trevor (he/they)

I fully agree with you on the accessibility front. It’s not even good on X11, but it’s unusable on Wayland, from what I understand :( Accessibility on Linux needs a massive funding and development initiative, and it needed to be done a long time ago.

But uutils is pretty solid. I’ve swapped out my GNU coreutils entirely (on Arch, not Ubuntu, because I value my time too much to be troubleshooting broken snaps) and haven’t run into any issues. I think people are underestimating how close the compatibility already is. I’m sure something I use at some point will try to invoke an option that doesn’t exist in the uutils version, but it’s been solid for me so far.

Sort of. Whatever hardware these are intended to run on require something like 3X the driver code (at least in the case of the Android Linux kernel, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman). Phones tend to have more specialized and proprietary hardware, so you can’t just take the standard Linux kernel, use it there, and call it a day.

But I’d be surprised if the people working on this weren’t aware of that fact, and I hope they are working on abstracting the hardware layers more so that every mobile Linux project doesn’t have to start from scratch every time.

Edit: source (YouTube, sorry) for the claim about how much driver code is required for mobile devices.

This is why I hope to see rule zero get shit-canned. It’s a naive vestige from a time long before we hit late-stage capitalism. Corporate interests have slithered their way into every facet of our lives and we should be working to make software that we write hostile to their practices as much as we can.

If that means that the organizations that have a stranglehold on Open Source™️ don’t like it, so be it. We can follow in the spirit of open source without the naivety or captured interests of organizations that define the arbitrary terms by which we categorize software licenses.

How would one DIY HDCP stripping? I’ve never looked into this.

I’m inexperienced, but I definitely share the values of this community and am willing to help out.

I can’t tell if throwing a neither do we on the end would make it more or less menacing 🤔

That’s not what I mean. Yeah, getting the environment variables are simple enough, but if you simply exec something as the root user, whatever you exec will naturally be looking for configs in /root/.config and not your ~/.config dir, so any configurations to things like your text editor won’t be read.

I don’t think it’s that simple. The challenge is that you need to still behave as if it’s invoked as the user so that the editor uses their configurations instead of simply execing it as root.

I could be wrong though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rare Canonical W. The only thing I miss from the original sudo is sudoedit, but I’m pretty sure that’s on the Rust implementation’s TODO list.

Yeah. Zeteo is an actually reputable source, unlike most of the other slop that the MBFC cites as being credible. Referring to Zeteo as a substack blog is total horseshit.

Yeah. A lot of the extra nice things about Ghostty come from native macOS features. It’s a very different story on Linux, but still a solid terminal emulator there as well.

Ghostty is amazing on macOS. On Linux, it’s basically another GTK terminal emulator with a lot of nice configuration options, but nothing that special.

You can already sort of hack distrobox-like functionality, but the biggest problem with doing so is that there’s no Wayland or X11 server running on macOS, so GUI applications don’t work unless you install something like XQuartz, and even then, it’s a pretty janky experience.

The people complaining that Apple copied a good thing are missing the point. If Apple includes containerization on macOS by default (even if you have to enable it manually), more developers can just target Linux instead of Linux and macOS for certain types of applications (real bash scripts with GNU coreutils instead of the trash that Apple ships, servers, etc.).

Because google doesn’t want you doing anything that they can’t control fun on the host Android system. They did the same thing with crostini on ChromeOS for “security”.

The Windows Vista part of this is a complement. Software should be fun and colorful again. Apple’s design is lacking in color, but this feels like a step forward.

I also agree that throwing transparency everywhere is probably really bad for readability. I hope the high-contrast mode can correct for that.

Does Germany Israel have a right to exist as a German Jewish (ethno)state??? - the Nazi “democratic” debate moderators

This is just Nazi shit, and it’s been normalized for so long that you get absolutely heinous moments like this on TV.

Adopting that attitude toward anything is pretty self-defeating. It’s the same bad argument used against gun regulations in the US: “only misusers will have guns”.

Whether you agree with more or less regulations on anything, the “misusers will just do it anyway” is a bad argument.

Better to just roll over by default then, yeah /s

I beg of you: try something that isn’t going to shove a broken packaging format like Snaps down your throat.

Try Pop!_OS or Linux Mint if you want something like Ubuntu, only not broken.

If my first experience with Linux involved wasting time trying to figure out why the applications I installed appeared to freeze because they take 30-60 seconds to open after installation or updates, randomly didn’t work because of dogshit sandboxing, etc., I probably would have turned away.