Moscow not against Kiev taking care of its security, but not at Russia's expense — Putin
Moscow not against Kiev taking care of its security, but not at Russia's expense — Putin
The Russian leader recalled that there are general agreements to the effect that the security of one state cannot be guaranteed at the expense of the security of othersTASS
Russia did not annex Crimea, but extended helping hand to its people — Putin
Russia did not annex Crimea, but extended helping hand to its people — Putin
According to the Russian leader, the residents of Crimea recognized that they had become part of an independent Ukraine following the Soviet Union's collapseTASS
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.
No vote on Israel’s participation was held on Thursday at the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition.
Instead, participating broadcasters voted only to introduce new rules designed to stop governments and third parties from disproportionately promoting songs to influence voters.
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participationPhilip Oltermann (The Guardian)
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026, as Israel allowed to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.
No vote on Israel’s participation was held on Thursday at the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition.
Instead, participating broadcasters voted only to introduce new rules designed to stop governments and third parties from disproportionately promoting songs to influence voters.
Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands pull out after decision not to hold vote on Israel’s participationPhilip Oltermann (The Guardian)
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One of Many
One of Many (undead neutral evil rogue/barbarian/warlock) is a companion in the Mask of the Betrayer campaign. The One of Many may join your party if you devour Okku at the end of Act I.Contributors to NWN2Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
Weird issues after swapping GPU from nVidia to AMD: audio crackling and mouse cursor "lagging" and going crazy
PoP_OS 22.04.
Recently upgraded GPU and went from nVidia to AMD. Since AMD drivers are already baked into the kernel, I simply uninstalled nVidia ones by
sudo apt purge ~nnvidiabut after doing so and rebooting with the new GPU, the game I had been playing until minutes before the swap started giving me an unbearable amount of audio crackling, mainly (but not exclusively) when there's audio besides the one from the game playing (e.g. background music player).
Searching online I found out it's an issue with pipewire, and found someone mentioning a solution that edited the quantum values, though that didn't work for me; specifically, making default.clock.quantum larger.
The second issue happens everywhere but fullscreen applications (e.g. games): if I quickly draw circles with my mouse, at some point the pointer starts drifting away in erratic ways, even though I'm still drawing circles with my mouse; other times, especially when there's a windowed app (such as FreeTube while playing a video), even simply moving the mouse across the screen results in the pointer lagging behind as if the screen were jelly, and if I start drawing circles, the video stutters to the point of freezing.
Now, the audio issue is extremely problematic since I have to keep volume very low, as even an average volume means crackling is loud to the point it hurts my ears; the jelly-pointer is less of an issue, but still very annoying.
Any ideas?
Anyone who had these issues and is now on PoP 24 beta? Long shot, but it releases next week and if the issue was fixed for you, I'll wait, otherwise I might just try a different distro.
Thanks in advance!
default.clock.quantum
That probably didn’t do anything. I think it sets the quantum if it isn’t otherwise set.
Check pw-top while you’re playing from a source where you experience crackling. You can see the quantum value, if it’s low (usually 1) then that source is using the minimum quantum.
You can change it, temporarily (until reboot/pipewire service restart) with
pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum <value>Try 256 to start with increase if you still get crackling.
Here’s the documentation on pipewire buffering: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…
I’ll leave finding the config file to make this permanent as an exercise for the reader.
Thanks for the reply and sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
Your solution works and 256 is enough to get rid of basically all cracklings, thank you!
You sure your PSU can handle this new card AND all your other components?
A good sign it can't is if this only happens when your card is under a fair amount of utilization.
Try disabling the power saving settings for the machine, and make sure your power profile is set to 'performance'. See if that changes anything.
I am certain this is a power issue, but where it's stemming from us difficult to tell without actually seeing the machine.
Would also be useful if you check your BIOS for voltage settings for your CPU/MEM, and your PCIE lanes.
It's not a laptop so I don't have power saving options that would affect performance (I only see automatic suspend and screen inactivity).
I tried performance power mode, but that did nothing for crackling. The only thing that works is setting the min-quantum value like the top comment suggested. Thanks!
I have crackling issues sometimes too in games. It comes and goes.
On mint, 15 year old cpu and a rx 6700 card.
Like others said, make sure its not psu or mobo. Check your psu fan, for starters. They die often and the pc will run but act very weird and eventually shut down abruptly.
Im actually using 1 pc with a dead psu fan and I throttle the graphics card so it doesn't crash, it works.
Change to pipewire if you didnt..
HW is in top shape, so no issues there. Pipewire is the deafult on PoP.
As the top comment suggested, the issue is in the min-quantum value being too low. Not a HW issue per se, it's just that the CPU can't keep up.
Thanks though!
I'm new to Linux (and very inexperienced, since PoP just worked out of the box until now), so I can't relate haha though apparently the audio crackling is due to the CPU not being fast enough to do everything it's required to, and when it starts lagging behind too much and can't respect the min-quantum value anymore, the weird audio issue shows up.
setting min-quantum to a higher value (PoP ships with 32 min, I set it to 256) mitigates the issue a lot
The United States Using Drones Modeled on Iran’s “Shahed” UAVs
The United States Using Drones Modeled on Iran’s “Shahed” UAVs
The United States is now operating a squadron of attack drones known as “LUCAS,” which have reportedly been built through reverse engineering based on Iran’s Shahed drones.KhabarOnline News Agency
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation based on video footage, satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts found a 'pattern' of mishandling bodies
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation has revealed that Israeli soldiers bulldozed the bodies of Palestinians killed while trying to access humanitarian aid near the Zikim crossing into northern Gaza.Tamara Turki (Middle East Eye)
Introducing Proton Sheets
Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business
Proton Drive now includes Proton Sheets, giving you secure, encrypted spreadsheets for safer collaboration, organized data, and aligned teams.Anant Vijay (Proton)
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Dumbest excuses/stuff your family/other people told you about Privacy on the internet and degoogle?
My mom claims there is no problems into being tracked and stuff and that "Every normal person will use gmail";
My brother says you only should hide your data if you are a criminal or something.
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that advertisement becomes more relevant and they don't need to search for things they may like
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Common objections debunked
Your one-stop-shop for convincing people to take online privacy seriouslyPatrick Leavy (The Rebel Blog)
“They already have my information anyway.”“Oh, what are they gonna do with my info? Who cares that I searched for X and Y? LOL.”
Me, a software engineer working for a major cSaaS provider that partners with other companies that specialise in Mobile Real User Monitoring, Open Telemetry, Bluetooth beacons, etc.: “Eh, no idea what they do with that info. Now let me just ignore all these non-anonymized analytics, spans, traces, and metrics that these companies capture about your devices and the health of their applications and infrastructure.”
I stopped bringing these things up years ago. Can’t explain this to persons who don’t care or are not remotely close to being tech savvy. Let them be content and enjoy the things they enjoy.
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A friend told me
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Mostly paraphrased, I don't remember exactly how it was worded. Also the non-quote responses were made up after the fact for this post, this wasn't a single conversation in this order:
"You'll miss out on so many events and social opportunities because you don't have any 'real' social media."
As an introvert, I don't care.
"You're selfish for putting your silly notions of 'privacy' over being in the loop with what your friends are doing. One day you'll realize that being there when your friends post about their life events is more important."
Said by someone who I never considered my friend in the first place. My actual friends have ways of reaching me other than Facebook or WhatsApp.
"Most people aren't going to bother figuring out which obsecure 'privacy oriented' service you decide to use, they're just not going to talk to you if you're not on mainstream apps. Normal people value their time more than they value privacy."
Please stop talking to me then, so I stop wasting your time.
"This isn't the 1950s anymore. You need to get with the times and embrace the information age."
I know how to program, you don't. I know how the protocols that power the internet work, you think it's a literal magic cloud. I run my own server at home with hardware I bought, you have to pay for Google Drive every month. I'm the one embracing the information age, you're just blindly using it.
"Geez, you're like an Amish person! Don't you see you've fallen into a cult? Just instead of not using electricity you don't use social media."
No I'm not. See above, I fully embrace technology. In fact, I embrace it so much I've spent most of my life figuring out how it works and only use things I understand and control, and I choose not to use certain conveniences because I know how they work. Also, I'm not an antivaxxer or against modern medicine. I also think raising horses in captivity to be your slave is cruel and barbaric. Finally, I don't believe in God and don't try to live my life according to a 2000+ year old book. Privacy isn't a cult, if anything, your blind faith in trillion dollar tech companies is more like the Amish's blind faith to their God.
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One day you’ll realize that being there when your friends post about their life events is more important.
Lmao. Being there for their posts??? This is delusional and sad.
I gave up, the issue is much bigger than just privacy. Most people have no problem with having their life controlled by external circumstances and being exploited. They say that's how life is. They don't save money, but spend it all. They don't start a company, but just get hired. They don't protect their data, but give it away for free. They don't eat healthy, but prefer to enjoy their sugar and fast food. They don't work out, but just watch TV, consuming ads. Most people are unreasonable beyond help.
My advice is, just do your thing and let the results speak for themselves.
Something I want to try replying to the nothing to hide crowd:
Why do you close the door to your home then? What criminal activity are you hiding?
To be fair, self-hosting is more difficult and less secure.
The thing is though, many like to put in an effort and no one cares to hack your server, unlike something like Google.
Lol.
It's about 1000x easier to configure your server on your own than trying to work through some VPS frontend.
Configure your server as in "install software on any random PC and forward ports"? Sure.
As in "make it all secure and reliable"...much more complicated.
Not personally, no.
Big fan of his work, though.
Enjoy ProtonMail's premium custom scheduling & custom snoozing for free
Using this userscript I made : git.kaki87.net/KaKi87/userscripts/protonmailWithoutAnnoyances
ProtonMail allows scheduling and snoozing messages for free at preset times, e.g. tomorrow, next Monday, this weekend, etc., and always at 8, but makes people pay to choose a customized date and time.
I had a hunch that this restriction might only be implemented client-side, so I tried modifying the value in DevTools for the first time, and I couldn't believe it : that worked !
So, in order to automate this, I created a userscript that replaces the button press handler for the "custom" option, then lets you input whatever value you need, e.g. (next) Wednesday, (in) 30 minutes, (today at) 8 PM, Thursday at 7 (AM), etc.
Then, it lets the app believe that we're gonna schedule using the tomorrow preset, until it intercepts the request and swaps the time value with the user's choice.
Enjoy !
This is a cool user script. I don't want to take that away from you. Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You're providing a useful feature to people.
However I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful. If your script auto updates you are opening yourself up to a delayed attack. And if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation. Determine your threat model and capability and proceed appropriately.
This is the privacy community after all.
Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You’re providing a useful feature to people.
i had the same though when i read the title and it appealed to me because of it and also because i'm a proton user (for now).
i'd like to think this is safer than the other scripts that existed(ed) out there in that you can see the source for yourself, so maybe the threat isn't so extreme.
This is a cool user script.
Thank you !
I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful.
What about stuff that runs everywhere, including email clients ?
uBO for example, is a much bigger codebase that no random user is gonna read, yet it does run on ProtonMail and there's no way to be sure no malicious person injected something in there to read people's emails.
In addition, I also have userscripts that technically do run everywhere, but only do something concrete on some websites, that I don't have a finite list of URLs for.
For example, Fediverse redirector is a userscript that redirects any Fediverse app instance to the user's choice. But, any URL may be a Fediverse app, and I need to check it first. Same with Enhancements for Forgejo, this one adds features to Forgejo instances, but any URL could be a Forgejo instance.
if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation
Yeah, maybe I should add some comments, and also highlight the import of createFetchInterceptor (still my own code but in a separate file for reusability).
This is the privacy community after all.
* Piracy 😉
Can you get Clipboard History on Gnome+Wayland?
I wanted a simple clipboard history on Win+V.
I've installed CopyQ - it's ugly, starts with a lag and doesn't quite work on Super+V shortcut. I've switched to Wayland and it silently stopped working altogether.
Next, I've installed Gnome Clipboard History Extension - it looks good, fast, works on Super+V, but for some reason it can't paste into Kate text editor.
Is it possible to get a reliable clipboard history manager on Gnome+Wayland, or should I stop wasting my time? Maybe someone has a working solution?
I am a little but frustrated by the obstacles I encounter trying to get this simple feature.
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GitHub - sentriz/cliphist: Wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia
Wayland clipboard manager with support for multimedia - sentriz/cliphistGitHub
GitHub - hezral/clips: Multi format clipboard manager with extra features
Multi format clipboard manager with extra features - hezral/clipsGitHub
GitHub - bugaevc/wl-clipboard: Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland. Contribute to bugaevc/wl-clipboard development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I use Clipboard Indicator Gnome Extension - well maintained and works flawlessly for me.
Edit: Also pasting in Kate if that's of any concern
GitHub - Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicator: The most popular clipboard manager for GNOME, with over 1M downloads
The most popular clipboard manager for GNOME, with over 1M downloads - Tudmotu/gnome-shell-extension-clipboard-indicatorGitHub
GitHub - oae/gnome-shell-pano: Next-gen Clipboard Manager for Gnome Shell
Next-gen Clipboard Manager for Gnome Shell. Contribute to oae/gnome-shell-pano development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Do Ubuntu derivatives use the TPM out of the box for cryptographic operations?
The TPM could be used to generate a LUKS decryption key from a password or PIN.
That would tie that password to the hardware, but with LUKS you can have multiple ones, so a long password that directly unlocks the key should be possible in addition
This is probably the main reason every mainboard has TPMs now, since all common operating systems (Android, iOS/MacOS and Windows) do it.
From what I heard the Ubuntu installer offers a version that doesn't suck (if secure boot is enabled at install time) so using that is probably fine, but I would beware of trying to DIY it since it's easy to do incorrectly, most guides are wrong, and you will likely end up with easily bypassable encryption.
Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock | oddlama's blog
oddlama's personal web page and blogoddlama.org
TPM is great on paper, but in practice, there was little planning to ensure that cryptographic keys would be safeguarded by hardware manufacturers, and that's exactly what happened. Now TPM is considered weak as a means of securing data.
I'm not aware of any consumer distros that use TPM enrollment for anything out of the box, though the tools may be present.
Have a look at how Clevis works. That will give you an idea of how easy it is to work tish TPM in Linux.
South Korea developing app that shows real-time location of stalkers
South Korea: Government developing app showing real-time location of stalkers
Critics have voiced concern over the pervasiveness of stalking and violence against women in South Korea.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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This table is actually an old sewing machine table that seems to be missing its extention (and drawers). The extension folds at the side when not in use and basically doubles the tables size when extended. Great table if you can install the extension.
Source: my mom inherited one of these tables from my great grandma. Absolutely gorgeous craftsman ship and functionality worth restoring and installing the original model of sewing machine. Nothing like them today.
Damn. Here antique sewing machine must have stopped working. For those that don't know this is a new garbage quality (by comparison) sewing machine sitting on top the table for the old one.
The old one is probably still in it. It flips underneath for storage when not in use. Most tables have an extension that folds down at the side as well. Gives you the ability to have large blankets or quilts laid flat. Though it looks like they removed it.
I'm sure Grandma misses her old setup. The quality of the old machines were absolutely beyond most anything a consumer sewing machine could do today. All metal and no garbage plastic parts that break. Not to mention the massive foot pedal at the bottom. Never having to look down to see where that stupid plastic one slipped to.
Grandma is making due with what she has. If she still sews a lot I'm sure she'd love having her old machine fixed or replaced.
4/10 for the setup. But not much of a step up from me pulling out my sewing machine from the closet and putting it on the Kitchen table. Actually looks like the same Brother model i have. It's one of the better brands these days. Singer consumer grade is mostly garbage.
Setup has huge potential though. Repair the older sewing machine and it's 9/10 without any other changes. Then, add the extention, find the missing drawers for easy access to accessories and thread, and cleanup the cable management, it's an easy 10/10 setup. 10/10 to Grandma already though for working with what she's got.
You suffer from false nostalgia. The old machine is a beast, yes, but it has a swing shuttle. It holds very little thread, is hard to wind and load, gets tangled and makes a really crappy lockstitch. Has no reverse, piss poor stitch length adjustment and not enough balls to handle any layers without the belt slipping.
The new one is a piece of crap in comparison of build quality, but in terms of function and utility it blows the old one out of the water. And price.
I have an old one and have used it lots. It's fun to use, but far from efficient. I'll keep it around for the apocalypse but I'll use a modern one from at least the 70's (the nineteen seventies).
I got this 1971 Elna machine from Goodwill for $10. Couldn't be happier. It's built like a Swiss tank, and can do a ducky stitch.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
My grandma had one similiar to this.
With leather belt and all, still working in ~2005.
History of the Sewing Machine: A Story Stitched In Scandal
Dive into the history of the sewing machine. A story filled with scandal and accusations surrounding Charles Weisenthal, Thomas Saint & more.Stefanie (Contrado Blog)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Does this show up as a live stream in voyager?
Picture is out of the "Struwelpeter", which is not part of Grimm's collections.
No, Heinrich Hoffmann, a German psychiatrist in the mid 19th century.
Loved the Struwelpeter as a child btw. 😀
Hans guck in die Luft was saved by dockworkers, and it was the Daumenlutscher with the cut off fingers.
Grimm Brothers were also German and the collected the most famous stories (Snowwhite, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, ...). In the original they were way more brutal too.
I'd change the meme to "... but written by Europeans."
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety.Yet in a bizarre move, Waymo — whose self-driving cabs had been enjoying extraordinary safety metrics — has just taken steps to make its robotaxis more human-like, eroding the safety narrative that’s been central to the autonomous vehicle narrative.
Recent reporting by The Wall Street Journal observed a startling change in Waymos’ road etiquette, a new aggressive streak that would make a BMW driver blush. These include illegal U-turns, aggressive lane switching, rolling through cross walks, and running red lights.
Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Waymo has been experimenting with programming to make its typically-cautious robotaxis "confidently assertive."Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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"I use signal. If you care about our friendship, you'll install it too."
I have friends that got it just for me. I also lost some so-called "friends"
I'm all for getting off anything meta, but come on. Someone not wanting to move to a chat service that's probably less convenient for them does not make them a "so called 'friend'" lmao.
If you're actually losing friends over this, that's quite sad.
Gradually. You don't have to get all your friends off Meta right now. Maybe some of them will, and they might push their friends to ditch meta as well.
Just keep trying. But totally alienating your friends also won't do much good for the whole perception of the movement. Becomes a lot easier to just think of that weird guy who won't talk to us anymore because of some app, rather than what it's actually about.
I feel like I worded that really badly, but I hope my point comes across.
Exactly. Maybe one of your less close friends turns out to be a serial killer. Unbeknownst to you now you've made some jokes and had brunch with them. Now a team of cops is going through everything you've ever texted anyone because it's unencrypted, correlating things to make you look horrible. Suddenly you're getting your life ruined.
There are cases of innocent people riding their bikes past an unknown crime scene getting arrested for murder because their phone was reporting their location to Google. Try explaining to your boss that you're missing work today because you're in jail for a murder charge. Privacy is important even when you think it's not and perhaps especially when you think it's not
Hey look, there's normie's here on lemmy now! Your post is the type of naive stuff that gets a ton of traction on reddit.
Its usually more like, "I've got nothing to hide, let them look!", or whatever, but I like your version too.
I made the jump to signal, and those that refused to come with got relegated to SMS.
But it's not always that easy. Sorry that you have to deal with that BS.
Oh wow nice idea, I'm gonna do it ASAP, thanks!
EDIT: after few research Ive seen that also : github.com/meinto/whatsapp-sig…
GitHub - meinto/whatsapp-signal-bridge: Forward your Whatsapp messages to a separate Signal chat and reply to Whatsapp by quoting received messages.
Forward your Whatsapp messages to a separate Signal chat and reply to Whatsapp by quoting received messages. - meinto/whatsapp-signal-bridgeGitHub
Its not 100% open source, haven't fixed a hole that breaks encryption for a while and the CEO is a jew who worked at facebook
So I have Whatsapp for regular people (most). My family switched to Telegram years ago. My GFs family uses only Signal.
My brother refuses such things and made us download SimpleX.
Meanwhile I don't even want to receive messages.
May be worth having a read up aboutsignal.com/blog/how-to-sw…
Also there is watomatic.app which can automatically respond to a message saying you are on Signal.
How to switch from WhatsApp to Signal - AboutSignal.com
Switching from WhatsApp to the privacy-friendly Signal? Good idea! But where do you start? How do you let your friends know you’ve switched? With these tips, we’re happy to help you switch to Signal.Michel (AboutSignal.com)
cannot get nut to load on reboot
I set up NUT on my server to monitor the status of 2 UPS's connected via USB, an eaton and a cyberpower. Nut fires up fine when I tell systemd to run all the pieces, but when I reboot, they are active but dead. they dont wake up and work until I manually load them again.
Theres no error anywhere. it just wont load itself on boot. why?
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sean@hooty:~$ systemctl status nut-driver@printerUPS.service
○ nut-driver@printerUPS.service - Network UPS Tools - device driver for NUT device 'printerUPS'
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-driver@.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf
/etc/systemd/system/nut-driver@printerUPS.service.d
└─nut-driver-enumerator-generated-checksum.conf, nut-driver-enumerator-generated-devicename.conf, nut-driver-enumerator-genera>
/etc/systemd/system/nut-driver@.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:upsdrvsvcctl(8)
https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/upsdrvsvcctl.html
man:ups.conf(5)
https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/ups.conf.html
man:nut.conf(5)
https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/nut.conf.html
man:usbhid-ups(8)
https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/usbhid-ups.html
2) Run
systemctl --failed and see if you get anything there3) Make sure you run the journal back all the way through boot and see if anything during boot time is obvious
4) Post your systems units here
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NUT Server Documentation
As of Fedora 42, at least, bootstrapping nut is a little different. For starters, the service template, /usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-driver@.service is broken.Fedora Discussion
Its common, it's called the refractory period. Younger men can sometimes go a couple minutes after a "reboot" but as you get older it takes longer and longer.
ETA: maybe I should read past the topic...
You get big electricity bill. They get free data to sell.
What's the downside for them?
Nice! I was thinking about jmp before but read about issues with 2fa texts. My credit card still relies on 2fa texts so I am not sure if jmp would work for me.
Do you have any issues with texts from short numbers (5digit) and 2fa texts in general?
Depends on both what the adblocker responds and how a given program handles failures.
Pi-Hole and similar adblockers can pretend that the domain is on the device itself (A 127.0.0.1), is an invalid IP (A 0.0.0.0) or that the domain doesn't exist at all (NXDOMAIN). Each one has its own implications, with the latter (usually the default afaik) being the most likely to have software generate a hard error and give up.
BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy (Podcast 44mins)
In this News Brief, we interview journalist Daniel Trilling and discuss his investigation into the BBC's systemic anti-Palestinian bias.
Do people with newer pcs prefer rolling release?
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- I like having the upstream versions of software instead of it being patched by package maintainers.
- I like having up to date software. It means that issue trackers for software I use are relevant
- Doing distro upgrades when they end support never works gracefully and i have to completely reinstall. I'd rather just use a rolling release which in practice works and is supported indefinitely
- I do like bleeding edge updates. For wine for instance
Yeah, Point 1 here is exactly why I moved from Ubuntu to Arch ~10 years ago.
I was trying to get something working and found that the bug / feature had been fixed ~1 year earlier, but that version wasn't in the repos... I couldn't move forwards.
With Arch, all is well. And, I'm either reporting new bugs and helping to get things fixed, or I'm updating the wiki with any changes I notice.
With a rolling release distro you get the most recent upstream stable releases of all your software packages. There is really no blood involved. If you want the risk of blood, you need to install the bloody versions of upstream, i.e. newest git master.
Ubuntu et all on the other hand give you months to years old software. If you're fine with that 🤷. And on big upgrade, they break install different software and tend to break stuff.
Idk what role hardware age has here.
- my hardware is pretty new, support for it is shaky on slower distros
- i prefer to do small, generally reliable updates frequently rather than large, failure prone updates infrequently
- although rare, i have run into the wall once or twice on slow release distros, where a program i want to use needs a newer version of a package than my distro supported
- i like pacman, it's a nice package manager
This...is not accurate. Not being pedantic, just correcting the misunderstanding so you know the difference.
LTS releases are built to be stable on pinned versions of point release kernel and packages. This ensures that a team can expect to not have to worry about major changes or updates for X years.
Rolling Releases are simply updating new packages to whatever versions become available when released. Pretty much the opposite of an expected stable release for any period of time.
Doesn't have anything to with "forced reinstall" of anything. If you've been having to fully reinstall your OS every time a new LTS is released, you are kind of doing extra unnecessary work.
What exactly is the point of stable release? I don't need everything pinned to specific versions—I'm not running a major corporate web service that needs a 99.9999% uptime guarantee—and Internet security is a moving target that requires constant updates.
Security and bug fixes—especially bug fixes, in my experience—are a good enough reason to go rolling-release even if you don't usually need bleeding-edge features in your software.
That's a very odd example to choose given how trivially interchangable kernels are.
At NixOS, we ship the same set of kernels on stable and rolling; the only potential difference being the default choice.
I'm pretty sure most other stable distros optionally ship newer kernels too. There isn't really a technical reason why they couldn't.
Most “stable” distros offer kernel version that update more frequently to accommodate new hardware.
Most “rolling” distros offer LTS kernels that remain essentially unchanged for long periods.
The kernel is one of the smallest differences between the two models.
To be able to predict when something you depend on breaks.
This "something" could be as "insignificant" as a UI change that breaks your workflow.
For instance, GNOME desktop threw out X11 session support with the latest release (good riddance!) but you might for example depend on GNOME's X11 session for a workflow you've used for many years.
With rolling, those breaking changes happen unpredictably at any time.
It is absolutely possible for that update to come out while you're in a stressful phase of the year where you need to finish some work to hit a deadline. Needing to re-adjust your workflow during that time would be awful and could potentially have you miss the deadline. You could simply not update but that would also make you miss out on security/bug fixes.
With stable, you accumulate all those breaking changes and have them applied at a pre-determined time, while still receiving security/bug fixes in the mean time.
In our example that could mean that the update might even be in a newer point release immediately but, because your point release is still supported for some time, you can hold on on changing any workflows and focus on hitting your deadline.
You need to adjust your workflow in either case (change is inevitable) but with stable/point releases, you have more options to choose when you need to do that and not every point in time is equally convenient as any other.
So far I've encountered the smoothest OS experience with Arch-based EndeavourOS. Perhaps twice a year something breaks for which the forum or Arch Wiki usually provided the fix within a day. The other 363 days I simply update in the morning/evening and all is well—sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm and yay --noconfirm.
Conversely, on Debian, it drives me nuts that one is prevented from updating even if one public key from one unimportant repository is missing or something. This troubleshooting is way harder for beginners than most things I've needed to do to fix my EndeavourOS install.
I've got a complete Linux beginner to start off with EndeavourOS without problems. She's even troubleshooting and fixing suddenly non-working Steam games by herself.
In any case, any Linux is better than Windoze. Try different distributions if you've got a spare PC to test with and see what fits you. For the greatest peace of mind, always have two or more hard drives or have a directory that instantly syncs to a cloud to separate the OS from crucial data one cannot lose in case something goes awry.
As for desktop environments (DE), I started off with Xfce about ten years ago, used that most of the time. Then fell for the KDE Plasma hype for about year—they're doing great stuff, but a bit too bloated and buggy for my liking, as well as trying to have a KDE app for everything instead of acknowledging some other software is simply better. One can't be the best at everything. Anyway, then I tested multiple DEs because all of them have exclusively useful features, and the perfect mix between the most prominent ones (Xfce, Plasma, Gnome) I've found to be Cinnamon, the default on Linux Mint. For me that's the perfect beginner friendly DE that also remains highly configurable/extensible to suit experienced users, without being overwhelming/bloated to anyone.
Have fun and build whatever you want in your new awesome sandbox. Screw M$ without restraint nor compassion.
Minimal delay between a program releasing new features or bugfixes and you getting to use them. Even as an avid Debian user, sometimes I get bummed out when they freeze a package for release right before a feature I would have really liked makes it in.
As for security, there's not a huge difference I'm aware of. On Debian, features stay where they are, but maintainers will backport just the security fixes of each package to the current stable release.
This is admittedly anecdotal, but my experience with point releases is that things still break, and when they do, you're often stuck with the broken thing until a new release comes out. For this reason, among others, dist-upgrades tend to be extremely nervewracking.
With a rolling release, not only are fixes for broken things likely to release faster - if something does break, you can pin that package, and only that package, to an older version in the meantime. Then again, I've been using Arch almost exclusively on my desktop for about 7 years and I've never had to do this. I don't doubt that things have broken for people, but as far as I'm concerned, Arch just works.
As far as security goes, I don't think there's much, if any, advantage. Debian, the stablest of them all, still gets security updates in a timely fashion.
I used arch a lot, and I do like the idea of rolling releases, but at this point for the couple programs I need new features in, I just build them from source.
Rolling vs. point release is not about whether a breaking change happens or not but when.
With rolling, breaking changes could happen at any time (even when inconvenient) but are smaller and spread out.
With point release, you get a big chunk of breaking changes all at once but at predictable points in time, usually with migration windows.
I use a rolling release for mainly 3 reasons.
- Faster access to new (shiny) software/applications. Flatpak and the like could solve this for LTS distros.
- Security updates come faster and smoother.
- Less chance of an update breaking things. Lots of small and frequent updates, instead of rare and large update packs/stacks.
Less chance of an update breaking things. Lots of small and frequent updates, instead of rare and large update packs/stacks.
I would say a rolling distro update has a higher chance of it breaking something. Each one might bring in a new major version of something that has breaking changes in it. But that breakage is typically easier to fix and less of a problem.
Point release distros tend to bundle up all their breakages between major versions so breaks loads of things at once. And that IMO can be more of a hassle then dealing with them one at a time as they come out.
I tended to find I needed to reinstall point release distros instead of upgrading them as it was less hassle. Which is still more disruptive then fixing small issues over time as the crop up.
Although, the years I've run my rolling release system, I've had it break maybe one of two times. Easily fixed. Both of those was because there was a change that needed a manual intervention, which I did not read about until after, so those were my own fault.
I would say
Is this based on experience? Or are you guessing?
I ask because my lived experience is that rolling releases break less in practice
Before I used rolling releases, I spent more time dealing with bugs in old versions than I do fixing breakages in my rolling disto.
And non-rolling “upgrades” were always fraught with peril whereas I update my rolling release without any concern at all.
Upgrades is any security or big fix as well. Those tend to be quite safe in point release distros. Upgrading to a new point release version is has all the same problems the rolling release had over the same period all bundle in one messy upgrade (which makes them a huge pain to deal with as they often compound). But between those, the patch upgrades tend to be quite smooth.
I would say the over a longer time period rolling release break in bigger way less often. But they tend to have more but smaller breakages that are easy to trivial to fix.
You'll need to update to a point release sooner or later.
Are you the kind of person who lives to peel off the band-aid or pull it off in one go?
I prefer to peel mine. I've learned from pulling stitches by ripping it off.
On a more serious note: btrfs and timeshift are 👌. If there ever is a botched package, I'll just roll back to this morning and keep working. It'll probably be fixed by tomorrow.
They are cool cos you get to say "btw I use ".
Also, one big advantage is the end of big disruptive updates - e.g. the one from Win10 to Win11.
You don't have to live on the edge either. Arch for example has an LTS version.
For me its security patches. I frequently lock app versions manually.
I do have an old laptop that uses a fixed release, because it sees infrequent use.
One needs to adjust whats needed per usecase. For me that means daily drivers get semi-rolling or rolling. Where stability is neede/older systems, fixed releases.
I have a relatively new PC and eventually I decided at Debian Stable.
Granted, I was already somewhat familiar with APT and Debian based systems, but I also was thinking to choose something different or even a rolling release distribution...
...but at the end of the day, I wanted a stable, useable, tested and functional system that I can't easily fuck up or can restore if needed, because, well, it won't be a first time I bork a Linux system with misconfiguring stuff or doing something straight out stupid. But this is irrelevant this case.
I ain't that super familiar with Linux world, so I deliberately chose the safe way. My hardwares are working fine, I have the drivers that work for everything, games running amazingly well... in the past 2 years I use Linux as main OS, I had no problems not being bleeding edge. I kinda had some minor FOMO when Plasma 6 came out and I was "stuck" on 5 with Debian 12, but didn't had to wait too much for Debian 13 that has Plasma 6 by default. Though, I reinstalled everything when 13 came out - but only because I wanted some changes on my partition table, I added a new disk and... I wasn't quite happy how I managed some things with it so I wanted a fresh start - so wasn't upgrading to 13, but I assume it wouldn't be a problem either, not too long ago I upgraded my server from Debian 10 to 12, without issues. (From 10 to 11 and to 12. First I tried from 10 to 12, that was a disaster though. However, the documentation explicitly said not to do such thing, so it was on me.)
I was tinkering with my tech stuff all my life, I now really just want a stable, working OS. But it's just personal preference, I have nothing against rolling release and I can imagine that there are scenarios where rolling release is the better choice.
It is funny. You and I landed in different places but for almost the same reasons.
I use a rolling release because I want my system to work. “Tinkering with my tech stuff” is an activity I want to do when I want and not something I want thrust upon me.
On “stable” distros, I was always working around gaps in the repo or dealing with issues that others had already fixed. And everything I did myself was something I had to maintain and, since I did not really, my systems became less and less stable and more bloated over time.
With a rolling distro, I leave everything to the package manager. When I run my software, most of the issues I read other people complaining about have already been fixed.
And updates on “stable” distros are stressful because they are fragile. On my rolling distro, I can update every day and never have to tinker with anything beyond the update command itself. On the rare occasion that something additional needs to be done, it is localized to a few packages at most and easy to understand.
Anyway, there is no right or wrong as long as it works for you.
Alright, I have to admit that sometimes I do install some stuff not the debian way...
and I would lie if I'd said that I never compiled stuff against a newer version of glibc (and glibc itself...) that my distro had... so in these means, yeah, I kinda need to tinker sometimes and do super janky stuff.
I have to admint you've got a point there and made me kinda thinking...
What exactly is the point of rolling release?
Newer features. At the cost of a higher risk of stuff breaking.
Or is it for security?
No, point release OSs do have security updates. It's feature updates that they avoid.
I use ancient hardware (as old as 2008 iMacs) and I greatly prefer rolling releases.
Open Source software is always improving and I like to have the best available as it makes my life easier.
In my experience, things just work better. I have spent years now reading complaints online about how Wayland does not work, the bugs in certain software, and features that are missing. Almost always I wonder what versions they are running because I have none of those problems. Lots of Wayland complaints from people using systems that freeze software versions for years. They have no idea what they are missing. This is just an example of software that is rapidly evolving. There are many more.
Next is performance. Performance improvements can really be felt on old hardware. Improvements in scheduling, network, and memory handling really stand out. It is surprising how often improvements appear for even very old hardware. Old Intel GPUs get updates for example. Webcams get better support, etc.
Some kinds of software see dramatic improvements. I work with the AV1 video codec. New releases can bring 20% speed improvements that translate to saving many minutes or even hours on certain jobs. I want those on the next job I run.
I work on my computer every day and, on any given day, I may want or enjoy a feature that was just added. This has happened to me many times with software like GIMP where a job is dramatically easier (for example text improvements tag appeared in GIMP 3).
If you do software development, it is common to need or want some recently developed component. It is common for these to require support from fairly recent libraries. Doing dev on distros like Debian or RHEL was always a nightmare of the installed versions being too old.
And that brings me to stability.
On systems that update infrequently, I find myself working against the software repos. I may install third-party repos. I may build things myself. I may use Flatpak or AppImage. And all of that makes my system a house of cards that is LESS stable. Over time, stuff my distro does not maintain gets strewn everywhere. Eventually, it makes sense to just wipe it all and start fresh. From what I see online, a lot of people have this experience.
On of the biggest reasons I prefer rolling releases with large repos is because, in my experience, they result in much more stable systems in practice. And if everything comes from the repo, everything stays much more manageable and sustainable.
I use Debian Stable on servers and in containers all the time. But, to single it out, I find that actually using it as a desktop is a disaster for all of the above reasons but especially that it becomes an unstable mess of software cobbled together from dozens of sources. Rolling releases are easier to manage. This is the opposite of what some others say, I realize.
In fact, if I do have to use a “more stable” distro, I usually install an Arch Linux Distrobox and use that to get access to a larger repo of more frequently updated packages.
Where did the idea come from that rolling releases are about hardware?
Hardware support is almost entirely about the kernel.
Many distros, even non-rolling ones like Mint and Ubuntu, offer alternative kernels with support for newer hardware. These are often updated frequently. Even incredibly “stable” distros like Red Hat Enterprise Linux regularly release kernels with updated hardware support.
And you can compile the kernel yourself to whatever version you want or even use a kernel from a different distro.
Rolling releases are more about the other 80,000 packages that are not the kernel.
For software developers, it is better to have frequent tiny changes that can break things, than a big mess of breakage.
Do you hate distractions? Do you love steady improvements? This will affect your preference and judgement about rolling release.
The same can be true for desktop users. It also depends on how stable your software is. If you use mainly vim, dwm, and LaTeX, very few changes will break your flow.
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
TLDR:
OpenAI made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the 3 large providers of RAM) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. But it gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep RAM out of the hands of their competitors.
From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, RAM prices are going to the moon, and Micron (the third big provider) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.
In short, Fsck the AI industry in general and Fsck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this fsckery.
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It resulted in the liberation and elevation of an entire segment of society from the darkness of repression.
What violence has actually sprung from leftist internet memes? You give them way too much credit.
You know that claims of a rising tide of “far-left violence” are fake news, yeah? This bullshit narrative is pumped out by the far-right and by corporate media (otherwise known as the bourgeois press) and by NGOs who get their funding from the bourgeoisie.
Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad-jack…
Bad-jacketing is a term for planting doubt on the authenticity of an individual's bona fides or identity. An example would be creating suspicion through spreading false rumors, manufacturing evidence, etc., that falsely portray someone in a community organization as an informant, or member of law enforcement, or guilty of malfeasance such as skimming organization funds.Fed-jacketing, and Snitch-jacketing are variants of bad-jacketing that specifically aim to present the target as an informer.
Edit to add: It seems you’re seeing feds at every turn.
- sh.itjust.works/comment/216783…
- sh.itjust.works/comment/201743…
- sh.itjust.works/comment/201705…
- lemmy.ml/post/33325225/1992540…
- lemmy.ml/post/32371812/1954712…
- lemmy.ml/post/32371812/1954024…
- lemmy.ml/post/32371812/1953240…
Bullshit. Show me one admin who claims Lemmy has a “troll farm” problem. Only non-admins make such claims, usually ones suffering Russiagate derangement syndrome.
The closest thing to a troll farm I’ve seen so far is these several user accounts that only post news articles disparaging the US’s enemies.
3½ years of anti-China & anti-Russia news posts by several similar Lemmy accounts
What they seem to have in common is:
- Way more posts than comments.
- Almost exclusively posting news articles.
- The vast majority of the articles are critical of Russia or China.
- Virtually always posting to the same few communities. Often there’s overlap in the communities the accounts target.
- Consistent weekly output.
Username Start End tardigrada@beehaw.org May 2022 Dec. 2024 0x815@feddit.de Apr. 2023 Jun. 2024 thelucky8@beehaw.org Apr. 2024 Jan. 2025 0x815@feddit.org Jun. 2024 Dec. 2024 Anyone@slrpnk.net Jan. 2025 Apr. 2025 @randomname@scribe.disroot.org Jan. 2025 – @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org Jan. 2025 – @Scotty@scribe.disroot.org Aug. 2025 – @Sepia@mander.xyz Nov. 2025 – FYI, @haui@lemmygrad.ml, you had this to say back in June on !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com, before the post was removed by a mod:
OP is one of their propagandists from the looks of it. Please look at the post history and report if you see a pattern.[Edited to update links for thelucky8@beehaw.org and and the archived post]
Who threw the first brick at Stonewall? A final and definitive answer to the internet’s favourite question
Who threw the first brick at Stonewall? Depending on who you ask, the answers range from Stonewall trailblazer Marsha P Johnson to Lady Gaga's ponytail.Reiss Smith (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
Man this is lemmy whiplash. One thread judging Americans for not starting a rebellion and the next saying we shouldn't throw bricks at cops.
What do you people think rebellion is?
Rebellion involves guns. Until we're ready for that, inflatable chicken suits are the meta.
The current battlefield is in the minds of the non-radicalized. Bricks only hurt us in that battle. Watching inflatable chickens being shot with rubber bullets helps us win.
Not very familiar with the lead up to the American Revolution are we?
Lots of things being thrown
I feel like in America you should be able to do better than a brick. Cars and guns everywhere.
Throw a car full of guns.
Leaders≠organization
Often counter to it. Terrible structure. Does not fix this problem.
Without leaders? Without central points of failure? Without cults of personality?
That's like saying how would you make pizza without Elmer's glue, because clearly we don't have pizza here yet.
Were Pallets of Bricks Strategically Placed at US Protest Sites?
Government officials, law enforcement, billionaires, or antifa groups nefariously placed pallets of bricks at protest sites in U.S. cities to stoke violence during June 2020 demonstrations against police brutality.Jessica Lee (Snopes.com)
Most of the claims against that are tweets by police. And the police have never been caught lying, right?
"Mostly false" should be turned into "insufficient evidence" because there doesn't seem to be convincing evidence on both arguments.
Which is more likely?
(a) The police ordered seven tons of bricks to be delivered to a location where a protest might occur sometime in the near future, in the hopes that they would be thrown at them by protestors, so that they could arrest them.
(b) Construction site brick piles are a common occurrence in urban areas.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Inciting violence. Explicitly saying to mutilate another human being by throwing an actual brick at them
*Clutches pearls*
Inciting violence. Explicitly saying to mutilate another human being by sniping them out of their Merkava with an actual Ghoul rifle
Here in Italy they hit someone so hard he died of internal injuries. Cops aren't innocent.
Will game studios care about the Steam Machine?
Some gamers have graphics cards that cost probably two or three times as much as the whole Steam Machine.
Will studios focus on the RTX 6090 or give slower machines a chance?
Are the Steam Machine's components good enough to run PS5 ports?
Why ‘Death, Death to the IDF’ is Trending — And Who They Really Are ['Paint it Black' montage of Israeli atrocities] - originally on reddit
Why ‘Death, Death to the IDF’ is Trending — And Who They Really Are
https://www.reddit.com/r/Israeli_Violence/comments/1lpsxjz/why_death_death_to_the_idf_is_trending_and_who/TankieTube
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Short Demo: Project Wingman + Opentrack with Neuralnet Tracker
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/5009673…
Got a new disk and reinstalled my system (Fedora 43). Followed my own guide how to compile Opentrack with the Neuralnet tracker plugin: simpit.dev/systems/opentrack/Worked fine but needs some build dependency updates meanwhile, like qt6 instead of qt5. Still amazed how good the Neuralnet tracker with ONNX runtime is.
Short demo video: makertube.net/w/bC93YNXQ4aE4ha…
Opentrack - The Simulated Cockpit On A Linux PC For More Immersion In Space Pew Pew
Strategies to get head tracking working via Proton or Winesimpit.dev
Gentoo experience?
Hi, i am thinking of switching to gentoo, and wanted to ask if its a good idea. Anything i should look out for?
Btw im coming Form arch
Thx :3
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I loved how tailored to me was Gentoo. But as time passes and your hardware gets older, the compilation times get longer and longer. That's what made me to do the hop
I've heard some time ago that now Gentoo is offering more pre-compiled packages. But I don't know the extent. libstd, gcc and libreoffice were the worst offenders in my time
If you're going to be compiling your own kernel (or now Gentoo ships with pre-compiled ones too?) my word of advice would be "don't forget to compile in the filesystem support"
if you have the time for it, then go for it.
Keep in mind and i'm sure you already know this but you have to compile everything yourself so it WILL take time. I have it on a sort of hobby machine and I remember just getting Firefox to compile/install took awhile. The benefit of this is you get an extremely custom tailored system for yourself. But like I said it's going to take you awhile to get to that point. If you want something immediate to daily drive and want more of a custom system as opposed to Arch then maybe give NixOS a shot. I switched from Arch to NixOS on my main machine and I love it, won't use anything else. But if you're patient and have the time to dedicate to Gentoo then go for it, it's fun to play around with on a Saturday afternoon.
If you want something immediate to daily drive and want more of a custom system as opposed to Arch then maybe give NixOS a shot
IMO the main customization part of Gentoo is that you can compile the world without the libs you don't want to have. With NixOS (AFAIK) being also package-based, how can it offer more custom system than Arch?
Im not, arch is a nightmare for me. I try to installiert something over pacman: ERROR. I try to fix the error, doesnt work because it needs certain shared library files... That i can not find.
But thats not the only thing, somehow the Servers are allways down and its not a nice little challange anymore. More like a piece of code designed to make me miserable.
I hope thats different in gentoo 😀
Well, to be honest, you're choosing the two most difficult distros to manage.
It sounds like you're kind of new to the area...why not just use Fedora?
That's...an opinion that is not backed by any facts at all. What in the world are you talking about with "bloat" 🤣
So you're a newbie, and making lots of wild claims and taking awfully opinionated positions in this thread all over the place. I don't think you want help, so just be on your way 👍
Why do i need bluetooth compatibility if i dont usw it, why wifi?
If i dont want help, why would i ask?
Because they occupy so small disk size that they don't matter and it's easier to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. I wouldn't call hardware support bloat ware.
Also, just so you know, Arch has Bluetooth and wifi compatibility even if you don't install the packages, Gentoo does not. You would need to recompile your kernel with the correct configuration to enable those for your specific card.
Arch is just as bloated as Fedora, Mint or Bazzite. Hell, my Arch is a lot more bloated than any of those. This is Linux, the system is as bloated as you want it to be, but also having stuff installed doesn't necessarily causes your computer to be slow, programs only execute when you tell them to.
Bluetooth is a fucking security risk, wifi too.
I dont care how bloated your os is. Also BLAOT IS WHY IM SWITCHING
Do you know about limited disk space? Cuz that doesnt seem to be a problem for you, maybe it is for tho? Who knows?
Bluetooth is a fucking security risk, wifi too.
Sure pal, big security risks. You should learn about cyber security before regurgitating information. Having the chip is not a security risk, having the open source driver isn't either, the security risk is 99% between the screen and the chair.
I dont care how bloated your os is. Also BLAOT IS WHY IM SWITCHING
My point is that Arch is not inherently unbloated, any distro can be bloated, any distro can be unbloated, you decide what's bloat and what's not.
Do you know about limited disk space? Cuz that doesnt seem to be a problem for you, maybe it is for tho? Who knows?
We're talking less than 100MB here, if your disk space is that limited you should really consider upgrading. Especially if you're going to try Gentoo, because not only it requires more disk space but if you can't afford a cheap 1TB drive chances are your CPU will take a week to install Gentoo since you need to compile everything.
I'm sorry for being blunt, but Arch is very easy and plug-and-play like, if you're having these sorts of issues my guess is that you're not familiar with Linux and are doing stuff "wrong" (e.g. installing drivers from a website). Gentoo is a LOT more complicated and will hold your hand a lot less than Arch, I recommend you try something more beginning friendly like Mint, Fedora or Bazzite, learn the basics, learn the "Linux way" of doing stuff, then try Arch again, then, when you have a better reason than because I broke it, you can try Gentoo.
This is not a "you're too dumb to do it" answer, but imagine someone who's having issues driving a shift stick car asking how it's like to rebuild the engine. You're capable of rebuilding the engine yourself, you're able to use Gentoo, just not now, learn to walk before you try to bungee jump.
Why do you think Mint/Ubuntu/Fedora/Bazzite are not that though? It seems you don't know how to ask your system to do stuff because otherwise your Arch install wouldn't break. Plus I bet that the default installation of any of those distros occupies around the same disk space than what you have now.
Honestly you read like an angsty teen who read Arch is advanced and wants to be 1337 by using it, a few years back you would have been using Kali. Let me tell you a secret, Arch is not advanced, it's a very easy straightforward distro, it just starts from a mostly clean slate, but if you're using gnome/kde/cinnamon or any DE that distros come prepacked with its just as bloated with extra steps.
I know, that arch isnt hard, its too easy. I installed Linux to challenge myself. Arch WAS a callange. Now i want something New. And harder.
Btw. You can choose what bloat you want to have in your system (only DE vor goodies too)
It's easy but at the same time your system is always broke? Either you were lying there or are now.
Btw. You can choose what bloat you want to have in your system (only DE vor goodies too)
Precisely my point, you keep mentioning Arch as being Bloat free and complaining that Fedora or others are bloated.
I used Gentoo for a few years. I don't recommend it at all!
first off, there are no tangible advantages. it's not faster. it is more customizable (by use flags), but the only tangible advantage of those is bragging rights saying you kept a certain library off your system and saved 100kb. just enabling all features is more practical.
there are tangible disadvantages. a big system upgrade can take days. and often fails. and, the manual time you spend merging config files with dispatch-config is large.
I switched from Gentoo to debian after 3y of using Gentoo. i switched from debian to arch after about 10y later. been on arch for about 6y now. would not recommend Gentoo
I mean, you can cross-compile to generate a Gentoo rootfs for the embedded system.
I worked on embedded systems for audio devices. I of course endorsed Alpine as well, but with musl as the C library I got weird bugs of stuttering audio output.
With Gentoo I get the option to build my entire system with musl as well, but I would rather have that bug not in my system. That's what Gentoo offers: options.
By "LFS", I think you mean Buildroot, practically. Buildroot is also highly customisable, but Buildroot isn't a distro. Like LFS, there is no way yo update a system, only rebuilding with latest packages. It also does not have flags for the whole system, so you're on your own if you want to disable, say IPv6, in the whole system.
Only if you need fine tuning compilation flags.
But if think it's easier to do with Arch's custom PKGBUILDs.
Otherwise too much work to keep it stable, waiting for a compilation to finish.
All Gentoo users remember the pain of compiling QtWebEngine ;)
I used to run Gentoo on my old computer. Installing it was quite the experience. That was where I learnt about most of how Linux works thanks to the wiki.
I heard compiling your own packages with use flags can improve performance, but honestly it was not worth it for the compile time.
When I switched to my new PC, the Nvidia GPU doesn't work and I could not figure out why. I also don't have the time at that moment so I installed Endeavour instead, which I'm still using.
Its fun to learn how the system works, but after the 4-5th time trying to install something real quick, and there's an error in your package.use or something, it gets a lot less fun.
If you have the time and patience, its really cool. But I just want a web browser without having to edit 3+ text files to allow it to work.
Comments complaining how everything takes time to compile in Gentoo are kind of funny, do you really need everything to be installed asap?
That being said, Gentoo indeed is not for everyone. I've been using it for +15 years and am really happy with it - almost zero maintenance and it's super stable. The crux is the time it takes to be installed and people hold a weird grudge against it just for that.
But at the same time there are more distros oferring pretty much the same, i.e. your own arch.
It's thanks to Gentoo that I've been a Linux sysadmin for over 20 years.
That being said, I've since moved to Arch and then Debian.
Some points:
On modern systems you won't really notice any speed improvements from custom compiling the packages. Apart from maybe some numbers in articial benchmarks.
On old systems with very limited resources, you can eke out a bit of more performance.
Back when I was still using Gentoo, my proudest moment was getting a Pentium 1 with 96MB Ram (Yes, MB!), which was a gift of a colleague to his broke brother, into quite a useable little machine. Browsing, listening to MP3s, email, some simple games.
I also noticed a noticable improvment in performance in a 400mhz Athlon I had setup for my mom.
That being said, I was only able to do this, because I was using distCC to distribute compiling across several machines to keep compile times to a somewhat sane level. Also, I was doing a unpaid internship at the time, so I basically had all the time in the world, so compile times didn't really bother me.
I had tried to use linux before. After Windows XP crashed one too many times. I decided to see how things work on Linux. I initially chose a "easy to use" desktop distro. (Mandrake Linux). Got everything setup. Even 3D Accelaration worked. Everything was really nice and fun. Then I tried to tinker under the hood and I broke something that I couldn't figure out how to fix. So I thought, maybe I need to find something even easier, so I chose Suse Linux.
Same story. Set everything up. Desktop working, 3D working, etc... start to tinker, break something, back to square zero.
Then I decided to change my approach and choose the hardest distro. The choice was between Linux from Scratch and Gentoo. Linux from Scratch sounded waay to painful, so I chose Gentoo.
It took me 3 days until I had a somewhat working system without a desktop. Then another 3 days until I had a desktop running Fluxbox.
But the learning experience was invaluable. Being forced to use the CLI and not only that, but more or less configure everything by hand. It takes aways the fear of the CLI and you get a feel for where everything is located in the filesystem, which config files do what, etc... It demystifies the whole thing substantially.
You suddenly realize that nothing is hidden from you. You are not prevented from accessing anything or tinkering with it.
The downside is that Gentoo takes a lot of time and effort to maintain. But the learning potential is invaluable. Especially if you use it to also start doing little projects in linux. e.g. File server, router, firewall, etc...
Me knowing Gentoo, got my first real job as Linux Sysadmin and before long I was training rookie Admins. And the first thing I always did with them was to run them through the Gentoo bootcamp.
Once they go to grips with that, everything else wasn't that difficult.
Take your time with the install process. It's possible that you may breeze through it. It's also possible that you may discover that, say, there's something wrong with the EFI implementation of the system you're installing to that you need to do some research to resolve. I've had both experiences.
Once installed, Gentoo is pretty much rock-solid, and almost any issue you have can be fixed if you're willing to put the effort in. Portage is a remarkably capable piece of software and it's worth learning about its more esoteric abilities, like automatic user patch application.
Do take the time to set up a binary package host. This will allow you to install precompiled versions of packages where you've kept the default USE flags. Do everything you possibly can to avoid changing the flags on webkit-gtk, because it is quite possibly the worst monster compile in the tree at the moment and will take hours even on a capable eight-core processor. (Seriously, it takes an order of magnitude more time than compiling the kernel does.)
Install the gentoolkit package—equery is a very useful command. If you find config file management with etc-update difficult to deal with, install and configure cfg-update—it's more friendly.
If you're not gung-ho about Free Software, setting ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" (which used to be the default up until a few years ago) in make.conf may make your life easier. Currently, the default is to accept only explicitly certified Free Software licenses (@FREE); the version I've given accepts everything except corporate EULAs. It's really a matter of taste and convenience.
Lastly, it's often worthwhile to run major system upgrades overnight (make sure you --pretend first to sort out any potential issues). If you do want to run updates while you're at the computer, reduce the value of -j and other relevant compiler and linker options to leave a core free—it'll slow down the compile a bit, but it'll also vastly improve your experience in using the computer.
(I've been a happy Gentoo user for ~20 years.)
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Gentoo is very much like an manual transmission. If you ask anybody that drives manual they will say 1 of 2 things "i like it because it gives me control" or "i use manual because i always have"
I love gentoo as playing around and trying stuff out. My personal recommendation is use ZFS or btrfs for a file system and have subvolumes. So if you get so lost in the rabbit hole you can climb back up.
If your philosophy is" stable and mine!"
Gentoo is for you.
You can build a distro, with all the packages you want and once your done if you decide to update every month and dont care a whole lot about bleeding edge. It will work really well, it you want bleeding edge, you can have portage use ustable packages with a stable system. But you really must know what your doing or you WILL BREAK STUFF.
I ran gentoo for 6 months then went to debian, its a great learning tool for understanding how linux works under the hood. I would also recommended systemd over openrc.
Its not that openrc is bad, its just alot of extra work for simple things to work.
Gentoo to me is more a messing around on a spare computer distro, than a production computer. Not that it cant be production, but im personally very lazy when i just want to use my personal pc.
Gentoo user since forever.
The most consistent and long time solid distro, IMHO.
I use it everywhere I can, from servers to laptops. It's so flexible and predictable that I simply love it.
Nowadays emerging stuff is so fast that I wonder why bother with binary packages at all. Once, when compiling Firefox took DAYS well.... But in today's hardware, meh.
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If I could give only one reason to use Gentoo, it would be the community.
Anyway, if you choose this route, read the handbook through like a book first. Get an idea what you want your endpoint to be, then start.
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/etc/portage/make.conf, setup /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf with sync-type = git, and use /etc/portage/package.{use,mask,unmask,accept_keywords} as directories for individual packages. I tend to keep a /etc/portage/package.mask/failed file for upgrade blockages fer me to unfuck after a emerge -avuDUN @world succeeds.
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Berlin (AFP) – The public broadcaster organising Germany's entry for Eurovision said Thursday that Israel was entitled to compete in the contest, as European broadcasters debate whether to exclude the country over its conduct in Gaza.The broadcaster SWR said in a statement sent to AFP that "the Israeli broadcaster KAN fulfils all the requirements for participation" in the contest.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, a strong supporter of Israel, said in October that the prospect of Israel being excluded was "scandalous" and that he would advocate Germany boycotting the contest in that case.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is currently holding a two-day meeting in Geneva to discuss the issue, with several countries threatening to pull out if Israel is allowed to take part.
SWR said that the Eurovision Song Contest has for decades been "connecting people in Europe and beyond -- through diversity, respect and openness, regardless of origin, religion or worldview.
"It is a competition organised by EBU broadcasters, not by governments."
It added that "we are confident a solution can be found in keeping with the principles of the EBU the competition".
"There can be no Eurovision without Israel," Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer said Wednesday in comments sent to AFP on Thursday, adding that the EBU should reflect "European values" in its decision.
Germany has traditionally been a steadfast supporter of Israel although Merz has criticised its campaign in Gaza, which has killed at least 70,000 people, according to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory that the UN considers reliable.
Past editions of the competition have also become embroiled in politics.
Russia was excluded after its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Belarus was shut out a year earlier after the contested re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
At the time of Russia's exclusion, Germany's public broadcasters ARD and ZDF welcomed the move.
"If a participant country of the ESC is attacked by another, we stand in solidarity within the European ESC family," they said then.
"Therefore, the decision against Russia's participation... is correct."
"There can be no Eurovision without Israel," Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer said Wednesday in comments sent to AFP on Thursday, adding that the EBU should reflect "European values" in its decision.
Per this moron anything apart from exclusion would mean "European values" are support for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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