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GnuLinuxDude

@ GnuLinuxDude @lemmy.ml

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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.

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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!

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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).

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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.

  • We're cooked y'all 🤣

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  • Just yesterday I asked Llama 3.3 70B params how to do something. I was pretty sure it wouldn't be able to tell me the right command to run because I knew beforehand I was asking it something really obscure about how to use tar. I gave it all the relevant details. Imagine my surprise when it... told me the blatantly wrong thing. It even invented useless ways of running the command incorrectly.

  • What books would you describe as nothing burger?

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  • The fact that it was made into a movie as well…

  • Why is my server using all my Swap but I have RAM to spare?

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  • You should just maintain awareness of how much you're using. I think 32gb ram + 32gb swap is ridiculous, frankly. Fedora by default sets zram up to 8gb, with no other swap space configured. Works very well that way.

    Personally I'd also probably not ever set up more than 16gb of swap space. If I'm somehow hitting that limit it's because I actually just need to buy more RAM.

  • Some local LLMs tested on an average gaming PC

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  • At this rate it seems like I will also never be upgrading from the 1070. Miners, NFTs, supply chain, AI, tariffs... how is an honest guy supposed to just buy a decent GPU when squeezed between all that bs?

  • Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?

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  • Does Incus allow you to use a VM with a GUI? One thing that's nice about Proxmox is I have one VM with a very basic lxqt setup for when I need that, and I can either use remote-viewer + the spice protocol to access it or access it through the Proxmox web ui. That's been very handy.

  • So what ARE the current "good" VPN services?

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  • Andy yen praising trump is one thing and I kind of don’t care about that so much. What I do care about is how proton practices predatory sales to cash in on FOMO. Or if you subscribe for one month it’s an auto renewing subscription. Or that the best rates are if you sign up for a year. It’s weird for a not-for-profit structure to do billing like this

    Mullvad doesn’t play games. A flat price and you get what you pay for.

  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • There is another issue on their tracker that was opened many years ago about relicensing to GPL, but it kind of became one of those things where a bunch of people came in and discussed it back and forth to death with no resolution.

    I remember the lead developer of the Rust version of Coreutils gave a talk about the project once and he addressed the licensing question by essentially saying (paraphrasing), "I don't care about this. So I just picked one." You'd think someone so involved with open source as that guy (seriously, he has a hugely impressive pedigree) would care, or would at least give a justification.

  • (QbitTorrent) I think I'm being DDOSed?

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  • 10-20 requests per second

    That's not a DDOS

  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • The rust coreutils project choosing the MIT license is just another gambit to allow something like android or chromeos happen to gnu+linux, where all of the userland gets replaced by proprietary junk.

    And yet that's a popularly welcomed approach, for some reason. Just look at the number of thumbs down this has. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781

  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • shit...

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  • shit...

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  • the order is actually Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.