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DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)

January 6, 2025 DistroWatch Weekly as a shithole (plus two tips)2026-03-06T20:33:18+01:00 2 Comments Dedoimedo, idiocy, IPv6, Linux, security, tips

I am banned from commenting on DWW for years, and I don't remember exactly why. I don't remember to have had any interaction with Jesse Smith, but Ladislav Bodnar didn't…

From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey

October 1, 2024 From AlmaLinux KDE to Ubuntu MATE: the unlikely journey2025-12-08T23:11:54+01:00 12 Comments AlmaLinux, Flatpaks, GNOME, gtk, IPv6, KDE, Linux, longread, MATE (desktop), snaps, SPECIAL

This is going to look like a post using twisted logic to justify an illogical decision. But humans are not guided exclusively by what we love to call reason; they're…

UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage

August 26, 2024 UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage2025-01-07T03:03:07+01:00 7 Comments idiocy, IPv6, kernel, Linux, Microsoft, security

I'm fundamentally against UEFI, against Secure Boot, against encrypted partitions and against a number of other modern obsessions. But let's talk a bit about the way Microsoft recently broke GRUB.…

Béranger on Hibernation, ZRAM and mental retardation in Linux: “ZRAM becomes more and more interesting. In October 2025, I used Zswap (not ZRAM!) in Lubuntu 25.10. In December 2025,…” Mar 11, 18:30
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “The Reg: Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks. Carl Richell: Today, I met…” Mar 11, 00:55
Béranger on I might not be human, after all: “Indeed, it was painful to choose between such “masterpieces.”” Mar 10, 22:20
Jeo on I might not be human, after all: “Both human and AI written passages offered for evaluation sound artificial and pretentious to me. That is no good quality…” Mar 10, 21:50
Béranger on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Her, who? Her? as machines age, it gets worse over time. With a separate /home partition, the OS can be…” Mar 10, 19:38
HAL on AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE: “Ubuntu? Would you like to go with her, given her (possible? probable?) future direction? 😳 Well, Fedora… pff, but maybe…” Mar 10, 19:34
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Narratives: Trump’s vs. Iran’s. Trump: Trump is speaking about Iran again in Florida, a couple of hours after saying the…” Mar 9, 22:51
Drath on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “I genuinely enjoy AI music, though not the youtube streaming stuff, but weekly tops on suno and udio. That is…” Mar 9, 11:07
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky was a true Nostradamus!” Mar 8, 20:50
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “I very much liked JFS myself! But you already knew that.” Mar 8, 20:27
HAL on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “In the past, I used XFS and liked it, but I also used JFS, which I preferred. I never had…” Mar 8, 20:26
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’d rather believe you’re masochistic… or maybe you invented a new religion, and you stick to it. This is not…” Mar 8, 20:12
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Believe me, I’m a big fan of the K.I.S.S. principle. What you consider (in theory) “unnecessary complications,” for me (in…” Mar 8, 19:15
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “George Carlin is eternal!” Mar 8, 14:56
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I’m mostly focused on unnecessary complications. Are you familiar with The Incredible Machine, or you’re too young for that? You…” Mar 8, 14:52
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, just a few more clarifications based on daily technology use: a) IMHO, you’re very focused on the performance issue…” Mar 8, 14:48
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi about native booting from a VHDX. Its answer includes, among other things: The bootloader (bootmgr) uses a…” Mar 8, 10:49
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “This is merely the “Australia syndrome”: censoring the access to social networks. But Carl Richell’s statement applies here, too: “The…” Mar 8, 10:20
Aldus on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “Raed Arafat isn’t falling behind either. He was ridiculed in Romania, but it’s bizarre how suddenly all the governments of…” Mar 8, 09:09
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Fair points. But what a twisted design to have Windows use a VHD/VHDX file instead of a partition. Not only…” Mar 8, 07:05
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Okay, I see you’re strongly opinionated about this, which I can’t be. Because, just like you, I’ve never tried this…” Mar 8, 05:22
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way (Phoronix): “XFS came out on top followed by EXT4, F2FS, and…” Mar 8, 02:47
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I asked Kimi: VHD/VHDX with dynamic disk allocation: I don’t understand how this works. On a normal filesystem, say an…” Mar 8, 02:27
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: ““whenever you reinstall Windows (or install it on a new PC)” – I do not (re)install Windows. Like, ever. Maybe…” Mar 8, 01:08
Aldus on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I really like the system described by VRBF. I’ve never used it myself, but it looks excellent: you create the…” Mar 8, 01:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “The NYT, about Iranian President’s Apology: Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, had just apologized on state television on Saturday morning…” Mar 8, 01:01
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “System76 on Age Verification Laws is an excellent read! I don’t care about their hardware and I dislike their COSMIC…” Mar 8, 00:13
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “For flash memory-based disks (NVMe, SSD), the overhead of writing to a file is practically negligible. It’s about the raw…” Mar 7, 21:05
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Ok, understood. But to prevent anyone from coming here and getting incorrect or imprecise information, some clarifications: 1. BootICE appears…” Mar 7, 19:23
Béranger on Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!: “It just occurred to me that what these bastards want really requires control at the OS level. It’s not enough…” Mar 7, 16:28
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “1. I can’t even find an OFFICIAL SITE for BootICE. Only fuck-ups. Pathetic. 2. Writing to a file should be…” Mar 7, 16:14
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “An important observation: when you natively boot from a VHD, the only “virtual” thing is the C: drive. Everything else…” Mar 7, 16:00
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “But how the fuck are you booting them, managing them, installing them? An OS should be installed FROM a booting…” Mar 7, 03:16
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “I have to admit that this is the usual reaction when I talk about this topic (“What the heck is…” Mar 7, 03:04
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “How about these ayatollahs? As of Jan. 6, 2026.” Mar 7, 00:14
Béranger on Curiouser and curiouser…: “Windows Server or Windows IoT LTSC. But I didn’t even know that there is such a thing as VHDX with…” Mar 6, 23:51
VRBF on Curiouser and curiouser…: “The desktop versions of Windows (Win 10, Win 11) are very unstable and bloated. The most robust Windows edition is the Server…” Mar 6, 23:50
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “This is completely off-topic, but I’m leaving it here. Notes: 1. I don’t care about such hubs; I actually dislike…” Mar 6, 17:28
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “that hub was relevant because it has accompanied software for turning on and off individual ports issuing commands from pc.…” Mar 6, 17:21
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Those products didn’t seem relevant to the case. Look, you could have even posted Amazon links! I would have removed…” Mar 6, 15:05
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “But it was not an AD to that hardware (i gave 2 different links to 2 different products and 1…” Mar 6, 15:03
Béranger on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Those comments were advertising to hardware products, and I deleted them by hand.” Mar 6, 14:07
dan on Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!: “Hi! I have two comments in moderation on thread about “beyond compare”. Am I being blocked or they were slipped…” Mar 6, 14:03
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Ukraine, Gaza (and the West Bank), Iran (and Lebanon): Putin, Netanyahu, Trump. 3 modern Hitlers. AlJAzeera: “Today is worse than…” Mar 6, 00:42
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Based on the 40-50 relevant articles read on some international websites, I could write even a book about the current…” Mar 5, 11:35
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “Let me add 3 tiny points as a comment: ❶ Question for the fans of Arch and pacman/Pamac: how is…” Mar 4, 22:52
Aldus on Sam Altman in India, and other AI news: “I’m not sure where they got this chart from. Maybe from here, although the date of the last update is…” Mar 4, 13:22
Aldus on Sam Altman in India, and other AI news: “Sam Altman backpedals as ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%” Mar 4, 09:29
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “N-ar fi chiar prima oară că se întâmplă. Bibi știe cât de prost e Donald. Mersi pentru semnalare!” Mar 4, 02:00
Aldus on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Așadar, SUA au atacat Iranul pentru că știau că Israelul va ataca și cumva le-a fost forțată mâna? Rubio says…” Mar 4, 01:57
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Guess what? Effective IMMEDIATELY, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to provide, at a very reasonable…” Mar 3, 21:35
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “La mierda naranja anuncia que cortará “todo el comercio con España” por la negativa de Pedro Sánchez a que EE.UU.…” Mar 3, 20:32
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Nu am. Sunt zeci de milioane sau sute de milioane de canale YT pe jdemii de teme. Nu le pot…” Mar 3, 20:29
alecs on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Ce părere ai despre Prof. Jiang Xueqin (@PredictiveHistory)?” Mar 3, 20:26
Béranger on Linux: Backing the wrong horse or beating a dead horse?: “In his post To update blobs or not to update blobs, Matthew Garrett inserted this gem: At some point I…” Mar 3, 17:35
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “FT: Iran executes Khamenei’s plan to spread regional war: Iranian forces have launched a plan devised by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…” Mar 3, 17:15
Béranger on În care Dragoș Pătraru face pe istoricul: “Ce nu a spus Pătraru e cum s-a format Hezbollah, sprijinită de Iran. Iată cum: The 1982 Lebanon War was…” Mar 3, 02:38
Béranger on I needed to vent about Calibre: “How can Calibre be the number 1 e-book editor when it has so many programming errors, as if it were…” Mar 3, 00:00
Béranger on eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!: “Un dobitoc de influențăr care a luat și el țeapă de pe eMag cu SSD-uri fake de 2TB, chipurile Samsung…” Mar 2, 22:51
Béranger on Today, I cannot take sides: “Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent: Allies of US in the Gulf bear brunt of Iran attacks (with a better title…” Mar 2, 16:35

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