avidamoeba

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

<span style="color:#323232;">grub> set root=(...)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">grub> linux /vmlinuz root=...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">grub> initrd /initrd.img
</span><span style="color:#323232;">grub> boot
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avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 3 days ago)

An intern nuked their workstation by sudo chmod -R 777 /. Turns out adding exec to everything isn’t good either.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 8 days ago)

Sorry, why are we switching away from Plex because of this? Genuinely asking.

E: Wow at the downvotes to an honest question. 🥲

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

Exactly. I’m already running a local wiki, but I don’t want stuff I link to in my wiki to result in 404 in a few years. Or worse, to some AI-ridden ad-infested dumpster fire.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 22 days ago)

This reluctance to tie the knot is worrying policymakers grappling with a decline in births and a rapidly aging population in a country that was once the world’s most populous, and where marriage rates are closely tied to birth rates as unmarried mothers are often denied child-raising benefits.

I heard the CCP wanted birth rates to climb. That’s not how you do it. The slowing economy doesn’t have to have this effect on young people. The Chinese government has a much stronger ability to manage these effects than democratic free market economies. I hope they would manage to use that.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

<span style="color:#323232;">ln -s `which cat` /usr/local/bin/nano
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avidamoeba, 8 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Ubuntu is great. I use it on laptops, desktops, servers and IoT devices. We use it on thousands of corp workstations at my workplace too.

avidamoeba, 8 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a10f515b-2d24-416d-bbe3-e1c805567024.jpeg

And mine starts with the addition of Z-Wave to my Yellow in preparation for automating a thermostat! 🥹

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

The way to solve that problem is to read the commands and look up what they do. The installation method they describe is pretty standard and inoffensive. And provides automatic updates. The commands used aren’t complicated and they’re some of the system fundamentals for Debian/Ubuntu systems so it’s a good idea being familiar with them.

avidamoeba, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I doubted. I checked. Check passed.

<span style="color:#323232;">$ sudo apt search liboobs 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sorting... Done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Full Text Search... Done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">liboobs-1-5/jammy 3.0.0-4 amd64
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - shared library
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">liboobs-1-5-dbg/jammy 3.0.0-4 amd64
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - debug symbols
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">liboobs-1-dev/jammy 3.0.0-4 amd64
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  GObject based interface to system-tools-backends - dev files
</span>

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

libass

avidamoeba, 9 months ago

Unless you make your host OS read-only, it itself will keep writing while running your docker containers. Furthermore slapping read-only in a docker container won’t make the OS you’re running in it able to run correctly with an RO root fs. The OS must be able to run with an RO root fs to begin with. Which is the same problem you need to solve for the host OS. So you see, it’s the same problem and docker doesn’t solve it. It’s certainly possible to make an Linux OS that runs on an RO root fs and that’s what you need to focus on.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Sounds like the decisions about what to make, how to make it and for whom to make it are done by the people doing the work. 🤔🫢

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Any beginner guide that advises against Ubuntu does disservice to beginners. It’s doing the opposite of helping beginners get into Linux. Ubuntu is still the easiest on-ramp to Linux today by far, despite anyone’s feelings about Canonical. Avoiding it harms Linux adoption.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

So much for the legendary hardware support of Linux!

Edit: Forgot “/s”, but look at this lively discussion!

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

/sarcasm

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

I like snaps.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

And loving it! 🍆

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I like this comment.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

JFC, this misinformation again…

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Isn’t Fedora’s support window a bit over a year per release? Would you want to deal with upgrades every year?

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Requires login. Any word on when it’s making in stable?

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

If you reinstall often a separate /home makes some sense. Otherwise it’s probably pointless. I’d try to get to a point where I don’t have to reinstall my base OS and invest in an automatic backup solution.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Flatpak cannot do what’s discussed in the article. Snap can and it was started prior to Flatpak. If Flatpak was able to do what Snap can, you’d have half a point.

avidamoeba, 10 months ago

Unlike desktop environments where there were equivalent alternatives to Unity, Flatpak isn’t an alternative to Snap that can deliver an equivalent solution. You can’t build an OS on top of Flatpak. This is why I think that if Snap makes the lives of Canonical developers easier, they’ll keep maintaining it. We’ll know if Ubuntu Core Desktop becomes a mainstream flavor or the default one. I think there is a commercial value of it in the enterprise world where tight control of the OS and upgrade robustness are needed. In this kind of a future Snap will have a long and productive life. If it ends up being used only for desktop apps which Flatpak covers, it may fall by the wayside as you suggested.