KISSmyOS

@KISSmyOS@lemmy.world

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KISSmyOS,

I don’t know what’s behind the door, but it isn’t the EU.

KISSmyOS,

Version 12 is xinxXII.
And then someone writes a compatibility wrapper for xfce and calls it XfxinxXII-X11.

Low effort posts

Ask Lemmy is a place to ask thought provoking questions. The mods have been lenient with some of the recent posts on the basis that they must provoke thought for some people, but after seeing two posts essentially saying “what do you think of my stick?”, I believe we can raise the bar a bit on what kind of thoughts we want...

KISSmyOS,

Without moderation, all the trolls who got banned elsewhere will congregate, then everyone else leaves, then the trolls get bored cause there’s no one to troll and leave, too.

KISSmyOS,

I’m pretty sure that’s a rod, not a stick at all.

But it’s a rad rod.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Isn’t it weird what people get worked up about?
Just keep using X11 with twm, SysV init, LILO and Alsa on your 32bit BIOS IBM Thinkpad.
It all still works, and YOU can keep it maintained yourself, that’s the beauty of FOSS.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I’m pretty sure it just plays sounds/music.
But still, I’m not running obfuscated code from the internet on my machine.

EDIT:

Nvm that, lemmy disliked my code for some reason.

“Here, run this unreadable code” just goes against all rules of computer safety.

EDIT2:

Did a little “oopsie” there. My bad. It’s fixed now.

And that’s one of the reasons.

Aplay can wreck your speakers and/or soundcard depending on what’s fed to it.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I heard PETA also started the plague and fellated Hitler.

Seriously, the campaign against PETA must be one of the most successful examples of propaganda in history. Even people whose views are aligned with the goals and actions of PETA hate PETA. Because they’ve read somewhere (but can’t quite remember where) that PETA are evil hypocrites, deny the holocaust and kill animals for fun.

KISSmyOS,

They were called in by the owner of the trailer park to capture wild dogs and cats
They encounter a dog running around without a leash or any supervision
They capture it, as instructed by the landlord, who owns the property

The only thing they really did do wrong was not wait the mandatory 5 days before they put the dog down.
But the reality is: If you’re running the only animal shelter around that won’t turn away animals, you’ll be forced (by law) to euthanize a lot of them. What else are you going to do? You can’t just let the animals loose, no one else will take them and more are coming in daily.

PETA is catching flak for carrying out the consequence of people breeding and then abandoning dogs, which is the real crime.

KISSmyOS,

What the hell is a “Linux leader”??

KISSmyOS,

I’m not actually against or for systemd, in fact, I am not really sure why I should even care

systemd is the standard now and it is free software. So don’t care. systemd is fine.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I enjoy building out the features and visuals I want in python. It’s fun to have that level of control.

I respect that, but I have different hobbies.

KISSmyOS,

You can freely configure tiling and any hotkeys in KDE as well.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I’m not familiar with sway or hyprland, but KDE automatically finds and configures any modern scanner and printer in the network, makes all programs use the same theme, saves my passwords and certificates, auto-mounts attached drives, auto-starts programs and services, handles which program opens which file type, has a nice workspace overview, lets me configure the firewall, grub, bootsplash screen, VPN, network settings, monitors, keyboard layout, etc… all with sane defaults out of the box, localized to my language, and easy GUI configuration.

KISSmyOS,

I think you could install your system using a generic kernel, package it up as ISO and just boot it on basically any other machine with the same architecture. Proprietary bits like NVidia driver and firmware could pose a problem.
That’s basically what a live USB is.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

First, make sure your VM has access to the internet, for example with ping 8.8.8.8
Then do sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

The file should include a line that is exactly this:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
(or it could have kali-last-snapshot in place of kali-rolling)
If not, replace everything in the file with the line above and save the file with Ctrl+O, then close the editor with Ctrl+X
Then run:


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt update   
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt dist-upgrade   
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install hcxtools
</span>
KISSmyOS,

The issue probably wasn’t you telling them no, but the way you did it.

KISSmyOS,

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gets recommended here a lot. Just be aware: It’s an expert distro masquerading as beginner-friendly.
Out of the box, it won’t recognize printers and scanners. Setting them up is a hassle without cups-airprint and sane-airscan which aren’t preinstalled, and the latter is only available through a user’s repo.

Printer setup will also fail unless you add an exception to the built-in firewall. Nothing in the GUI tells you about this.

It also won’t play web videos before you install the codecs. These are available in the packman repo, which will require learning the concept of repo priorities and “vendor-change”, what it does and when to use it. (It can break your system)

The package manager is very sophisticated and complex, but some of its features shouldn’t be used in Tumbleweed. Updating Tumbleweed like you would the normal fixed release system is possible (in fact, if you use the GUI, it’s the default) but it will break your system.

And the system administration tool YAST offers a lot of functionality that is already present in the KDE options. What the differences are? Who knows.

KISSmyOS,

When I updated Debian Unstable 2 days ago, it forced me to uninstall isc-dhcp-client in order to upgrade network-manager.
So I looked up the reason and found the ISC’s blog post. I shared it here thinking it might be interesting to some, since Debian’s packages are the basis for a lot of other distros that might be affected soon.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

And here I’m wondering when systemd-desktopd will replace Gnome.

KISSmyOS,

Neither GNOME nor Plasma depend on NetworkManager, do they?

Not directly, but distros may choose to create a dependency.

On Debian, installing recommended dependencies is enabled by default and disabling them can lead to all sorts of errors and missing functionality.
gnome-shell recommends gnome-control-center, which recommends network-manager-gnome, which depends on network-manager.
So unless you go out of your way to install a very minimal system, it gets pulled in.

KISSmyOS,

I posted mainly because Debian now seems to force a switch in Unstable and many distros rely on its packages.

KISSmyOS,

I mentioned dhcpd (the ISC DHCP server demon), not dhcpcd, the unaffiliated DHCP Client demon.

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