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  • How to combat creeping firefox enshitification?

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  • Yeah also I think we should be careful about calling anything we find annoying Enshittification, otherwise we'll dilute the concept and it loses all meaning. I see this happening with hyperbole all the time, for example one of the strongest words in the dictionary "hate" have almost no meaning as people use it for even the mildest dislikes instead of utilizing a richer vocabulary. Let's reserve Enshittification for Xitter and friends.

  • Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware

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  • By dragging their asses you mean adding it it their very first beta driver just a few weeks after it was merged into Wayland/Xwayland?

  • What drew you to the high seas?

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  • Was a student, couldn't afford CDs.

    Nowadays I

    1. don't want to subscribe to too many streaming services, each just having a few things I want to watch. Also I broke my neck and I'm now on disability, there's no budget to waste, at all.
    2. Like to watch old shows and "rare" movies that aren't available anywhere.

  • Choosing Next OS

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  • It's always a good idea to be aware of .pacnew/.pacsave files. If you ignore them everything might still work but you might end up using old configs. This might not break anything but could have security or performance implications. A system can slowly "rot" this way while still appearing to be fine.

  • Fedora

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  • This looks like a fallacy in the argument. Ubuntu is generally known as being very stable as well, they tend to avoid breaking changes over the lifetime of a release and there are LTS releases to boot.

  • What are your favourite fun/unnecessary extensions?

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  • GNU Terry Pratchett

  • GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features

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  • I didn't downvote but for a lot of the time the core devs were mostly 1-2 ppl working some evenings because they have dayjobs/lives. They released many updates to 2.10, and they're often feature releases not just bugfix releases. At the same time they almost completely rewrote the backend to use a new graphics library GEGL, which they also wrote from scratch. As for GIMP 3 they have also redone a lot under the hood to allow for easier development of new features moving forward and custom old GTK widgets updating to GTK3 required rearchitecturing as they work fundamentally differently from modern GTK3/4 versions.

    So that's why I don't joke, there's also nothing to forgive. Let's hope that GIMP 3 will get more interest from devs with its more modern and capable architecture.

  • Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement

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  • Here is the rationale for the Journal. In short it is really not that simple and it has a lot of advantages over simple text files and it saves disk space.

  • How to Get Started Using Virtual Machine Manager in Linux (Posted in response to Virtual box and VMware)

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  • Ah well, I've used Virtualbox, Vmware and KVM and I found them all useful for my purposes. Vmware is very slick and has an edge on easy Gfx acceleration for Windows guests but since they're now owned by Broadcom that might become a problem.

    I'm happy with Virtualbox on my desktop and KVM on a few servers. I don't really care to take sides.

  • How to Get Started Using Virtual Machine Manager in Linux (Posted in response to Virtual box and VMware)

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  • (Posted in response to Virtual box and VMware)

    What? Is there some new controversy going on ?

  • What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

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  • Yeah screwing with the network interface of the machine you're SSHd into is something nearly every sysadmin have done at least once.

    That or changing something, rebooting the server and subsequently being unable to contact it again due to said change. I'm always scared and feeling I'm taking a risk when upgrading a major OS version over SSH, yet Ubuntu never failed me in that, it's the silly things that got me, like messing with fstab.

  • When do you consider a system to be bloated?

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  • I find it bloated if the system have things I don't need are noticeably using up RAM and CPU. I couldn't care less about extra unused packages on disk, they're dormant. I don't care about a few daemons or resident apps I don't use either if they're idle all the time and use minimal RAM. Bloat for me is something that noticeably affects my running system.

  • VirtualBox 7.0.16 Released with Initial Support for Linux 6.8 and 6.9 Kernels

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  • and suffer subpar virtualization

    Meh I can get a Win11 guest that interacts well and conveniently with the host and its peripherals and if all I'm doing is running tax software, office365 or compile my Rust app to test it cross platform - vbox is perfectly fine. I'm not running anything demanding.

    I'm not taking a stance against KVM it's great, but rather saying that for some of us it's not that big of an issue which solution to use, it just needs to be convenient.

  • How do you prefer to install compilers, interpreters, sdks e.t.c

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  • I use stuff like Rustup, in a Distrobox dedicated to the work area.

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    best device for avoiding transcoding?

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  • Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions

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  • There are other distros with the same points, they're not unique, save for the wiki. A lot of users of other distros refer to the Arch wiki. The AUR is much celebrated but I personally found it annoying having to carefully vet every package and having moved to another distro I don't miss it.

    I think the main reason to choose Arch is it's for tinkerers/hobbyists. Its community is very enthusiastic which is always nice, though many can become a bit obnoxious on forums.

  • Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions

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  • I don't use Arch at all but isn't EOS using Calamares? You click a few times, selecting language, timezone and click install, then go make a coffee while it installs. Difficult to be way faster than that. You can save maybe 30sec by not having any options.

  • Your first distribution

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  • I remember those days. On disk 22: Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz Bzzz-bzzz CRC-ERROR

    I can still hear it.

  • As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?

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  • I used dd-wrt for a few years, but I realized I didn't need it as my new router have the functionality I want. I also realized my router had much better throughput with the stock firmware.