30p87

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only hope that people will someday realize that systemd did nothing more than add a userdb field, symmetric to other, similar, userdb fields, while the distro installers are the components that actually decide wherever you need to enter your data, and more importantly, if that includes an actual verification of that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Systemd v261-rc1 is out with the 'birth date field'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And 64 years ago, GECOS was released, with a dedicated field for a users real name, location, phone number and email. That was implemented in UNIX shortly after, as a field in /etc/passwd, which means all Linux distros and other UNIX-like OS’s like MacOS have and had fields for all of that forever. So if you don’t want the option to store personal information in your OS, use TempleOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qt's latest AI push is letting AI agents deal with performance profiling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say “time to use GTK”, but let’s be real, the only thing not be raped by “AI” will be the CLI with getopt().

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that is why we don’t rely on companies for any part of our open source stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True, if you jump into the cold water and do everything yourself, eg. compiling client software yourself, you may also need to compile drivers. But for everyday use cases, installing the client software from the repos just has a dependency on the drivers, and you don’t have to (but maybe could) even think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t really need driver discs anymore - at least, between my Steelseries Headset, Sharkoon Keyboard and Logitech Mouse, the only thing needing extra drivers were my NVidia GPU (switched to an AMD one), and my Laptops fingerprint sensor. Which I uninstalled again, because it’s more of a hassle to move my finger to it than to type my pw in. The problem nowadays is rather specific software for controlling eg. RGB, but OpenRGB and piper have me mostly covered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  LibreOffice Calc?

  Also, I installed Linux man, many times and it has been much smoother than windows. Even excluding privacy stuff. Even

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have no idea how to use SwayWM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway and github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki are probably good starting points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨archinstall v3.0.0 released⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia.