That twist at the end. Bloody hell.

Oracle Linux (up until 9.3 I think?) is a direct clone of RHEL. After 9.3 (or maybe it’s 9.2) it’s a best attempt clone of RHEL (similar to Alma Linux or Rocky Linux). If you want to learn RHEL then it’s a fairly decent equivalent with a couple of their own quirks thrown in (ULN, ksplice and the UEK).

Also, I don’t bother with certs or care if people have them. I have yet to find someone who knows a product better having got the cert than someone who’s used the product without a cert.

The reasoning stated is that EROFS is more actively developed than SquashFS. Does that mean that SquashFS is feature incomplete, or that it’s more stable?

I think SimpleX is similar

I blame MS (Windows 2000, Office 2003, Server 2005, etc.)

Aren’t these the guys who disallow the term “Taiwan is a country” and “Free Tibet” in their chat system?

I use a container for transmission and openvpn: https://hub.docker.com/r/haugene/transmission-openvpn/

Won’t this cause cat to iterate through all files in the cwd once zcat encounters an issue, instead of just the specific file?

Yeah, it’s a pain. Leads to bad one liners:

for i in $(ls); do zcat $i || cat $i; done

1. Pretty sure it’s not closed source? https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/snap_without_ubuntu_tools/

2. Isn’t that the purpose though of Ubuntu though? They made it easy, everything is open source, and then people/companies/orgs that want to do things different can just fork it and do their own thing. If they make a better product according to even 1 person, great. Job done. Plenty of people are happy with vanilla Ubuntu.

I don’t even use Ubuntu but I sure appreciate the amount of work they’ve done over the years and I feel they get a lot of stick about it for no good reason.

I used to have issues with the different processor types, I used to downgrade to the core2duo to get things to boot.

Well, let’s see…my work laptop experience (so far).

• Lenovo: Worked there for 14 years
• HP: Worked there for 6 months
• Apple: Worked there for 6 months
• HP: Worked there for 2.5 years
• Apple: Worked there for a year
• Dell: Worked there for 2.5 years–

Worse how? Jellyfin was forked from Emby, and since then has continued to improve in my eyes.

Didn’t something similar just happen with RustDesk? ChatGPT response from author in an hours old account.

https://lemmy.ml/post/21342545

Similar here. I used to have 2 screens that if they turned off for powersaving only 1 of them would wake up. So I had a script on the desktop to do a reset and move them correctly.

#!/bin/bash
xrandr --output HDMI2 --off
xrandr --output HDMI2 --auto --same-as HDMI1
xrandr --output HDMI1 --right-of HDMI2
exit

Wasn’t there some controversy about this that it wasn’t entirely open-source?

I had to upgrade some OL6 VMs to OL7 VMs running Oracle DBs and Apps (on OVMM no less). There was no appetite for buying additional storage, or restoring the environments with RMAN. Luckily, everything had been installed under /u01 which was on its own virtual disk.

So I built a new VM as OL7 (same hostname, etc.), installed the pre-req RPMs for Oracle DB, disconnected the virtual disk from the OL6 and attached it to the new OL7, synced users and home dirs - and it only bloody worked.

I don’t want to be a pain, but it’s not “basically Mint running on an M1 iMac.” it’s Asahi/Fedora running Cinnamon. Also, you’ve connected an external monitor for an M1 iMac? Do you mean it’s an M1 Macbook instead?

Feel you there. 4 hours here. All of them cloud instances whereby getting acces to the actual console isn’t as easy as it should be, and trying to hit F8 to get the menu to get into safe mode can take a very long time.

Sandboxed typically restricts a program from being able to read/write to various areas (think an app isn’t allowed to use the network, or access USB devices, or it’s only allowed access to a certain directory in the filesystem).

Containerised is a way of virtualising an app/apps so that they can be easily distributed to run once or thousands. They can and are also sandboxed to different degrees.