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@ Neptr @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I'm the Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot, aka NEPTR.

Linux enthusiast, programmer, and privacy advocate. I'm nearly done with an IT Security degree.

TL;DR I am a nerd.

  • Why do some people hate Manjaro?

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  • Because of the their choice to hold back package updates by a bit, it breaks AUR support. I have Aldo heard people talk about stability problems. The biggest reason IMHO to choose EndeavourOS (or even CachyOS) over Manjaro is that the former is much closer to base Arch Linux. Manjaro just has a bad reputation. When I used Manjaro like 6 years ago it was fine.

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  • More streamlined installer, less/no command line in favor of GUI. Comes as an appimage but requires some packages to be installed on the host.

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  • Even worse, "gross lil critters"

  • 10 Years of Redox OS and Rust - Jeremy Soller

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  • If they add flatpak support it would be so good.

  • The Password Game

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  • I completed up to rule 13 but couldn't do 14 because I couldn't load the image of the country.

    Here is my attempt, with the CAPTCHA at the end: Hqh$mayVVIIshellyPb🌖55-y5w28

  • [Help] My first serious self hosted server

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  • I liked qdirstat

  • WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"

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  • It requires rootful Docker, KVM, and AppImage (FUSE2). As long as those requirements are met, it should work. Should be as simple as using ujust or rpm-ostree to install the necessary packages.

  • I got to avoid memory management for quite some time

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  • Probably a good idea. I decided to learn Rust after using Python for a couple years. I took a semester of C++ but barely remember anything. Maybe I should write a project in C and rewrite later in Rust. I personally only learn when I get inspiration to make a program, which means I learn on the spot. I don't think it is the best way to do things (if I knew the language better I may make better decisions), but it is the only way I can motivate myself to learn.

  • SilverBullet v2 released: open-source, self hosted, programmable notes

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  • If all you need is a simple note taking app, I recommend Notesnook. It is free and open source and offers E2EE cloud syncing. That is what I used as a Google keep alternative. Silverbullet is good, but may be too feature-full for something as simple as a Keep replacement.

  • feat: Add CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md by numinit · Pull Request #15 · JiaT75/STest

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  • Good

  • Why NixOS is the Future - YouTube

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  • Individuals can make there own custom images using blue build and templates for the starting image.

  • Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48

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  • XFCE is still on X11 so it is not a good choice for a secure private OS. GNOME both secures privileged Wayland protocols and has sandboxing for its thumbnailer, among other important security features. KDE is another option, but is kinda over the top for an amnesic distro.

  • Distribution Release: Proxmox 9.0 "Virtual Environment"

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  • Most of it isnt libvirt but instead LXC containers.

  • Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland

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  • It doesn't have default support but can with environment variable.

  • Immutable Linux OS to run Incus

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  • Very cool, love Incus. Wish it had better security options, such as supporting GVisor application kernel.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • I did a fresh install of fedora in a VM given 4 cores, 16gb ram, and storage on an NVME SSD. Finally I am getting a reasonable boot time of 6.5 seconds. But on bare metal I can't get anywhere close to that. Firmware alone takes 15 seconds. Either way, now I know that it isn't a "Systemd problem", just that only Systemd gives me this problem.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • Idk what is wrong but every fresh install on any Systemd distro (Arch, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE) has the same slow boot on every device I have tried. I have never seen a 5 second boot on anything else but dinit.

    Oh, and my disk is a modern M.2 SSD for my workstation.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • I have tried. Nothing worked. I also experience the same slow booting on every machine+systemd, with the same resulting slow boot up. Even friends have mentioned to me the slow boot times compared to Windows.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • The big reason I personally dislike Systemd is bloat. It takes me 6 seconds to boot a windows 11 VM, it takes 20+ with Systemd, and it takes 6 seconds with dinit. On real machines I frequently hit 40 seconds with systemd. Now is that enough of a problem that I am going to switch to Windows (ugh) or Chimera/Artix, probably no. I still find it very annoying.

  • firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin and zen-browser-patched-bin AUR packages contain malware

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  • Plus packages are manually inspected to ensure they meet Flathubs packaging requirements.