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what exactly got nixed? Its all right there on the sys tray with a handy slider

as cool as it is to have a gmail account from back then, I have an older lady in the US who just registers things against it, because we have the same first initial and last name. I found her on facebook and messaged her to tell to please stop using my email address, she still does it from time to time.

Its crazy that stuff like ebay will let you verify an account with a mobile number, but never verify the email address. I ended up moving her ebay account to an email address that I created, but I was tempted to buy a bunch of shit for her...

as a non-american, no one really wants to go there at the moment anyway

Thincast on flathub?

Krdc is pretty good too

Isn't that a Michael Bay film?

The fact that Waterfox is owned by Advertising Company System1, doesn't bother you?

in the case of Android, it comes down to the proprietary driver modules that are compiled for certain kernel versions. As newer versions of android are released with newer kernels, the closed source modules fall out of step. If the drivers for these components were open source anyone could recompile them for any Linux kernel. It's usually up to the device manufacturer working with the likes of the chip makers to release newer module versions for their hardware. OEMs dont want to support their hardware beyond few years, so you'll hopefully buy a new phone.

The postmarketOS community (and some of the android community) works pretty hard trying to bring mainline kernel support to devices, which enables them to run generic Linux kernels, or conceivably newer versions of android than the OEM has released. But this involves reverse engineering support for this hardware.

the whole spec list and image was probably an ai prompt output

back to Monke

its really only /bin /usr, much of /etc is editable like normal. People hear read only system and freak out like its locked down. Most things I use are flatpak, or in a distrobox and there are now sys-exts that do a lot of what anyone could need

I started fiddling with toolbox and distrobox and really liked being able to install random stuff and build dependencies in those containers and then purge them when I was done. It keeps the system clean. The ostree distros take that mentality to the whole system.

I also then found I liked the appliance like nature and the ability to rebase. I will sometimes rebase to the rawhide branch to try new stuff out, and then rebase back to stable. I see some people feel the read only file system is going to be an issue, but I have not had to screw with it since the very early days. I truly believe this is where most distros should be headed.

I used Fedora KDE from 2012 to 2023, then I moved to Fedora Kinoite because I like the idea of atomic distros. Don't know if that counts though since its mostly the same software, just delivered slightly differently (however you could argue that is the case for all distros)

good to know next time I am waiting at my local bus stop

Free WiFi only if you are a Telstra customer for your home broadband

Last I checked it didnt play very nicely in real hardware, and required running it in a VM

what a bizare take to suggest hoping for ReactOS to mature before using Linux as daily driver. A lot of the current reactOS app compatibility depends on WINE implementation anyway.

take it up with software patents I guess

its only an issue if people dont use the codecs out of rpmfusion, the fedora adjacent nonfree repos

My kids ask when I'm adding a movie to Jellyfin all the time

Non-Multiverse movies since endgame:

Spider-Man: Far From Home Black Widow Shang-Chi Eternals Love and Thunder Wakanda Forever Guardians 3 Marvels Brave New World Thunderbolts*

was there no fun to be had in any of those?