Any intel on affected, high-profile software?

Eh, isn’t that argument more about being greedy for ressources rather than capital in particular? I mean, why did empires conquer stuff?

How does your boot setup look? Reinstalling the bootloader or regenerating the boot image could help. Should be easy, not matter whether its GRUB2 or systemd-boot. Config is managed separately. Might want to have a look at that as well.

With Dracut it’s also very easy to generate and configure your boot image. Don’t know how it works with that Arch native tool.

To correct some oversimplifications in this thread, let me just summarise some facts:

Crypto is exactly as worthless as money.

Not all crypto is bad for the climate, see for example Etherium and Solana.

Crypto has legitimate uses, especially as a replacement for traditional bank transactions, which to remind everyone, are basically made up numbers and ‘trust me bro’-s. And I will explicitly include smart contracts and NFTs here, just to annoy people who don’t get them.

Not all crypto is private. In fact, it was designed to be the opposite, hence most crypto isn’t private at all.

While not all crypto is private, even less ways to spend or exchange crypto are private. A simple and also very private thing is cash.

I think the main complaint is that it seems like Canonical is trying take control of Linux packaging. Don’t they handle their stuff in a way that pretty much prevents third party ‘Snap Stores’? Like, their backend being closed source and their software only accepting their own signatures?

Aren’t they installed by default on Mint? Definitely are on some distros, I think EndeavourOS and Garuda Linux for example

“That’s neat, I wonder whether I can configure it…”

Pointieststick, Itsfoss, GamingOnLinux, KDE Blogs

Linux basically cannot damage hardware in any way that Windows couldn’t. The hardware/firmware decides what interfaces it offers and what you can configure. If any hardware puts these roadblocks only in the driver or some UI, and (for whatever reason) only the Windows version, I guess you could.

Would be a really strange thing to do tho, since most just implement a generic driver that works everywhere and then at most an interface on top of that.

Package: Uses version of other package dev told it to

User: Complains

Germany, 7€/month, 7GB, sms + phone flat

Let me tell you a couple things about PhDs in CS:

• Research is highly competitive, avoid if don’t have ambition or can’t handle constant pressure
• Some (most) jobs do not require PhDs, but most will care about practical experience and age
• Research is a lot of work. If you want a peer group, you work 40h a week, then peer review stuff for your buddies. You will need buddies, because you need peer reviews too of course
• (As you already mentioned) at least until you have your PhD, pay is between bad and insulting

If you do have the ambition to land a top-tier position in the end, maybe even stay and compete in research, go for it. If you love doing research, go for it. If you just want the title, just don’t. Go work somewhere. Best case they offer a PhD programme at the company or you can earn certificates and whatnot

There is no such thing as a feature that doesn’t need documentation. Anyone who thinks so is asking everyone else not to use it

How come you instantly believe this narrative?

Connecting to any trustworthy VPN at the very least:

1. Encrypts your connection entirely and ensures you are connected to a party you trust
2. Limits snooping in your traffic to one party you trust

Which is objectively not a scam and a desirable thing to do. Not as desirable as hosting your own VPN, but 100% better than not having one, no matter what some guy on the internet says.

Have you considered that you can be attracted to more than one thing, and that this may evolve over time? You don’t expect people to be like ‘I’m gay now’ at age 12 and then automatically have zero interest in anything else, do you?

I mean, why support another API if you have already implemented one, right? Pretty sure there is a Flatpak Version of Proton, wo you can somehow bundle it as well

Bruh, you need a new name. “EU OS” is both terribly bland and super hard to pronounce. I guess they got screwed by EndeavourOS and e/OS already occupying EOS already, but you can do better. Let me try:

EurOS (self-explanatory) Ios (as a play on Io, the mythological ancestor of Europa and, in my humble opinion, a brilliant mocking of iOS) BoIS (Boring Independence System… Why yes, I do like Rust and Arch, how did you know?) PlutOS (Lowest layer, ruler of the underworld, get it? Get it? Okay, it mainly sounds cool.)

Can we please just ban distro war ragebait?

It’s 2025 and I’m sick and tired of it. You can feel cool for using a specific distro for all I care, you are embarrassing yourself at worst. You are toxic for shitting on other distros or creating an adversarial narrative tho

I mean, good for him I guess? Comparing Mint to Arch is about as pointless as comparing Mint to headless Debian.