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Ziglin

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Ziglin ,

That doesn't sound safe. I hope you sent this message with your phone. If you did it from the old computer and happen to have valuable data please feel free to share your IP address, someone might appreciate it...

Ziglin ,

Ahaha we've got you now!

Ziglin ,

I know it's very efficient and small (I believe it needs less than 80mib of ram with nothing else running) and that they leave out some of the basic commands like man to save space. Maybe they wrote more minimal versions of some coreutils?

Ziglin ,

I specified that it would be running nothing (other than the init system which is the tty). Thereby the amount of ram required should not vary by much.

Ziglin ,

Yup Just delete all binary data from your disks, including the bios and get a quantum computer that you somehow program and control by hand.

Ziglin ,

How about a 'Just because we use it doesn't mean it's any good' tier?

Ziglin ,

Why not have a mirror on GitHub that makes it VERY clear that the development happens on another platform.

Ziglin ,

Better that than Discord lol. I really wish people used something open that isn't trying to advertise to it's users and sell cosmetics.

Ziglin ,

That's a shame. If GitHub didn't have their own pull request system (or at least did it the way git does) I would have suggested maybe finding a way to allow PRs from GitHub.

Ziglin ,

On a laptop you bring everywhere I think it's ok if you seriously think somebody might try to steal your data. On a desktop computer with the drive screwed onto the motherboard who's going to steal it?

Ziglin ,

Best bit is Windows couldn't boot for me either (all bios entries were empty). I'm glad I had a live USB laying around.

Ziglin ,

Sounds about right. In my case I think it didn't even wipe the whole thing.

I just don't understand why they share EFI partitions.

Ziglin ,

That friend sounds like they were pretty stupid or they just had an unrelated issue at the same time.

Ziglin ,

Hah the movies I watch never existed in HDR!

Ziglin ,

On my phone yes but monitors are way too expensive for the effect it has.

Although a terminal with a completely black background sounds pretty cool…

Ziglin ,

Hear me out: Instead of companies we have various non profit organisations that evenly supply people with goods and have to keep their expenses completely transparent.

I'm sure there's some issues with this and I'm curious to hear them but I feel like this would still be far better than corporations and especially monopolies or oligopolies trying to take our money. (I hope it's clear that these organisations wouldn't have to be like existing ones just operate similarly and I don't care about it not counting as a non profit organisation in some existing government.)

Ziglin ,

I'm guessing it has legacy bios which then means you need a cd/floppy.

Ziglin ,

I think most Linux users (including me) are just cheap and don't even have hdr. One of my two monitors has a dent in frame and has one DVI port and power. I think a lot of the maintainers are similar and therefore don't prioritise problems they don't have yet.

I think it's a real shame how bad the Nvidia experience can be but at this point I've found that if the drivers from the arch repos don't work nicely the flatpak ones usually will. Wayland is of course still a problem for now but hopefully not for long.

Ziglin ,

It has no shortcomings if you have infinite time to write your own patches first. That's something you can't legally do on windows.

Theoretically almost all shortcomings can be overcome apart from the time you spend.

Realistically there are a few shortcomings but for me they are barely noticeable and the customisability and package managers more than make up for any troubles I personally run into. And it's foss.

I only recommend Linux to people who are in similar situations to me. Unfortunately most people I know use some windows only games or share the device with others and are scared of messing up the installation.

I mostly jokingly recommend it whenever someone complains about Microsoft messing something up for them, encountering a problem and not finding out why it's happening.

Ziglin ,

Same here. Occasionally I need to play around with wine/proton but it works.

Ziglin ,

Maybe a social interaction manual would be an idea.

I honestly try my best to be helpful in most cases but if were something related to a specific program I would suggest reading the manual because otherwise I'll be the one doing it for them. If necessary I'll show them where to find the manual and how I normally look through it.

Ziglin ,

Not that the HDMI forum would allow that in oss at all... But I get the point. Honestly though if the stuttering goes away on Wayland I personally won't have any more issues.

Ziglin ,

Sorry but a tty is just a teletype terminal, using a tty could just as easily mean using kitty, alacritty, gnome terminal or the one you get if you were to use your shell as an init system (not sure what that would be called). You don't switch from a tty to Alacritty, as you're still just in a tty.

Also to my knowledge kitty has hardware acceleration too.

Sorry to be nitpicking but I think knowing that tty isn't just what you get when you press ctrl+alt+f2 is important for a deeper understanding of the operating system.

Ziglin ,

No I think it's a daemon they summoned. Maybe the notification daemon?

Ziglin ,

Oh no, something wrong and your password just got echoed into the terminal!

Ziglin ,

I'm guessing it's the one on the left that's new.

Ziglin ,

I think BSD should not be excluded from this chart.

Ziglin ,

I would assume so but it seems like it could be problematic for some compatibility as you're not switching users and weird options being passed into something like sudo or run0 seem dangerous to me if they have different ways of parsing the input (which they might not).

Ziglin ,

But I don't think those have the same kernel.

Ziglin ,

So if I'm understanding correctly they now let you type a command to open a new window to check your credentials (like polkit?) instead of asking for it in the tty? And the only new thing is that you can elevate your privileges in an existing tty (before you would need to start a separate admin terminal right?)

Ziglin ,

It works for me on i3 which is an X11 wm but I think it's only firefox.

Ziglin ,

Sounds like it works in firefox by default. If it working in other apps is a requirement look for a de that supports it globally. Or perhaps find an app that does it. Honestly does seem like something that could be done a driver from my very limited driver knowledge.

Ziglin , (edited )

I'd like to see them find out why a server crashes if that is true. If someone actually cares and knows enough I think an admin or someone from the government could determine a lot of browsing data and link it with users just through the DNS cache and time. I'm also very sure they have some kinds of logs, even if they don't log what each user is doing.

Ziglin ,

If you care about privacy you should use tor/the tor network:

  • It's free
  • It can't track you unless someone happens to own your entire route the network, which hopefully isn't happening and would have to a very big actor and would only be a low chance
  • You can use tor bridges to bypass censorship and detection
  • You can visit hidden services if you find out their .onion address
  • You can host hidden services if you find out how to configure tor
  • You can switch to a VPN if you really want
  • Has integration into an existing privacy centred browser but can be used with anything that supports sock5 proxies
Ziglin ,

Tor doesn't because the server that you contact passes it to another and encrypts the data further the exit node can then decrypt it and perform the web request on your behalf without knowing where it's coming from.

Ziglin ,

Signal published their reply to a court subpoena that was funny.

Ziglin ,

Fair enough

Ziglin , (edited )

Tor acts as a proxy Tor browser is shipped with tor but using a different port. Tor is not the browser.

So as long as you set up what you want to use with tor and remember to start it, it should work. Otherwise I'm sure you could setup a pi or local server to route everything through tor if you wanted to.

Edit: I believe the tor network is a VPN though. Your data is sent privately through the virtual tor network.
Not all VPN connections have to work the same, after all Hamachi is also a VPN.

Ziglin ,

I'm in 5/8 of those, yikes.

Ziglin ,

Uh oh you've made people furious.

Ziglin ,

If I understand correctly Nvidia isn't doing anything to do with explicit sync, it just doesn't support implicit sync which is currently what Wayland uses because we don't have explicit sync yet. Explicit sync would work with existing Nvidia drivers.

Ziglin ,

I think that may have been the case early into the Nvidia 30-series but now they seem closer in price and performance so I'm pretty sure my next card will be from AMD when I decide I need an upgrade.

Ziglin ,

Obviously it won't be all of them but I too am very excited about not having to get lucky with my games flickering or not.

Ziglin ,

I'm somewhere in between. X11 doesn't work with linux-lts (arch) for me and Wayland stutters occasionally but not always. Usually it happens exclusively in games, some reliably, some when I switch windows and in some when I move around or increase game speed. But I'm excited for explicit sync

Ziglin ,

For me it's just games, I'm guessing it's an Nvidia GPU? I hope explicit sync helps with that.

Ziglin ,

Nah good old 255 (8-bit obviously)

Ziglin ,

how on earth do I know what DM I'm using? Does it come with the compositor? I just start hyprland from the terminal without adding anything to systemd.

Ziglin ,

Oh, lightdm has some trouble sometimes on my other computer, are you saying that I could somehow start i3 without it when it breaks itself?

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