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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

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  • My personal reasons for disliking systemd (note: I still use systemd):

    • The lead developer of systemd has said multiple times that we should be fine with break POSIX if it means developing faster.
    • systemd has massive attack surface, making it easier to exploit and result in privilege escalation. It is a highly complex and large codebase that really shouldnt be given the trust of PID 0
    • systemd is not portable or modular.
    • It only just barely got musl support. Hope to see it improve in the future.
    • systemd is much slower than other inits (eg. dinit, s6, openrc)
    • systemd being the go-to init encourages developers to more heavily depend on it, making it difficult for distros without systemd

    The biggest feature I like about systemd is run0, though I wish it was a drop in replacement for sudo. Secondly, I do like that services can be sandboxed.

  • Are there any replacements to the DuckDuckGo App Tracking Prevention?

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  • 2nding RethinkDNS, since you can also use a Wireguard profile with it for system-wide VPN. Normal the app (and apps like it like TrackerControl) would replace a VPN because it runs a local VPN (using the android feature) to filter system traffic.

  • Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves bust into grocery store and steal $3,000 worth of food

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  • Naturally. By not stealing you are giving them free money.

  • Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves bust into grocery store and steal $3,000 worth of food

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  • They factor the cost of theft into their item pricing.

  • Mageia Linux 10 Enters Alpha Phase With April 2026 Release Target

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  • It started as a fork of the now defunct Mandriva Linux. Mageia isn't a new Linux distro (in age). Otherwise it is just a normal Linux distro from what I can tell.

  • What are some unique games to host server's of?

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  • Valhiem

  • We need to boycott Firefox

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  • A browser is a while different beast. Firefox has half as many lines of code as the Linux kernel, just for comparison. Security must be topnotch since the that model is to treat the website as if it is already malicious. Even with all of Firefox's developers, it lags behind Chromium in sandboxing/isolation and exploit mitigations.

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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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    • Most "Open source" LLMs are really just open weights, which is useless without the training data. This dilutes the definition of OSS. There is no way to train the model as a normal person (aka not Google or Meta, etc)
    • LLM producers don't credit the OSS they trained on, no attribution. Most models violate the licenses of all their training data (eg. GPL).
    • LLM scraper bots put high stress on server infrastructure, creating a DDOS attack.

  • I'm looking for virtualization-based desktop Linux setup

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  • Alma is an LTS enterprise distro so gets pretty out of date after some time, and I don't think it is significantly more bloated than Fedora because AlmaLinux is downstream of Fedora. Just uninstall the apps you don't want on install. Even better is openSUSE Tumbleweed because the YaST installer allows for you to pick and choose every package (or group of packages) that makes it onto your final system.

  • Help changing mount point in Cachyos

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  • What I usually do is sudo chown $USER -R /media/drive1

  • I'm looking for virtualization-based desktop Linux setup

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  • They specifically asked for a desktop operating system, so I recommended systems with a GUI. Proxmox comes with its own bloat, Arch would be far more minimal without the need for a bunch of dependencies.

  • I'm looking for virtualization-based desktop Linux setup

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  • If all you want is KVM, than any Linux distro + virt-manager will work perfect. My general recommendations for Linux distros are Fedora and openSUSE, because they are usually pretty up-to-date. Arch is also a good option, though not as stable. Choose KDE Plasma or GNOME when using GPU passthrough (because most guides will be made for either of these DEs).

  • Help changing mount point in Cachyos

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  • I can't tell if you are saying you literally mounted the drive at /media or that you mounted it at a subfolder, example: /media/drive1. The 2nd is the proper way of doing it.

    Either way, glad I could help!

  • Help changing mount point in Cachyos

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  • /run/media is for ephemeral mount points (like a removable USB drive). /mnt is for more permanent mount points. Idr what /media is for but I have seen some Linux distros also use it for removable media.

  • Help changing mount point in Cachyos

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  • For managing drives and mount points I usually use gnome-disk-utility because it makes everything easier and it uses mount options like nofail by default. You can choose whether a drive requires password to mount in there too.

  • Jeff the kicker rule

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  • What of his name was "Jeff the Licker", and ate ass and sucked toes.

  • 15 Signs Linux Is Not For You

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  • You can change that setting in your App Store (eg. Discover for Plasma)

  • Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser"

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  • They have so far.

  • Mozilla Names New CEO, Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser"

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