I'm interested in hearing about any #Linux projects that are targeting #sustainability ping me if you know of anything. Stuff like this from KDE etc https://eco.kde.org/
@concretedog@fershad Hmm Most on the Software Sustainability Work I know is focused on the web and cloud. And to be honest the field is still in its early stages: e.g. there is โBlauer Engelโ a German certificate for sustainable and environmentally friendly products. They added a category for software last year and hereโs the complete list https://www.blauer-engel.de/de/produktwelt/ressourcen-und-energieeffiziente-softwareprodukte
Partly because nobody knew how to define or measure sustainability for SW
@concretedog@fershad You sort of see this also in different research groups focusing on SW sustainability. A lot of them are still working on benchmarking and measurement systems e.g. https://s2group.cs.vu.nl/pages/software/
But if you find something let me know. Iโm interested as well :)
Although some will be fortunate enough to escape the perils of MS #Recall and move to #Linux we have to accept for the vast majority this is either simply not allowed by their IT departments or not possible due to the heavy reliance and integration with other Microsoft products that arenโt truely available on Linux. Whilst we should embrace an uptake of Linux we should continue to fight for #privacy and just common sense in Windows.
We're excited to hear about the community updates that will be presented at the Fedora 40 Release Party. ๐ฌ We'll learn about the Mentored Projects initiative, the git forge investigation, EPEL 10, and Week of Diversity!
I'm doing another one of my little surveys, this time to see which parts of using #Linux on the desktop are the most problematic, and the various issues people are having.
I'll make a video on these results next week, and depending on the answers, maybe I'll make more videos on specific issues, either to explain these topics, or to see how we could improve.
So, here is the form, feel free to fill it out and share it around, so we have as many answers as possible!
@thelinuxEXP nice survey but there seems to be a small bias towards gui tools here. Especially with the question about using the terminal to set up the system. Now I know I'm an edge case, but my desktops are like 50% terminals. For example, I use bash as my file manager and don't even have a GUI file manager installed.
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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.
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.
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).