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  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI love systemd
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    11 days ago

    I’m pretty sure their arguments boil down to “big company bad” as systemd is developed by Red Hat. Putting a single entity’s products in charge of several basic functions of the computer (like booting, init, daemons, networking) is seen as a bad idea, especially Red Hat which disgraced itself by making the RHEL source code available only to customers (which does not violate the license), but so far I don’t know of any solid evidence of security holes caused by either incompetence or malice.



  • If you have a specific purpose in mind for the drive, then mounting it statically is probably the easiest solution.

    My setup is:

    • 2 TB NVMe
      • 200 GB partition at /
      • The rest (~1.8 TB) mounted at /games
    • 1 TB SATA SSD mounted at /home
    • 3 TB HDD mounted at /hdd

    /mnt and /media are used differently based on the OS. /mnt is supposed to be used for temporary manual mounts, but you can use it (or a subdirectory) as a permanent mount point. /media is meant to contain mount points for dynamically mounted removable devices, but modern systems generally use /run/media/$USER for that purpose; I would personally avoid it nevertheless.


  • almost identical in topic order, format and words

    Apparently, that specific conversation was in Mandarin, and Steve was the only member of the media present who spoke Mandarin. I’m pretty sure that appending a simple “thank you Steve from Gamers Nexus for translating” would’ve been sufficient, especially since Linus wants to look like they’re such good buddies.



  • “Ty and That Guy” - Ty Franck (one of the writers of The Expanse books) and Wes Chatham (actor of Amos Burton on the show) talk about sci-fi.

    “SPINES” - supernatural fiction about an amnesiac tracking down broken people with paranormal abilities, written in an audio diary format. It gets a little gay.

    “The White Vault” - supernatural fiction about a multinational team that travels to Svalbard to recover a lost expedition and encounters a monster.



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    15 days ago

    I think that link does the same as the direct link icon with the fediverse icon on Lemmy. I can’t figure out the mechanism it uses, though. The HTTP request is just empty and sh.itjust.works is displayed immediately. I expected at least a 301 redirect or a script to execute location.replace() but I can’t see anything.

    As for the image, the embed mechanism is probably different on Mastodon and doesn’t translate at the moment. (I don’t even know if they support standard Markdown let alone the Lemmy flavor)

    Let me see…

    Looks like that would be a mixed result. Still, I commend the team behind the interface for getting federation to work.



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    Let’s not pass judgment on an entire nationality based on the crimes of their head of state and his hand-picked government officials. Otherwise I’d have to ask you if you’re ok with Americans, Chinese, Koreans, et cetera flooding in, by the same standard. Double edged sword and all.

    If you mean “Russians” as in “Russian-speaking monolingual”… that would be a valid point. I’d like to keep the community as primarily English, but might not be able to keep foreign language posts and comments out. I’ll have to think about it, and I’m open to input regarding languages.






  • I can’t believe you forgot to mention the worst offender.

    Packaging.

    For some reason, Linux insists on the asinine practice of hypercentralisation where you’re only allowed to install programs from a single approved website. The rest of us are living in 2025 but Linuxists seem to be stuck in 1984. It is literally baked into the system (with a healthy dose of trademark infringement (I mean, Pacman? Seriously?)). Besides the obvious restrictions on user freedom, it would only take one bad actor to call into question the safety of the whole walled garden. Trust is the user’s prerogative. A truly open ecosystem would let the user decide whether to get their software from Microsoft, from a third-party Russian website, the seven seas, from a lost-and-found USB stick, whatever.

    (also, I don’t want to be That Guy, but not having a large language model baked into the kernel for optimal performance in 2025 is fucking stupid)




  • “But they did it too!” will not fly with me as a valid defense coming from an adult person. Your behaviour is your own responsibility. If you disagree with something, either respond in a polite manner or downvote and move on. Do not accuse others, either individuals or groups, of having a mental deficiency, brain damage, or aberration; and the fact that you would try to minimize what you said shows that you understand why I have an issue with it.

    Be nice, or leave.