utopiah @ utopiah @lemmy.ml

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Anyway an event based solution, maybe via xev filter on randr category could be more elegant. Still, whatever works for you! Thanks for sharing.

How about watch -n 5 your_command instead?

Nice, hopefully they are aware that former clients are moving away from them because they don't find their solution appropriate. I should do the same.

Indeed, honestly most apps should just be URLs.

Unfortunately a lot of apps are not on the FDroid stores which is why people, me included, rely on other stores.

I always look at FDroid first but sometimes (hopefully less and less) the only apps (typically commercial ones, e.g. banking) are elsewhere.

Upvoted only because the comment got downvoted.

If you downvote a clearly stated opinion without clarifying why, e.g. a source clarifying that it is indeed no correct you are NOT helping the conversation.

Guess I'll say that next time I have a conversation like https://lemmy.ml/post/29976729/18561606 and avoid the downvotes.

I bet the local Linux User Group would know. Seems too late for that purchase but worth checking for the next one.

So... Linux the kernel but without the freedom?

What data if there is no log?

Please do provide a link, especially if it's very easy to find. I'm not saying anything you say is wrong, only that if it's not an opinion, then a link from a trusted source helps other to understand the situation.

If you mean unrootable Googled Android then I don't consider that Linux. If you mean something else please clarify.

servers run on RAM

What's the different with zego logs alternatives, e.g. https://openvpn.net/as-docs/tutorials/tutorial--turn-off-logging.html

Source please, we in the /privacy community genuinely want to learn so when such things do happen, we all benefit from factual information. Please do not assume we all know what you are referring to. It is particularly in this kind of cases when, for example with Signal what was "shared" with authorities is basically irrelevant, cf https://signal.org/bigbrother/ so we must be precise.

I'm way too lazy for such an endeavor... so what I would do instead is

• buy a DVD player on a standard interface (right now seems to be USB-C) that seems to cost (wow... seriously that cheap?!) about the price of a lunch, so 30 EUR.
• download RIPs from a Torrent tracker

once that's done then I would only do the additional content of a per-need basis which I would then upload back to a Website that cares about this kind of content, potentially the Internet Archive.

Indeed, so my argument is that sure a "better" installer might change a small fraction of the marketshare, say 1%, but it's not enough to change significantly, say 10% or even reach parity.

An interesting example is the Steam Deck coming with Linux installed. Sure there are few people who do (by choice) install Windows alongside Linux but AFAIK the vast majority do not. That's IMHO particularly interesting on a topic, gaming, where Windows has been traditionally the #1 reason people picked a specific OS.

Didn't watch the video... but the premise "The biggest barrier for the new Linux user isn't the installer" is exactly why Microsoft is, sadly, dominating the end-user (not servers) market.

What Microsoft managed to do with OEMs is NOT to have an installer at all! People buy (or get, via their work) a computer and... use it. There is not installation step for the vast majority of people.

I'm not saying that's good, only that strategy wise, if the single metric is adoption rate, no installer is a winning strategy.

Get a PineTab2 and put GCompris on it. If you want a distribution specifically oriented toward pedagogy consider https://primtux.fr/

IMHO though the distribution itself does not matter. What matters is what software you make available for the user and what rights you let them have, e.g. installing apps or adds-ons vs not, Website controls vs not, etc.

Indeed someone else pointed out https://lemmy.ml/post/29858248/18514122

Folders, ssh, key auth, sftp and scp are the main things I’m looking for.

suggesting that anyone who wants a central console for their remote systems must be somehow incompetent

IMHO that's exactly what ~/.ssh/config using its Include directive as shown in https://lemmy.ml/post/29858248/18510482

    
       Include
               Include the specified configuration file(s).  Multiple
               pathnames may be specified and each pathname may contain
               glob(7) wildcards, tokens as described in the “TOKENS”
               section, environment variables as described in the
               “ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES” section and, for user
               configurations, shell-like ‘~’ references to user home
               directories.  Wildcards will be expanded and processed in
               lexical order.  Files without absolute paths are assumed
               to be in ~/.ssh if included in a user configuration file
               or /etc/ssh if included from the system configuration
               file.  Include directive may appear inside a Match or Host
               block to perform conditional inclusion.

  

from https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/ssh_config.5.html

So what I think people are highlighting is not that your need is wrong, rather that you rather than going back to fundamentals (e.g. lower command-line or even configuration here level stuff) you are looking for more complex and specialize tools. That tends to be reasonable in the Windows world where people are often looking for GUI but in Linux, started from Unix and thus CLI, this is a process that will often lead to disappointment. I believe people who are saying things perceived negatively here are pointing out, maybe poorly, a cultural difference that will be problematic in the future, thus why they are insisting.