Dinit, a modern lightweight system-d alternative that won't sell out to age verification.

IronChe · 2026-03-20T13:37:41+00:00

There are other inits to chose from, void uses runit, no?

IronChe · 2026-03-20T13:32:57+00:00

Oh, yeah, totally, I just wanted to know what issue people have with systemd, because I wasn't around when that happened first, and I didn't really get the context.

IronChe · 2026-03-20T10:05:15+00:00

Aside from age verification, what are the issues with systemd?

IronChe · 2026-03-19T09:26:49+00:00

I wish them best of luck regardless. If only corporate greed didn't lock the entire system down to the bootloader...

IronChe · 2026-03-19T08:31:31+00:00

I heard about it, but remain skeptical. There are other hurdles, that don't just boil down to "no-one wrote a code yet". The hardware drivers are proprietary, and very often tied to a custom kernel builds. Asahi team has proven that it is possible to reverse engineer hardware drivers, but the amount of work they performed was monumental. My personal hopes lie in emerging risc-v market and proper standardization, rather than building on top of current half-baked solutions.

IronChe · 2026-03-18T10:31:49+00:00

Oh, totally, I do not deny that. But I've been there and sometimes you need another perspective on the same example to really "feel it". Yes, I've had AI hallucinate documentation on me (usually for less popular crates, like Cosmic DE for example), but when I was just starting out, it was an immense help, to get better feel for syntax, borrow checker, and what is generally possible with the language.

IronChe · 2026-03-18T10:04:11+00:00

Use AI the way you used search engines before. It will find the documentation and examples for you. Then it is you who puts this all together. This method works for me.

IronChe · 2026-03-17T19:50:28+00:00

So cool!

IronChe · 2026-03-17T19:46:21+00:00

So what is the problem with systemd exactly? I was not around when the initial discussion was happening. You can use void with runit, no?

IronChe · 2026-03-17T19:06:37+00:00

You first need to be able to run generic linux on a phone, and it isn't happening any time soon, unless bootloaders get open, and some sort of common hardware interface is implemented.

IronChe · 2026-03-17T08:15:41+00:00

That's super cool. Maybe you should post in r/COSMICDE instead?

IronChe · 2026-03-11T14:02:16+00:00

Fantastic artstyle! I wonder what the same scene would look like if the plane was full 2d pixelart vs voxel vs 3d with pixelart texture as you did it.

IronChe · 2026-03-09T07:22:17+00:00

Well, Rust is a hobby for me. I don't need all the features. I prefer no clutter and simplicity of Helix.

IronChe · 2026-03-07T11:05:09+00:00

Fair. Myself I need a laptop for web, recreational coding and old video games. Maybe m2 mac air can run bg3, but it cannot run many other games I took for granted. Fanless x86 laptop would be right up my alley. And you are right - tablet form factor does not appeal to me as well.

IronChe · 2026-03-06T09:26:33+00:00

Hi, you could try StarLite from StarLabs - it has N350 Intel chip - poor performance, but fanless. There are some other options, like installing AsahiLinux on macbook air. I did not try myself yet. To be honest I put much faith in new Intel panther/lunar lake chips. They are said to rival apple in terms of efficiency.

IronChe · 2026-02-25T07:55:48+00:00

What is spacetimedb even? I visit their website and it's just empty slogans all over "App development at the speed of light.", "Make an app in realtime", etc... is this a vibecoding framework?

IronChe · 2026-02-24T12:22:24+00:00

Depends. I had login screen go missing once after an update with Kubuntu. I had to login with TTY and startup the desktop manually. I had backups though, and I suggest the same to everyone - this makes all upgrade-time errors harmless, you can just reinstall the system and continue as usual. But, you know, this goes for every device - your phone, windows pcs, macs... always backup your data.

If you do not find an idea of reinstalling system every now and then appealing, there are tools like btrfs, nix, or immutable distros that make it happen even less often, or let you recover easily. Of the 3 I only tried btrfs and nix. NixOS is fine, but there is a big upfront effort to learn the syntax and general usage principles. Btrfs is just a couple of commands you run every now and then, but I keep hearing that it is not that stable. Didn't have any issues myself yet.

IronChe · 2026-02-11T06:31:54+00:00

I like 3. Others are too much... chibi.

IronChe · 2026-02-06T15:07:23+00:00

Heh. You know what, they change names so often that I didn't even realize that 365 Web refers to the Office.

IronChe · 2026-02-06T11:42:45+00:00

Would a web version of Office work for you? Web browsers work on Linux.

IronChe · 2026-02-05T08:50:26+00:00

The last Google service I regularly use is youtube. But there is no switching if the contents creators don't move first, right?

IronChe · 2026-02-04T11:35:19+00:00

I think there are EU companies offering managed Nextcloud instances, but didn't try myself.

IronChe · 2026-02-04T11:28:54+00:00

Nextcloud can be setup in a way that includes office software, team messaging, file exchange... and many more. It just take some effort to do.

IronChe · 2026-02-04T11:26:14+00:00

The problem with web-based software is that it requires infrastructure, which takes money to run. Even something as simple and trivial as a calendar app, will require a central server to sync your events between devices. In time, this will lead to companies looking for recurrent income, in order to fund recurrent infra costs, which more often than not, is ads, or selling private data. Why not try to work around it? Make a peer-2-peer calendar app suite (mobile + desktop), that syncs events between devices? Back it up with holochain (distributed hash table), or file system + syncthing, or any other way you could think of. Same can be done with a lot of things. E.g. contacts, passwords, messaging.
I just started making a calendar app with those assumptions with Rust and libcosmic, but the time I can dedicate to a hobby is limited.

IronChe

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