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I'm already using bind mounts under the /home directory. I learnt pretty early on day 1 not to fight the distro, so I'm trying to understand the way Bazzite wants this to be done. From another reply, it sounds like it's a difference in rootless/rootful containers so I'm going to try to work out how to run a podman container as root and see if this helps.

Thanks, I will have a go at trying to get it running as a rootful container!

I was running Nobara before, which is also based on Fedora, so not sure why it would be different in regards to SELinux?

I mentioned this in my original post.

Searching online shows everyone saying just use podman, it comes pre-installed and is a drop in replacement. The problem is that it doesn’t work.

But someone else has mentioned the issue is the containers are rootless by default, so I'll explore that line of troubleshooting.

You need sheep. Or guinea pigs…

I would but I don't have anyone to look after them when we're away 😀. I am also not sure we actually have enough grass for even one sheep to get by over the summer or winter when the grass stops growing. We could section off a piece, then grow it long and make hay to get through the summer/winter, but at that point I feel like it might be less work to just mow the lawn 😅

I don’t understand how ads are now showing up in things people have paid for, like software or cars.

I would be interested to jump forward in time 100 years and see where software laws ended up. We are in a period of uncertainty at the moment, with software being so new. Even until say 20 years ago, you would buy software, and it would keep working until you changed something (e.g. installed a new version of Windows). In this way it was similar to say a new toaster, that would work until it didn't. If your toaster died in 6 months then you'd expect a replacement for free so that you could continue making toast. Neither Quake 3 Arena nor your toaster would suddenly change what it did, it was the same from the day you bought it to the day it stopped working, and if this period of time was extensive then you were happy.

Now we have a subscription model, with endless updates so long as you keep paying. You are paying for the software specifically for (say) one month and then it's not yours anymore, next month you will have a new licence for that month where the software might be the same or different.

Then Windows has become the next step. You didn't buy Windows, you bought a laptop that has Windows pre-installed. The licence is therefore between the laptop company and Microsoft. Your personal rights are unclear, because you bought the laptop specifically with Windows installed on it, but you (presumably) signed away all rights to continue to keep the same user experience by continuing to use the product (since someone else installed Windows, presumably you didn't get prompted to accept a licence). You are under this subscription model with changes forced on you but you aren't paying with money.

So now we have a situation where your rights are unclear. Is it enough to say that you agree to whatever they decide to change just because you are using it? At what point can you say the product is not substantively the same as what you purchased? How long are you entitled to keep the product substantively the same, since you are not paying for a subscription but it's a subscription style model. If it were a toaster we would expect it to work the same for an amount of time based in part on how much you paid for it.

It also raises the question of what happens when you buy a toaster that is wifi connected and they change the functions with a software update (or even just shut down the server used for the wifi connectivity, breaking that function even though the toaster otherwise works fine).

Ultimately I think these are things companies get away with now because of their power and because they are testing to see what they can get away with. I don't think this will be settled by new laws, I think the grey areas will be largely be settled by case law as companies are taken to court over these practices. I expect it will get worse and worse until a straw breaks the camel's back and a string of court cases will decide where the dust settles.

The lawn is fine 😆, green and lush, would probably appreciate some simulated grazing!

Windows 10 has ads too. They started with paid suggestions of apps from the Windows Store popping up in the start menu, and expanded from there. Generally you could opt out in settings.

The ad I mentioned seeing was in this news widget thing that pops up if your mouse passes over the icon in the task bar. I disabled the open on hover but I don't think you can disable ads there, though I'm not 100% on that.

I'm really not a fan of Windows these days.

My only garden news is I have nothing growing and don't want to mow the lawns.

In other cautionary tales about Windows 11, the other day I was helping my mum with her computer and windows was showing ads for giant pens shaped balloons. Yay for targeted advertising within the OS!

Who do you mean by we? I don’t know any boomer who isn’t right wing. I know very very few right wingers outside of that generation.

I have boomer family who have voted right wing their whole lives and got more leftist as they got older.

I also know people in their 30s that are out there campaigning for Act, full leopards ate my face stuff.

Generally the people I am close with are not right wing, but that's more a lack of commonalities to base a friendship on. I think you'd be surprised to find how much support National, Act, (and even NZF) get in the younger populations.

In my experience they are happy with either. I normally just email and ask.

For something like a toilet, I'd think they would want you to know which toilet you want. It wouldn't be unusual for you to buy it first then they install it, but equally if it's at Mitre 10 or something they would probably be happy to get it for you (and charge for their time).

So I'd probably have a look online (or in store) at which toilet you'd like, then email them with a link saying you want to get this toilet and ask if you should buy it first or if they would order it in.

I seem to have started something. The other day my 4 year old was cold, so I suggested they get dressed under their blanket. Now every day starts with 20 mins of said 4yo struggling away trying to get dressed under the blanket and refusing any help 😅

I didn't realise there were so many voice options if set to US English!

I've updated to use Davis (whispering), will see if anyone notices.

Ah well, it's been the law here for 20 years.

I'm also reading about how our NZ/Australia socket was based on an American 125v socket design, later upgraded to allow 240v.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112

Does NA not have insulated pins? Where a half inch of so of the pin nearest the plug head is insulated so when plugging in the exposed part of the pin is inside the hole before the pin makes contact with live power?

Yes, I get paid a very respectable number of memes for my monthly salary.

But if you can taste the coke, doesn't that mean you don't have enough alcohol in there?

I play them because I enjoy them. You can normally pick out the main storyline and just follow that.

Personally I just play a long game over the course of a couple of years.

Nice, I didn't know about that!

we have also been advised that some users are using this tool at countdown and woolworths, two supermarkets in new zealand. they have been scanning these codes in place of an "everyday rewards" card. please do not do this, it is probably in violation of woolworths or everyday rewards' terms of service. if you choose to violate their terms of service, they may invalidate any points accrued using this tool.

lol, reminds me of all the piracy and DRM evading stuff that is "for educational use only".

If it helps, the savings are minuscule. I don't use the loyalty schemes at all anymore. If there's a discount only for members, I actively avoid buying that product. I mostly get non-perishables at the supermarket and stock up when it's got a discount for normal people.

At this point in time, the bill is simply a proposal by one member of parliament. It goes in the biscuit tin, and only gets looked at if it gets drawn out at random.

To get prioritised, it needs support from all the parties in government. Our far right "deregulate and downsize government" party would have to support it, and it would be a very telling move if they did.

Yeah it would be a shame to waste them. My house isn't quite big enough, maybe Peter Jackson could hang them from his mansion or something? Would be pretty cool to have.