I enjoy their shows but the singsong way Wes talks really bothers me for some reason.
Edit: I just got through the episode. It is pretty disappointing, and doesn’t answer to all of the criticisms, specifically those against the restrictive customer agreements that violate the free software definition (freedom 2). The aggressive stance echoes Bill Gates’ letter to hobbyists so closely, it was in the blog posts, it’s in the employee they have in the episode.
Not putting in extra work is fine, restricting the rights of your users is shitty. Rocky is also shirt, and I don’t blame them for thinking so.
I also like their shows because they’re always trying new things and it encourages me to as well. The hosts are really human and it’s not like a voice reading a script. They’re really accessible and I’ve had many conversations with them. They’ve even featured one of my apps/projects They’re active in the community and Sponsor projects and meet ups. They’re also independent and really picky about ads.
Tabby seems to get a lot of hate in the comments here, but I enjoy it for the following reasons:
it looks consistently on all platforms
it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys…encrypted!)
its opensource
Yes, it is built on electron-crappie, but for someone who jumps across different workstations with multiple hosts with their own configurations, tabby is very straightforward.
Could the sync be done with other means? Sure, but I won’t bother since tabby offers that OOTB and I can get up and running in 5 minutes from a fresh install.
it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys…encrypted!)
Sorry, but what on earth does this have to do with a terminal emulator? Something like this makes way more sense as a separate tool. It’s like if I was making a decision of what video player to use because it can sync my browser bookmarks.
Yep. I personally like the approach of having a pretty decent system by default and then install extensions for customizing it, rather than having a bloat load of options.
I used to have a bunch of cool little extensions (and a few big ones, like dash to dock), but upgrading to a new version is always a removed. Plugins stop working and then a process starts where you’re looking for updates if or when they’ll be updated, if alternatives exists, etc. The system never feels the same to me.
absolutely, i use Dash to Dock, Just Perfection, Hide Top Bar, Gesture Improvements, Awesome Tiles and Battery Indicator Icon to make it just how I want it
You didn’t mention why you’re trying to bind-mount your /data volume from your initramfs environment, but the only reason I can even guess at is that you’re trying to use it as part of your recovery environment. In which case, you’d probably be better served by doing the recovery from an Ubuntu live usb rather than try to cobble together a working environment from the shrapnel you left scattered across your drive.
This process should literally look like – boot, mount drives, rsync /usr back to root volume, clean up fstab/any other config changes, reboot, try again later after you’ve done more reading.
There was a movement to make /bin /sbin etc symlinks to /usr a few back. I honestly don’t remember the rationale, but here’s Debian’s page about the change: wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge. If I hadn’t been following the distros at the exact moment they did the changeover it probably would have thrown me for a loop too.
I think it had to do with the fact that these days relatively few people need /usr on a separate partiton and so it very rarely happens and something about system binaries being easier to manage if they’re actually all in one place. People are ready for some tweaks to the FHS, I guess.
Interestingly, when I added the bind mount to /usr the init environment failed when trying to set up the actual root fs because it was trying to bind mount from the init ramdisk filesystem paths into the new root path. im sure I could cloodge together a script to patch things up in the initrd but my days of straying from a sane upgrade path on Ubuntu are over (now I just do that on nixos because I don’t know what I’m doing)
Try switching to virtual console (alt+ctrl+F<1-6>). If it does not work, reboot with alt+sysrq+REISUB (sysrq is the same key as prtsc, REISUB must be typed sequentially).
Maybe using these instructions, you can still offload /usr to a mechanical drive.
Just out of curiosity, how large is your /usr directory? Mine is only 30GiB (arch Linux, kde plasma with all apps + hyprland), which only takes up 17GiB on my disk due to btrfs compression (zstd level 15).
Ohh I like the sound of that compression ratio, I’ll have to look into it. I’m just using ext4, plus I should repartition the whole disk I’m throwing away another 50Gb keeping my home partition on the SSD…
My /usr is 35Gb but I’m squeezing Ubuntu into a 50Gb partition and between docker, snapd, postgres, apt, and Minecraft it’s hitting 100% weekly.
Im pretty sure it would be fine if i was trying to dedicate a whole partition to /usr, maybe that’s the right answer after all
You just know the original sender is on board with it. They probably think this is the stupidest shit and realize they have a bullshit job. I bet they hope an auditor or some superior will someday find the document and have something to say about the waste… but probably not
I ran into something similar on Linux Mint. Never seen my installation kill itself before until this. Ended up booting into Recovery mode from the grub menu, and rolled back using Timeshift restore.
For me, the culprit was the ubuntu-drivers-common update, because after I rolled back, I was able to install all the other updates without issue. I just blacklisted this one update to keep it from showing until the next version is released.
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