But what is a trusted provider? How can you trust it? How sure are you that you’re not being MitM? Have you fully manually verified that there’s no funky flags in curl like -k, that the url is using SSL, that it’s a correct url and not pointing at something malicious, etc, etc, etc. There are a lot of manual steps you must verify using this approach, whereas using a package manager all of them get checked automatically, plus some extra checks like hundreds of people validating the content is secure.

To do apt get from an unknown repo, you first need to convince the person to execute root commands they don’t understand on their machine to add that unknown repo, if you can convice someone to run an unsafe command with root credentials then the machine is already compromised.

I get your point, random internet scripts are dangerous but random internet packages can also dangerous. But that’s a false equivalence because there are lots of safeguards to the packages in the usual way people install them, but less than 0 safeguards to the curl|bash. In a similar manner, if this was a post talking about the dangers of fireworks and how you can blow yourself up using them your answer is “but someone can plant a bomb in the mall I go to, or steal the codes for a nuclear missile and blow me up anyways”.

Last year I would have said Arch. I have been running it for over 15 years with some small breaks to try stuff, or with some machines that have company issued OS. But I have been toying with NixOS, and honestly I’m loving it. If I had to choose only one and couldn’t change it it would have to be Arch, I know I can get 5 years with it easily, but if I was setting a new system today it would almost assuredly be NixOS, I might regret that 3 years down the line when there’s something I can’t get to work, but the more I play around, the less likely I think that would be, and the more comfortable I feel that I will eventually migrate to NixOS fulltime

But those are two very different things, I can very easily give you a one liner using curl|bash that will compromise your system, to get the same level of compromise through a proper authenticated channel such as apt/pacman/etc you would need to compromise either their private keys and attack before they notice and change them or stick malicious code in an official package, either of those is orders of magnitude more difficult than writing a simple bash script.

You didn’t knew that the tool to handle URLs written in C (very creatively named C-Url) was handling URLs? It’s also written in C if you didn’t knew.

For this to work you need a display to send through the network, but that display needs not be a physical one. So depending on your definition it can be run headless. If you meant without it being plugged to a display then yes, if you meant without having graphical stack installed then no (there would be no point to streaming display without a display).

It works brilliantly on my Linux host with a 7800 XT, I think you might have an unrelated issue.

Astro A50 that I got from work. It sucks, every once in a while it just refuses to work and I need to plug it into my wife’s Windows PC to update the firmware to get it to work again. Audio and mic quality are okay, but that issue makes me definitely not recommend it for Linux users.

No, I cheated. I figured out that it needs to be solved in layers, and figured out how to solve the first two layers,but could never figure out how to solve the top one. Eventually I looked up how to solve it and reproduced the movements. I can put it in order now, but I wouldn’t say I solved it since I’m doing movements someone taught me not that I figured myself out.

Math is not adding up, there are 365 days in a year, removing weekends that’s 261 days. In Romania you have 20 days of AL guaranteed by law, plus there are 17 holidays but some fall on weekends so let’s say 10, for a total of 231 work days a year.

A work day is 8 hours, so 5 working days a year are 40 hours per year. Dividing by the amount of days of work it’s 0.17h or 10:30minutes, considering people commute two ways that’s 5:15 minutes per trip stuck in jams.

Sure, annoying, but definitely not economy shattering. But if they think so, maybe let people work from home, it would diminish the amount of cars on the road, and completely eliminate jams for some of the people.

One curious thing if you understand this is to think on purple. Purple is blue+red, but like you pointed out 2 colors should give you the average wavelength, which in the case of blue+,red should be green. So why the hell do we see purple as something different? Well, that’s because humans have 3 sensors for colors, roughly corresponding to Red, Green and Blue, triggering both Blue and Red without triggering green at the same time gets interpreted differently than green, even though it shouldn’t. Which means that purple is not a color, but rather a mind trick your brain plays on you.

Honestly La sagrada familia is my second favorite Gaudi work, the first one being La casa Batllo. Hope you get to see it next time, and if you do pick up either dawn or dusk, the light through the windows is awe inspiring. Also, yeah, the Rambla is mostly tourist traps, also every single restaurant around the park Güell is an extra nasty tourist trap. There are some good places nearby, but realistically you’re probably better off eating at a Tapa Tapa (the McDonald’s of tapas) than a random place at the Rambla.

Sort of, you can install it as a PWA and it is local first.

What’s wrong with https://silverbullet.md/ ?

That review is no longer there, probably someone reported it. I think lots of these suffer from bystander effect, where people see it get indignant about being there but don’t report them, so they stay there.

Several reasons:

• They came with a bundle
• I bought them while I was still dual booting, and by the time Proton was released I didn’t cared for them anymore.
• I bought them to play with friends/partner and never got the chance
• I played them (even for lots of hours) but haven’t finish them and some other new shiny game took it’s place
• Game is essentially infinite
• I bought it on sale while playing another thing, but when I finished the other game I was playing I went to play something else
• I feel like playing a certain style of game so I buy a few on sale, but after playing a couple I want to play something different

Unfortunately Mint and Ubuntu (and maybe Zorin too, I don’t know about this one) stay on older kernels on purpose to maintain stability, and new hardware requires new kernels. Not only that, but mesa should also be ad updated as possible. I would normally not recommend this to someone who’s starting, but maybe give Manjaro a try. Maybe Bazzite is a better idea though, although I have never personally used it.

The reason why I don’t usually recommend Manjaro to people is that it’s bleeding edge, and that can cause problems. But in your case currently your hardware requires bleeding edge. Otherwise in a few months Ubuntu 26.04 should be released and I expect it will support your GPU better.

Sure, but which OSD criteria is being broken here?

Open source and FOSS are two different things though. I think Mattermost is open source, just not FOSS and the licencing they mentioned might be wrong (GPL is invasive so they couldn’t have a closed source part IIRC), but it’s still open source as the code is freely available.

That’s overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it’s irrecoverable.

Curious no one mentioned https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers which is where I got the stickers for my current laptop.