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Linus would like to have a word with you

one of the main reasons the linux kernel is where it is today: “never break userspace”

unfortunately not every project keeps to this principle.

no package manager should put stuff into /usr/local, thats why its /usr/local. package manager should only put stuff into /usr/… not /usr/local. In the past some mainframes mounted these directory via nfs to do some kind of software management. It contains global stuff that is not managed by the package manager. install some software via “tarball and make” and it most likely puts everything into /usr/local/…

It’s the best location for your needs. /home/shared is a bad idea. /home is reserved for home directories not some shared stuff.

/usr/local is specifically what you are asking for. i would put themes to /usr/local/share/themes for example. chances are gtk will already look there. You can manage permissions inside /usr/local as you like. since the package manager doesn’t care for that directory there is no problem. giving write permissions only to root still is a good idea. it suggest to learn to use sudo when you are working on your system.

Does it only happen with these two drives? i would try with some other HDD/SSDs or two usb sticks. that way you can test if its some weird hardware incompatibility that sometimes happen between specific devices or if the board wont support more then one connected usb drive in general.

This works but I’d just create a function and use that instead of creating an alias that creates a function and then calls itself.

if your containers are created with a docker compose file you can use docker-compose to target them all

I’m using a HP spectre x360 since 2020-12 and I love it so much. I don’t use the tablet functionality often. The touch works pretty well as far as I can say. The notebook, even if it’s 13" ultra portable, is a little heavy for constant tablet usage. Everything else rocks aside of the thumbprint thingy. I use howdy instead.

Im most interested in encrypted homedirs for servers. Since all my collegues are to lazy to use encrypted ssh keys, i hoped that systemd-homed makes it possible to secure them from the root user.

Is systemd-homed already useable for such usecase? If gnome will do the same for desktops, that would be a big plus, thinking about firefox profiles and such. Hopefully also using pam or kerberos for decryption.

I’ll look into fuse though, thanks for the hint

My comment wasn’t meant as a jab against systemd or gnome, I was just curious if there are different solutions for an encrypted homedir.

I really like the direction linux, systemd and gnome are going! Big thank you to all the developers! <3

Autos haben 75% deines gehwegs als parkplatz zur verfügung, roller nicht.

Stell dir mal vor es gäbe keine zweispurigen straßen mit parkpläzen am rand für die autos, die roller würde man nichtmals bemerken.

Ich kanns ja verstehen: 75% der verfügbaren fläche an autos abzugeben ist man halt gewohnt, das stellt niemand in frage. Aber wehe es kommt ein e-scooter dazu, dann brennt die welt.

Congrats GNOME!

Does anyone know if homedir encryption will utilize systemd-homed?

Ich verstehs einfach nicht. Wenn man in einer beliebigen Stadt steht und sich um 360° dreht, sieht man zu 40-60% nur Autos, Straßen, Parkplätze und Straßenschilder. Das Auto und dessen Infrastruktur dominiert alles.

Aber die paar E-Scooter, die weniger Platz brauchen und wesentlich Umweltschonender sind, die führen bei den Leuten zu Unmut? Verkehrte Welt!

things like “vim file.txt”, which is obviously not usually how files are edited

You what mate? Don’t assume my workflow. “vi file.txt” is obviously superior to clicking inside some texteditor or file browser

They should have send an air balloon instead…

Hä? Du siehst das nicht so, findest es aber kurios, dass es schwierig ist gute Werkstunden-Jobs zu finden?! Damit widersprichst du dir doch selber und gibst dem Redakteur recht; schlecht bezahlte Werkstunden-Jobs oder unbezahlte Praktika findet man bestimmt leichter.

Ich würde das Wohlergehen der Mehrheit immer der Möglichkeit jemanden doch noch verknacken zu können vor ziehen.

Ein Schuldiger, der trotz neuer Beweise nicht verurteilt wird, ist mir lieber als die potentielle Gefahr, das tausende unschuldige immer wieder aufs neue vor Gericht müssen.

Ist doch bei der Unschuldsvermutung das gleiche. Besser ein Schuldiger geht Straffrei aus, als das ein Unschuldiger verurteilt wird.

Ist natürlich für die geschädigten Ärgerlich, aber seien wir mal ehrlich: was bringt es einem Opfer, wenn der Täter verurteilt wird? Im Endeffekt eigentlich nichts. Strafen sind meiner Meinung nach als Abschreckung gedacht, nicht damit das Opfer sich besser fühlt.

Just my two cents…

Funnily enough, I like nix. The concept is way ahead of silverblue and the likes. With nix nothing is hidden behind a compatibility layer. I feel like if we really need immutability, nix is the way to go.

do you know how long it takes until a nuclear powerplant is planned and built?

Until then renewables are 20x cheaper then nuclear power.

the debate has gone one or the other way for years. the people don’t want nuclear power, only our conservative, corrupt parties want it and try to push it every few years; thankfully without any luck.

its an easy: sudo apt install task-kde-desktop; sudo apt purge task-gnome-desktop; sudo apt autopurge

In testing or unstable this can be a problem though.

I feel like, many people just don’t understand exactly how a distro and package managers work. immutable os feels like it allows priotizing only on on a small core part of the distribution which is immutable and slapping everything else on via flatpak or snap.

i don’t like it and i sometimes wonder if we are not going backwards with that approach.

Me too. Stable packages, unlike everyone thinks, doesn’t mean it is bug free, it means that the software versions don’t change. And that exactly lets me enable unattended-upgrades and forget about the server for years, without risking to fubar the system because of some config changes or new options

we had a paper with a bunch of Ys and Ns, so we could go through the autoexec.bat and config.sys step by step and decide which library to load into highmem or lowmem