“Use google sheets” is an interesting solution in the “selfhosted” community.

It’s a particular flavor of comedy that’s pretty dark at times and exposes some societal issues and the unappealing side of humanities vices. It really isn’t for everyone and I can understand it being an uncomfortable watch for people who may be able to empathise a bit too much with it. I respect it for really hammering home how disgusting smoking is and I don’t think the show should be criticized for being icky, but I would not recommend this to most people.

Zum aktuellen Zeitpunkt sind (soweit ich weiß) fast alle LG Smart TVs rootbar (aber sicher nicht mehr lange). Dadurch ist es zumindest für technisch Versierte möglich das exfiltrieren von Daten und ungewollte Software-Update checks schon auf dem Gerät zu verhindern. Genau das gleiche kann man stattdessen oder zusätzlich mit Firewallregeln und einer DNS Blocklist erreichen. Das ist die einzige Möglichkeit den Fernseher weiterhin auf eine Art zu betreiben die Ansprüchen an Privatsphäre gerecht wird und gleichzeitig die meisten Funktionen weiterhin nutzen lässt.

Alternativ vom Internet trennen und wirklich nie mit dem Internet verbinden, da wohl scheinbar auch ohne aktives Heimtelefonieren Daten gesammelt und aggregiert werden können) und externe Medienplayer verwenden. Wobei auch da natürlich Vorsicht geboten ist, sonst ändert man höchstens den Anbieter dem man seine Daten schenkt.

Ob die angeschlossenen Geräte mit dem Internet verbunden sind ist wurst. Es gibt zwar einen HDMI Standard für Ethernet Übertragung über das Kabel, aber das hat sich nie durchgesetzt und existiert quasi in keinem Gerät am Markt. Es kann aber sein, je nach Einstellungen und Hersteller, dass der Fernseher Daten aggregiert bis er wieder eine Internetverbindung bekommt. Also konsequent trennen wenn man das so durchziehen will.

I’m gonna tack on CITY to this list (if you enjoyed nichijou or if you like extremely well animated and produced anime) and also One Punch Man, but really only the first season.

Its a reliable simple introduction that maintains the freedom of foss. People don’t care about the technicals as long as it just works.

Aside from pushing security vulnerabilities you mean? It’s nothing novel at all. We’ve had simple to install desktop linux distros for ages now. We’ve had dotfile collections for even longer. We’ve even had Arch install scripts and communities that put it all together. It’s not that people have bounced off of even the lowest barrier to entry, it’s that they only take notice when the youtuber tells them to.

Linus himself has called anyone universally opposing AI a troglodyte. The whole point of FOSS is that it grants people liberty over their software. The exact liberty that he is practising.

I’m exercising my liberty to call out low quality shit where I see it the same way Linus does. Linus also has a fairly low opinion of right-leaning politics and people. Does that also factor into this stupid anecdote?

Alright give me a breakdown of what is technically wrong. I’m open to a technical ncritique but that requires j actually provide one.

I think you’ll find plenty of examples in this thread of the lack of any technical merits to omarchy. No, I’m not doing an in-depth analysis of this shit only for you to find some other reason why it’s oh so useful and why the Linux community must be grateful to the racists for their exposure.

Elitist as fuck. Just cos we know how to use a command line doesn’t mean everyone does let alone even cares too. If their is nothing of value to preserve why you arguing against it?

Because people keep promoting it, defending the racist in charge and now pumping significant money into it for further marketing? It’s elitist to call people out when they’re talking about shit they barely know anything about? I’ve yet to see anyone actually spin a positive argument for omarchy that isn’t just completely out of touch or bootlicking a rich racist.

Why not let it prove itself valueless?

Because it is taking advantage of the good will, reputation and resources of the FOSS community and supporting horrible people, companies and ideologies in the process. It’s completely fair to call it out and raise awareness of who stands behind it.

The only reason you are seething over this is because it is providing value but simply in a way you don’t like.

Lmao

He’s pushing actual excrement out of his ass. There is nothing desirable about having omarchy as a front entrance for desktop linux in the mainstream. This thin-ass AI generated veneer over arch linux has some people playing defense for this racist, like his political stance is the only thing wrong here. Fuck every wannabe tech influencer who pushed this garbage and all the noobs who keep acting like there’s anything of value to preserve by acting like it doesn’t matter that he’s a dipshit.

Separate omarchy from DHH and it’s still omarchy. An arch linux installer and dotfile collection created by claude. It could disappear and nothing of value would be lost.

I would recommend using the docker-compose cli pointed at a podman socket over podman-compose. I don’t think anyone has been recommending podman-compose for quite a while now.

In almost all cases podman will work as a drop-in replacement. Problems usually arise from podman not being rootful by default, which does make a difference in most scenarios that involve volume mounts, exposing ports or other kinds of host resource access. You can run podman as root and nowadays even docker as rootless (though at that point you might be better off with podman).

The Raspberry Pi 5 doesn’t have h264 hardware decoding blocks anymore afaik. But it’s fast enough to do better and faster software decoding anyway from what I’ve heard.

It isn’t. I’m pretty sure the dev working on that userdb field didn’t plan on getting death threats on github and said as much afterwards.

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I downvoted your comment. Mainly because I think it’s funny when people can’t come up with compelling arguments and complain about being downvoted instead, but also because I’m part of the conspiracy making sure that people vocally complaining about systemd seem really annoying and wrong.

I see, then the website is probably just very out of date. The main repo hasn’t seen a release in a while either, so it might still be the latest available version.

The github page they link has been archived over a month ago, the last release is from november last year and I don’t think much development happened in the meantime. Their website doesn’t scream up-to-date either.

Did I miss something?

You know I thought this whole discussion was really about taste or ethical usage of software free from the influences of corporations, but then you hit me with a link to an insane persons blog where they vibe coded 100k lines of assembly with claude and apparently that’s “interesting” and knowing how you think by now it’s probably way better than something made by people who know how display technology works, the people who used to develop X.

made of ancient arcane magic that’s never seen an llm.

Well, not anymore apparently, lol.

Der Vergleich hinkt aber etwas wenn man bedenkt was für absurde Mengen an extra Wasser für die Bierherstellung benötigt werden im Gegensatz zum Mineralwasser das mehr oder weniger 1:1 in die Flasche kommt.

We’re still using COBOL for stuff like Visa and Mastercard for almost every contactless payment, saying ‘just port it’ is not how it works.

That’s a weird comparison for multiple reasons. For all the complexity of X, it sure isn’t turing complete. The examples you listed for the importance of X basically boiled down to digital signage, in which case it wouldn’t be the end of the world to “just port it”. It sure as shit ain’t the international banking system.

BTW’ers more the world of x86_64 only cutting edge gamestation/workstation that could snap at any moment and is heavily populated by people using linux as a daily driver workstation that want to ‘rice’, need high steam fps and are often rather evangelical about the idea of ‘choice’ on a distro that offers almost none of it. Not the ‘How to install Steam on Kali’ peeps, but not far off.

How does Arch offer almost no choice? Compared to what? LFS? Gentoo? Let them “rice” and optimize for gaming workloads, why ist that so offensive? You’re essentially complaining about noobs and children and unless they’re doing something really stupid, like Steam on Kali, or being obnoxious in the forums, there’s no real reason to get so upset. Linking every single topic back to the same imaginary societal conflict in the Linux world cannot be healthy. Again, this isn’t a new thing and you’re just trying to link it to other things you don’t like, whether or not there’s a connection.

It sounds like most of the price is going towards the screen. Apparently sourcing e-ink screens isn’t trivial.

I don’t hate computer games or young people, I’ve had both for ages.

I’m not a big fan of Valve, or the billionaire running the app store from his mega yachts.

I’m sorry, but that’s not how you come across, at least to me. I can understand not liking Gabe and I can even understand not liking Valve, but your complaints about their incluence on the Linux ecosystem seem entirely unwarranted.

BTW’ing seems relevant. It’s an ecosystem that’s been largely focused on turning a gnu/linux workstation into an x86_64 Steam player for over a decade and now Valve are using BTW as $UPSTREAM. It’s what this kinda thing evolved into as actually compiling stuff was harder than copy and pasting ''yaourt eyebleach-kitchen-sink-bin steam" https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html

I’m sure speaking in riddles doesn’t help, but I think I understand what you’re saying. Valves decision to use Arch as an upstream distro makes complete sense to me. They would want pick and choose from reasonably up-to-date packages, roll their own kernel and make use of some of the community effort to facilitate gaming on Linux.

Ask a question on X11 in the world of BSD, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi OS, Gentoo, Alpine, Rocky, MX or in the nerd mines of Phoronix, Linux Questions or Stack Exchange and people will help that have knowledge, ask in BTW lands and there will be witch hunt by people who have no idea what they are talking about.

The wave of popularity for Arch got memed into existence a while ago. Long before wayland was even a viable alternative. Of course the communities suffered some collateral damage in the form of noobs, but that’s not a new thing either. Most mainstream distros have had these kinds of issues for a long time. You’re not going to be able to blame Valve for that. Phoronix is a poor example imho, that site has always been full of idiots and not moderating the forums has opened the gates for all kinds of lunatics. Ever read the forums under a piece of news about Rust? It’s a lot of very opionionated idiots who know extremely little about programming. What about the arch forums? They’ve been reasonably helpful and knowledgeable for the longest time, yet they are part of “BTWland”, no?

If X11 goes down it would be like Mad Max: International banking and airports screens would just go black, Moscow, Pyongyang and Beijing too…even more important stuff like adverts could stop working at scale.

I’m not impressed by the technology choices of businesses and public infrastructure. Most of it uses Windows anyway for some godforsaken reason. I know you’re being dramatic, but even if X was just yanked out of existence, for the purposes of digital signage or other such extremely basic computing tasks it really shouldn’t be such an issue to switch to something else. Most issues would probably crop up on Linux workstations, running a bunch of software through XWayland. The vast majority of Linux computers however, don’t need a display server.