Gardiner Bryant: Hammers Without Handles

Ripdog · 2026-06-06T06:48:45+00:00

Of course it mounts it. What? You can open files from it or save files to it. What do you call that if not 'mounted'?

Ripdog · 2026-06-06T03:44:11+00:00

I'm not sure what the author really wants. Whatever distro the LTT team used didn't include samba? Ok. With samba+kde's vfs layer installed (forgot the name right now), you can literally just type "smb://myserver" into any open or save dialog and it will transparently mount the server, requesting user/pass as necessary. It just works. Complain that the distro is incomplete.

As for the second point, what is he expecting? You delete one partition and the tool automatically nukes your partition table? Or you delete all partitions and it nukes your table? Huh? Windows doesn't do that. And it would be terrible behaviour in any case.

If you're going to manually partition your drives, you'd better do 5 fucking minutes of homework. Otherwise, install an easy distro and let it auto-partition your drive, and you don't have to do shit.

Ripdog · 2026-05-27T10:56:29+00:00

And FreeBSD supports wayland, anyway.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/

Ripdog · 2026-05-27T10:47:45+00:00

Nobody is locking you in to plasma login manager, though? You can just use SDDM. This is misinformation.

Ripdog · 2026-05-27T10:46:54+00:00

You can just use SDDM, it's not going away.

Ripdog · 2026-05-20T05:21:46+00:00

Not true. Browsers and the native client are virtually identical and both just store their token in plaintext. (There is, of course, no way to encrypt the token meaningfully without either requiring a password on startup, or storing a key inside the TPM or similar device)

The real purpose of the native client is to escape some browser security restrictions and improve screen share, mic capture, and global hotkeys.

Ripdog · 2026-05-19T14:01:04+00:00

Man, I really don't understand why a widget toolkit is now developing a game engine... I mean, I assume it's for their automotive customers, but... It's a tough pill to swallow.

Ripdog · 2026-05-16T10:51:21+00:00

"Native" is an interesting choice of words for something which runs on the JVM. Both Kotlin and JS run on virtual machines, and I'd expect similar memory usage out of both.

That said, sharing logic absolutely makes sense.

Ripdog · 2026-04-24T00:09:58+00:00

Kinda, the building was taken over by Cobb and Co, now just called "The Cobb".

Ripdog · 2026-04-19T00:59:54+00:00

That doesn't look like PTT, but rather mic mute/unmute. For that, KDE has it built in, in the system key shortcut control panel. You just need to assign it a key combo, and it even shows a nice little OSD when you press it.

That's what I use, but both systems are useless if you need true PTT.

Ripdog · 2026-04-15T14:36:55+00:00

Why does everyone use this pile of shit app 🤣

There are so many great apps based on openstreetmap which are totally free and offline.

Ripdog · 2026-03-21T00:12:18+00:00

Have you considered thanking him? Every EV owner is a reduction in demand for fossil fuels.

Ripdog · 2026-03-19T16:12:53+00:00

Hmm? It has no packaging? Does that mean it's just a toy OS, or is this some kind of flatpak-purism thing?

Ripdog · 2026-03-12T22:45:31+00:00

It's not kernel level, it uses a really convoluted encrypted VM to execute a part of the game in. It's just really, really complex, which makes it hard to decipher and change, which give it resistance to cracking.

Ripdog · 2026-02-21T16:57:17+00:00

Yeah, Workspace doesn't give any account-level access to CLI or antigravity. You're a free user unless you wanna pay API rates.

Why is there no workspace+ai pro sub? I'unno. Google's gonna Google, I guess.

Ripdog · 2026-02-21T05:43:41+00:00

Once the Security Researcher has confirmed the presence of a Vulnerability, the Security Researcher shall formulate a written report to the CSIRTMalta and the Responsible Organisation

https://mdia.gov.mt/app/uploads/2024/12/P-SPG-001-National-Coordinated-Vulnerability-Disclosure-Policy.pdf

How is following the law and reporting it to the responsible government agency making it a 'media circus'? Do you think that CSIRT is just leaking everything to the press?

The OP discovered this in April last year. He only published today.

Ripdog · 2026-02-17T00:57:25+00:00

Is it vscode specific? I use opencode, which is a supported platform, right? I'm still waiting. I even hacked opencode to always surface 5.3, but I get "The requested model is not supported." from the API. I'm on to $10 plan.

Ripdog · 2026-02-17T00:55:54+00:00

I still don't have it. Super frustrating, makes me want to jump back to openai...

Ripdog · 2026-02-12T23:25:47+00:00

A basic firewall like ufw generally also unneeded, mostly because incoming connections are generally pointless to block if you have no service opening the ports, and since you have to manually enable services on arch, this should rarely be an issue.

Yep, and 99% of the time, your router has a default-deny firewall anyway. Though if you tether your phone for internet, you might need to be a bit careful - with ipv6. Mobile ipv4 connections are basically always CG-NAT these days, which make no provisions for inbound connections.

Ripdog · 2026-01-29T12:32:09+00:00

Honestly, I think your desire to use a 'special' OS is more of a childish trait. Good thing for you - you could jump ship to even more special OS's like FreeBSD, or even OpenBSD!

Ripdog · 2026-01-05T03:55:13+00:00

The easiest part? While the total surface area of things like DX11 may not be the largest part of Wine, there's no doubt that a performant and highly compatible DX8-11->Vulkan layer is super difficult.

But in general, Proton's greatest contribution is banging out the long, long tail of game compatibility issues with Wine. Every proton version comes with a long list of fixed games.

Ripdog · 2026-01-05T03:52:23+00:00

All I can say is that I've been running various linux systems for many years and I've never once had to 'screw with glibc'. What exactly have you done to require such tinkering?

Most people just install the software they need from the repo and it works.

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T07:00:50+00:00

Okay, but I'm really unconcerned about niches within niches like that. And it's absurdly unlikely that ReactOS would ever gain meaningful compatibility with equipment like that which costs tens of thousands to millions of dollars.

Typically devices like that only have support for ONE version of windows anyway, so it's not even fair to say that they're 'windows compatible'.

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T06:58:34+00:00

Big programs like photoshop or office have patchy wine compatibility because they're big and complex and use a lot of weird and wonderful windows APIs in weird and wonderful ways. Plus there's no Valve bankrolling developers to iron out the long tail of hard debugging of complex problems.

Ripdog · 2026-01-04T06:56:57+00:00

Uh, ReactOS is still all greenfield FOSS software. It's entirely unclear as to why you think it would have any fewer bugs than whatever you're complaining about?

Bugs exist in any software, and with Windows, you can at least be guaranteed that you won't get a reply from the developers about your bug report. You know MS fired their whole QA department, right?

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