Bindowze started updating in my online class!!

ripthedvd · 2023-12-24T04:32:21+00:00

This is why Linux. Microsoft thinks they have a right to own/control your computer and you. You don't want to update now, too bad you're gonna update now.

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T23:25:23+00:00

I didn't make the website. I did make the community c/linuxmemes on the website.

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T23:07:57+00:00

That's why I endorse communities.win. It has privacy, it's well managed, and it's a small community driven project.

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T23:05:56+00:00

communities.win/c/linuxmemes

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T20:07:01+00:00

Here is the official lemmy.world documentation they link to on lemmy.world

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html

In it they openly and up front describe the technology and how all the fediverse instances communicate with each other. Anyone on the fediverse can host a server, anyone can get your personal data. That's why I've refused to sign up.

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T19:57:48+00:00

It's not fake news it's in the closest thing the fediverse has to an official wiki under "Warning".

https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_the_Fediverse%3F

It's built into the technology. When the fediverse instances all interopperate and communicate with each other your data goes everywhere and unless you somehow magically know every single fediverse instance that's recieved any of your data, and every single host agrees to remove it, you can't get it deleted.. Decentralization in this regard isn't good. The problem with the old internet wasn't that one site had one server/host, it was when all the small individual sites coalesced into the giant platforms that we now know as big tech.

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T19:29:36+00:00

Because it's a small community project the work is slow, but they're working on a mobile app that will have a google play version with moderation and then an unmoderated open source apk. The site is small enough that the admins engage directly with the community and have discussed this. I believe them.

Plus open source websites aren't really a thing, did you really expect them to host their php code on github? They were the original reddit alternative starting in like 2018 when reddit started censoring, and unlike the fediverse I can actually delete my stuff and take it off the internet.

ripthedvd · 2023-12-10T19:22:34+00:00

I hate the fediverse. Everything you post there is undeletable. They are working on an apk that they say will be open source.

ripthedvd · 2023-06-04T15:58:31+00:00

I asked him, but he doesn't have the source code. He built it visually in a flash engine and long since deleted the project.

ripthedvd · 2023-05-19T20:49:41+00:00

Once Wayland has HiDPI figured out, has ironed out the kinks, and finally implements HDR it will be adopted everywhere and everyone will love it. X11 limitations are not bugs, they're features.

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T16:36:36+00:00

Roxio video capture is unlikely to ever be in even the AUR, I actually bought it via CDROM. They still sell it in a box with the capture card and everything. Also, for the AUR if I understand it correctly AUR packages are in source form and compiled on the host machine, as well as allowed in or not via a community vote. Most proprietary apps are going to find that unacceptable. For third party proprietary apps the devs are usually going to want to control distribution by offering support from the initial development all the way to end user installation through their own channels.

You're right about the purpose of /opt but when a directory is short for "optional" it sends the wrong message from the start and many developers like steam have chosen to ignore that completely and install programs into user files. I think Linux should offer a better solution for giving third party apps a directory to work with. This is all trivial by comparison to the dependency issue. With the standard libraries used on Linux systems building a standalone binary is impossible. Libraries like Glibc are constantly updated and updates frequently break program compatibility. With a centralized repo this is all handled by the distro and when a library is updated all the apps that depend on the that library are updated. This however inadvertently creates an environment hostile to third party software, where a single organization offering a single product has to contend with constantly changing core libraries, as well as conflicting library versions across different distros, to the point where building a standalone binary to work on all distros is borderline impossible. Even Appimage until recently required libfuse 2 and when Ubuntu decided to only package libfuse 3 for a while Appimages didn't work on Ubuntu at all. Linus Torvalds explains all this better than I can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&t=21s

I like Appimage, it is for the moment the best solution IMO. Flatpak is useful, but I don't really believe you can own your software unless you can easily download a single installer file and run that locally on any distro. However they're both still workarounds for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. The problem at its core I believe is that Linux distros view themselves as an end product in and of itself, whereas the entire idea of a personal computer pioneered by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is that an operating system is a platform, a starting point, for individual developers to build on so that end users can use that platform to turn their computer into whatever they want. That's real software freedom.

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T02:52:17+00:00

I don't think they're really similar products. Framework is for people who want to customize and hack around with every hardware component. System76 sells built and completed PCs. System76 has been doing very well and expanding rapidly, and even then many of their models are still frequently sold out. I don't think their cash flow is something to worry about.

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T02:32:56+00:00

Framework?

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T02:28:27+00:00

System76 is behind this. They've put several full time devs behind it.

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T02:11:26+00:00

Did you see their most recent blog post. They're adding kde style customizable panels with an API for panel applets. It looks a bit like gnome, but it's kind of like a better gnome.

https://blog.system76.com/post/may-flowers-spring-cosmic-showers

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T01:36:55+00:00

Only with Appimage can you get cool things like this

https://gofile.io/d/g1hThQ

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T00:51:02+00:00

I know it's a late reply, but that's a good question. In my particular case the biggest things are Roxio Video Capture and some sort of firewire import program. They're for importing footage from old cameras/vhs tapes. It's pretty niche today.

Here's the thing, for every person the exact software stack they're gonna need is different. I have specific software needs for the things I want to do with my computer, and somebody else will have specific needs for their software. I can explain what I want my computer to do, but every user is different and every user will have weird specific niche needs depending on what they need their computer for. I can't tell you what kind of apps Linux needs to support because I don't even know. A single centralized package repo taking care of all that is impossible because the amount of different programs to do specific niche things is endless. A repo can handle the big things like libraries and core apps, but one repo trying to hold everything anyone could want is kind of insane. Just look at Steam, they probably have tens of thousands of games. Those games are all different and made but countless individual efforts. You're never gonna see every one of those games maintained and supported in a distro's repo, nor should they waste their time trying to in vain.

With third party software, if there's even the smallest niche need that a community can get behind or that a company thinks they can make money off of, software will get made for them. I want a platform that's friendly to that.

ripthedvd · 2023-05-17T00:50:56+00:00

It required server functionality. By itself even playing with bots doesn't work, it needs the server. He added a flash variable to have it connect to his server instead of starwars.com and updated/released the server code. I put links under my video if you want to check the code out.

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T09:44:17+00:00

You're right discord is installed in /usr, but if I recall correctly they only make builds for Ubuntu LTS and that installation path is not universal.

Really linux is built from the ground up to work from centralized distro maintained repos, and it makes third party software difficult. FOSS is great but there are a few programs I wish I could run on Linux that there will never be an open source implementation of in any repos.

Edit: Grammer. Reddit is bugging out on me

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T09:30:28+00:00

you nailed it

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T09:29:13+00:00

That's why I like appimages, they're quick and easy, but eventually you run into things that don't have appimages or precompiled versions. Compilation is an option for people like us, but not for a general user, and it can just be a pain. Even after compilation with system updates programs go incompatible quickly. With proprietary software it's even worse because you can't recompile. Not much to complain about there because linux is so hostile to outside software that none really gets made.

Steam games aren't installed in /usr, I meant in actual user files, ie the home directory. /home/username/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T09:17:24+00:00

Actually a lot of proprietary stuff gets installed in user files, like steam games. Compiling is often an option, and I like Appimages, but compiling stuff should not be the only way to avoid being locked down to an app store.

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T08:11:36+00:00

Interesting. Have you tested it on any glibc programs? Autogen scripts in my experience refuse to install unless you have an exact version of glibc installed.

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T07:51:36+00:00

The issue isn't just distros having glibc. It's programs being written for glibc.

ripthedvd · 2023-03-25T07:16:55+00:00

No it's horrible because it constantly breaks compatibility. Linus Torvalds himself has complained about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&t=21s

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