trevor (he/they)

That is 100% COSMIC jank. He chose Pop!_OS again and System76 has been annoyingly shipping a beta desktop environment on their stable distro.

I like COSMIC and System76, but this is an annoying decision by them and Linus does shitty research so he doesn’t know he’s running beta software and he’ll associate this with Linux being janky again 🙄

Yes, you can. It’s just an ARM64 computer. The only special consideration is that the kernel uses 16K pages instead of 4K pages, but that’s not something I’ve encountered problems with.

Pretty much all COSMIC desktop apps have translation support built in (because most of them are built from templates that support them). I’m sure many of them could use your help.

120Hz display works!!! Woohoo!!!

There are now 0 hardware features that I miss with Asahi Linux 🥳

Binary logging is some of the most asinine shit I’ve ever had to deal with on Linux (and yes, I know you can change it, but it being the default behavior is beyond absurd).

No. Even on standard Android, you must enter the password/PIN on first unlock because that is required to load the decryption keys that make biometric authentication work.

On #3: every modern phone running encryption has a BFU (before-first-unlock) state where the data on the device is more secure than after its first unlock because you haven’t entered your password/PIN to decrypt the data. GrapheneOS also has this, but it is not unique to GOS.

Good. LLMs are a fucking blight on the world and every company that pushes that dogshit deserves to implode.

Zig isn’t memory safe by default. Safety needs to be opted-in to, which isn’t free.

And merely recompiling C projects with the (very good) Zig toolchain wouldn’t add any form of memory safety whatsoever as far as I’m aware. You can get some safety checks that way, but you still have to fix the buggy C code manually, which is a nontrivial task in best-case scenarios.

I’m replying to you from Asahi Linux on an Apple Silicon Macbook. The drivers are definitely there!

FEX emulation of x86 on ARM CPUs has made many x86 games playable on my Macbook.

I’m replying to you from Asahi Linux on an Apple Silicon Macbook. The drivers are definitely there!

FEX emulation of x86 on ARM CPUs has made many x86 games playable on my Macbook.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, which is different from a social democrat, as you labeled him. Yes, many of his proposed policies are steps toward social democracy, rather than actual socialism, but I can’t expect one mayor, even in one of the largest cities, to somehow enact real socialism.

That distinction aside: all we can do is apply pressure and hope that Mamdani doesn’t meaningfully sell-out the working class in NYC.

The Linux app is just the desktop app, which doesn’t have the functionality that the Android and iOS apps do. It only works when paired with an Android or iOS device, so you’d still be shackled to those ecosystems without proper support for a mobile Linux app.

Canonical does a lot of bad shit, but switching to uutils is not one of them. The “challenges” are expected because it’s going in a non-LTS release, which is basically meant to be a beta of the next LTS. And those challenges are being quickly addressed as they’re being surfaced. This is exactly the right way to introduce something new, IMO.

I don’t like the uutils pushover license license though :/

Because their sandboxing format subtly breaks so many applications (more than flatpak) and Canonical very nefariously co-opts your apt install <package> with a deb package that’s actually a stub to install the Snap version, so when your shit breaks, you can waste hours before you realize that they fucked your installation.

Beyond that, Snap cold start times (installations or updates) are slow as shit (yes, even with LZO compression), and since each snap application can update on its own, you’ll also encounter random times when your shit appears to “freeze” but what’s actually happening is Canonical is busy polluting your loopback devices to decompress their shittified version of your app.

Canonical, being demons, have Snapified things like GNOME, so even your desktop environment will be encumbered by that dogshit packaging format.

Do not use Ubuntu if you value your time and well-being.

Pedophile defender, Ted Cruz, doesn’t want you or your children to have privacy. I wonder why…

Rapist’s mentality.

Can we avoid calling taking action against valid moral objections “drama”? It only serves to make the people doing the right thing sound like they’re being immature, even when they’re obviously right.

Objecting to a fascist government’s influence over very powerful build infrastructure used around the world is the right thing to do.

This type of comment is indistinguishable from the low-tier, rage bait comments under every Phoronix article.