onlinepersona

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[–] onlinepersona -2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm not jumbling anything together. The Linux community is full of toxic, elitist edgelords that expose various behaviours which are entirely uninviting to beginners. Those behaviours are also very annoying for people like me who want stuff answered without responses that sound belittling or like a challenge of ones skills.

Of course there are users who seem incapable of reading a manual and even pointing them to the passage with "you can find more information here, it should answer your question. If that doesn't, feel free to explain further and I'll gladly help you" nets a question about exactly what's written in the passage. My way of dealing users unwilling to read is not to respond, not RTFM.

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[–] onlinepersona 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yep! I've tried and it doest work. Either it's because I have mixed unit types (service mount service service and another case is service path service serviceX2), or I really just forgot something.

At this point I have to build a simplified version of my services with echo's and shit to be able to debug, because otherwise I'll just drop it and return whenever I find the motivation again.

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[–] onlinepersona 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I am days into trying to figure out how why systemd just won't start services after another service has successfully been run. I want service A to run, finish successfully and then service B to start. I've tries requires, wants, after and their reverse. I've tries paths with PathChanged and other things I've forgotten now. Either service B won't start because it's not WantedBy some target, but if I add that then it simply ignores the After, Requires, and Wants, and PathChanged to start anyway when the target has started.

It's maddening. Why are there so many conditions that express nearly the same thing but do so in such subtle ways that only testing will expose what it truly is, and sometimes not even that helps because obviously something else is missing but it won't say what. And AI of course has no fucking clue how to help.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

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[–] onlinepersona 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

You've never met an eternal September Linux user?

I regularly encounter such people online and offline, as well as people who abhor GUIs or making Linux easier to use.

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[–] onlinepersona 9 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

I'm sorry this dude has to go through this shit. If I could, I would help, but there just isn't any time. I'm fighting NixOS and just getting things to work for me. There isn't even time to get it working for non-technical folk, let alone disabled folk.

My blame goes to the gate keepers who want to keep linux an elitist space. The people that want things to be hard so that they can feel superior and laugh at others who can't do what they do. The people that unironically say RTFM.

Linux could be such a great distro for normal users but the very first step of installing it is already a hurdle for many people. And yet many linux users recommend dumb shit like Arch to beginners or tell them to buy (and support) non-Linux hardware vendors instead of funnelling money into the linux ecosystem.

If the majority of Linux users who could actually invested monetarily into opensource and the linux ecosystem, and the Linux Foundation invested more than 2% of it 200 million annually into the kernel and advocacy, maybe things would look different. But it seems like we're a long way from the linux community actually being welcoming and self-funding. We'll have to wait for corporate sponsors like Valve to actually make the OS popular and worthy of interest to app developers and accessibility advocates before the community realises that being popular does come with more benefits than negatives.

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[–] onlinepersona 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I bet this will be out into a military plane and it'll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they're saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.

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[–] onlinepersona 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

The CEO is begging for Google to be kept alive. What a joke. How can we take Mozilla seriously when it's being led by such a person. It's like VW praying the Nazis to win so that they don't lose funding.

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[–] onlinepersona 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If it's on peertube, I might follow it. On YouTube, even if I watched it, it'd be through yt-dlp and thus no views for you (at least not officially).

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[–] onlinepersona 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I'm European myself, so it's not in the same situation and I have no experience with it. Most of my non-EU colleagues got here through student visas, then got a job, and just stayed. Others started out in large companies abroad and relocated with those companies. The only US American I know here was relocated by their company.

A quick search found https://relocate.me/ Maybe they can help you?

Good luck!

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[–] onlinepersona 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Is this the US talking? I still have recruiters contacting me, not as often as before but still getting messages on LinkedIn (European here).

The market here seems to be buzzing if you are willing to move. There are pages and pages of devops, sysadmin, software developer, software architect,... . On one website j searched "sysadmin" and it found 10k jobs across Europe! They also seemed up to date when I was checking them out.

Most well paying jobs are in West and North Europe, they also have quite interesting jobs, even in opensource companies. Italy and Greece can't seem to be desperate for people, but their wages are trash. They don't seem to be doing much interesting stuff either. Just run of the mill stuff.

But yeah, Europe looks busy busy busy at the moment and very acceptable for people willing to move.

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[–] onlinepersona -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You did not watch the video, I see. Because if you had, you'd know what they are trying to accomplish. He says it 3 minutes into the video. Probably shorter than it took you to type out that uninformed comment.

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[–] onlinepersona -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

That framework laptop tho 💦💦💦

Edit: the comments on here really show that 1) people just read headlines and 2) many people cannot think for themselves and will just quote or regurgitate from whichever text they were indoctrinated without second thought. The "but it's not free as in freedom" and "it's not opensource because it's not OSI" comments show up on every single post about this topic. It's like people referring to the bible and screaming "blasphemy" when someone says something that doesn't fit. Or like people losing their minds because a non-white actor is "not canon".

I wish people had to answer multiple choice questions before being allowed to comment. Maybe it would make them actually think instead of just spew their religious bile all over the comment section.

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A distributed, content-addressed filesystem across the internet, not just in a home LAN, than can be mounted (fuse or whatever else), doesn't require storing data twice, has a reasonable API and acceptable documentation.

Does something like that exist?

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Both seem to post similar memes and jokes. This community doesn't have a sidebar text to clarify what the community is nor when to post what stuff where, and it's not clear why the community exists.

 

The related ticket quickly became the most commented one in their ticketing system.

 

I left Github a while ago and have been relying on simple pre-push scripts in my workflow, but would like to be able to test PRs from others without putting my machine at risk. Besides codeberg and radicle (neither of which have reliable CI), I also have a build machine, where I could run CI jobs, however it is important that the CI jobs can also run locally so that external people do not require access to the build machine.

Is there a CI that can do those things (run locally and remotely)?

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Why do so many games rely on client-side anti cheat and stuff like kernel level anti-cheat?

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The Linux foundation announced "neonophos", but Eurostack has been around for a while. Why do these two exist separately and not together?

 

I configured steam to open on a separate desktop using window rules, but it also grabs the attention and plasma will automatically switch to the desktop it opened to. Is there a way to stop that from happening?

Steam opens 3 windows, so switching to another desktop will be reverted 3 times.

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I've read multiple times that CUDA dominates, mostly because NVIDIA dominates. Rocm is the AMD equivalent, but OpenCL also exists. From my understanding, these are technologies used to program graphics cards - always thought that shaders were used for that.

There is a huge gap in my knowledge and understanding about this, so I'd appreciate somebody laying this out for me. I could ask an LLM and be misguided, but I'd rather not 🤣

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An analysis of an excellent report into the use of consumer messaging apps within the Australian government.

 

It's getting more and more unhinged on LinkedIn.

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