charliechan

@charliechan@vivaldi.net

A random guy who loves tech and #football (English) , some J-pop and movies too

本垢：https://g0v.social/@voyager

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charliechan, to random Japanese

KDE 3.x
いまでも美しいと思います

charliechan, to random

I can now change my profile icon and header directly on @IceCubesApp

dimillian, (edited ) to random
@dimillian@mastodon.social avatar

I want to expand my network and the interests/topics in my timeline, so I'll follow everyone who boosts this post!

charliechan,

@dimillian Nice to meet you! Just drop by and want to say @IceCubesApp and @phanpy are the two Mastondon clients that I love! If only native app is allowed, Ice Cubes is for sure my only choice! Thank you and keep up the good work👍👍

charliechan, to random

は本当かっこいいな

https://phanpy.social

itsfoss, to linux
@itsfoss@mastodon.social avatar

What was your worst moment when you started using Linux?

video/mp4

charliechan,

@itsfoss Have to figure out what is media codecs and how to install it

Linux_Is_Best, to BraveBrowser

If I were still a Reddit user, this would be perfect for r/LeopardsAteMyFace

Brave Browser and Vivaldi Browser could have

  1. Fork Mozilla Firefox (Gecko)

  2. Fork Apple WebKit

  3. Made their engine.

They had 2 open source development projects to pick from, or they could have done it themselves, but instead they picked the company that does not play well with others (Google)

Now you both want to say how unfair and unjust Google is being. Well, DUH!

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best Don't know why but Gecko/WebKit based browsers just don't get the momentum as the Blink browsers. Even the newly hit Arc Browser on Mac is Chromium based

Linux_Is_Best, to random

Installing evil.... Evil successfully installed.

SO.... The last time I came up here wondering why SUSE was missing the free, basic library to work with simple, standard TAR.BZ2 archives....

... You know, the ones every binary distribution uses, including Mozilla, to distribute their releases.

The same type of archives that GitHub and GitLab release.

The same type of archive you'd likely encounter for a backup from most websites.

In other words, very, common...

1/3

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best SUSE sometimes doing things in their own weird way, a long history since it's SuSE.

Still remember how @torvalds is angry that he had to enter a root password for setting up a printer under SUSE.

charliechan,

@housepanther @Linux_Is_Best @torvalds BSD is a more unified world. FHS is a barely maintained standard, some distros like or even not to obey this standard by design

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best @housepanther @torvalds The directory is always there, some packagers may not follow. I have package manager installed in macOS. To my surprise only the arm64 version installs software under /opt and it’s still not the case under x86-64

Linux_Is_Best, to random

I like automation.

I'm the guy who made "Firefox Automatic Install of Linux" just to save time from having to install Firefox manually.

I would prefer verbal over point and click, and would prefer point and click over typing in a terminal window.

My vision of the future is asking a computer to do something with my voice and it does it. Try to imagine the computer on the Enterprise (from Star Trek).

If AI ever gets smart enough that I can add it to my desktop, I will be one of the first.

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best As a long time /openSUSE user I also feel sad about YaST

In old times SUSE even had a button in the file manager for users to install RPM with YaST. YaST’s roles are diminishing, modules becoming unmaintained. They are already abandoning YaST on immutable OSs as it has no use on these systems. Folks in SUSE also said they prefer no config (needed) more than GUI config, so you can foresee YaST’s end.

amoroso, to linux
@amoroso@fosstodon.org avatar

A good history of Linux Mandrake (later Mandriva), the first easy-to-use, user-focused Linux distro. It's very interesting as I never got a chance to try it.

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-linux-mandrake

charliechan,

@tfb @amoroso it’s very weird that his name, existence and responsibility are seldom mentioned.

I mean in 2004-06 Mandrake was a hot trend like Ubuntu was decade ago. He made the company from everything to zero in just a few years that’s crazy

realcainmosni, to random
@realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk avatar

"Dammit! There's no single uniform package format across all the Linux distros. It's either RPMs or DEBs, mostly."

"OK, let's create something portable across the lot."

The dialogue that led to the creation of , , and .

Has it solved anything? No it has not. Just caused resource bloat (particularly in storage requirements), even more layers of abstraction, and diagnosis headaches. And enabled developers to slope-shoulder platform-specific testing.

!

charliechan,

@realcainmosni AppImage seems not able to get support from big corps so it's less out of box and reachable as the other two; Snaps, like Mir vs Wayland and Unity vs GNOME 3, just another Ubuntu going their own way thing, this time looks much promising and intended to stay longer though

But I think in the long run should beat the other two

charliechan,

@realcainmosni And also, and is going full turbo in the concept of immutable OS, which Flatpak plays a vital role

Think this concept took Flatpak to another level

vwbusguy, to openSUSE
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

If can survive being owned by , I'm confident will survive being sponsored by , which I think we can all agree is still behaving much better than Novell did.

charliechan,

@vwbusguy Not trying to defend for Novell but the deal looks no big deal today comparing with how the Linux camp works with MS (yes I know MS was way more hostile towards Linux)

As a long time user I think the attack to it at that time was very unfair, while today many still say good words for Fedora even the relation with RH is sour. And I still remembered how the momentum shifted to Fedora and Ubuntu after that, a reason why the size of community of openSUSE is behind these two

maxim, (edited ) to mastodon
@maxim@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Hello #mastodon game developers 🧐

Do you have summer vacation this year?

⭐ Please write in the comments more details, where do you vacation and what country are you from? If you have been or now, please show photos

P.S. I haven't had a vacation for several years. So let me at least hear from you and be a little happy for your vacation

#gamedev #indiedev #poll #polls #gamedeveloper #vacation #gamedevelopment #life #travel

charliechan,

@maxim Haven’t got a summer trip for years. Last time was 2018 when I quitted my last last job, been to Japan, Malaysia and Singapore (two trips in two months)

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charliechan,

@maxim Just like we visit Europe :/ (I'm asian)

Though I've been to Europe during my university years (exchange), and once after graduated. Time is a problem too...

sharearea, to bluesky

Nearly every independent creator I know has tried and

About half gave a try; some skipped it altogether

The verdict : the majority are still posting more on than their "new socials" combined

Some are slowly trying to transition to but hate the inability to link

To a creator, they nearly all agree is the big whale they want, but it's exhausting to keep up with

Verdict - will have to pull the plug to get them to ever leave Twitter

charliechan,

@sharearea TikTok is heavily influenced by China gov. If you are creating some funny short meaningless videos may be ok but if you are designing some arts then no-no.

Some Japanese illustrator migrated to Weibo (Chinese Twitter) and quite a number of them went back to Twitter shortly after

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Basically, what we’re saying to people today is:

You’re interested in tech and you want a nice home (or just any home) and stability? Go work at Google, Facebook, or some other surveillance capitalist.

What’s that? You want to work on free and open source? Sure, go work at IBM or Oracle… Oh… you don’t mean enterprise software? Tech to protect human rights/democracy? Not for profit hippie-dippie crap for the common good?

Oh, then suffer.

I mean, is it any surprise things are as they are?

charliechan,

@aral I think it’s the same in all industries, you can’t make good money simply by good will😮‍💨

Even in big NGO you can earn more than you do some good business to the poor

taylorlorenz, to random
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

Mastodon is great, the only thing I miss on this app is quote posts. I know they have a bad rap bc of Twitter, but every major social network has this functionality for a reason (Tumblr, LinkedIn, Facebook, IG). As a journalist, I’d love to add commentary and amplify great info, build on ppl’s points, etc. You just can’t do that the same wait with replies! Is there any chance we might get them on here?

charliechan,

@taylorlorenz I think it’s designed to be so? Coz they think quoting posts is not good for discussion but only say what you want to your audience. You may just boost the post and add a “RT” in your next post if you want to deliver more on that topic

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Musk admits advertisers haven’t returned to Twitter, ad revenue down 50%

Twitter has negative cash flow despite Musk predicting profits last quarter.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-admits-advertisers-havent-returned-to-twitter-ad-revenue-down-50/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best @satai @arstechnica Nothing is strange for Microsoft since they said they love Linux, became a member in the Linux foundation and a prominent contributor of the kernel, and technically maintains a Linux distro themselves

Linux_Is_Best, to random

Solus Linux is back.

After 2 years of silence, Solus Linux has upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4.

From my perspective, Solus Linux was a distro nearly everyone seemed obsessed with. I could never understand why that was. I recall being banned from their forum community for asking where I could obtain non-free media codecs, since their repo offered none, and I couldn't find any documentation on where to obtain them. The development argued with me and others claiming they were not necessary. 🙄

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best wow if that’s the case RMS should love it🤨 despite they may need a “GNU/“ in their name

charliechan, to foss

is not my daily driver but it’s the handful of projects that I’m sponsoring.

Its BDFL Patrick has developed Slackware for 30 years in a nearly one-man team. Had been through illnesses and jobless, while many fancy projects cease to exist after several years, he keeps delivering the oldest surviving and UNIX style distro so it must be very hardworking for him to do so.

Please support Slackware if you can, and happy birthday!

https://www.patreon.com/slackwarelinux

charliechan,

founder, main developer and BDFL Patrick Volkderding’s official message on Patreon.

No corporate backing like Red Hat, SUSE; Not a big project like Debian or Linux Mint. Please consider supporting Slackware if you are able to do so.

Linux_Is_Best, to linux

"Linux is not an operating system it is a kernel."

🙄

"It is not Linux it is Linux GNU."

🙄

I am not a purist. - It's Linux, and it is my favorite operating system. 😜

charliechan,

@Linux_Is_Best My first successful installation, including running a distro, was SUSE 9.0. At that time automatically setting up a DHCP connection is not what a distro would do. And not what I could do.

And on those days SUSE still didn’t provide a full ISO but only a bootable network installation CD.

hirad, to ubuntu

What the hell ?!

charliechan,

@hirad And some think it’s okay for Canonical’s business while they complain about Microsoft promote their services in Windows

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