Technically, if you had tons of time and a solid understanding of Linux inside and out, you might be able to pull it off, but it’s not worth the hassle at all.

This is what I thought. Preferably “from the outside” i.e. while the system isn’t running. But all you “saved” in the end is the filesystem the original OS was installed on, and possibly personal data (which probably is the reason OP is even asking).

Theoretically yes, practically no.

+1 for openSUSE btw.

Personally I don’t use a separate /home partition. Software versions can differ significantly between distros and this has plenty of potential to effectively fuck up your system anyhow*.

I use a separate data partition instead, and hook it into my home with symlinks. Pictures, Documents, Videos etc. - these are usually those that take the most disk space anyhow, by a large margin.

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Oh I see. I don’t hate apple, it just seemed like an extremely bad choice to install it now on a 15yo device. Or bad taste to have mock boot screen.

But this is fascinating.

Does it work?

De-soldering should be ok to start with. Yes, I have heard that too. I’m guessing the “special technique” just means that you make sure the battery does not get too hot. Special tin might be required (that melts earlier).

I just remembered something - often (and more likely the older the device is) - the battery consists of an array of standard cells which can be bought separately. So if you feel adventurous you can pry the battery open, unsolder the cells, test each one separately - chances are there’s just one that’s completely dead, thus making the whole thing unusable.

I love netbooks. I regret selling mine after Archlinux went 64bit only. It was beautiful (all pearly white) and small and the keyboard was perfectly usable even for my fat fingers.

What’s that apple doing there? That’s vile.

If you think the battery isn’t just dead dead dead and resetting the on-battery chip somehow can help, I’d like to know how, too.

Thanks! Unfortunately my system is not KDE so it would pull in too much.

yelp (help for gnome) can render HTML, too.

I’ve been trying different things; in the end I guess something like yad or zenity is still the best. netsurf is really fast but I don’t know how to style it as a viewer without a toolbar/urlbar.

I’d love to find a simple frontend to litehtml.

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Let’s say it together: No, it isn’t

For actual tutorials the Wiki is the best choice.

Reviews etc. I always found pointless, and esp. with Arch because of its user-centricity: each install will be different.

FWIW I’ve been using it for 10 years and the only gripe I have is that my hardware is getting old while Arch isn’t.

The one I’m using right now of course!

I’m saddened to think that altruism in software has gone to the gutter

Yeah me too but it’s been a long time coming. Ubuntu started it decades ago by replacing the altruism* with a warm and fuzzy “sense of community” while exploiting the enthusiasm of largely unpaid coders, Google certainly has done this for a long while, and by now it’s just how you do your basic FOSS Kickstarter campaign.

All that really brings is “more customers”, and doG knows that’s not what the whole of GNU/Linux needs.

Over the years I have developed a sense for how projects present themselves before choosing one that suits my needs. Because the sane ones, both feet on the ground types, that do GPL and accept donations (or sometimes offer paid support), those still exist, old and new.

* a form of altruism btw that does not exclude egoism!

Ah, OK. No, of course not. I was thinking more about hobby developers.

But somebody else already pointed it out: MIT makes a project more attractive for investors. Follow the $£€

Maybe there could be another reason why people choose MIT to begin with:

When you start a new repo on github it makes suggestions which license to use, and I bet many people can’t be arsed to think about it and just accept what they’re offered. [My memory is a little patchy since I very rarely use github anymore, but I definitely remember something like this.] And maybe github tends to suggest MIT.

That said, please undestand that many, many git platforms exist and there is no reason at all to choose one of the two that actually have the word git in them.

getting rid of the gpl is the motivation behind e.g. companies sponsoring clang/llvm so hard right now

And there it is. Follow the money.

Avatar checks out.

we could modify the desktop environment and make it waaaaay lighter by getting rid of jpg or png icons and just using pure svg on it

That’s already happening.

You can also change the main color of many SVGs (icons or even desktop backgrounds) with one simple edit, one command, one click.

In web sites, you can assign CSS classes to SVG graphics and thus e.g. change their color according to a theme.

That’s my extent of fiddling with it.

IIRC they also use fonts the same way CSS/HTML does.

BTW, there are situations where an SVG is significantly larger than a corresponding raster image. It depends on the content.

Reddit was already a nieche social media platform.

was niche

So, h264 video playback at 1080px works flawlessly, and flac audio. What about

• other codecs
• hardware accel, e.g. for h265?