Audio on #Linux was long the butt of many joke. My goodness, has #pipewire delivered. I love how well my A/V IO works and behaves out of box on #Fedora these days.
When corps do questionable decisions I see it as #Linux advertisement. If you are a #Windows user, how do you feel about the new feature of #Windows and are you planning to continue putting your trust in #Microsoft over safeguarding your personal data?
Please support my YT channel. I am a long time free software enthusiast, but I am new at being an evangelist for this freedom and I am thankful for any motivation you can provide, even if it's just one video playback.
I know people love hating on #systemd but there are so many things that are great about it. The journal is among the best (and the one that people seem to hate the most for reasons I find hard to relate to). Building a service with good logging is literally free, no code required, STDOUT/STDERR goes to the journal, you're done. Ingesting those logs into something like Loki is also free. #linux
@grimmy yeah, I mean, I get that. The docs are pretty dense and aimed at people who already understand systemd and the journal, which is a big leap for people new to it. But, the journal does a lot of things much more easily than you can do it with traditional UNIX tools. I can figure out how to find a specific time range in files (assuming the file has timestamps), but I sure prefer the one-liner with the journal (--since and --until) to the several commands needed on a plain text log.
Given the iTerm hullabaloo, I tried Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/). And I am unsure why I didn’t try it sooner, except having not heard of it. As a macOS and Linux user, it is more responsive, and miles easier to configure. Took about 15 minutes to get just how I had iTerm, and having all my configs in a simple .conf file means I can integrate with my dotfiles repo quite nicely. Bye-bye iTerm.
One of the fun parts of being a #Linux mirror operator is that you get to deal with China Mobile using ISO download mirrors to fix their traffic ratios with other ISPs at peering points.
Looks like they've moved to using Slackware now...
@kwf Interesting; I wonder if other relatively closed countries have the same effect. Russia is a big example of that, but e.g., France also has a larger-than usual (I feel) domestic culture consumption.
#SUSECON is scheduled during #Juneteenth this year, which is unfortunate. I know it's not a German holiday, but I imagine it will impact participation from Americans.
Ultimately, when I do purchase a Mac Mini, I have a safety net for being able to experiment with #Linux freely. It's easier to experiment when failure doesn't cause any significant issues in one's life. General anxiety is a struggle of mine, so doing sensible things to mitigate the intensity of anxiety helps me take chances I wouldn't risk ordinarily. The #Windows PC can become my Linux experiment, I can follow the documentation about Linux to increase my comfort levels with Linux.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Hmmm, doing almost everything in virtual machines myself. But yes, I can understand you are curious about MacOS. No longer my cup of tea, but I understand its appeal.
@mboelen Having used Android, Linux for a few years, and Windows even longer; the curiosity of what MacOS has to offer is there. Especially since iOS has piqued my interest despite some unpleasant default behaviors for handling Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles (easily fixed by creating shortcuts to mimic Android Toggle behavior).
This morning, I talked myself out of installing #linux as I thought of all the scenarios which I would need Windows. It irked me quite a bit, Dual Booting is certainly an option; as I have invested a large chunk of my digital life on Windows, I would spend a lot of time on the Windows partition because so many programs are easier to run on that OS.
Investing in an iMac or Mac Mini would be a safer option. As I wouldn't be using Windows, I could keep access to my iPhone troubleshooting tools.
I'm shocked that an iMac costs less than my Windows PC after tax. I could even come up with the capital to fund that purchase (a small chunk of change from my 401K). Not using Windows is my goal, but I will go about it in a different way, it seems. I do worry about the security of Mac OS, but realistically, I am a pretty safe internet user.
It would be a lie to insinuate that one walled garden is better than the other. Currently this is a means of giving myself more time to figure out what I want to truly do. As a lot of my research regarding compatibility layers for #Linux do indicate software will work but not necessarily well (the reality of using such software to begin on a different OS). I don't want to risk bricking my iPhone which is a means of vital communication. I don't live in a place with an Apple Store...