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BOFH666, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

Cars. Either entertainment system or navigation or more…

BMW has quite the list of licences for opensource libraries and Linux in the about section of the car-menu.

And more and more network equipment.

Dirk,
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So we can download the sources?

ozymandias117,

BMW requires you to go the written notice path and they send you a DVD with the sources

NuclearDolphin,

is this a joke? please tell me this is a joke

semperverus,
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Its one of the oldest ways people disribute linux sources, and while it seems dumb, its actually good because regions with poor or no internet can also be served.

NuclearDolphin,

Poor global south nations graciously appreciating the source code for their BMWs. This seems closer to malicious compliance.

ozymandias117, (edited )

It’s not super horrible, and they’re meeting the requirements for GPLv2

I’d rather a git repo with history that can be cloned with physical media as a backup option

If you’re looking for a real bad one, Qualcomm has been trying to claim that their devicetree, which is equivalent to ACPI, and 100% necessary to boot anything is somehow “proprietary”

NuclearDolphin,

Yuck. I wish Qualcomm a very get fucked by RISC-V.

banazir, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?
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cyborganism, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

The vast majority of the web, really.

SnotFlickerman,
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Nearly all of AWS.

wwwgem, (edited ) in Youtube client that supports saving searches as a playlist?
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I use ytfzf to search/watch videos on YouTube, Peertube, Odysee.
It has several add-ons including one for playlists. I didn’t try it though.

justJanne, in Evolve - A brand new GNOME Theme Manager

The 50€ Patreon tier perks include “everything ad-free”. And there’s no repo or source available anywhere.

WTF

kzhe, (edited )

Weird, the video announcement states the software is FOSS. I think that’s regarding his YouTube content and not this stuff. The video also states github is wip

kzhe,

He’s Youtuber. Patreon gives his YouTube ad free. Repo is on its way according to video.

everett, (edited ) in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

Remarkable eink tablets. Buried deep in the settings they actually give you the root password so you can SSH in. Also, it comes with an epic .vimrc file.

merc,

Kindles too. You can jailbreak them and get a shell. They’re so much more useful when they’re jailbroken. They can read multiple other formats, they can get books from a fileserver on your local network, the jailbroken reader app is better, etc.

OADINC,

Yeah, I’ve made a custom lock screen picture and uploaded it. I unfortunately have to redo it every update.

Also what is a .vimrc file?

everett, (edited )

Settings/customizations file for legendary text editor vim. Remarkable’s comes with a lot of stuff built-in.

Vikthor, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

Passenger information systems in public transport. Some might run some kind of embedded windows, but most run on Linux. Certainly here in Czechia, but I believe it’s common at east throughout the Central Europe.

christos, in Youtube client that supports saving searches as a playlist?
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This is a bash script I wrote:

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape

As far as searches go:

  • s option: Search using a keyword/phrase
  • h option: Watch history
  • j option: Search history

If I understand correctly, in your case: let’s say you search for a term , i.e. vanillaOS. You will be able to select from a list of videos, with a preview image and other data ( data, views, channel etc). If on a later date you wish to search again for this term, by selecting the j option, you can easily repeat the same search, with any new videos available included.

Trent,

Ideally I’d like it as a playlist, sort of like youtube-tui’s library, but this seems like it might be a workable solution. Also, even if it turns out not to be, very nice script. I’ve always sucked terribly at bash scripting.

serj, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?

The handheld gaming console - valve steam deck

RmDebArc_5,
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Also Handheld emulation consoles

vanderbilt, in What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS?
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Having used both:

Debian is very easy to manage, it has the one of packages and mostly sane defaults. Ubuntu’s user friendliness owes a lot to Debian. I do not like the state of package management however. Dpkg is in need of some upgrades, and the deb package format has some security concerns.

Rocky, being RHEL-derived is, as expected, exceptionally stable. I personally find DNF to be the superior package manager and I have historically run into fewer issues with it. Repos are extensive, especially with copr and fusion, but not as good as Debian.

For a simple home server use Debian. If you want experience with enterprise Linux use Rocky.

java, in NixOS is better because...

I think if you have no answer, it could be that NixOS doesn’t solve any problem for you. In effect, it’s not better. Don’t buy into social media hype. It’s just a tool like any other.

wwwgem,
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You’re spot on and that’s what this discussion helped me figure out: I have no problem. I knew that but I also thought that NixOS would bring something new to improve my Linux usage. So far I still see such improvements for servers or deployment on several machines but not for a single user with standard needs (and this statement may be wrong and due to my limited experience with NixOS).

But NixOS approach is quite different from others and I feel like I may discover something of interest to me once I learn more about it. Also, just for the sake of learning and discovering, I will continue experimenting with it for a while.

chayleaf,

In short, Nix reduces the setup time, both for your system and for your projects. If you find yourself spending a while setting stuff up (for example, after a reinstall; or maybe you want to run your project on another PC and need to install the right dependencies), Nix will help. Otherwise, if your desktop is vanilla Fedora or whatever and you don’t do much programming (or you don’t have any dependency management problems), Nix probably isn’t for you.

digger, in What are some interesting devices powered by Linux?
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My lump charcoal smoker.

db2, in TIFU by rebooting before rebuilding my initfs

Rescue disk 🤣 It’s hard enough to find a drive much less a disk.

Next time keep your old kernel around a while, you can always boot it to fix a goof instead of messing around with rescue images.

Anonymouse,

🤦‍♀️ I’ve never considered this, but it’s the simplest solution and makes perfect sense. I’m always so diligent to keep my system clean to save a few megs.

This particular server is an old PowerEdge server I’m using to learn server stuff on and a practice home lab. Unfortunately, it won’t boot from SD card, so I have a few DVD RW’s in a drawer. I’ve read that there’s a SD slot inside that you can emulate a floppy, but haven’t explored it.

governorkeagan, (edited ) in Looking to make the switch

I have been running Pop!_OS for a couple months (Linux in general), it’s been rock solid! I had it running dual booted with Windows for about 1.5 months and had no issues. Nvidia drivers also just work really well.

I’ve been looking around to see if the grass is greener on the other side with other distros, but I keep coming back to Pop!_OS. I’m also super excited about their new Desktop Environment (DE) coming later this year.

**EDIT:**System76 (the people who make Pop) have some really good articles/docs on installing and using Pop - installing Pop!_OS, TechHut Video on dual booting & piped version

Im_old, in Looking to make the switch

Welcome aboard! There is no need to be a programmer to work on Linux. I’m no programmer either and have been enjoying Linux for many years.

About the distro, it’s a conversation ad old as the first fork lol. It depends in part what you want to do with it. I’ve used many in 20+ years. I’ve settled eith endeavourOS for my desktop (after a few years of Linux Mint) and debian on the servers. I play and work on it without any problems (although I have a radeon rx580 card).

I’ve never used popOS, but all major distros have a fairly simple install process, especially if you use the whole hd and don’t need fancy config. Or you can start relatively hard and use gentoo. It will take a while (and thanks the fact that stage1 is not the default anymore) but you’ll learn a lot of how linux works.

Feel free to ask if you want to know more.

governorkeagan,

I think I need to give endeavourOS another try (I played around very briefly in a VM), I always see good things about it.

tkk13909,

It was my first full-time Linux distro. It’s definitely a solid system if you want Arch without installing through a cli.

Im_old,

if you don’t mind having to install updates every day it’s nice. I use Cinnamon and there was a small issue at the beginning (dbus-something IIRC) so some apps (calculator, firefox, libreoffice) were taking a long time to start (waiting on a timemeout on something). But that’s the only issue I had in the past 6 months. I installed lutris and play steam and Epic games. I have docker (not the desktop version) installed. System is lean and snappy. Do I see a massive change from when I was using Linux Mint? Not really. I changed because I borked my LM installation and needed to reinstall anyway. Installed EndeavourOS on a spare SSD to try it out and ended as my daily driver. I still have LM on the other SSD, but I only went back once to transfer my documents/stuff. TBH I tried it out because I saw everyone banging on about Arch, but couldn’t be bothered to install from scratch. I’d only used RedHat or Debian derivative (I’m old, Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian in my mind because I remember how it started out) distros in the past 20+ years (well, and gentoo for some time when it first came out. Also Mandrake, but can’t remember what package manager it had), so I wanted to try something new. I’m happy with it, but I don’t make the distro I use a matter or religion. It works, it’s stable, I learn something new, job done.

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