The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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Haven't posted much in the Linux thread as of late. Just wanted to drop by and say that the PC I built on Cyber Monday is still chugging along swimmingly with Fedora 43 Cinnamon. I'm not gonna lie: I still have reservations about effectively pigeonholing myself into the Red Hat ecosystem, but that's the price I pay for not wanting to wait until April for the latest Linux Mint release to come out. JFYI: I'm here for keeps (for the foreseeable future). Fedora as my daily driver is working fairly well, especially without resorting to mainline Workstation or KDE Plasma editions. The Cinnamon project will, undoubtedly, support Wayland. Yet as a project stewarded by the Linux Mint team, Clem et al won't ever abandon X11 wholesale the way GNOME and KDE have. Also, it just "feels" nice to have the latest kernel, Mesa, and assorted goodies instead of playing the kernel roulette with Linux Mint to resolve obscure driver quirks.

If the AUR wasn't so prone to having orphaned or otherwise outdated packages, malware through supply chain distribution attacks, or just getting DDOSed all the damn time, odds are that I would've just gone with Artix Cinnamon from the outset and then pivoted over to XLibre instead of bog-standard Xorg. As it stands? Fedora Cinnamon does the job well enough without me groaning in frustration over the PKGBUILD for X package I need being 2-3 months out of date and having to manually update it to make things work again.
 
August Levasseur said:
I saw something from someone (I think it was either a blog or a youtube video, possibly both) where they demonstrated vector graphics using a laser and a piece of phosphorescant plastic that they had (I think) 3d printed. The laser was slow to move and the plastic had a lot of bleed, but I do wonder how much work would have to be done on that before you could get to a decent “modern” “CRT”. Probably a lot, probably not an infinite amount.
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During the late 2000's there was development on SED panel tech. This would have been a modern CRT in terms of functionality. But research was abandoned once large LCD's cratered in price by 2009-12.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-conduction_electron-emitter_display
What could have been. Sad to see
 
Valis Wade said:
As for OpenMandriva, the devs' explicit stance on the project being 100% free from politics and being one of the first distros to support Xlibre, all of which triggers trannies a lot, is what makes me want to try it.
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I've got OM downloaded for when I get a few hours to tinker: Xlibre + Sonic + chopped down systemd sounds like a good time.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
Is there a way, in XFCE, to stop apps from opening a web page in the browser without asking? I've had two apps in two days open up some dickhead's website with no warning.

I could ask this on the Debian forums, but there's more chance of getting an answer here.
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Was it the same dickheads website?

I guess just unset the default browser set to handle web page requests?
Bash: 
xdg-mime default --unset x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default --unset x-scheme-handler/https
 
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Betonhaus said:
Was it the same dickheads website?
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Nah, the first time I was playing around with the Classic Rebirth fan patch for Resident Evil. The debug menu has an option named "JILL SANDWICHEAT!!!" I thought, "That's weird. I wonder what that does?" only for it to switch focus to my browser and open the fucking Patreon page.

The second time was my fault for installing a game using a repack I haven't sailed the seven seas in a while and was rusty and not paying attention.

Betonhaus said:
I guess just unset the default browser set to handle web page requests?
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Debian's xdg-mime doesn't have --unset for some reason. Luckily I could set the default web application to true and it worked like a charm, so thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I appreciate it.
 
Valis Wade said:
My main concern is the kernel. I didn't dabble with custom kernels before, so is Zen really a good choice in case I want to play some video games and still have a stable OS?
As for OpenMandriva, the devs' explicit stance on the project being 100% free from politics and being one of the first distros to support Xlibre, all of which triggers trannies a lot, is what makes me want to try it.
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im all about no politics but main driver for OM for me is dnf, rolling release, and rpm support which is like my favorite 3 things in a distro
the parts i dont like are systemd, having to manually install a wayland session, and nobody there owns a nvidia card so nvidia goes practically untested which causes breakages
 
If anyone in here use Wi-Fi, you should check if your system has the package that provides the /usr/lib/firmware/regulatory.db and regulatory.db.p7s files. Distros following KISS (Arch, Artix, etc) apparently do not ship with this out of the box. The Linux kernel's cfg80211 wireless subsystem require these files to determine legal frequencies, channel widths, and maximum transmit power limits permitted in your specific geographic region. If the kernel cannot find or read regulatory.db during initialization it defaults to the 00 (World Wide) regulatory domain which is intentionally conservative. When this occurs, you will typically see an error in your system logs (via dmesg or journalctl) stating: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db.

AFAIK World 00 marks many 5 GHz channels as passive-scan only and limits parts of 2.4 GHz (12–13 passive, 14 effectively off). - More.
 
Akerman said:
/usr/lib/firmware/regulatory.db
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Pedantic, but it should be /lib/firmware/regulatory.db unless you have systemd style /usr -> / merged.

Thread tax:
You can find out what firmware binaries a driver needs by checking modinfo, eg "modinfo i915 | grep firmware:" for Intel's GPU driver requirements to check if you have a matching and/or updated linux-firmware package installed.
 
gildersleeve said:
I like them, I could sperg about my late model LaCie Electron Blues image quality. My preference for 4:3, 5:4 & 3:2 aspect ratio's. But really it's because I like them. I also play older games frequently, so being able to switch to the resolutions supported at the time and not have it look like a blocky mess is nice. Same goes for emulation. Additionally I'm used to the color when I'm touching up and editing scans of film and print media with CRT's
If they made a decent 4:3 or 3:2 27" or larger monitor with a resolution of 2560x1440 or higher with a minimum of 85hz refresh rate or higher I would switch but those don't really exist at a price point I'm willing to pay as I'm a cheap ass when it comes to getting electronics outside of a recycling center.
My other monitor is a 1080p viewsonic tipped vertically.
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My 27 inch 16:9 1440p TN, 180 hz over displayport is perfect for those old games. Image imo is a lot better because you don't have to play at 640x480 to get high refresh rate (i know this because i own two samsung crts).
 
I hope this is not off-topic, but it does provide an abridged background history on Linux and the whole "I Would like to interject..." Stallman's autism, while also addressing GPL and open source relevance, Linux real world importance, and how two autists came together to deliver Linux. Last but not least, why is open source code that is auditable by anyone highly important and relevant.


As an altar to autism, please read why the man himself considers the quote to be incorrect.: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html. Although both Stallman and Linus have some serious personality flaws — don't we all?—, I personally feel happy they're still around.

Final note: I'm happy I'm using Linux and not Freax...
 
August Levasseur said:
Is that not exactly what should be done with sensitive information? Keeping it safe and only providing secondary metrics, rather than handing it out unredacted to every tom, dick, and harry who asks for it?
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They want every tom dick and harry to have it. Both to sell the information, and to get paid to provide security. How many times have corpos been caught lying about this? From Discord and Tea keeping IDs they supposedly delete straight away, to software (I think it was epic games launcher?) scanning your computer for spreadsheets.

Real ID is like AI and cloud computing. Nobody wants it (because it's shit), so companies and governments are trying to force it.

This will seem off topic, but it a great example is what's happened to anime and Japanese games. They tried censoring and banning the games in the west, so weebs imported. So they tried messing with the translations. Weebs turned to fan subs or just playing games in Japanese. So now they are censored at the source during the creation process under the excuse of "global standards". You can see how each step of the way, people find work arounds so they move closer and closer to the source.

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Judge Dredd said:
They want every tom dick and harry to have it. Both to sell the information, and to get paid to provide security. How many times have corpos been caught lying about this? From Discord and Tea keeping IDs they supposedly delete straight away, to software (I think it was epic games launcher?) scanning your computer for spreadsheets.

Real UD is like AI and cloud computing. Nobody wants it (because it's shit), so companies and governments are trying to force it.
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Reed da bill and actually try and comprehend the architecture it’s proposing, rather than just kneejerking based on other age verification projects. To reiterate, I think age verificiation is a spook and the bill is bad. I also didn’t know about the California bill because for some reason tech news King Bryan Lunduke didn’t fucking know about a bill fairly similar to the Colorado bill being passed in a far more important (to the tech industry) state before that one was even introduced.
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This will seem off topic, but it a great example is what's happened to anime and Japanese games. They tried censoring and banning the games in the west, so weebs imported. So they tried messing with the translations. Weebs turned to fan subs or just playing games in Japanese. So now they are censored at the source during the creation process under the excuse of "global standards". You can see how each step of the way, people find work arounds so they move closer and closer to the source.
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As we all know, the thing the west lacked most in its TV and video games was pornography and pedophilia. Thank you to the brave weeaboo soldiers who went through such effort to bring such great things into the impoverished west.
 
August Levasseur said:
As we all know, the thing the west lacked most in its TV and video games was pornography and pedophilia. Thank you to the brave weeaboo soldiers who went through such effort to bring such great things into the impoverished west.
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I've noticed that compared to Western shows and movies, a lot (not all, not most, but still a lot) of anime do have main characters that can be considered positive role models while western shows, especially Current Year shows, do not have positive role models unless you go with children's cartoons. Like say Rick and Morty, or Always Sunny in Philadelphia nobody in that show is a person you should learn to imitate.
 
Betonhaus said:
I've noticed that compared to Western shows and movies, a lot (not all, not most, but still a lot) of anime do have main characters that can be considered positive role models while western shows, especially Current Year shows, do not have positive role models unless you go with children's cartoons. Like say Rick and Morty, or Always Sunny in Philadelphia nobody in that show is a person you should learn to imitate.
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Weebs don’t wanna hear this but most Anime, especially Anime that makes it to the west, is intended for children/young adults.
 
Betonhaus said:
It seems like a lot of anime at least try to teach good life lessons and be appropriate for adults to watch with their kids, compared to American children's cartoons which are toxic to adults.
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This is veering extremely off topic for the Linux thread but I will say that is debatable.

The only thing Japanese I have on my desktop is that picture of the communist guy getting ganked on stage. My decktop background picks a picture at random on startup, and that pic is one of them.
 
TakeSoma said:
I hope this is not off-topic, but it does provide an abridged background history on Linux and the whole "I Would like to interject..." Stallman's autism, while also addressing GPL and open source relevance, Linux real world importance, and how two autists came together to deliver Linux. Last but not least, why is open source code that is auditable by anyone highly important and relevant.


As an altar to autism, please read why the man himself considers the quote to be incorrect.: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html. Although both Stallman and Linus have some serious personality flaws — don't we all?—, I personally feel happy they're still around.

Final note: I'm happy I'm using Linux and not Freax...
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>The version with Linux,we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU”when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it“GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

LMAO @ "some credit"
 
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