merthyr1831 @ merthyr1831 @lemmy.world

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I suppose it does sound misleading if you discard the contents of the article and make up your own story.

I installed mint and zorin on virtual machines (theyre easy to set up in windows with virtualbox) and then just put them fullscreen and used em like my actual computer for a bit. Very useful for learning stuff without the commitment of a proper install.

The trick to writing a JavaScript web app is that first you consider literally any other technology to solve your problem and only then consider using javascript.

it does 👀

Average linux experience is the "hey I think im getting used to this OS now!" followed by "where's my bootloader"

It's in testing and/or sid atm but the keepass dev has argued back and forth with the debian maintainer who basically just said "suck it up buttercup" and refused to change back, so it'll cause a lot of fun times once it lands in the next debian release lol

I've not tried netboot yet but that might also be a cool option for people who like to install new ISOs often. Ventoy gang for life, tho

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/welcoming-shopify-as-a-ladybird-sponsor not sure about the other anonymous donation he received.

ngl this looks pretty slick. Good stuff!

I use a Lenovo 14APH8 (Ideapad Pro 5) which is essentially the same system specification. Pretty brilliant laptop but the drivers have been struggling until this year, finally! Especially with high DPI, high refresh rate screens where memory corruption is easier to run into.

Brilliant post by the way. I've just spotted that Smokeless UMAF which might help alleviate the issue I've noticed on my laptop which is Lenovo giving me 28GB of RAM but only 1GB of DMA Buffer. Absolutely bullshit when my Steamdeck runs fine with 4GB and barely touches the swapfile. I wonder if this'll let me get the true 780M performance I yearn for!

EDIT: Hell yeah UMA buffer override lets fuckin GOOOOO

Only advice: Don't install on the same hard drive.

I dont care how many people say "oh it works for me" it works for everyone until it doesnt, and then you spend days fucking about with utilities that you shouldnt be fucking with, and at best it works until it stops working again.

There's likely little risk that any attack goes after a potential linux partition, but there's much more risk that either your linux or Windows partition bricks the other.

This is very cool. Im a fan of Nix from a tech perspective but im still not sold because of its poor UX, among many other complaints. IMO it's the future of the Linux distro, but now that might be closer than before!

Serenity does have donors, but most of the donations are for Ladybird, their libre browser stack separate from Mozilla/Safari/Chromium. Most of the money came specifically from donors looking for improved support for their own websites on Ladybird.

Cost for commercial, free for personal may not always be open source. Redis for example.

1. Premium support channels - This is basically how RedHat and Canonical make their money, while offering FOSS for individuals.
2. Donations - KDE and GNOME are largely donor-backed, both by individuals and corporate entities.
3. Commissions on features - Collabora for example is commissioned by Valve to improve KDE and SteamOS.
4. Software licenses - Certain FOSS licenses may permit paid access to software as long as the source is open i think? There are also source-available eg. Asperite that are open source, but only offer binaries for customers.
5. Add on services - Your FOSS web app can offer paid hosting and management for clients. Your distro can offer ISOs with extra pre-downloaded software for a fee (Zorin). You can partner with hardware to distribute your software (Manjaro, KDE).
6. Hired by a company to work on your project and integrate with their own stack. This is what Linus Torvalds did with Linux when he was first hired by Transmeta - part of his time was spent working on Linux to work better with the technology Transmeta used.

I pretty much avoid GIMP now. It became a pity download years ago, but now I'm just not bothering to wait for them to bring the software to the current decade.

Alternatives exist like Photopea, which even with a quarter of the screen covered in ads is way more performant, let alone productive.

Not to blame the maintainers, it seems like they've been left with a mess of spaghetti and no one is willing to help out. I can't say I'm surprised it's taken so long.

workstation

fedora... workstation?

Rsync over FTP. i use it for a weekly nextcloud backup to a hetzner storage box

I look forward to more voice assistants that arent as laughably broken as Google/Alexa.

My Google Nest can't even subtract from a timer (it can add, though!). Such a blatant surveillance device.

Idk where you assumed 4k 120hz HDR from the post?