Welcome Reddit refugees, glad to have some fresh faces 'round these parts.
I make plymouth do the verbose mode because it’s cool and hacker-y. Also I like when it says “failed” and I know what failed. For a few weeks I kept having to manually start firewalld and I never would have known otherwise, update seems to have fixed that though.
Tbf, I really only have experience with fedora and thus systemd, so, I like it but I “don’t know what I’m missing” in a sense.
Same, can’t switch off Subbed/Active(or hot idr).
Yeah that is annoying as hell. Like I get it if it’s just like “my files are private, I’ll open them if you have shares” but that whole “I need X album FLAC and a $50 baskin robbins gift card and then I might share with you” shit is the lamest thing I’ve ever seen.
As long as you know your supposed “goal” of “helping” isn’t accomplished and that server now hates you, and the owner you’re opposing got his share and doesn’t even know you exist, do what you wish I suppose.
And that’ll only hurt the poor employee’s efforts to pay rent this month. The employer could care less, and sure you may make them mad enough that you’re the last straw and they quit, but I’d be hard pressed to think you’re magnanimous for it.
It’s definitely still active, Praise “Bob”. Idk about the dependancies though.
I think I will soon, thanks for the pep talk lol, I legit did need it! I think that even if the process is a little tough, it’s possible that the product brings me Slack. Hell maybe I’ll like the process too, who knows, learning can bring Slack sometimes too!
“Stuff” should be a compression tool, you tar it, then gz it, then stuff it down even further into tar.gz.stuff
I actually am interested partly because of their history, the creator is of the same religion as I am and his creation was announced in like '94 on the old Hour Of Slack radio show affiliated with said religion. In fact, Slackware is a direct nod to our concept of Slack, and there’s even pics of our guru J. R. “Bob” Dobbs on the slackware site in the banners section. I know it isn’t dead because 15 came out earlier this year (or was it late last year?) so they must be active and not dead, just hard to find lol.
Thanks for the advice, I’ll maybe try it on an old asus I use mainly for booting tails on soon. That’s the only device I have with windows for emergencies and nothing I have is powerful enough to run VMs I don’t think, but tbh that windows install barely works and I haven’t needed it in two years, so “fuck it,” right?
How hard is it? I really want to try Slackware one day but I’m not the most adept at linux yet. Really only have experience with Fedora, Tails, Puppy, and antix so far.
Hard to find people to ask about it, as you said because of the smaller userbase. I did look yesterday though and there are some youtube videos on slackware 15 set up, so I may be ok with those. Still kinda nervous lol.
Fedora for me, what I started on. Want to try Slackware though.
Fair, the community is usually the one to help with that, when I did research before installing they told me that non free drivers like nvidia or broadcom would present an additional challenge and told me how to fix it, so I guess I knew going in and didn’t consider people not doing that first.
A cross between gerbil and boa constrictor.
No I don’t mean “food.” Jerboa.
Great post, saved for future use. I’d say myself that while Fedora may not be aimed at beginners, it is pretty good for beginners nonetheless. It’s what I started on (after dipping my toes in Tails, which also has it’s use cases but more importantly here demystified linux for me and made me comfortable with it. Then windows pissed me off one last time and the rest is history.)
The fedora community in my experience has been very helpful, though that was reddit, so we shall see what the future holds.
Thanks for the heads up, I was worried for a second especially with the recent FedoraFiasco.
This works 100%.
XMPP (with omemeo) is the classic (and also what FB messenger uses behind the scenes, without omemo), Matrix is the new kid on the block taking over. Both are decentralized sorta like the fediverse (but separate from said fediverse.)
Used to use Signal, but they’re removing SMS support so everyone might as well switch to matrix. Wickr was bought by amazon (and they say they won’t ruin it, riiiight), so that’s out. Idk enough about briar or session, and telegram isn’t as secure as people seem to think.
Flesh Gordon.
No that isn’t a typo.
Yes it is exactly what you think.
Yes it is hilariously bad.
I’ve been seeing stuff about this but I don’t quite understand, what does this mean for Fedora? Do I need to switch too?
To be fair, this is how almost every social media site works. If you really need private comms away from all prying eyes, it’d be better to exchange email/pgp, matrix, or xmpp details through an ostensibly “private” message (i.e not a comment) here (or wherever) and do your super secret stuff there. That of course isn’t perfect as they can save the logs and all so if they’re compromised at any point it is possible to be an issue, but whaddayagonnado. Depends on your threat model anyway.
It’s also possible that you can use pgp here (though that also lacks forward secrecy), but I haven’t tested it. You’d likely have to use three of these ` to
indicate codefor it to format correctly though.Still though, such is life for social media, assume nothing is private unless you make it so, and even then hope that stays uncracked.