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  • My first distro was Suse Linux 8.1. I had to buy the box as downloading was not an option with my dial-up connection back then. However, the first distro that I fell in love with was Fedora Core. The original one. I bought the book which had the DVD with the full installation. I was hooked. That was more than 20 years ago.

  • How to disable firefox relay?
  • Ctrl+Shift+A will get you to Add-ons and Themes. Click on Extensions, if it is not already chosen. Among your extensions you should see relay. Click the switch to the right to turn it off or the three dots to remove it completely.

  • Is linux good for someone tech illererate.
  • For someone as tech illiterate as my mom, I'd advise against trying it. But you are here and my mom would never know that Lemmy is a thing. You also ask about Linux.
    I'd guess that you will have great fun using and appreciating what Linux and the foss communities have created.

  • Albert Einstein Letter to The New York Times 1948 (Regarding atrocities in Palestine)
  • Israel is not a single entity but a collection of collections who do not agree with each other. Just like any country you will find everything there. The problem is always the militants (e.g. IDF, Hamas in this case) and the dominant minority of people yielding authority over violence. The rest of the people are just that: people. With different thoughts, aspirations, suffering and preconceptions. Just like all of us here. Therefore, there is no "One Israel" that wants us to believe something specific. Depends on who you talk to.

  • Albert Einstein Letter to The New York Times 1948 (Regarding atrocities in Palestine)
  • Nope. Not the way we understand communism today. Our understanding of communism in 2023 is very different from 1935-45. Most likely you and I would have been sympathetic to communism then, and Einstein would condemn communism in later years (e.g. today) if he was alive.

  • synthesizers @sopuli.xyz TrivialBetaState @sopuli.xyz
    Share your music

    It's been quiet here for some time. Let's make some noise and share the music we make!

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    Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
  • You have a point here indeed. But it is much easier to create a CLI tool that combines the updates of all systems rather than destroying the incredible things that flatpak and pip offer. A five-line bach script would do. Although, a reliable distro would probably want to rely on something much more elegant and harder to break. For Fedora specifically, the python-based dnf tool should be straightforward to be extended to do that. Perhaps the Debian apt tool has a lot of functionality to carry on and may be harder to do. In the essence of unix philosophy and modular approach, it should be a separate tool. I'm looking forward to that too.

  • Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
  • I know that a lot of people share the same thoughts with you but I respectfully disagree. If you want your system to be updated only with your apt/yum/dnf program, then just don't install anything useing snap/flatpak/etc. Sure, you will not have all the apps available in the repos, which was also the case in the past before these systems. Back then, your only option was to compile from source, which was more work-intensive than flatpaks/appimages/snaps. And updating was also much more complicated. Therefore, unless you wanted something really special, you'd stick to your repos. Flatpaks allow developers to distribute their software (and users to install it) in a less labour-intensive manner for the developer. Compiling and testing your app for Debian, Fedora, Arch, SuSE, MX-Linux, Linux Mint, Linux Mint DE, Gentoo, and all the other popular distros is an impossible task for small developers. Flatpaks was a godsend for them and for the users who don't want to compile from source. Now, you can argue that we shouldn't have all these systems (flatpak, snap, appimage, docker, etc...) but one would be OK. And again I will disagree. One of the most important aspects of FOSS is diversity. Embrace it even with its drawbacks. It would require a much longer post to explain this and others have done it already better than I would.

  • That's my message
  • Either Linux or GNU/Linux is OK to me. It's the practice that makes the difference. While I mostly use Debian, which defines itself as GNU/Linux and I appreciate every aspect of it, I recognise that Arch Linux (which drops the GNU) has a much healthier approach to free software than Red Hat (recently at least), which defines itself as GNU/Linux but adds clauses to RHEL which are against the spirit of free software. I prefer using GNU/Linux because, as a statement, respects things that are important to me. Of course, I am totally cool with other people using any term they feel more comfortable with.

  • That's my message

    I cancelled my subscription since I received a notification that my browser is not supported. Perhaps I should have mentioned my issues with DRM as well, but this may have gone too far. One message is clear, too many messages are noise.

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    Ad from 1985 - A saying about source code

    I found this ad from Personal Computer World (UK) in 1985. I think we all like their moto! Has anyone heard of this company? They don't seem to be still around from an internet search I did. But people who worked there may have had an interesting career (hopefully!)

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    Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985

    How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?

    In today's money (inflation adjusted)

    This an ad from Personal Computer World (UK) from 1985

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    RHEL, Reddit, firing employees in the IT sector: Corporate mentality flexes its muscles

    Red Hat used to be one of the champions of FOSS. The last years, after being acquired by IBM, they bought and castrated CentOS and now restrict public access to "their" code.

    Reddit used to be the healthiest commercial social network (and probably still remains in that place) but chose to severe the ability of third party developers to use their API, thus closing their ecosystem.

    Many IT companies have fired staff the last year and appear to be more assertive in regard to the working conditions of their remaining employees.

    I wouldn't say that the above is an indication that the IT sector, which relies on highly educated people, keeps moving in the right direction...

    I'd say that both Red Hat and Reddit maintain their position on the "ethical pedestal" but surely, these actions indicate their tension to step down in order to improve their balances. I am not an economist but it seems that they are likely to achieve short term profit (and Reddit may not achieve this either) and develop long term weaknesses.

    Perhaps it's time to stop relying on commercial entities for our activities and strengthen community projects, which will remain open for companies to contribute and thrive but will never control.

    While these thoughts extend well beyond the GNU/Linux ecosystem, I cannot think of a better community to sympathise with these thoughts.

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    Pines by the sea - Ionian Blue

    Wordless

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    chess @sopuli.xyz TrivialBetaState @sopuli.xyz
    Favourite GM

    Let's start this community by remembering our favourite GMs in chess history. It doesn't have to be the best but our personal favourite. And you don't have to mention just one. Feel free to add a comment on why you find them Great!

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    chess @sopuli.xyz TrivialBetaState @sopuli.xyz
    Welcome to the chess community

    Hello everyone (sounds familiar? :)

    Let's start a community of our favourite game here in the fediverse.

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    synthesizers @sopuli.xyz TrivialBetaState @sopuli.xyz
    Welcome to synthesizers

    Share whatever you want here about synthesizers. Photos of your studio, music you make, patches, favourite synths, your questions about equipment

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    Linux Foundation and big tech back RISC-V software ecosystem
    www.theregister.com Linux Foundation and friends back RISC-V software ecosystem

    Aiming to get a RISE out of processor architecture as tech giants commit engineering talent

    Linux Foundation and friends back RISC-V software ecosystem

    Linux foundation and a number of big names in tech commit top talent and invest on RISC-V. The companies that support this initiative are, among others, Google, Intel, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Samsung, SiFive, etc.

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