The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Dante Alighieri said:
Installing it was piss easy on arch. No problems so far, it just works.
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I had to add a config file to enable the modesetting driver, since XLibre was falling back to software rendering. Otherwise installing XLibre was easy and it's been smooth sailing for me.
That said, there isn't much to gain by switching off of X11. "If it ain't broke don't fix it".
 
DavidS877 said:
No one ever started calling it GNU/Linux.
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OBJECTION!!!!!!!!!
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On a side note, I could have sworn there was a reaction image meme with Stallman and a speech bubble.
 
Zyklon C said:
The word went to shit when Linus Torvalds apologized for being an occasionally abrasive asshole and cunts like Lennart Poettering were allowed to "innovate" and have influence in the Linux world.
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A little bit before that, I'd reckon. The Linux world peaked in 2016. There were some damn good Linuxes of the time still out and about, my personal biases going toward Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, and 16.04. The day that the Ubuntu Software Centre died was the day that the thread of prophecy was irrevocably severed.
 
Zyklon C said:
The word went to shit when Linus Torvalds apologized for being an occasionally abrasive asshole and cunts like Lennart Poettering were allowed to "innovate" and have influence in the Linux world.
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I wish the articles that talk about Linus' blowouts would link to the LKML archive so people could browse the discussion and understand that the people who Linus screamed at were morons who went out of their way to deserve it and only got screamed at after wasting significant time of senior contributors.
 
Unintelligence Score said:
I wish the articles that talk about Linus' blowouts would link to the LKML archive so people could browse the discussion and understand that the people who Linus screamed at were morons who went out of their way to deserve it and only got screamed at after wasting significant time of senior contributors.
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In fairness, at one point he did scream at someone who broke pulseaudio, which wasn't very nice. Yes, GENERALLY kernel changes shouldn't break userspace... but when it comes to Poettringware there is only one appropriate way to respond.
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Vesperus said:
Yeah, but DEBra Lynn vanished into the æther after divorcing IAN Murdock (who then necked himself), so what does that say about the relevance of official names?
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Ian Murdock's death was an inside job perpetrated by Oracle to kneecap the Illumos and OpenIndiana projects following the buyout of Sun Microsystems and the discontinuation of OpenSolaris. Larry Ellison conspired to kill Ian Murdock and got away with it. My source is that I made it entirely the fuck up, but I believe it anyway because it's funny.
 
Dread First said:
Ian Murdock's death was an inside job perpetrated by Oracle to kneecap the Illumos and OpenIndiana projects following the buyout of Sun Microsystems and the discontinuation of OpenSolaris. Larry Ellison conspired to kill Ian Murdock and got away with it. My source is that I made it entirely the fuck up, but I believe it anyway because it's funny.
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Ian Murdock, Terry Davis, and John McAfee deserve their own tier of programmer heaven.
 
FCC just banned (.gov link, archive) all routers with non-USA built/designed parts in the future.
WASHINGTON, March 23, 2026—Today, the Federal Communications Commission updated its Covered List to include all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries. Routers are the boxes in every home that connect computers, phones, and smart devices to the internet. This followed a determination by a White House-convened Executive Branch interagency body with appropriate national security expertise that such routers “pose unacceptable risks to the national security of the United States or the safety and security of United States persons.”

The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical infrastructure and directly harm U.S. persons.”

President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy stated: “the United States must never be dependent on any outside power for core components—from raw materials to parts to finished products—necessary to the nation’s defense or economy. We must re-secure our own independent and reliable access to the goods we need to defend ourselves and preserve our way of life.”

Malicious actors have exploited security gaps in foreign-made routers to attack American households, disrupt networks, enable espionage, and facilitate intellectual property theft. Foreign-made routers were also involved in the Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks targeting vital U.S. infrastructure.

The determination included an exemption for routers that the Department of War (DoW) or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have granted “Conditional Approval” after finding that such device or devices do not pose such unacceptable risks. Producers of consumer-grade routers are encouraged to submit an application for Conditional Approval using the guidance attached to the determination. Applications should be submitted to conditional-approvals@fcc.gov.

As outlined below, today’s action does not impact a consumer’s continued use of routers they previously acquired. Nor does it prevent retailers from continuing to sell, import, or market router models approved previously through the FCC’s equipment authorization process. By operation of the FCC’s Covered List rules, the restrictions imposed today apply to new device models.
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What does this mean?

· New devices on the Covered List, such as foreign-made consumer-grade routers, are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the U.S. This update to the Covered List does not prohibit the import, sale, or use of any existing device models the FCC previously authorized.
· This action does not affect any previously-purchased consumer-grade routers. Consumers can continue to use any router they have already lawfully purchased or acquired.
· Producers of consumer-grade routers that receive Conditional Approval from DoW or DHS can continue to receive FCC equipment authorizations. Interested applicants are encouraged to submit applications to conditional-approvals@fcc.gov.
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Battlefield42 said:
Only we are allowed to spy on our citizens :smug:
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Literally the entire reason for this.
The other day I heard about a completely separate bit of barely documented embedded spyware in Intel silicon that is separate from the IME, the Secure Arbitration Mode (SEAM). (Not a hardware engineer, I barely understand the basics of this)
From what I gathered in the video:
  • SEAM can create a hypervisor that's completely invisible to the host OS
  • Activated with BIOS boot
  • Hardware based virtual machine capability
  • RAM contents completely encrypted in the CPU die so its impossible to read
  • If you try to read encrypted RAM mem addresses it throws an exception or silently fails with all 1s
  • No documentation on how it is activated or if it is even possible to disable it.
The brainlet view on this is that it is only ever used for glowie agencies to spy on HVTs, but Intel's side of the story is that this feature is actually critical in data centers to "protect confidential computations" and prevent an infected OS/hypervisor from taking complete control. Everything is dual use these days. Pick your poison, either NSA backdoored silicon or chinese - it all gets made in the same place anyways.
On a side note, do more exotic chips like ARM, RISC-V or even Apple Silicon chips have """features""" like this built in?

Source video:

Schizoposting with mixed takes. Some think its spooky with no corroborating evidence and others say it is to actually secure your system.
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Molokroid said:
On a side note, do more exotic chips like ARM, RISC-V or even Apple Silicon chips have """features""" like this built in?
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ARM has trustzone, which is a bit better since in theory it's not require for boot. IDK apple, RISC-V depends on your fab/hardware designer not putting backdoors (hope you like auditing the entire chip!), and had some vulnerabilities like ghostwrite.
 
I got "Back into" Linux after about a decade or so off of it.
Holy shit Linux has gotten worse since I last used it.
I have 64 gigs of RAM, yet RAM is being used up way more then my Windows 11 machine (also 64 gigs), and my Linux laptop has a lighter work load. Fuck Appimagines and flatpacks. Like I have apps in Linux crashing form RAM useage, I only get that high in Windows if I have months of uptime, with a heavier load in Windows.
For some reason only KDE support my touchpad, not Gnome, not XFCE, not Cinnamon, no any other DE I tried.
No way for me to (easily?) turn off the middle touch in my touchpad with its schizo detection (as almost all touchpads have) having so many instances of me closing out of shit I was trying to switch back to.
What the fuck happened?!
 
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