FlexibleToast
@FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 5 days ago:
Ha, that would be excellent. Don’t forget Sony and PlayStation.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Sure, that’s why they keep adding features people don’t want. But gimping one of their key paid features makes no sense to me.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Every update they’ve made for just about the past decade has made the product worse for the original users who just want to stream their own media. This last UI update killed my favorite download feature. They deserve the hate they’re getting.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
The update makes the download feature objectively worse. So, that was a stretch to praise both.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
They seriously enshitified the download feature. You used to be able to set it to download X number of unplayed episodes. Then it would manage downloading fresh content for you as you watched stuff. Now you have to manually download each and every episode yourself. This was literally the killer feature Plex had over Jellyfin for me.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
Is it? It becomes much more like the phones and tablets that people are already used to. Go to an app store and get a packaged flatpak app and you’re done.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
If all you care about is stability, check my other comments about the Fedora Atomic family. Hard to be more stable than immutable with built-in rollback capabilities. That’s why I currently run Aurora DX.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
The biggest downside to Flatpaks is that they’re kind of containers. That’s obviously also they’re biggest upside. But with that isolation comes some bloat compared to rpms directly installed, some don’t integrate as cleanly with the host OS, etc… The Universal Blue images ship with Flatseal and Warehouse which help manage those Flatpaks. For example, if you want to add an external library to the Steam Flatpak, you can use Flatseal to allow the Steam Flatpak to access that directory. By default Steam sandboxes itself to just its own ~/.var area.
A word on toolbox. It’s really cool and it comes with Fedora Atomic spins. However, it was forked and the fork is called distrobox and is miles better. So much better that it’s my opinion that we at Red Hat should deprecate toolbox and just embrace distrobox. What is it? It’s really just a wrapper for podman. It sets up containers to act kind of, sort of like VMs or LXC system containers, but it mounts your home directory inside the container. You can share apps between the distrobox and the host. The idea is that you can create a distrobox for whatever thing you’re doing, install all of that thing’s dependencies, and work from your home directory, but never actually touch your host installation. Kind of like a devcontainer for your system.
Snap is the one we poo poo. Canonical is always going to Canonical. Just like when they tried to make the Unity desktop (which I actually preferred) and the Mir compositor, the community had already settled on GNOME 3 and Wayland. This is sort of snap vs flatpak. Last I knew snap used a proprietary, hosted by Canonical, backend. That’s a big no from me. I’m not staunchly open source or nothing, but there is just no reason for Canonical to be making proprietary anything.
If you can’t tell, I’m stoked about the immutable future of Linux.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
systemctl enable syncthing@useris easier than dealing with podman containers right now.You should check out podman quadlets. It turns your containers into systemd services.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
“It just works” is why Linus Torvalds uses Fedora and not Debian. Just saying… Debian does a lot of weird hand holding and many packages come with pre-configured pieces rather than what the developer pushed. They’re usually sensible, but if you don’t know it’s doing that it can be strange. For example, fail2ban on Debian will come with an SSH jail pre-configured. That is what most people use it for, but IMO it’s kind of weird that someone made that decision for you on an app that isn’t pre-installed.
In the defense of Debian vs Ubuntu, Debian won’t force snaps on you.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
Silverblue is a totally different beast than what you’re used to. The filesystem is immutable with the exception of /var and /etc. Even /home is moved into /var/home, although a bind mount exists so /home still appears to be there. You are expected to use flatpaks for applications, toolbox for rpms that don’t have a flatpak, and very last resort you can overlay an rpm on the base image. I absolutely think this is the direction linux as a whole is moving. OpenSUSE has MicroOS that does a similar thing and Leap 16 will default to being immutable. Debian has an immutable variant, and SteamOS is built on an immutable flavor of Arch. The Fedora Atomic family specifically supports bootc. You are essentially booting a container as your OS. That’s why it has so much community buy in. You could try looking at the Universal Blue images I mentioned. Bazzite is gaming focused with the option to boot straight into gaming mode, Aurora is a general workstation with KDE, and Bluefin is a general workstation based on GNOME. Each image has a DX version that includes developer tools like VScode and Virtual Machine Manager included.
I’m also a sysad by trade. A consultant for Red Hat. I personally switched to Aurora DX and the only overlayed package I have installed is
clevis-dracutso network based disk encryption with tang works. Other than that I have the built-in stuff, flatpaks (Steam is installed this way), and a couple of utilities installed with brew (btop, nvtop). I also don’t want to manage the OS. Getting the OS updates as an atomic image is very appealing. OStree also allows you to rollback if an update does fail for some reason… Doing it this way makes your OS kind of an appliance that you run applications on top of instead of alongside. - Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 1 week ago:
Fedora is the obvious answer for you. It’s upstream from your upstream. It has the same tooling you’re used to, but newer packages. A less obvious answer is to embrace the atomic/immutable future and look at Fedora Silverblue or the stuff that the Universal Blue community is putting out. I switched from Silverblue to Aurora-dx and I’ve been extremely happy with it.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 week ago:
Broadcom is doing an excellent job convincing their customers to stop using VMware. Such a good job that at Red Hat we’ve shifted strategies with OpenShift Virtualization to pick up those customers. For the longest time our Virt play was just a stop gap to containers, now it’s a full blown product.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
I fully expect him to try to change something, pull some underhanded thing like the VP switcheroo, or even try another insurrection (why not, he wasn’t punished for the last one? ) but as of right now he can’t run again.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
That would be a natural cause. An elderly man dying of a heart attack is pretty natural.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 weeks ago:
Unless something changes, he can’t run again.
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 1 month ago:
I haven’t lost anything. I haven’t sold anything. You only actually realize a loss if you sell. I’m far enough from retirement that I’m essentially just buying the dip right now.
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 1 month ago:
I don’t think that they think that. I do think that they think you don’t deserve a house if you work at McDonalds.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 1 month ago:
Because they were being pressured from the credit card companies to do that.
- Comment on Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway? 1 month ago:
I don’t think that’s entirely it. OnlyFans flirted with the idea of not allowing NSFW content because of pressure from the credit card companies. PornHub purged amateur content from the same pressure.
- Comment on It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs. 2 months ago:
Sure, it could mean that, but I don’t think any could person would go to that conclusion.
- Comment on It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs. 2 months ago:
It’s a way to conveniently talk about the number of bathrooms. You can say a house is “three bedroom, two and a half bath” and you convey that there are two bathrooms and one “washroom”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Protestors with arts and crafts are a lot less scary than protestors with guns. The Black Panthers were successful for a reason.
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 2 months ago:
I will still judge you.
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 3 months ago:
Fair enough I suppose.
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 3 months ago:
And unlike a cat you apparently have no night vision at all along with your dirty toilet?
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 3 months ago:
If it’s up, you don’t even need to touch it, just sit…
- Comment on Maybe it's just hitting the side of the bowl. The outside of the bowl. 3 months ago:
Just be even lazier and sit down.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 3 months ago:
We (the US) have farmers markets in a lot of places. They can have very specific times that I always forget about. Around here in the northern climate, the farmer markets stop during the winter or move indoors and shift to selling more jarred and canned goods. My neighborhood has a coop, but it’s more expensive than the grocery store and with a worse selection. We have options here, but they require more thoughtfulness.
- Comment on See something you like? 3 months ago:
I was just at Whole Foods, not the best barameter for price, every brand that wasn’t the store brand was $10+ for a dozen. The store brand was $5.