lemmyreader

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lemmyreader,

I don’t consider MAC OSX as part of BSD, just like Android isn’t part of Linux Desktop, but only uses the Linux kernel. OSX took parts of BSD and shielded it behind a proprietary wall, because the BSD license offer no protection from that. So they become separate projects the moment they enter the Apple domain.

Check : What happened to the open source Apple Darwin OS then ?

tl;dr : Darwin OS is kind of obsoleted.

Up to Darwin 8.0.1, released in April 2005, Apple released a binary installer (as an ISO image) after each major Mac OS X release that allowed one to install Darwin on PowerPC and Intel x86 systems as a standalone operating system.[12] Minor updates were released as packages that were installed separately. Darwin is now only available as source code. As of January 2023, Apple no longer mentions Darwin by name on its Open Source website and only publishes an incomplete collection of open-source projects relating to macOS and iOS.

lemmyreader,

Kernel is 6.1.0-21-amd64 but I don’t know has the kernel been updated recently.

zgrep linux-image /var/log/dpkg.log* can tell you more.

lemmyreader,

While toolbox and distrobox seem very similar, distrobox comes with a slight warning :

lemmyreader,

Sorry about that.

No worries. The archive.ph link gave me a Google reCAPTCHA to solve 😱 but the original link was perfectly readable for me. What were the paywall comments about, was it a non EU thing ?

To extend the link collection here’s a WayBackMachine one :

lemmyreader,

If you cannot use another OS yet, install F-Droid and then install NetGuard. In NetGuard enable blocking of system apps in the settings and continue and block all apps. Then allow only the apps you need.

lemmyreader,

I believe NetGuard will act as a VPN.

Yes, correct.

This will prevent you from using an actual VPN.

It is indeed a drawback I forgot about (but a VPN connection can also be made on a local router at home).

lemmyreader,

But I’m not sure where to look. It seems like jobs focusing on free/libre software are difficult to find

This hashtag can be used to search : mastodon.social/tags/FediHireAnd the videos of Andreas Kling could inspire you ? Andreas came out of rehab, gave up his job to work on his open source hobby OS and web browser based on donations : piped.video/channel/UC3ts8coMP645hZw9JSD3pqQ

[HELP] I can't login nor elevate permissions in dm/de

I came from Arch to Void just today and after installing KDE and enabling dbus, I enabled SDDM, I type in my password and it says login failed, I tried lightdm, I couldn’t login neither in my user account nor root, I setup plasma to run with xinit, plasma did launch successfully, but sudo NEVER worked inside plasma, it always...

lemmyreader,

Do have the startx command installed ? You can use that from the command line without DisplayManager (Switch to a virtual console with e.g. ctrl-alt-F2). And with XFCE4 you can use the command startxfce4 to start from the command line without DisplayManager. This could help troubleshoot.

lemmyreader,

In such cases on Debian, as root, I try my “lazy” approach

apt install vlc mplayer vorbis-tools ffmpeg mpv

which may pull in the needed codecs to play mp3, ogg and flac files. Does playing a video in your browser work btw ?

lemmyreader,

Also post ifconfig -a or ip addr show.

ifconfig is deprecated for a long time I think. Not even sure if some Debian package still provides it. I’ve switched to ip a and ip r and cat /etc/resolv.conf to look at such issues as OP has.

lemmyreader,

You should be able to use nmtui tool in the text terminal to activate your network connection. From the terminal you can also use the startx command to try and see if that would show you a GUI or other useful errors.

lemmyreader,

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That makes me think that I always thought that security was a joke included with Microsoft products. Already from the MS-DOS days onward. And I guess the other commenter is right : Microsoft does not want to annoy their users.

lemmyreader,

Why do you not switch from Xubuntu to Linux Mint ? Mint is a derivate of Ubuntu but without Snap.

lemmyreader,

This one ? github.com/ProtonMail/inbox-desktop/releases

v1.0.3 Latest Fixes

Fixed an issue that led to opening a new Desktop App window when users clicked on the Update button of the Calendar Drawer in Mail. Uninstalling the application on Windows removes user data from the application data folders. The application is placed to a correct application category on Linux. No need to refresh the other application (Mail or Calendar) to apply changes when switching themes.

lemmyreader,

Waterfox has had some bad press. I don’t remember details but here’s something to read :

I prefer to stick to the no nonsense LibreWolf and when some things don’t work fall back to Firefox :

lemmyreader,

Some other contributors suggest I use a live usb, not installing the OS but using the live usb with working wlan to complete the installation, but this seems to be more complicated than working directly from initramfs.

My suggestion was to use live usb to find your /home files. Indeed using live usb and then using chroot to complete the upgrade from 23.10 to 24.04 is maybe more difficult (As /dev and /proc and /sys need to get mounted with the chroot). If I were you I would first find your /home files and make a backup and after that proceed with upgrading.

lemmyreader,

Small breakthrough: I booted the system without problems to tty1 (I believe this is called single user mode), logged in as an old user and now I can see all my data, logged in as old me.

Nice.

Do you still recommend to backup from live usb and upgrade from there?

I would backup from live usb and then when that is done stop using the live usb, reboot and try to upgrade via the recovery mode.

lemmyreader,

Is this because I am using a free tier VPN? so it’s not functioning properly etc…

  • Does Proton not have a page to check your IP address and check for DNS leaks (Mullvad does : mullvad.net/en -> Check for leaks) ?
  • Did you look up your IP address by other means ?
  • On the desktop with Linux you can check the content of /etc/resolv.conf and ip a (Your local IP) and ip r (Gateway address).

Else google fixed my location based on my previous location history? I used my google applications without VPN for many years, I am just learning & following privacy tips recently.

Are the sessions from your last login ? With some applications (Dunno about Google) you can delete older sessions from the overview.

lemmyreader,

You can look at something like www.deviceinfo.me to see what just a browser can identify.

At the Keys Pressed (Live) it can see my arrow up and arrow down key presses 😱

lemmyreader,

Maybe inspired by Microsoft’s Linux :

CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure

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