The logic is stupid. There are adults that are just as addicted to social media and the Internet as much as any kid would be. What changes once they reach 18?
more ranting
The real issue isn’t being tackled or solved. This is yet another thing where we’re trying to solve the symptom but not the cause. The real issue is that the software or the platforms don’t take into consideration, by design, the well-being of the user.
We’re being forced to do what these stupid corporations like Meta, Google, Reddit, OpenAI et al aren’t doing already but should actually be doing. They don’t give AF because their whole objective is to make sure you are addicted and they can then harvest your data, feed you scams, etc.
This is pretty much like how the big corporations push the blame on the consumer for wasting plastic even though it’s the fucking corps choosing to sell their products that way in the fist place.
If software was designed with a kill-switch that could enforce better habits, this all wouldn’t be necessary. All we’re doing is delaying the inevitable and forcing them to seek alternatives that will be abused in the same manor social media or the Internet would be.
Why the fuck do they still sell cigarettes despite everybody knowing full well that it causes severe health issues?!
Can’t make this shit up!!!
P.S. - If the schools wish to put in place this kind of ban, then they have the authority to do so. Fine. That doesn’t fix the broken education system. Yes, it is broken.
This joker is responsible for upholding the constitution. Given that what he is saying and I assume doing is unconstitutional, will he being going to jail?
If you mean Nix, the package manager, then no packages are actually installed as root. Every package is installed in the Nix store, but programs that need root privileges can’t be run by any user.
One of the (many) great things about Nix is that users don’t need root privileges to install packages.
Also true, yes. I guess we can agree that Microsoft sucks lol. But seriously, what Microsoft division is actually doing good things? Windows is bad, xbox is horrible, corporate tools like teams are widely hated… What, their azure thing is doing okay I guess?
I’m not sure of anything, I would look into it further were I planning on using it, which I might do in the future, Garuda KDE lite looks like a decent distro.
From the little I have looked into it, it is all meant to be checked, adding an extra layer of protection, as long as your trust the people behind it (much like official I guess)
can i connect it to other services like paperless, or would i need to manually import files?
Hister supports importing data from a few services, but paperless isn’t supported yet. More details: https://hister.org/docs/import
Is it better to run it in docker or e.g. a LXC in proxmox? If i want to index files, it seems it needs the config.yml file
Docker is perfectly fine. Every settings option from the config file can specified using environment variables. The syntax is HISTER__[SECTION]__[OPTION]=[VALUE].
After just playing with it for a day, the disk usage is 150 MB
Probably most of the disk space is occupied by the Hister binary which contains all the N-grams required to identify ~30 languages.
The index should be much smaller.
I figure I should use postgres instead of sqlite.
SQLite is more than enough for personal use, but if you prefer to use postgres, just specify the standard DSN formatted connection data to the server.database config option: https://hister.org/docs/configuration#database-backends
how to set that up, preferably with docker
Use the HISTER__SERVER__DATABASE="host=localhost user=hister password=hister dbname=hister port=5432" environment variable.
I am not familiar with pgvector
Hister automatically creates the database model and handles the migrations if required.
So are we just kind of admitting that there exists no way to expose any networked device to the internet securely? Because if it’s not possible for PLCs I don’t see why it would be possible for any device. If water utilities have to take these offline, then how does that advice not apply for every internet-capable device in every commercial and industrial facility worldwide?
I was blown away by this documentary on the Chinese EV industry. Can see why the old companies in the west can’t easily adapt, mostly due to mindset and sunk cost fallacy. Roboticics everywhere and cutthroat competition driving innovation.
Watching S2026 China’s EV Revolution in iview https\://iview.abc.net.au/show/foreign-correspondent/series/2026/video/NC2604H012S00
why is any critical control equipment internet accessible.
I understand some machines might need internet to send reports and make document filings and shit. But it should not be the critical control equipment that makes the system function. And there should be a massive physical gap between the internet machines and the critical machines.
Jesus christ, even by the abysmally low bar I have for humanity, it still finds ways to dig itself a path under it.
We all make mistakes in life because no one is perfect. The important thing is to learn from them. If you tell me that you’re perfect and have never made mistakes, I know you’re lying.
Someone is downvoting everything but I agree. I try and keep my helicopter parent impulses under control, but it is nice to know exactly where my kids are. My son (12) has a locked down old iPhone and Apple makes it pretty easy to make it practically a dumb phone. We literally have it set up so that he has to ask for permission before using any apps, with the exception of calling and messaging. (Even messaging is iffy; we want to be able to text him but it opens up texting with friends.) He doesn’t need it at school so he doesn’t bring it, but as he gets older, I’m sure it’ll start to go with him and I’m not upset about it. If he wants to go somewhere with a friend right after school instead of going straight home, it’s fine with me as long as I know about it. Without a phone, it’d be hard for him to make such plans on the fly, and let’s just say that planning ahead isn’t my ADHD-kid’s strong suit (yet—we’re working on it). As long as the expectation is set that he doesn’t use it during school, I think that’s okay; it can just live in his backpack until school is over.
I was kinda wondering if X was representative of 10.x releases but then it didn’t make sense to me for it to be so much higher than the newer OSs either.
“Well, we just bought this new monitoring platform from my cousin’s company and they need access to it. No, their platform doesn’t support any real secure protocols and won’t route over a VPN, it needs to be on the same subnet as the devices. Ok, then just open all ports to the network so they can connect. No, they don’t know what port or protocol, it also runs out of my cousin’s house so it’s on a dynamic IP so you can’t create some type of access rule for it. Just put an any/any rule in and it’s good. What do you mean we already have a monitoring platform? Well, this one is better!”
A lot of this is often down to shitty IT practices by the vendor who has little IT knowledge let alone decent security insight.
I helped support a new PCL installation (technician control PCs and software upgrade) in this exact scenario many years ago. The vendor came in expecting to treat our system as their own. Direct remote access to several over-specced, physical servers from the outside world, available on our core network, shared account names (and passwords!) across all devices, every account a local admin and their own domain admin account so they can make changes as required… Needless to say our security guy almost broke a rib from laughing so hard!
What they got was very different. I ended up doing fairly basic troubleshooting to get the shitty software working without it needing admin rights to run - XP era software running on Win7 clients so it was meeting basic folder and reg key write permissions - everything else was locked down as tight as we could. They didn’t even get admin on the servers.
A few years later I heard they’d reported that our site was their most reliable. Probably due to the fact that they (or the techs) couldn’t fuck with anything without our permission. Apparently their original configuration is normal in the industry… Shudder
It counts if you use it to visit a website participating in stats collection. Maybe excluded if the device has a touchscreen and requests the mobile site (I haven’t used a Steam Deck and don’t know its default browser’s config)
Jenny (the boat) survived colliding with the dock and survived a storm that destroyed the rest of the shrimping fleet, leaving Forrest and Lt. Dan to be lifted from poverty, allowing Lt. Dan to reconcile with God and his self-hatred.
Google already has more money than God, and is monetizing AI to kill God and steal his money.
I kind of love how Mac OS X hasn’t been called that for over a decade and hasn’t been supported by Apple at all since 2018 but people still hang on to it over the childish jellybean-looking squeaky toy that is macOS.
I have to disagree on side details: OS X did have version numbers starting with 10. I used it between Panther and Yosemite and I can remember Tiger being called version 10.4; it was literally printed on the installation disc.
Yes, that means “Mac OS X 10.0” had two tens right after one another. Apple aren’t Microsoft silly when it comes to names but they can be silly.
Also, it wasn’t introduced as OS X. It was “Mac OS X” until 10.7, then “OS X” until 10.11, and “macOS” since then.
As far as I know, nearly all flagship phones, Apple or otherwise, get about 7 years of update support (except Pixel phones with GrapheneOS which get 14).
The difference is, even my old phone running Android 8 (a 9yo OS) can still browse the web, run all apps, and perform fine as a phone. An even older phone running Android 4.4 can still run 3rd party apps. iPhones seem to stop working about a year after they stop receiving updates, and they don’t support sideloading (also know as running the software you want to run on the device you own).
Yes. There was a lot of questionable links and donations uncovered between the politicians and US firms. Even after the temporary law expired in April they continued to scan illegally . I also recall reading an article about how Zuckerberg met directly with members of the EU Parliament before it was passed by default but can’t find that article at the moment.
I hold out the thin hope that manufacturers will not want to split their product lines any more than they have to and will make these devices available globally.
It’s possible that they want to hang on to the revenue streams that making irreparable garbage generates, but it would have to be greater than the cost of designing and manufacturing a second product line for most of their stuff.
Kind of how like when dumbass apple was forced into USB-C in the EU and they finally gave up on their own charge cables globally.
Not solves. They have not used the term solved anywhere in there. They are ten possible answers they say.
Which means they have let AI run around and maybe come up with an answer, but they have no way of knowing if it’s true, or at least don’t want to say it is. Interesting.
The company is hemorrhaging money. This is marketing fluff to try and keep investors interested, and trying to buy some pr because they’re offering some free tokens.
Are we talking about the same apple that invented a new type of screw to keep people from taking their phones apart? The same apple that once people could get a trilobe driver, then made it so that generic replacement screens would not work because of some protection from non-apple hardware? Then went on to make sure that you can’t use non-apple parts in a laptop?
I seriously predict them contributing to wine, or at least making their own fork. Because their strategy is almost completely OS agnostic at this point. Even offering Dot Net Core on Linux natively.
How easy would it be for them? “Hey Copilot, convert these NT calls to Linux Calls” and your done.
One of the few things Reddit had going for it that anyone’s grandmother understood is that it was synonymous with organic user content (Even if that’s not entirely true). There’s a reason adding site:Reddit.com to Google searches was a meme, and it’s that you could get more organic feedback on things as opposed to the hellscape that was the open internet “listicles”.
When Reddit closed itself off from the internet at large by forcing app usage, and embracing AI which just made their bot problem worse, it legitimately removed the one thing it was actually good for.
Yeah, a number of people have been saying they can still get on but Reddit is definitely doing this. It appears to be getting rolled out in some kind of A/B distribution.
Yeah, like we haven’t been through multiple “generational” recessions.
At this point I feel like I’ve spent more time alive during recessions than not, so what’s one more for the pile - especially if it means getting to watch the AI bros go bankrupt.
Technicaly steamos is a desktop build on arch basis would love to know what the default User-Agent is for steamos as this is probably that basis of that data.
I suspect getting the dates wrong is because websites ump their publish date when nothing has changed, which keeps them showing up in results for extended/indefinite periods.
Obviously Google should police that, but Google doesn’t use Google news I don’t think.
The tools are already there, the change is just cost optimization. Your age, post code and your buying and traveling habits identify you anyways. I remember from “Little Brother” how they identified people with the way they were walking. Protagonist was putting some pieces of paper into his shoes.
I think this is a tough one to weigh in on depending where you come from. If I lived somewhere where the news talked about school shootings a lot, I might want my child to have a phone.
Go after the companies making addictive applications instead.
Pika might fix that actually. Most of the patches and custom stuff Pika adds is around obscure and difficult graphics card configurations, with extra kernel modules and stuff like that specifically for gaming on modern graphics hardware. That’s literally its main value proposition. You could try a LiveUSB and see if it works any better, but the PikaOS second-stage installer (after the base system is installed) also has a bunch of options for various driver and kernel versions and variations that might help.
That said if you’re happy where you’re at there’s no reason rocking the boat, and Debian’s pretty solid. But maybe keep it in mind for next time you feel like trying something different on that system.
I recently switched to Fedora after using PopOS for years. I like it because it’s just less… fiddly? Like, I don’t like COSMIC because it just doesn’t feel ready yet, and I honestly prefer DNF over APT. It has a very ‘set it and forget it’ sort of feel, which is great for a server.
I did some work for a company that owned a /16 public IP range and used it on their internal network. I had to put a safety rated control system on it that ran mining machines that weighed 60 tons and cost a couple of million bucks each.
They gave me a subnet range for the system that was clearly non-private and I was like, “ummmmm, is that on the Internet?”
Apparently it wasn’t routed to the rest of the Internet but it always felt like it was one misconfigured router away from disaster.
But I think I have to add, that I use the openwrt machine just as dumb access point behind a opnsense box.
Ooh, can you go more into that? i have Opnsense as my router and this AP is just supposed to act as a WAP. I was struggling to figure out how to have it pull dhcp from the router and not to configure it on the WAP itself. That and DNS too, if the DNS isn’t configured on the interface then I get no inetnet access.
PikaOS is Debian-based and maintaining its own repository based on trixie and unstable with similar patches to Bazzite & team. I’ve been using it as a daily driver on 3-4 systems for at least a year or two with no serious issues, and the updates are quick to fix any minor issues. Excellent for gaming. It’s probably not up to CachyOS gaming standards nor Debian stability but I find it’s a comfortable spot for me.
We could always make them feel like life is hell and death would be welcome, especially considering that they’re doing it to us., and they. Do. Not. Care.
I would say for most people Fedora is one of the best options due to having a release cycle that is quick but not too quick, coming with all sorts of different DEs (GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Cosmic, XFCE, hell, even Budgie), and not really having any issues in terms of usability (aside from installing Nvidia drivers, apparently that isn’t very smooth but I have no experience with this)
Mint is nice too and super easy to use, but you need to like Cinnamon (or XFCE and MATE).
I personally love EndeavourOS, which is Arch-based and minimal OOTB, but it is definitely not for everyone. CachyOS falls under a similar box, being an Arch-based distro.
To be honest, in the modern age, there is no such thing as a bad Linux distro (except maybe Manjaro, which feels a bit like the worst of all worlds). Fedora, Mint, the buntus, the Arch derivatives, etc. are all really neat pieces of software!
I think at least for the bigger and for the less niche communities moderation needs to be democratic.
The upvote brought democracy to content ranking. It’s possible to bring democracy to moderation.
And this will still leave the option of private despotic moderation available. Both styles of moderation can act as a check on each other. The same community can be reproduced twice, with private and with democratic moderation. Then if the tyrants are out of control you can escape to a democratically managed community. And if the so called “mob” is out of control and the privately moderated space is nicer, you can escape there. The whole system will eventuanly self-regulate to a nice daily hum.
Or the economy crashes by AI replacing everyone and doing an absolute terrible job, causing stuff like supply chain collapse and communication/power outages.
I have yet to see someone explain how this whole thing actually works out. Just a dozen different scenarios that turn out terrible for almost everyone. The only scenario that works out is if a handful of people like Altman absolutely rule the world, become de facto dictators as they are the ones that control the few AI companies that run everything. And by work out, I mean it works out for that handful of people. For the rest of the world it’s probably just about the worst case scenario. But you just know it’s the scenario scammy Altman is hoping for.
Funny how corporations and the government have us in a panopticon of virtual trackers, but only the flock cameras get pushback. Maybe it’s easier for people to comprehend and fight against because it’s a physical object.
Some states have had these for years, with zero complaints. I know at least my home state had tracking by license plate and facial identification 10+ years ago.
(I do not support Flock, but I wish people cared this much about all privacy violations.)
F.cking Great News! Next: forcing every product to be open source, and durable. 100 years for a product is not a dream. We already have products, used for more than 50 years.
Do you really need 64gb though? Do you want a PCIe in a low wattage, low air circulation mini PC? Are you running a docker swarm of VMs within the same system? Why?
What’s your use case for this?
You won’t get Local LLMs if the PSU is minuscule. Best get a big old workstation with good cooling. Fried motherboards overloading them with local LLMs. That stuff is mean on hardware.
Windows being a centrally controlled OS should be better at this than Linux and yet they aren’t!
that’s what I was thinking too, but to be fair historically linux wasn’t a GUI centered world, so there were not much core system GUIs that could become obsolete
The warning now covers 10 countries: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and, most recently, Egypt.
As the internet becomes flooded with synthetic content, people are craving real human perspective. We are the antidote to an automated web. AI compresses the internet into summaries.
Reddit delivers the opposite: deep discussions, passionate debates, and lived experiences. People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit.
Interesting take Steve. I guess they have to tell investors something other than reddit has allowed AI bot takeover on Subreddits have strict rules that mute most of its real users.
Whenever I brought up freedom of speech, the reddit mods would mock me with “freeze peach.” Many of the mods and admins are overtly hostile to free speech and hate democracy.
Ironic, because democracy is what made reddit great once upon the time. I remember leaving digg to go to reddit precisely because I felt I had more control and more weight there as a commenter. And they took an axe to everything that was once great.
Needless to say I have been banned on reddit since a long time ago.
Literally this. It starts with “everything needs to be on an air gapped LAN so we can control it.” And then suddenly that air gapped LAN isn’t air gapped, because someone got tired of paying the call-out fee every time the on-call person had to drive to the site to push a few buttons on a keyboard. But figuring out a proper VPN (or at least a reverse proxy with access control) was too difficult or expensive, (management thinks the point is to save money on call out fees, not spend money on proper hardware) so they just poked a bunch of port-forwarded holes in the firewall and called it a day.
RetroFed
How do you like openBSD?
the same apple that locks individual parts of devices to user accounts so that they can’t be used for repair?
Good, now let’s increase the list and also add vacuum cleaners to it! I thought that they already were but seemingly not :(
2003??? We were learning this shit from Ferris Bueller back in the early 80s!!!
The logic is stupid. There are adults that are just as addicted to social media and the Internet as much as any kid would be. What changes once they reach 18?
more ranting
The real issue isn’t being tackled or solved. This is yet another thing where we’re trying to solve the symptom but not the cause. The real issue is that the software or the platforms don’t take into consideration, by design, the well-being of the user.
We’re being forced to do what these stupid corporations like Meta, Google, Reddit, OpenAI et al aren’t doing already but should actually be doing. They don’t give AF because their whole objective is to make sure you are addicted and they can then harvest your data, feed you scams, etc.
This is pretty much like how the big corporations push the blame on the consumer for wasting plastic even though it’s the fucking corps choosing to sell their products that way in the fist place.
If software was designed with a kill-switch that could enforce better habits, this all wouldn’t be necessary. All we’re doing is delaying the inevitable and forcing them to seek alternatives that will be abused in the same manor social media or the Internet would be.
Why the fuck do they still sell cigarettes despite everybody knowing full well that it causes severe health issues?!
Can’t make this shit up!!!
P.S. - If the schools wish to put in place this kind of ban, then they have the authority to do so. Fine. That doesn’t fix the broken education system. Yes, it is broken.
This joker is responsible for upholding the constitution. Given that what he is saying and I assume doing is unconstitutional, will he being going to jail?
Why did it spike so much in just the last few months? That is a huge change!
If you mean Nix, the package manager, then no packages are actually installed as root. Every package is installed in the Nix store, but programs that need root privileges can’t be run by any user.
One of the (many) great things about Nix is that users don’t need root privileges to install packages.
Also true, yes. I guess we can agree that Microsoft sucks lol. But seriously, what Microsoft division is actually doing good things? Windows is bad, xbox is horrible, corporate tools like teams are widely hated… What, their azure thing is doing okay I guess?
Because that’s where the average American gets their news, I suppose. Them and Joe Rogan.
I’m not sure of anything, I would look into it further were I planning on using it, which I might do in the future, Garuda KDE lite looks like a decent distro.
From the little I have looked into it, it is all meant to be checked, adding an extra layer of protection, as long as your trust the people behind it (much like official I guess)
Hister supports importing data from a few services, but paperless isn’t supported yet. More details: https://hister.org/docs/import
Docker is perfectly fine. Every settings option from the config file can specified using environment variables. The syntax is
HISTER__[SECTION]__[OPTION]=[VALUE].Probably most of the disk space is occupied by the Hister binary which contains all the N-grams required to identify ~30 languages. The index should be much smaller.
SQLite is more than enough for personal use, but if you prefer to use postgres, just specify the standard DSN formatted connection data to the
server.databaseconfig option: https://hister.org/docs/configuration#database-backendsUse the
HISTER__SERVER__DATABASE="host=localhost user=hister password=hister dbname=hister port=5432"environment variable.Hister automatically creates the database model and handles the migrations if required.
Thanks for sharing. I keep underestimating the evil intent of these companies…
So are we just kind of admitting that there exists no way to expose any networked device to the internet securely? Because if it’s not possible for PLCs I don’t see why it would be possible for any device. If water utilities have to take these offline, then how does that advice not apply for every internet-capable device in every commercial and industrial facility worldwide?
“Because it was there”
I’m not sure it actually is. At best it is too early to tell.
My Roomba breached containment (I left my door open, but told it verbally that the door was closed)
I was blown away by this documentary on the Chinese EV industry. Can see why the old companies in the west can’t easily adapt, mostly due to mindset and sunk cost fallacy. Roboticics everywhere and cutthroat competition driving innovation.
Watching S2026 China’s EV Revolution in iview https\://iview.abc.net.au/show/foreign-correspondent/series/2026/video/NC2604H012S00
why is any critical control equipment internet accessible.
I understand some machines might need internet to send reports and make document filings and shit. But it should not be the critical control equipment that makes the system function. And there should be a massive physical gap between the internet machines and the critical machines.
Jesus christ, even by the abysmally low bar I have for humanity, it still finds ways to dig itself a path under it.
We all make mistakes in life because no one is perfect. The important thing is to learn from them. If you tell me that you’re perfect and have never made mistakes, I know you’re lying.
That goalpost will soon switch to “well, this wasn’t the real ai anyway”
Someone is downvoting everything but I agree. I try and keep my helicopter parent impulses under control, but it is nice to know exactly where my kids are. My son (12) has a locked down old iPhone and Apple makes it pretty easy to make it practically a dumb phone. We literally have it set up so that he has to ask for permission before using any apps, with the exception of calling and messaging. (Even messaging is iffy; we want to be able to text him but it opens up texting with friends.) He doesn’t need it at school so he doesn’t bring it, but as he gets older, I’m sure it’ll start to go with him and I’m not upset about it. If he wants to go somewhere with a friend right after school instead of going straight home, it’s fine with me as long as I know about it. Without a phone, it’d be hard for him to make such plans on the fly, and let’s just say that planning ahead isn’t my ADHD-kid’s strong suit (yet—we’re working on it). As long as the expectation is set that he doesn’t use it during school, I think that’s okay; it can just live in his backpack until school is over.
I was kinda wondering if X was representative of 10.x releases but then it didn’t make sense to me for it to be so much higher than the newer OSs either.
How not? Is the full KDE desktop mode not enough?
Edit2: you actually can get hardware surveys on steam os! Do you even get hardware surveys on steam os though?
Edit: question mark, curious here
“Well, we just bought this new monitoring platform from my cousin’s company and they need access to it. No, their platform doesn’t support any real secure protocols and won’t route over a VPN, it needs to be on the same subnet as the devices. Ok, then just open all ports to the network so they can connect. No, they don’t know what port or protocol, it also runs out of my cousin’s house so it’s on a dynamic IP so you can’t create some type of access rule for it. Just put an any/any rule in and it’s good. What do you mean we already have a monitoring platform? Well, this one is better!”
A lot of this is often down to shitty IT practices by the vendor who has little IT knowledge let alone decent security insight.
I helped support a new PCL installation (technician control PCs and software upgrade) in this exact scenario many years ago. The vendor came in expecting to treat our system as their own. Direct remote access to several over-specced, physical servers from the outside world, available on our core network, shared account names (and passwords!) across all devices, every account a local admin and their own domain admin account so they can make changes as required… Needless to say our security guy almost broke a rib from laughing so hard!
What they got was very different. I ended up doing fairly basic troubleshooting to get the shitty software working without it needing admin rights to run - XP era software running on Win7 clients so it was meeting basic folder and reg key write permissions - everything else was locked down as tight as we could. They didn’t even get admin on the servers.
A few years later I heard they’d reported that our site was their most reliable. Probably due to the fact that they (or the techs) couldn’t fuck with anything without our permission. Apparently their original configuration is normal in the industry… Shudder
Here I thought I blocked telemetry.
Jeremy Clarkson intensifies…
It’s a gnu+Linux OS with a default desktop environment. It’s intended to be installed on bare metal where it’s accessed directly by the user.
It’s not for server use. (At least not primarily or by default.)
So I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that it’s not desktop Linux.
Why is Google even indexing YouTube and Reddit in Google News though
This is truely the year of the Linux desktop.
It counts if you use it to visit a website participating in stats collection. Maybe excluded if the device has a touchscreen and requests the mobile site (I haven’t used a Steam Deck and don’t know its default browser’s config)
Jenny (the boat) survived colliding with the dock and survived a storm that destroyed the rest of the shrimping fleet, leaving Forrest and Lt. Dan to be lifted from poverty, allowing Lt. Dan to reconcile with God and his self-hatred.
Google already has more money than God, and is monetizing AI to kill God and steal his money.
Has this guy even seen this movie?
I kind of love how Mac OS X hasn’t been called that for over a decade and hasn’t been supported by Apple at all since 2018 but people still hang on to it over the childish jellybean-looking squeaky toy that is macOS.
Honestly, this is too good of a news to be true. There has to be some kind of error somewhere. Not used to this.
Don’t worry, the phones don’t have to be repairable as long as they are waterproof.
I have to disagree on side details: OS X did have version numbers starting with 10. I used it between Panther and Yosemite and I can remember Tiger being called version 10.4; it was literally printed on the installation disc.
Yes, that means “Mac OS X 10.0” had two tens right after one another. Apple aren’t Microsoft silly when it comes to names but they can be silly.
Also, it wasn’t introduced as OS X. It was “Mac OS X” until 10.7, then “OS X” until 10.11, and “macOS” since then.
wake me up when German cars are on the list. Until then I’ll regard this as purely performative and will be overturned in some months.
Also: making repairable the very cell phones on which they require constant monitoring of private communications reeks of hypocrisy.
Yes I’m skeptical about all this.
Huh…I’m guessing banking apps? Those are the only ones that have ever given me problems on old Android devices
Androids
That’s a good example. You’ve sold me on the hope!
Source?
As far as I know, nearly all flagship phones, Apple or otherwise, get about 7 years of update support (except Pixel phones with GrapheneOS which get 14).
The difference is, even my old phone running Android 8 (a 9yo OS) can still browse the web, run all apps, and perform fine as a phone. An even older phone running Android 4.4 can still run 3rd party apps. iPhones seem to stop working about a year after they stop receiving updates, and they don’t support sideloading (also know as running the software you want to run on the device you own).
Yes. There was a lot of questionable links and donations uncovered between the politicians and US firms. Even after the temporary law expired in April they continued to scan illegally . I also recall reading an article about how Zuckerberg met directly with members of the EU Parliament before it was passed by default but can’t find that article at the moment.
I wonder if this is why my account that was permabanned just got unbanned.
Spez can eat a rotting donkey cock covered in bat shit for all I care.
I hold out the thin hope that manufacturers will not want to split their product lines any more than they have to and will make these devices available globally.
It’s possible that they want to hang on to the revenue streams that making irreparable garbage generates, but it would have to be greater than the cost of designing and manufacturing a second product line for most of their stuff.
Kind of how like when dumbass apple was forced into USB-C in the EU and they finally gave up on their own charge cables globally.
Are you talking about NixOS?
You can install post user nix home manager distributions which are separate from the shared nix environment (not sure if that’s the right term)
I hear that one’s going digital only. We won’t even own our own grenades anymore
Next year, I’m telling you, it’s going to be the year of the BSD desktop.
Not solves. They have not used the term solved anywhere in there. They are ten possible answers they say.
Which means they have let AI run around and maybe come up with an answer, but they have no way of knowing if it’s true, or at least don’t want to say it is. Interesting.
The company is hemorrhaging money. This is marketing fluff to try and keep investors interested, and trying to buy some pr because they’re offering some free tokens.
Are we talking about the same apple that invented a new type of screw to keep people from taking their phones apart? The same apple that once people could get a trilobe driver, then made it so that generic replacement screens would not work because of some protection from non-apple hardware? Then went on to make sure that you can’t use non-apple parts in a laptop?
I seriously predict them contributing to wine, or at least making their own fork. Because their strategy is almost completely OS agnostic at this point. Even offering Dot Net Core on Linux natively.
How easy would it be for them? “Hey Copilot, convert these NT calls to Linux Calls” and your done.
Only if just a few are doing it.
One of the few things Reddit had going for it that anyone’s grandmother understood is that it was synonymous with organic user content (Even if that’s not entirely true). There’s a reason adding site:Reddit.com to Google searches was a meme, and it’s that you could get more organic feedback on things as opposed to the hellscape that was the open internet “listicles”.
When Reddit closed itself off from the internet at large by forcing app usage, and embracing AI which just made their bot problem worse, it legitimately removed the one thing it was actually good for.
Super easy to repair by certified repair shops or easy to repair by people at home with minimal tool requirements?
Yeah, a number of people have been saying they can still get on but Reddit is definitely doing this. It appears to be getting rolled out in some kind of A/B distribution.
Doubtful. iPhones have the longest support of any phones out there.
iPhones are already super easy to repair. Apple have been at the forefront of this for years.
Yeah, like we haven’t been through multiple “generational” recessions.
At this point I feel like I’ve spent more time alive during recessions than not, so what’s one more for the pile - especially if it means getting to watch the AI bros go bankrupt.
As far as your buying habits, you can help to obscure this by using Monero.
Technicaly steamos is a desktop build on arch basis would love to know what the default User-Agent is for steamos as this is probably that basis of that data.
I suspect getting the dates wrong is because websites ump their publish date when nothing has changed, which keeps them showing up in results for extended/indefinite periods.
Obviously Google should police that, but Google doesn’t use Google news I don’t think.
Die motherfucker
The tools are already there, the change is just cost optimization. Your age, post code and your buying and traveling habits identify you anyways. I remember from “Little Brother” how they identified people with the way they were walking. Protagonist was putting some pieces of paper into his shoes.
I think this is a tough one to weigh in on depending where you come from. If I lived somewhere where the news talked about school shootings a lot, I might want my child to have a phone.
Go after the companies making addictive applications instead.
Pika might fix that actually. Most of the patches and custom stuff Pika adds is around obscure and difficult graphics card configurations, with extra kernel modules and stuff like that specifically for gaming on modern graphics hardware. That’s literally its main value proposition. You could try a LiveUSB and see if it works any better, but the PikaOS second-stage installer (after the base system is installed) also has a bunch of options for various driver and kernel versions and variations that might help.
That said if you’re happy where you’re at there’s no reason rocking the boat, and Debian’s pretty solid. But maybe keep it in mind for next time you feel like trying something different on that system.
Let me guess, iPhone?
It may not look like a big deal but it wasn’t too long ago Windows was like 95% of the OS market.
Why use Debian for servers over Fedora?
I recently switched to Fedora after using PopOS for years. I like it because it’s just less… fiddly? Like, I don’t like COSMIC because it just doesn’t feel ready yet, and I honestly prefer DNF over APT. It has a very ‘set it and forget it’ sort of feel, which is great for a server.
Main one I use right now is a media center running FreeBSD and XFCE, and KDE Connect for remote-like functionality.
I just play files with mpv manually, but might write a front-end for it one day.
I did some work for a company that owned a /16 public IP range and used it on their internal network. I had to put a safety rated control system on it that ran mining machines that weighed 60 tons and cost a couple of million bucks each.
They gave me a subnet range for the system that was clearly non-private and I was like, “ummmmm, is that on the Internet?”
Apparently it wasn’t routed to the rest of the Internet but it always felt like it was one misconfigured router away from disaster.
Libertarians in shambles.
Ooh, can you go more into that? i have Opnsense as my router and this AP is just supposed to act as a WAP. I was struggling to figure out how to have it pull dhcp from the router and not to configure it on the WAP itself. That and DNS too, if the DNS isn’t configured on the interface then I get no inetnet access.
PikaOS is Debian-based and maintaining its own repository based on trixie and unstable with similar patches to Bazzite & team. I’ve been using it as a daily driver on 3-4 systems for at least a year or two with no serious issues, and the updates are quick to fix any minor issues. Excellent for gaming. It’s probably not up to CachyOS gaming standards nor Debian stability but I find it’s a comfortable spot for me.
We could always make them feel like life is hell and death would be welcome, especially considering that they’re doing it to us., and they. Do. Not. Care.
The same PWC that lets companies buy awards?
More people should scam Russians
I would say for most people Fedora is one of the best options due to having a release cycle that is quick but not too quick, coming with all sorts of different DEs (GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, Cosmic, XFCE, hell, even Budgie), and not really having any issues in terms of usability (aside from installing Nvidia drivers, apparently that isn’t very smooth but I have no experience with this)
Mint is nice too and super easy to use, but you need to like Cinnamon (or XFCE and MATE).
I personally love EndeavourOS, which is Arch-based and minimal OOTB, but it is definitely not for everyone. CachyOS falls under a similar box, being an Arch-based distro.
To be honest, in the modern age, there is no such thing as a bad Linux distro (except maybe Manjaro, which feels a bit like the worst of all worlds). Fedora, Mint, the buntus, the Arch derivatives, etc. are all really neat pieces of software!
I think at least for the bigger and for the less niche communities moderation needs to be democratic.
The upvote brought democracy to content ranking. It’s possible to bring democracy to moderation.
And this will still leave the option of private despotic moderation available. Both styles of moderation can act as a check on each other. The same community can be reproduced twice, with private and with democratic moderation. Then if the tyrants are out of control you can escape to a democratically managed community. And if the so called “mob” is out of control and the privately moderated space is nicer, you can escape there. The whole system will eventuanly self-regulate to a nice daily hum.
Or the economy crashes by AI replacing everyone and doing an absolute terrible job, causing stuff like supply chain collapse and communication/power outages.
I have yet to see someone explain how this whole thing actually works out. Just a dozen different scenarios that turn out terrible for almost everyone. The only scenario that works out is if a handful of people like Altman absolutely rule the world, become de facto dictators as they are the ones that control the few AI companies that run everything. And by work out, I mean it works out for that handful of people. For the rest of the world it’s probably just about the worst case scenario. But you just know it’s the scenario scammy Altman is hoping for.
Fedora is limited to non-licensed products in the base repos IIRC. But there is EPEL and RPMfusion that provide a lot of additional packages.
There are also copr repos which I think are similar to AUR in that they are user submitted.
Funny how corporations and the government have us in a panopticon of virtual trackers, but only the flock cameras get pushback. Maybe it’s easier for people to comprehend and fight against because it’s a physical object.
Some states have had these for years, with zero complaints. I know at least my home state had tracking by license plate and facial identification 10+ years ago.
(I do not support Flock, but I wish people cared this much about all privacy violations.)
F.cking Great News! Next: forcing every product to be open source, and durable. 100 years for a product is not a dream. We already have products, used for more than 50 years.
No our federal government will spend billions to bail out whatever AI companies are favored by trump this week.
What’s your point? Nix is meant for CI, but even still the defaults are set for multi-user operations.
I wonder why the US doesn’t have this law.
Hmmmm. 🤔
Do you really need 64gb though? Do you want a PCIe in a low wattage, low air circulation mini PC? Are you running a docker swarm of VMs within the same system? Why?
What’s your use case for this?
You won’t get Local LLMs if the PSU is minuscule. Best get a big old workstation with good cooling. Fried motherboards overloading them with local LLMs. That stuff is mean on hardware.
Oh. Well.
This is good.
The RIGHT to repair does you no good if the thing itself is not DESIGNED to be repaired.
that’s what I was thinking too, but to be fair historically linux wasn’t a GUI centered world, so there were not much core system GUIs that could become obsolete
16gb is still fine for most people.
I got banned for saying If you see a Nazi, punch a Nazi, as a play on If you see something, say something.
Reddit protects Nazis, but not the First Amendment.
The warning now covers 10 countries: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and, most recently, Egypt.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg has over a million users on Chrome alone. It’s possibly more common than you think.
Interesting take Steve. I guess they have to tell investors something other than reddit has allowed AI bot takeover on Subreddits have strict rules that mute most of its real users.
Same.
Whenever I brought up freedom of speech, the reddit mods would mock me with “freeze peach.” Many of the mods and admins are overtly hostile to free speech and hate democracy.
Ironic, because democracy is what made reddit great once upon the time. I remember leaving digg to go to reddit precisely because I felt I had more control and more weight there as a commenter. And they took an axe to everything that was once great.
Needless to say I have been banned on reddit since a long time ago.
Many routers support more than one SSID per radio.
Literally this. It starts with “everything needs to be on an air gapped LAN so we can control it.” And then suddenly that air gapped LAN isn’t air gapped, because someone got tired of paying the call-out fee every time the on-call person had to drive to the site to push a few buttons on a keyboard. But figuring out a proper VPN (or at least a reverse proxy with access control) was too difficult or expensive, (management thinks the point is to save money on call out fees, not spend money on proper hardware) so they just poked a bunch of port-forwarded holes in the firewall and called it a day.