They changed systemd-tmpfiles
to create stuff other than tempfiles a while back, but for whatever reason they never renamed it to better describe what it does.
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They changed systemd-tmpfiles
to create stuff other than tempfiles a while back, but for whatever reason they never renamed it to better describe what it does.
I’m not going to hunt down people who are infringing on projects like this:
It’s more that people won’t use the code at all if there’s no license attached. For someone that’s looking for a snippet of code to reuse, it’s much easier to instead find a permissively licensed piece of code that performs a similar function, instead of contacting the author of the unlicensed code and trying to figure out what to do.
Also, that’s sort of presumptuous to believe you know what I want better than myself
Sorry - I meant to address it to readers of your comment rather than you. I edited the comment to make it clearer.
Doesn’t bother licensing
That’s usually not what someone would want to do. The default if you don’t provide a license is essentially “all rights reserved”, and you’re not granting anyone else permission to use it in any way. Everyone that wants to use it has to get explicit permission.
If you really want “no license” then you probably actually want to release it as public domain.
Why will it be better in just a couple months?
Explicit sync. It’ll fix most of the issues with Wayland on Nvidia CPUs. Wayland landed support for it in April, and Nvidia recently released a beta driver that supports it. I think every graphics driver will implement explicit sync eventually, since it’s a lot better than implicit sync.
Some great information about why it’s important here: https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html
It’s an immutable/atomic version of Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/
My understanding is that the core system is immutable (read-only) and major upgrades essentially just swap out that whole layer. Updates are atomic, meaning the entire thing either succeeds or fails and you can never end up with a broken half-updated system. UI apps all run using Flatpak.
I’ve never tried it though!
The Windows store is also a sandboxed, heavily restricted pile of trash you can’t even get at for most of its apps.
They changed that around the tine Windows 11 was released. Regular Win32 apps can be listed in there.
NTFS permissions are just needlessly complicated and convoluted and create more problems than they solve for desktop use.
What’s an example of a problem they create?
If Windows would just use simple permissions like Linux does
I don’t think using an antiquated permission system from the 1970s is the solution to anything. Being able to set permissions for only a single user and single group is very limiting, especially when there’s background processes that run as other users. There’s a reason later revisions of POSIX added ACLs.
The excuses for using obsolete Windows continues by its paid shills and brainwashed users.
lol I’m not a paid shill nor a brainwashed user; I just see pros and cons for all operating systems. Linux-based OSes do some things better, and Windows-based OSes do other things better. Even MacOS has its pros.
executable as a filesystem attribute
This already exists. It’s labeled as “Traverse folder / execute file” in the UI.
NTFS permissions are also more powerful than the default Linux permission system. Instead of just being able to define permissions for a single user and single group, you can define them for an arbitrary number of users and groups.
I say “default Linux permission system” because you can actually use ACLs on Linux (getfacl
and setfacl
commands), they’re just not used by default. They used to be common in businesses and schools, but these days everyone seems to store their files “in the cloud” and the permissions are managed there instead.
curated app repos
This is what the Windows store is supposed to be. There’s also WinGet, but I’m not sure if it’s curated.
That’s probably the presenter’s fault for not updating it earlier. Keep on top of your updates so they don’t force you to do it at an unfortunate time.
Years ago there was a screensaver that showed a fake “upgrading to Vista, please wait” screen. Just wait for someone to leave their computer unattended, download and set it as the screensaver, and wait for their reaction when they’re back :)
I think people just don’t care about startup times. They do it maybe once per day (if they don’t sleep and resume), and they probably get a coffee or something while it’s starting up.
I self-host mine using Mailcow, but I use an outbound SMTP relay for sending email so I don’t have to deal with IP reputation. L
I solved this by installing solar panels. They produce more electricity than I need (enough to cover charging an EV in when I get one in the future), and I should break even (in terms of cost) within 5-6 years of installation. Had them installed last year under NEM 2.0.
I know PG&E want to introduce a fixed monthly fee at some point, which throws off my break-even calculations a bit.
Some VPS providers have good deals and you can often find systems with 16GB RAM and NVMe drives for around $70-100/year during LowEndTalk Black Friday sales, so it’s definitely worth considering if your use cases can be better handled by a VPS. I have both - a home server for things like photos, music, and security camera footage, and VPSes for things that need to be reliable and up 100% of the time (websites, email, etc)
I think it’s so people here can give themselves a pat on the pack for self hosting lol.
Like how the Linux Lemmy community has so many “Windows is bad, Linux is good” posts. Practically everyone in there already knows that Linux is good.
and Amarok is back
Was Amarok gone?
I used to use it maybe 16-17 years ago even though I used GNOME rather than KDE. It was the best music player I’d found on Linux.
I’m finally switching back to Linux so I’ll have to try it out again! These days I usually use Plexamp though.
Are there guides for this in Fedora and Debian?
Is this better than oomd?
In my opinion, it peaked in Windows XP. XP’s themes were way more customizable than 98’s. You could patch the uxtheme DLL (disable the signature check) to allow third-party themes.
The uxtheme thing was great because it was pretty powerful, and since it was just the standard theming system built-in to Windows, it was more reliable than theming systems that required third-party apps (WindowBlinds being the most common one).
Apparently uxtheme patching still works on Windows 11, but I haven’t tried it.
I love netboot.xyz. I use it all the time when setting up VPS systems. A lot of KVM-based VPSes have iPXE as a boot option so you can chainload directly into netboot without having to use an ISO.
I prefer installing the OS myself over using any images provided by the provider, so that I know exactly how it was set up.
Netboot.xyz has tools to build your own custom version of it too, with your own options. Useful if you want to host it on an internal server. It’s essentially just a set of iPXE scripts.
F-Droid is great. My understanding is that apps on F-Droid have to be free (as in freedom), and they build most apps from source so the builds are verifiable - they’ll exactly match the source code in the repo. It’s not just a developer uploading a random APK that might be completely different from the code in the repo.