Bitrot

Bitrot, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

It also happens when the hosts file is messed up and the system can’t resolve its own hostnames. Opensuse used to be pretty notorious for doing something odd to the hosts file by default that really only affected Firefox.

Edit: the increased security they’re trying around the browser might also be triggering that local resolution issue

Bitrot, 6 days ago

This is from their opinion section. Research articles are separate.

Bitrot, 6 days ago

Isopropyl alcohol can damage plastics. I prefer distilled water for surface cleaning.

Bitrot, 7 days ago

Psh, that’s just because you don’t use Gentoo.

Bitrot, 7 days ago

I think most millennial parents are pretty well aware of how shitty the economy is as they’ve been dealing with the same shit for decades.

Bitrot, 7 days ago

I think most likely app developers who aren’t verified don’t care to be. Spotify isn’t rushing to build a flatpak.

Bitrot, 8 days ago

I appreciate the clear marking that something is unverified, but don’t think disabling by default is the right move. As others have mentioned, most of the software in the distribution is also unverified.

Bitrot, 10 days ago

Correct, they are derivative distributions.

Bitrot, 12 days ago

The top comment is usually someone saying nothing should ever change and every feature is bloat and should be an extension.

Bitrot, 18 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

The Mozilla Foundation is doing that. They legally cannot focus on browser development. Donations to the Mozilla Foundation go to the Mozilla Foundation.

The Mozilla Corporation is making the changes. It has zero control over the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Corporation does not accept donations and is a for-profit company.

Bitrot, 18 days ago

Tweakability isn’t a weaker aspect of Mint. Cinnamon has fewer options than KDE, but more than many. The Xfce and Mate variants also offer a lot of options, with sane and usable defaults.

Anything with KDE will have customization options up the wazoo. The rest isn’t so different between distributions, especially if you aren’t trying to use the terminal much.

Bitrot, 18 days ago

id software is six months older than Linux, but Doom was released a couple of years later.

Bitrot, 19 days ago

Older Thinkpads are very well supported by pretty much everything, so it might be helpful to know more about your experience and what you’ve liked or not liked, and what you intend to run on it.

Linux Mint or Fedora aren’t bad options, Fedora will require a larger version upgrade at least yearly.

Bitrot, 19 days ago

I always thought the Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook was the book of fundamentals, will probably get the bundle just for the Kubernetes stuff though. Those BSD books are pretty useful too, in that world.

Bitrot, 18 days ago

That combination works in Brave to search the forum (prefixing !ddg or !d) I’m surprised it doesn’t in Searx.

Bitrot, 19 days ago

I like Insync. It synchronizes with Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. It is not the only client out there but it works better than the other ones I’ve used.

Bitrot, 21 days ago

It’s what happens when the driver swerves into the crossing arm pole to not hit the train in front of it.

Bitrot, 21 days ago

I’ve been through a few on regular Mint and the Debian edition and they have been very smooth.

Bitrot, 27 days ago

What a laughably inaccurate hot take.

Xorg is not getting huge changes, but it is still maintained and will be until RHEL moves to Wayland, RHEL 9 maintenance support is until 2032. The latest stable Xorg release was April 12, 2024.

Mint is working on Wayland support, the current release has experimental support for demonstration. It has not been a priority as Wayland has been lacking in many features, but it is finally becoming fully feature complete.

The release based on 24.04 will likely be in the summer. The previous major release was just three months after the LTS. This is far faster than many other derivatives. The changes are also ported to Debian.

Linux Mint is very actively developed. Development updates are shared regularly.

Bitrot, 27 days ago

Sea level rise due to.

Bitrot, 27 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

They are using Linux as the hook in the headline, the attack on kernel.org was widely reported when it happened, over a decade ago, although maybe not so publicly dissected. There was even an arrest.

The same malware is still active in the wild and attacking other people, that’s the real point of the article.

Bitrot, 27 days ago

I hate him, but him losing is an existential threat to many people I care about (many who are already suffering under republican state legislatures). It will do nothing for Gaza either.

I am bitter that this is the state of things.

Bitrot, 28 days ago

It is the Gnome Online Accounts version.

Bitrot, 29 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

I’ve been bit by this, it has been an issue for a long time. For a while it also affected Ubuntu but I don’t know if that’s still the case.

Rather than decrypting the existing luks partition like pretty much every other distro, the Debian installer will create a new one using that key. Additionally, the installer does not cache the information and apply it when you finalize partitioning, it will apply the encryption immediately and then allow you to partition on top of it. Instant data loss.

It is possible to reuse an existing luks partition, but you must unlock and mount it manually before partitioning in the installer. This isn’t something I’d expect anyone to know beforehand, since it’s different than everything else.

Edit: apparently a very long time bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=451535