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It’s totally wrong imo. Having a Nvidia gpu should not all stop you from using Linux. Granted I’m still on X and can’t run AAA games but I have no issues with it otherwise. Running cuda happily along with everything else I need to build companies, create content, and consume media.
Or Fedora, or Arch, or a bunch of other distros because most all have solid support.
Edit: whole bunch of gamers out here
Non starter? As in you shouldn’t use Linux if you have a nvidia gpu? I hope that isn’t the take.
2·5 months agoAh I am not familiar with the software store, you don’t have to do that from the command line. And thats true, I’m not suggesting to never update, just less. Also if theres not much to steal on your computer, saftey is a little less important. I would personally feel comfortable updating once per month but thats up to each user. I sat on fedora 37 for way too long because Ubuntu made me afraid of major upgrades.
1·5 months agoI think a pretty good solution for this, specific to mobile, is to require users to approve an update when permissions have changed. Most non technical users don’t understand old software can contain security issues, they purely view updates as new bells and whistles. If these apps are actually malicious, they aren’t going to include their new keylogger in the release notes nor release on fdroid. I think automatic updates for the predominantly non technical population is still safer.
Nonfree firmware is default in the Debian 12 installer.
What do you mean restart cycle? You only have to restart if you want to load the new kernel (there’s technically a way to avoid even that). If you don’t feel like installing a better tool for the job like Debian, just update less, most of your packages will still be newer than most distros. Also not sure why you would encrypt if its just jellyfin client.
I don’t think this is still true, Debian 12 will install non free drivers
if you chooseby default. I had that issue on 11 though. I’m not sure how a graphical install works as of late but configuring sudo on a headless box is always tedious and would not be easy for a beginner to figure out.
If you are weird so am I. Fedora desktop + 3 Debian headless boxes. Though I may nix everything some day.
Edit: Why do I catch more stray downvotes on Lemmy than I ever did Reddit? I swear there must be downvote bots out there.
Then you log into GitHub to work with almost any other open source project. Issues, PRs, blah blah blah.
Exactly that!
I suppose I meant so far as priorities, I wasn’t clear. Hosting OSS seems like it would be one of the first things to federate imo.
I have no idea how this wasn’t a lower hanging fruit. If theres one social service I want federated, its a git server.
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I’m not sure if its true for Mastodon as well, but I read that self hosting a Lemmy instance was actually more work for the other servers to federate unless you had many users on your instance. Just something to keep in mind.
Maybe not high traffic services, if it’s being self hosted the limiting factor is probably the upload bandwidth anyway. I’m not sure how resource intensive Mastodon is to host though.
My desktop is named Gertrude :) it wasn’t until later I noticed the case has a G on it (brand thing). It was meant to be.
I’ve created/maintain 5 programs for this rather niche but rather popular Linux based tablet. All of my programs exist to give the owners more freedom with their device and gives users a plausible way to avoid uploading all of their data to the company’s cloud. I created installation scripts but also packed the programs into the community package manager. The programs are all feature complete so I hop on every other week or so for basic maintenance and to test how my programs work after the tablet updates. I’m pretty much always around to help users troubleshoot.
Past that I have a few random contributions to OSS I use for bugs I’ve identified and have been able to fix.