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  • New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

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  • I hope many projects will convert from Appimage to Flatpak

    They seem like different projects with different goals. Appimages are portable executables.

    Flatpak, to me, is something you install on a system and run with a flatpak runtime that is installed on your PC. I think its a fantastic way to sandbox programs with differing dependencies, but you still install programs and run them on your PC.

    Appimage, on the other hand, is a wholly-contained executable. It is less efficient than flatpak in every way if you are installing apps on a system, but it is more portable. I can throw a handful of appimages on a USB stick and carry them from machine to machine (or mount an ISO in the case of VMs). I can plug in my "troubleshooting and development" stick to an otherwise barebones server at my datacenter, fix an issue with a comfortable set of useful apps, then unplug and leave the machine untouched.

    Appimage is not a replacement for flatpak, but it has its own purpose. Snap is more similar to flatpak, but inferior in every single way. If we must get rid of one, can we phase that one out?

  • New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

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  • targeted at regular desktop users

    While Slackware and Debian are the oldest still-maintained Linux distros, I don't think either had a desktop-first approach.

  • Tangara is a portable, open-source music player based on an ESP32 MCU

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  • My phone doesn't have a 3.5mm headphone jack.

  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • CPU/BIOS-level system management engines such as Intel IME/vPro or AMD Secure Technology give device access to IT even if the OS is replaced or the system is powered off.

    If your IT staff isn't utilizing that technology, then when you boot into a corporate-managed OS, they can see any hardware that is currently connected to the system.

    If they're not doing any monitoring at all, you're fine (but the viability of the business is in question). If they're doing OS-level monitoring, stick with the USB thing and leave it unplugged when booted into the corporate OS. If they're doing CPU-level monitoring, you're already likely flagged.

    If you're unsure how much monitoring they're doing, attempting to find out may also be a resume-generating event (RGE). Cheers, and good luck!

  • dereferencing movies

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  • To reference a movie in common vocabulary is to bring it up in conversation.

    Referencing in programming terms like C refers to assigning a value to a variable. You can re-assign those variables to new values and then de-reference (read) the new value.

    They are conflating the common meaning of reference with the much more obscure programming definition (obscure at least among non-programmers).

    Star wars = "no, I am your father" (reference) Jaws = movie about hunting killer shark (reference) Star wars = movie about hunting killer shark (OP is pretending we can treat movie references like variable references and re-assigns the star wars variable to mean something else) "Hey, have you seen star wars? The movie about hunting a killer shark?" (De-referencing your newly re-assigned variable)

  • tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs

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  • I've been running ZFS in the form of FreeNAS/TrueNAS in production environments for the past 12 years or so. Started with around 5TB and currently have nearly 300TB across several servers. Mostly NFS nowadays, but have shared out SMB and iSCSI.

    No data loss. Drives have been easy to replace and re-silver. We have had a couple instances where a failing ZIL or L2ARC has crashed a storage server and taken storage offline, but removing/replacing the log device got us up and running without data loss.

    Btrfs I only have experience on home systems. It has reliably stored my data for several years now, but I'm about to put it to the test this weekend. I plan on adding 4x8TB disks to a 4TB mirror to turn it into a 20TB RAID10. Wish me luck!

  • You may call me a monster but I know I'm not the only one

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  • Yu-Ar-El? Is he Kryptonian?

  • X is just better!

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  • Flathub Grows Past One Million Active Users

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  • do I have a choice in being one of those million if there's no easy way to compile it myself?

    You always have a choice. Just yesterday, I had an app's documentation say "install brew so you can download our application and themes". I noped right out of there and found a different application altogether.

  • Gentle reminder to everyone that support for #windows10 ends in about 90 weeks. Many computers can't upgrade to Win 11 so here are your options:

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  • work machine

    You do not need a Microsoft account to join a domain.

  • GTA 5 Java Coffee shop

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  • This is great! When I play GTA, the only thing I want is HOT COFFEE.

  • WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite?

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  • WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite?

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  • Yes, my comment only applies to the shell history in memory. -c clears history immediately, but you can still reload it from disk if you haven't overwritten that with -w. If you tend to close your terminal windows frequently and rely on the history feature between sessions, it would benefit you to learn about the intricacies of the on-disk copy of history and how its affected by writes, appends, clears, crashes, etc. I tend to leave my terminal windows open a long time and copy any complex commands out to my PKM if I need to save them for future sessions, so I generally try not to rely on .bash_history, but it has saved my bacon on more than one occasion.

  • ifn't

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  • This feels racist against Appalachia. We naturally speak with contractions and are commonly referred to as "unbalanced".

  • Reddit API blew up and now I run Linux?

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  • Lol, saaaaaame! I've run plenty of Linux servers over the past 30 years with only occasional attempts at desktop Linux, but never got it to graduate past a secondary box or dual-boot. All of the happy Linux desktop users I've run across on Lemmy convinced me to give it another go. I tried Ubuntu for a month under the mistaken assumption that it was still a relevant, stable, easy distro (10-15 years ago, it was the distro to use if you just wanted a no-fuss Linux desktop). Snaps made me want to end myself, but not quite give up on Linux altogether, so I pivoted and now I'm on month 3 of happily maining Arch!

  • Ranking Linux Distributions for 2024: a tier list for my use case !

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  • Sorry, I was agreeing with you on the video list thing! 🤣

  • Ranking Linux Distributions for 2024: a tier list for my use case !

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  • My one regret in life is that I joined a lemmy instance that doesn't do downvotes.

  • WDYM your terminal isn't a test suite?

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  • history displays a list of all commands you have run on the terminal since the history list was last cleared. It is invaluable for referring back to a big complex command or set of commands you ran at some point in the past. The -c flag clears that history.

  • National animals

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  • Switzerland takes their neutrality very seriously.