I also started on Ubuntu. They used to be pretty great, good device support and basically no hassle. But I am done af and not going back.

A lot of debs add services to systemd, do those just skip that part?

That attack surface is not vanishing. It’s would be relocating the same attack surface to something that might have an xz library in memory.

If we could get an LLM that uploads all our data along with an ad server in our desktop apps, then we’d really have something going.

Yeah it sure would be nice to have these companies do some vetting. Unfortunately that would cost them money, so we cannot be doing something like that.

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read.

I’d love to see a robots.txt do a couple safe listings, then a zip bomb, then a safe listing. It would be fun to see how many log entries from an IP look like get a, get b, get zip bomb… no more requests.

Do a DMCA takedown with Etsy. They are violating your copyright. Copyright law kinda sucks but it’s the only tool we have to enforce stuff like CC licenses.

A Universal Blue derivative and rollback if there’s an issue is LTS enough for me.

For an LTS LTS, I’d be looking at Alma or Debian.

What is “way” out of date, in your mind? I thought all LTSes were on kernel version 5-something at the moment.

I like this distro a lot and want to learn about it. I’m actually using Bazzite rn.

But this format isn’t really grabbing me. It is actually kinda killing me inside. Like being at work peer programming when the other person has control of the inputs.

Definitely no cloud is a strict requirement here, too. I see where you are coming from. A couple of times I wanted to print something but instead had to replace bearings and recalibrate. That takes days or longer because I am low motivation about it. I guess that’s the price I have to pay to ensure I’ll always be able to replace parts with standard components and recalibrate.

Oh, yep, that’s shady and bad behavior. Thank you.

You know, I’m sure it is great. But looking around at the absolute bullremoved I see with 2D printers, I’m never buying a closed source machine for 3D. People are even complaining about Brother these days, seems like only a matter of time that proprietary machines go to removed.

FYI my understanding is that Incus is forked from LXD, because nobody trusts Canonical any longer. I don’t think LXD itself is them doing the thing that makes them untrustworthy.

You might be referring to something they have done since then, apologies if I misunderstood. Wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to make it a Snap or force Snaps into it.

https://linuxiac.com/incus-project-lxd-fork/

It is absolutely a different situation if it is opt-in. If Ubuntu made Snaps opt-in, people might not like them but it’d be a minor critique instead of fleeing the distro.

Good to hear I might be on a painless track! I’m also really loving the idea of rpm-ostree. Kinda interested in setting up one of those automatic builds, just to learn.

I tried Nobara and quickly ran into the lone developer problem when it didn’t support secure boot. I don’t really see the point of secure boot when the machine will still accept any USB I stick in there, but most other distros seem to handle it. I didn’t want to spend a lot of time working on it and later find other unsupported things.

So I switched to Bazzite, which other people keep recommending, and that seems to work fine. AMD GPU over here tho, YMMV.

I loved Slay the Spire but eventually having the same enemies every game and the luck required to build a solid deck wore me out. Luckily I slayed the spire once. It was as the Defect, that’s like the easiest build because the automated orbs blast the hell out of everything. But it counts and I can finally rest.

Anyway, looking forward to Spire II, will probably buy it the instant it is available.

Yes, seen by people visiting EU websites or companies with an EU presence. And because whether or not they assign a cookie is easily verifiable by the person on the other end.

Globally?

Nobody was going to honor that. That’s just giving them an extra bit of data to track you with.