ymmv depending on the country; last i checked, the ones in the uk aren’t having much a great time.

i forgot that this was a thing and i think it’s sure fire sign that i’ve left the developer fold. lol

the licensing seems to be the issue here instead of the possible exploits.

in a reality where you’re forced to trade your labor for life’s basic necessities; it makes sense that artists and any other creators would defend intellectual property since it’s the main means for most to feed and house themselves.

i can’t read them, they frighten me. lol

at first, i lol’ed at the c/rust divide because i thought it was another silly holy war like emacs/vi but it’s taken on a MUCH bigger and troubling role

I feel like this is kind of the amateur-hour stuff. It’s certainly dangerous, but in comparison to a lot of state-actor activities (or even committed-amateur activities), this kind of supply-chain attack is pretty blatant and easy to spot. Which doesn’t mean it’s easy to spot

the real worrisome stuff comes from state actors who know what they’re doing and have captured the entire ecosystem to prevent it from being discovered until it doesn’t matter any more. eg stuxnet, prism, etc.

That’s the part I missed!

Thank you!!!

it clear that linux is improving and i wish it was still as open as it used to be given the american’s gov’t’s mandate to kick out foreign developers and google closing their source on android.

it’s still more open than the alternatives; but it’s future trajectory is clear.

i ws forced to do it recently and noticed that they enforce usage of black terminal, like it is in the command prompt in windows.

it was a pain in the ass to keep switch colors just to touch that one powershell module and my first priority to replacing with with a python equivalent. they still think that the powershell module is being used, but it’s no longer capable of working in this environment and they’re going to have to spend $$$ to make it useable because i forsee LOT of difficulty and delays in bringing it up to spec.

games or specialized software seem to be the thing that gates most people from using linux and it’s nice to see such progress on the gaming side.

i myself gave it a shot with fedora on a new laptop and it was as smooth as you described it; the last time i tried it, it required several google searches and knowledge of how to convert from debian to fedora.

i guess it was a matter of time since i’ve been in this ecosystem since 2002.

that too; i guess it’s wrong to call it a supplement when it unifies all these systems that seem disperate if you don’t already know the kvm/qemu ecosystem.

true and part of me suspects that it’s intentional on the part of arch users so that they can continue to tell the world that they “use arch btw” lol

now that i think of it, it’s more than a supplement because it makes the software defined networking MUCH MORE intuitive if you’re using KVM/QEMU.

i suspect that virt-manager is a supplement since you can do everything via virsh.

is there some reasy why you can’t use a live usb of a distribution that defaults to wayland?

i’ve become so disconnected from the average linux user that i’m no longer capable of understanding the difficulties they encounter. lol

i just tried it and i’m not able to access any of the files i created nor any of the files that already exist on my phone; what am i missing?

I’m aware and I HATE it since you have to root it just to use scp/rsync effectively.