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ChrisG

@ ChrisG @lemmy.world

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  • Questions for the XMPP users.

    • jmp.chat is Trumpistan or Canada phone numbers only afaik.

  • Perseverance Finds Complex Organic Compounds in Strange Mars Rocks

  • The science on this is still developing. I would be very cautious in jumping to conclusions.

  • CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major

  • At the age of 67, having tried and used everything, not just booted a vm, but honestly used, I found Arch a much higher maintenance burden. System borking changes are definitely a thing - see the "needs manual intervention" messages that happen often. I know Arch users seem to revel in this and gloss over it. Thats fine for them but I no longer get any sense of personal empowerment from tedious obsessive hand holding of any operating system. To me it's just unnecessary distracting extra work.

  • CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major

  • I'm always interested in Micheal's comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli 'fixing' things seems a poor bargain to me.

  • Using My Fucking Brain

  • Completely ceding software development to automation. Repeat across all fields of knowledge.

    As data centers recycle and churn through past human input this will be the death of human progress.

  • Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly

  • Emblematic of the decline of the former US.

  • Are you using systemd or an alternative, what do you recommend?

  • If you want the convenient features of systemd without the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland then dinit is recommended. OpenRC is a mature choice. Server folk seem to recommend S6 but I dont have enough personal use of it to verify.

    • expect every response trying to provide useful info here to be drowned out by systemd brigading

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • Read the bug in the systemd repo. meanwhile the systemd cultists will defend it to the death. Look, if you value the positive aspects of systemd but dislike the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland, dinit is a perfectly good option.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • Read

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • Stop using it.

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

  • That has not been my experience. I wonder what magical source of information you possess to accomplish all that in ten minutes lol

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • Switch to Devuan and have a peaceful life I guess.

    Cheers!

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • If you think about it for even a minute this is still a glaring cve in systemd, exposed in this case, by misbehaving snapd. systemd still needed to be patched and so did snapd.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • Yet another critical vulnerability in the much vaunted systemd has been exposed by a misbehaving app - in this case snapd.

    Both need patching.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

  • Yes, thank you for the extra info!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

    cybersecurity88.com /news/ubuntu-cve-2026-3888-timing-flaw-in-systemd-cleanup-enables-root-privilege-escalation/

  • Australia responds to Donald Trump's 'get your own oil' tirade

  • As Mango Mussolini pushes all former allies away, they are obliging and making other arrangements. This is just accelerating the collapse of the former US in my view.

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

  • I've recently spent a lot of time doing bare metal installs of a large number of non-systemd operating systems.

    GhostBSD - Its BSD, so its stable and avoids the problems of Linux but supports less hardware especially 3D GPU's.

    FreeBSD - as above but more effort to install & configure initially because its server oriented but makes a fine workstation nevertheless.

    Alpine - Highly performant Linux oriented to container hosting but can be made into a workstation with effort. Forget using nvidia except in nouveau driver.

    Void - highly performant. more packages than Alpine. can be made into a workstation with effort. Forget using anything but newest nvidia GPU's and even then strange unsolvable glitches.

    Artix - look this is Arch with a non-systemd init (your choice of 3). Being Arch it inherits the repo's of bleeding edge packages but also inherits the heavy maintenance burden of Arch (if you know, you know). I'm just too bloody busy to baby sit an Arch install with all its nonsense.

    Endeavour et al - wait for other OS's to implement work arounds to systemd's cancerous kowtowing to corporate America imposed surveillance laws.

    Devuan - a drop in replacement for Debian. Inherits Debian's stability and ease of maintenance but with proven mature implementation of OpenRC init system.

    The is the one I use for a calm happy life. To save time you can get a distro called 'Vendefoul Wolf Linux' which is Spanish in origin. Its a spin of Devuan but with a choice of GUI desktops and a GUI Calamares installer (the Devuan text mode TUI installer is fine, but whatever).

    My daily driver is Vendefoul Wolf (Spanish for 'vengenance') LxQT desktop. Light, fast simple, stable. tip: download the 'weekly' iso's not the old 2025 ones.

  • Laptop fan starts to spin super loud and FPS drops from 100 to 60 ~ 70. Is this a proprietary nvidia driver problem?

  • Simplest first suggestion is open the machine and checking the air vents on the laptop for excessive dust contamination thoroughly, not just 'blow air in' - this may be easy or hard depending on laptop manufacturer.

    Then try downgrading the nvidia driver to conservative 580 series. 595 is pretty bleeding edge.

    Get back to us after that.

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Nuclear attack on Iran? UN diplomat resigns to leak plan

    m.economictimes.com /news/new-updates/nuclear-attack-on-iran-un-diplomat-resigns-saying-giving-up-my-career-to-leak-possible-nuke-missile-strike-plan/articleshow/129891916.cms
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    The State of the Union is an Oligarchs’ Paradise

    classautonomy.info /the-state-of-the-union-is-an-oligarchs-paradise/
  • Bazzite @lemmy.world
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    Evaluation question

  • Apple @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world
    iOS

    Can't change notifications email

  • Discussions related to Infosec.pub @infosec.pub
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach

  • Discussions related to Infosec.pub @infosec.pub
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Linux kernel impacted by new SLUBStick cross-cache attack

  • @linux on Linux.Community @linux.community
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    CrowdStrike Didn't Just Affect Windows But Linux Too!

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Wealth inequality is growing rapidly and the tax system is making it worse

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    File Manger for iPhone/iPad?

  • iOS @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Recommend a File Manager app for iOs