Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren’t a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS....
So I have this external 2.5" drive salvaged from an old laptop of mine. I was trying to use it to backup/store data but the transfer to the drive fails repeatedly at the ~290GB mark leading me to believe that maybe there is a bad sector on the drive. I tried to inspect the drive using smartmontools and smartctl but since it is...
I don’t see how that’s true. The main point of AppImage is it ‘just works’ on any distro. If you have one primary place to distribute them to any distro - it’s still meeting AppImage’s vision.
Like the other commentor- I also tried hard to use wger but it was just too unintuitive. I switched to Liftosaur and love it for making a weight lifting routine easy to design and track:
I did test self hosting it and it’s not too bad, but just switched to my iPad and subscribing for the premium because the auto calculating the plates for each lift saves me a lot of time and I feel good supporting this developer.
I run RHEL on my personal desktop and laptop. Why? Because I use it at work and the more I use it the better I understand it. This benefits me both at home and at work. I’ve even build Ansible roles and playbooks in git to setup my home machines. Overkill? Sure, but I have great piece if mind if I lose a boot drive that I’ll be right back to normal quickly.
You can absolutely use an enterprise distro at home. Ignore the trolls about “It’s all too old” or “it doesn’t have X software”. I don’t care what version vim, GNOME or pretty much anything is, as long as I can open the core tools I need. For “missing” software: I’ve yet to find any software I “need” that I haven’t figured out how to install (again: Ansible-d) including Flatpak for all the normie stuff (spotify, slack, discord, etc) and I’m golden.
Hi! I sincerely want to thank you for your well thought out response. I apologize if the word troll came off wrong. I probably should have used a better descriptor. My primary goal was to be a voice FOR enterprise distros at home - because I saw mostly posts from people who probably aren’t professional sysadmins and have never even tried an enterprise distro.
I fully concede on the VERY new hardware being a challenge for RHEL, an Ubuntu LTS or similar. I’m unfortunately not in a situation where I can afford that problem (kids and daycare costs) so it’s fallen off my radar. I do occasionally run into it at work with research groups that just buy the latest/fastest gaming hardware without checking with IT (we would generally steer them towards workstation/data center grade hardware instead of gaming hardware…not applicable to this discussion for home use). If somehow I could acquire something with new enough hardware to have that problem I’d probably use Fedora on it (so I could just modify my Ansible to work with both), and wait for current Fedora to become RHEL and then that hardware would become RHEL for the rest of it’s lifetime. Mainly - the huge number of constant updates and the every 6 month big updates on Fedora are just too much hassle for me.
On gaming and the other comparisons about improvements on newer packages: I do agree with you. My personal approach has just moved to use what is “tried and tested” and “good enough”. It’s a pretty common approach for sysadmins to let other early adopters find all of the bugs in new stuff. For example: I’m excited about bcachefs, but when I installed Fedora Rawhide just to test it after the recent 6.7 release - I found it largely NOT ready for anything I would need to trust (commands that return the console, but no indication that they did nothing for example - doesn’t give me a good feeling about putting all of my family photos on it until it matures). For now, I’ll still use XFS for small systems and ZFS for large systems or where I need send/receive.
All of that said: I acknowledge these are preferences and my approach, not a " right" way. I do still think it’s a valid approach for some who wants less updates and a more stable config if they’re happy with “fast enough” and less potential for update breakage.
Thank you again for being respectful and detailed in your response. Cheers!
In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?
Back in the early-to-mid '90s, one of the main ways of finding anything on the web was to browse through a web directory.
These directories generally had a list of categories on their front page. News/Sport/Entertainment/Arts/Technology/Fashion/etc.
Each of those categories had subcategories, and sub-subcategories that you clicked through until you got to a list of websites. These lists were maintained by actual humans.
Typically, these directories also had a limited web search that would crawl through the pages of websites listed in the directory.
Lycos, Excite, and of course Yahoo all offered web directories of this sort.
(EDIT: I initially also mentioned AltaVista. It did offer a web directory by the late '90s, but this was something it tacked on much later.)
By the late '90s, the standard narrative goes, the web got too big to index websites manually.
Google promised the world its algorithms would weed out the spam automatically.
And for a time, it worked.
But then SEO and SEM became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The spambots proliferated. Google itself began promoting its own content and advertisers above search results.
And now with LLMs, the industrial-scale spamming of the web is likely to grow exponentially.
My question is, if a lot of the web is turning to crap, do we even want to search the entire web anymore?
Do we really want to search every single website on the web?
Or just those that aren't filled with LLM-generated SEO spam?
Or just those that don't feature 200 tracking scripts, and passive-aggressive privacy warnings, and paywalls, and popovers, and newsletters, and increasingly obnoxious banner ads, and dark patterns to prevent you cancelling your "free trial" subscription?
At some point, does it become more desirable to go back to search engines that only crawl pages on human-curated lists of trustworthy, quality websites?
And is it time to begin considering what a modern version of those early web directories might look like?
Most humans, including you, belong to the 99.9999% of Homo sapiens that are isolated from the much smaller isolated groups left. North Sentinel Island, which is nominally governed by India, is home of one of the very few smaller ones. Its locals number in the few hundreds and have likely been there and rejected outsiders for...
I hate them because they make Ubuntu useless for a desktop and an enterprise environment. Snaps have a bug where they will NOT open with a network home directory, which is common for a business … And now they’ve made Firefox snap only.
So for a business environment: you can’t even open the included web browser. WTF?
Does NixOS have a way to PXE many machines via a kickstart or preseed equivalent? I’m curious to experiment with it in the context of a University environment and we use either Cobbler or Foreman for host provisioning....
What’s still not obvious to me is the remote management of the nix config on 500 machines. Without a config management system like Ansible, how to you push a change to those systems?
So now what distro are we running for LTS desktops?
Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren’t a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS....
Opinion: GNOME vs. macOS user experience (www.youtube.com)
Spoiler: GNOME wins...
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Repairing bad sectors in an external drive
So I have this external 2.5" drive salvaged from an old laptop of mine. I was trying to use it to backup/store data but the transfer to the drive fails repeatedly at the ~290GB mark leading me to believe that maybe there is a bad sector on the drive. I tried to inspect the drive using smartmontools and smartctl but since it is...
Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME (www.phoronix.com)
Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Flathub now marks unverified apps (lemmy.ml)
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Linux users with uncommon or unusual setups: tell us about it
I’ll start with mine. yes part of this was to brag about my somewhat but not too unusual setup. But I also wanna learn from your setups!...
What's your favorite terminal?
I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?
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What are some good FOSS fitness/weight/health apps?
From my initial search, I saw a few that look promising:...
Xiaomi Poco X6 Pro review - One of the best smartphones for less than 400 Euros (www.notebookcheck.net)
I like it when you don’t even need to click the search result to get the answer (feddit.de)
𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘢𝘒𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘸𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘩, or North Sentinel Island, home of one of Earth’s few other groups of 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴 (1240×904) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Most humans, including you, belong to the 99.9999% of Homo sapiens that are isolated from the much smaller isolated groups left. North Sentinel Island, which is nominally governed by India, is home of one of the very few smaller ones. Its locals number in the few hundreds and have likely been there and rejected outsiders for...
Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app (www.gamingonlinux.com)
First Look at Ubuntu’s New ‘Desktop Security Center’ (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
PXE Template?
Does NixOS have a way to PXE many machines via a kickstart or preseed equivalent? I’m curious to experiment with it in the context of a University environment and we use either Cobbler or Foreman for host provisioning....