rotopenguin

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

If you think it's hard to figure out GPG for yourself, well good luck finding and communicating with someone else who has also figured it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I think the flatpak is still up.

Fuck Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can grab Kate from the Windows Store right now. Get all of the KDE apps, they're pretty much the only good stuff on there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's a shame that that the list doesn't translate well into "what device can I go out and buy"? Every shitty manufacturer has to constantly churn design changes, and hide it all behind the exact same model number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Is there a reason to install one(1) singular OS across multiple partitions? Is it just because that's how our ancestors did things?

Partitions are crude buckets that tell Operating Systems that "this lump is a filesystem that you know how to read" or "you don't know how to read this, leave it alone". Partitions tell UEFI that it should only use this special FAT32 chunk. A partition is not a good mechanism to set quotas, as you can see from how difficult it is to expand. A bunch of partitions that are all mounted together does little to isolate against failures.

If you want to run an OS across two filesystems that provide different characteristics (one provides atomic snapshots, the other provides ??), that would have to live on different partitions. Would you be better served by putting it all on the more modern FS? Is the older filesystem only kept around because it straddles "what my OS knows" and "what my bootloader knows"? If it's just for the bootloader's sake, that's why we have /boot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

First you have to make a new --user remote. Then you can list your current stuff and install it on the --user side one package at a time, (with --no-pull so it sucks the existing install). Then, you delete the --system copy of packages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Instead of having an efficient chip monitoring the power button, they integrate that job into some 10nm chip. That chip doesn't get to power off, so it just pisses away power on gate leakage all day long.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Avoid prion diseases, mulch the rich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Debian Testing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

ARM systems don't have the whole ACPI thing to describe what hardware is where. Linux has to bodge together its view of the system with a devicetree instead. If you don't know what device IP blocks are integrated into the SOC (and locked behind an NDA), good luck blindly guessing. You don't even get EFI booting, you get shit like "the rpi gpu runs its own proprietary bootloader lol".

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Has Qualcomm ever been helpful?

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