package manager can handle updates even with large gaps of time in between so it's not necessary to keep cutting edge images available. Here is the packages.

https://www.alpinelinux.org/Alpine Linux. Runs in like 70mb of ram for the full install. 220mb if you want XFCE. Only problem with Alpine is just the lack of packages. Based on musl libc and busybox.

Yeah looking at it now it doesn't really look like code encoded in hex. That was just one of the files removed with the linux-libre script though: http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/5.2-gnu/deblob-5.2

This is no secret - all of the code is open source and auditable via GitHub. Please see https://lbry.com/faq/privacy-and-data for more information about what data is collected.

If you want to use LBRY more anonymously, see https://lbry.com/faq/privacy-and-data#anonymous

Have a great day!

For that, I highly suggest checking out the micro text editor, as it's basically an enhanced version of nano. Still dead simple to use, but it has better keybindings (ctrl-S to save, ctrl-Q to quit, ctrl-c and v to copy and paste, etc), it'll do multiple cursors, built in mouse support so you can just highlight and copy text as though you were using a GUI editor, it has plugin support to do syntax highlighting which is really handy for editing config files, whole kit and kaboodle. It makes for a very pleasant nano replacement.

I've been trying out neovim recently myself, and yeah it's a p steep learning curve. I do like that I don't have to shift my grip much from home row to do most stuff, but the need to tap the ESC key a bunch and the inevitable accident of finding out I'm in the wrong mode and typing a bunch of complete nonsense commands that fuck everything up, then hitting U iunno how many times to try to get back to where I was, it's just a mess. Like having to hit ESC to go back to using hjkl as arrow keys, the maybe one good bit of nvim I can really, really appreciate, it just negates the ergonomics improvement. I'd rather just use both my keyboard and mouse simultaneously to quickly and precisely select and then edit the text I want without having to stop a second to think about how I'm going to navigate my cursor wherever.

Yeah it’s meant for point to point stuff. You should look it up, there’s probably a setting in the wire guard software not config. I use it with NordVPN and it fucking rocks. Essentially zero bandwidth and latency issues

For Debian Bullseye you can find the release notes here: https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes

For Ubuntu good luck, Ubuntu's lack of documentation is one of the many reasons why it's worse than Debian.

For Bullseye, after taking all the careful steps to ensure a smooth upgrade experience, the release notes recommends the following

apt update, apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs to get the main bulk of the installation out of the way without dealing with packages being removed or replace and then apt full-upgrade. Personally I really like passing the --download-only flag to both upgrade commands before doing the first. I also really recommend using a graphical tool (or do it from CLI too, whatever) to check for obsolete packages, before purging them if necessary.

The key here is not JUST run the three commands but to read the release notes, that's what documentation is for. Debian is reliable as a rock, it's well worth taking good care of it.

>Linus chose GNU for his operating system, Linux, because of the BSD
legal disputes at the time, if it were not for the disputes, Linus
would've gone with bsd and nobody would know about GNU.

The GNU Project was started in 1983 with the intention of creating a completely free (as in freedom) operating system. In 1991, the whole system was complete except for the kernel (GNU Hurd). This is when Linus created his kernel, Linux. Since Hurd was not yet complete, people started to use GNU with Linux, making the combination now known as GNU/Linux.

If Hurd was complete in 1991, Linus would not have created Linux.

Linux is useless by itself, which is why it is usually paired with GNU. GNU is also useless without a kernel, which is why it is usually paired with Linux. As you mentioned, you can replace GNU with other collections of software, just as you can replace Linux with Hurd or different kernels (just see Debian GNU/Hurd). But calling the whole GNU/Linux system "Linux" is misleading because it makes it seem like the entire system was Linus' creation and leads users to his views (Open Source), which disregard user freedom.

They are technically not ads (not marked as such) but they cannot be called otherwise. Ever checked the start menu? I did so on my girlfriend's computer and there was a Minecraft entry (she didn't play minecraft ever) and the entry was just a link to the store app. So yeah, you can call this an ad. Same with the Facebook app which is kinda useless. There were also ads on the lock screen for those who have enabled the Spotlight feature (which as I heard, was enabled by default actually). I didn't get to see it but whatever.

The Debian netinstaller allows you to select what individual packages are installed. See here as well

I think this is a good read too: matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors. It's a statement on the topic by Matrix.org where they suggest some good alternatives.

Both of those are in that first link in my post.

http://www.penguspy.com

Linux gaming is awesome. Been gaming on Linux for the past 18 years. And people say Linux isn't for gaming. I can proof them wrong.

Actually, I switched from manjaro due to recent controversy.

But I really love Garuda Linux. It have a great theme and even don't accept donations yet. And they released the latest edition yesterday only.

So imo, Garuda linux is worth trying.

Website: https://garudalinux.org/

...or to only install precompiled binaries if your name is Google and you are making Chrome OS https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/packages/portage

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Images-in-the-terminal

With w3m-img (I installed w3m, it's terminal based web browser and changed in ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf image backend from ascii to w3m)

It's done inside of the config for i3 itself.

It's mentioned in i3 user guide: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_mouse_button_commands

See first example in section 5.4.

Basically, you can make bindings on mouse buttons inside the bar{ block itself, and binding "nop" to "button1" results in all left mouse button clicks to be discarded.

None that I know of, but it is not really that hard to do GTK stuff. The Elementary Team has a nice begginer tutorial on making GTK Applications with Vala (since they want you to make apps for their store). https://elementary.io/docs/code/getting-started#getting-started

There are also some gui designers.

If anyone does know of a better electron alternative, do tell me.

You can find some more info in a web search, but some reasons I don't love it:

• It pretends to champion free software while being proprietary itself
• It's centralized
• It requires running proprietary javascript in order to use it
• It's a single point of failure with a monopoly on some services like npm

I like Not a Bug and use it when I can to host my own projects.

It's super obscure and the joke is supposed to be more punny then anything.

Setting doc_values = true on certain eligible field types stores their index to disk rather then in heap at the cost of increased disk use and access times. Depending on your use case of those field types it can save your heap allocation at not much cost in performance.

It will be default in the future and is generally worth setting for all your not_analyzed fields (basically, fields you want to search on)

https://www.elastic.co/blog/support-in-the-wild-my-biggest-elasticsearch-problem-at-scale

There was that guy who made a itunes webapp a while ago, Lollypop is worth a try but its diff.

The sooner you cut the umbilical cord the happier you'll be though with your freedoms

Edit: Or idk maybe this

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/apple-music-linux

Geany (Markdown plugin, IDE, Simple layout) checkout haroopad brilliant Markdown editor.

Debian's FAQ mentions a couple examples. Basically, (GNU/)Linux was pretty early on compatible with all the relevant specs in practice (and in theory probably still is), but it was absurdly expensive to validate, and not nearly enough people cared about such a thing for that expense to be worthwhile.

Too much of GNU/Linux copypasta here and I don't see a serious comment just directly stating it, and I like being serious in response to memes: Linux is just a kernel, not an operating system, either.

Much like MacOS is built ontop of Darwin and Windows is built ontop of NT (with older versions of Windows being built ontop of MS-DOS), there are OSs that are built ontop of Linux.

Just to reiterate the point: consider Debian GNU/kFreeBSD - a project made by Debian devs at one point where they took Debian, and ported it from Linux kernel to FreeBSD kernel: https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

I mean sure, it's a bit different, but it's still more or less Debian - the same OS - over a different kernel.

This was a test.

I've followed this guide somewhat:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-ansible-and-tinc-vpn-to-secure-your-server-infrastructure

and used a git repo from that which had a configuration in place to install tinc vpn on a number of hosts I have specified.

I've successfully tested this then just wanted to get rid off these virtual servers at digitalocean.

The first command on the picture sends a suicide command to a server group called vpn in a config file, to erase all files on the servers.

The second one acts like a surprised help desk staff trying to ping the "production" vpn group, but gets no answer.

This is honestly a good idea, but only if you're sure about how temporary the thing is. (Pretty sure most distros these days use tmpfs for /tmp, meaning nothing written there ever goes to disk and it gets "auto-cleaned" on reboot.)

Late to respond, but:

Not shipping drivers that work out of the box in some way, shape, or form is definitely a problem. I'm pretty surprised. Especially given that Ubuntu isn't opposed to bundling and easily installing other proprietary drivers, like for WiFi.

Firefox as a snap is surprising to me too, but it sounds like that wasn't Canonical's choice so much as Mozilla's. Hearing this made me more frustrated than I expected, which makes me realize I was probably being too dismissive about chromium (since I rarely use it). That said, I really haven't noticed the sluggishness everyone complains about. My only real complaint would be that Firefox doesn't always handle updates well while it's running, and this sounds like it will address that.

I do agree with you that flatpak seems to be the better solution, and it's really unfortunate that there's competing standards. But I'll ultimately count any of them as a win if they bring more mainstream software to Linux.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/09/ubuntu-makes-firefox-snap-default

and scroll down till you see "Apparently it was Mozilla's decision"

It's in the Steam client beta, go to Steam Play under settings and check "enable steam play for supported titles" and "enable steam play for all titles."

It's not just wine, it's got DXVK and some special modifications to make it work with SteamVR and the Steam API.

Also, you clearly didn't look very hard. Its github repo is the fifth result.

I get where you're coming from; i have worked in tech for years and understand company motives. I also get roped into free tech support by friends and families that are not very computer literate. but there is also a big difference between being user-friendly and being a watch-dog. I guess that like so many other things, it comes down to fundamental philosophical beliefs and as such there will always be differences of opinion.

I tend to subscribe to the notion of individual responsibility. I have seen lots of software projects debate their own roles in user security. I recall a similar debate in the OpenMW dev community some time back around whether LUA plugins should allow any script the user wants to run vs running in a sandbox and only allowing scripts that use a subset of LUA functionality. I think both sides have valid arguments but ultimately, I think the user has some responsibility too and feel that at the end of the day our job in the role of programmers/companies/trusted tech advisors is to try to guide them as best as we can but never to force them. to do otherwise is to pretend that they don't have any responsibility and try to take on their responsibility as our own. Thinking about the precedent and what kind of expectations accepting their responsibility ultimately leads to is very bleak for developers.

I think it's still under active development. Though I remember reading something like what you thought, as well, about the project being abandoned...

Maybe it was some other AUR helper we're thinking of, or there was a decision to discontinue it but it was reversed?

Latest commit was 17 hours ago

Oh, didn't know that hotspots don't work. Thanks for letting me know, I was planning on doing my presentations with a Chromecast in a hotspot, guess that won't work then :)

I found this, but haven't tried it yet. Did you try to get the reader working/have you spent a lot of time researching? I looked a bit but then just ignored it as i don't use the reader (yet).

This tool should enable the reader (you have to enable it and do some hand shaking and encryption stuff before it even shows up anywhere) and then Linux may be able to use it. Like said, didn't try yet, but you can give it a try if you didn't already :)

I am a bit worried about its future since Budgie was merged under Solus and departure of the guy who was the heart of Solus. The current team seems absolutely competent (u/JoshStrobl) and I wish them well and I cheer for Budgie 100%... but I am worried it will affect the development since Solus (and Budgie) very much hangs on a couple of guys.

I'd heard that it was short for "data/disk duplicator", but wikipedia says that's all wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)#History

> The name dd is an allusion to the DD statement found in IBM's Job Control Language (JCL),[3][4] in which is an abbreviation for "Data Definition".[5]

TIL

For those wondering: yes it is real at the time of writing this comment. Original link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

I checked the French version of the page as well, and the translators corrected it to "ransomware protection", though.

Yeah, but Synapse is the only stable server and the only one that supports all features like voicechat. From the Ruma README:

>Ruma is currently pre-alpha and cannot realistically be used from a standard Matrix client, but it's getting closer every week!

But I've just looked into the Matrix blog right now and what I described appears to be a regression in the federation code, which they released a fix for yesterday

OpenOffice and other stuff might work (depending on the PDFs' fanciness), but I don't really edit imported ones; I just make and export them with OpenOffice or ShareLaTeX.

Never trust Google in any way.

If YouTube is your life (that Google destroys on its own) make a new email on a trustworthy provider, that maybe charges some money (like mailbox.org where I am for 1€ per month) but doesn't spy on you. Change the email of your YouTube channel if they still allow that and be done with it.

Still doesn't make sense that they demand a second phone number, has anyone more information about that and can enlighten me?

If you are a networking enthusiast, take a look at this one: https://www.amazon.com/GXFC-ZHAO-Non-Slip-Personalized-127-0-0-1/dp/B07XQSH4TW/ref=sr\_1\_2?keywords=Theres+No+Place+Like+127.0.0.1+Doormat&qid=1662721077&sr=8-2

Worth mentioning that some free VPNs do not log, but you have to be careful about it because many do. Windscribe is free, allows torrenting, and keeps zero logs other than data usage. They have a transparency report page as well, which I haven't seen from others. ProtonVPN is another notable one that I've also never had issues with regarding such. I haven't heard of either disclosing any information about their users which resulted in the identification of said users. They can legally be requested to provide that information, but they claim not to have any, and have not provided any from what I've found.

Fair disclaimer, I have no affiliation with either of them (or any other VPN company) and that's just based on my own experiences with them.

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I fall between Tech Conservative and Newborn Paranoid. I think Matrix rocks, but none of my friends will switch to using it. While I do still dual-boot Linux and Windows, it's getting rarer and rarer for me to touch my Windows drive, except to grab files from it while booted into my personal favorite distro, EndeavourOS. Even while in Windows, I use O&O Shutup 10 to disable Windows telemetry features. I also have a ton of Microsoft telemetry domains blocked on my Pi-Hole, just to be sure. I occasionally browse using TOR, but it's been rarer for me to do that recently due to the DoS attack against the TOR network. I have a Tails VM, but I don't really need it. I use a VPN on occasion, but not constantly, due to a slow connection(I went with PrivateVPN over ExpressVPN because their Linux software didn't work). I use Signal for texting(even though no one else does). I keep meaning to root my phone and put MicroG on it, but I still haven't done that. Honestly just scared to brick my device. I've had multiple visits to , and have used many of their suggested apps, such as Freetube. And my web browser is Brave.

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They hopefully don't make them anymore, but Here is an example on Amazon. They were called HP Stream, and were basically bottom of the barrel Chromebooks that they installed windows 10 on for some reason.

> Meanwhile, in 2022, my laptop sits on my desk with a single USB-C plugged into it which charges, runs gigabit Ethernet, runs my display, and runs my keyboard and mouse all at the same time.

>My laptop sits on my desk

What if you aren't in that one specific location? We had docking stations in 1995 if you wanted to attach your laptop to a preattached collection of ports and make it a desktop. I have a couple, they're useful. But they aren't a replacement for actually having I/O on the machine when you need it.

Also >!you could do that shit with USB-A ex.!<

>Lmao yeah and a TN panel 1366x768 screen.

2560x1600 IPS actually, and with smaller bezels than your yoga, and with a 7-row keyboard. Remember that lively modding community I mentioned? I also have a toollessly hotswappable nvme drive for my three-SSD setup without even using the ultrabay adapter and 15 cells of battery.

>!As an aside, yes I'd rather have 1366x768 than 4k, I've tried ppi that high and the scaling is too much of a hassle.!<

It depends, there are some open source VPNs, like Mullvad VPN, which are much more trustworthy than NordVPN (recently updated their policy to allow for court orders), or ExpressVPN/IPA (both owned by an ad company).

A VPN is the best bet for protecting your IP address, if all the tor nodes are compromised.

There's also very nice sliders you can buy. That way you laptop doesn't look like crap, but also you can still use your webcam if you actually need it during a meeting. Honestly looks like it belongs even on my laptop as the color perfectly integrates with the laptop frame.

Stuff like this (not the one I've got, but similar):

https://www.amazon.com/Yilador-Computer-MacBook-Notebook-Surface/dp/B07TBG7WM9/ref=sr\_1\_3?keywords=webcam+cover&amp;qid=1653295901&amp;sr=8-3

i am looking for feedback on my android game. it is a similar concept to super mario world.

give it a try! link here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.andromo.dev874247.app996793&amp;hl=en_AU

Yeah, instead of giving your internet traffic to your ISP, you now pay NordVPN so that they can resell it.

VPNs can somewhat help with privacy (though it's pretty minimal), but for that you have to pick one that actually respects your privacy: Mullvad or ProtonVPN, for instance.

>Protonmail - They give out your contents to authorities so really just marketing. Still, use them though.

ProtonMail is actually very open about the fact that they legally have to hand over the data when demanded, and what data they handover

>We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was recently arrested by French police on criminal charges. We are also deeply concerned about this case and deplore that the legal tools for serious crimes are being used in this way. In the interest of transparency, we would like to provide additional context. 

>As detailed in our transparency report, our published threat model, and also our privacy policy, under Swiss law, Proton can be forced to collect information on accounts belonging to users under Swiss criminal investigation.

>1. Under no circumstances can our encryption be bypassed, meaning emails, attachments, calendars, files, etc. cannot be compromised by legal orders.

>6. Under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to log user data. 7. Due to Proton’s strict privacy, we do not know the identity of our users, and at no point were we aware that the targeted users were climate activists.

>This case shows that ProtonMail works as it is designed to. The identity and location of the activist was already known to the French authorities (they had already been evicted once before for squatting, and the nature of squatting means that their location is known). Therefore, the authorities were most likely targeting email contents which might have provided further incriminating evidence. The fact that ProtonMail was not able to hand over any messages even under legal order proves that our encryption works, and very likely will be of great assistance to the activist in this case.

Thinking of upgrading my generic gaming laptop (Dell i5 5577 gaming) with an Asus Zenbook Pro Duo . Thoughts?

> they don't offer a search function when you want to change individual icons, which is quite annoying.

Here you go. It's not FOSS but gets the job done and works with almost every launcher and icon pack I've ever used.

Games which use those fancy anticheats are some GaYM3R!11!1!! stuff like apex legends, warzone and other kiddo games.

Again which apps are windows only? Forgot to mention there's proton, and for lazy ppl lutris instead of wine

https://www.darlinghq.org/ use this to launch mac apps on linux.

If it's more complex problems, you might need to wait for some guys from windows development team, cuz only they know how does that specific thing work, on linux everyone can know, some basic problems are solvable on linux and windows but linux community's better.

On most modern distros u don't gotta know how to use that. Take pop os as an example, there is a gtk app for installing apps, it's kinda stable (yeah there's broken packages as steam once was but u can still download debian packets online.)

Sorry for bad formatting im lazy af

Alpine uses BusyBox instead of GNU, and is compiled with a different compiler than gcc. It proves that there can be a distro with some level of popularity that does not rely on GNU. Linux still is the kernel, but it isn't super glued to a set of system utilities such as GNU.

The biggest problem with installing i3 manually is that you won't get that handy conky with keyboard shortcut hints. You probably want to look into installing some distro, where i3 is supported - but you can use a VM.

Now, if you do end up doing it manually, remember, that i3 is just WM. By default it will log in to blackscreen without anything but a text bar (assuming you even installed i3-bar), which may or may not be partially broken depending on your system specs.

The most important thing is CTRL+D. it opens dmenu and that allows you to access programs - kinda like dropdown menu in a DE.

Other basics:

CTRL+Enter opens a terminal emulator.

CTRL+Q kills active window (there are no crosses in i3)

Prefer Super (The Windows key) as mod key instead of alt. Alt is inconvenient because it is likely to be mapped to something else in programs already and that might overlap with WM shortcuts.

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With that you should be able to open https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html inside i3 itself and look up things as you need them.

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Nice-to-have programs:

Nitrogen - Sets the wallpaper.

Polybar - a fancier bar, that is designed to be used standalone.

btop - a system monitor.

1. If it were, I probably wouldn't know it from r/linuxmemes
2. It is developed by OpenBSD folks, but portable enough to be used elsewhere on other sensible platforms. SSH isn't BSD exclusive either, nor is libarchive tar, OpenSSL, …
3. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/opendoas/
4. alias doas=sudo *ducks away from both the sudo and doas gangs*

base-devel indeed. Dunno, it's been a long time since I last installed Arch (it just works without issues, no need to fiddle about). The installation process still gives you the freedom to miss base-devel.

yes you can, except for system-specific configurations (like ubuntu's PPA you kinda can import into arch with some pervertions, but you really shouldn't).

That concerns all minimal distros out there. What you described is the difference between a minimal distro, which Debian has one as well, and a "non-minimal"(I don't know how a non-minimal distro is called lol) one.

But repositories are big. I recommend you take note of the packages you need and download them. If you think you need an entire repository take a look here.

>AFAIK, no dpkg does not have a accessible provides field

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#virtual-packages-provides

It does, although I'm sure it works somewhat differently from how it does on RPM. Apt also had a way to mark a a dependency as met even if the specified package isn't installed if you did something manually.