Adding to that, I’m not sure if it’s just me, but Android, even with root, feels so restrictive compared to a Linux distro. A good example is that I tried to remove a system file the other day (notification sounds, I hated them and wanted them gone for good) but even when I found what the file was, I couldn’t delete it using conventional methods aka file managers. I even tried using Zarchiver with root privileges, and it failed. The same happened when I had to deal with recent Android versions making the Android/obb dir read-only. The only way I could access these is via Termux and that is just kinda disappointing for a system that claims to be supposedly open.
Now, I’m not expecting this to be possible on mobile Linux, but the expectations there are different.
Anyways, rant aside, what I’m really saying is I’m excited for Mobile Linux, specifically Plasma Mobile (as I already tried Phosh and it was pretty good, but I haven’t got a device Plasma Mobile). I hope that I can daily drive it one day, just using Waydroid for some apps like WhatsApp, Banking Apps, and other essential proprietary apps.
Yeah, but actual Linux, even immutable, still feels more open. I don’t like the default look and feel of the system? There’s only so much I can do on Android, while on mobile Linux, I can even install SXMO, which is a mobile tiling window manager.
StartOS facilitates the entire process of discovering, installing, configuring, and using any variety of open-source software from anywhere in the world without trusting anyone.
I really like the idea of user-friendly selfhosting (which is essentially what this company is offering, I mean hell, I’ve had similar business ideas floating around in my head too) BUT any company that has:
an in-the-know marketing team
Any employees that are somewhat technical enough (which should be guaranteed for a company with this sort of product
NOT a scam
Would know what a HUGE risk reputation-wise it is to showcase crypto-related selfhosting on the FRONT page. It’s like a “build-a-red-flag” or “destroy-our-reputation” speedrun. Even IF you want to offer this, anyone in-the-know with at least 3 braincells would bury this deep in the page and make it difficult to find (if they were well-intentioned in the first place) because at this point anything crypto, especially being the main offering, is a huge red flag.
If instead, they offered a nextcloud instance, for example, or Pihole as an adblocker, or some other good and common services, maybe a selfhosted VPN (or maybe not, because of the stupid and misleading ads of VPN companies), they would be seen as 100% more legit.
Edit: Just checked their marketplace and they have:
Jellyfin
Vaultwarden
FreeGPT-2
Gitea
Matrix
Nextcloud
Their own service for TOR pages
Ghost (a blogging platform)
SearxNG (a search engine)
I mean, add Wordpress, Pihole and some other friendly services, and advertise THOSE!!! Build your own Google (SearxNG)! Build your own MS Office online and OneDrive (Nextcloud)! Build your own Github (Gitea)! Build your own Discord (Matrix)! Build your own password manager (Vaultwarden)! Build your own Netflix (Jellyfin)!
IIRC, the original “blood is thicker than water” quote is actually “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which means those that stand by you and fight and struggle with you, and are there for you, are more valuable than those biologically related to you.
Here’s the thing: I’m excited about the tech and its potential uses. BUT there’s a reason why I still steer clear of any project that hasn’t built up reputation for years. If the project is worthwhile, early adopters will find out and eventually, it will grow over many years. Then it could be considered somewhat “trustworthy”.
If your current choice (of anything eg. partners) is 90% of the way there, don’t spend all your time chasing for those last 10%, as if you do, more often than not, you will lose the other 90% for the sake of these 10%.
Yes. Numerous COPR repos not updated aside, my sddm theme broke and doesn’t detect Qtgraphicaleffects (which is installed). You know what the weirdest part is? There are 2 “dependencies” for the theme: quickcontrols and graphicaleffects, and luckily, quickcontrols was detected properly. I ended up rewriting the theme, and while it works, it is far from where it needs to be. Safe to say, I’m very annoyed.
Edit: I actually did a clean install, as I tried some other distros a few days before F40 released.
Essentially as the title says, I’m running SDDM with the Wayland backend on Fedora 40 Sway edition and I want to enable tap-to-click for my touchpad. Any ideas on how I can do that? I tried doing it in the xorf config but then I realised the x server isn’t even installed so SDDM is actually running on Wayland, and I don’t...
What AI service did you use to get this? It doesn’t work, but ChatGPT (3.5) just told me to edit the xorg config to add tap-to-click (which I did but it didn’t do anything, probably because X11 is not installed)
And that’s why It’s great to have choice. Also, if you start off in CLI, it can be quite overwhelming. The first time I had to partition my drive I was super scared not to mess it up. A few months later I knew exactly what I was doing… when I was using a graphical installer or Gparted. Earlier today, I partitioned my drive using cfdisk (fdisk feels kinda painful; press this, then this, and if, like me, you don’t know the commands by heart, it can take too long), and I installed Arch manually cuz I was bored. It was my first time doing a manual install with systemd-boot (always did grub in the past), so I didn’t realise I had to write my own boot entries for all 3 kernels (mainline, zen and lts), and because of font issues, I just switched back to Fedora (going up a version from 39 to 40 in the process) where I had an issue with a qt component that meant my sddm theme was not working. It isn’t the theme’s fault, that’s for sure, as it worked perfectly on Fedora 39 and elsewhere, and because pretty much all themes I could find relied on this qt module (it’s qtgraphicaleffects, packaged as qt5-qtgraphicaleffects on Fedora) , I got a bit angry and then sat down and rewrote the theme, removing any dependency on graphicaleffects (was only used for drop shadows in some popups), though for some reason some of the colours also got a bit funky but it works and it works well (I also had to hide one of the popups but it wasn’t an essential one).
But I digress. Point is, if it’s more comfortable for you, you’ll use it. If it isn’t but you want it to be, then to ill force yourself to use and get better. If you don’t, you just won’t. That’s the power of choice in Linux.
Great. Another thing that makes non-systemd distros even more painful to use. /s I like systemd, but the people that called the OS Systemd/Linux were right, and that name becomes more accurate every day.
I agree that standardisation is good, but sudo is already a standard. If anything, I think this might, once again, split things further by creating another competing standard. It’s like that XKCD. But to be honest, I’m not an admin or enterprise customer yet, so I don’t know if this might not be an improvement. On an individual level, I’d be okay with run0 becoming a standard if it’s good enough, as long as we get a sudoedit or “sudo -e” replacement too, as I only discovered it about 2 months ago, but I already use it a lot.
From the article, it just seems that RISC-V support was removed from the Android kernel so that it doesn’t become part of future builds of Android, mainly because it is not ready yet. Though the wording from the maintainer that did the patch said the support was “discontinued” which is misleading.
Even when that releases, it doesn’t mean distros will switch to it. Just because it’s systemd, doesn’t always mean it’s better. Just look at network manager vs systemd-networkd. Correct me if I’m wrong but afaik they are made to serve the same purpose and most distros prefer Network Manager over systemd-networkd.
My first phone was a Nokia 100 in 2008, my first computer I owned was my first laptop, a Lenovo Ideapad 100S (4GB RAM, 64GB Storage) in 2017. I’m currently rocking a phone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G) that has better specs (6GB RAM, 128GB Storage) than that old laptop which is still kinda crazy to me. I also think the processor is more powerful as well, but don’t know the exact specs off the top of my head.
GIMP 2.10.38 Released with Much-Requested Backports of GTK3 Features (9to5linux.com)
Intel continues search for source of Core i9 chip crashes — issues statement about recommended BIOS settings to board partners (www.tomshardware.com)
Daily driving Plasma Mobile (fam-ribbers.com)
I wrote a blog post about my experiences on daily driving Plasma Mobile
Sovereign Computing | Start9 (start9.com)
StartOS facilitates the entire process of discovering, installing, configuring, and using any variety of open-source software from anywhere in the world without trusting anyone.
What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
Youtube send a Letter to Grayjay Creator (www.youtube.com)
Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 From Open Source Developers (boehs.org)
This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.
What is the answer?
Share some objective or subjective wisdom you’ve learned recently.
Did Fedora 40 break something for you? (gehirneimer.de)
I am running Fedora 39 right now and the last time I did a distro upgrade my graphics drivers were a huge PITA. Did your upgrade to 40 went smooth?
Enabling Tap-to-click in SDDM Wayland (Fedora 40 Sway)? (SOLVED)
Essentially as the title says, I’m running SDDM with the Wayland backend on Fedora 40 Sway edition and I want to enable tap-to-click for my touchpad. Any ideas on how I can do that? I tried doing it in the xorf config but then I realised the x server isn’t even installed so SDDM is actually running on Wayland, and I don’t...
Revive That Old Computer With AntiX Linux (fosspost.org)
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How to create a bootable Linux USB drive (www.zdnet.com)
systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative (www.phoronix.com)
RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback (www.androidauthority.com)
Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)
When did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it?