I hope Kent behaves, bcachefs is been working well for me on latest kernels and I’d hate to see it removed entirely.
The tooling needs some more love as well (e.g. there’s currently no rebalance) but I understand the focus on the kernel bits. Recently added a drive (or rather a decrypted partition) and everything went smooth. Other places are also suspiciously quiet about bugs, in a good way.
If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.
Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn’t charge for the experience.
I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don’t necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn’t produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth’s goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.
There’s no such thing as USB hotspots, that’s a term for WiFi. Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough. Just not RNDIS anymore. It’s an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn’t have mattered for a lot of people.
It’s not about improving a connection, but making your phone’s network connection available to other devices. USB tethering creates a network device at /dev/usb... that behaves like an any ordinary network device, allowing you to create a connection using it. Wi-Fi tethering creates a hotspot similar to what your router at home does.
That’s different protocols. This is only about the one being used when you share your phone’s connection via USB (tethering). Neither adb nor fastboot make use of this.
Also, starting with Android 14, there should be an alternative available with NCM.
I suspect that is something specific to Ecosia, that they changed parameters from time to time which changes the entry, making your selected one no longer available, and then this happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal
The fact that they announce Ecosia now after it’s been available for a bit, makes me think this is what happened. I’ll see
Using Linux here
Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn’t switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great… because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not
It’s kind of in line with their plan to get rid of OCSP: short certificate lifetimes keep CRLs short, so I get where they’re coming from (I think).
90 days of validity, which was once a short lifetime. Currently, Google is planning to enforce this as the maximum validity duration in their browser, and I’m sure Mozilla will follow, but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t because no provider can afford to not support chromium based browsers.
I was expecting that they reduce the maximum situation to e.g. 30 days, but I guess they want to make the stricter rules optional first to make sure there are no issues.
There absolutely are minor versions, but no patch releases. E.g. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v256.9 which includes no new functionalities, as these are limited to major releases
It’s a bit of a problem that there’s no serious contender to NixOS. Especially Guix is in a good position to become an alternative.
But it will never happen, because of GNU. And before I continue, I want to make clear that this is not to shit on them.
But realistically, only a fork could make it relevant. NixOS, despite its issues (documentation, flakes, whatever), has a massive mindshare: it’s a huge repository with very up-to-date packages, a lot of modules, and devshells are just a very handy thing for developers. You often find flakes in random GitHub repositories for that reason. There are sponsored efforts around the distribution (like lanzaboote). There are (semi-)commercial entities set up around it (numtide, determinate systems, tweag…)
The difference between NixOS and Guix is probably so large that no commercial provider would want to put in the required work to bring Guix up to speed, and GNU is committed to other values. As such, I think only a very big volunteer effort could make a difference.
Haha I still remember finding that out
Good how dumb
From my understanding, what you’re suggesting requires emulation, so you’d probably need another operating system underneath; there are translation layers for other architectures, like Apple has with Rosetta and what WINE did for Arm, but it sounds very challenging to implement something like this for executables of the actual operating system which can operate at a very low level. So I guess this is in the theoretical realm. Maybe someone is mad enough to do this, but I wouldn’t expect it.
It depends. Microsoft has recently enabled compilation options for their binaries that will make them incompatible with older CPUs: https://www.guru3d.com/story/windows-11-24h2-new-cpu-instruction-requirements-impact-compatibility-on-older-hardware/
Granted, these are quite old nowadays, but they could enforce newer instructions as well, like AVX-512.
Hmmm. I don’t really like Windows myself and haven’t setup a machine without for me in one a decade. But neither my work “development” laptop (in quotation marks because I’m not a developer) nor a mini PC I installed for my dad ever had bluescreens. They can still happen, of course… but it almost seems to require effort with really bad drivers or broken hardware.
The obvious Windows issues nowadays are a different category from 20 years ago in my opinion.
Dang
If I had a different specialisation, I’d probably care. But my job is mostly reading and writing documents, and they installed Miktex on my office machine, so I don’t want to complain.
We do have formal security requirements to meet though, and I think in general locking down machines in your network is the correct choice. But it’s probably not needed in every job
Their higher-end models seem of nice build quality at least, but that’s something I just expect at a certain price point.
Linux isn’t even an option at my current job, it’s WSL if anything. And that on the development machines only. Office work machines are Win 10 without any privileges, which I’m fine with. Employer pays for the time I take longer for certain things. His choice.
Unfortunately, there aren’t that many great European options, so buying somewhat domestic is hard.
Ah, okay. I do have thinkpads for work, same at my previous employer, I’d say they’re pretty forgettable, not sure I’d buy Lenovo for anything that needs to be particularly secure, just read the English wiki entry for Lenovo about security incidents, but I’d be more careful when procuring for work, especially in certain fields.
You can use the model yourself on your own hardware, offline, no Indians required.