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Just passing by to shill LightDM. It has some QT greeters. IDK how good they are. I use the Autologin greeter daily. GTK greeters were kinda meh, but the whole package is, as its name suggests, quite light.
The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Be interesting to see how that plays out. It looks a lot like the macOS system directory though
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Latest genius idea of mine, using a PCi-e 4 NVMe on a slot sled solely as a 256gb swap partition. Already four times the size of my system RAM and the speed in and out of hibernation is wackass, plus if the drive wears prematurely it’s easy as hell to roll another one and that’s less repeat wear on my main drive.
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I can't remember because it's been a while since I've messed with any dm's but I know if you get the package for working with fingerprint readers and set up the pam modules for it. I believe at least the main ones will let you use them.
Any day is a good day to shill COW filesystems. Join us, you can revert to working snapshot with one command (or from bootloader if configured that way).
Snapshots are instant, same with restoring. ZFS, btrfs ate my data and I lost trust for it years ago, or maybe it was young me not knowing that monthly scrubs are mandatory with COW, who knows.
Just add hook to create snapshot before system update. Saved me a headache last week when KDE crashed during system update, killing pacman as a result.
>lmao novideo
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Pain in the ass and works like shit. Is it really that hard to make a proper interface so you don't have to fuck with core functions? I just want fingerprint unlock to unlock and log in my system, not override sudo because of how hacky it is..
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What do you even use swap for these days? I started disabling mine completely back when I hit 24GB of RAM more than a decade ago.
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Hibernation mode which is still more stable than suspending to RAM which has over time gained a roulette wheel for me in terms of whether or not amdgpu will bother to actually send the screen power on signals over DP, plus going full retard with 256gb leaves more room for fun stress tests like “how long until the out of memory errors start if I compile random large shit with debug flags on”
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still, track your used swap space. There's a reason why the maximum recommended swap space is twice your RAM until you hit 8gb then it drops to 500mb.
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depends on what you're workin on, absolutely massive CAD projects can easily take up 128gb of ram. (more if you're doing intense simulations such as stress analysis)
it's not as needed as much anymore, but in low memory situations it's a life saver.
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I wanna change the OS on my new phone to LineageOS from a Motorola based one, but I'm unsure if its worth the hassle. Any one here have experience with it?
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I used to be a LineageOS diehard, but at this point most of the nice features (granular permissioning, not having to have a Google account, etc) have been taken up by stock Android. And yes, the Safetynet stuff is a pain to work around. At this point, I'd either just debloat a stock phone or go full schizo with GrapheneOS, there's not much need for a middle ground anymore.
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I've been meaning to try Gobo for a while. I didn't realize it was that out of date! Glad it's being maintained. Slackware was my first distro and it hasn't seen a release in a while.
What other good non-systemd distros are there? Currently I run Gentoo on my main box, and a mix of Void or Alpine on various servers. It seems to be more and more difficult to find good distros that doing depend on systemd.
It's still pretty useful for caching. I have 128GB on one box and I still setup a swap partition. The kernel will make full use of it if you allocate it.
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For rock-solid stability, devuan. For extreme configurability, gentoo. Right now I'm using MX, which is a little more pragmatic; it uses sysvinit with shims for when programs insist on systemd-entangled features. Nice installer, good basic feature set, and a choice of environments, and it uses pipewire by default, so no more pulseaudio bullshit. Anything that removes poetteringware is good.
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the ones you named are the main ones.
If you are looking for something outside of gentoo. Void is my choice, behind gentoo. It's actually using euvdev, instead of udev, which gentoo doesn't even do at this point.
And it has something particularly interesting to me. An actual alternative to elogind. Turnstyle. It looks like it's still being worked on, but it works now. Besides not just being a gutted systemd programs, I really like it because it's a more unix way of doing session management. Turnstyle handles variables like the runtimedir, and then seatd takes care of seat management for it. Also it works perfectly with runit. And you can add user services, like one for dbus, that starts with your graphical session. So you don't have to use a wrapper to launch it.
That, and void just works like arch generally. Has the xbps-src repo, the package manager is actually pretty decent, even if the I kind of hate the way things are named with it. Also something I've done, is added the extra packages I don't want into the /etc/xbps.d/ignore.conf file. Ones like elogind pipewire pulseaudio., along with stuff like firmware I don't need. So you can avoid them getting pulled in as dependencies. Though you end up having to find some ways around some packages, that need the the ignored packages.
There are also the non-systemd forks for other distros. I can't really speak much on those.
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With the recent tendency of Google to adapt more and more of Apple's anti-consumer garbage, there's less reason than ever not to use an iPhone. In the days of the HTC Ville (and Nexus 5, which was the Ville + specs), I used to run my own Cyanogen/Lineage builds. Google has shit its platform up substantially since. The nicest part of today's Google is how little the gap between Android and non-Android kernels has become. I haven't made the switch yet because I need MicroSD support, but with storage up to 1TB these days, MicroSD's becoming less needed.
Yeah, by El Goblina himself. https://github.com/q66
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After rooting my phone I was failing those checks and the only thing that was detecting them and refusing to work was the McDonalds app I have since uninstalled because holy fuck the bean counters are off their fucking rocker with the pricing and so-called "deals". Guess which apps only needed Zygisk Hide to retain full functionality. My banking app and my government services app. Super important, yet they don't need SafetyNet. But McDonalds does. And the banking app only cut biometry and NFC payments without Hide.