MiddledAgedGuy @ MiddledAgedGuy @beehaw.org

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I'm not personally familiar with PopOS, but in reading up real quick it looks like it's selling point is baked in proprietary drivers.

If you want a "just works with my hardware" distro, that sounds like a solid choice. But, since you're technically inclined I might suggest avoiding it. Proprietary drivers come with their own problems and I think there's value in having to consciously choosing to use them, which will make you more able to handle/remove them if needed. There is some personal bias in this I admit. I don't care for proprietary anything if I have a choice.

I don't like helping non-tech people because they don't want to learn. They just want it fixed. I understand the mindset and I'm that same way on other things. But I don't want to be their "tech guy".

I do like helping in the FOSS community though because people generally do want to learn.

What kind of problems? I use syncthing, curious if your past issues might be my future ones.

I haven't seen this mentioned yet, and there's a good number of responses so maybe I'm up in the night, but it seems to me Manjaro's philosophy is somewhat counterintuitive to Arch's. Arch pointedly obfuscates system internals as little as is reasonable to "keep it simple" from a system perspective. Manjaro simplifies things for the user but creates additional obfuscation. I can see some people who value Arch's approach being less than amenable to that.

But that's not a reason to not use it. If Manjaro's approach appeals to you, use it.

BTW, I don't use Arch (at the moment)

I've thought about putting a distro sticker on my laptop, but I've been on a distro hopping kick so that seems unwise. Perhaps good ol' Tux should go on there 🐧

It's hyperbole, sure. But it's not inaccurate. Any given police offer, and I want to believe a large majority mean well. But on the whole there's truth to it.

Edit: A few, but notably more positive phrasing towards individual officers.

Oh, yeah. Hadn't thought of that. Or maybe it'd just blank out the ad while it was playing and you'd just have to wait. Either way, annoying.

I got to thinking you could crowdsource it, like sponsorblock. But that'd probably only catch popular videos, and YouTube could just randomize what ads and when.

I appreciate the not your office OS commentary. I have the use Windows for work. I do this mostly via RDP to a work provided laptop, as well as a win10 VM for MS Teams. And I take great pleasure in shutting those down at the end of the work day.

The last tolerable version of Windows for me was XP. I find myself fond of Windows 98, but that's probably just nostalgia speaking.

The article suggests they've tried this:

YouTube employs a wide variety of techniques to circumvent ad blockers, such as embedding an ad in the video itself (so the ad blocker can’t distinguish between the two)

Though a low effort search on my part just now couldn't corroborate that. But even if current adblocking software can't handle it, real time commercial detection software exists and could, I assume, be applied here.

I don't agree with that. Anything they can do can be circumvented as long as there's people willing and able to do the work. And because YouTube is so ubiquitous I see that continuing.

They could certainly be more aggressive though. I think their pace is elaborate. Boil the frog slowly.

I think we'll continue to see an uptick. Speaking specifically of Linux it'll probably be mostly from the steam deck, but I believe we'll see an increase in PC gaming as well. As Linux game support and ease of use increases, and Windows becomes increasingly user hostile. I'm not talking about a mass exodus or anything. Most people don't know, won't care, or dislike Linux. But maybe we can tack several more percentage points on there in the next few years.

I have my password database synced multiple places and I use two yubikeys (one as a backup) to unlock said password database and for OTP. This protects me from losing access to anything as a result of a lost/broken device.

It doesn't help in the case of being unable to perform those functions yourself for whatever reason. Perhaps give instructions on how to access all of that to someone trusted?

I'd recommend against any of those choices.

• Puppy Linux: It's a solid live boot environment but it's not really ideal in comparison to the major distros on a permanent install.
• Alpine Linux: Since it uses musl instead of glibc, you're likely to run into problems
• Linux from scratch: Going through LFS is a great way to get a solid understanding of Linux, but unless you want to spend more time maintaining your system than using it, it's going to be a frustrating experience.

Try one of the distros others have suggested.

Edit: I checked the specs on that hardware and yeah that's going to struggle. Maybe Alpine would be ok. It's fairly easy to spin up and might be fun to play with on that hardware. You'll probably want a fairly large swap if you're planning on using a desktop environment.

I symlink the AppImage. It's still a manual process in that you have to recreate the symlink but feels like less of a hassle than updating the desktop file.

I hadn't heard any of this. I have very little trouble believing it though. I'll have to educate myself.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing.

Do I think crt's are better? No. Do I miss them? Yes.

I haven't. I just looked at it and it looks great! And pretty inexpensive. I'll check it out, thanks!

I want Space Engineers, but better.

Building vehicles, ships, and bases block by block as your character is mechanic I enjoy that I haven't seen elsewhere. I also like the resource gathering. But I would like better physics, better enemy interactions and AI, and water instead of just ice.

I think most of us FOSS folks will agree that GIMP is pretty unintuitive.

1. I'll follow a search result to reddit, but I don't actively browse it.
2. Never used either. I created a Mastodon account somewhere once upon a time but never used it.
3. My friends use Discord, and aren't interested in moving. So I use it.
4. I don't post or comment on YouTube, but I do follow a handful of people. Not signed in, just using rss feeds.