Soon, Purple Hat should be charging for systemd and hopefully other corpos and organizations will move back to sanity.

From systemd licenses readme:

Unless otherwise noted, the systemd project sources are licensed under the terms and conditions of LGPL-2.1-or-later (GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later).

New sources that cannot be distributed under LGPL-2.1-or-later will no longer be accepted for inclusion in the systemd project to maintain license uniformity.

I can understand critism of systemd for its tools only working with itself and not with any other Unix tools. But it’s absolutely a conspiracy theory to think they’d want to charge for systemd. Though I do agree that if someone was charging for systemd (which they can’t because its open source), open source alternatives would pop up.

Those are all good reasons. XFCE aims to support Wayland with the next release, so if they choose to use an established compositor it shouldn’t be too buggy.

With XFCE porting their apps over the setup shouldn’t change much, unless you’re using Xorg specific tools.

Over the last few years most features I’d expect from a windowing system were added to Wayland, so I expect the drama to cool down. (I don’t even know what’s still missing (except accessibility), with VRR, tearing, DRM leasing (VR), and global hotkeys being done. It’s just apps like Discord that have to cave in under the pressure to fix their apps.)

Once everything works, there’s no point talking about it.

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I wonder how long it’ll be possible to build Gnome with Xorg support. If I had to guess I’d say there won’t be any support within the next 3 years, because keeping future Gnome working with Xorg is work nobody wants to put in.

That said, Xwayland will likely keep being around for the foreseeable future.

Out of curiosity, do you use Xorg and if yes, what’s keeping you from using Wayland?

I’d say flatpak isn’t the future because it’s already here and seems to be universally accepted as the cross-distro package manager.

I do like how the Nix package manager handles dependencies, but it’s not suitable for app developers packaging their own apps because of its complexity.

If a better flatpak comes around I’d use it too, but at least for graphical apps I don’t know what it’d have to do to be better. In my opinion, flatpak is a prime example of good enough, but not perfect and I’d be surprised if there was a different tool with the same momentum in 15 years (except snap, but they seem too Ubuntu specific).

Bookmarks and GPX export is a great addition. OrganicMaps continues to improve and I find myself using OsmAnd less and less (unless I need specific features).

Great to see Unified Push on the list. As well as improved Wayland input method support, whatever that exactly means.

Hecken, 65, ist ein CDU-Mann und neigt eigentlich nicht zum Revoluzzertum. Doch die Geheimhaltungspläne der gegenwärtigen Bundesregierung bringen ihn auf die Palme, weil es dafür “keine wirtschaftlichen Vernunftgründe” gebe.

Wenn ich einem CDU-Politiker voll zustimmen kann, während Pharmakonzerne eine Gesetzesänderung begrüßen, ist ein Gesetz mit Sicherheit Blödsinn.

Das bisherige System aus Phantasiepreisen und Geheimverträgen, das die Staaten gegeneinander ausspielt und Patienten in ärmeren Ländern wichtige Medikamente vorenthält, könnten EU-Staaten nur gemeinsam überwinden. Die naheliegende Lösung wäre, die Preise für neue Medikamente zentral für die ganze EU auszuhandeln.

Mehr Transparenz, am besten EU-weit, hilft gegen Wucher. Wenn Preise komplett geheim sind, werden die Pharmakonzerne fordern was sie wollen - und die Gesllschaft (und Ärzte) wissen gar nichts davon.

I personally would be hesitant to host Immich publicly until they’ve done a security audit. The risk of accidentally exposing my photos publicly is too big for me.

That’s why I recommend using Tailscale or Wireguard directly. Personally I’m using Wireguard for me and Tailscale for other people I want to easily access my services.

(Of course, not realistic if you have 500GB of music and no SD card slot in your phone)

That’s the problem right there. SD card storage is so cheap, but the manufacturers don’t include a slot for it.

It’s a sad day. E.g. former MEP Felix Reda did incredible work around the time of the 2017 EU copyright reform and helped the protests through transparency.

Now with the risk of badly written laws enabling (atm. restricted) surveillance, we’d have needed them more than ever. Luckily there’s still MEPs from the Czech Republic in the EU parliament.

Ich bezweifle stark, dass man solche Kommentare als “Atomtrolle” oder Atomstartup(-investoren) abstempeln sollte. Der große Teil wird mit Sicherheit überzeugt von ihrem Standpunkt sein, ob aus Unwissenheit oder übertriebenen Erwartungen zur Endlagerung und Baukosten.

Auch ich war vor einigen Jahre durchaus überzeugt, dass die richtigen Reaktoren mit genügend Entwicklung und Zeit eine sinvolle Energiequelle sein könnten. Mit fallenden Kosten von Batterien und erneuerbaren Energien habe ich meine Meinung geändert, nicht zu vergessen habe ich mehr über die Atomkraftundustrie gelernt.

Leute als Trolle abzustempeln hilft mMn. niemandem weiter, sondern macht es nur einfacher, sich nicht mit Ihnen auseinander setzen zu müssen. Gerade auf Hackernews gibt es viele Leute, die glauben mit Technologie alles lösen zu können, ohne die unüberwindbaren politischen und sozialen Hindernisse zu akzeptieren.

Torrents are based on the idea that everyone using them pays for it with their bandwidth and hardware cost. Except for those leechers who don’t share.

I’m paying more for my seedbox than for my usenet subscription. If I used my own hardware I’d pay with stress on my hardware, e.g. the disks aging and failing earlier because of seeding. The power consumption is also not negligeble, altough the server is also used for other purposes.

With private trackers this idea of an equal exchange is more obvious because of ratio requirements.

Edit: I’d say it’s similar to open source in that no single individual has to pay for it, but someone does have to, for it to exist. Most often with their (valuable) time and knowledge. If no one helps out and does their part (through money or time+knowledge), a project won’t survive for long. Same is true for torrents.

I will be surprised if Spotify won’t announce a new more expensive HIFI subscription with their support for lossless audio. Imo this still makes it less interesting than Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz since it’ll still be impossible to permanently download music from Spotify.

Nonetheless it’s great that Spotify will provide lossless audio for those who want it.

Gut, dass das Gericht diese Mogelverpackungen verbietet. Abgesehen von der Kundentäuschung, sind übergroße Verpackungen sinnlose Resourcenverschwendung. Mehr Volumen sorgt für ineffizienteren Transport und führt damit zu Treibhausgasemmissionen, zusätzlich zu unnötigem Plastikmüll.

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Unter Firefox Android funktioniert die Umfrage problemlos, auch mit uBlock Origin.

It’s great how Firefox can be customized through userChrome.css und user.js. I’m only using the former to put the tab bar in the same row with the url bar to save vertical space while using sidebery/vertical tabs, but it’s good that it’s still available.

Visually impaired people prefer being able to use the browser and actually be able to understand the content of websites.

These features are local, private and improve accessibility, so I really don’t see any similarities with telemetry which can be turned off anyway.

The recent addition of local in-browser website translation is an awesome feature I’ve missed for many years. The only alternatives I’ve found previously were either paid or Google Translate plugins. This translation feature is an example of an AI feature they’ve added.

Yes, NixOS does need quite a bit of RAM while rebuilding (~1GB) and takes lots of storage because it keeps older generations (similar to OS snapshots) around.

Otherwise NixOS isn’t any more resource intensive than other OS. Anecdotal experience, but my NixOS system boots faster than Fedora Atomic with the same window manager and packages installed.

In any case, I’ve been using NixOS, Fedora Atomic and OpenSUSE MicroOS on my T480s without problems, so OP will be fine with any distro.