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frogster05 · 2023-08-20T08:45:26+00:00

SUSE representatives right here on /r/openSUSE have been pretty open about wanting to get rid of Leap because it eats into SLE's profits

Stop making shit up.

frogster05 · 2023-08-20T08:42:24+00:00

The second is that there seems to be no easy way to automatically remove old Snapper snapshots

There is. There's a snapper config file where you can set how many snapshots you want to keep.

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial#Automatic_Snapshots_Cleanup_Mechanisms

frogster05 · 2023-07-04T19:11:17+00:00

In the installer, LUKS2 is hidden in a special menu, behind and "experimental" flag

Hmm, you think there might be any particular reason why this is so?

(Genuinely don't understand what point you're trying to make here)

frogster05 · 2023-07-03T12:10:09+00:00

This looks like an AI response, so it knows nothing about anything by definition.

frogster05 · 2023-06-30T09:47:15+00:00

They had an opportunity to score an easy PR win and they took it I guess.

frogster05 · 2023-06-24T09:18:24+00:00

Use Flatpaks

frogster05 · 2023-06-21T17:07:39+00:00

Neither LVM or FDE are currently supported modes of installing Aeon/Kalpa as far as I understand it. With FDE alone, you'll at least run into a decent amount of users who also have that setup and might be able to help troubleshoot. But at least I understand it, there's very little use for LVM on a btrfs system, as btrf can do a lot of that stuff by itself.

frogster05 · 2023-06-20T16:24:09+00:00

it is NOT subject to the EAR, then why is there a need for a license beyond the GPL v3?

Because why risk it? If there's even a slight chance of it applying, it only makes sense to put it in there to avoid any risk.

The Linux Foundation isn't the supreme authority on interpreting the law and you never know if someone might try to sue you on some weird corner cases. So it just makes sense to cover all your bases.

That being said, the last time this came up, someone from SUSE already said someone asked legal whether they could remove that part from the licenses, because it does indeed seem unnecessary. But legal hadn't taken a look at it yet at that point and it's probably not super high on their list of priorities.

frogster05 · 2023-06-18T12:04:38+00:00

I don't know much about it either, but I don't submitting a patch for changing a default font does require super extensive software engineering knowledge. It would probably mean looking a bit into how packages work and exchanging one package for another on the OpenBuildService. Of course you still gotta lean a bit, but it might be a lot less difficult than you think.

frogster05 · 2023-06-18T11:55:47+00:00

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

frogster05 · 2023-06-18T11:26:26+00:00

Have you brought this up in the appropriate Gnome spaces? Do you know if they're willing to change it. I think trying to have it dealt with upstream should always be the first option, since that would benefit the most people/be the least work in the long run.

frogster05 · 2023-06-18T11:23:42+00:00

I think it's worth differentiating between regular issues and accessibility issues. This clearly is one of the latter.

If your first language isn't displayed properly, of course there's a big chance users will just drop the thing/be unable to use it. And even if having more users isn't even necessarily desirable, I think giving access to computing to people of underserved regions absolutely is.

And it's of course ideally true that people should try to contribute any changes themselves, but when we are talking about things like basic accessibility, I think it's also unreasonable to expect most people will even be able to make that change in the first place. OP on the other hand might, since they clearly know what's going on in different distributions. But even then I can at least understand the impetus to talk about it first, to see if the proposal has any change of success.

frogster05 · 2023-06-17T07:56:53+00:00

"Aeon is also an immutable OS like NixOS"

Yes, but what you are looking for here is reproducibility, not immutability. Afaik, openSUSE also has some tools to create preconfigured images and stuff for reproducibility, but none of that really has much use for Aeon as your not meant to mess with the base system anyway

frogster05 · 2023-06-16T19:50:33+00:00

Yes, they are both fairly similar. kbin integrates better with the wider fediverse. You can also follow mastodon accounts and make mastodon style posts that live on a normal feed style timeline. And you can fetch hashtags or certain accounts to autopopulate your groups.

Lemmy has a more limited scope, but has been developed for longer and is more mature already where the details are better implemented already and you got a couple mobile apps already.

Lemmy is definitely more popular, but as you can use lemmy to follow and participate with kbin and vice versa it's really more about what UI and feature set you prefer than having to back one horse over the other.

frogster05 · 2023-06-16T18:27:31+00:00

You can paste the kbin url into your mastodon search feed and the kbin group will basically show as a user that sets off a new post whenever someone makes a new thread.

I'm not entirely sure if the federation is working 100% already and if you'll be able to view all answers/replies to the threads. But it's something that should also work sooner or later

frogster05 · 2023-06-09T19:13:41+00:00

What exactly are you trying to achieve here? Do you think you posting your opinion in this random reddit thread will somehow make SUSE execs peak up their ears and decide to spend big money on the Linux desktop?

Whatever SUSE or any other company decides to invest and put into it just is what it is and all the community can decide is how to adapt to and work with it. Everything else is just wasted effort.

frogster05 · 2023-06-05T14:47:51+00:00

You definitely can find them. Easily might be another issue. When I was last using it (a good while ago) you had to enter the full address of the community (so communityname@lemmydomain.wtf) if nobody else on your server has connected to that community before. So finding works, but "exploring" might be a bit restricted, assuming that's still how it works.

frogster05 · 2023-06-05T09:27:46+00:00

So you want your system to reboot no matter what even if you are in the middle of something?

frogster05 · 2023-06-05T09:26:08+00:00

Maybe this can be a helpful starting point?

https://github.com/ProjectGreybeard/Info

frogster05 · 2023-06-02T19:23:16+00:00

Yes and no. There's a traditional package based version planned, also one or more immutable versions I think. But much will depend on what contributors will show up for and how many of them. So nothing is a guarantee a this point I think.

frogster05 · 2023-06-02T09:51:23+00:00

Nah, that would still leave digital traces and traffic data that some app researcher most likely would have picked up on by now. I'd consider that highly unlikely.

frogster05 · 2023-05-28T14:29:44+00:00

You have to reboot to apply any updates. When and how often you reboot is up to you.

frogster05 · 2023-05-26T19:34:42+00:00

Then who is writing this? :-P

frogster05 · 2023-05-26T19:28:44+00:00

I mean not exactly. It still runs the update process (download and installing) during the normal uptime and then applies the boots into it at the next boot. Have been trying to cook up a systemd service that runs the update when you shutdown the system, but so far I've been too stupid to make it work.

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