GnuLinuxDude

i hate rounded corners inspired by firefox 157. it’s time for me to vent my hate. enough of this shit. enough rounded corners. enough “pills”. the tyranny of the pill-shaped element is killing my enthusiasm for the computer.

www.nokarin.xyz/projects/aqloss#download This website is aggressively bad. Why does my cursor have to disappear completely when I stop moving and become a gray circle when I do move it? Way over-designed.

Gavin Gruesome at it again

And permissively licensed utils have been around thanks to BSD and it’s never been an issue.

The distinction is that BSD coreutils are not attempting to be a drop-in 1:1 compatible replacement of GNU coreutils. The Rust coreutils has already accomplished this with its inclusion into Ubuntu 26.04.

If I wanted a permissively licensed system, I'd use BSD. I don't, so I primarily use Linux. I think citing a proprietary OS like macOS as a reason why permissively licensed coreutils are OK is kind of funny. It's easy to forget that before before the GPL there were many incompatible UNIX systems developed by different companies, and IMO the GPL has kept MIT and BSD-licensed projects "Honest", so-to-speak. Without the GPL to keep things in check, we'd be back to how things were in the 80s.

So what's next on the docket for Ubuntu? A permissively licensed libc?

The student who wants to actually go learn something and become an expert in a field has to contend with the fact that universities are just gilded vocational schools. And at least in the USA you will go into a lot of debt if you don’t come from wealth just to get through it. And there are no promises of stable income and employment when you do get through it. So, while I think this person comes out the other end functionally no more informed than before, and I would not want to work with her, I can’t fault her for recognizing the bullshit that is the American education system and exploiting it. For my own part, I busted my ass through university and now I’m seeing all my efforts get gobbled up into AI, cheapening everything I’ve ever done and worked for, and possibly evicting me from my career sometime in the coming few years. That wasn’t a concern when I graduated, LLMs didn’t exist yet. But they do now for current and future students.

Overdue

What do you mean about VSCodium? Obviously it's just a differently compiled version of Microsoft's text editor, but what does Microsoft have to do with it, otherwise?

That is indeed absurdly fast.

VSCodium has never promoted itself as anything more than a compilation of VSCode's base with telemetry disabled and proprietary components, naturally, not included. It has never promised anything else than that. Of course the changes are "dutifully incorporated" into Codium. It's not a point of that project to be different. Your first remark made it seem like Microsoft has somehow infiltrated the VSCodium project and changed what it does.

There’s noai.duckduckgo.com and lite.duckduckgo.com to help you use DDG without this ai stuff and without having to fiddle with settings. Especially helpful if you frequently open private tabs and then the settings get cleared on normal DDG.

with three drives, raid1 doesn’t make sense

It's perfectly usable with a btrfs setup. If one drive fails, you can mount in a degraded state.

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Sorry but I find this claim irreconcilable with how SLES and Fedora default to btrfs with their installations, or how a company like Meta uses it across their entire fleet. I don’t know if Meta uses the raid feature directly or if they use, as you suggested, mdraid with btrfs on top. I know that that’s what Synology does.

I’m not sure what you are suggesting as the alternative. Nor do I know what silent btrfs corruption bug you are referring to, either. Btrfs has been widely deployed in enterprise and personal environments for years, and I cannot find evidence of data loss due to the file system itself.

Interesting. Looks like I have some reading to do.

Damn. And I thought 3 disks was risky...

three disks to get 6tb/2=3tb of available space

Exactly! A happy outcome when using this FS.

My concern with ZFS is I use Fedora, so the kernel updates really frequently. I know that it kicks ass, but I just like having it straightforward in my kernel that I already have installed so that I never have to deal with a

If kernel module can not be loaded, your kernel version might be not yet supported by OpenZFS. An option is to an LTS kernel from COPR, provided by a third-party. Use it at your own risk:

situation. (https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Fedora/index.html)

That's a good point about scrubbing on RAID5. I don't think I really want to spend time on that ever. RAID1 at least sounds less complex both in terms of setup and down-the-line maintenance.

I was unfamiliar with single mode. What advantage does it give me over RAID0 in terms of combining their capacities?

it’s really sad that so man people lingered on this dogshit website after that fuckhead elon musk bought it