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Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run

June 4, 2021 Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run2021-06-30T15:41:03+01:00 12 Comments apocalypse, AppImages, ClearLinux, Cloud, containers, DaaS, edge computing, emulators, fedora, Flatpaks, GeForceNOW, GoboLinux, Guix, Linux, MoccacinoOS, NixOS, openSUSE, PaaS, packages, Red Hat, SaaS, sandboxing, silverblue, snaps, Ubuntu, virtualization

10-15 years ago, there were many more Linux distros, and a lot of enthusiasm around Linux. Vibrant communities, positive vibes, unlike today. And most people were still dual-booting with Windows,…

I had forgotten why I shouldn’t trust Ubuntu… but neither many other distros!

May 31, 2021 I had forgotten why I shouldn’t trust Ubuntu… but neither many other distros!2024-03-23T01:45:51+01:00 3 Comments arch, Debian, fedora, Linux, Manjaro, MATE (desktop), openSUSE, salientos, security, Thunar, Ubuntu, XFCE, Xubuntu

Security, security, security! Patches, patches, patches! This happened to me before, but poor me, I forgot about it, for it's been years since I wasn't into Ubuntu anymore. Updated with…

Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?

May 23, 2021 Is there a midway between Long-Time Support and quicksand?2024-09-25T20:47:34+01:00 4 Comments Debian, fedora, kernel, Linux, lite, Microsoft, MX, Red Hat, Ubuntu

Before trying to explain the question, I can already tell you that the answer is negative. The so-called midway was possible when people were using Win98, WinXP or Win7. Nowadays,…

Béranger on Why are people using Brave Search?: “So Brave is not reliable: “Share public link: Anyone with this link can view this conversation. Once shared, this conversation…” Apr 27, 08:10
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “● The Graystones flew Evan and Jake in for another set of covers: Journey’s, Lights… Cover by The Graystones ft.…” Apr 26, 23:35
Aldus on Why are people using Brave Search?: “The shared conversation is not accessible. The page opens blank. Goggles seems like a nice feature.” Apr 26, 23:15
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The same Carl Richell, with an update: The amended CO SB51 bill with a strong exemption for open source distros…” Apr 25, 21:04
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “OK, so I needed to update the list of 3 chatbots in current use.” Apr 25, 04:05
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “💡 Testing to see whether a chatbot gives “rizz” as one of the possible answers to this prompt: “There was…” Apr 25, 02:09
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “I outsmarted both Grok and Qwen! I needed a solution to a technical (web-related) problem. Grok Fast was completely useless…” Apr 25, 02:08
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Same here. Exactly the same.” Apr 24, 23:42
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Grok tries to piss me off. I wasn’t able to get a non-Fast answer in days! Maybe the days of…” Apr 24, 23:30
HAL on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “It’s difficult to find a “small, snappy everyday AI chatbot” that’s without flaws. Unfortunately, that’s true. 😞 Nevertheless, it seems…” Apr 24, 17:49
Béranger on Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce: “Nuance: Kimi Instant, even in version 2.6, can be too stupid, and it might try to reason by looping endlessly…” Apr 24, 00:10
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76, on Mastodon: I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill. * Open source…” Apr 22, 01:26
Béranger on Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs: “I just went down to 3 chatbots: Here’s why.” Apr 21, 18:14
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.4.0 was released. Cumulative updates and changes include: 2.4.0: • Simplified the scaling down of huge comics. • Defined…” Apr 20, 01:46
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “YouTube has been occupied by the Chinese! Is this a propaganda op by the Chinese government masquerading as genuine personal…” Apr 19, 22:54
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Lofi Girl (Wikipedia: “formerly ChilledCow until 2021”) is maybe the only set of (improperly labeled) lo-fi music livestreams (not only…” Apr 19, 22:31
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “POLITICO: Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. Piotr Müller, a Polish…” Apr 17, 23:24
Béranger on Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI: “Răzvan Rughiniș se întoarce! Cum ne manipulează creatorii Inteligenței Artificiale (49:52) Capitole: 00:00 INTRO 04:50 Cum ar trebui să ne…” Apr 16, 12:42
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Bad news regarding the US and the EU: ● Linuxiac: Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire…” Apr 16, 09:16
Béranger on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Parcă ar fi catifeaua unor scaune de cinema-teatru-operă de odinioară.” Apr 15, 12:17
Aldus on Coraliu și purpuriu: mereu am avut o problemă cu culorile: “Uite ce știam eu că este culoarea purpuriu (sau roșu-purpuriu): mostră. Cred că așa erau colorate mantiile unor regi din…” Apr 15, 12:01
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Total Commander? Nope. I don’t use orthodox (dual-panel) file managers, and a smartphone is even less suitable for that than…” Apr 15, 10:39
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “thanks for your thoroughly comeback. sadly, nothing is now like it used to be. sad times we are living. regarding…” Apr 15, 10:31
edel on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “As all that rage is justified, make one note, any, and I mean it, with any Democratic leader nothing would…” Apr 13, 22:42
Béranger on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “It gets better and better. Now Trump is Jesus (he deleted this shit, but everyone saw it):” Apr 13, 13:32
Ned on As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist: “(After resisting joining for years before this), I got cancelled about 16 years ago, after having the account a few…” Apr 13, 04:22
Ned on Can’t anyone stop this retarded high-sea pirate?: “Thank you for existing. Keep on raging; it makes me feel less alone and therefore a particle less in despair.” Apr 13, 04:18
Béranger on The day GoComics went bad: “I added a note to clarify that the JS barrier used by GoComics to prevent the direct downloading of pages…” Apr 12, 22:59
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Rotring Tikky isn’t anymore what it used to be. I found some Rotring Tikky III mechanical pencils in a supermarket.…” Apr 11, 00:07
Béranger on The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump: “Apparently, Anthropic believed there would be people interested in reading this 245-page System Card: Claude Mythos Preview.” Apr 10, 11:48
Béranger on Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang: “GPU-accelerated Linux terminal apps, ligatures, and “Linux terminals built for coding agents”: a chat with Kimi. It even talked “about…” Apr 9, 20:41
Béranger on Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!: “Maybe Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang would help.” Apr 9, 14:04
ConEst on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “Passed all those tests 🙂” Apr 8, 21:02
Béranger on Everything is beta these days, especially KDE Plasma: “The Spectacle crash has officially been fixed in Plasma 6.6.4. Look for the commit regarding layer-shell-qt. It literally reads, “Fix…” Apr 8, 05:57
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “Issue #42796: [MODEL] Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates ● Discussion on Hacker News…” Apr 7, 22:40
edel on Today, I visited China (online): “Oh… Spain. Unfortunately I am not traveling any longer, so perceptions get biased now. The real number is, of course,…” Apr 7, 07:32
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “On medical leave? In what country? Not so many in Germany or Romania. But very low spirited indeed.” Apr 7, 03:23
edel on Today, I visited China (online): “Last time I was in China was more than a decade ago and by then already 90% of bikes I…” Apr 6, 23:51
Béranger on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “Ah, you’re a mechanical pencil person! B and 2B are very pleasant to use. Many low-quality HB leads are often…” Apr 5, 22:52
Béranger on SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too: “Regarding the 3-2-1 backup rule (3 copies, 2 media types, 1 offsite), Christopher Barnatt came up with an updated version…” Apr 5, 21:38
dan on Handwriting is fitness for the brain, they say (uni-ball agrees): “I enjoy writing with Penac CCH-3 0.7 mm and Rotring Tikky II 0.5 mm with Staedtler 2B (I don’t like…” Apr 5, 13:09
Béranger on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “Today, one of the 3 mice I’m using is an ultra-light Redragon K1NG LITE M916W-LIT-1K, and I love it! OTOH,…” Apr 4, 22:59
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “Well, in the 1990s, in Slackware, I used to build my kernels. I never built a kernel in the last…” Apr 4, 22:56
EJ W on No more quality for the peripherals Made in China: “I am a gamer, and I completely agree with everything you said about gamer products, the consumers are fools, they…” Apr 4, 17:45
Alex on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “He is a Gentoo developer actually. I was a Gentoo user for too many years (I’m not “normal” 😀) and…” Apr 4, 12:10
Béranger on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “A fabulous article indeed, especially if you follow the links! I pondered over a few topics, but eventually I decided…” Apr 4, 00:20
Béranger on AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain: “Ministerul Finanțelor insistă în retardul lor mental: „BF-CHAIN oferă cetățenilor un control direct și transparent asupra bonurilor fiscale primite.”” Apr 3, 21:53
Béranger on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “If it’s CVE-2023-52076, then the problem is in the design of such viewers: This vulnerability is capable of writing arbitrary…” Apr 3, 21:18
Béranger on Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică: “Regnele regnă. Reginele reginează sau reginesc.” Apr 3, 19:29
zugu on Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică: “Eu regnez, tu regnezi, el regnează.” Apr 3, 19:27
Dmknght on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “IMO, any application that works with untrusted data needs AppArmor profiles. For example, there was a path traversal in Atril,…” Apr 3, 13:38
Dmknght on Why are people consenting to using AppArmor or SELinux?: “Completely agree with this. On server side, malicious activities are usually executed by “www-data/nginx” user (at least for web servers).…” Apr 3, 13:25
Alex on What I didn’t know about TypeScript’s toolchain: “A great article on the topic: Greybeard’s tomb: the lost treasure of language design.” Apr 3, 10:12
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The first time I heard the Graystones was mid-December a few months ago. A few videos had already been taken…” Apr 3, 03:08
Béranger on Apple is still the worst of all: “Minimalistic mobile OSes should be the rule in the age of web apps. However, for security reasons, authenticators (I’m using Microsoft…” Apr 3, 00:31
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Fixed/updated logos and added a few more streams.” Apr 3, 00:28
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “A few more insights (UPDATE 3).” Apr 3, 00:14
JimboBob on Apple is still the worst of all: “I liked Firefox OS and still own that ZTE phone. It doesn’t work much now of course. Since then, I…” Apr 3, 00:11
Béranger on Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱: “A few insights on Claude Code added at the end (UPDATE 2).” Apr 2, 20:30
Béranger on On public demand: quick RAM figures: “Added Debian XFCE and Xebian stable to the comparison.” Apr 1, 22:59