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BartyDeCanter

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  • Recommendation for systemd free security focused distro

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  • Thats kinda the point of the malicious compliance though. It’s an optional field. By default, distros can choose to ignore it or auto fill in 1900-01-01. In places where it’s required by law, adduser can ask and it will accept anything. The same way adduser currently asks for your real name, phone numbers, and room number but does not give a fuck what they are or if you fill them out.

    The parental controls issue is actually a bigger deal. I would love to give my kids a Linux laptop that could actually protect their privacy while also giving me good parental control tool, but such a thing does not exists. Yes, if you do a quick search for “Linux parental controls” you’ll find some things, but they are clearly half-assed attempts that don’t really work. This absolutely doesn’t either but maybe it’s a step in that direction. Instead, I do what most schools and parents do and give them a Chromebook because it has a good, though not great, parental control system.

    Let me be clear, I am also opposed to age verification laws and have written, called and had meetings with my representatives to oppose them. It’s been somewhat successful, though not as much as I would like.

    In the end, malicious compliance that allows FOSS developers plausible deniability is better than ignoring the laws and hoping that you’re not the one they decide to make an example of.

  • What's best these days? 16Gb slow memory, or 8Gb fast

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  • No, RAM speed has almost no real-world non-benchmark impacts outside of extreme overclocking. In basically every case where you would start to see the difference, just adding more RAM will make a bigger one.

  • Recommendation for systemd free security focused distro

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  • You mean the change that was writen as an act of malicious compliance, by someone opposed to age verification laws, in such a way as to make an easy end run around them for all Linux developers, but then everyone went off half-cocked and started sending the author death threats? That compliance?

  • alot of processing freezes my pc so i have to hard reset/reboot/restart

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  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • I think the real issue with the modern terminal, and Linux in general, is that we are using tools designed for programmers and system admins, who are expected to know exactly what they are doing, to build and run servers and treating them like they are end user tools. My grandmother was perfectly happy using a terminal for the only computer she owned because the tools it provided were simple and had those built in protections in a way that bash never will be.

  • Help me choose a distro

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  • If you’re specifically looking for OpenRC, I’d go with either Devuan or Gentoo, probably Devuan as I’m a Debian-by-default sort of person.

  • Is something happening to Antarctica's ice sheet ?

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  • I’ve been following sea ice extent for a long time and the number one thing I’ve learned is to not get caught up by any given blip. Sea ice is a complex, slow moving system, so any wobble on the line in a given year is basically meaningless. Look at the year to year and decade to decade trends.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • Oof, yeah that’s hard. yazi is a full tui file manager that can do image and other file previews, so you can flip through a directory, mark the files you want to move/delete/whatever, then hit the command to do it. lsix is basically ls for images, it generates and displays thumbnails for each file. Or can just do it from emacs.

  • How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects?

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  • I’m going to echo what others have said here but hopefully clarify it somewhat. For most FOSS projects you can contribute by code, documentation, writing/reviewing bug reports, or other project management tasks. The projects probably have a “Contributing” section on their website that will help you get started and might even have an “easy tasks” or “good for beginners” section.

    If you’re primarily interested in contributing by writing code, then you need to learn to code. Pick a language that a project you care about is written in and find the beginners tutorials.

    You going to want to learn the basic tools the project uses even if you’re not writing code just so you can interact with the project’s community, so probably git, their bug tracker, and whatever they use for documentation and translation.

    And don’t be surprised if it takes a while to get that first contribution in. FOSS developers tend to become grumpy with time and generally have high standards, and due to the massive amount of LLM slop being thrown their way these last few years have often become even more so. But your work will be appreciated if you stick with it.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • Have you used a terminal file manager with image preview like yazi? Or just a thumbnail viewer like lsix?

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • Heck yeah they did! I remember going over to my grandmothers house to use Word on her computer running DOS. She used that computer to keep her personal budget, do the accounting for her office supply business, write letters, and the newsletters for her church and social clubs. No gui, just a command line and some things that we would now call a TUI.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • um, no. The joke is that a lot of people are scared of Linux because they think it’s “just a black screen with a bunch of text”, a lot of people who are newly using Mint or the other common “friendly” distros are proud and trying to convince everyone that you never need to touch the command line, and then the more people know what they’re doing the more likely they are to just live in a terminal and not bother with anything else.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • I… what are you talking about? Those words make sense on their own and I could probably diagram them as sentences, but put together in that way they don’t seem to parse into anything coherent.

    Edit: Wait, are you saying that you think there are distros that don’t have a terminal or terminal emulator?!?

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • It’s still somewhat early days, but you might want to check out https://v-os.dev/

    I’ve also been playing with Haiku on an old laptop and it’s pretty decent as a daily driver for the basics.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • I would say we should burn the light-mode heritics, but they've already done it to their own eyes.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • Exactly. The only thing a new user is really going to care about or even notice is if their hardware is well supported in first install and that the desktop environment feels like what they are used to. All of the fighting about things like systemd, snap, flatpak, deb vs rpm, etc are somewhere between a distraction and scary sounding words.

  • I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

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  • Oh Im deeply aware those exist. My daily is Debian Stable.

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    I can't use Linux! It's too hard!

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • Er, do you think that Waymos are just remote controlled cars?

  • Have you noticed an uptick in drivers who are aggressive, rude, or just plain bad over the past few years?

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  • I have and wow is it bad. I see people blatantly run reds, including changing into the oncoming lane or the shoulder to pass people stopped at them every day I drive. Same with stop signs and even sometimes in school zones.

    I know people have issues with self driving cars, but I’d rather the streets be full of Waymo’s than human drivers at this point. (Yes, I’d really prefer public transit and bikes, but that’s another matter)

  • In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better.

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