[Solved] My OpenSUSE Tumbleweed install broke and I can't rollback
Update #1
I fixed my boot issue, but now I have to fix the issue with snapper not working right.
The boot issue: Something—I don't know what—added a removable drive to fstab, and the error was that drive couldn't be mounted at boot. I have two guesses:
- I formatted a microSD card using YaST Paritioner sometime before doing the distro upgrade.
- The drive might have been mounted during the distro upgrade, though I don't think it was.
At any rate, I commented out that line in fstab and it booted right up.
Mullvad is working fine when I boot normally. I guess it was only broken when booting a snapshot from before I upgraded it.
Update #2
I also fixed /.snapshots by adding it to fstab. Now it gets mounted on every boot, and this version of fstab will be in all future snapshots. I just took a manual snapshot for good measure.
I don't know which action caused the issue, so I'm going to list everything I did. I'm new to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I haven't used Linux since like Linux Mint 17.
- I disabled KWallet because I got tired of typing in a password every time my desktop launched just for wifi passwords. I decided to just let Linux store them in plain text since my whole system is encrypted with LUKS.
- I did a distro update. (
zypper dup) After that succeeded, I logged off and back on. - I noticed Mullvad had a new version. They don't officially support OpenSUSE, so I downloaded the new RPM. I ran
rpm -e mullvad-vpnto remove the old one. That might have been a mistake since my notes say I used zypper to install it the first time. I installed the new one with zypper. It launched and connected just fine. - I had some trouble getting network settings to store/retrieve my wifi password, so I decided to reboot my system since I changed so much stuff.
- It wouldn't boot. I see a few "BIOS" and "ACPI" errors.
- Time to try out Snapper! I reboot and choose the most recent snapshot from before tonight.
- It boots, but when I try
snapper rollbackI getIO error (.snapshots is not a btrfs subvolume) - I get the same error trying to open the YaST snapshot viewer.
- I check
btrfs, and I see@/.snapshotsplus a bunch of numbered snapshots, of course. - I check
fstab, but I don't see an entry mounting anything on/.snapshots. - I do see a directory at
/.snapshots, but it appears just be an empty directory.
Mullvad seems broken with this snapshot. I can't connect to the internet. The mullvad-daemon won't start, so I think the killswitch is active. I've had to type all this on my phone.
What can I do to fix this? I just want to rollback to this good snapshot, and then I can worry about fixing Mullvad when the filesystem isn't read-only.
One month. That's how long it took me to break my system. ☹️
LTT Labs blog + benchmarks for linux vs windows performance AMD/Intel/NVIDIA
Part 2: lttlabs.com/blog/2025/06/30/is…
LTT Fourm discussion as well linustechtips.com/topic/161659…
They approached this from a noob perspective and the benchmarks seemed pretty rough. The blog has an overall positive tone on linux which is nice even though it got murdered in performance.
I'd like to see a follow up with optimizations, get some of the linux community involved to help setup an optimized linux test bench to go toe to toe with their "golden image" windows 11 benchmark setup.
They benchmarked a few distros against each other and it was very samey which I expected, the real difference is between the drivers/kernel and desktop environment since most distros come very light in terms of installed software.
Not bad. I take issue with the part of the article called "distro wars". There is no war, but I dont expect them to "get it". These cringelords seem to have a need to meme-fi everything, really dings the tone of the reviews. Am I reading a tech review or an opinion article?
Eeh
using the 24.04lts was an odd choice.
and it did prove odd when they noticed the drivers were out of date.
LTT Labs blog + benchmarks for linux vs windows performance AMD/Intel/NVIDIA
Part 2: lttlabs.com/blog/2025/06/30/is…
LTT Fourm discussion as well linustechtips.com/topic/161659…
They approached this from a noob perspective and the benchmarks seemed pretty rough. The blog has an overall positive tone on linux which is nice even though it got murdered in performance.
I'd like to see a follow up with optimizations, get some of the linux community involved to help setup an optimized linux test bench to go toe to toe with their "golden image" windows 11 benchmark setup.
They benchmarked a few distros against each other and it was very samey which I expected, the real difference is between the drivers/kernel and desktop environment since most distros come very light in terms of installed software.
Outside of mainline, ubuntu has a 6.14 kernel build they support but you have to actively look for it in the ui.
It is however, a sign for me that ltt is not suited for this and should have waited and investigated more before posting. Or maybe asked external help to verify stuff idk
the benchmarks seemed pretty rough
Do they? I think they looked pretty good except for when raytracing was turned on.
The benchmarks go against the narrative that Windows and Linux are pretty much equal in performance. I've read regularly that Linux is "often" faster than Windows for gaming, especially from more recent Linux users.
5 years ago, 15% performance difference were the expected performance loss through DXVK and wine/proton, so these benchmarks would've been the expected result.
I'd argue that if you buy an Intel or Nvidia GPU when you want to run Linux, you are actively sabotaging yourself. Clearly those two don't make good Linux drivers as the performance discrepancy is way larger compared to AMD/Radeon. For radeon the article says:
Ubuntu was 8% slower than Windows
(Leaving out raytracing bumps that to a 5.7% difference btw.)
Which seems ok to me. Especially considering that they mostly tested newer titles. If you check older titles, many of them perform on par or better on Linux than on Windows. For example notoriously World of Warcraft.
Quality can also be percieved by frame stability. 1% lows for example, which manifest in occasional hickups. While the average fps might still be equal, the game might feel less laggy if the framerate is more consistent. Which was not measured here at all. Other sites benchmarks (again for older titles) show less hickups iirc.
So the statement can be true depending on what you play and how you measure. It's very difficult to make a study that is unbiased and reflects the real world experience of most people. Some will have great results and talk about them online. Others will have bad results and talk about them online.
Bonus edit:
On windows I remember it starting a background update while I was playing an online game and it started lagging, even though the fps stayed the same. And there was no way to prevent these background processes from running when I was playing. This would not be captured in such a benchmark as well, because they update everything before running the benchmarks. But it would frequently happen in real life use. For me this was the killer UX difference that made me fully move to Linux 9 years ago.
As an Intel/nVidia user when I switched (ie I already owned them). I can say that in real world gaming - ie not synthetic benchmarking, my vibes based analysis is that some games are definitely less fps, others I can't notice, and a few i'm quite sure performed better.
If I were buying new I would probably go with AMD, but from my experience being team blue & green should be no impediment to moving.
Forget Linux vs Windows, the real question I have is why is Black Myth Wukong so poorly optimized that on a 4060 or 5060 it can't reach 60 FPS at 1080p even on Windows? Freaking unacceptable.
You would think coming from the mobile world, Game Science would be used to low-spec hardware, e.g. phones, but this game can't run well even on pretty new GPUs on PCs??? I had no idea this game had such abysmal performance. I wish people hadn't bought it, so it could've flopped
After about 8 months, I love this Android browser. Not Chrome, FF, or Edge based.
UPDATE: THIS USES GOOGLE WEB VIEW. DO NOT USE.
I can't figure out why nobody talks about this. I see all kinds of alternative browsers on here, but never this one. I especially like the color coded bookmarks for different categories (my news is gray, my searxng/swisscows and other search engines green, my tech solutions purple). It has anti-fingerprinting and a quick toggle for if you need to quickly adjust javascript or cookie setting to make a quick exception. There are lots of features. If anyone else has tried it, it would be interesting to hear your feedback too.
I tend to turn off JavaScript for most sites and I found enabling and disabling it on this browser to be a pain. Has that changed?
Also, it is webview, so you cannot harden it unless you root and download a hardened webview.
It uses Android Web view which is essentially just Chrome without the interface, and is entirely proprietary. It suffers from all the drawbacks of Chrome based browsers with the added problem of being an Android component so out of much, if any, control of the developers.
This app should not be a serious consideration for anyone who is privacy or security focused. The very first thing a secure browser should be providing is it's own rendering engine. Even providing it's own chrome based rendering engine would be more secure than this.
Also in terms of extensions, as it is Chrome based it's extensions such as uBlock will have the same privacy breaking restrictions as the rest of the chrome ecosystem with manifest v3 which favours Google's advertising business over user security and privacy.
I think it's possible for a Chrome-based browser to have better ad-blocking than Google Chrome
spacebar.news/stop-using-brave… is something I agree with, but Brave does have better ad-blocking features than Google Chrome, despite using the same core engine
Uses AdBlock not Ublock Origin...
Ty but I am fine with IronFox
FOSS browser, FREE browser, Privacy browser and monocles browser are all pretty similar to me.
For basic browsing I am sure they are all OK.
monocles browser will switch to a custom WebView called Privacy Webview.
stoutner.com/privacy-browser-a…
I use the monocles browser (rebranding of Privacy browser) for quick searches with javascript and cookies turned off as default.
For instance, if I am searching git for something and I see what I want, I enable javascript with the button, to see the latest releases and download sections.
I like the turn on javascript button. and the selection of EasyList , easy privacy, fanboys annoyances list, Ultra list and Ultra privacy list for adblocking and tracking.
From what I remember they all have the Delete browser data on exit. Monocles Browser makes it easier to "clear and exit" for me.
To clear, history, cookies etc. The "CLEAR AND EXIT" button is at the top of the left side drop down menu, so it is easier to find. unlike the others where it is at the bottom of the drop down menu.
I suppose its all about choice and personal preference.
codeberg.org/monocles/monocles…
monocles_browser
Release of the monocles browser. A open source privacy respecting android browser. Based on the privacy browser by Soren Stoutner.Codeberg.org
So if I switch to Monacles, I will not be using Android Webview, which I just learned the Foss browser uses? I want to switch immediately.
Edit: I guess the question is how much info is still sent since Monacle is based off android webview.
Hey ScoffingLizard
I am always the sceptic, but I have read that the monocles browser uses the monocles webview.
f-droid.org/en/packages/de.mon…
It says here: In the defaults, the monocles browser uses the monocles webview
here it is more in depth:
basically they are saying that unless you are using an up to date custom rom, currently android 15 on my lineage phone, there maybe security issues with webview
docs.monocles.eu/apps/browser.…
Limitations and Known Issues#
Security Issues#
As monocles Browser is based upon the WebView component, it is dependant of the underlying Android ROM and it's updates.#
We thus recommend to use the latest available Version of Android for your device and - if necessary - upgrade to an aftermarket ROM like:
DivestOS
/e/
LineageOS
If a device has no modern firmware updates anymore and Aftermarket - Firmware is just not available, then please consider a different Browser like Fennec, which is privacy-enhanced version of Firefox for Android nee Firefox Mobile or Tor Browser which you can also get via F-Droid by adding or enabling the Guardian Project repository.
monocles browser | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A web browser that respects your privacy.f-droid.org
I must say you guys in the USA do have a hard time with your shit carriers.
I would never root any phone, there really is no need. I have bricked many rooted phones and it is totally unsafe and insecure. I think its the equivalent of using windows XP.
Here is a guide; It might give you an idea. Its quite a simple process to follow.
droidwin.com/unlock-bootloader…
the "Unlock Bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S25/Plus/Ultra" section.
I've seen this when bopping around in the F-Droid catalogue. Never took it seriously because it didn't seem to communicate well what it was doing.
In general; I usually dislike using Chrome anyways....so much so that I hard disable Chrome on my device, oftentimes via ADB, and download a wide range of alternatives; Kiwi (Plugin enabled), Hermit ([Closed source] Forced Isolation of all domains/sites along a side of ad-blocking and web-app caching baked into the app wrapping it's renderer; which is, of course System Webview. Unfortunately this one is not open source, so I do not often recommend it here and while I trust it; your decisions may be different.) and Firefox (Plugins installed, seems to be replacing Kiwi because it's likely a dead/gone/depreciated/archived project.) I even use URLCheck from F-Droid itself as my "Default Browser" so that I have the power to review each URL and open it in a browser I feel is most appropriate to the context of my browsing and choose the browser I feel can best protect my privacy for a given site. One-off visits often go to Hermit; which promptly isolates away and forgets I ever visited the site while blocking ads with a lighter touch than most plugins I've seen that exist. If a site often breaks in Hermit; usually due to ad-blocking hostile scripts; I kick it over to Firefox where I have extensive plug-in tooling to defang the beast...including tools like JShelter, Canvas Blocker, LocalCDN, Chameleon, Decentraleyes and uBlock Origin.
What I do know is that Android System Webview is far more configurable than you might realize; and that it is absolutely possible to build a browser on top of it. Most importantly; Android System Webview IS NOT Chrome! Yes, it is extremely similar and it behaves mostly the same; but it is based on the Chromium project; which is basically what Chrome is before Google applies all of its own Branding, Customization, Policies and Application touches on it. Does Chromium project mirror what Chrome needs? Absolutely yes, but it does not follow Chrome exactly. In general; Android System Webview is a Web rendering component that other applications can call on and wrap their own code around. This means you are basically free to implement whatever other features you want around the webview; including adding plugins and other things like ad-blocking. My favorite closed-source lite-app browser Hermit does this; and I'm not seeing any significant privacy concerns with that one.
Review of Cory Doctorow's *Enshittification*
Why the Internet is Turning to Shit
Cory Doctorow’s new book is an insightful diagnosis of how Big Tech is making every app and website worse—even if his solutions leave something to be desired.Alex Skopic (Current Affairs Inc)
AutoHotKey Alternative on Wayland
The main barrier for me transitioning to Linux as my main OS is finding a suitable alternative to AutoHotKey (AHK) on windows. I use AHK for all kinds of automation but haven't found a usable alternative in Wayland.
Thought I'd check here to see if anyone has any suggestions?
Afaik you won't find a single alternative, bit you'll have to find multiple projects for specific features you're looking for.
For example:
Kanata for key remaps, text expansion, mouse input and a whole bunch of other keyboard stuff.
Most automation is done with shell scripts and command line utilities. So stuff like batch renaming you can do this way.
Window automation is DE/WM specific.
So if you could list your DE/WM and the specific kinds of automation, it will be easier to give suggestions.
GitHub - jtroo/kanata: Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization
Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization - jtroo/kanataGitHub
Hello, I had the same need. The best alternative I found is keymapper : github.com/houmain/keymapper
You have tons of examples on the main page.
The syntax is somehow similiar compared to ahk.
I have yet to master mouseclick (issue with ydotool on KDE/wayland maybe), but everything else is working.
I think this is the tool you are looking for, let us know what you tried 😀
GitHub - houmain/keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper.
A cross-platform context-aware key remapper. Contribute to houmain/keymapper development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I use keyd
Very customizable.
GitHub - rvaiya/keyd: A key remapping daemon for linux.
A key remapping daemon for linux. Contribute to rvaiya/keyd development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Interesting...
I've created another xkb layout (of which syntax is cryptic)... Then modified window manager hotkeys.
Then there's completely other configuration for virtual terminals. sigh
keyd looks promising tool.
GitHub - rvaiya/keyd: A key remapping daemon for linux.
A key remapping daemon for linux. Contribute to rvaiya/keyd development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
If you want to create keyboard layouts, keyd is very good for that. You can create several keyboard layers and use whatever key you want as a modifier.
I use it to mimic the windows "US International with dead keys" layout that I've grown used to but it can do so much more.
The Unix philosophy is many parts combined, instead of one mega-part. The Linux kernel is an exception, but the concept allows Linux to evolve over time, and to be flexible.
I don't know what AHK does (consider describing behaviour in these kinds of posts), but concepts like uber-key mapping can't exist the way they did in Windows.
It seems to me that you have two options:
- Move to a launcher style approach: find a utility that let's you trigger a menu that offers the things that your are trying to do (dmenu, fuzzel have lots of extensions for behaviours), similar to the OSX launchpad or the windows start menu w/typing, but you can create your own options and script them
- Look at the key mapping for your DE (kde, gnome, sway, xfce, niri) and see what is there. KDE has excessive key mapping, and the small tiling managers have many launching and scripting options.
Listen, moving from windows to Linux is not like moving to an apartment across the hall, it is more like moving to an apartment across the border - they have worked out some things differently, and sometimes better. Half of the goal of moving away from windows is moving away from windowisms. Explore and what else is there.
People ask me why I use emacs (they don't actually, but they could) and I answer by telling them that there are some very new progressive workflows that are significantly better that most IDEs - look at consult/vertico/marginalia/orderless/corfu , and forget evil/vi, look at meow. File browsing using a tree navigator is a last ditch thing.
Watch prot on YouTube to learn build a stone cabin, understand philosophy, and learn how to use emacs; move forward and progress.
Darnit, I'm rambling again.
I'm on hyperland, and I've configured ydotool to do some of this work. It can move the mouse, enter keyboard shortcuts and do a bunch of things that autohotkey can, however it is by no means a complete solution, or one that comes with sensible defaults. It's just a daemon and client, and you'll need to set it up to do what you want.
As far as I know there's no record and replay function, though you could likely script one.
Also, for triggering the scripts, you'll need to set your Desktop's keybindings to point to them.
For me, it filled the requirements that it was launchable by systemd unit, as the user on login.
I use it for a vairiety of tasks, but the primary one is typing out my clipboard as if I had pasted something. I rebound alt + shift + p to that, so I can paste windows login passwords or whatever in to Teamviewer/other stuff that doesn't accept a paste command.
GitHub - ReimuNotMoe/ydotool: Generic command-line automation tool (no X!)
Generic command-line automation tool (no X!). Contribute to ReimuNotMoe/ydotool development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign; 4 top health officials quit
White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign; 4 top health officials quit
Susan Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, was sworn in on July 31.Annika Kim Constantino (CNBC)
Republicans get court win over "green bank" funds
A federal appeals court sided with the Environmental Protection Agency in its effort to freeze billions of dollars and terminate contracts for nonprofits charged with running a "green bank" to finance climate-friendly projects.
The decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, handed down in a 2-1 ruling, shifts the dispute away from the federal district court and into the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, which handles contract matters. For the nonprofits involved, including Climate United Fund, the ruling represents a major setback in their push to regain access to roughly $16 billion in frozen funds.
Trump Administration Gets Court Win Over 'Green Bank' Funds
The decision stands as a high-profile win for the Trump administration's EPA and a stinging blow to climate groups.Gabe Whisnant (Newsweek)
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‘Puppet!’ Charlamagne Calls Hakeem Jeffries ‘AIPAC Shakur’ in Brutal Takedown of Minority Leader
Charlamagne and the rest of The Breakfast Club welcomed entertainers Claudia Jordan and Erica Cobb to the show, where the duo talked about their new podcast Accidentally Informed.
While talking about their favorite guests, Jordan — who’s also a contributor for CNN — revealed she enjoys political conversations and spoke fondly of her talk with Jeffries. That’s when host DJ Envy revealed that Charlamagne “hates” the minority leader:
JORDAN: You do?CHARLAMAGNE: I don’t hate him. I just don’t think he stands for anything. I call him “AIPAC Shakur.”
JORDAN: Well, definitely — we did talk about messaging, and I actually went to the Capitol and had a meeting with him. And we talked about messaging how I was like, the frustration of the party is y’all have to get more gangster. Like, stop going by the politics of the late 2000s, in 2010, and you have to rise to the occasion in the messaging. And he did. I saw him do more afterwards.
CHARLAMAGNE: Hakeem is a puppet. Hakeem isn’t doing anything if Chuck Schumer doesn’t tell him to do it. And it’s simple as that.
‘Puppet!’ Charlamagne Calls Hakeem Jeffries ‘AIPAC Shakur’ in Brutal Takedown of M ...
Charlamagne tha God revealed his brutal nickname for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries while detailing his gripes with him.Ahmad Austin Jr. (Mediaite)
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What distro do you game on?
GE-Proton10-15 Released
- fixed opening hang in crosscode
- fixed video playback in fable: the lost chapters
Release GE-Proton10-15 Released · GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom
fixed opening hang in crosscode fixed video playback in fable: the lost chaptersGitHub
What was the update? Getting address not found on both calyos.org and calyxinstitute.org which doesn't bode well
Edit: came back up. Update if it's down when viewed
Update: August 27 2025We are concerned that some users may have not seen the important message in this letter about CalyxOS’ current hiatus. Therefore, we are rolling out one last OTA update to devices currently running CalyxOS to reach as many active users as we can. You can read our post for more details about this update.
Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for transparency and diversity.news.epfl.ch
The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel
The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel
There's a follow-up to yesterday's surprising story of Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux and that ARM graphics driver work where she led reverse engineering and development of the Asahi Gallium3D and HoneyKrisp Vulkan drivers within Me…www.phoronix.com
(solved, thanks guys!) "No key available with this passphrase" despite it being the correct passphrase
Edit: Turns out you guys were right, I entered the setup password wrong for LUKs. I got this new Logitech keyboard I got for a gift and I type around 170wpm, but I've been having issues with it kind of lagging keys for some reason. What I did was I opened up a notepad and typed in my password a bunch of times and noticed whenever I would type something such as "stain" for example, it would come out at "stani" despite me looking at the keyboard and knowing that wasn't what I was typing. So I encrypted my drive with the wrong password, but figured out how to decrypt it that way. Thanks for the help doods!
Hello! I have a external drive I've encrypted with LUKs that has irreplaceable backups of mine, and for some reason no matter which PC I try it won't unlock despite it being the correct password. It doesn't give me anything else in the terminal other than what I put in the title.
I recently just backed up everything onto the external drive from my computer cause I was distro hopping. It's worked fine on my PC, I saved the password so I was able to mount it no problem before, but now it won't mount on any other PC I try. It isn't the end of the world since I can just try and copy old data from my computers drive before the format since I haven't downloaded anything yet that could overwrite anything important, but I'd still like to be able to get this external drive unlocked. As I've said, irreplaceable files of mine are on it so I'm hoping to get it working. Thank you!
but I suspect that you will need to wipe the drive and set it up again while ensuring that the volume key is stored on the external drive itself.
Whenever I format a drive I just use Gnome Disks since it's the easiest and it lets me encrypt it using LUKs as a option, I've never had an issue like this for years until now since whenever I've used Gnome Disks in the past it always lets me decrypt the drive on any other Linux machine
Hmm, what method did you use to back it up? It sounds to me like something got corrupted, though perhaps someone more experienced could identify a different issue. What I usually do to clone LUKS partitions is use a liveUSB (so no files change while backing up), then use cryptsetup to create a new LUKS partition on the backup drive if it's a new drive (otherwise for incremental backups you can skip this step), then unlock both drives and rsync to the backup drive. This is also usually faster than pure cloning, as cloning would also copy the (encrypted) empty space in the partition, and for incremental backups, rsync will only copy the changed data so it's much faster.
This would also have the benefit of preventing corruption on transfer, because rsync uses checksums to verify the file was properly reconstructed in the new location, whereas something like dd won't have the granularity to check per-file checksums (especially if used to clone a whole encrypted partition).
Hmm, what method did you use to back it up?
I used an app called "Pika Backups" , it shouldn't effect LUKs at all tho and the backups themselves weren't corrupted because it also lets me verify the integrity of the backup files which I did before distro hopping and I got no errors
Need more info:
- How did you encrypt it in the first place
- What command are you using to try and mount it now?
- Do you have any other identifying LUKS info about the volume? (
sudo blkid /dev/whatever)
I encrypted it using Gnome Disks, haven't had any problems with it for years until now
I tried mounting it normally with Dolphin on KDE Plasma, after it was giving me an error I tried unlocking it in terminal via sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 backups
Here's the output of the command you sent: /dev/sda1: UUID="109ffa3d-6181-43cf-a813-fdd285386866" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTUUID="ac0402f1-01"
Are you typing this passphrase by chance? Do you have it saved somewhere that you're positive is correct?
Try typing it out in a terminal window and see if it matches what you have saved. Special characters and incorrect keyboard mappings could be problematic.
I once had a similar issue, caused by the keyboard layout in the os installer (when I defined the password) being different from the keyboard layout used for unlocking the drive. I quickly leaned to type my password in qwerty on my azerty keyboard and all is fine now.
Another similar thing I'm thinking about is trying with caps lock, as you may have had it on when defining the password
How Erik Prince is Trying to “Make Haiti a Hub for Mercenaries” | Haiti Liberte
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How Erik Prince is Trying to “Make Haiti a Hub for Mercenaries” | Haiti Liberte
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Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a ke [...]LWN.net
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The answer as always is, it depends.
Not all implementations rely on shim.
if you set up secureboot without doing anything more than instaling the OS.... yeah probably it is true. Edit: e.g. GRUB2 generally relies on shim. sysemd-boot doesn't
I haven't checked the specific key that signs shim to confirm the expiration date, but there generally is a date, as we're talking about certs and keys here.
Edit 2: Basically what this article is saying is that the machines will need a new platform key (mited in 2023) enrolled in the tpms, with often comes from the firmware (when tpms are wiped for initial enrollment of a new install/setup, they tend to enroll whatever platform keys from microsoft are baked in to the uefi firmware).
So basically, if you haven't had a bios/uefi firmware update since 2022, there's no way for you to have have the new key trusted by your tpm, and the whole chain of trust falls apart when the key you do have expires. So you'll need to disable secureboot. If you use shim and/or the microsoft platform key in someway.
Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler for New York will retire next year in move to galvanize generational change among Democratic party
Jerry Nadler, a Democratic representative from New York, will retire next year after 34 years in Congress in a self-proclaimed move aimed at galvanizing a generational changing of the guard in the party.
Nadler, 78, who represents one of New York’s wealthiest districts covering midtown Manhattan, said he had been persuaded not to run for re-election in 2026 after witnessing the implosion of Joe Biden’s presidential bid last year. The former president was pressured into abandoning his candidacy amid widespread doubts about his age and mental acuity. He was replaced by the former vice-president, Kamala Harris, who subsequently lost the election to Donald Trump.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler told the New York Times, which broke the news of his forthcoming retirement.
He told the newspaper that a younger replacement “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more”.
Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler will not seek re-election in midterms
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What will MS do when Linux becomes a serious threat to their monopoly ?
What actions might they take in the future?
Their only chance there was the late 90s to early 2000s. MS is one company compared to the totality of mega corporations using Linux and MS also uses a lot of Linux. More money at play in the server market than the general desktop OS market. Linux is the server OS
The US government increasingly uses Linux. Other countries pick up Linux at a faster rate than the US. A higher percentage of people use MacOS today than 20 years ago
My expectation: nothing. At least, nothing on the OS side. I don’t think windows is very important to microsoft strategically.
Nowadays, the way to capture audiences is not so much via a proprietary OS, but via proprietary apps.
And in that sense, microsoft is proceeding exactly as expected: more and more of the windows ecosystem either exists on the web, or is available on linux and macos too.
I can see a future where windows only exists for backwards compatibility, but otherwise:
- dotnet apps run on linux (via dotnet core)
- edge runs on linux
- powershell runs on linux
- visual studio code runs on linux
- most of the rest of microsoft’s suite runs in the web
So what does microsoft need to do once windows collapses in the desktop space? Imo not much, really. Those people and companies that are tied to microsoft products will still be. Only, they might be running them on linux.
Edit to add: I am gonna place a bet that we’re gonna see an official microsoft linux distribution by the end of 2035
Businesses live and die by if it broke don't fix it.
They're still a non insignificant number of businesses using Cobol applications.
An official Microsoft Linux distro has existed for a while now: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_…
There's more Linux than Windwoes VMs in Azure, I hear.
Just my guess here, but...
The desktop/laptop sort of form factor is associated in people's minds with unlocked bootloaders. People expect to be able to install Linux on them if they want to. Tablets, game systems, and other sorts of consumer electronics, not so much. I'm thinking Microsoft will do what it can to push hardware manufacturers and the software industry as a whole more in the direction of the kinds of devices that consumers already expect to be locked down like tablets or game systems that are "streaming" game systems. And that way, the bootloader will prevent folks from switching to Linux.
Honestly, ms won't do anything.
unofficial statement out of Microsoft have Linux VMs overtaking the Windows VMs in Azure.
Why should they worry about losing a once off $1100 sale of a Server 2025 license when they can sell you a 2 CPU 8Gb ram Azure VM for $150 a month? Or $113/m commited for 3 years ($4000 total)
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
SQL Server runs on Linux. Azure supports Linux. The next step is to extend into their own distro, get everyone using it, then drop support for mainstream Linux.
Will it work? Maybe. They'll have to make Microsoft Linux more attractive than Debian and Red Hat.
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Well there is the 9/11 change that may be happening soon: techrights.org/n/2025/08/26/Th…
Its possible a LOT of linux machines wont work after this date.
Hopefully!
Another funny thing is that there is speculation because firmware developers...many not actually be checking the dates at all in some cases. Cause that would mean extra work. So its very possible this date comes and goes, nothing happens to cheap devices.
That was based on conversations im seeing in other forums. Not sure honestly.
Either way, we will find out soon!
sbctl utility instead of the hacky shim/MOK method most distributions use.
Fortunately I'm safe from that bc right after I assembled my current PC (even before moving the distro to it; yes, moving, not "installing"), I entered BIOS and disabled secure boot, IPM 2.0 and pretty much everything Spyware related. Only then I booted Clonezilla and extracted from the backup image. Since I had done the same on the old PC in BIOS, that means my Arch was never installed with SB and IPM active.
On top of that the last update of BIOS nearly broke it, so I flashed it back to the more stable version the motherboard came with. And since I have no intention to update BIOS, I'm safe from all that trouble.
Windows is only 12% of Microsoft's revenue, and between Mac, Linux and ChromeOS, it really doesn't have a monopoly anymore on desktop (about 70%). On top of that, desktop usage in general is decreasing, and is already less than 50% of all web traffic.
What I'm saying is that I think it's safe to say something else will likely "kill" Windows long before Linux ever becomes a serious threat to it.
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Windows is only 12% of Microsoft’s revenue
That may be true, but a lot of their profits build on that Windows monopoly. I wouldn't be surprised if about 80% of their profits depend on Windows.
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I wrote profits, and from the chart you show, clearly above 50% of their revenue is from Windows and derived products.
Last I heard the profit margin for Windows and Office was around 90%, AFAIK by far the highest of the business. So I'm pretty sure that combined with Server products Search and the part of gaming that is on Windows, it will be very close to 80% of the profits.
Some others have already said the "embrace, extend, extinguish" but here's my take on it. Pair it with Secure Boot and TPM 2.0
- Embrace: Secure Boot can already work with Linux, how lucky! This gives them not exactly control, but authoritative denial over your boot process and hardware.
- Extend: This is the part that remains to be seen. If they feel threatened enough by the shift in the gaming landscape, mind you not over losing out on sales or the hearts of gamers or anything, but again control, they may begin to make Linux offerings. A concession to allow an honest to god, thick Office client on Linux would certainly appeal to some. Adobe gets in on that action to back them up with Photoshop and Activision with Call of Duty, etc.
- Extinguish: TPM 2.0. One of the less talked about features of this is remote attestation ("Remote attestation allows changes to the user's computer to be detected by authorized parties. For example, software companies can identify unauthorized changes to software, including users modifying their software to circumvent commercial digital rights restrictions." - DRM). We're already seeing this with CoD on Windows. They'll allow you to run much requested Windows software on Linux, even provide direct support possibly, but at the cost of not precisely control but authoritative denial. Which still works out to be control in most ways since if you want to use the software and they are to remotely attest, they can also insist that part of that attestation is you running some sort of telemetry or not running software they disagree with.
The reason I think this route is highly likely is because it plays well with uninformed consumers. To the untrained eye it looks like they're giving ground and actually allowing for broader support of their software while effectively gaining control over the environment once again and removing the biggest benefits of running FOSS on your system.
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This is a good point. I've been trying to make it clear in a lot of my predictions that Microsoft doesn't want or even need full control, just enough. They don't even need to do anything particular here other than continue to manage github with their current level of incompetence.
Was trying to source an article here, wasn't there just an outage or some other major issue a few days ago? Anyways ...
I believe they just don't care, since not only is Windows not very profitable anymore, the real money is at businesses. So as long as they sell licenses to businesses (business laptops, etc), but also GitHub Enterprise (yes, Micro$oft also owns GitHub) Microsoft earns enough money that way. And also think cloud (Azure)..
My guess is therefor that the focus on Windows isn't that big anymore. I just hope more companies and gaming devs/publishes also push native binaries towards Linux.
Agreed
I think Windows is primarily a development environment for Xbox, just as macOS is primarily a development environment for iOS
Everything else of value from Microsoft is available via the web/cloud (even Office)
Eventually, Microsoft might even decide that it's more profitable to abandon Windows completely
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MS hasn't released an Office version outside 365 for 8 years.
365 is Office for them.
I think you’re mixing up Office 365 and Office Online.
Office 365 is a subscription for Microsoft Office that includes access to both the full, more powerful desktop Office applications and the much less powerful Office Online.
Though I don’t think it’s even called Office 365 anymore, but I don’t respect MS enough to bother to Google what they’re calling it now.
I agree
But how many paying customers need features that are not in the online/cloud versions of Office?
Sure this is a shrinking number of people?
not only is Windows not very profitable anymore, the real money is at businesses.
Hear me out, this is exactly why they care. Windows as a product isn't profitable anymore, but as a market share it is. Apple has always enjoyed their locked down ecosystem and Google is trying to completely block side loading on devices we already largely don't have control over the bootloader. It's no secret Microsoft has been seething with jealousy for years.
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You're a soulless corporate ghoul, how do you make those numbers work for you? Why do you think they have the absolute gall to tell you to throw your computer out and get one that supports TPM 2.0? Why do you think there are still so many people willing or not that will swallow that bitter pill that's Windows 11?
I'm not trying to call you out in particular here or anything, but I think it's foolish to assume they don't
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I agree with you.
Everyone who is saying that windows isn't profitable or no longer an important part of microsoft's business strategy is just a parrot succumbing to the snowball effect.
How exactly do they hope to lock devs in github??? That’s absurd, there’s no way they can achieve that. I can always take my projects elsewhere and there’s nothing they can do to stop me.
I can't tell if you're joking? If not, what do you think "lock-in" actually means?
It doesn't mean that it is impossible to leave, it means that there is substantial switching cost. And, that is certainly the case for github-hosted projects: all active contributors need to make a new account somewhere else, issues and discussions need to be migrated, CI workflows typically need to be rewritten, and good luck finding something that gives as much free compute for CI as github does. Yes, it's easy to mirror a git repo onto another service, but github is much much more than just git repo hosting and each of their features have their own switching cost.
Also, OP actually said "lock devs in" rather than "lock projects in" - I actually am forced to have a github account if i want to contribute to projects which refuse to move their issues off of it 😢 ... and the difficulty in creating new accounts anonymously these days prevents me from contributing to several things (lemmy, for instance) which i otherwise would.
If not, what do you think “lock-in” actually means?
That they'll lock you out of your repo without access to manage it, maybe? Or threaten you to make your software inoperable in Windows, if you don't comply? IDK, they can always think of sonething but if they think I don't already have full copies of my projects on my computer, they're deeply mistaken. 😂
That not an option. If Linux is a serious threat it means that a normal people could use it without any problem, with all the common software needed (Office, a browser and few other things).
At this point trying to lock down the PC to have the be able to run Windows is not really an option, people could simply choose to not use Windows anymore and be productive anyway.
Only problem are games, but it is probably solvable
They cannot do that to every manufacturer, as most of countries are incentivized to not dependent on American or any foreign product.
I can see China or European manufacturer will slowly move from Windows.
At least China already learning the hard way from Android-Huawei relationship.
Exactly what they're doing right now. What cable companies did. What every dominant business does when something better starts to eat their lunch.
Become increasingly abusive and scummy towards the customers who are left, because they're either too deeply ingrained, spineless or lazy to change and they've already self-selected.
Linux has been becoming a "serious threat" for 20+ years now. I'll wait.
Don't get me wrong I like Linux a lot. But if you step back and look objectively, it has a lot of issues trying to grow outside the hobby/enthusiast community for the desktop.
I think that linux has a couple of things that might help it grow outside its traditional niche that it hasn't in the past. Proton has been a major step forward in to the gaming scene. A lot of people are very unhappy about windows 11. The EU in particular is also investing in ways to get out from under American techs thumb due to the geopolitical landscape.
I don't have too high expectations personally but who knows.
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VMs aren't emulation. Its a full OS running on virtual hardware. Also, yes, azure offers several distros, not just Microsoft's.
The OS of the bare metal host shouldn't matter much, if at all, to the guest. If you have a philosophical issue with the hypervisor running under windows I doubt you'd be using azure to begin with.
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Some people including me maybe dont want Linux to become popular.
Can we please have something in this world that isnt ruined by the general population? They already ruined the internet -
The desktop has been losing market for a while. I feel Windows is already under serious threat (if not already in the minority) when you think about all the devices that mainstream audiences orbit around (phones, tablets, portable consoles, etc), often using the Linux kernel. Only about a third of most website traffic comes from desktops.
Many of the people who frequently use Windows desktop do so because of their job, and often avoid using it outside of work as much as possible, since it feels like.. well, work.
Microsoft has been desperately trying to appeal to those other bigger sectors of the pie and has failed every time.
PC Gaming was one sector they had advantage on, yet that has already started to crumble thanks to Valve. I feel that MS will just try to push for integrating their xbox with Windows OS more and more...
I feel it's a battle with many fronts, since PCs have many uses.. so MS is likely to run their typical spiel: copy what the competition are doing and try to centralize/integrate it with their OS in a way that gives them an advantage, as they are famous for doing.
Another sector they can do this is with the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)... they could turn Windows into a frontend for running Linux apps... so if Linux apps became popular, they could try to advertise Windows as the "best" way to run Linux software without losing the full first party support of legacy Windows software.
It's mobile devices that are eroding Windows market share on desktops, not Linux.
Linux already dominates the server space, it runs the internet and super computing, but it will NEVER be a threat to Microsoft on desktops.
The vast majority of desktop users don't give two flips about security, nor freedom, they don't even know what those things are and don't care to be informed.
I've even seen a few (on reddit) asking for Linux to support giving kernel level permissions to applications, so they can play a few videogames, they are fine with having rootkits on their PC, that's the level of "care" they have.
But that's ok, Linux is already a de-facto "monopoly" on the server side, the most important one, it doesn't need to win over also desktops.
They will adapt.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. They will become Linux.
In all seriousness, if you look into how windows manages its security now, it leverages virtualization to essentially run windows inside of a hypervisor. At some point in the future, the legacy windows kernel is going to just be another virtual machine running side by side with Linux and the hypervisor will probably run their HyperV tech on top of a Linux (compatible) kernel.
Then they will say that you need their version of Linux to run specific hardware and software.
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MS already doesn't have a monopoly in any meaningful sense anymore.
- gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s… - in early 2009, almost 95% of web usage was from Windows, by now it is at around 28%, no longer even the most popular OS, which is now Android around 42%
- gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s… - even looking only at the desktop and ignoring the shift to mobile devices, Windows fell from ~95% to ~72% during the same time period, mostly losing to macOS but more recently also Linux
Windows isn't the main way Microsoft makes money anymore anyway...
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And vendors who agree could simply see they sells down since a, at this point large enough, percentage of the buyer prefer someone who don't agree.
I'd wager they have enough resources to stave it off for as long as possible, and when they can't do that anymore they will have a strategy for making money off of their "services" in the linux space.
Microsoft is part of the cabal at this point. Businesses give it money because they're expected to.
Linux on my smart tv?
I have been rather unhappy with my smart TV's functionality as I feel it isn't smart for me but smart for the manufacturers. I just can't use it how I want to. I would love to overwrite the existing OS from Android to Linux. I've recently converted from Windows and loving Mint.
I haven't read too much regarding Linux smart tvs as my searches mostly come up with raspberry Pi and overwriting an Android box. I don't want to connect anything and just want my tv to boot up in Linux when it's turned on, and get some of my apps going. Is there a way to do this?
For reference I have a Sony Bravia with Android installed on it.
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Agreed, ditch the idea of trying to run an OS on the TV itself. It's not worth it.
The TV is best used as a TV and nothing more. Plug a small computer into the back of it using one of the many video/audio ports which exist for just such a purpose.
There are folks form KDE who are trying to implement the Plasma Bigscreen solution: plasma-bigscreen.org/. Seems promising to me 😀
Though, I'd still recommend to use an external device to avoid breaking the TV OS up ;)
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It was abandoned for awhile but a few months back someone has taken up working on it and made a bunch of headway. Looks significantly better than the screenshots on that website.
That said, I think the UI of choice for Linux machines is going to be Steam Big Picture Mode. I've been using it as my SmartTV for awhile now and I really can't think of anything else I'd want. The excellent controller support just makes it untouchable.
How did you get it running? I've tried compiling it on a fresh Arch and fresh Ubuntu 22.04 install and the compiler breaks halfway through.
I only spent about 10 or so minutes each time trying to fix it and moved on.
I just use bazzite. Baked in, super easy.
Agree with op- I've never used it but man, big picture mode is just amazing. Simple to use and does everything I need.
As the other person said, use the version of Bazzite that defaults to the SteamUI (it's what I use on my media center). I think it's called Bazzite-Deck
But what are you trying to compile? You just need Steam, gamescope, and pass it some parameters to boot directly to BPM: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam…
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Well you already have Linux on your TV. Unfortunately it's android which is capitalist crap. They'll no doubt make it extremely difficult to remove their malware. Even if you could overwrite, you would still be using the shitty computer inside your TV.
Like other people have said, I think the best solution is using an external machine. I use an older laptop running Kodi for my TV. It's pretty awesome. Just make sure your machine has the specs for your needs. It shouldn't be hard to find something more powerful than the TV.
I'll answer your question right now without beating around this bush, what you are asking is simply impossible. In fact I will take it one step further, not only is your request not possible using your preexisting TV there is no such consumer TV that you can purchase as of now that will just run Linux. Furthermore there is not a single Linux distro as of now designed to run internally inside of TVs (there are distros for set top boxes, not TVs).
Is it possible in theory?
Possibly but until a single confirmed case of a successful Linux installation on a TV is found I will consider this impossible (furthermore the chances that the successful Linux installation occurs on your specific model of TV is slim).
The requirements to make replacement Linux firmware for a TV would be
1. A degree in CompSci
2. Experience in hardware engineering
3. Extensive knowledge of the TV circuitry
4. All low level schematics of the TV
5. Extensive knowledge of the processor used
6. Extensive knowlage of the original firmware and boot process
7. Extensive knowledge of embedded Linux systems (most likley Alpine)
8. Kernel sources for the TV OS as well as somehow gaining acess to all firmware files
9. Extensive knowledge on low level internal TV communication protocols
At that point just make your own smart TV using a commercial display
You won't need EE knowledge, that's all abstracted away in silicon. You just need to know how to drive the chips, and they'll manage the inputs and outputs.
I doubt the TV OS is any kind of Linux. Usually embedded systems run something like vxworks. Sometimes Minix. Real fancy ones run Android (which is derived from Linux, yes).
This would explain why all my search results never showed me the option. At least I got my answer.
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If you can unlock the bootloader, it might be possible to install a Halium distro like Droidian on it. I wouldn't recommend doing so, however, and there will be missing functionality, such as being able to use any video inputs or watch live TV. It will basically be a large smartphone without a touchscreen.
Instead, I recommend disconnecting your TV from the internet and connecting an external device to it as others have recommended. See if there's a way to autoboot your TV to an HDMI input. You can also get a USB CEC adapter to use your TV's remote on your external device for something like Kodi, for instance.
It would be lovely if we could just boot a TV specialized Linux distro.
Sadly I don’t think it’s going to appear soon except if someone (a conpany) decides to create a niche product filling that need.
There were a couple of distros that specialised in running MythTv, but AFAIK they're unmaintained now.
My MythTv box is home built (on Arch btw), and is fine...
Most important point is to find how to enable Hotel Mode on a TV to get it to power up on the correct video input, rather than the local tuner, menu, etc
Interesting.
Does every smart TV has a hotel mode?
I have a Philips 55PUS7394 and I couldn’t find one by quickly searching on the web.
Well, technically Android IS a type of Linux.
But your solution is to not use the smart functions of a Smart TV. Do a factory reset of your TV and get some sort of external device like an Amazon Fire Stick or Apple TV or Raspbery pi or even a Linux Laptop. Treat your TV like a monitor for a small computer. Relying on the TV is the worst possible scenario.
I wish! I have a Samsung and I used to have an LG. One thing I anticipated which turned out to be on the nose is that these TVs stay operational just up until the maker decides they want your money again. I never bought into it to begin with. I only got a Smart TV to begin with because it has everything else I want. But I go straight to hooking up a computer. The apps on the TVs are all ooh and aah until a couple of years go by and then suddenly the apps are not compatible with the sites or backends what have you, and guess what? No more updates. You need a new TV despite the fact that yours is 100% perfectly fine, other than the inherent sabotage built in.
So that’s why I never even had any expectations. But I would love to find the best Linux distro for a media machine that my wife could learn to use. Right now I have to do all of it because it’s just browse to the files or load a playlist. I’d like something like Kodi or Plex but they have issues with one thing or another. I just want an SMB based connection in an interface that shows friendly thumbnails kinda like Nova player on Android. That app is highly underrated. Free, as far as I know open source and aside from a few control designs not being too great, the app is terrific. Kicks VLC’s butt. Why are they still designing the software like it’s 20 years ago and it’s on Windows XP?
Anyway I digress. Smart TV running Android or Linux would rock but I don’t expect it to be too feasible. But what do I know, because I’m not a professional dev.
The cheapest is to buy some android box with armlogic processor and install coreelec on it. You can do it for 20 bucks, then you have a kodi oriented linux distro on your tv.
Though I prefer to straight up connect my laptop to the tv with a small remote keyboard and have full computer functionality. I'm looking to change the laptop for a miniPC when the laptop finally breaks down. I would use a normal DE. Nothing specially suited for smartTV usage. But you get used to it pretty quick.
Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?
It's been a week. Ubuntu Studio, and every day it's something. I swear Linux is the OS version of owning a boat, it's constant maintenance. Am I dumb, or doing something wrong?
After many issues, today I thought I had shit figured out, then played a game for the first time. All good, but the intro had some artifacts. I got curious, I have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and thought that was weird. Looked it up, turns out Linux was using lvmpipe. Found a fix. Now it's using my card, no more clipping, great!. But now my screen flickers. Narrowed it down to Vivaldi browser. Had to uninstall, which sucks and took a long time to figure out. Now I'm on Librewolf which I liked on windows but it's a cpu hungry bitch on Linux (eating 3.2g of memory as I type this). Every goddamned time I fix something, it breaks something else.
This is just one of many, every day, issues.
I'm tired. I want to love Linux. I really do, but what the hell? Windows just worked.
I've resigned myself to "the boat life" but is there a better way? Am I missing something and it doesn't have to be this hard, or is this what Linux is? If that's just like this I'm still sticking cause fuck Microsoft but you guys talk like Linux should be everyone's first choice. I'd never recommend Linux to anyone I know, it doesn't "just work".
EDIT: Thank you so much to everyone who blew up my post, I didn't expect this many responses, this much advice, or this much kindness. You're all goddamned gems!
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When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall GNU/LINUX OS grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
I know I'm very late to the party and any comment in a thread with 200+ posts is like yelling at the void.
BUT
My experience with Windows has hardly been "it just works". In fact it has been a history of decades of tinkering and messing around with it to try and get it to do what I want.
The only difference is that Windows obscures everything, so when something breaks it does so quietly. Meaning you might not notice... Or. More likely. It'll just crash out and you don't even have an error code to google.
This isn't to say that Linux isn't a balancing act of constant maintenance. It is. Just... The Windows experience was never "better" for me from that angle. And... On some level, I enjoy all the tinkering. I think all Linux folks do.
Still new with Linux as my regular desktop at home, after ditching Windows (kind of), I'm amazed by the level of things I can try to go into a try to make stuff work, that does not do as I want to. But also, annoyed about the level of things that sometimes needs to get tweaked and thinking "why the hell do I need to make these changes" like super fast scrolling in Firefox for whatever reason.
Windows have more or less "just worked" for me for the last 30 years (not remembering anything too critical, always better than every Linux attempt until recently). But I also didn't treat Windows in a way that I had to reinstall it every 6 months (whatever that causes that). What have gotten me over the tipping point with Windows is all the push for me to subscribe to extra things (OneDrive), use Microsoft things (like Bing, even though I used to use it over Google), Edge trying to trick you into using Edge and copy your stuff from Chrome, and changing defaults to Microsoft apps.
At work I changed to a Mac. I was actually surprise at how many graphics issues I have noticed and other weird minor bugs. The biggest issue here is the keyboard layout when you remote into Windows servers and some modifier keys are mapped differently combined with non-English keyboard layout.
Most people are so used to the windows bullshit that they don't even recognise it anymore, Linux (especially fedora) has been much more stable for me.
Also, the problem is always nvidia
Good stuff. As much as I hate Microsoft and everything they do, if you're enjoying a stable system, and don't mind the injected Spyware and ramsonware that comes with windows by default, enjoy.
Not everyone has to like Linux.
I have tried twice getting a notice of failed payment due to change of banks and therefore change of credit card. But then I gave it the new card's details and everything was good. However, I don't remember if I was passed some doomsday deadline or not.
Not saying it's not an issue and I would consider it bad business for Microsoft to delete users data without proper notifications and a long enough time frame to fix any payment issues. However, deleting data online is not ransomware - if Microsoft deletes the data, then they have nothing to hold ransom.
I agree that there should be a grace period after payments are stopped before they delete stuff. But I see no reason that they should provide you with free access to their service - if you haven’t paid, service is cut off.
But that is just my opinion.
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In his ruling, Daniels noted that the two sides had different interpretations of almost every piece of evidence. But he endorsed the plaintiffs’ views of several key exhibits, including a diagram of an airplane found in one of Bayoumi’s notebooks. Citing aviation experts, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said the drawing and the calculations beside it showed how a plane might hit an object on the ground. The Saudis’ lawyers suggested that Bayoumi had drawn it while helping his son with homework.
Daniels said the plaintiffs’ evidence created “a high probability as to Bayoumi and Thumairy’s roles in the hijackers’ plans, and the related role of their employer,” the Saudi government. “In many instances,” he added, “it even appeared that Bayoumi actively injected himself” into the hijackers’ illicit activities.
9/11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Kingdom Can Go to Trial: Judge
Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.ProPublica
Fedia and Piefed have baked in code to block their users from seeing our replies, posts, and comments, while allowing a form of one way federation.
I'd argue it's more of an issue for them, since they do not get to counter-argument 😛
Your reply refuting their argument can be read by everyone that is in an open platform, while their messages only go unchallenged on their own echo chamber anyway.
To me, it would be worse if it was the other way around: them spewing shit and me not even realizing and being unable to respond.
It depends.
The invalid reasoning a person might have for an argument does not necessarily invalidate the argument (if you can reach the same argument from multiple reasonings), it only discredits their ability to form arguments with a valid basis.
So a long conversation can lead to the person losing credibility, but a strong rebuttal focused on the initial argument, to me, is more important if what we want is to refute the argument.
There's nothing we can do about server-to-server blocking, but I think over the long term, people will join servers that do less instance blocking, so that they can personally be in control of what they see.
And of course everyone not on restricted servers will still see your replies / takedowns, so it really only harms them. In a big way, responses are just as important to onlookers, than the one you're responding to.
Oh yeah for sure I was just curious as to your thoughts on people taking this project and building in their own ideologically motivated blocking. I know that there is nothing to be done about it as its all open source I just find it scummy that they do this in the first place. I get not wanting to federate with specific instances but the way this works is to just automatically make it one way only unless the person using their fork manually changes it.
I don't want to force them to see our posts or comments or anything idgaf about that I just don't want to have to guess which people I can see on my end can actually see my replies to them ya know?
unless the person using their fork manually changes it.
Updating the defederation blocklist is done via the admin UI. A fork implies having to recreate the source code and modify it. This is different.
Recent comment from another admin
This is exactly how it works. I started a PieFed instance and made the decision (during setup) to trim the defederation list down to none. Users can block on the account level.
That's the way we'd prefer it, and it's already working in lemmy. But unfortunately that wasn't added until after full instance blocking, so most instances kept their blocklists.
We have instance community blocks working rn, and instance user blocks will be in the next release.
Of course I do think instances should fully block some servers, like the ultra right kiwi-farms and stormfront type ones... but unfortunately those communities set up on the big instances now anyway.
You can still federate after the instance setup, like piefed.zip does
- piefed.zip/c/news@hexbear.net
- piefed.zip/instances?page=9&fi…
You said I spammed this, but you still didn't register the information?
hexbear.net/post/5959834/64439…
See this comment: lemmy.ml/post/35276820/2072364…
Long story short, instances who defederate hexbear were doing so on their Lemmy instances anyway
He's just very committed to making sure the Nazi bars have a good public image okay?
There's a huge post in their snark comm where they're spinning this as 'just a default' and he's pasting it there too lmao
This whole post is also just standard defederation.
Even people on hexbear say it
On a technical level, defederation is one way.
- hexbear.net/post/5815893/64129…
Maybe I should start using that comment from now on
It's the default setting for the echo chamber that I took issue with.
I did say that it was something admins can change manually in my initial post here, twice.
The OP was calling for a Fediverse-wide boycott when this is how defederation works, and always has been (see hexbear comment above).
It is very annoying for myself and others to write out effort posts refuting shit these liberals spew on our platforms only to find out none of them will ever see it.
The issues I have with piefed are more related to the auto-collapsing comments based on votes, and the terrible search features, particularly its modlog. Seems way worse for transparency to have things that opaque and censorship happening through votes.
Question, do you feel comfortable posting in comms where other people are getting called degenerate roaches?
modlog
Modlog fitering has been added on 24th of August: crust.piefed.social/modlog
For the votes, I agree it should be an option, hopefully in the future it will be, but for now there are other priorities, and personally I'm not that impacted as the communities are in are usually smaller and without a lot of downvotes.
Question, do you feel comfortable posting in comms where other people are getting called degenerate roaches?
I'm going to be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, I unsubscribed from it and this type of comments reminds me why. I ignore it most of the time, but yesterday I was curious to see what other people could think about this thread, and as expected, there was one. Where people were also incorrect about the way defederation is configured in Piefed, which is where I pasted the comment you mentioned.
I think Rimu is the same, he just got pinged into that thread, and answered there to clarify things, he doesn't particularly endorses that community.
Let's see how the mod answer, maybe there should be another community with moderation rules that ask to respect the humans, even though ideas can be criticized.
@goat@sh.itjust.works , do you support this kind of comments? sh.itjust.works/comment/201408…
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This is a staging area where we test out the latest PieFed code, before releasing it. Expect occasional breakages which will be more than compensated for by the exhilaration of living on the edge!crust.piefed.social
2) goat has been banned from lemmy.ml, I'm not sure if they would be able to reply in this thread even without 1.
Or you could just leave the Nazi bar. shitsjustfash was federated for about two days with hexbear if I recall correctly and in that time we experienced dozens of their users posting: ableism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, literal Nazi apologia in the form of the "clean Wehrmacht" myth, downplaying the genocide of indigenous people in the americas and the ongoing one in Palestine. So when they claim that we are denying a "genocide" of Muslims in China (there literally isn't one and they don't actually give a fuck about Muslims) it would be funny if these people weren't all over places like piefed too and trying to ensure that nobody from anywhere like here can actually provide any counterfactual arguments to their Nazi propaganda.
And you. Yes you yourself, are all over here spamming your little copypasta trying to defend this decision and the BEST you can fucking do is "oh hmmmm I'll look into it by asking the literal Nazi mod of shitsjustfash if they're a Nazi, I'm sure they will be forthcoming and honest"
trying to ensure that nobody from anywhere like here can actually provide any counterfactual arguments to their Nazi propaganda.
Lemmy.ml doesn't exist now?
Also, as I said above
maybe there should be another community with moderation rules that ask to respect the humans, even though ideas can be criticized.
It’s the opposite: lemmy.ml is still federated with all the Piefed instances, and allows people to provide counterfactual arguments to Nazi propaganda.
Interesting to see you projecting the worse possible interpretation of my words, some people might consider this 'dishonest'
If that's what you genuinely meant, then I apologize, but given your past behavior and refusal to clarify your aims in any way, it's still deeply suspicious. You could just as easily plainly explain what your goals are and why you always seem so excited to move communities from Lemmy.ml to Lemmy.zip despite saying Lemmy.ml is smallish, while claiming to help decentralization, as well as minimizing the clear ideological bias in putting leftist instances alongside CSAM and spam in default block lists.
If you gave an explanation, then people wouldn't be so quick to interpret your vague statements in an anti-Leftist manner.
Here is the last comment I made on the topic, feel free to answer there if you want, it's getting off topic for this post:
I told you I was disengaging from there, and I did, but since you insist on continuing this dead conversation, your answer there was entirely unsatisfying.
- Lemmy.ml is an instance almost always put alongside Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml. You defend moving communities away from Lemmy.ml, and you defend default blocking Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml.
- Moving communities from Lemmy.ml means Lemmy.ml users that tend to scroll locally can no longer access these communities without going to all, and further means moderation style changes with new admins. I underatand that Lemmy.zip is federated, but you're just telling me that I'm not allowed to take issue with this. It's toxic behavior.
- None of these answers why you are doing this, why you push heavily for Piefed.social especially, and why you bat so hard for devs that pre-bake anti-leftist sentiment into defaults.
Ok, so I got an answer from goat, which said basically that calling other people cockroaches happens on hexbear as well
hexbear.net/search?q=cockroach…
It seems true from what I can see.
As I said, I don't have a dog in this fight, it seems indeed bad to have such comments on both sides.
I usually avoid !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, those comments in that thread were the first I made there in a month (sh.itjust.works/search?q=+&typ… )
I believe there should be another community to report bad faith arguments made by any instance (!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , but broader), but I don't have the time or energy for that.
From that link pretty much all of the usage is talking about the literal insect, or talking about reactionaries/fascists using it to refer to muslims, immigrants and other 'undesirables'.
Out of the handful of remaining uses, it's stuff like in the hexbear thread on this meanwhileongrad thread:
This is the most questionable usage I found, and it's referring to fash/reactionaries.
That's not the main point though, the bigger issue was getting called a 'degenerate' that's pretty much a red flag that someone's a cryptofash.
citing db0 on this one:
compare the use of the term on shit vs hexbear:
sh.itjust.works/search?q=degen…
hexbear.net/search?q=degenerat…
While looking I found this one on hexbear 5 years ago, almost 90 upvotes shitting on stalin for criminalizing homosexuality, and quoting him calling someone degenerate. I read this as extremely critical of Stalin:
All the usage on hexbear I see is either self-deprecating or discussing (negatively) about people using the term.
Vaush this year defended the idea that he is allowed to call trans people shit like "subhuman, degenerate, mentally ill, leeching off society" if they step out of line and oppose him or his breadtube friends.
meanwhile on meanwhile on grad:
My experience on lemmy is vastly improved after blocking lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, hexbear, beehaw, and pawb. Wiped out vast swathes of degenerates from my feed.
hmmm, calling people degenerates and complaining about commies, progressives and furries.
Goat seems fine with replies calling people he doesn't like degenerates:
more examples:
Wouldn’t be surprised to hear they are, but nonetheless the chapo trap house degenerates that make up hexbear and grad are real. They do believe the dumb shit they say. It can’t all just be explained away with CCP and FSB boogeymen unfortunately, that would honestly be better imo. I’m sure some of it is, but mostly it’s people crazy enough to believe the stupid bullshit they spout.
site admin calls it out, entirely downvoted lol
Like you might think I'm being melodramatic, but I really don't see how meanwhileongrad isn't a nazi bar.
As I said, I don’t have a dog in this fight, it seems indeed bad to have such comments on both sides.
I really hope you re-assess both sides, because they are not equivalent.
I understand, there's plenty of problematic posters to go around, the issue I have is that it's normalized calling an instance which is overwhelmingly trans and queer 'degenerates', that's a major red flag, and it's behavior like that which was why hexbear defederated shit in the first place.
sh.it doesn't seem to have improved in that time
Thank you for the detailed answer. I'm going to be honest, I don't have the time to check all of this, and being insulted here in the last few days (lemmy.ml/modlog/14810) doesn't really incite me to keep coming back to this thread (I made an exception for Jet as he didn't have access to the other thread on SJW)
I summarized my view on the whole thing in this comment: lemmy.ml/post/35392790/2076427…
Coming back to the Piefed default blocking list, I investigated more, here is what an admin setting up an instance experience is like (wetshav.ing/comment/92409)
I'm on my computer now, so I'll type out some more detail if you're interested. To reiterate, I'm just going off memory and it was two weeks ago so I could very well be making stuff up...The pre-filled input box asked for each blocked instance to go on a new line, so:
lemmy.world
lemmy.ml
lemmygrad.ml
hexbear.net
lemmy.zip
piefed.social
etc... I deleted all of the defaults and that was it. I'll put a screenshot of the settings page that's available to admins below:
I agree it should be improved to make it fully optional, but it's still acceptable for now. I guess we disagree on that, and that's fine, hopefully one day the change will be made.
True, and I disagree with them having it.
Piefed is still a cool software, and I think having a diversity of threadiverse softwares is a good thing. Stuff like flairs and polls are nice to have.
I don't disagree, they have nice features and I hope that results in those features eventually spilling over to similar improvements in lemmy. If it wasn't for the ideological crusade some people are on I wouldn't care at all.
A lot of the promotion of it has been along the lines of 'fuck those tankie degenerates, come use piefed', an example of which I included here
Omg dude we get it stop spamming this. We know. That is not what this is about.
If someone runs an instance that has manually unblocked us cool but that is not what this is about and you are clearly the one not registering what I am pointing out here
You are presenting this like the baked in code forces one-way federation, when it's clear that the admins can update this later.
Example of two Piefed instances that currently federate hexbear:
- piefed.au/instances?page=6&fil…
- anarchist.nexus/instances?page… , which is related to lemmy.dbzer0.com/, also federated with hexbear
List of Piefed instances that currently defederate hexbear:
- piefed.blahaj.zone/ , the same way lemmy.blahaj.zone/ does
- piefed.world/, the same way lemmy.world/ does
- piefed.ca/, the same way lemmy.ca/ does
- feddit.online/, the same way fedia.io/ does (by the way, Fedia isn't a software, it's called Mbin, and doesn't have such code, so not sure why you're including them into your title)
- quokk.au/, it used to be the same when it was still a Lemmy instance
- piefed.europe.pub/, the same way europe.pub/ does
piefed.fediverse.observer/list
As you can see, instances defederating hexbear are instances managed by teams which were going to do so anyway, as they already did on Lemmy.
Instances who want to federate know how to do so, there are three examples.
Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.
Piefed Sites Status. Find a Piefed server to sign up for, find one close to you!piefed.fediverse.observer
Yes but I am saying we should block at least any that have this one directional federation. You are putting impressive effort into missing the point.
Edit: And thankfully we apparently just did.
On a technical level, defederation is one way.
- hexbear.net/post/5815893/64129…
Oh my god please shut the fuck up. No it is not. You are being an annoying pedantic little piece of shit you do get that right? You fucking know what I am complaining about here and you keep posting this "welll AAAACKSHUALLLLLY".
Let me spell this out for you one last fucking time:
"federation" in spirit is the sharing of content BETWEEN instances and is intended as a two way affair. Piefed instances default to blocking any and all traffic from hexbear or lemmygrad and thus there is no way to know if being federated with those instances is actually allowing mutual communication unless tested and therefore without explicit prior statement that the instance owner has gone in and removed the malicious coding nobody should federate with them at all.
Finally and what this entire post is about: I am calling for everyone, not just hexbear, to defederate and block piefed on principle because their devs are deliberately trying to worsen the entire concept of the fediverse by trying to enforce their fascist ideology through blocking dissent through their code.
It is underhanded and dishonest and a shameful display of liberalism aiding fascism.
thus there is no way to know if being federated with those instances is actually allowing mutual communication unless tested
There is, I linked to the /instances pages that show which instances are federated or not above
- piefed.au/instances?page=6&fil…
- anarchist.nexus/instances?page…
- piefed.world/instances
- etc.
You fucking know what I am complaining about here and you keep posting this “welll AAAACKSHUALLLLLY”.
You seem to be misunderstanding that defederation being one way is new. I literally used a comment from another hexbear user above clarifying this.
If you want to complain about Piefed having a default defederation list, feel free, but don't start to question the way defederation has been working between instances for years.
Instances
The World's Internet Frontpage PieFed.World is a general-purpose PieFed instance of various topics, for the entire world to use. Be polite and follow the rules ⚖ https://legal.piefed.piefed.world
default defederation list,
THAT IS WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT DUMBASS
Please kindly stop your pedantic bullshit and actually engage with the subject instead of endlessly trying to well ackshually out of it.
I swear to fucking god. I am not "misunderstanding" anything and your smug condescending tone just makes me want to shove your nerd ass into a locker.
THAT IS WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT DUMBASS
Then call it like this instead of pretending that Piefed's implementation of defederation isn't standard.
For hexbear + lemmygrad it's by default
from what I can tell, when a server is spun up there's the option to subscribe to an existing blocklist on a piefed server.
This means blocklists can propagate transitively:
If instance A blocks lemmy.ml, and instance B subscribes to A’s blocklist, and instance C subscribes to B’s blocklist, then whatever instance is blocked on A will also end up blocked on C (unless filtered out manually).
quoting the developer of piefed, hexbear and lemmygrad are blocked by default:
Hexbear and lemmygrad will always be blocked and PieFed is coded to block them by default on all new instances (admins can change it). No plans to defederate lemmy.ml as I've built mod tools that help me find the most odious users & banned them and now it's tolerable.
This is why piefed is so popular with centrist extremists.
pyfedi/app/cli.py at f3e863d277932b55a15b1fe5043d750994fb8c14
pyfedi - Project background: https://join.piefed.social Demo site / Flagship instance: https://piefed.socialCodeberg.org
Thanks. That's unfortunate. But everyone running an instance will know about blocked instances sooner or later and can get them if the list of they like.
The blocklist subscription would be super useful on mastodon but I think the threadiverse is a bit different. However I'm on my single user instance and am subscribed to communities on other instances only, so I already get a pre-moderated experience even if I don't block any instances myself so far so is experience doesn't match that of the admin of an instance with more users and own communities.
Make the slur filter editable from the site itself
It's generally not a good idea to hard code something like the slur filter because the needs of every instance is different. Instances in another language would need their versions, and cases where...StaticallyTypedRice (GitHub)
It's rather unfortunate that no one gets to see other perspectives. And it's messing with my hope that the USA can get better, because it's feels like this: lemmygrad.ml/post/8939607
These people are willing to accept the "lesser evil," but it's the same evil, and they are condemning poor people and PoC to have to deal with it, because we're the buffer. But they won't stop at us.
Moreover, this is the censorship they screen bloody murder about with the "great firewall." Absolutely zero introspective ~~ability~~ effort.
I think it's annoying, but im not sure if there's a clear solution. Id say this type of one sided block is similar to ghost bans and feels just as abusive.
I cant imagine it's very pleasant on their side either, since it would feel as if everyone from grad or ml were giving you the cold shoulder and make the fediverse feel dead.
The nature of the fediverse is open though - escalating this to another ban/block or banning the custom fork would be counterproductive, imo. If thats their preferred way to curate content, I guess thats their prerogative
US suspends most visas for Palestinian passport-holders, after 80 Palestinian officials were denied visas ahead of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Earlier in August, visitor visas were paused for people hoping to travel from the Palestinian territory of Gaza. This newly-reported decree would affect a wider group - including people living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The decision was issued in a diplomatic cable dated 18 August, the New York Times and CNN reported.
US consular officers were told to refuse non-immigrant visas to "all otherwise eligible Palestinian Authority passport holders", the communication was quoted as saying.
That would apply to Palestinians hoping to come to the US for a range of purposes, including for business, study or medical treatment.
The move meant that officials would be required to perform a further review of each applicant, which amounted to a blanket ban on issuing visas to Palestinians, the New York Times added in its report.
US suspends most visas for Palestinian passport-holders, reports say
The new restriction comes after a group of Palestinian officials were refused visas for a key UN meeting in New York.James FitzGerald (BBC News)
I am web developer where can I get white label websites and other resources since I am solo
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Not entirely sure I understand what you mean but in addition to the suggestion of WordPress, all the plugins must be licensed as GPL as well. So all the paid for plugins can be obtained and legally used without paying. You will however have to forgo support and automatic updates on most.
I would suggest the WordPress section on babia.to
Trump's use of National Guard in Los Angeles illegal, judge rules
A federal judge in California has ruled that the way President Donald Trump deployed deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles this summer was illegal.
The ruling comes as Trump seeks to use National Guard troops in order to crack down on crime in other US cities and support immigration enforcement.
US District Judge Charles Breyer said Trump violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the power of the federal government to use military force for domestic matters.
The law, first passed in 1878, prohibits using the US military in order to execute domestic laws, or assist with doing so. The law has limited exceptions, such as authorisation by Congress.
Judge Breyer found that the ways the Trump administration used the National Guard in Los Angeles violated these restrictions.
Trump's use of National Guard in Los Angeles illegal, judge rules
The ruling comes as Trump seeks to use National Guard troops in order to crack down on crime in other US cities.Kayla Epstein (BBC News)
Help Me Comprehensively Understand The "Big Picture".
There's just too much going on for any one person to understand it all. Never mind accounting for the geopolitical, economic, and cultural factors of every situation. Than there's the rapidly changing contexts. New technology, new science and physics, new species of bacteria/fungai. Rediscovering of ancient practices. Regional problems and solutions. I could go on and on.
I advocate for "futuristic solutions" but I acknowledge that transition will not be overnight or always linear.
So what is going on out there? That's what I'm asking c/climate@slrpnk
- What's going on in your local region / etc and what is the political or economic context.
- Which solutions are being implemented or developed
- Who is organizing and leading their community towards solutions
...
As a Canadian I'm aware that we're expanding our LNG/Fracking, mineral mining, and oil... First Nations groups are providing some pushback against those projects, but we can't expect them to hold the line on ecological protection (There's a clear fiscal incentive for them to give in).
davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-d…
ief.org/news/how-to-make-minin…
cbc.ca/news/indigenous/leaders…
Canada also has and ongoing protest to stop old growth forest logging, which has gotten out of control. I honestly don't know what to think about our forest management, because I'm under the impression that logging can be done in an environmentally friendly way; but it isn't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Cr…
naturecanada.ca/news/press-rel…
Canada also has a lot of old hydro-electric dams which are bad for the rivers and their immediate environment.
ucs.org/resources/environmenta…
I'm hopeful Canada's growing role as a global commodity supplier will allow us to set higher international environmental standards.
I've also read online that there are already climate refugees from both rising oceans and regional droughts upending agriculture in the middle east.
lawfaremedia.org/article/from-…
Logging Emerges as Canada’s Third Largest Climate Polluter - Nature Canada
Report concludes that logging is Canada’s third-highest-emitting sector behind oil & gas and transportation greenhouse gas emissions in CanadaNature Canada
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Without addressing anything you have put here (sorry), I think this addresses the big picture:
“Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
While I don't disagree with that quote it's not what I'm looking for. Philosophical economic theory is talked about ad nauseum on literally every other community.
I posted on c/climate because I want to hear specific cases and incidents from a scientific and ecological perspective.
Tell me what you know is going on locally, nationally, internationally. I could list 10 or so things from the USA but I'm not from there so I'll let locals chime in.
That wasn't a philosophical economic theory. It was a very concise assessment of the conclusion drawn of tens of thousands of papers in the ecology and related fields. It is correct and succint. The Stockholm Centre's Planetary Boundaries framework is a little more detailed if that is what you are looking for.
I get that it's not what you wanted. But I find your request convoluted. Are you really trying to crowdsource a list of local environmental activities from a little used sub on a little used platform? You think these fractured and limited insights will help you understand the "Big Picture"? Big pictures don't come from microscopes.
Perhaps rethink your wants and reformulate the request to something more coherent.
The big picture:
What we need to do
- Generate all electricity without burning stuff
- convert things that currently burn stuff to run on electricity
- stop doing the things we can't electrify
- substitute a few industrial gases
How we are doing
* we know how to do the electric generation, with wind, solar, storage, and a bit of geothermal and nuclear
* we aren't making that switch fast enough, and the US in particular now has policies to slow things down even more
* weve figured out how to do transport and steel making without fossil fuels and it works
* same as above, not moving fast enough in much of the world
* emissions are increasing more slowly than they would have without the effort, but we are ona trajectory which makes loss of major ecosystems quite likely and threatens the viability of agriculture as a basis for civilization
stop doing the things we can't electrify
Or eliminate the problem in the first place. For instance walkable cities reducing transportation demand overall.
substitute a few industrial gases
What and why?
steel making without fossil fuels and it works
This is interesting! Can you please elaborate or provide a link? Where is it being adopted?
emissions are increasing more slowly than they would have without the effort, but we are ona trajectory which makes loss of major ecosystems quite likely and threatens the viability of agriculture as a basis for civilization
This is where I'm coming from. Outdoor agriculture is both harming the planet and about to become significantly less viable as the planet heats up.
As far as industrial gases, there mostly ones with fluorine in them. SF₆ and refrigerant are the biggies.
For steel, the big one that exists at pilot scale is the use of hydrogen to reduce ore instead of carbon. Seems to work OK and makes a good enough product for most use.
Indoor farming only really is viable for specialty crops like drugs and a few vegetables. I dont expect to see it used for the grains that feed most of the population. The room to lower the amount of agriculture comes from reducing meat consumption and the use of food crops as motor vehicle fuel.
pilot scale is the use of hydrogen to reduce ore instead of carbon
Ooh it's being done in Canada! cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/ar…
Indoor farming only really is viable for specialty crops like drugs and a few vegetables.
Yes and no. I garden. Hydroponically grown produce in my experience is higher quality, has long shelf life, and grows significantly faster. While cash crop commercial scaling may not be viable outside select crops, smaller household grows certainly are.
I fully agree though that mitigating livestock cultivation and biofuels are our biggest opportunities at present.
technical readiness level for hydrogen production is lacking.
adoption is slowed down by chicken egg problem (steam methane reforming vs pyrolysis/electrolysis)
but yeah. I sign your points.
Israeli protesters stage ‘day of disruption’ calling for end to war in Gaza
A majority of Israelis back ending the war as part of a ceasefire deal to free all remaining hostages, a sentiment mostly driven by concerns about hostages still in Gaza and the impact of two years of war on Israeli society and its economy.Most protests include some demonstrators calling for an end to famine and the slaughter of Palestinians, but they are usually a tiny minority. Polling this week showed that nearly three-quarters of Jewish Israelis partially or totally agree with the claim made by Israel's government that "there are no innocents in Gaza".
Earlier this month, another survey found 78% of Jewish Israelis said they were "not so troubled" or "not troubled" at all by reports of Palestinian suffering.
Large majority of Israeli Jews untroubled by reports of famine in Gaza, poll finds
Among the Arab public, 86 percent of respondents said they are 'very troubled' or 'somewhat troubled' about the situation in Gaza. The poll also found a much greater degree of concern among left-wing JewsLinda Dayan (Haaretz)
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Jesus... Three quarters of Israel's population think there are no innocent people in Gaza.
That's some evil shit right there.
Amerika give up its nukes?
Oh silly me, he just wants Russia and China to give up theirs.
Trump Rapes Kids.
We don't need to wait for the Epstein Files to tell us what we already know.
Proceed.
Haiti at the Tipping Point: From Invisible Chains to Tangible Solutions | Haiti Liberte
Haiti at the Tipping Point: From Invisible Chains to Tangible Solutions | Haiti Liberte
(Français) Over the first two and a half decades of the 21st century, we have seen the emergence of Haiti’s “gangs,” as the U.S. State Department andKervens Louissaint (Haiti Liberté)
Report: Apple Demands Suppliers Switch to Robotics for Manufacturing
Report: Apple Demands Suppliers Switch to Robotics for Manufacturing
Apple is significantly accelerating the rollout of automation and robotics across its manufacturing supply chain, DigiTimes reports. While Apple...Hartley Charlton (MacRumors.com)
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.Juha-Matti Santala
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Salesforce CEO says it cut 4,000 support jobs - and replaced them with AI
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has revealed the company has nearly halved its customer support workforce, replacing thousands of jobs with AI agents.In a podcast interview with Logan Bartlett on YouTube, Benioff brutally stated: “I need less heads,” noting how instead of using human power, Salesforce is now using AI to process around 10,000 leads weekly.
Yet in the same interview, Benioff noted a lack of human resources had caused the company to accrue a backlog of 100 million uncalled leads over 26 years.
Salesforce CEO says it cut 4,000 support jobs - and replaced them with AI
Salesforce has cut 45% of its customer support workersCraig Hale (TechRadar)
For those of us with ADHD, if you are thinking about a task every second you're not doing it and desperately want to do the task more than anything else and are devastated that you can't do it so much that you use all your energy just on trying to make yourself do the thing that you want to do but can't, that is NOT procrastination. That is executive dysfunction. It only seems like procrastination to people who have never experienced executive dysfunction and those who have only ever experienced executive dysfunction.
Procrastination is when you fully have the ability to do something and choose not to do it but to do the thing you prefer doing instead. I hadn't experienced this until very recently, after a lot of therapy and medication.
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Trial of Brazil’s Bolsonaro enters verdict phase over alleged coup plot
Trial of Brazil’s Bolsonaro enters verdict phase over alleged coup plot
The former president is charged with five counts, including plotting the assassination of senior officials.Al Jazeera
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in reply to Quibblekrust • • •i cannot help as i do not know the arguments of snapper. Maybe try specifying the snapshots subvolume by hand? Or force it?
Worst case scenario: Restore the snapshot by hand, delete the .snapshots subvolume, reinstall snapper, which i think also makes the .snapshots subbolume.
floquant
in reply to Quibblekrust • • •ACPI/BIOS errors are usually benign and not the cause of boot failures, but those seem weirder than the ones I've encountered before.
Did you enter emergency mode and inspect the system logs? I don't know why it suggests
journalctl -xb, usejournalctl -eto see at what point it got stuckQuibblekrust
in reply to floquant • • •Thanks! Using
-ejumped right to the problem:Something—I don't know what—added a removable drive to fstab, and the error was that drive couldn't be mounted at boot.
I have two guesses:
At any rate, I commented out that line in fstab and it booted right up. Now I just have to fix snapper.
EDIT: Why is my
-ered?Testing-f-aBxWeird. What I see when viewing mycomment on thelemmy.club:
floquant
in reply to Quibblekrust • • •nofailmount option.Quibblekrust
in reply to floquant • • •Good to know. Thanks!
tychosmoose
in reply to Quibblekrust • • •Is it possible that you didn't enable snapshots during installation of TW, and then turned it on later?
That seems to be a common explanation on the openSUSE forum when .snapshots is missing from fstab (found by searching for the error you are hitting). There are some threads with workarounds. Basically, mount the .snapshots subvol manually, re-try the rollback and then add .snapshots to fstab so it works in the future.
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