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Arch Stability

I have always been afraid to install Arch because they tell you it is difficult to install and unstable. I want a simple system following the KISS philosophy and install only what I need, which is little. I don’t need anything from the aur repository, for now. Just a year ago I installed Arch and there it is, no problems and...

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I had so many problems and had to constantly manage other distros before Arch that it was a lot of anxiety. Everytime new release of popular linux distro I knew it was gonna break if I tried to upgrade. Almost centrainly. For fear of that I had frankstein monster distro for work using lts version full of weird ppas with a more recent kernel and some more recent software that I need because everything was always old all the time. It was horrible to maintain and keep working.

Arch is just simpler, easier and much more stable. It’s just pacman -Syu all the time, have fresh software, recent kernels for the hardware improvements which is extremely important for when you buy new laptop and overall never crashes. It’s just a matter of reading the news, sometimes change a config that got deprecated, or replace some software that got abandoned or now there’s better alternative, etc. Sometimes things get some regressions for some weeks until things are bug reported and fixed upstream and eventually reach the system, but that’s waiting some weeks or rarely months. There’s always alternative to get involved in helping fix the problems with bug reports and patches if needed, but that’s extremely rare and only if you really are desperate.

Anyway, those problems were much worse on other “stable” distros, because if there’s something seriously wrong on the system you are only lucky to get fixes after a major release which may happen only once a year.

If the system is really critical and cannot fail me during work week I delay updating to the weekend sometimes. Even if I need to it’s just a matter of evaluating the risk. You do pacman -syu and see what’s comming. If it’s just some apps updating then it’s ok to do it. If it’s core system stuff like kernel, systemd, dbus, graphics drivers, maybe I’ll avoid it.

Overall it’s simpler and easier because there’s really only 1 or 2 things to keep in mind and all the rest just falls into place.

Using archlinux for more than 15 years on personal machines and maybe 5+ years on work computers.

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One is just spending money, the other potentially brings you money in.

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Too late.

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Lucky for them.

devfuuu ,

The article needs a lot more explaining what it is about. Took too long to read to understand that it’s something about containers but understood nothing about what/why this matters.

devfuuu ,

What is a green bubble?

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Doesn’t rcs depend on having mobile data or internet access on? If I understand it right it is strictly worse than sms.

Many people just have data off most of the time and sending messages with the system app assumes things are delivered immediately and everyone easily receives them. If you forget your data is off or don’t have internet for a while then you end up assuming people received stuff when they didn’t.

All phone isps have basically unlimited sms for free when data is paid in huge amounts of gold.

Sms > Rcs

devfuuu ,

Most people definitely DONT have unlimited data plans. In fact they are so limited and expensive that many just have the data turned off and rely on public wifi connections everywhere they go to use internet.

Nobody needs to bother with sms delivery because it just works. The only time it doesn’t is if someone has their phones turned off.

Sending media is just a nice to have, not necessary.

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Dark and moist.

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Slaves is what they want and we fail to provide it to them.

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The miracle of the poop knife. Always be ready.

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They have been very active fighting the chat control proposals that keep coming, haven’t really seen others being so active about it besides them. This is really bad.

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By law, simply making it illegal as is being worked on.

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Some good classic default theme.

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I know some of these words!

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Anime and Arch linux btw are the alternative personalities and I’m here for it.

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Long running shit with deep character development are the best.

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The response I hear from most people when you tell them you never really watched the disney movies that apparently everyone saw when they were kids.

Try telling people that you watched the Lion King once only when you were an adult recently and that you didn’t like it. They will melt down.

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Miss the times of downloading a mp3 by leaving the pc turned on the whole night.

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I read somewhere it was rounded 3mm at top and 1mm at bottom. Can’t find it now.

Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?

I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.

devfuuu ,

My default is too use fish shell in all my machines. Never worried again about losing history.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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You haven’t met many corporations have you.

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Let’s just make the worse possible and then wait to see what happens. Only way to wake up from the AI nightmare. If we survive long enough.

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Hopefully ^^

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Yes.

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Imagine using a language that still uses semicolons.

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I really thought this was some anal analogy for something…

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Me using jvm based software for work and it barely being enough…

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Too real.

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Some random one that appeared out of nowhere for mac only, seems the be from some company and because of that people are hyping the shit out of it.

Many places that never mentioned the other more known and editors like helix now suddenly are mentioning this one. It smells as a huge ad/marketing campaign. Not sure what the plans are for monetisation and the business plan.

devfuuu ,

Gotta type first. Everyone knows thats the bottleneck for productivity.

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Just let the AI create its own poetry about that. Ain’t they selling us the idea that it can do anything and humans are useless and deprecated now?

devfuuu ,

We’re really getting deep in the worst timeline and no way back. Nice.

devfuuu ,

Discord is still broken even with that bridge. But that’s the only I found not working so far.

devfuuu ,

I have it all installed. Discord native, discord flatkpak, vesktop. With vesktop you loose microphone sound auto detection and krysp. But yeah, sharing video works there also on the browser like firefox, but it’s a tradeoff of the rest.

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Maybe it works better than flatpak? It’s basically the same thing. But I’m not gonna install snap just to try it.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

devfuuu ,

Fuck all programming puzzles. I refuse them.

True hommies hate them too.

devfuuu ,

I’d like to say that it’s useless but after experiencing dropping a full latte on my thinkpad some time ago and the magic drain holes working properly and the laptop surviving afterwards makes me really appreciative of the feature.

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Google and Amazon are both loath to discuss security aspects of the cloud services they provide through their joint contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus. Though both the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces are Nimbus customers, Google routinely downplays the military elements while Amazon says...

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Which was a wildly successful marketing campaign since we are still talking about it.

Similar to “Got milk” or stuff like that, forever in the human consciousness.

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If only the people doing these stuff cared…

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I’ve seen enough Criminal Minds to know what’s going on.

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And there’s also doas which is a nice substitute.

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So many hours. So many music I downloaded from there.

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Manga: “Because I, the True Saint, Was Banished, That Country Is Done For!”

devfuuu ,

So you wanna go from home to school. The whole distance/trip can be done on a bus or your moms car. That’s a means of transportation. But, now people are creating a train and soon you will have another means of transportation that you can go to school with, by train.

That’s it, Wayland is another means of transportation (newer) than the older means of transportation that existed for a long time, x11 or xorg.

The route is how can applications show stuff on a screen, what transport should they use.

devfuuu , (edited )

Yeah, it’s a new way that programs use to draw their stuff on the screens.

In the middle usually are other stuff that abstract away that part from normal application development, so in general, most applications don’t need to care with the low level thing that is being used to draw their stuff, but there is always somethings that some apps will do to bypass or expect to work in a certain way, so sometimes changes and time are need to adjust those applications to play well with the new way of drawing.

The core idea of why Wayland matters is that it is designed to take advantage of the hardware features and how hardware is designed in this century. On xorg, since it was designed around the architecture and expectations of what people thought things should work in the 70s, it was becoming really hard to add features related to how newer hardware worked. Things like multiple gpus, prime architectures, multiple surfaces/screens with multiple aspect ratios and dpis, varying refresh rates, taking advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics drawing, etc, were all really hard things to do because the code had multiple concepts not applicable to the modern age. So, essentially developers were already bypassing 99% of the internals of xorg architecture and hacking things in a very hard way. They basically decided/experimented with stripping apart all the things they didn’t need and didn’t matter and reduced it to the most basic and core thing that mattered: “how to push these pixels to that surface”.

It ended up being a successful experiment, in that it showed it was possible to do.

Now, in the current world, there are solutions that need to be implemented to bring some features up to speed since the wayland thing is so core and barebones. And this is a good thing. It allows developers and applications to think really hard about what they need to do and how they should do and how things should work across all toolkits and desktop environments. Obviously this takes time to make decisions and ensure everyone is onboard, experiment and reiterate on it until good solutions are found.

This last point is what makes end users frustrated when trying wayland because some things are lacking or not ready yet. For the general use, users without really specific needs, they can already use wayland now, but for others they can’t because of their particular needs or specific hardware situation.

If xorg is working for you, then there’s no need to worry. If it’s invisible to you then most likely you shouldn’t care, because the desktop environments are changing their sessions to use wayland by default and most users will not perceive any difference. If users see problems and then notice that it’s related to using wayland they can choose explicitly to use the xorg version since it will still work for a while.

Hope I didn’t make it too complicated now.

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