The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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Is that trick zsh-specific?
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Works in bash. I assume it's a bashism.
edit: it's a bashism. combining < redirection with a (subshell).
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I couldn't do it in fish, that's why I asked
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Look, it's Really Important to drop support for actually useful features like FTP, XSLT, <blink>*, and <marquee> in favor of Really Useful Stuff like AI integration.
* which Google's fork of WebKit fork of Konqueror's KHTML was literally named in honor of
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All of which OFM's like Double Commander can do. Pack/unpack whatever the fuck, and if you can't, just add a plugin, have a command line at the ready whenever navigating your file system or invoke a terminal in the current path, and a built-in FTP client with SFTP being available as a plugin.
Again, a well designed file manager will have multiple functionalities integrated and will be expandable, but all the features will relate to managing local files. Not forcing a square peg in a round hole.
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"I've been shitting this thread up for almost two years, shame on jannies for banning me"
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>no mention of ol'reliable Brasero with 8x speed, data validation, and the ability to make perfect audio CD burns for long car trips.
Brasero was my life saver on Ubuntu 10.04. It still exists today. @analrapist should use it and see for himself.
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Just a front-end to cdrecord (and a couple others). I'm not really a GUI guy.
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A true text console chad among peasants.
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Microsoft has made it a habit of announcing terrible changes and walking it back when they meet enough resistance.
Just this week with Github: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/
No local only accounts was announced several times. And while they didn't do it for the longest time, they have made it more and more annoying over time to create a local only account. The internet is littered with articles with tricks on how to do it because that's an escape valve for people who would otherwise switch away if they cannot find a solution to it, but most normies just end up accepting the anal probe.
Here's a fun search query for you: "Microsoft walks back"
All the shitty things they keep announcing but walking back? Those are just oopsies. It just keeps happening. All the time. That's how oopsies work.
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@Slav Power consistently out here failing to understand why us cantankerous, ornery Linux autists hold companies that make BILLIONS of dollars in profit every three months in visceral contempt. Homie: I love ya as a man of culture, but not every position in the Linux community is a kneejerk reaction against sanity
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Which is a stark difference from stating that "death of local computing is just around the corner because of RAM shortages". Yes, Microsoft made it more and more annoying to make a local account, hiding it away behind obscure OOBE menus and outright disabling it on Windows 11 Home, however here what they want to do is to capitalize more on the same business model they had for Windows since 2015 which is data collection. That's why it's free to install Windows in infinite trial period, and that's why Microsoft doesn't do anything about MAS. They still make money off of those installs, and CoPilot+ PC shows that they're not abandoning this business model any time soon if they're still offering functional hardware with a commitment that their AI features run locally.
Honestly, it seems like there's an internal conflict at MS when it comes to the AI bullshit since when Recall was first introduced it was the laziest implementation possible, like a boiler plate, and when the agentic AI features started showing up in Dev they made a shitton of disclaimers how it can fuck up your security and you have to go out of your way to enable it. It seems like the AI department keeps pushing on the Windows department to add more and more useless AI bullshit, and the AI department runs the company thanks to the bubble, everything every other department does has to have AI for investors to clap their hands like happy little seals. I can't look at what's happening and assume some comically evil Looney Tunes bullshit is going on when everything is pointing to plain stupidity.
I fail to understand why the Linux community, that's apparently very tech savvy and capable of understanding technology, constantly makes the most misinformed tech illiterate statements imaginable. The chip shortage is real and it's caused by Sam Altman finally going through with his final con that is the Stargate project. If the chip shortage wasn't real then Nvidia wouldn't suddenly have their plans to release the SUPER refreshes fumbled and they wouldn't have to cut the production of their GeForce cards, the demand for hardware is so high that even the biggest player is getting hit by it. None of it relates to home computing in any way, yet who assumes that this is all some Machiavellian plot to get rid of home computing once and for all? The apparently tech savvy community of autists. I have a very short fuse for idiocy when I see it, and taking this scenario and using that to proclaim for the n-th time that "we will all be using thin clients to connect to the cloud" boils my fucking blood. How can you call yourself tech savvy and in-the-know if you can't follow basic news and connect the most basic dots?
Another good example of the Linux community not understanding technology was when Microsoft Pluton was announced. All they saw was "Microsoft" and "built into the CPU" and jumped to conclusions like "Microsoft now has a CPU backdoor that they'll abuse so that you won't be able to install any other operating system" or "Microsoft will now spy on you no matter what operating system you use". The end result? People forgot about Pluton now being a part of modern Intel and AMD CPU's, because all it is is a fancier TPM chip that does fuck-all under Linux and only does fancier TPM-style cryptography under Windows. A complete non-issue that the Linux community has overblown into a serious issue just because a big corporation was involved and that clouded any logic and sane assessment of the situation. For some reason it's always Microsoft that's the arch-nemesis and it's always the most misinformed, idiotic opinions being made when it comes to anything Microsoft related. The whole Pluton fiasco is especially funny when you consider there's an actual CPU backdoor that's been running for decades on everyone's machines that is Intel IME and AMD PSP, but only now that Microsoft decided to reinvent TPM is when free home computing is endangered. I don't think people who feared Pluton were even aware they already have an entire CPU backdoor in the first place.
EDIT: To add to the whole "we will all use thin clients and this is what Microsoft wants us to do" conspiracy theory. Microsoft is a corporation. Everything they do has to bring them profit. Pulling through with this plan would bring nothing but losses. Let's assume that's what they're planning to do. How many Windows users are there in the world? Hundreds of millions? How much would it cost to create a cloud infrastructure with enough computing power to accommodate all those individual hardware configurations in a way where no one will feel like they've been shafted, so for example having enough high end VM's for gaming? Desktop thin clients are plausible, but what about laptops? These are getting more and more popular. What if someone uses their laptop for work and they're travelling by train? What if they lose important data because the train went though a dark zone and they've lost connection? How would you feasibly accommodate hundreds of millions of people with data transfers to be able to use their computers? How many lawsuits would Microsoft have to face because someone lost access to very important data because they lost Internet connection?
This is what I mean, when you think about it for five seconds when you understand technology you realize that Microsoft wouldn't pull off something like this as they'd have more to lose than to gain. Yet the Linux community, the one that apparently understands how modern technology works, makes an assumption that yes, they would do it despite it going against any and all logic, because...? Because they see Microsoft as some Looney Tunes cartoon villain, which is just ridiculous. And much like any attempt to clarify what piracy actually is will get you branded as a thief, clarifying why Microsoft isn't this cartoonishly evil will get you branded as a corporate shill. The complete antithesis of what the Linux community claims to be. That's why I complain. I have a short fuse for blatant stupidity like this.
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As a Linux user I feel like a lot of the community automatically hate Microsoft and just assume anything like this they do for hardware is just so they can spy on you when it likely is just for security or whatever.
Exactly. Running thousands and thousands of cloud computers would not be feasible. Many people have very, very different needs for their computer specifications. Plus, what about people with a shitty internet connection? What about people with NO internet connection at all on their PC? When you factor in that too it becomes very clear that it would be a very bad idea for Microsoft to do shit like a thin client PC.
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Just to be clear: what I'm getting at is clarifying what the actual cardinal sin of Microsoft is and has been for years.
Data collection. Microsoft's entire business plan for Windows is data collection.
If they wanted to nickel and dime home users with a monthly subscription, they would've taken steps for it a long long time ago. Yet ever since 10, things have been rather consistent. You can download a free ISO and use Windows indefinitely without a valid license. Why? Because you're using it, so they get your data. You can activate it with MAS and Microsoft won't bat an eye, nor did they go after MAS despite it being hosted on their platform (GitHub) and being one of the most starred projects on there. Why? Because with MAS you're still using Windows, so they get your data.
Most importantly, everyone uses Windows, especially in corporate settings. Corporations need to have valid licenses for Windows to not get in trouble, and this is how Microsoft gets their bag. There is no reason for them to flip it upside-down, it's their third most lucrative product, with Office and Azure being second and first respectively, so the strategy works. Again, give it a little thought and it becomes clear what Microsoft's true evil is. The same as it was since 2015. Data collection.
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I think a valid criticism of Microsoft, are cases like the move to requiring TPM 2.0. Not because they want to use it as a backdoor or something schizo. But because their seems to be a real financial incentive, to have people go out and buy new computers, for whom they've made deals with basically all of the producers. Even if TPM 2.0 is more secure. So there was a financial intensive to make a large number of very usable mostly modern computers people are still using to this day useless if they intend to keep using windows, or go buy a new computer.
The evil I see with Microsoft is almost always in more subtle things like that. Rather than some super evil villain they are putting a backdoor directly into everything always. They just make decisions that are anti-consumer. Because all of us plebs that would be the actual users aren't their actual customers, it's the hardware producers, and the other companies that pay them directly. Also their other products outside of windows that make them money. It seems like a company that's financially incentivized to fuck over the user whenever they feel like it. Because what consequences are they really going to have for doing it? We don't matter to them. It's one thing that does make apple slightly less bad, at least for the end user, than anything Microsoft does now. Although I still don't like a lot of things about apple.
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There's nothing reflexive about my hatred of Microsoft. For a concrete example, it used to be that you could just reinstall Windows over itself. If Windows broke, that repairs it. I don't know when they removed that ability, but it's been in the past handful of years. A friend's PC broke this week. Lots of business-specific software/config. The only option now: "Keep my files: Removes apps and settings but keeps personal files (documents, pictures)."
Windows is getting continually worse, and every time I'm pulled back into its world of mediocrity, I'm astounded at how much farther it has fallen.
("Use DISM! Use X!" Blah blah blah. None of them fixed fuck all.)
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I liked the way... Idk who tf was doing it I think it was openmandriva or Zorin or something
Anyways they switched to brave in light of the Firefox tos changes from a few months ago
But what they did was they forked brave and stripped out all the crypto and some other stuff kind of like running fast brave debloater
Brave wrote an open letter kind of half and half on the reaction because they really wanted to say stripping out braves monetization is theft but they couldn't word it quite that blatantly without sounding bad PR wise
I personally keep all the bloat in brave because while I don't opt into their crypto stuff I appreciate that they have a way to monetize that doesn't involve putting their users in a botnet like Google funded browsers do, and that keeps them financially independent
Mozilla reminded me today that "hey you planned on switching to brave and you haven't done it yet"
It's not that I have a problem with mozilla becoming ai focused. I'd probably even use their agent if I cared to turn it on. But every time there's a backlash to something mozilla did that idea pops back in my head that "hey you could be using a better engine. You're not actually making a difference or supporting an ethical company. You could protest firefox by switching to brave"
But of course the mere mention of brave on any tech oriented space brings out the "oh you must be a Nazi because you use a privacy respecting open source web browser"
Sorry for the long post I had a lot to say