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@ boredsquirrel @slrpnk.net

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  • KDE Discover now shows verification status of Flatpak apps!

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  • Well SteamOS doesnt use the Steam Flatpak. Otherwise that would be kinda fun.

    They also do their own versioning of Arch packages

  • Script to install Brave and Vivaldi variants on Fedora Atomic

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  • No, not for browsers.

    Chromium Browsers may be secure, but afaik there was no security audit of Chromium Flatpaks. Their sandbox is highly modified, so one would really make sense.

  • Script to install Brave and Vivaldi variants on Fedora Atomic

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  • I dont use Vivaldi haha, but their installation is so weird that I wanted to fix that.

    I use Firefox and since bubblejail has support for firefoxes name on Fedora (bubblejail is strange) I tried it and got memory issues or something, pretty crazy.

    I think vivaldi is just as fine as regular Chromium, probably slower patches. A debloated Brave will be better for privacy.

  • TIL about Greg Hildebrandt, who sadly passed away yesterday. He, and his brother Tim, were responsible for an image that takes so many of us instantly back to our childhoods.

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  • Little pervs

  • MullvadVPN Tricks: Making MullvadVPN work better on GNU/Linux

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  • I checked, -a is append and if that file already exists it would write the stuff to the end of it again.

    is the correct one

  • MullvadVPN Tricks: Making MullvadVPN work better on GNU/Linux

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  • MullvadVPN Tricks: Making MullvadVPN work better on GNU/Linux

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  • That is nice, I will update it

  • Hiding apps from screenshots and screencasts in the Niri compositor

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  • Yes me too. I just stream my whole monitor and add black bars to hide unneeded decorations and like my open apps etc.

    But I didnt try single apps, is that a Pipewire thing? I do a ton of QGis tutorials and QGis needs to run through XWayland to not break when moving toolbars, afaik.

    Like, QGis opens a ton of new windows, not sure if the KDE plasma portal supports capturing them too automatically.

  • Touch Support in Niri, the scrollable Wayland Compositor, written in Rust

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  • Well that develop it ;) as an OpenRC user you are a nieche

  • Hiding apps from screenshots and screencasts in the Niri compositor

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  • Same here, no idea

  • Hiding apps from screenshots and screencasts in the Niri compositor

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  • Yup, still cool :)

  • Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux

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  • Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux

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  • What requirement would that be?

    I have not used Alma in daily usage.

    I think as a "just works" Workstation it is great, based on the giants, and bootc makes it even more stable.

    By using EPEL, KDE, or even CentOS Stream and Hyperscale packages (which Meta does in production but I can imagine not everyone wants to do), you get more instability. This could be mitigated with the atomic structure.

    Also, instead of full Hyperscale, the COPR kwizart/kernel-longterm could be used, which is the more current, official LTS kernel.

  • Bringing bootc to AlmaLinux

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  • Where is the complexity?

    A compose file can literally be

     
        
FROM quay.io/almalinuxorg/almalinux-bootc:9.4

# Add files from same directory
ADD somefile /etc/somefile

# Add EPEL repository
RUN dnf install -y epel-release

# Install KDE Desktop environment
RUN dnf groupinstall -y "KDE Plasma Workspaces"

# Install flatpak, podman, distrobox, and fish
RUN dnf install -y flatpak podman distrobox fish

RUN systemctl enable sddm

    Done, build an ISO, push the images to a registry and you have made your own "distro". There are at least 3 implementations, on Github, Gitlab and Codeberg, so you can use their individual runners

  • Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

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  • Mainly for server applications, not for protecing like your .bashrc, your .ssh or .gnupg folder etc.

  • Rustdesk No security audit, not even in roadmap

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  • Rustdesk is strange. It may just be a nice tool with some edges. But they failed to submission to Flathub for example because they wanted very high privileges with no explanation like read/write on all files.

  • Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

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  • They are using a VM I think, and they will have Wayland compatibility and app launcher integration like ChromeOS I assume, while still giving you terminal access to that OS.

    So it will be better than Termux + some distro + some VNC viewer.

  • Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

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  • Desktop Linux has nearly no app security. So the VM approach is a malware prevention. Android is the most used OS in the world.

  • TIL a silly Looney Tunes joke is factual.

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  • I always wonder if I can concentrate urine if I just wait when needing to pee and it goes away for some reason