I’ve been using them for a few weeks now. Lifesaver as I try to organize stupid bullshit that life forces on me.

It’s amazing how this man’s brain is so feeble that he just fully believes what the last person he met with him tells him.

I don’t really understand what you’re asking for, but maybe you’d benefit from Firefox’s multi-account containers extension (domains can have their cookies isolated). Or from a more rigorous usage of the Firefox profiles features (type about:profiles in the address bar) and create a dedicated google profile, a dedicated vpn profile, and leave a regular personal profile. You can theme them so they look distinct when you have them open.

the number of times i’ve seen a scratched lib turn fash surprised me… at first.

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.

Well that would simply be a continuation of their actual objective of annexing the entirety of the Gaza strip, so… yeah.

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!

Did they rewrite the headline after you posted? It reads now:

European Union to boost PA funding with $1.8 billion over three years

Preach!

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.

A few remarks:

• Mullvad is not the only acceptable choice just for torrenting. If your objective is just to subvert copyright trolls, any (non-Israeli) VPN that has a track record of not keeping logs will do the job.
• FitGirl is great and all but let’s not forget DODI. One thing I seriously dislike about FG is while she gets the best compression rates, it’s at the cost of like 6x the time to unpack the games. There are probably still more reputable sources for games
• If you want to use your computer without everything being on the VPN, you will have to either use containers (Linux), virtual machines, or explore split-tunneling features in your VPN client if available.

Braver than the troops.

Biden hitched the dying empire’s wagon to Israel and Ukraine, and now Trump is pretending the rest of the world isn’t fed up with US’s antics. Sorry, man. Alternatives are rising. Belt and Road exists. Nobody likes us anymore. Many don’t even fear us anymore. These genocidal and violent morons are playing the game like it’s the 90s without realizing the rules have been updated since then.

My hero. That also works on Linux. Thank you!

Sidepoint: In Gnome if I’m using Xorg the DE has instant animations but Firefox has normal ones. Only in Gnome Wayland does that effect propagate to the browser itself. Unsure about KDE Xorg.

I like Lemmy a lot, but when you share a URL it’s just an ID number. Compare that to Reddit, where you can get a lot more information on what you’re about to look at just from the URL alone.

https://lemmy.ml/post/27659153 vs
https://old.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1jg3vlk/progress_report_linux_614/

Are there any plans to make Lemmy URLs more meaningful?

deleted by creator

I would love decent RISC-V hardware

Teachers loved telling you about shit they saw in movies and passing it off as wisdom

friendship ended with transatlantics

now transpacifics is my best friend