Sometimes it is pleasant to defederate from an instance, especially if nothing of value is lost.

But it seems like there are other easy distros with lenient requirements that don’t try to force Snaps and ads on their users.

Anything that keeps maps in local storage so you can use GPS while offline is somewhere between very helpful and lifesaving. Sounds like Osmand is in there.

Organic Maps lets you download also. I got it specifically for backpacking because it enabled that. It certainly has been worth the $0. I should probably donate something each trip.

That kind of contribution seems like a lower level of effort than making changes to source code.

The sheets in the motel room, that’s insane. A while back I read something like a stalker caught a reflection in someone’s eye at a train station, that’s horrific enough. But I would have thought being indoors is relatively safe. It is like impossible to put out video content at all without being vulnerable.

How on earth are these psychos able to find streamers’ actual addresses?

It is easy, though? I cannot even use it correctly. I just know some of the commands and that if you hold down shift it goes backwards.

I’m about to do some SELinux workarounds. I want to install an SELinux package in a VM to build rpm-ostree images, but installing that breaks the Incus agent inside the VM when it cannot listen on a socket. Any advice on how to go about it? I’m pretty new with anything SELinux.

I do this also except I need to get in the habit of documenting every single problem instead of just recurring ones. I should start using one of those local server shell history databases, too.

If you want atomic Fedora but don’t want to deal with the ignition file stuff, check out Fedora IoT.

I saw some people talking about niri just recently and plan to give that a try soon.

The atomicity probably counts as an interesting feature, but it does seem to be getting more popular.

“Nearly all real numbers are normal (basically no real numbers are not normal), but we’re only aware of a few. This one literally non-computable one for sure. Maybe sqrt(2).”

Gotta love it.

Does ublue have any plans to do variants of Fedora IoT? CoreOS seems more targeted for cloud than home servers. The ignition file is a benefit if you want to spin up hundreds of servers but a bit of a hindrance if you just starting out at home with a machine or two.

If they are just installing to a single machine and don’t need drivers or kernel mods I’d suggest IoT over bothering with anything CoreOS.

Sounds like you ramped up pretty quickly! Were you pretty familiar with the terminal beforehand or just jumping in?

I’m chronically unable to finish projects but with such a fantastic tool maybe this one is the one? I’ll try follow up if get something going.

Thank you for sharing those links, I have been struggling with making rpm-ostree compose go from a yaml to an ISO, these look like they might reduce the level of effort!

It’s atomic! If the latest version you try has issues you can roll back to the last one that was working. It’s really cool. You cannot write to anything other than /etc and /var unless you make a reversible commit on top of the system base image.

How do you unit test something like that?

Snake coiled around the pie chart swallowing its own tail.

My experience with DKMS is that it is fucked on every distro. I was using Debian at the time and it somehow broke.