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GnuLinuxDude

@ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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  • There are 2 types of people who hate on Democrats

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  • the number of times i've seen a scratched lib turn fash surprised me... at first.

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    Jerkoff

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  • If Trump is walking the "way way worse" path on Palestine it's only because Biden laid the path down for him in the first place.

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  • hey man remember when the democrats were in the house and senate and obama was president and they dismantled ACORN? haha damn that's wild, bro.

  • Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?

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  • I use Bazzite on my Steam Deck because I wanted to get LUKS encryption for the hard drive (and otherwise do not wish to manually maintain the computer). I cannot take what is effectively a general purpose PC out and about without encryption. Especially not with the current political climate in my country (USA).

    From dealing with SteamOS, I am already familiar enough with how to set up a full dev environment on the immutable distros. So while that is not a challenge for me, it is still a hassle to deal with. I'd rather just directly install my libraries and binaries rather than do workarounds in containers (and then remember the containers).

    I think we'll truly be in the immutable desktop distro future when I can do something like install the base distro image AND simply dnf install something (e.g. nvidia-vaapi-driver or gcc) on top without having to layer it with rpm-ostree. That is, my dnf installs should transparently live on top of the base distro, and that way my base system will never break even if something on top of it does. The problem with layering with rpm-ostree is you are running the risk of a future failed upgrade. It would be like if your MacBook said "sorry, you installed a weird XCode library and therefore we cannot upgrade the OS" -- and that should obviously never happen. Restoring my computer to a base state could be as simple as dnf remove * or a GUI option to "Revert to base + keep user files" and that should leave me with a functioning basic system.

    Anyway, even though I only use an immutable distro on one device I do see it as the future of Linux desktop computing. I am not up-to-date with the development efforts, but I think we'll eventually reach a day when using and configuring it, even for advanced users, will be no more difficult than traditional distros. Maybe by 2030 that will be the case.

    I made my remarks w.r.t. rpm-ostree and the Fedora family of distros because that's what I use. Obviously the other immutable distros have their own versions of these tools and their own versions of solving the problems related to them.

  • Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free

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  • Elbakyan is an immeasurably more virtuous, noble and honorable person than these Dylla and Greco worms.

  • Israelis want the war to stop, but only until the hostages are released

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  • Well that would simply be a continuation of their actual objective of annexing the entirety of the Gaza strip, so... yeah.

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  • Alternate headline: How one man spammed Wikipedia

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    What’s your ultimate unpopular opinion?

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  • I think 10 years ago this would've been unpopular, but today maybe not so much:

    systemd is great software. I don't use distros that refuse to ship it. Especially the init system. Thanks, Lennart!

  • European Union to aid Israeli mercenaries with $1.8 billion over three years

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  • Did they rewrite the headline after you posted? It reads now:

    European Union to boost PA funding with $1.8 billion over three years

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  • Between Steam promoting Linux and GOG promoting DRM-free software, I will never purchase from another storefront that doesn't even pretend to do something good for the broader community (Origin, Uplay, Microsoft Battle.Net, iOS App Store, etc).

  • I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened

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  • I also suspect ArsTechnica of running sponsored AI stories these days.

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  • For people who aren't American, I can understand it. They rightfully should be mad at us for allowing this to happen.

    For people who are American, they need to start thinking fast about how it is even possible that the Democrats failed in their one job which was to ensure Trump would not win in 2024. It's long past time to stop thinking about individual voters and start thinking about feckless party leadership. Examining this fully would be like a whole textbook's worth of words, but I think the one microcosm example that's really worth interrogating is why Nancy Pelosi pressed the lever in favor of Rep. Cuellar in Texas (the most Republican-voting Democrat in the House in one of the most solidly blue districts) over two-time challenger Jessica Cisneros, who came within a stone's toss of beating him in a primary.

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  • That's my point. Joe Biden was "the only one" who saw it, because it didn't happen.

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  • They don't even have a Steve Mnuchin type character this time who at least has a clue about how things work. This time Trump surrounded himself with all of the dumbest and most loyal kool-aid drinkers.

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  • at least he was trying to talk Netanyahu down and setup a peace deal.

    This is fiction, considering all the materiel and money the US sent over. Joe Biden saw 40 beheaded babies. He's the only one who saw this. He also said, "I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed," directly downplaying the casualty numbers. Maybe you actually believed it every time Vedant Patel and Matt Miller lied about having difficult conversations with their Israeli counterparts?

    thanks for choosing the worst timeline, directly or indirectly it doesn’t matter at this point.

    Tell that to the DNC. I don't make these decisions. My state went for Harris. Putting aside the genocide, if you can possibly do such a thing, people's economic security got worse while Biden was president. Whether or not you can blame the president for this is beside the point, as we should all know by now that the president gets blamed regardless (particularly by well-funded reactionary media sources). That they couldn't counter this is, again, not my choice.

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  • To the people who saw my post and downvoted: it was not my choice that the Democrats ran the senile walking dead genocidal maniac in 2024. Then when it became too obvious how senile he was and they couldn't lie about it anymore, they passed the torch directly to a woman who was so dogshit at campaigning that she had to drop out of the 2020 primaries before a single vote was even cast.

    You could blame us for not putting up a more honest candidate there in the first place, but there isn't a structure in place to even allow such a thing to happen. Consider what happened to Bernie 2020, for example.

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  • The opposition that 'wasn't "good" enough' was funding and supporting a genocide to the hilt. The USA is a fucked, evil state.

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  • Preach!

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  • When I was in unspecified foreign country I went to a graveyard with my family. It was very different in that the bodies were buried basically right next to each other and you basically just walk over the bodies of the interred to get to where you want to go.

    It was a bit distinct from how we do it in America where, much like our suburban houses, you have to have a pointless giant green lawn surrounding where the body is buried.