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The place to get snaps is proprietary and exclusive.

You don’t need double the wires if you change the recepticle so that you can plug it in both ways, and the recepticle would just have those wires connected on the board.

btw i use nano

OOP is a bit classist in general

Are you familiar with QubesOS? It has a similar security model to the Xbox consoles.

Basically, the host OS only exists to run VMs, which includes separate VMs for networking, USB devices, applications, etc. With QubesOS, you can also pass through something like a GPU for use in a dedicated gaming VM (although you can do that on any Linux distro).

Seems like that’s a Windows issue and not Xbox. There was a recently released kernel exploit for Xbox, but it’s sandboxed to the SystemOS.

If you want to pwn the Xbox OS entirely, you would need a hypervisor escape exploit, which is very difficult to accomplish.

There is nothing Microsoft I would consider “top tier” when it comes to security.

Counterpoint: Xbox consoles. They just stick everything inside of VMs a la QubesOS

I’ve been using NixOS for about 3 years. Probably going to switch back to Arch, though.

GNU was founded because Richard Stallman was frusterated with a printer’s proprietary software.

GNOME is the Apple of the FOSS world

That looks like exactly what I need. Seems to work pretty well already.

Thanks!

What’s preventing you from installing Asahi Linux?

Yeah. I find myself using Google Maps on a web browser to look up the coordinates, then copypasta-ing that into Organic Maps.

Me, an American:

Lemmy isn’t listed as a Reddit alternative. I wonder why that is.

They are also recommending PrivacyTools.io, which had a nasty takeover and started selling ad space. Privacy Guides is the better site.

I left Lemmy World in favor of my current account due to them defederating from instances. I like to be able to choose what I can and cannot interact with, and SDF doesn’t defederate with anyone.

Lemmy allows for individuals to block instances in the account settings anyway.

AFAIK, lemmy.world defederated from hexbear due to political differences.

There’s a community on Hexbear called mutualaid that’s really nice, but IIRC Lemmy World defederated from Hexbear.

The apps still have to be approved by Apple, and Apple still gets a cut. It’s not actual sideloading, and it’s all done through Apple-approved third party app stores.

You can’t just download an IPA file and install it.

BTW, to wrap code in markdown, use ```

SteamOS is unique in that it’s an immutable OS (which means basically everything out of the /home folder is not modifiable by the user). This limits you to package management that works within the /home folder, which is basically just flatpak and AppImages by default. You can also use things like nix, but that’s a bit more complex.

Modifying the SteamOS system still is possible with utilities like rwfus, but that’s a bit more complex (OverlayFS is the keyword to look up if you’re curious).

With normal, mutable distros, you are able to modify the entire root of the filesystem, which means there are no restrictions on how you can modify your OS, and you can use regular package managers that do so for you.

Also FYI, flatpaks work on every distro, so anything that’s available on the SteamOS Discover store will also be available on every other distro. It uses flathub.org