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lemmyreader ,

Yes, Waydroid uses lxc containers.

lemmyreader OP ,

Did you check what the connections are about ? Maybe it is only checking for new updates ?

lemmyreader ,

Did you do a sha256sum or md5sum checksum after downloading the iso file and after copying it to the Ventoy pendrive ? (Linux uses caching for copying. Taking the pendrive out before your system has done a "safe remove" can cause problems)

lemmyreader OP ,

👍 Interesting idea.

lemmyreader OP , (edited )

Honest question: Why?

You missed the StackExchange and AI story this week ?

lemmyreader OP ,

robots.txt may help : https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website or blocking by IP addresses.

lemmyreader ,

Clonezilla and Rescuezilla The Clonezilla method takes a bit time to get used to (but I like it). Rescuezilla comes with a GUI.

lemmyreader ,

Take a look at the fog server project.

Thanks. https://fogproject.org

lemmyreader ,

😀

lemmyreader ,

If you don't mind reading a little bit and "work hard" to get some things done and "have fun" then I'd suggest to try :

  • NixOS (it can do magic!)
  • Arch Linux (easiest is the Arch based EndeavourOS and the shiny colorful Garuda Linux), learn some pacman and AUR.
lemmyreader ,

Indeed. GoboLinux is neat last time I tried it. Although it's not clear to me how active its development is.

lemmyreader ,

To get some more Linux good vibes watch and listen to the BDFL /j

lemmyreader ,

https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock

lemmyreader ,

After not touching my desktop for several months, I now see that I absolutely hate Windows even more.

Welcome to the club :-)

Currently, I’m a student in Mathematics and Computer Science.

In that case I would certainly toy (but maybe not daily drive) with Nix or NixOS. Its concept is stunning.
For daily driving Linux it depends on your hardware (x86 or arm).
Debian is rock solid as daily driver on x86. If you need some newer software you can use Flatpak or the Nix package manager, or use distrobox or toolbox though beware of its drawbacks.
Another good choice is Arch Linux. Since a while the install iso comes with an installer so that you no longer have to read documentation. The Arch Linux wiki is very often a superb source of information.
But depending on your hardware there's Asahi Linux : https://asahilinux.org

lemmyreader ,

Other commenter mentioned usbmount. Debian has a page on that https://wiki.debian.org/usbmount which mentions pmount. The latter is packaged for Debian.

lemmyreader ,

Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don’t want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it’s maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?

Yes, that's just you and probably explains why you are on a programming Lemmy instance.
Personally I like to use the terminal myself for reasons including starting some GUI applications but I am sure that most people ("normies") would run away screaming if the first moment they would spot a terminal. See, everyone has their own preferences :)

lemmyreader ,

Since I haven’t found that here, I thought I’d add a comment to see if it’s just me.
And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.

Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.

Right. It's in my opinion not so easy to find communities or finding people wanting to share the same interests. How about these ?

lemmyreader ,

Sure, sudo is a setuid binary, but it’s a fairly simple program, and at some point, you have to trust the code.

Have to trust the code ? doas for OpenBSD was created because of issues with sudo.

Talking with deraadt and millert, however, I wasn’t quite alone. There were some concerns that sudo was too big, running too much code in a privileged process. And there was also pressure to enable even more options, because the feature set shipped in base wasn’t big enough.

lemmyreader ,

What Chinera is doing with dinit and turnstile is really interesting. It would be nice to have feature comparable approaches to the systemd monolith that distributions could choose from.

Link for other readers about Chimera Linux, dinit, turnstile : https://chimera-linux.org/development

lemmyreader OP ,

Dunno. GDPR is a Europe only thing, and isn't it only related to how your private data (like name, IP address, phone number) is cared about ?

lemmyreader ,

Welcome to the penguin party! 🐧

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

lemmyreader ,

You don't have to install Linux if you are not ready for it. You can test it without installing by using Linux live distributions. With Ventoy you can have 10 or 20 different Linux distributions on one USB stick and test them to see how well your laptop works with it and which flavors you would prefer.

lemmyreader ,

There is a lot of Ubuntu hate and it is easy to go with that and repeat.

    1. The Amazon button on the Ubuntu desktop (I believe it was not in the Ubuntu flavors) was removed after criticism.
  • Ads in the terminal. I've only seen those when using ssh to a server. Ads like the k8 server options of Ubuntu. No flashy jumpy colorful big ads but just small text.

Telling people that there is no difference between installing Ubuntu and Windows is kind of cruel imho. A fresh Ubuntu installation allows the new Linux user to learn Linux and after some time they can decide to go for Arch Linux, Debian (The install is not that easy as with Ubuntu for a beginner Linux user), MX Linux or whatever they prefer.

lemmyreader ,

Why is asking for feedback a bad thing? IMO it’s better than just being on by default, and still gives the developers an opportunity to at least get SOME useful feedback instead of all the people that screech about how telemetry should be banned entirely. I would bet money none of those people are professional developers.

Indeed. Programmers really love feedback to improve their applications. I bet that everyone who installs apps for iOS or Android from the Google Play Store will have lots of apps that have crash-a-lytics, or whatever it is called, installed.

lemmyreader ,

Try Linux Mint.

lemmyreader ,

If you want to test several Linux distributions Ventoy can be useful. You can have 10 or more different Linux distributions on one USB stick depending on the size of the stick. This will also save you time "flashing" an image iso to the stick each time because with Ventoy you'd simply copy the image iso files to the stick, quick and easy.

https://www.ventoy.net

lemmyreader OP ,

Thanks! They have indeed several blog articles about that. Here's a few :

lemmyreader ,

https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112401461102514792 May 07, 2024, 19:29

The name/address of the terrorism suspect was actually given to police by Apple, not Proton. The terror suspect added their real-life Apple email as an optional recovery address in Proton Mail. Proton can't decrypt data, but in terror cases Swiss courts can obtain recovery email.

lemmyreader ,

  • According to this WiFi should work with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64 Bit Did you install 24.04 or 22.04 ?

  • I'd expect most USB devices to work out of the box. Did you try : sudo dhclient ?

Easiest is probably to perform an installation that comes with a GUI. If the default Ubuntu installation iso is too large, there's for example Lubuntu.

lemmyreader ,

Agree about nmtui. Nice tool.

Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? ( slrpnk.net )

A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up....

lemmyreader ,

I'd welcome polls implementation on Lemmy but maybe this is difficult with federation ? I wouldn't mind instance only polls.

lemmyreader OP ,

https://forum.aux.computer/t/the-future-of-nixcpp-lix/483

The announcement resolves one of my last fears for Aux: development on Nix itself. It is no secret that the number of people knowledgeable about the project and are willing to work on this CPP codebase is small. You have probably seen me mention multiple times by now that @sig_cli needs all of the help that we can get. Lix resolves this entirely with a trusted team of experts 22. This means that Aux is now able to remove Nix development from our priorities and can instead collaborate with Lix moving forward.

lemmyreader OP ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/dc483fe8-5441-4703-a932-b2668cdacf7a.jpeg

  • Thanks for the reminder!
lemmyreader ,

Mastodon is about micro-blogging, with text, images and videos. PixelFed is only about images which can have a short or longer description. There's Loops, a work in progress, which will enable short videos for PixelFed. If you would follow others on PixelFed from your PixelFed account you'd only see images.

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