Or violence, which is justified self-defense when tyrants are trying to destroy everyone’s property rights.
Valid option. Burn it all down and start again is always possible, and probably more efficient than fixing things at this point.
Or violence, which is justified self-defense when tyrants are trying to destroy everyone’s property rights.
Valid option. Burn it all down and start again is always possible, and probably more efficient than fixing things at this point.
I’m not American either, but law precedents are contagious, once enough judges think it’s reasonable, others start to as well, even across borders. A lot of the world runs on Scottish common law at base. If you really want to get to root causes, I’d go with greed, the tendency of the rich to seek rent, and Late Stage Capitalism.
The original idiocy here is the DMCA, this and the other idiocies practised in its name are consequences. Over time the idiocies build up as case law precedents until new and ever more egregious cases are made, some of which stick (as in throw shit at the wall and see what sticks) and the cycle continues. Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.
Hmm, Church and State… I much prefer having a separate RSS reader (FreshRSS in my case) for news, as I see it, and lemmy for more frivolous purposes. YMMV.
I fucking hate discord
It’s Cancer, have an upvote.
Dear God! (said as a devout agnostic).
My takeaway was add https://universal-blue.discourse.group/tag/announcements.rss to my rss reader (already had fedora) and I’m happy I’ll know when I need to, still for those of us who support non-technical users on these platforms it is indeed problematic.
OTOH, this is the first time I’ve had non-nvidia (sleep broken on my desktop, just rolled back and held updating for a while, no big deal) update problems in two years, which is pretty outstanding for a new rolling distro, and gives me confidence in the architecture. Shit happens I guess, but it was quickly and publicly sorted, also trust building…
You’re welcome to your opinion ;)
Fair cop on the inconveniences, although I’ve found it fine after an adaption phase, coming from fedora it was lesser than hopping to a new distro. Hard agree on knowing the nuances being problematic, clarity and accessible education is sorely missing, certainly the steepest part of the learning curve.
I just run ‘distrobox upgrade -all’ in my Daily.service, didn’t need quadlets (although after adaption I quite like them for containers now).
Why would I use a system that isn’t supposed to change if I want to change it?
There’s a bunch of benefits, atomic updates, intrinsic rollback, security of immutability, safe automatic updating and it goes on. Some things are not quite ready yet, e.g. things like sddm which should probably install themes to /etc (which they’re working on), so as often happens in linux, workarounds ensue. Making one directory mutable does not destroy all the benefits.
Yeah, I had that at the beginning, then added to my fstab
#enable sddm and therefore good themes
/var/sddm /usr/share/sddm none rbind 0 0
and KDE themes with sddm components install fine now (most themes install fine into /home, does Gnome really not have per user themes?)
Essentially you can tactically make things mutable as needed, use sparingly, but maybe not even trying lessens your opinion, no?
Yeah, I had that at the beginning, then added to my fstab
# enable sddm and therefore good themes
/var/sddm /usr/share/sddm none rbind 0 0
and then it works, kludgy, but sddm is apparently working on allowing themes in /etc, sometime soon.
Inconvenient package management
Fair.
If there’s a flatpak, no problem.
Once you realize you do package management in distroboxes rather than the main OS (rpm-ostree etc), no problem, plus you have the AUR at your disposal.
So Ima go not fair, although there is something of an education gap atm.
Be aware that halfway decent backup solutions dedupe. Which is not to say you shouldn’t clean your shit up. I vote https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka.
Seriously, U.S., get your shit together. This crap spills out all over the world thanks to cultural imperialism (Hollywood etc.), no beuno.
Narrator: They were lying about not using the data. They already had.
AGI, then ASI. Goalposts change…
Also note that Thinkpads up to a couple of years ago (when soldering RAM became a thing) are mostly trivial to open and upgrade RAM / drives, so you don’t have to care about those and can pick up a bargain (look to T480 at the moment (not the TN screen tho), or whatever is 3 years or so old, as that’s the corporate fleets that are getting dumped onto the market).
Fingerprint readers are definitely hit or miss… If you care make sure it was originally specced for linux (usually at least Red Hat), then you’re probably good for any distro.
It’s pretty easy for 80 (90)+% of competent computer users, get an old Macbook for that stuff (it’ll probably be better) and switch your main to linux. The real problem is less competent computer users.
Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference. - Jim Butcher