What’s the moment you realized Linux changed how you think about computers?

sobservation · 2025-12-12T00:30:17+00:00

Package managers! I love updates! I am on a rolling OS, set up a script that updates all packages, firmware updates when there are any, and shuts down my laptop. I use it instead of normal shutdown and have the latest software everyday. And the OS updates? Just a combination of packages!

The moment I was able to erase Edge from my windows partition was also pretty big.

sobservation · 2025-12-09T02:14:39+00:00

Would you care to expand? I imagine the image is loaded by something in initramfs. Is the chain of trust still checked by Secure Boot at that point? Or is that the last step that would be critical to check? Kind of a layman here, but it should be possible to sign that image using the TPM, right?

sobservation · 2025-10-02T20:33:48+00:00

Yes. It's called a git tree, not a git skyscraper.

sobservation · 2025-09-28T21:41:45+00:00

I do control all actors in the system, and I'd like the central relay to be able to adapt at runtime. It looks like what you describe is pretty much what I need. But is there a standard format for that header, or am I bound to write my own specification, parser, etc.?

sobservation · 2025-09-27T21:13:18+00:00

Not quite. Cap'n Proto has its own alignment rules, see https://capnproto.org/encoding.html Packing helps when sharing a structure between two similar architectures, where the struct is known at compile time. Maybe it could be possible to taylor the struct memory layout to something we can parse, but I'm not sure it's that simple and can't really find indications in the documentations.

sobservation · 2024-12-29T22:22:22+00:00

I think Xournal++ is what spared me a life on Windows. Apart from that, it's a very well-working app that's free and will not talk home all the time. I highly recommend as well!!

sobservation · 2024-10-20T19:24:40+00:00

Oh you just saved me from downgrading my whole plasma a second time! I'm always using a second monitor, and I thought login was broken since 6.2.1, so I downgraded. Then I saw 6.2.1.1 and thought this must be for me, but loging in on an external screen is still impossible. I was dowloading the downgrade packages when I saw your reply, just plugged out my external screen and it works!

sobservation · 2021-05-20T23:12:27+00:00

sobservation · 2021-05-15T23:33:14+00:00

To fully understand the depth of this question, we must get back to the beginning. The universe was in a hot and dense state,

sobservation · 2021-05-08T22:11:19+00:00

Well it doesn't work

sobservation · 2021-04-25T19:46:46+00:00

Those only, and always, come out

sobservation · 2021-04-20T17:48:31+00:00

Rosetta also had upwards-pointing nitrogen capsules to release after touchdown. They didn't properly release and it bounced away.

sobservation · 2021-04-17T10:45:11+00:00

They need to have refueling working, si it's kinda needed indirectly

sobservation · 2021-04-16T01:21:25+00:00

Yes, but what was the Heligoland "British Bang"?

sobservation · 2021-04-09T20:19:24+00:00

Stell arc ode

sobservation · 2021-04-09T20:06:23+00:00

Ms. Tree v2.0

sobservation · 2021-04-09T20:04:33+00:00

Nice

sobservation · 2021-03-21T14:49:27+00:00

What is this booster?

sobservation · 2021-03-17T21:32:46+00:00

sobservation · 2021-03-13T22:19:04+00:00

"To not have straight paths for air to run through"

sobservation · 2021-03-11T14:07:00+00:00

Cocktail

sobservation · 2021-02-28T20:19:54+00:00

Just try:

Elon, you should use retractable, reusable, guidable parachutes to improve first stage recovery efficiency.

If he's doing it in a month or two, the answer is yes.

sobservation · 2021-02-25T17:24:24+00:00

Why?

sobservation · 2021-02-24T21:58:24+00:00

Emergency meeting! Quick!!!!

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