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  • Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

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  • For me the year of the Linux desktop was 2014 - it's when I changed my desktop to Linux after using it on my laptop for a year. All the hardware on that machine has been replaced, but it's still running the same install from back then.

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    Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results

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  • All public companies are, it's just what Boeing makes things that fall out of the sky if they mess up, so it's more obvious.

  • Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B

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  • Just have NAS A send a rocket with the data to NAS B.

  • The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO icon naming spec breaking KDE applications on Fedora 40 Workstation and Co.

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  • I really like gnome the software, but I've started considering moving away from it after a decade simply because of how toxic and difficult gnome the project can be.

  • Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone

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  • There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they're not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.

  • systemdeez nuts

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  • I remember the clusterfuck that existed before systemd, so I love systemd.

  • Israel’s Brutality Is Increasing—and So Is Its Denialism

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  • By having the stupid idea of existing next to Russia (or a similar country).

  • XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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  • If this was done by multiple people, I'm sure the person that designed this delivery mechanism is really annoyed with the person that made the sloppy payload, since that made it all get detected right away.

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

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  • TIL there are Linux people that don't use OpenWRT. I always assumed everyone in the Linux community used it. It's great.

    Works great with mt7621 based routers if anyone ends up looking for something compatible.

  • Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons

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  • Linux and a windows virtual machine with a dedicated nvme hard drive and GPU using PCI pass-through. Windows is boxed in but easily accessed when you need it, and the performance is 95% of native, or more. And because of the dedicated hard drive, you can still dual-boot it like normal if you want.

    Also, I recommend installing windows 10 enterprise in the VM, minimal bloat.

  • Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?

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  • I use gnome for the most part. I have been checking out kde recently to see how the newer versions stack up (gave up on it during the 4.0 days). As you mention kde supports dpms changes on wayland because they have their own protocol extension for that.

    That's actually my biggest gripe with wayland - the huge amount of fragmentation it has caused. I'm pretty confident that almost all the missing features I talked about are possible on one or two of the compositors, but not all of them. And definitely not on the one I use. I'm sure once some pragmatism takes hold that all the issues will be ironed out, but my plan for now is to stick to X11 until that happens.

  • Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?

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  • For me it's a million little details that just don't work. Stuff like positioning windows, removing decorations from a window, remapping buttons on a trackball, setting a graphics output to tvrgb, disabling a display via ssh and enabling it again, etc.

  • Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?

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  • It's not just about hardware compatibility. It has to be compatible with existing workflows, and it's currently very limiting.

  • Not buying a shaver from Philips again..

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  • I don't work for Apple, but I am an electronics engineer. Just don't be surprised when your simpler devices start failing.

  • Not buying a shaver from Philips again..

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  • To be fair though, they just need to make everything USB-C anyhow.

    Careful what you wish for. Putting advanced electronics into very simple devices will just make them fail a lot faster.Some old device just needed 12V over a barrel jack to run some motor or light and charge the battery and it lasted a decade - only failed because the battery got old. New one now needs a state of the art power delivery chip to negotiate the right voltage and current, and all over a very fine pitch connector that will fail if you look at it wrong. Not looking good on the durability front at all.

  • A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click

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  • set -euo pipefail at the top of every script makes stuff a lot safer. Explanation here.

  • degree in bamf

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  • It's an American obsession.

  • When a cave has better wifi than I do

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  • It's like calling all fuel diesel.

  • Israel launches night raid on Gaza al-Shifa hospital

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  • You tend to lose count after the first few hundred.