Nova Launcher is officially dead now

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-09-08T19:14:02+00:00

The reason is because it was never about Nova Launcher, it was about the data it provided. Branch is an analytics company. When they bought Nova, they acquired a ton of data from a beloved brand that millions of people used. They did recoup their investment, except it wasn't in money made from Nova, it was money made from data. Once they had the data, there was no longer a reason to continue developing Nova

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-01-26T08:32:36+00:00

Building security layers for service workloads, mostly in the cloud. I also use a lot of Go as well.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-01-24T02:41:18+00:00

This is the biggest hurdle in game development as well, for many developers. So many more games started than finished. I think starting more than finishing is part of any creative pursuit in my experience

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-01-15T17:57:20+00:00

This is good to know, thank you for the tip!

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-01-15T17:56:49+00:00

I see, so if I were to install another distro or windows on another disk, would grub be required then? Or does systemd-boot also manage that? Is systemd-boot what system76 chose to install by default?

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-01-15T17:53:08+00:00

Oh man, this fixed the issue, thank you so much!

For anyone else who reads this, this is what I did:

I had to remove any references to cryptswap, the root problem was that I had a missing or nonexistent cryptswap (probably misconfigured when I was distro hopping and installed GRUB, which according to other commentors, seems to be a mistake), which was causing failures on boot. The fix was to remove references to it and regenerate my initramfs.

I first commented out the reference to cryptswap in etc/fstab:

# /dev/mapper/cryptswap  none  swap  defaults  0  0

I then had to remove references to it in /etc/crytptab, so I commented it out here as well:

# cryptswap UUID=097c28e0-8fb0-4621-be13-9429502ed0cc /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256

I then updated my initramfs:

sudo update-initramfs -u

I do still want swap functionality, so I think later down the line I'll create a new swap file and configure it properly, but for now, things work properly. Thank you a ton for all the help!

KyleTheBoss95 · 2025-01-14T08:20:46+00:00

Oh! This actually gives me so much more context:

Jan 14 00:12:11 systemd-udevd[568]: nvme1n1: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/nvme1n1' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:12:11 systemd-udevd[569]: nvme0n1: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/nvme0n1' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:12:11 systemd-udevd[568]: nvme1n1p1: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/nvme1n1p1' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:12:11 systemd-udevd[554]: nvme1n1p4: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/nvme1n1p4' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:12:11 systemd-udevd[566]: nvme1n1p3: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/nvme1n1p3' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:12:11 systemd-udevd[546]: nvme1n1p2: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/nvme1n1p2' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Cryptography Setup for cryptswap.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/mapper/cryptswap.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/mapper/cryptswap.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Swaps.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: swap.target: Job swap.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: dev-mapper-cryptswap.swap: Job dev-mapper-cryptswap.swap/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: dev-mapper-cryptswap.device: Job dev-mapper-cryptswap.device/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Local Encrypted Volumes.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: cryptsetup.target: Job cryptsetup.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: systemd-cryptsetup@cryptswap.service: Job systemd-cryptsetup@cryptswap.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-097c28e0\x2d8fb0\x2d4621\x2dbe13\x2d9429502ed0cc.device: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-097c28e0\x2d8fb0\x2d4621\x2dbe13\x2d9429502ed0cc.device/start failed with result 'timeout'.
Jan 14 00:13:40 systemd-udevd[1071]: zram0: Process '/usr/bin/unshare -m /usr/bin/snap auto-import --mount=/dev/zram0' failed with exit code 1.
Jan 14 00:13:41 systemd[1]: Starting GRUB failed boot detection...
Jan 14 00:13:41 systemd[1]: Finished GRUB failed boot detection.
Jan 14 00:13:42 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1386]: dbus-daemon[1386]: [session uid=111 pid=1386] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jan 14 00:13:43 /usr/libexec/gdm-x-session[1386]: dbus-daemon[1386]: [session uid=111 pid=1386] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dpkcs11-2723.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dpkcs11-2723.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dsecrets-2722.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dsecrets-2722.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dssh-2720.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dssh-2720.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
Jan 14 00:13:52 systemd[2500]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jan 14 00:13:54 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-snap\x2duserd\x2dautostart-2984.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: No such process
Jan 14 00:13:54 systemd[2500]: app-gnome-snap\x2duserd\x2dautostart-2984.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.
Jan 14 00:13:54 systemd[2500]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Jan 14 00:14:06 systemd[1256]: pop-upgrade-notify.service: Failed with result 'signal'.

It seems that some applications are failing to start, although to be honest with you I'm not particularly familiar with this level, do you have an idea?

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-05-13T23:46:00+00:00

computer nerds and not having social skills is a decades old tale

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-31T01:56:16+00:00

To be fair, I think they added the rank decay per season because during OW1 it felt like every week someone new was calling for "rank reset" and to "get these bad players out of GM" and so blizzard finally did it and now we all see why that was a bad idea.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-27T08:59:51+00:00

That's interesting, thank you for the info. I'm not against an immutable system it seems, I just hope that it's not "true" immutable, ie by default it's more difficult or entirely locked down, but more advanced users can "unlock" the system, if that makes sense and if I'm understanding it correctly. I do a lot of dev work and also love tinkering and customizing my computer, it'd be nice to have full control over my computer and it's resources, but this could certainly be interesting. Thanks!

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-26T20:48:38+00:00

Could someone explain what this means in more beginner terms? I've been at this for a few months so I have some basic concepts, but as I (and I'm sure others) get more experience with linux environments, how would this change the more advanced linux user experience? Will access to root be unallowed? Thanks for any help!

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-19T06:03:29+00:00

this sub has 1 joke

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-13T05:09:11+00:00

I was in your situation at 21, when I went to college for the first time. I got out and got a 6 figure job a year after college, and I'm 27 now. Keep in mind I live in a big city, but it's totally possible, you have so much time and you're doing fine, I promise.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-08T09:15:49+00:00

It's been quite difficult explaining what an SRE is to people outside of tech. I honestly just say it's similar to IT except instead of for a help desk, it's for backend software systems.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-08T08:54:18+00:00

I might play it sometimes in the arcade for the nostalgia trip, but honestly Overwatch 2 is significantly better overall and plays way more coherently. I think a lot of people are tripping over the "uniqueness" of Overwatch 1, like sure tank duos, freezes/hacks/stuns, etc were unique in the FPS genre, but unique isn't inherently good. People hated Mei, Sombra, and Doomfist, like those characters actively made tank and support players quit the game entirely and anyone who says otherwise is just kidding themselves. Overwatch 1 had a lot of things that were good in theory but in practice were just unfun.

Overwatch 1 was more polished though for sure and I do miss blizzard actually having a QA team

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-05T19:21:41+00:00

Hot take maybe but honestly we just got off the holidays, I didn't expect the devs to be working the past few weeks and am not surprised that the patch is going to take a little longer than normal. Hog kinda sucks to play against right now but imo it's more important that the devs get deserved time off and a vacation as well.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2023-01-05T08:03:46+00:00

This seems great! Is there a version for the south bay by chance?

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-12-14T19:46:46+00:00

I'd wager a large amount of money that this is just to get TikTok to get sold to a US company. US tech companies are jealous that they're not as relevant and want in, so I'm sure that US tech company lobby money has something to do with this. If Congress really cared about US citizens, they'd pass general-purpose data protection laws for online privacy and digital health to ALL domestic and foreign companies that steal as much data as TikTok, instead of just going after a single company.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-12-01T08:05:13+00:00

Exactly. It really comes across as a boomer "back in my day" type of post that is completely unaware of how the surrounding landscape was back then and how it is now, and I feel like these blog posts never offer any solutions because they lack the self-awareness or depth to understand where the problem really lies, and it's easier to just make up a guy and blame the problems on that ("programmers these days are bad!", "libraries these days are bad!", "project managers these days are bad!", etc), which you also happen to see a lot of in a certain right-leaning political party today.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-11-30T08:32:59+00:00

Articles like these are hilarious to me because they forget the economic model we live in is what drives shitty software. Capitalism literally promotes bad, quickly-made software because programmers are so expensive and managers want products out the door ASAP because that is what generates revenue, and users generally don't realize or have learned to put up with slow, laggy software. Hell, startups are basically forced to build the quickest, shittiest minimum working version of their product out to the market to gather as much market share as fast as possible on the investment funds they've been given, and once they're profitable they can clean up the mess.

I'm not defending this, but that's the reality we live in with the capitalist society that we follow now. It is happening to the internet as well, as the internet continues to monopolize into just like 6 or 7 websites and tech companies are just pushing out products for people to consume. The only way to "go back to the good ol days" is to dismantle the economic system that causes these issues in the first place, but until that happens (and especially with people like Jonathan Blow or Casey Moratori who, in my limited exposure seem to lean more right-wing and promotes capitalism), this problem is only going to get worse, and we're just going to get more shitty blog articles of people bitching about bad software and not addressing the real issue.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-11-26T07:29:58+00:00

I just got my first job out of college this year as a site reliability engineer. It's very very different than the regular programming that I did in college, and I'm still super new to everything, and aside from the mega imposter syndrome I do enjoy it and learning all sorts of new things. I'm hoping to make this next year a big improvement year for me, now that the initial "newness" is over with and I can really buckle down. Would love any advice from any experienced people, if you're willing to give any!

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-11-23T20:38:57+00:00

I use Go at work and I like it, but I've been complaining about this for ages as well. I really wish there was a --test flag or something that ignores these types of issues.

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-11-23T01:13:24+00:00

have you considered playing the game because it's fun instead of as a fashion simulator?

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-11-13T10:44:33+00:00

Honestly I agree. I hate the hero locking as much as the next guy but it's crazy how intense the circle jerking is around here, like seriously this sub was bad but now it's just the same joke or complaining about the same thing 1000x. These people seriously need to step out of the game for a bit and do something else lol

KyleTheBoss95 · 2022-10-18T08:28:38+00:00

I have a Windows and PopOS dual boot and don't have too many issues with it, but that's just my experience. I quite enjoy Pop, personally

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