pastermil

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pastermil ,

FRAM module? Seriously?

Multi-boot utility Ventoy updated to 1.0.98 - Fixes for Arch Linux, KAOS, RHEL9 ( github.com )

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drives for ISO/IMG/VHD(x)/WIM/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the disk images to the USB drive and boot them directly. You can have multiple images on the disk and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them....

pastermil ,

Interesting... I've never had any issue with Linux ISOs on Ventoy. BSDs on the other hand...

pastermil ,

technically it's possible...

pastermil ,

Which usenet is this?

Linux mint or zorin OS for layman beginners who just want everything to work and focuses on stability , privacy , security ? Also what to do if I switched to mint and WiFi stopped working ?

Hey, so I just put this part up first because this is the one I urgently and importantly need answered even tho I wrote that hideous text block first (sorry English isn't my first language )....

pastermil ,

Honestly, dude.

With all the time and effort in writing this ling post, you could've installed Linux. For Linux Mint (and probably Zorin OS), everything you see on the live boot (except the OS installer) should be there on the installed system as well.

If you encountered some issue that renders your system inoperable due to that Linux installation, you can simply use the live boot, which you said works well.

pastermil ,

Hope they can get into the latex3 programming stuff as well!

What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?

I’m thinking of picking up a used ThinkPad on eBay for cheap to serve as my daily driver. I’ll likely run LMDE, and primarily use it for web browsing, office programs, coding, and FreeCAD. Any recommendations on which model would best hit the sweet spot of capability vs price?

pastermil ,

You may get top-notch casing and chassis quality, but all the computing stuff would literally be two decades behind.

pastermil ,

One-up for a fellow 30s series! Currently rocking a W530 semi-mobile workstation!

pastermil ,

Man, I hope the BSDs would get some love on Ventoy some day :')

pastermil ,

Nice

pastermil ,

Framebuffers and TUIs: are we a joke to you?

pastermil ,

.... I actually use Arch. BTW.

FTFY

pastermil ,

Nice

pastermil ,

Nice

pastermil ,

How's it going so far? Any chance to use it as daily driver?

thegreybeardofthetree , to Linux
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@linux Sharing a 'small' inconvenience I had to fix with (I suspect is the same) - I couldn't launch snaps (spotify, bitwarden) after update - error was: cannot determine seccomp compiler version in generateSystemKey fork/exec /usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp: no such file or directory

The fix (I first tried re-installing, didn't work) was to:
a. locate snap-seccomp - was in /usr/libexec/snapd
b. symlink: ln -s /usr/libexec/snapd /usr/lib/snapd

pastermil ,

Why not flatpak?

pastermil ,

I would take this with a grain of salt. For me, as long as the package is available and functional for my prefered installation method, I'd go with that.

Take cerbot for example. For some reason, the cerbot developers uses snap in their installation guide. I've been using apt on all my projects that requires https, both personal and professional (yes, I get paid to do this, among others). Never had any issue with it.

pastermil ,

the attack surface for something that isn't officially maintained by the developers, and that doesn't have more vetting (e.g. distribution packages) opens up room for malicious actors.

There are actors like #jiatan out there.

Funny that Jia Tan was an official maintainer of xz until he was found to be problematic.

Speaking of verifying, you know you can't really verify anything on the snap server since they're proprietary, right? On the contrary everything on flathub is laid to bare for anyone to look at.

In the end, you're free to choose. Since you've kindly provided your argument, I've provided mine in hope you'd reconsider.

pastermil ,

pro-choice for me, but not for thee

pastermil ,

Lol

I think you expected too much out of them

pastermil ,

What matrix space?

pastermil ,

What are you doing step grub?

pastermil ,

They'll still find a way to connect.

Our friends on Mars, on the other hand...

pastermil ,

How is that a mess?

pastermil ,

Why not codeberg or sourcehut?

pastermil , (edited )

I don't want to sound ungrateful to their earnest effort, but at this point, GIMP3 is like the running joke of the open source world.

pastermil ,

I was talking specifically about v3, which is not out (yet?).

pastermil ,

They've been mentioning GTK 3 since like the last decade tho...

pastermil ,

I don't think NetworkManager is in the market for "somewhat weird network configuration".

Why don't you turn it off and use dhclient or dhcpcd instead?

pastermil , (edited )

That is true and all, but have it occur to you the person who's spending all this might not care about money?

pastermil ,

Or going with GSuite instead

Error when loading Ubuntu live USB ( lemmy.world )

I've been trying to boot a Ubuntu 24.04 USB (please no discussion of distro choice) but I keep getting a very unhelpful error during the initial startup. I've tried using a different USB drive, a different USB port, booting from UEFI. The only thing that has made a change was booting into safe graphics mode. It got to the...

pastermil ,

Just use Mint!

pastermil ,

Care to explain?

pastermil ,

Chill. That thing just hit the mainline.

pastermil ,

How's F2FS been treating you? I've been wanting to get into that. Also, why not for your rootfs?

pastermil ,

Ah yes, the free space calculation stuff is still a mess.

Overall, I've been daily-driving btrfs on some system and it's been treating me well. But yeah, they still got a long way to go.

OpenSSL goes GitHub only ( openssl.org )

We’re no longer using our old ftp, rsync, and git links for distributing OpenSSL. These were great in their day, but it’s time to move on to something better and safer. ftp://ftp.openssl.org and rsync://rsync.openssl.org are not available anymore. As of June 1, 2024, we’re also going to shut down https://ftp.openssl.org...

pastermil ,

Fuck that... I guess we really should go with LibreSSL after all.

Speaking of, what is its current working state?

pastermil ,

Also, most modern ethernet port would cross-over automatically

pastermil ,

Would you rather they announce "when it's ready" instead?

pastermil ,

Nobody got solid info (probably not the devs themselves), but some facts:

  • they're based on Ubuntu LTS
  • they put heavy modifications on top of it
  • from their track record, the major releases have been on June & July
pastermil ,

Let's just hope that fimger grows back because it might be needed.

pastermil ,

I'm pretty much a Debian person at this point. I've been trying to have some love for the BSDs, but honestly it's been hard. Any advice?

pastermil ,

I got a spare RPi3. Seems the hardware support is great, even with wifi. RTC seems to be unsupported tho. Such a shame since I got a DS3231 just for the Pi.

How's your overall experience?

pastermil ,

DS3231 is an I2C based high accuracy RTC chip, usually comes in breakout modules. Mine was packaged in such a way you can plug in the header directly to the expansion pins of the Pi.

What you just described sounds wild to me. I'll check it out!

pastermil ,

Mellow Xylitol

pastermil ,

We're in dire need of FOSS ecosystem for phones!

pastermil ,

Depends on the hardware you have. The fact you're asking this means these latest features wouldn't mean anything to you. I doubt you'd actually notice any difference.

My advice: use the LTS kernel if that's what your distro provides, only change if you find some hardware not working.

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