Block AI mode off by default. Fuck you mozilla.

“Privacy upgrades built in” and “smart window” absolutely do not mesh. The plot mozilla… you have lost it.

FFS… people need to stop platforming that shyster… 🤦

I’ve had the weird black screen on wake issue on Cachy due to problems with nvidia daemon not behaving itself. If you have an nvidia card you might look into that. Recent updates have mitigated the issue a bit for me. Sometimes when it does have the issue I’m able to swap to another TTY and then back and it will cause it to rethink it’s bad decisions and the login screen will be there.

I’m using an arch based distro so I get kernel and driver updates pretty frequently that need a reboot to load. There is some weird thing I haven’t found a fix for yet, where sometimes a warm reboot forgets half my RAM (likely something to do with MCR)… but a cold start works fine. So I shutdown and restart and all is well. Once a week maybe?

day mn

Exactly. Like I said… it’s a top recommendation for a reason. There’s still tons of bleeding edge stuff to play with… but Mint has really nailed down “here… this will install painlessly, and your laptop is going to work fine”.

“Linux Mint isn’t the answer for Linux newbies switching from windows to Linux” – someone that’s obviously done distro hopping. They then go on to cite “professional work”… something that generally benefits from boring, stable, reliable OS… and “customization”… which is a great place to start breaking things.

And their alternatives? Kubuntu, fedora, and opensuse. What? *buntu used to be a safe bet … but they can’t keep things even running these days. Fedora… a perfect newbie choice. No hand holding, half your features won’t work as expected for a windows user because it focuses everything on foss only, out of the box. … and opensuse. I wouldn’t ever call opensuse “newbie friendly”… and they use their own packaging so all the common stuff you would want to look up for help won’t be a simple one click fix since most guides and apps recommend apt, rpm, or pac.

It’s not that people generally say “basic” … they say “boring”. It’s designed to just work and be stable with some nice features but it has a slower release speed and the dev, intentionally, keeps things slow so that they can polish up all the features before they go mainstream on it. So it isn’t doing anything revolutionary and it isn’t giving you bleeding edge everything… it’s just nice and stable. It’s become one of top recommended distros for a reason.

The main hiccups I see with it is that they are lagging behind on Wayland support… which is slowly becoming the defacto standard for desktop display tech. If you aren’t really up on the x11 vs wayland debate… this likely isn’t even an issue for you. Suffice to say they’ve tried to hang back on x11 for a while, which is the older but much more thoroughly tested way of doing the user space display. Secondly would be… because it’s a slow burn on updates, you might not get the latest greatest updates for the kernel with the display drivers. So for gaming that could make things a little more finicky. People do use it for gaming… so don’t think it can’t be also used for that, just might run into hiccups.

Good thing is you can test it out, and if it doesn’t work out, try something else.

There should be real hotkey editing in the settings or it should respect the OS hotkey settings. As of now the only way to toggle this is by diving into about config and finding the flag.

re: unixstickers. they got bought by stickermule part and parcel afaik. Their site now redirects to sm. A lot of people won’t be happy supporting that business. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahbastian/2024/07/19/how-a-ceos-political-stance-impacts-workplace-inclusion-and-customer-trust/

Just to interject a little bit of context for those that don’t know… UMU is Glorious Eggroll’s project, so it has some clout to it.

LinuxNext has a nice long video about it.

https://youtu.be/poeATq07XbQ

My understanding is that lutris is actually in maintenance mode (still around but not being updated) so this is meant to be a replacement for that… and bottle is a more general purpose tool without the gaming enhancements, hence this is being promoted these days.

Ay Yew Arr

…but if they renamed it Arch Interactive User Repository or Arch Internet User Repository, I have no problem switching to pronouncing it “eye-urr”

fedora’s declaration that they’re officially okay with including “ai” generated code in the project has me shopping around for a new distro. CachyOS seems like it’s really soliid choice these days.

Counterpoint… there is no real enforcement beyond the honor system… so it changes very little other than expressly condoning the activity.

Well that’s what “condone” means fwiw.

I see it the same as how steam does the same thing with requiring disclosure of ai use on store pages now. And I treat it the same way if I see it I make a consumer choice to not support the game.

What disturbed me was reading the minutes of the meeting that people seemed genuinely excited to include gen ai code. To me that speaks to an ethos that is highly divergent from what I would like to see and what should be happening. It doesn’t feel like it’s “welp I guess we gotta let people do it” and more “oh boy we can finally use it”. And with all the companies that make llm how long before some back door evil nonsense sneaks in. To say I’m dubious would be an understatement. 🤷

Well sure… the point of a warning label on the side of a product is to allow you to make informed choices if you want to use that product. A warning label saying “we’re condoning the use of unethical practices” allows me to decide I would rather seek a different product.

Doesn’t mean I have to support the ones that actively encourage it.

I guess it’s time for some of the projects to start putting little stickers that say “hand crafted code” on them explicitly.