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Довольно часто в массовых обсуждениях пропаганды перехода на Линукс я замечаю знакомые паттерны, что встречал ещё в велодвижении. Есть там одна схожая тема - езда на велосипеде на работу и просто по делам, что я и сам практикую и даже продвигал :)

Так вот многие персонажи прямо до боли знакомы.

Адепты секты дистрибутивов и окружений: "ездить по городу нужно только на шоссере/циклокроссе/туринге/горном велосипеде/складнике". Если у тебя что-то плохо получается, то выкинь свой Gnome и купи найнер, на нём на трамвайных рельсах ты бы не упал. Что? Какой найнер, что за сраный жир, только шоссер позволит чувствовать себя уверенным на дороге.

Любители гик-гламура: эти вешают фоточки лакированных и сверкающих городских велосипедов с деревянными деталями и кожей, на которых они ездят в твидовых костюмах, либо восстановленных лимитированных советских велосипедов на оригинальных деталях, либо ультраминималистичных фиксов и говорят, что вот он - путь, идентичность и вообще суть велокультуры. Осторожно спрашивающих каково попасть в таком виде в дождь и точно ли велосипед с деревянным лакированным ящиком удобен для езды среди автомобилей и таскания в переход обычно сразу банят за дискредитацию армии идей. Когда в Москве проходили велопарады, влияние этих кадров было особенно заметно, в том числе среди организаторов. Я потом регулярно встречал людей, пытающихся их заветам следовать, помню, со мной пару недель ездила девочка в платье и на городском велосипеде с ящичком. Больше я её не видел ни в каком виде, что и не удивительно. На трёхполосных дорогах-то.

Скилл-ишшью гигачады: "если у тебя что-то не получается, ты просто слабак, иди качайся, а так у нормальных людей всё норм". Как сделать вот это? RTFM, сука! Просто разгонись на вливании до 40 км/ч, перестройся в третью полосу и дальше топи через развязку за автобусом, держать тридцатку десять минут может любой, даже мой сын, дед и собака. А там ещё раз разгонишься и перестроишься, тебя пропустят. Наверное. Страшно? Ну и иди отсюда! Какие ещё объезды. Ты ещё скажи, что прыгать на велосипеде не умеешь. Просто тренируйся каждый день и всё получится (ну или иди нахуй).

Технопуристы: "systemd/wayland/GUI амортизаторы/гидравлика/широкая резина/переключатели никому не нужны, а что они везде есть - это корпорации вас разводят". И всё бы ничего, если бы они подкрепляли этим свой личный выбор, но мажут этими широкими мазками прямо по лицу чаще почему-то новичков. У тебя велосипед с вилкой, чего ты хочешь-то? Научиться ездить можно только на жигулях-классике фиксе. Некоторые поддаются влиянию. Кто-то таки действительно начинает ездить на фиксе, а про тихо разочаровавшихся больше никто и не узнает. Отдельная разновидность - минималисты-экономисты, выбравшие своим (и поэтому всеобщим) идеалом Thinkpad 2012 года выпуска велик пятнадцатилетней давности, перешедший в состояние "всё ненужное отвалилось само, а он всё равно едет".

Непробиваемые оптимисты: "у самурая нет цели, есть лишь путь, дождь не мочит, падать не больно, а поломки повод развлечь себя вечером и поиграть в конструктор". В принципе, я и сам к таким отношусь, но есть нюанс - к этому состоянию можно только прийти самому. Навязать его нельзя, можно лишь создать ложные ожидания. Дождь мочит. И да, это не так важно, но в ряде случаев сухим на работу ты не доедешь. И да, есть разные пути - можно летом поехать в одних шортах и тогда до нитки промокших предметов будет три и их легко сменить, можно завернуться во всякие мембраны и намокнуть не так сильно, можно относиться к дождю как к челленджу или наоборот веселью, но он есть. Не надо говорить, что это фигня и существует лишь в голове.

Ну и с другой стороны всё тоже типично. Самый узнаваемый типаж: укладыватели слона в холодильник: "это всё хорошо, но я посмотрю как вы повезёте на велосипеде газовую плиту или поедете на работу из загородного дома 50 километров по автомагистрали или заедете за день к тридцати клиентам по всей Москве и области". Да, инструмент должен соответствовать цели. Если встаёт задача поместить слона в холодильник, не надо это делать. Вызовите авторефрижератор. Никто с этим и не спорит. Ну, кроме всех перечисленных персонажей, конечно :)
#велосипед (и #linux)


Speaking of jumping ship, I store all my files in #Microsoft #OneDrive and would like to get rid of that dependency as I'm working to replace my workflow with #FLOSS tools where practical. Do y'all have recommendations for a #CloudStorage service which has reasonably #accessible clients for #ScreenReader users (I primarily use #Fedora Workstation 43 but also use #Windows 11, #Android, and #iOS), can sync to my local filesystem, and/or can appear in the #GNOME desktop File Manager? I'm not interested in self-hosting something like #Nextcloud, #OwnCloud, etc. Any suggestions or firsthand experiences would be greatly appreciated.

#FileStorage #accessibility #Blind #Linux #a11y


Hey #blind #linux users. Quick question. What is the most accessible linux desktop these days?
Is it still mate, or how are we doing.
Context: I want to try to switch from Windows, and I'm fine spending some time setting things up, but I don't want to have a 30 min debug session every time I want to use my computer



@fexplorer Im #Linux Bezug habe ich von den drei Tieren noch nie gehört.


Wichtig find ich auch zu klären bevor man loslegt:

Bin ich auf assistive Technologien angewiesen, z.B. #Screenreader?

Da kann man bei #Linux leider sehr schnell auf unüberwindbare #Barrieren stoßen.


Ich möchte von #Windows auf #Linux umsteigen und suche den Erfahrungsaustausch und neue Kontakte. #neuhier #introduction

I would like to switch from Windows to Linux and am looking to exchange experiences and make new contacts. #newhere #introduction



If you develop for #linux please make offline installation possible, for people in countries with restricted internet. Came back home last night and today I want to install Luminance HDR but their only option for linux is via the terminal, and yet, while I can access full internet on my phone using a VPN, I can't access any on my laptop/workstations, so I can't install this program, unless I use Wine. I'm in #Uganda They cut off internet during elections and it has now been partially restored.



State of Accessibility on Linux, 2026:

Users: Wayland broke accessibility.

Wayland: Not our problem, talk to the compositor.

KDE & Gnome: Expose what we need for accessibility, plz?

Wayland: Security risk. No.

Factorio dev: This compromise?

Wayland: Ok, fine...

Also Wayland: Actually, no.

User: *researches how to grow new eyeballs* It'll be solved faster.

#linux #accessibility #wayland


There's really NO reason why a decent mid-range phone couldn't be someone's main desktop or laptop. The NexPhone is a mid-range rugged phone which connects to a monitor to be a Debian or Windows 11 PC! youtu.be/qfY5t6N8YxM

Phones are computers. I ramble on about this a lot in my videos. This phone is LITERALLY that!

#tech #technology #technews #android #linux #debian #windows #youtube #geek #gadgets #video


Brrr... new introduction time cause my old one is already outdated lol.

I am Sinclair-Speccy, your local resident computer nerd that can’t actually do a lot of tech stuff like people think. My primary interests are #Linux, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads.

My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s (I know, so interesting /s). Despite having used XP as my first OS other older OSes (mostly Linux ones) interest me more if you look at the media I've posted on my account besides the tech ads.

I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art as my friend was there, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space.

One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters, though I tend to call them tech gijinkas. I even have my own tech gijinkas universe that is hosted on my site.

As for some other stuff I enjoy #mythology, #transformers, #cats, #fantasy, #nature such as #flowers and #plants and #animals, #steampunk, #starwars, #photography, #art, #space, #cyberpunk and #scifi... there is more but I'm not writing them all.

You can check out my website here: sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-… and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform or something, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...

Unlike in the past I'm not active as I used to be, sadly.

#RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Introduction


I've noticed there seems to be two main types of Linux distributions:

1) Aside from security updates this is going to take a LONG time to get new packages. Updated version of Wine or MESA drivers? See you in six months!

2) EVERY package the second it releases! Hope you don't mind KDE breaking something every couple of months!

I'm wondering if there's any distributions that are similar to the second one but on like a one-month delay, to filter out problematic updates?

#Linux


I think that's a no-brainer right now that Europe should pursue digital sovereignty aggressively.

It's not about MS Office vs Libre Office, it's about banking apps, cloud services, your phone, your daily life. Which is a way bigger leverage #Trump has about your daily life. #FOSS is security.

#linux


You know that #Linux is becoming mainstream on #desktop computers when a Czech consumer magazine focused on product testing, #DTest, recommends switching to Linux.

"However, there is another solution. Fortunately, it is no longer true that only Microsoft operating systems are suitable for ordinary people and that only eccentric IT wizards with a silicon soul can use anything else. Now, a number of GNU/Linux operating systems offer a level of ease of use that is at least comparable to that of MS Windows."



At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users.

We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few around Europe and a couple in the US.

Our servers are based in Iceland.

If you want to get away from Big Tech, maybe give us a try? If you are already using Vivaldi, maybe introduce your friends?

Have a nice day!

vivaldi.com

#Vivaldi #Browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #AI #Europa #Technology #EU #UK #Germany #France #Poland #Denmark #Norway #Iceland #Greenland


Many times during my career, I have heard that #Linux has no chance on the #desktop unless some corporation picks it up and prepares it for the masses. #ChromeOS was given as an example.

I think it is safe to say today that all those small Linux vendors and communities have beaten #Google with its Chrome OS.



I'm still amazed that, as a blind person, I'm typing this on Linux, with an Android phone in my pocket, and not really having any major issues with either.

#linux #foss #tech #accessibility #blind #android


Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future. :NoAI:

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux. :tux:

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

windowscentral.com/artificial-…


The PAM Duress is a module designed to allow users to generate 'duress' passwords that when used in place of their normal password will execute arbitrary scripts.

This functionality could be used to allow someone pressed to give a password under coercion to provide a password that grants access but in the background runs scripts to clean up sensitive data, close connections to other networks to limit lateral movement, and/or to send off a notification or alert (potentially one with detailed information like location, visible wifi hot-spots, a picture from the camera, a link to a stream from the microphone, etc). You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won't be able to see if the duress module was available.

github.com/nuvious/pam-duress

#security #Linux #Arch #Debian


i know we got to vouch for our open source software but you just can't game on #Linux unless you run Windows on your Linux. you want to #deMicrosoft people? make the triple A games run on Linux and you'll see people flock


When I started experimenting with #Linux again in 2024, I was very impressed at how mature everything had become since I last tried it in the mid-00s. The biggest surprise, though, was #GNOME. It had a level of intentionality and clarity of vision that far exceeded my expectations of a FLOSS project. It made me feel welcome and comfortable.

To the developers of @gnome : Thank you for having the audacity to strive for simplicity in the face of continued criticism from the community. It matters.


My friend has an ubuntu laptop and forgot her password. It logs in to her account on boot, but obviously not having the password is not a sustainable situation.

What's the least disruptive way to sort this out? Can I just boot off a stick and clear /etc/password is there a better way forward?

#ubuntu #linux


There's a 3rd strategy which is actually the main reason our family groups switched. Our main chat app was one originally created in a country whose government is accused of #apartheid and #genocide. Whenever that came up in the news, I'd drop a subtle non-pushy comment here and there mentioning that fact, and also that its present executives are located there and support their army's actions.

After one of these major events, to my surprise, someone else, the admin of our family group (non-techy, not #Linux user at that time), arbitrarily decided to delete the family group from the proprietary messenger and told everyone to join the family group on #SignalApp!



```/bin/bash``` just turned 38.

Happy birthday, bash!

To display bash shell version press `Ctrl+x Ctrl+v`

#unix #linux #opensource


I guess this warrants a screenshot, as I keep seeing #GNOME + #Linux threads where folks freak out about the "middle click paste" gsetting being set to False by default in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettin…. Some ask "How dare they hide this into a gsetting to be toggled", or "they should add it to GNOME Tweaks" etc.…

Thing is, it's *already* in GNOME Tweaks, since 2016: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-t…

We were told multiple times the gsetting is not getting removed. I'll keep using it & move on. :blobcatcoffee:


Question: what are y'all using as secret service on #Linux? (With #Wayland and #sway, if that matters.)

I did not like #GNOME #Keyring, because that pulled in tons of stuff I didn't want.

I'm currently using #KeePassXC, but let's just say it's a much better password manager than a Secret Service. (e.g., it can't remember authorized binaries over a session, and handling multiple databases isn't great.)

Ideally, I want something that does only this, but does it well.


EU is calling for comments on open source strategies. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!

Even non-EU citizens have a voice here.

NOW is a time to stand up and stand out! YOU want to help the Fediverse? Here's just one way today that YOU can REALLY make a difference:

The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:

  • a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
  • a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better...

#EU #open #foss #openSource #source #linux #activitypub #AP #fedi #fediverse


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I'm quite impressed how #EndeavourOS, despite not being _glamorous_ or hyped up as some of the rest in the list - is doing quite well at ~2.12% of the #Linux #Steam users. Not **that** far off from something like #Bazzite (~5.89%) and is higher even than #Fedora, #Manjaro, and #PopOS. EndeavourOS was the boat I chose when I decided to leave #Windows few years back, and it's still going strong. Despite #ArchLinux having a rep to 'break', my PC and all of my family members' have yet to go through such a thing lol. Its rep of being not user-friendly to noobs is also not that true seeing how a solution to a problem, if any, is often one search away from the incredibly documented Arch Wiki - better than relying on hundreds of conflicting information scattered through distros' forums. I'm perfectly aware everyone's experience is unique to their own, esp with something as fragmented as Linux, but I'd be remiss not to mention that while my EndeavourOS experience has been flawless, I've had broken/borked systems with 2 #Debian/#Ubuntu based distros (not gonna name, names), Manjaro (Arch based, though some might not agree), and even Bazzite (Fedora based). These were with #Intel/#AMD systems too that's supposedly 'ideal', at least 2 of my EndeavourOS systems meanwhile have #NVIDIA GPUs (i.e. 'not ideal'). These were a couple of years ago tho before reaching my 'final distro', EndeavourOS tho so things may have improved for these distros too. All in all, my point is, despite not being the glamorous, popular option... THANK YOU to the EndeavourOS team for clearly putting in a ton of work to ensure our (supposedly) broken-prone systems to keep running stably.


Linux desktop voice control has a gap. Talon costs money. Other tools are X11-only or cloud-dependent.

So I built EasySpeak.

youtube.com/watch?v=dl5m2Zo1oI…

github.com/ctsdownloads/easysp…

- Free and open source (GPL-3.0)
- Fully local — no cloud, no accounts
- Wayland-native
- "Hey Jarvis, open downloads"

Built for RSI, accessibility, or anyone who wants to talk to their computer.

#Linux #OpenSource #Accessibility #VoiceControl #GNOME #Wayland #a11y



Y'all I'm away from my Linux work machine for two whole weeks. And I come back to find...

It's still powered on.
It's at the lock screen.
It's ready, ready I say, for my password. No reboot needed. No secure desktop and then wait for a few seconds for Windows to consider doing its job. It just, plain, works.

#linux #foss


I can say, however, that I've reunited with an "old friend" who is still in great shape. Before I get dozens of replies about it being insecure: in theory, it is, but it's not accessible from the outside. It's isolated within its own network and is only able to connect and fetch backups for 'extreme disaster recovery' (only at specific times, restricted by specific firewall rules). It served its purpose today, and tomorrow, it might be even more useful.

18:33:01 up 3188 days, 4:47, 1 user, load average: 5.09, 4.73, 4.74

Debian, Btrfs, and zero internal dust.
It's kept in a sterile, extremely protected room.

#IT #SysAdmin #Debian #Linux #Uptime #ServerUptime