I sometimes add a “tax” to the estimates of unrelated tasks, and use the extra hours to work on tech debt, unbeknown to upper management.
Not particularly ethical on my side, but… I’m the one that gets paged when things break down at night or on weekends, and I don’t care that upper management doesn’t care about that.
There are both x64 and ARM64 RPM and Debian packages available for this closed-source Linux app.
One more reason to stick to my current niche distro :-D
BTW: out of curiosity, I just went to chatgpt.com and asked:
briefly, what’s the recommended way to distribute a desktop app on linux?
The answer wasn’t brief (at least for my definition of “brief”: it started with a bullet list of all possible packagings) but it ended with:
If you want one recommendation: ship Flatpak + AppImage. Flatpak for normal installation/updates, AppImage as the portable fallback.
left/right mouse button
I don’t know how to create suspense
I must pretty good at that, since I never know if my code is gonna crash until the very end :D
If the filesystems seem ok it might be your grub configuration (or whatever bootloader you use)
Caveat: I only skimmed through the article up to the point below, so I’m probably missing some key point.
I just wanted to comment this specific passage (and the table below it).
When we asked developers what they actually value about coming into the office, the answers were overwhelmingly human. The top response, by a wide margin, was other people […]
Literally all the other options (except “conference room”, which is really “other people” all over again) are things that people have at home too (well, things that are reasonably easy to get at home, assuming that you care about them and that your boss pays from them and/or doesn’t woefully underpay you).
Also:
If it’s a server for self hosting you definitely don’t want anything that requires interaction at boot.
There’s a project that allows unlocking LUKS with a decryption key retrieved from another machine in your network. I don’t recall the name but someone hopefully will.
The idea is that put the key on, say, a raspberry pi zero w that you hide somewhere in your house so that if someone steals your server they don’t have the key.
Does this have anything to do with self hosting?
Since you don’t say, I assume you are talking US?
My NAS is in a node 304 case from fractal design and I can recommend it.
The 304 is mini-ITX/DTX with space for 6 drives.
There is a bigger version for bigger motherboards and more drives, which I would assume is just as good as mine.
Frankly, I don’t see where the whole big deal of this story is.
People who don’t like codeberg can just go somewhere else (even back to github) and/or found/support an alternative that better suits their needs.
It’s not like the world needs to have one git hosting service to rule them all, it’s not like there must be free ones (entitled much?), and it’s not like whatever service happens to be the new “cool” one must be neutral as to what they host.
BTW, although to my knowledge their policy is not enforced super-strictly, codeberg has never been neutral in this regard — see 1 and 2
I, for one, am glad they are volunteering as guinea pigs in an experiment to see how long a popular project can survive LLM slop.
And if they harm javascript’s popularity in the process and projects start to look elsewhere… that’s an added benefit ;-)
Might be that you are at the end of your distro-hopping journey, which isn’t when you have found the perfect distro, but when they all start to look the same
What you describe sounds like a hardware failure (one where btrfs plays no specific role).
If that’s indeed the case, you can only bring the drive to a data recovery service and see what they say (if it’s a spinning disk, they’ll probably recover the data for an exorbitant fee, if it’s an SSD idk).
PS: this is unlikely to work, but… you can try cleaning the drive’s contacts to see if it makes any difference, and also try moving the drive to a different connector (or use it on another computer)
on windows it would be to scan your stuff,make sure its the real site etc
It’s the same on Linux (*), with two big differences:
If you install niche software from app stores (even reputable ones), you’ll have to make sure to check it’s the real deal (I think both the snap store and flathub had fake cryptowallets?), but if you stick to relatively mainstream software you’ll be fine (I mean, it’s not like you’ll find fake versions of steam or blender on flathub).
That said, the risk is there just as with Windows (or your phone, or anything else): a good operative system helps, but ultimately you are the real line of defense.
(*) well, IDK about scanning… generally speaking, if you feel like you have to scan something before opening it, just don’t open it :) (yeah I know it’s not possible if - eg - you receive files from customers)
i use an hp printer,and need to be able to use it on linux.
Then research if your specific model has compatibility issues (AFAIK HP stuff generally works well, but… it’s up to you to check before buying)
i expect to be able to use the laptop and not think about the os too much
That will happen, if you are lucky or if you buy hardware that specifically supports linux.
Would you expect macos to run on a dell computer? would you expect windows to run on a mac? linux has much broad compatibility but is no different: if it doesn’t work on your PC it’s not linux’s fault.
my goal of using linux is being far from malware
Just follow basic hygiene and you’ll be fine. Most importantly, don’t install malware yourself (chrome is available on linux too and, sadly, it’s also widely used).
I’ve not looked into it much yet, but https://radicle.xyz/ seems interesting.
It’s kinda a bittorrent-powerd codeberg and it looks like it’s worth playing around with (even though it might not get you rid of much bandwidth… IDK how popular it is, but source usually doesn’t weigh that much).
Thanks for checking and reporting back! (I was too lazy to do that)
I really needed more AI propaganda, thanks!