trevor (he/they)

The owning class is the only minority group that does you any harm.

The grown-ups that run Fedora and the community are overwhelmingly against this very bad proposal, so I don’t think the reich-wing creep’s toy project is going to replace the official XServer implementation any time soon.

This probably has a lot to do with the new DOA XServer fork being “anti-DEI” (pro-discrimination). When these slimy shitweasels go out and vice signal about how bigoted they are, they congregate around it and form a new harassment campagin because they have no life.

Sorry you’re getting harassed. I hope you can take solace in the fact that these little pissbabies lead miserable lives.

If you are in the US, ROMs aren’t illegal either. You’re just required to rip them from a cartridge/disc you acquired legally (including second-hand purchases) and you can’t distribute it to others. It’s the latter part that makes it illegal (but not at all immoral). If you wanna do that last part, god bless. Fuck these companies.

I swear “review bombing” has to be an astroturfed term to delegitimize criticism when companies do shitty things.

It shifts the blame from the companies doing a shit thing (lacing their game with DRM/anti-cheat malware, making them run like shit unless you enable AI slop upscaling, shoveling AI “”“art”“” assets, MTX, etc.) to the customers that are rightly mad about the shit thing.

Linux on Apple Silicon is a totally different story than it was for Intel Macs because of the work put in by the Asahi team. It’s actually one of my favorite pieces of hardware to run Linux on. The trackpad works great too, btw.

It’s not for no viable reason. Rust is just safer than C. There absolutely are bugs with GNU coreutils, so it’s not even a hypothetical like you implied. But beyond safety, some of the Rust equivalents are more performant than their C counterparts.

And uutils is already heavily tested against the GNU coreutils. It’s not some fly-by-night rewrite that people aren’t serious about. I don’t know if it’s been formally audited yet, but it absolutely will be when companies like Canonical (and hopefully SUSE and Red Hat, one day) want to start shipping them.

Just adding to this for other people that don’t know: you can also install most* standard Linux applications and tools on SteamOS, as long as it’s available as a Flatpak, or you can install it to your user directory. Technically, you can even bypass that last caveat and install whatever you want, but you’re going to have a bad time if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Alternatively, you can install any Linux distro on your Steam Deck if game dev isn’t a good experience for you on SteamOS. In fact, Bazzite is working on a GDX (Game Developer eXperience) edition, and will likely be a solid choice once it’s ready.

I don’t dislike GNOME (except for their insistence on shirking and breaking standards that everyone else uses), but I’m curious about why you prefer KDE on your laptop, but GNOME on your desktop. If anything, I’d think that GNOME’s larger UI might be easier to use with a less precise pointing device than default KDE.

internationalization

Interesting point. I don’t actually know about that. What can the GNU coreutils do with regard to internationalization? Just the output of commands, or can they also internationalize stuff like command args?

I fully agree with you on the accessibility front. It’s not even good on X11, but it’s unusable on Wayland, from what I understand :( Accessibility on Linux needs a massive funding and development initiative, and it needed to be done a long time ago.

But uutils is pretty solid. I’ve swapped out my GNU coreutils entirely (on Arch, not Ubuntu, because I value my time too much to be troubleshooting broken snaps) and haven’t run into any issues. I think people are underestimating how close the compatibility already is. I’m sure something I use at some point will try to invoke an option that doesn’t exist in the uutils version, but it’s been solid for me so far.

This is why I hope to see rule zero get shit-canned. It’s a naive vestige from a time long before we hit late-stage capitalism. Corporate interests have slithered their way into every facet of our lives and we should be working to make software that we write hostile to their practices as much as we can.

If that means that the organizations that have a stranglehold on Open Source™️ don’t like it, so be it. We can follow in the spirit of open source without the naivety or captured interests of organizations that define the arbitrary terms by which we categorize software licenses.

How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I’ve never looked into this.

The people complaining that Apple copied a good thing are missing the point. If Apple includes containerization on macOS by default (even if you have to enable it manually), more developers can just target Linux instead of Linux and macOS for certain types of applications (real bash scripts with GNU coreutils instead of the trash that Apple ships, servers, etc.).

Because google doesn’t want you doing anything that they can’t control fun on the host Android system. They did the same thing with crostini on ChromeOS for “security”.

TIL blahaj.zone has a Peertube instance. Nice!

I use vertical tabs because horizontal tabs use more screen in wide aspect ratios (16:9 or greater) and I want to optimize my screen usage for the actual content, rather than the tabs.

Other than the example uses provided in the article, does anyone have any interesting ideas for how this could be used? The RUST_LOG=debug one looks like it’ll be particularly useful as an easy way to see what network requests a given binary might be making.

Firefox’s version of MV3 explicitly supports the things that uBlock Origin needs to do. It’s not the same as Google’s malicious MV3 that was targeted at destroying adblockers.

It would be annoying if they removed MV2, but it wouldn’t break things like it did for Chromium.

I’d be happy if they did and adopted Heroic as an official launcher. However, if that happens, I’d still want proper controller support to be added so that browsing the GOG store in Heroic doesn’t require mouse and keyboard bindings on something like a Steam Deck.