It's a complex and polarising issue. The main problem is that some, sometimes most, of immigrants don't want to assimilate. They are creating ghettos, don't respect local laws. Other issue is that governments prefer to spend tax payer money for accommodating immigrants instead of solving nation's issues.
I wouldn't limit immigration per se. I would limit unchecked illegal immigration and spend more money on assimilating immigrants that want to contribute to a country they moved into.
Yes, I do. I'm a devops engineer and even "coding camp devs" have problems understanding what I do for a living.
I think you answered your own question. You asked about "retard", not about R-word. Some snowflakes will get offended on behalf other people but normal people will just acknowledge rude language and move on.
Flatpak is not the answer here. For example, flatpak version of codium doesn't recognise terminal settings out of the box. Since such trivial thing is a problem, image how difficult it would be to use it with various file systems, sync options, etc.
If it's a motivation issue, you will need to figure it out on your own. I could give you some advice but motivation depends on a specific use case. If you want I can share what motivates me but there's no guarantee it will work for you.
As for getting back on a tech horse, there's a trick I've been using every time I was learning a new thing and it worked every single time. I start with a project idea. I write down the major goals I want to achieve and start working on it. At first I do the "quick start" adjusted to fit my project. It usually ends up with a working proof of concept and a list of things I don't know/understand. Next, I learn about the those unknowns and update the project with what I have learned. This raises more unknowns which leads to more things to learn about. After few iterations, when I'm happy about the project, I start a new, more complex project. And so on.
Thanks for reminding me, there's also " supporting" linux community...
Are your specific issues a reason normal users shouldnt use Linux? No
I cannot agree. Most of the users would be upset about bluetooth dropping connection or constant issues after running updates.
Your comment is a perfect Linux answer - it works on my computer :) And I don't mean it as an insult. The problem here is that Linux, despite of all its advantages, is not for a global consumer.
I think, you should keep these two things (messing with containers accessing GPU and “just play a game”) separate. I mean on separate boxes. Because now you can’t “just play” because you’ve been elbows deep in OS internals. You can’t take apart your fridge and then expect it to just cool the water the next day
I agree, that's a valid point. But, I had a clean system, prepared for a normal user (clean install, official repositories, etc. And still GPU drivers refusded to work. I have covered all basics before I asked for help and even I got some good advice that worked, I ended up in the same place.
Then I’m guessing these might need some KDE envs
True, but sill for a regular user it looks like "Linux is ugly"
Ah, you’re trying to breach the non-open wall. Is there an app on i* that allows you to set up an ftp/http file sharing server on the device? You probably could set it up as rclone upstream
I know too well the unbreakable apple garden. And I don't mind tinkering with it but again, we are at the regular user level, that wants things just to work.
Privacy means that no one can see your data, and only you can decide who can see it. Anonymity means that everyone can see your data but no one can match you with the data.
As for the question, yes, I would more than happy when people could understand the risk of giving up the privacy. But I'm afraid that not many people would understand the message carried by those books.
Start with Gentoo or Arch (maybe Slackware). These are close to the grass, so the way to set things up is the way to fix things up
I've tried Mint, openSUSE, Debian, Gentoo and Arch but I had other, non-regular user issues with those. I wanted to point out the standard issues.
are these gtk based apps? Different toolsets require different envs
Some were GTK based other were "optimised" for KDE
Have you tried syncthing?
Yes, I use it on a daily basis but there's no easy way to get it working on iOS/iPadOS.
As I wrote, I did the clean install. Even if I didn't do a thing with it, it would still break. As it did couple days ago.
As I said, I did a clean install and still all Steam games were failing on directx issue. Also, a "regular" user when switching to Linux will have to know what a GPU driver is in order to use it, event if it's just for playing games. And the cherry on top - once I fixed the directx issue and I was able to play a game I wanted, the drivers update broke it. And despite spending days on fixing the issue, I got back to a square one.
In a perfect world, data collected by companies would be used to improve user experience. But we don't live a perfect world and nowadays if a company doesn't provide yearly income from investment it goes under. And to keep the numbers up, companies screw its users.
I've been using all major OSes for a long time. I have the most experience with Windows, I've been using it since Windows 95 and stopped at Windows 8. I've been using macOS for about a decade and Linux (in total) for about 5 years. I have started with Mandrake, moved to Mandriva, spent over a year on Ubuntu and recently I've been using Fedora as my daily driver. And honestly, I'm running out of patience.
Few days ago I ran into the gpu driver issue. Long story short, Steam games started to crash on directx issue. Games that were working few weeks ago. I admit, I was mocking around with GPU drivers in order to make Podman containers to access the GPU. But I did the fresh diver install and it didn't solved the issue (also my GPU was not found despite all commands showed it was there). I don't have much spare time and I would like to play a game, I used to play before, without spending hours/days fixing issue that didn't exist last time I played it.
But it's not only about games. I have two laptops, both running Fedora 40 KDE spin. Some time ago on one laptop the power widget stopped working. It shows "no power profiles found on a device". But when I delete the widget and add it again, it works fine.
Other issue is with the general look and feel. There are many apps that don't follow the OS look - lack of window borders/shadow, random icons that don't match the system, flatpacks having issues accessing system configuration (e.g. vscodium not recognising zsh as a default shell).
Few more problems I had:
- on GNOME, some extensions where crashing without any reason
- some apps don't respect desktop scaling
- bluetooth randomly dropping connections
- syncing files between devices is always a struggle
- you never know what's going to break when installing updates
If you want a Linux like experience use macOS, and if you want to play games, stick to Windows.
Nice catch! I just checked the blog post about WireGuard on Linux and found this
Yes. WireGuard is fully integrated into our apps ..... This includes ..... kill switch, permanent kill switch (Windows) .....
It looks like kill switch doesn't work with WireGuard on Linux or has a UI glitch.
Proton recently released WireGuard support on Linux. While I really like it there's a small UI issue with the wifi icon. When connected to VPN it looks like unknown network(?). I have confirmed the issue on two laptops. Both running Fedora 40, KDE spin.
Ok, but why? And to be clear, I'm not against what you wrote, just wondering about people's motives.
Don't want to be a devil's advocate here but nowadays it's left-wing weirdos that use publicly available data to cancel people they don't agree with. Let's keep personal political views out of this discussion.
As for the first paragraph, I vaguely remember reading about this. And this is a great example.
I'm following several privacy focused communities. Mostly as lurker but in few I'm more active. Every time I see a posts like "how to be more private", I wonder about the reasons behind those questions. What's the reason you want to remain private (don't confuse it with being anonymous)? Could you elaborate on your reasons?
Let me start.
I worked (and still working) in a highly regulated industry as a software/devops engineer. I've been working with banks, insurance companies, global online payment companies, major credit card vendors, few global corporations. I have seen how data is gathered and (mis)used. Every time someone tells me "I'm sorry but the system..." I know it's the data gathered by the "system" and my profile created based on that data was the reason for "but". This is why I care about the privacy, to prevent companies from taking advantage of my current situation and charge me more.
I use SMS and good old phone calls. You would be surprised how much people freak up when you call them. For work I use Slack, sometimes Teams. And on rare occasions, Messenger to talk to some family members.
edit Forgot about emails. I use it for more planned communications.
Funny thing, yesterday there was an update for nvidia drivers. I was stupid enough to install it and now I have the same directx error as before. I'm done with gaming on Linux.
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
This worked. I haven't checked the bios yet. If there's an option to disable integrated graphics I will use it. For now I will just use the vars.
Few days ago I did the weekly system update which included latest NVIDIA drivers. Everything went smoothly, no error messages, systems works as usual. Today I wanted to play some game and I noticed that the performance was horrible. This is what I found
``` lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 0c) Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff Kernel driver in use: i915 -- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106M [GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1) Subsystem: Dell Device 0aff Kernel driver in use: nvidia
xrandr --listproviders Providers: number : 0 ```
I've tried to reinstall drivers, and ran some fixes I found online but still no luck. Any ideas how to fix it?
update
Just remembered. After last drivers update I wasn't able to run any Steam game. I always got some directx error. Before I had no issues.
update 2
I'm on Fedora 40, currently I'm using drivers downloaded directly from NVIDIA website. Before that I was using whatever drivers from these repositories
dnf repolist repo id repo name fedora Fedora 40 - x86_64 fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 nvidia-container-toolkit nvidia-container-toolkit protonvpn-fedora-stable ProtonVPN Fedora Stable repository rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Updates rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Updates updates
The only thing I remember related to messing with drivers was playing with podman containers accessing my gpu (nvidia-container-toolkit).
Currently I'm using driver version 550.107.02
I've been using open webui for some time but I wanted to test the Alpaka, a KDE app - https://apps.kde.org/alpaka/
When I click on an "Install on linux" button, Discover app is opening and gives me this error "Could not open appstream://org.kde.alpaka because it was not found in any available software repositories." When using dnf there's no such package as Aplaka. I can find and install other KDE apps. What am I missing?
I'm on Fedora 40, KDE spin.
Earlier today I received an email from Proton with an annual survey. Among standard questions there was a significant amount of AI related questions, e.g. mail assistant. Does it mean Proton is looking into AI?
I'm a happy user of Inoreader. I like it so much I'm considering buying a premium plan. However, I'm looking for an alternative I wouldn't have to pay for. I came across FreshRSS. The only thing that's keeps me from moving is the sync. I don't want to expose it to the internet but I want to be able to access it on a move. My first idea was to use Syncthing. Is there a way to use Syncthing to sync feeds, settings (read articles, subscriptions, etc.) across different devices? By different devices I mean Linux, macOS (optional) and GrapheneOS (Android) phone.
Single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.
I have setup Proton Mail app to autostart when I log in. It works fine but I want the app to start minimized. Is there an option I can pass to the proton-mail command to start it minimized?
I just stared using Proton Pass, moved from Bitwarden. I have few simple questions about Proton Pass configuration.
- How can I switch to light theme on the website and in the Firefox addon?
- How can I get rid of the available passwords counter on Firefox addon?
Is there a way to add Spotify to Android Auto running GrapheneOS? So far I have gotten to the point where I can add a new shortcut using the Assistant command. However, no matter what I tried, I wasn't able to add Spotify to the apps.
I've been playing around with the self hosted apps for quite a while and I got to the point where I'm happy about my local setup. Next step is to setup reliable offsite backup. I'm using borgbackup as a tool to manage my backups (so far only local backups). I've been looking for an affordable yet reliable service to store my backups. Is rsync.net worth it? According to the "internet" it's a good service but wanted to double check. What do you think about it?
Okta, a company that provides identity tools like multi-factor authentication and single sign-on to thousands of businesses, has suffered a security breach involving a compromise of its customer support unit, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat.
John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, the company whose 3D game engine had recently seen backlash from developers over proposed fee structures, will retire as CEO, president, and board chairman at the company, according to a press release issued late on a Monday afternoon, one many observe as a holiday.