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  • Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo.

    To add, before the change the Gentoo wiki was a top resource when it came to Linux questions. Even if you didn’t use Gentoo you could find detailed information on how various parts of Linux worked.

    One day the Gentoo wiki died. It got temporary mirrors quickly, but it took a long time to get up and working again. This left a huge opening for another wiki, the Arch wiki, to become the new top resource.

    I suspect, for a number of reasons, Arch was always going to replace Gentoo as the “True Linux Explorer”, but the wiki outage accelerated it.




  • then you lose half the users and perhaps half the communities

    As a thought, do you really lose them?

    For example the “Television” community previously existed on the lemm.ee instance. The lemm.ee instance is scheduled for shutdown. The “Television” community is now hosted on the piefed.social instance.

    It has the same users and has the same topics of discussion. Were the users really lost? Did the community really go away?

    Let’s pretend Reddit decided it would no longer allow discussion on “Television”. What if BlueSky no longer allowed discussion on “Television”. You’d have to leave those platforms completely. You really would lose those communities. Those users (at least in part) really would be gone.

    Is Lemmy.World a big instance? Sure. Would the users and communities really be lost if it went away? I don’t think so.


  • I’m not surprised, but I agree with the hot take, so maybe it’s only warm.

    I think they keep interest in ActivityPub in order to keep regulators concerned with Antitrust at bay. The Fediverse isn’t a real threat in Meta’s view and keeping an engineer or two on it in order to stay invested is worth the cost.

    Threads can say they are making an honest effort to work with the larger open source community and open federated internet. As an added bonus, it isn’t actually a lie. Now the effort they’re putting in is the absolute minimum, but it’s there.

    Now I still do think this is a positive. While most people on Threads will probably never leave, it does introduce them to the wider Fediverse. It makes the Fediverse a less scary thing.



  • Search also sucks because people suck.

    If I post a picture of a flower with the caption “Look what grew in my garden!”, that’s a terrible post from a search point of view.

    Later on someone will search for “flower” but I didn’t use the word “flower” so now search sucks.

    Of course a much more common post is someone posting a picture of text, from Twitter, Tumblr, etc. with, once again, a vague caption. You remember the picture, but not what the poster actually said.

    Searching comments will sometimes help, but that depends on the comments being related.


  • Linux has two ways of drawing pictures, the old way (Xorg) and the new way (Wayland).

    The old way is like a giant box of crayons with the crayon sharpener built in. The box is all marked up, the sharpener is full of gunk, and a few crayons are melted together. Nobody really wants to touch the old box of crayons, although it does work for the most part, it’s a familiar box.

    The new way is like a smaller box of crayons. The clean sharpener isn’t built in but it is available nearby, although some people say it doesn’t work as good. A few crayons are missing, but are available in most cases, they’re just not in the box. Most people are working to improve the new box.

    If you’re using Linux, the new box of crayons is generally the better choice. It’s ok to stop using the old box.



  • Idiots to ally, absolutely.

    To feign interest for a little while, string along and squeeze some hard facts out of, I say go for it.

    Elon has to believe that scorched earth is the only way to “save” his companies and he needs to be convinced it’s worth doing.

    Nothing he’s done so far can’t be walked back.


    Now in terms of a third party challenger in the US, literally everyone is begging for a third party. Obama was Hope & Change. Trump was an Outsider. People are not happy with their choices in government. At the moment however you’ve still got to work within the party’s we have, which sucks.

    Also, to be clear, I think Obama was an excellent progressive step forward. I think Trump is a horrible conservative leap backwards. Biden v Trump was the only election in recent history where the majority said, “Oh shit, please put an adult in charge again”, a message which disappeared and gave us Trump’s second term.



  • That’s my point, unless he is aware of additional crimes Trump has nothing on this woman. She was convicted of a crime, it happened, that doesn’t go away. What goes away is the punishment.

    Additionally the pardon power is absolute, even Trump knows that as he’s been bitching about being unable to do anything after Biden preemptively pardoned a handful of people.

    Now if you could uncover some type of quid pro quo for this pardon that would be a new crime and you could get both of them on that (possibly). Although I’m think technically Trump could sell pardons and that would be legal. It would be abhorrent. It would be unethical. But it would legal. (Although hopefully he would be impeached, but that’s also a separate process.)



  • Knoppix. I didn’t see it listed yet so I had to chime in.

    I saw it and was confused that computers could run something that wasn’t Windows and wasn’t Mac. Then I was handed a Knoppix LiveCD and suddenly MY computer was Linux. Absolutely blew my mind.

    I then explored Mandrake (now Mandrivia?) for a while but it never really stuck.

    A few years later Ubuntu was handing out LivdCDs to everyone running Warty Warthog and soon after window managers started to use Beryl (?) which let you have a fancy cube desktop. Absolutely pointless but that’s how it all started.


  • I love pineapple and really strongly dislike it on pizza. The only time I’ve had “acceptable” pineapple on pizza is when it was chopped up really tiny and I could barely taste it.

    My problem with pineapple on pizza is,

    • Hot/warm pineapple is gross.
    • Pineapple makes the pizza watery.
    • Pineapple adds a sweetness that a pizza just doesn’t need. It detracts from other flavors.
    • Again hot/warm pineapple tastes gross.

  • As you mentioned elsewhere it’s encrypted.

    Take a look at /etc/crypttab and creating and adding a key file that can unlock the drive.

    Essentially your additional SSD will have both a password and a file containing a password that can unlock the drive. When you unlock your root filesystem (I’m guessing at boot) it will then have the key file that can unlock the SSD.

    Something like cryptsetup luksAddKey /dev/pathtossd --new-keyfile /etc/newpassword

    Systemd might make this easier to setup nowadays.

    Edit: Also, yes, the password to unlock your SSD is just sitting in a file in your root drive. Be sure to restrict it to only be readable by root.


  • Oh I completely agree. There is a reason it took me a while and careful observation before I figured it out.

    I assume it’s part of, or started as, a little password dance. Something like, “abc123DEF”.

    Or maybe it just comes from the idea that only a single key can be pressed at a time?

    Either way I completely agree, insane.


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    I agree, but it’s more common than you’d think.

    I used to work at an organization that used Chromebooks, which replaces the caps lock key with a search key (same shape, different behaviour). I was surprised at the number of people who struggled with their passwords because they would hit the “search” key, enter a single letter, and then hit “search” again. It took me a little while to figure it out because… Who does that?