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The worst mistake I could have possibly made with Linux...
So I chose to install Ubuntu and Ubuntu studio on top (which as I understand is just adding a bunch of apps and maybe doing some configuring). I am a musician and visual creative. I'd like to know why I made the wrong choice in distro. Hit me with it!
Why is your distro of choice better than the one I picked at random for myself?
What bottleneck am I to expect due to my non archyness?
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Ubuntu (and also Debian that it derives from) are always behind on the software release cycles and contain "stale" packages. This is desirable if you're running a server, but if you're wanting a modem day desktop experience a non-rolling release distro is just leaving performance/usability of your hardware on the table.
Think of Ubuntu/Debian and all their derivatives as the Jitterbug of the phone industry. They work perfectly fine, but if you want a real phone you're probably going to be happier with an iPhone or Android phone just because they make use of newer technology and get updates constantly.
Depends on how you install it
You basically chose one of the more complicated ways to do it, short of compiling the source code lol
Get your head out of installing apps via their websites like Windows. While it's often possible, it's preferable to use your distros package manager. If it's not in the repo, try flathub. Finally, if they have an Appimage, use that, many distros will integrate Appimages automagically. All that stuff gets taken care of for you.
Last resort is what you ended up doing and having to install/update manually. I mean, it depends on the package but if you're using a common distro like Ubuntu/Fedora/Arch, there should be a package ready to go for nearly anything that supports Linux.
Plasma has incredible defaults and you can click around in it to fine tune to your liking. Plug things into plasma is just works at least for me. I’ve plugged midi controllers, audio interface, dock, hdmi, game controllers first try no fuss.
Oh I’m sure other distros have this as well but fun fact if your bt is on and the laptop is connected to a speaker you can just connect your phone (or any other bt source) and use your laptop as a bt speaker. And I mean it just works again. Yeah sure you need to pair it first. But boy oh boy Im playing on the tv and i can just bt to it and play my tunes like it’s nothing.
Back to the question in hand.
I have a windows version of Ableton 11 that I installed there with 3rd party vst 2 and 3 plugins figuring that one out took me longer but it was in front of me all the time so in hindsight that wasn’t too hard either.
So that was my new generation Arch btw xD aka NixOS btw.
The tl dr is that I find Nixos with KDE Plasma 6 having very friendly defaults that can be built on if and when you ready
New user comes to ask question about their distro: gets "use NixOS; it's totally simple".
Weirdos.
Ps.: Im self aware if you read the last few lines
You just went on about how easy nix is to configure, then about adding bluetooth devices, then jumped to installing ableton on windows.
Op specified they are a musician using a studio distro for studio tasks. You didn't address any of that.
I get that you're impressed with nix and want to share, and nothing wrong with that. But let's at least stay on topic.
Ableton - Digital Audio Workspace
MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface
Scarlette 2i2 - Audio interface
Compatibility,dependencies are the most important things when it comes to digital studio machines. At least that’s what my 15yrs of audio engineering experience taught me. Not sure how I didn’t addressed any of that my dude but if you wanna hate I’m here for it. You hate my choices for the sake of it I love yours for the same reason
Ubuntu Studio is an excellent choice to get you ~~started~~ busy doing your things. It's a work of love, from passionate people, going at it for many years now.
The only drawback is that the bundle is overstuffed, for my use case there's just too much stuff in there lol (sound eng)
Enjoy yourself, test your creativity against the available tools, and make stuff. That's the important part: making!
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Eh, every distro is trade-offs. There’s not a straightforward “better or worse”.
The worst mistake you could make? Making it hard for you to change your mind later.
So take notes on what you modify, try to keep your data/configs consolidated so you could easily migrate to a new distro, etc.
And ideally have your hardware set up so that you can try booting a new distro without losing your existing setup.
The biggest problem of ubuntu is snaps.
However, if you're into audio, you can install linux mint, which is ubuntu-based, and then install the ubuntu-studio-pipewire-something (sorry, can't remember how the package is actually called), which FIXES pipewire to work properly with high end audio apps. For example, on my vanilla Linux Mint, Bitwig Studio would not make a peep! After installing that package, it produces sound. With that fixed, you can do everything on Mint.
you did nothing wrong. ubuntu is a perfectly fine distro for beginners. the reason i dont use ubuntu anymore is the age of the packages started to bother me. also its kinda annoying that releases hit eol at some point. i like arch for the rolling release (no eol) and the fresher packages.
if ubuntu worka for you, keep using it. there is no correct distro.
I think everyone's basically hit my complaints with Ubuntu. It's a very bloated OS with a hard dedication into snaps, which I dislike(but I also hate flatpak so yea)
Being said if this is your first Linux distribution, you can't go wrong with Ubuntu. It's a very beginner-friendly distro. The only other one that I would have recommended aside from that would have probably been Mint. But Ubuntu is going to have quite a bit more tutorials and guides for it.
You're good. If you like your setup please don't feel like you need to change. Ubuntu will serve you just fine.
Now if you just like tinkering or configuring....
The main drawback of Ubuntu is mainly that people don't like Canonical, the company behind it. They can be very opinionated in their decisions. Also many prefer rolling-release distros (like Arch, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) where you get much quicker software updates over Ubuntu and other traditional distros.
Just get endeavoros. It's Arch with an install process like any other easy Linux distro.
Aur is useful for people that don't want to build packages.
That combined with flatpak and you can basically have an easy install of anything.
The first rule of Linux is that you always picked the wrong distro and here is why mine is better.
If it works for you then it's good enough. Just focus on learning what you're on and a lot of that knowledge will transfer to any other distro if you want to try others.
Exactly! Also many people especially early on, seem to think distros are vastly different. They’re really not, so much as they’re a different assortment of bits and pieces from mostly the same pool. Some things differ significantly across I wouldn’t say distros but across like, kernel bases? Like Debian, Arch, etc. The big thing is if it has 99% of what you wanted straightaway, then there’s nothing wrong with just using it, optimizing it for your preferences, and learning what distinguishes it, if you’re interested.
When I got a new laptop, I was psyched because it was not long after Debian had finally dropped that whole opposition to things that aren’t 100% open source, as of v 12. I like Debian but prior to 12 I often had driver issues. BUT: lo and behold, my laptop was so new that Debian didn’t have drivers for the audio yet. Nothing did except Ubuntu. They’re usually very quick to get stuff compatible, and so I installed Kubuntu so I could be on my fav desktop right off the start.
Now, quite some time later, Debian almost certainly has my audio drivers by now, but I’m not rushing to change because what I have works. End of story.
Whatever is working for you, enjoy it.
If you like "unlikely to break, don't mind my software and kernel a bit behind", anything Debian or Ubuntu based will be fine. Now, if you want cutting edge, even if you have to get pissed and confused a bit, Arch or Fedora based, in my opinion.
At the end of the day it comes down to taste and need. They all work (mostly 😋).
My most used distro in the past few years is CachyOS.
Recently swapped to Bazzite because I got tired of the papercuts of running Arch. I also wanted to move to one of the official supported Distros that is supported by my laptop in case I ever need to make a support ticket.
You made a great choice of distro for media creation.
Some background information and other options are below.
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Ubuntu studio is a distro targeted at creatives(audio, visual).
Ubuntu is touted as a 'high ease of use' distro, but as a company, it is a user-data collector and advertising injector.
For a similar audio/visual targeted distro, but one that is free/libre and includes no spyware or tracking, you could try Dynebolic.
Can be booted as a LiveUSB (or LiveDVD) to test.
* NB. Any hardware connected to your PC, that needs proprietary drivers, will probably not work because those drivers are not included in any Libre Distros.
Also NB, Dynebolic is made by friendly, neighborhood, activist, Rastafarians.
- YouTube
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Using Linux isn't something you need to defend towards others.
As long as something is comfortable for you, keep using it.
So I tried windows tiling...
And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top.
Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while.
It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
I believe pop does a river style tiling system. Look up videos on Niri, Cosmic, or PaperWM.
There are many other tiling types too. River is however my favorite and I think most intuitive. Other popular ones are Sway, i3, and HyprLand.
Edit: my bad, seems like I misunderstood. PopOS used/is still using GNOME and has a Auto-Tiling plugin that behaves like i3wm (?). I guess this is what OP is talking about!
Not entirely sure what you mean. PopOS, developed by System76, uses the Cosmic DE, which is itself also developed by System76.
River is a dynamic tiling WM which is known for it's customizability among Wayland WMs, as it doesn't distinguish itself with it's "layout generator" (though it does come with a very basic one), but instead let's the user write their own or use an existing, third-party one. This way you can achieve essentially any dynamic tiling behavior with River.
How does PopOS use a system like that? Or do you mean that Cosmic is DWM-style, i.e., dynamic and with tags?
I do agree that River is wonderful though!
And PaperWM is a gnome plugin I thought was developed by System76 as a prototype for Cosmic.
Edit: seems i just made that up too lol
I've tried out a bunch, but at the moment I've mainly been playing around with hyprland, cause it's also a dynamic tiler and im used to that layout now
The main advantage to me tbh is that certain windows don't overflow the assigned tile space like in pop-shell (this is also fixed in cosmic), but there are other things like having all your move/resize actions on the main mod layer instead of needing to enter adjust mode (super + enter is the default keybind on pop-shell), and the fact it uses wayland instead of x11
Of course there are also things that can be downsides depending on how you see it, like the fact it's a TWM not a desktop, which means if you want to adjust any setting you'll need to manually adjust config files, and that it doesn't come with things like a top bar or app launcher etc. So it can take a while to get up and running
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What do you use it for?
Everything? Lol. I mean.. I just run my desktop in hyprland, no matter what im doing. Which for me I guess is gaming, drawing, some coding, and writing.. oh and tinkering with linux (though honestly I mostly do that in VMs)
How much does it make your experience better?
I'd say it's an improvement over GNOME 😛.. though I have enough issues with the configs that I wouldn't really recommend it unless you have issues with GNOME that majorly bother you.. or unless you use one of the premade dotfile configs that people make lol..
For me being able to adjust the windows with my keyboard without needing to enter a special mode for it, and having windows forced into the tile size was worth it, as it was something that was a pet peeve of mine (and now I get to be annoyed by trying to set up my waybar vertically, tradeoffs lol)
Not quite hah :3
It's actually not one of the things I've tried when looking for the best DE/WM for me, though I might at some point just to see if im missing out on anything
Windows Tiling is just having specific zones or regions defined on the screen where windows can be placed or configured to open in, correct?
I should try it out. There is a part of me that wonders if it would be worth it on a 1080p 15in laptop screen.
Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i'd spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i'd open a third window and wouldn't know what to do with it.
I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.
This first paragraph is so me.
Any good wayland implementation? I'm OS hopping to fedora kinoite. I never used tiling now I see the difference from your reply. I'm the dummy.
That's where workspaces come in place, I usually have a single full screen application per workspace, so Meta+1 is my browser, Meta+3 is my IDE, Meta+4 is slack, etc. Some workspaces have more than one application, e.g. I usually keep a few terminals in Meta+2.
This means that I usually work with things occupying all of my screen and in a short keystrokes I'm in whatever I want to be. But if I ever need to open a terminal or a random application it will occupy half my screen and whatever I was doing would resize to the other half, so I never have to grab my mouse to move stuff over to be able to see what I was doing.
I usually have a single full screen application per workspace
Forgive my ignorance but doesn't that just defeat the purpose?
It depends, up to four works for some apps depending on monitor size, but otherwise I do the same thing as @Nibodhika@lemmy.world.
Overlapping window managers, the most common type in use by far, just seem crazy to me. Windows almost never use the available monitor space, and they have to constantly be wrangled around each other so that… you can drag something instead of using the clipboard, I guess?
I use this for KDE tilling github.com/anametologin/krohnk…
Edit: It is the active fork of krohnkite, the official repo is dead since 2022.
GitHub - anametologin/krohnkite: A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
A dynamic tiling extension for KWin. Contribute to anametologin/krohnkite development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
You could try also:
- GNOME PaperWM, a GNOME extension with tiling and endless horizontal scrolling
- niri
- StumpWM, a tiling WM with Emacs-like keybindings (and zero eyecandy and waste of screen estate)
- HerbstluftWM
Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an "easy" desktop environment.
Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent "easy" method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.
For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.
I've used i3wm for a long time now before switching to hyprland.
The top useful thing: Workspaces. Even without tiling, workspaces give a massive productivity boost.
You can have email clients open on one, monitoring systems on another, browsing on a third, gaming on a fourth.
When you combine with tiling, everything is in its own perfect space and nothing overlaps.
This is especially useful on single-monitor or laptop setups as you don't need multiple monitors to keep track of everything.
I also see people struggle with notifications tiling.
You probably don't want a bluetooth connected message to take up half your screen, so you'll want to make sure to properly configure those things.
At least in i3wm/hyprland, you can use the window class name to exclude a window from tiling (ex. for_window [class="mako"] floating enable or windowrulev2 = float,class:^(mako)$).
Buy a large 4k tv (like 48"+) to use as a monitor and use it without scaling. It'll have similar DPI to am average 2.5k monitor, but you'll have way more real-estate.
Window tiling lets you break the large display surface up into reasonably sized pieces.
Pop OS tiling is awesome. What I always try to do on tiling WM: set workspaces and spawn specific applications on specific workspaces. Not sure if Pop OS can do it, but on i3/dwm/sway...etc. you can freely spawn your applications wherever you like.
Try to play around with those DIY tiling environment. You will have a lot of fun if you like tinkering with stuff. Maybe one day you will run EXWM
How to make the most of it?
Use workspaces, I almost never used it before because I was set in my ways, but after switching to tiling WM it's a must and increases productivity by a LOT, I've grown so used to it that using windows with a mouse feels super clunky and cluttered.
Neigsendoig (my producer) and I have used i3 for a while... and we've probably stayed on that since we first started using WMs.
That said, we've attempted the likes of Xmonad (configured in Haskell), Awesome (configured in Lua), HerbstluftWM, BSPWM, Hypr (not Hyprland), JWM, Ratpoison and even SXWM.
Neigsendoig and I wouldn't recommend any Wayland compositor due to new security risks (despite an attempt to fix X11 security issues), though a lot of people want Wayland to be shoved down our throats. We personally use X11 due to many things that Wayland devs can't/won't fix.
This is also part of the reason why the two of us are excited about XLibre (as much as some will hate the control of IBM, GNOME and FreeDesktop with their Wayland, Systemd and PipeWire push). Sure, its main developer left the project from what we've heard, but otherwise, there are a lot of contributions to it, and it will improve big time.
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100%. Learning a crossplatform thing is always better, especially when using proprietary OS.
How useful is tmux as compared to regular tiling? It might be a bit janky, I suppose.
how much data does google grab about you in the EU? and questions about pkpass files and foss for android (like fdroid)
My employer sent me to Germany, where he subsidizes 50% of my public transportation costs, the so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket.
However, my employer only signed a deal wit the local transportation authority for digital tickets, the kind of ticket you'd store on a digital wallet like fosswallet.
Except that the local transportation authority doesn't offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet. I have no idea what an apple user would have to do, as they won't offer pkpass files to no one.
Google is a company I don't trust, but so far every German I've talked to about this doesn't seem to value privacy ¯(ツ)/¯
I'm looking for a workable, practical solution because as much as I'd like to show google the finger it seems that's simply not an option here.
Some suggested to get a second android device to use exclusively for this Deutschland-Job-Ticket, but that seems overkill.
I also contacted my employer to ask if they'd allow me have a physical transportation card and still receive their subsidy.
And yet another option would be to buy a pixel, install GrapheneOS, download googlewallet and sandbox it, but I'm not sure I want to spend 700 Euros to make google even richer. Has any of you ever done this? does it work?
The other end of the equation is, how much information google grabs about me in the EU because if I go GrapheneOS, I still need to give google my data. I've never had a google account:
Do I need to give them my real name? A telephone number? my real address? An Email address? my social security number? passport? Will they send me unwanted ads and spam me if I create an account with them?
All this because my employer or the transportation authority won't work with pkpass files...
For more information, you may read my history.
I feel like I read here a couple months back if you visit it in a browser (maybe with a user agent extension) that you can download the pkpass that way.
But I could be misremembering honestly.
You might want to look into Island/Insular.
f-droid.org/packages/com.oasis…
Depending on your level of commitment to privacy, this might be a suitable solution for you.
Insular | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Isolate your Big Brother appsf-droid.org
Does the local transportation company provide an app for iOS itself? Maybe that could be an option for you to not use google wallet.
I have chosen a local transportation company to not use the DB navigator app which is a privacy nightmare and support my local transportation company financial.
the local transportation authority doesn’t offer pkpass files to download, the kind of file you need to work with fosswallet and similar apps, and the only way to use this digital card is to create a google account and download google wallet.
I'd go to an actual kiosk of the local transportation authority and explain that I do not have a phone yet hope to use the Deutschland-Job-Ticket or whatever my employer currently pays for and let them figure it out. Germany is actually pretty big on NOT being tracked, that's why cash is still pretty important there, more than in most places, so I'd be surprise if they expect everybody (not 99.99% of people, but actually 100%) to have a smartphone that is up to date. In Belgium for example there are usually physical card equivalents for most things that usually require a smartphone. It usually requires going through extra hoops, e.g. paying for the physical token and eventually get the money back when given back, but there are actually alternatives.
Best of luck, please share results here and elsewhere if you do, or do NOT, manage as it's showing to others a pragmatic path and if not where to push back.
Not sure if this will work in your case, but there's a tool which could be run locally to convert between formats: github.com/google-wallet/pass-…
Also, you should be able to get a pixel much cheaper if it's 2-3 models behind. Pixel 6 for example can be had used for under $200, sometimes even around $100. That is in the US however - I'm not aware of what the secondary market would be like where you're at.
Could they not provide a physical pass?
GitHub - google-wallet/pass-converter: Tool to convert passes for different wallet apps from one format to another
Tool to convert passes for different wallet apps from one format to another - google-wallet/pass-converterGitHub
A letter to the CalyxOS community
Sad news - I have been very happy with CalyxOS, and not sure if I would want to continue using it without security updates or move to another ROM on my Fairphone 4. It seems perhaps that I would anyway need to reflash when they get to the point of resuming updates? Anyone get a clearer reading on that than me?
I have been contemplating trying out Ubuntu Touch which has according to their site 100% compatability with Fairphone 4 now, but there are some functionality that I think would struggle without, and if I can't get it working as I want, I wouldn't be able to reflash CalyxOS now. Getting a new phone to install GrapheneOS is not an option for me.
What are other people here using CalyxOS going to do to maintain a modicum of privacy on their mobile devices?
The way that was going, I thought they were going to announce the end of the project. Glad to see it's just a temporary pause on updates!
The best Android alternative from a privacy standpoint forr the Fairphone 4 is iodéOS, which is a privacy-focused fork of LineageOS that fully supports the device (including re-locking of the bootloader). LineageOS isn't really a privacy-focused project, but it would also come with some improvements over stock. You can also get a version of LineageOS with microG here.
Installation - iodé
Automatically (via our installer) iodéOS is installable within a few clicks! The installer is available for all official devices listed here (and soon for the GSI).iodé
I didn't realise iodé supported relocking on FP4. I don't suppose it'd also happen to support microG in work profile only, deleted from the personal profile?
Because I'd love to return to ethical hardware from Graphene/Pixel, and the lack of FDE on Ubuntu Touch really rubs me the wrong way.
Why iodeOS over GrapheneOS?
Edit: oh you said for the FairPhone, not Android in general. GraphenOS is Pixel only at the moment, at least until they launch their own device
It has options to deny network access to apps, though it's a bit hidden in the network settings for each app instead of thru a "Firewall" app
You can check out RethinkDNS for blocking or isolating apps.
Try /e/OS
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How do you manage private phones with work necessities?
If anyone has examples of things they’ve tried and what’s worked, that would be great. TIA!
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It's different in my own situation (I don't have a boss) but would I be employed I would not mix work and personal. Ever. Phone, friendship, or whatever else as there is a too high probability some shit will happen.
I would have my own phone and next to it the job would provide me another one with whatever shitty apps they require me to use, if they rely want me to use it. And I would turn that bastard off the moment my work day is finished (aka the moment they stop giving me money in exchange of my time).
Exactly like I would not use my own computer for work. It's mine.
I agree with @Libb@piefed.social. I would not mix the two at all. If they want me to have a phone with their apps on it, they can provide me one.
Also, for your privacy, it may not be actually the best idea to switch back to a dumb phone, because then you are limited to SMS, which is not secure, and phone calls, which are not secure.
On a smartphone you have things like signal.
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I have a second cheap second hand phone for work only purposes.
My employer has their device attestation set to only allow intune / Microsoft products to sign in if you are running stock android.
Graphene nogo.
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This is the correct answer. If they want you to do any work in a mobile, remote, out of hours capacity, they need to provide the device.
I used to help manage MDM at my old company and I can tell you there is a shit load they can do once you install their utilities. For example:
- remotely wipe your phone
- block your ability to copy/paste between applications
- view all web traffic to/from it (even encrypted traffic since we installed a proxy that put its own trusted root certificate in)
Yeah, as far as I am concerned, there's a direct conflict of interest between myself and my company when it comes the usage of a device that doubles as a personal and professional device. I understand the company's need to take measures to control sensitive information, and when I do whatever I do on my spare time, I am unnecessarily (from the point of view of the company) endangering the information I have access to. And because of the safe-guards they put in place, they are taking an unacceptable amount of control of a device I keep my personal sensitive data.
Because of this I find it a bit baffling that BYOD ever became accepted practice, both from the employer's side and the employee's side.
Executives don't see why they have to approve a giant bill for company devices when people have their own already.
Regardless of how much we point out the risks.
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
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by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.ProPublica
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34081165
by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
July 31, 2025
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk
July 31, 2025“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.ProPublica
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
July 31, 2025
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.ProPublica
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The bee took one for the team.
With any luck, there's a hive of like-minded bees near the White House.
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In the photo: Coldplay's Singer.
US tech company Astronomer's CEO resigns after being caught having an affair with CPO at Coldplay concert
Meanwhile, Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to serve as interim CEO.Human Resources Online
He deserves a goddamned posthumous award. There will never a death more ‘billionaire’ than this. I mean this is cartoon level, over the top, absurdist level perfection.
I mean tell me, if you just saw the headline “Man dies after swallowing a bee at a Polo match” that your reaction is anything but “I wonder which billionaire that was.”
Little dude makes us honey, AND kills our oppressors?? May you spend eternity in an infinite field of wildflowers.
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Russian man, 88, dies after homemade helicopter falls apart on takeoff
An 88-year-old Russian man, who gained local fame for building his own aircraft, has died after attempting to take off in a homemade helicopter.
The man, a resident of the Omutninsky district of western Russia’s Kirov Region, attempted the flight in the self-built aircraft on Thursday, the Volga Region Transport Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release Friday.
However, the helicopter self-destructed during take-off, it added.
The aircraft failed to lift off and, instead, “during engine startup, while still on the ground and as the engine power was building, the main rotor blades detached. This caused injuries to the pilot, born in 1937,” the district emergency services told Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti on Friday.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/01/europe/russian-man-dies-homemade-helicopter-intl-scli
Ukraine says it uncovers major drone procurement corruption scheme | CNN
Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies said on Saturday they had uncovered a major graft scheme that procured military drones and signal jamming systems at inflated prices, two days after the agencies’ independence was restored following major protests.
The independence of Ukraine’s anti-graft investigators and prosecutors, NABU and SAPO, was reinstated by parliament on Thursday after a move to take it away resulted in the country’s biggest demonstrations since Russia’s invasion in 2022.
In a statement published by both agencies on social media, NABU and SAPO said they had caught a sitting lawmaker, two local officials and an unspecified number of national guard personnel taking bribes. None of them were identified in the statement.
“The essence of the scheme was to conclude state contracts with supplier companies at deliberately inflated prices,” it said, adding that the offenders had received kickbacks of up to 30% of a contract’s cost. Four people had been arrested.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/02/europe/ukraine-corruption-drone-scheme-latam-intl
Hamas vows not to lay down arms after Witkoff reportedly says it’s ready to demilitarize
Hamas on Saturday said it would not disarm “as long as the occupation exists,” denying reported remarks to the contrary by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and blasting him for visiting an aid site run by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In a statement, Hamas vowed to continue its violent struggle, saying its right to do so was guaranteed by international law until Palestinians’ “national rights” were realized, “foremost among them… the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital.”
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And they're 100% right.
International law is very simple and straightforward - land forcibly annexed is not legitimate. Israel has no legal or valid claim to any territory beyond what it was granted in UN Resolution 181 in 1948. Every single inch of land it's taken since then has been taken illegally, and in direct violation of the rights of the inhabitants.
And that's even before getting into the overt evil that Israel has committed along the way - the terrorism and brutality and oppression and murder that it's employed to incrementally steal the rightful territory of the Palestinians.
And yes - the Palestinians have every right to stand against Israel's brutal theft of its territory and murder of its inhabitants. Their resistance is not only morally right, but entirely in keeping with international law.
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There is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
Do upvotes even matter? They are just indicators of good/bad but that doesn't prove anything. It's up to the perceiver to declare.
Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization
Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanization - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Historical patterns of rice farming explain modern-day language use in China and Japan more than modernization and urbanizationNature
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
German police expands use of Palantir surveillance software
Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables "predictive policing."Marcel Fürstenau (Deutsche Welle)
Nazis murdered my family in the Holocaust. Now Germany is punishing me for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Germans murdered my family in the Nazi genocide. Now Germany is targeting me for protesting Israel’s Holocaust
This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.Rachael Shapiro (Mondoweiss)
BBC: Israeli forces in Gaza shot at least 100 Palestinian children in head or chest
A BBC investigation into Israeli forces' attacks on Palestinian children has revealed shocking details on the targeting of minors in Gaza.
Of the 168 cases the BBC compiled of Palestinian children shot in Gaza, 95 were shot either in the head or chest.
Out of the 95 cases, over two-thirds were under the age of 12.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-forces-shot-least-100-gaza-children-head-or-chest
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GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and morewww.phoronix.com
Or, ORRRR....just do the stuff yourself and don't further perpetuate this dumbshit until it doesn't require an entire months worth of energy for an efficient home to run to search "Hentai Alien Tentacle Porn" for you.
Buncha savages.
search “Hentai Alien Tentacle Porn” for you
This is suspiciously specific 🙂
I haven't tested this but TBH as someone who has run Linux at home for 25 years I love the idea of an always alert sysadmin keeping my machine maintained and configured to my specs. Keep my IDS up to date. And so on.
Two requirements:
1 Be an open source local model with no telemetry
2 Let me review proposed changes to my system and explain why they should be made
2) You can certainly have unattended updates without an LLM in the mix.
Even if it was open source (it isn't, because no model is really open source ultimately) and even if it let you review what it says it's gonna do, AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.
Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn't...
Would you really trust your system to something that can do this? I wouldn't...
I wouldn't trust a Sales team member with database permissions, either. This is why we have access control in sysadmin. That AI had permission to operate as the user in Replit's cloud environment. Not a separate restricted user, but as that user and without sandboxing. That should never happen. So, if I were managing that environment I would have to ask the question: is it the AI's fault for breaking it or is it my fault for allowing the AI to break it?
AI is known for pulling all kinds of shit and lie about it.
So are interns. I don't think you can hate the tool for it being misused, but you certainly can hate the user for allowing it.
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Do you use IDCS? If not, why not?
Have you taken care of automating encryption and backup to cloud?
There's a new open source shared media server, are you interested in configuring, securing, and testing it?
It's mostly set and forget, Earth is mostly harmless, etc
Idk why people don't read the article before commenting.
Newelle supports interfacing with the Google Gemini API, the OpenAI API, Groq, and also local large language models (LLMs) or ollama instances for powering this AI assistant.
So you configure it with your prefered model which can include a locally run one. And it seems to be its own package not something built into gnome itself so you an easily uninstall it if you won't use it.
Seems fine to me. I probably won't be using it, but it's an interesting idea. Being able to run terminal commands seems risky though. What if the AI bricks my system? Hopefully they make you confirm every command before it runs any of them or something.
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While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!
While I definitely do not want a LLM (especially not Open AI or whatever) to have access to my terminal or other stuff on my PC, and in general don't have any use for that, I find it cool that something like this is available now.
Remember, it's totally optional and nobody forces you to download that stuff. You have the choice to ignore it, and that's the great thing about Linux!
I've had good experience with smollm2:135m. The test case I used was determining why an HTTP request from one system was not received by another system. In total, there are 10 DB tables it must examine not only for logging but for configuration to understand if/how the request should be processed or blocked. Some of those were mapping tables designed such that table B must be used to join table A to table C, table D must be used to join table C to table E. Therefore I have a path to traverse a complete configuration set (table A <-> table E).
I had to describe each field being pulled (~150 fields total), but it was able to determine the correct reason for the request failure.
The only issue I've had was a separate incident using a different LLM when I tried to use AI to generate golang template code for a database library I was wanting to use.
It didn't use it and recommended a different library.
When instructed that it must use this specific library, it refused (politely).
That caught me off-guard. I shouldn't have to create a scenario where the AI goes to jail if it fails to use something.
I should just have to provide the instruction and, if that instruction is reasonable, await output.
Israeli luxury hotel project partnering with Leonardo DiCaprio gains approval
A luxury hotel project spearheaded by Israeli real-estate firm Hagag Group, in partnership with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, received final construction approval for the Herzliya Marina on Sunday.
Led by Hagag Marina Herzliya Ltd., a subsidiary of the Hagag Group, the project will feature approximately 365 hotel rooms across two buildings, with a central swimming pool.
The complex will also include a conference center, luxury restaurant and commercial spaces, designed by the architectural firm Ranni Ziss Architects. A standout feature is a yacht marina with direct access to the hotel.
Israeli luxury hotel project partnering with Leonardo DiCaprio gains approval
Project led by the Hagag Group and Hollywood star secures final approval in Herzliya, expanding to 51,000 square meters with 365 rooms, a marina and eco-friendly designHila Tsion (ynetnews)
Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
Cornish pensioner arrested at Truro cathedral falls foul of government’s labelling of direct action group as a terrorist organisationJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Observer)
While I appreciate the liberals calling balls and strikes in the Trump administration I am frustrated at this point that that is all that is being done.
Like, there is a point at which pointing to a broken judicial, electoral, and economic system and saying "hey! They are fucking this up" is just a shield to that administration to make people feel like something is being done to resist it. And they are not.
It's like, if I was a investigator and I kept pointing to the stabbing victim and saying "I know exactly who is at fault!" But I never actually opened a case and those guilty never saw their day in court. All I did was give people a false sense that justice would be served when they saw the victim. So, those that heard me shout "I know who is at fault" are left with the false satisfaction of justice (or at the very least resistance) and never look much beyond that and continue with their life wondering why there are so many people on the street getting stabbed still.
That's what it feels like when I listen to the Democratic party and it's leadership. It feels like they are the party of "acknowledging bad things" and nothing more.
Like, you can call balls and strikes. But if you're going to tell us for years that "Trump is a threat to democracy" and have zero plan or effort to throw him out of the game when he charges the pichters mound. Then you're not an "umpire" for democracy. You're just an announcer in a game without an ump.
Edit: sorry, double analogy in my scattered brain.
As someone with a career in manufacturing who lived in the rust belt most of my life: I knew I was fucked financially each time Trump won, even without the needing to move to avoid hostile laws. What American manufacturing needs is affordable housing, reasonable trade, subsidies to start, and to accept that thr future of american manufacturing is high tech manufacturing that relies on our high numbers of engineers and our skilled tradespeople. Well paid, unskilled manufacturing jobs aren't coming back, but sensible forward thinking policies can ensure we have plenty of jobs designing, building, operating, and maintaining advanced and modern manufacturing systems.
Also the fact that our currency is highly valued isnt the best strategy for manufacturing, but it's an excellent strategy for other industries like finance and provides us a powerful ability to purchase foreign goods.
Podolyaka: Trump struck the stock exchanges with nuclear submarines — and nothing more
Podolyaka: Trump struck the stock exchanges with nuclear submarines — and nothing more: EADaily
EADaily, August 2nd, 2025. The statement by US President Donald Trump about the redeployment of two nuclear submarines, which is now being replicated by the world's media, is a provocation by a stock swindler who uses his position for personal enrich…EADaily
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Turkey has launched the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, – TRT Haber
Turkey has launched the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria, - TRT Haber
The gas connection from Kilis to Aleppo was completed in May. Up to 6 million cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas will be supplied to Syria through Turkey every day.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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not often talked about is the illegal Turkish occupation and effective annexation of Northern Syria.. This is basically Turkey and other comprador states seizing the $$$ opportunity in the midst of sanctions against Russia and Iran from the West while also muzzling Syria and putting it on an economic leash, so to speak.
more details on this in particular that I found insightful: turkey.news-pravda.com/en/worl…
what's funny/sad is that Syria's effectively a comprador state, the West finally got what they wanted and despite this, sanctions haven't vanished. So they rely on scraps like these.
Azerbaijan's New Geopolitical Weapon? Launching Gas Exports to Syria
On August 2, 2025, a solemn ceremony was held in the Turkish city of Kilis to mark the beginning of the supply of Azerbaijani gas to Syria through the territory of Turkey. At the first stage of the project, it is planned to...Pravda Turkey
After Ukraine, is this country the West’s next project?
After Ukraine, is this country the West’s next project?
Moldova – one of the most volatile countries in the post-Soviet space – now risks becoming Europe’s next front lineRT
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‘No defense against’ Russia’s Oreshnik missile – ex-Pentagon analyst
‘No defense against’ Russia’s Oreshnik missile – ex-Pentagon analyst
The new weapon could shift the balance of power in favor of Moscow, Michael Maloof has told RTRT
two PMOS installs with LUKS
So I'm trying to setup peppermint os , I have two disks and I want them both to have full disk encryption. After a couple of reinstalls using different approaches, searches and llm questions , still can't get it to work.
First boot gets to encryption of SDA (I believe) , then to grub menu and I'm able to load the first one.
Managed to get new entries but then I get: server error you need to load the kernel first.
I believe both installs are fine and that it is a LUKS thing. UEFI, disabled secure boot.
Sda1 EFI
Sda2 root
Sdb1 EFI
Sdb2 root
Maybe EFI should only be on one of them?
You want to install the same OS twice? But booting the first one doesn't work?
Two EFIs are fine, if you want to switch using your motherboard's boot selection. If you want to switch between the two using Grub one unencrypted boot partition after the first EFI is probably easier. But if your motherboard's boot loader is easy to reach using that to switch is probably the easiest way.
But apparently you cannot even boot into one OS. i would abandon all thoughts of two OSs and concentrate on getting one to boot. Did it work before you installed the second one?
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Iran calls on Japan to join it in campaign to abolish WMDs
Iran calls on Japan to join it in campaign to abolish WMDs | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Iran’s foreign minister is calling on Japan to join Tehran in leading a global movement to abolish weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).The Asahi Shimbun
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