The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

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+1 for going directly to wireguard. I don't use nix. So idk for sure that it will work like normal. But I would be shocked if they don't have some kind of working set up for it on nix. Using wg-quick. And putting the stuff in /etc/wireguard config files.
 
Static linking is retarded, also thank God for static linking. It seems like everything is build on a fucking quick-sand these days. You ship an application, and tomorrow it might not work, because of l33t-jeet engineering or because some tranny's brain is buzzing the wrong way that day. No wonder that people are choosing to ship whole environments with their apps. Soon, we'll be shipping entire "OS"s with our programs to boot, like in the good ol' days!
Isn't Docker exactly this? Shipping the whole OS (at least in a minified state).
 
Isn't Docker exactly this? Shipping the whole OS (at least in a minified state).
Docker is still mostly for server use and hasn't been explored as a fully GUI used and managed system.

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let's say someone wanted to make a super bare bones window manager, one that doesn't even support tiling, basically runs an application directly on X11 with no windowing or decorations, and you can switch between applications by using shortcuts or by launching a dedicated app that basically shows all running apps as tiles, possibly doubling as a start menu where you can click on the tiles of unopen apps and they will launch. this would be intended for tablets and HTPCs, running native linux apps and PWAs through a basic Chromium browser. Is there something like that already? and how hard would it be to add some sort of transitions between apps (or transitions between the apps and the menu) and ensure it supports HDR and smooth fonts?
It's called Rio by Plan9,
 
Next consider this one weird semitic tribe and its overrepresentation...
With the exception of Stallman- who is so autistic that it has nullified the risk that he carries out many of his inborn jewish desires, even if he still makes 'logical' arguments for them- they're hardly overrepresented in the actual free software community, by comparison to Whites or East Asians. Unless you count the supremely evil Larry Ellison's disgusting parasitism on Java/OpenOffice/MySQL/VirtualBox as 'contributions'.
 
At a minimum you need a device/router with a relatively secure, for-purpose OS (like pfsense), running a NAT that is dropping all incoming packets you didn't specifically ask for. This is also why IMO IPv6 is cancer. [...] Running on something that doesn't have an IME/PSP. Auto-updates enabled. Fail2ban (not that you should have ssh from WAN enabled anyway). use dnscrypt, etc. [...]
I'm well aware, hence why I was just focusing on the 'main' machine in my post. If you extrapolate it to the entire home network, then defense in depth is the name of the game. Thing is, the only really viable option for a hardware gate / firewall that has no IME/PSP or other root boot niggerkit is an OptiPlex 3050 Micro. Power draw isn't horrible, but definitely higher than your typical dedicated box. Maybe something that supports Coreboot like protectli or is ARM based (I know they have their own IME style backdoors, but I do believe the implementation is less severe). An OpenWRT router already covers most of my bases, but you can never be too sure, so a dedicated front facing hardware firewall is most certainly on the docket.
Mirin' the hoard. Is all of your storage jammed directly into your case or do you have a separate box?
 

was just watching this podawful stream. Right at 1:51:35 hes goes off on a tangent. He uses mac. He updated recently, and apparently they added some ai, feature that automatically adds animations when it detects you doing hand gestures. They don't come through on the actual stream. But I guess you can see them from their discord. He obviously doesn't want to move to windows. And he doesn't want to move to linux. So it looks like he is going to do the classic cope I've seen a lot of windows users do over the years. The "I'm never updating again", move.

Just something that makes me glad to not be stuck on windows, or mac And especially glad, nothing I use my computer for sucks on linux. If I had something like that pop up in the programs I use, I would just wipe it off my drive. And use something else.
 
was just watching this podawful stream. Right at 1:51:35 hes goes off on a tangent. He uses mac. He updated recently, and apparently they added some ai, feature that automatically adds animations when it detects you doing hand gestures. They don't come through on the actual stream. But I guess you can see them from their discord.
Our sales guy got that update a few months back. Didn't realise he'd got it until we had a group call, which meant he'd been getting random effects on at least a couple of sales support calls with clients. I have no idea what Apple were thinking with that one.
 
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I feel like 11gb of memory used for that. Seems pretty low actually.
Its a bit idle for the moment, the windows VM is currently shut down and it's not chewing through any tasks
Mirin' the hoard. Is all of your storage jammed directly into your case or do you have a separate box?
Its all in one case, a case which fits 8 3.5" drives and two 2.5". I don't remember what it's called though
 
Yeah so years ago we would static link dependencies into an executable. It made them large and then if they didnt get updates the dependencies would not get fixes, but fixed "dependency hell" and made the binary more portable.

You could even partially static link like leave out GTK or something but include everything else.

We stopped doing this because it was obviously stupid.

IDK flatpaks just seem like the same thing but with containers.
I find flatpak/appimage useful for when you need to run older versions of software that are no longer available/usable on your distro.

For example I use a flatpak of an older version of Handbrake because they dropped the "show crop lines" option in preview and when someone asked about it in the forums they got the predictable asshole dev response "yeah, we could add it back someday but we don't really give a shit what you want".

Another reason would be needing any given GTK based app seeing as how GNOME is speed running the UI into being completely unusable with each "upgrade" release.

But I agree, they should only be used when necessary and not become any sort of standard.
 
I'm well aware, hence why I was just focusing on the 'main' machine in my post. If you extrapolate it to the entire home network, then defense in depth is the name of the game. Thing is, the only really viable option for a hardware gate / firewall that has no IME/PSP or other root boot niggerkit is an OptiPlex 3050 Micro. Power draw isn't horrible, but definitely higher than your typical dedicated box. Maybe something that supports Coreboot like protectli or is ARM based (I know they have their own IME style backdoors, but I do believe the implementation is less severe). An OpenWRT router already covers most of my bases, but you can never be too sure, so a dedicated front facing hardware firewall is most certainly on the docket.
Protectli quite works well. At my work we were considering using them for honeypot boxes, but the only thing holding them back was the supply chain in China. Check these out in the interim. But the open source nature of Coreboot is massively useful, you can see if there's a backdoor for yourself.
 
Protectli quite works well. At my work we were considering using them for honeypot boxes, but the only thing holding them back was the supply chain in China. Check these out in the interim. But the open source nature of Coreboot is massively useful, you can see if there's a backdoor for yourself.
Those look good, but not gonna lie, that's a touch out of my price range. Looks like Protectli stuff is still available in the EU, so I might very well go with one of those. Need to do some more research before I commit, but thank you for the two cents. I have a bad habit of getting caught in analysis paralysis when it comes to stuff like this, so every word helps quite a bit.
 
Those look good, but not gonna lie, that's a touch out of my price range. Looks like Protectli stuff is still available in the EU, so I might very well go with one of those. Need to do some more research before I commit, but thank you for the two cents. I have a bad habit of getting caught in analysis paralysis when it comes to stuff like this, so every word helps quite a bit.
Yeah, you pay for it because of the US supply chain.

I do have a Protectli device, and I'm considering getting one of the Pro vaults as a replacement. It's been a wonderful device so far.
 
I'm fucking retarded. I've been struggling to get yt-dlp to work for the last 30 minutes, and I kept thinking that the issue was the fact that I'm on linux. No. The issue was that I was trying to download a livestream and I was using the script for a regular video.
 
I'm fucking retarded. I've been struggling to get yt-dlp to work for the last 30 minutes, and I kept thinking that the issue was the fact that I'm on linux. No. The issue was that I was trying to download a livestream and I was using the script for a regular video.
with yt-dlp, there's always that chance that youtube updated something or that yt-dlp is behind. I always use pipx to install and manage it personally because the distro repo versions are always glacially behind
 
I always use pipx to install and manage
Gentoo's packages track it quite rapidly, day or two off, IIRC. But this pipx, you recommend it? I imagine it handles upgrades less retardedly than pip?
 
with yt-dlp, there's always that chance that youtube updated something or that yt-dlp is behind. I always use pipx to install and manage it personally because the distro repo versions are always glacially behind
I just use yt-dlp -U if it doesn't work. Though maybe it's different on linux?
 
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