I agree. The recent organizational changes gave me hope, but in the end it turns out Mozilla is still Mozilla.
Honestly, IMO the end-user benefit is mostly that it sounds cool.
All the benefits I've heard (including the ones in this discussion) don't actually derive from "immutability" but from releases that stay the same for longer (which is what "more stable" used to mean), or the ability to roll back your system to some "known" working state (which you can do with snapshots and in a plethora of other ways).
What immutability means is that users are unable to alter their system, or at least not expected to... basically, it means what in corporate lingo would sound "altering your system is not supported" and that the distro actively makes it hard for you to do so.
This means users will not break their system because they followed badly some instructions they found on some badly written forum post anymore and blame the distro for it, but it also means that users who actually have a reason to alter their system and know what they are doing will have a hard time doing it (or be unable to), which is precisely why I left macos and went back to linux for my work computer some ten years ago (I spent half a day doing something I could have be done with in five minutes and said to myself "never again").
For the team/company that builds it, an immutable distro will likely be easier to test and maintain than a "regular" one, which should then indirectly benefit the users (well... as long as the team/company interests are aligned with the users' of course: shall windows get easier for microsoft to maintain, how much benefit would trickle down to its end users?).
Users who switch to an immutable distro should see a decrease in bugs short-term. In the longer run, I'd expect distros (especially the "commercial" ones) to reduce the effort they spend in QA until quality drops again to whatever level is deemed appropriate (if bread costs less I'm still not gonna buy more bread than I need... same goes for quality).
Basically, it all boils down to "immutable distros cost less to maintain" (which, don't get me wrong, is a net positive).
I must say I find it slightly concerning to have heard several "veteran" linux users say that immutable distros are so great that they will install one on their parent/child/SO/friend's PC but on their own.
It's also a bit unnerving to notice that most of the push for immutability seems to come from companies (the likes of debian/arch/gentoo/etc. are not pushing for immutability AFAIK, and they certainly don't have the initiative in this field).
I'm not sure how much immutable distros will benefit the community at large, and... I'm not even sure they will end up being very successful (windows/macos follow in whatever makes is more profitable for microsoft/apple, linux users have choice).
I hope that immutable distros will prove both successful and good for the user community at large.
edit: Forgot to explain the positives I hope for: since immutable distros should require less effort, I hope this will lead to more/better "niche" distros from small teams, and to distros with bigger teams doing more cool stuff with the extra manpower
I actually found the tone of the article (which is in tune with the title) quite refreshing, to the point that I read it all despite the fact I couldn't care less about cars :)
IDK about the US press (I live elsewhere) but sometimes I feel the news could benefit from more candidly opinionated articles like this one and less professional-sounding pieces crafted to influence the readers' opinions instead of informing them of the writer's.
There's the readDir builtin, but I expect nix might complain if you use that
No: there is no krunner widget I can add to the panel and AFAIK no way to hide/show the panel via a keyboard shortcut
AFAIK there is no krunner widget I can add to a panel... but regardless: can I have the panel show/hide via some keyboard shortcut?
(If they can't be together, I could live with alt+space => toggle krunner and, for example, alt+shift+space => toggle panel)
After years of my desktop environment (kde) being configured the same way, I tried enabling auto-hiding in my panel and I quite like the extra screen estate.
Now, the only reasons why I have a panel in the first place are the clock and the system tray (I don't use the start applications menu and I don't care for the task manager) so I've started wondering if I could completely dispose of the panel.
Do you know of any launcher (I use krunner but switching to something else is fine) that satisfies (or can be configured to satisfy) the following?
- shows the current date/time
- integrates a system tray
- launches applications
- does math, unit conversion and currency conversion
To put an even finer point on it, Musk’s tweet today announcing that “all core systems are now on X.com” featured the logo of the company he founded 25 years ago.
That's the news... is it newsworthy?
I can't wait for chatGPT to learn it should answer every disjunctive question with "por que no los dos?"
Didn't know about the flower!
Qualcomm didn't actually choose the name because of it (they choose it because it "sounded fast and fierce"), but now that I know about the flower I'll think of it instead of snappy dragons whenever I hear the SOC name.
That sounds a lot like "doesn't matter what words actually mean. I am right nonetheless".
...but I'm sure you'll have some personal definition of "semantics" that will allow you to say you are still right, just like you could say "beggars can't be choosers" in a context where no one is a beggar and there are in fact lots of viable choices.
Tangentially OT:
"Snapdragon X Elite"? Wasn't the name "Snapdragon" already enough cringe? :)
If you actually read OP post, they are not asking for the moon and... definitely non "demanding" anything.
IDK about each specific requirement (especially the "inactivity" one, but ... dude, just log in every 6 months), but I'd say a lot of "privacy" email providers should meet your needs.
Try looking into Proton mail (warning: you'll have to setup a local relay if you need IMAP/SMTP) or maybe search the web for something like "privacy email provider free" and look into the results.
It's pretty easy to find articles confirming the Musk/Signal thing https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=musk+signal&iar=news&ia=news
Of course most of the rest is speculation, but... the article seems honest enough about it?
vi or vim [...] :q to quit
you are depriving OP of an experience there... getting stuck in vi is a rite of passage nobody should be denied (but, alas, a lot of distros carry nano nowadays)
You should ask the seller to make sure, but I'd assume those cards will require KYC on activation? I mean, if Romania requires KYC it's difficult to think someone can sell anonymous cards on ebay.
Same here, until I read OP's intentions.
Writing stuff to trigger people is the definition of being a troll (well, one of the possible definitions).
It's worth nothing that a mediocre troll can sometime pass for a comedian.
Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.
Errrr... why would you try to trigger people, especially while asking for their help? Don't you think it's plain rude?
While updating home-manager I got a notice that freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01 is marked as unsafe.
Since chances are it's used by something I never use, I'd like to know what I'm using that depends on it... any idea how to do it?
Also.. any idea why I have 4 copies of the freeimage stuff in my /nix/store? (I just run nix-collect-garbage -d and the 4 seem to be actually different):
❱ md5sum /nix/store/*freeimage*/lib/libfreeimage.a 67a0ce1cb5dd562473e27d7c88e8a9bd /nix/store/6gi6hm57zngqnxb6p5dnxhjjcbr96lrk-freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01/lib/libfreeimage.a 5995e0affbfa28b63da7e997cb4dbe63 /nix/store/09nwykzzksc0zknflsyxyah5b67c2rsn-freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01/lib/libfreeimage.a 67a0ce1cb5dd562473e27d7c88e8a9bd /nix/store/ikfiv4gpmcpyir7lsj45by653qcnvgyx-freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01/lib/libfreeimage.a 213a408e3c1fbb5dfa4491deebe05984 /nix/store/q2sc85f2hclgwl8m3qdw8rpbs44gzmah-freeimage-unstable-2021-11-01/lib/libfreeimage.a
I've been looking for something to replace the google chromecast that is attached to our TV.
I've tried Kodi out, but the main use case for the TV set is a 70+ yo person watching netflix and there is just no way they will be better off with Kodi than with the stock netflix app.
Besides supporting netflix, being easy to use, and providing significantly better privacy than the chromecast does, the device would ideally:
- support other mainstream streaming (amazon, disney, ...) for when my people get tired of netflix
- support a DVB-T2 usb stick (directly, or through IPTV: I can put the stick in a different machine)
- support youtube without ads (through an adblocker and possibly sponsorblock, or maybe using invidious)
- possibly, support local public TV streaming (eg. BBC)
I have a PC set aside that should be more than capable enough (intel N100), but I'm open to getting new hardware if needed. Also, it doesn't matter if the system is not very user friendly to setup (eg. if it needs to be nixos), but once it's setup it should be easy to use and relatively straightforward to update/maintain.
I guess a FOSS android TV would be ideal, but.. is there any? (I see Lineage supports the Google ADT-3, but that is basically unobtanium, at least where I live).
The app at my gym sucks: there is no checklist of what exercises you have done and no tracking of how much weight you used. Plus, for whatever reason, it wants access to my location.
I've found a number of alternatives on F-Droid, but each of the six or so I tried was completely unusable (some seemed unfinished alphas, others are probably too old for my android version).
Is there one app that you use and would recommend?
What I'm looking for is:
- At home: I setup my programs (different ones for different days)
- At the gym: I can select a program, check off the exercises while I do them (the order I do them on depends on where there is fewer people at the gym), and log things like if I managed all the sets/reps, how much weight I used, and how long I exercised for (for things like the tapis roulant).
- Bonus points if I can also track my weight in the same app, and if the app can export/sync the data or produce some kind of graphs/statistics based on it.
Thanks!
This may be OT since strictly speaking it's about hardware... I trust it is ok to post it given the spirit of the community, but have my apologies and feel free to remove it if it's not.
I'm looking to replace my old Bose QC25, since they have recently died (after a long a fulfilling life), but it seems everything nowadays is bluetooth (which I don't mind) and require some proprietary app to turn ANC on/off (which I do mind... are physical buttons/switches become too expensive to include in your overpriced earbuds?).
Anyway... do you know of any headphones/earbuds that meet the following?
- can be powered via wire or have batteries that last 12+hrs (long-haul flights)
- have decent noise cancelling
- don't require me to install a apps or can be used with some open source app (possibly with full functionality and straightforward to setup)
- are not overly expensive (I have to buy 2 pairs and I'll only use them a few times a year when I fly)
Is there an extension that warns you when you are wasting time reading ai-generated crap?
Case in point, I was reading an article that claimed to compare kubernetes distros and wasted some good minutes before realizing it was full of crap.
I need to generate a number of scripts in my configuration and make them into a single package (for ease of reference, because there are a lot of them).
So far, I'm creating the scripts via writeShellApplication, making them into packages via an overlay, merging them with buildEnv and then adding the resulting package to `systemPackages.
Something like:
````nix nixpkgs.overlays = [ (final: prev: { my-hello-1 = final.writeShellApplication { name = "my-hello-1-script"; text = "echo my hello wolrd 1"; }; my-hello-2 = final.writeShellApplication { name = "my-hello-2-script"; text = "echo my hello wolrd 1"; }; my-hello-scripts = final.buildEnv { name = "my-hello-scripts"; paths = [ final.my-hello-1 final.my-hello-2 ]; }; }) ];
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.my-hello-scripts ]; ````
This works, but I don't really need the my-hello-1 and my-hello-2 packages... can you think of a way to make do without needing them?
I'm migrating my NAS to nixos, and I got to the point of setting up my restic backups.
services.restic.backups is great, but -- on top of the systemd timers/services -- I also want some helper scripts (eg. one to easily mount the backups, stuff that with ansible I currently generate into /usr/local/sbin).
These scripts would be entirely generated from the services.restic.backups config and would reference sops secrets also from configuration.nix, so... I don't think it would make sense to make a package out of them?
What should I use to make these scripts? Should I use nixpkgs.writeShellApplication and then alter the PATH?
Since I need to run a few apps that won't work on LineageOS (because dumb developer security stance), I need to buy a "regular" android device that includes all the google "services".
Ideally, it should be a cheap second-hand phone that will still receive security updates for a long time.
Are there bands that are better (well, "less worse") than others from a privacy perspective?
