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Because of something I did during an anthropology lecture, I learned the hard way to read the "The following packages will be REMOVED" list when upgrading a package to backports in Debian GNU + Linux.

I upgraded pipewire from stable to backports (I want to know if this is related to my problem why essential packages were removed)...

Vincent ,

Yeah, I realise a comment like this is mostly unhelpful (switching distros is a pain, of course - even just the hassle of moving over your data), but it does remind me how glad I am that I did it at some point. Painless upgrades are amazing.

(That said, it’s not entirely risk-free; although I never got an unworkable system, at some point upgrades were blocked until I did some manual work. Universal Blue had similar issues.)

Vincent ,

Doing the lord’s work, thank you.

Vincent ,

This summary seemed pretty good though.

Vincent ,

Especially if it’s just another alpha release. They could have 20 more of those, for all I know.

Is there a Windows 10 inspired launch menu?

I’m looking for a launch menu that has similar functionality as the Windows 10 Start Menu. While I don’t think Windows is the pinnacle of OS development, I did find the “Start” menu quite useful in organizing my apps by task group and importance. Specifically, I’m interested in the following features:...

Vincent ,

Gnome itself is actually not bad. It has a full screen menu and arrangeable application icons and folders, but I cannot group them the way I want, let alone resize them.

I don’t think resizing is an option, but isn’t it possible to drag one app’s icon on top of another app’s icon to create a group?

Vincent ,

Ah, gotcha.

Vincent ,

Now there’s a meme I haven’t seen in a while.

Vincent ,

Then just not use it? You could even ask for a refund, I’m sure they’ll give it to you.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" (www.phoronix.com)

Wedson Almeida Filho is a Microsoft engineer who has been prolific in his contributions to the Rust for the Linux kernel code over the past several years. Wedson has worked on many Rust Linux kernel features and even did a experimental EXT2 file-system driver port to Rust. But he’s had enough and is now stepping away from the...

Vincent ,

This sounds exactly like the type of nontechnical nonsense they’re complaining about: attacking a strawman (“they’re trying to prevent people from refactoring C code and making them rewrite everything in the current fancy language”) even after explicitly calling out that that was not going to happen (“and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code”).

Vincent ,

That person in the audience was really grinding my gears. Just let the folks you’re talking to answer you; no need to keep going on your diatribe when it’s based on a false assumption and waste the whole room’s time.

Vincent ,

You tell me how it will result in it happening. Who even has the power to force people to learn Rust?

Vincent ,

And where did you find that they will do that?

will ad-blockers in chromium follow suit when chrome discontinues them?

Hey all, I was about to setup uBlock Origin in chromium, when I saw the notice that it may soon be ended due to not following best practices, etc. I looked this up and some articles and posts state that Chrome is discontinuing content blockers / ad blockers soon. Will this apply to the chromium app in Linux?...

Vincent ,

Desktop web apps are being looked at though, so there’s that!

Vincent ,

It’s also not clear how long they’d be able to keep that up anyway, given… techcrunch.com/…/brave-lays-off-27-employees/

Vincent ,

I’m very curious how buggy it’s going to be. (Obviously very during alpha, but I’m talking release.) They seem to be betting big on customisability, and a myriad of different setups is like a fly trap for bugs, in my experience.

But at the same time, a modern language like Rust provides lots of help to prevent a bunch of them, and they might be very talented programmers, so who knows!

Vincent ,

Great to hear! I’ve never used Redox either, so no idea how well that works too.

Vincent ,

They’ve committed to not changing any displayed text (“strings”), so that translators have time to translate everything.

Vincent ,

Luckily Gecko still exists. And who knows, maybe Servo will make it one day (but the odds are stacked against both them and Ladybird anyway).

Wayland Merges New Screen Capture Protocols (www.phoronix.com)

The ext-image-capture-source-v1 and ext-image-copy-capture-v1 screen copy protocols build upon wlroots’ wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 with various improvements for better screen capture support under Wayland. These new protocols should allow for better performance and window capturing support for use-cases around RDP/VNC remote...

Vincent ,

decide on the word “may” vs “will”

I assume they went with _way_land as a compromise.

Vincent ,

I’m loving the immutable revolution in Linux land.

Vincent ,

I think Vanilla OS might then be what you’re looking for. They’ve built up their immutable OS on several layers, and while most people will want the full desktop OS, if you want a very small base, maybe their Pico image is what you’re looking for? You should even be able to build on top of it to create your own, if you need to.

Vincent ,

One extra Norwegian user in Statcounter’s biased and unrepresentative dataset started to use Linux, probably.

Vincent ,

I haven’t used it myself, but from what I’ve read VanillaOS has that covered pretty well with APX?

Vincent ,

AFAIK it’s based on Distrobox, which allows you to work in containers with access to key host services that you need, which I think should be sufficient for a VPN.

(In fact, for VPNs specifically Flatpaks are sufficient as well - I’m using Mozilla VPN via a Flatpak.)

Vincent ,

You might want to reconsider PIA anyway: restoreprivacy.com/kape-technologies-owns-express…

Vincent ,

Here, specifically: lemmy.zip/post/19194792

Also: A Word About Private Attribution in Firefox, by the Firefox CTO.

Vincent ,

A Word About Private Attribution in Firefox, by the Firefox CTO.

Vincent ,

Advertisers can already easily get this data without this setting, and any measures you take to block ads also by definition affect this setting.

Meanwhile, if this works and becomes widely available, regulators will be able to take measures against user surveillance without having to succumb to the ad industry’s argument that they won’t know whether their ads work.

And yes, this provides data to advertisers, but it’s data about their ads, not about users.

Vincent ,

That only applies to personally-identifiable information.

Vincent ,

for the third party services that do the aggregating, which will “sell” (literal quote) the aggregate data

You’re saying you’re literally quoting the ISRG as planning to sell the data? Because that goes directly against what I’ve read about this, which I believe says that they wouldn’t even be able to because they can’t see the data.

Vincent ,

Ah gotcha, thanks for bringing in the source - that does come down to the ISRG selling it. The thing I’d missed in your quote is that it’s referring to aggregate data. So yeah, how that meshes with what I’ve read is that the ISRG won’t be able to view user data, but indeed the ad performance data would be sold to advertisers.

Vincent ,

How do you know what fixes/Wine variants you need?

Vincent ,

Ah OK, that “everything” solution sounds perfect for me, thanks!

Vincent ,

Yeah, it all still is more experimental than I’d hope. The whole reason I’m using Silverblue is low maintenance and less risk.

The plus side is that it didn’t render my system unusable - I could boot into the old version. But hopefully lessons will have been learned, and this will happen less often in the future.

Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73% (gs.statcounter.com)

It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

Vincent ,

I’m fairly sure it’s deficiencies in StatCounter’s measurement that’s accounting for it. Statistical noise, basically.

Vincent ,

It’s hard to tell, as there are so many things that influence it. A huge factor is selection bias, as only a small number of website embed StatCounter, and that’s very likely to not be a representative sample. I’d bet that the influence of that is magnitudes larger than of user agent spoofing.

Am I overthinking it?

I’m working on my transition plan away from Windows and testing out various things in VMs as I do so, and one big hurdle is making sure the VPN client my work requires can connect. Bazzite is my target distro (primarily gaming, work less frequently), though other more traditionally structured ones like Pop!_OS and Garuda are...

Vincent ,

A VPN is definitely an example of software you should use rpm-ostree to install.

I think it’s fine if you use rpm-ostree for it, but it’s not necessarily required. I recently found out that the Mozilla VPN developers are experimenting (!) with building a Flatpak, and having tried it myself, it works very well.

Vincent ,

Oh! Note that in Settings under Network, there’s also a VPN setting that allows you to manually configure a VPN. It has an “Import from file…” option, so presumably, there’s a way to obtain a config file that should make it work. If not, knowing which options to set might work as well.

Vincent ,

What is it with this obsession with JPEG-XL? I keep seeing it mentioned on lots of threads, but as a user, the benefits seem marginal? Like: would be nice, but I’d expect more significant benefits from something that’s brought up this often - so which benefits am I missing?

Vincent ,

Yeah that’s what I mean - it’s not that the file size reduction is minimal, but that the benefits of that are fine, but not earth-shattering.

KDE often not sleeping when idle

I have KDE set to Turn Off Screen after 5 minutes and to Sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. This works when I first turn on the machine, but eventually stops working after a few hours of general use (mostly Firefox, VS Code, and some Steam games). Sometimes the screen isn’t turning off at all, other times the screen turns...

Vincent ,

Unfortunately I have the same symptoms you do… On GNOME.

It doesn’t always happen, but every now and then the system will get into a state that suspend doesn’t work.

Vincent ,

It means that on systems with apps installed written with libadwaita, will also have libadwaita installed, rather than just GTK. But those apps will look like GNOME apps, which might look out of place on e.g. a Windows or Xfce desktop.

Vincent ,

Seems like a bit of an overreaction. From what I can see, it’s mostly that Ubuntu don’t seem confident enough to ship this without more rigorous testing (i.e. they think it might introduce other/more severe bugs), so they want resume doing that testing before shipping it. Doesn’t really seem harmful to anyone that didn’t explicitly choose to use Ubuntu.

Vincent ,

Haha I appreciate the candor!

Vincent ,

It’s technically for profit, but it has a single shareholder: the Foundation. There are no greedy shareholders that can get rich off of that profit.

Of course, employees/board members can be richly compensated, but that’s independent of for-/non-profit status.

Vincent ,

That would be a terrible AI.

Vincent ,

I support anonymous telemetry collected by a small non-profit that helps protect our freedom. Not big tech.

Vincent ,

I believe there was an experiment making weather data more accessible through the URL bar, e.g. when people start searching for weather there, which could be useful. Presumably, telemetry like this can help determine which of such features to prioritise.

I could indeed also imagine ads, but then not based on keeping a file on you with all your interests and sharing that with advertisers, but by locally choosing between a couple of categories of ads and showing the ones that are related to your current search, without anyone having to know what you’re actually searching for.

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