Hard to say what the used market is like, but the cheapest cards that would be broadly similar in performance would probably be the Arc A580, RX 5700 or RX 6600. This page has some rankings that are reasonable for comparison: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388-2.html
But…surely there’s a way to just stick with the latest supported driver, right? Or is Arch truly an “upgrade or die” distro?
The last time I did any html/css work was about 15 years ago. Now I’m curious what’s changed.
I think Debian offers a very good compromise. The primary repos follow the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG).
Then they have a separate “non-free” repos for “non-DFSG-compliant packages that are considered important enough to make available anyway”. If you want to be a hardline free software stalwart, you can do that, and Debian supports you. If you are comfortable making a few compromises for the sake of usability, like fonts and device drivers, Debian supports you on that as well.
I think it’s just that Mastodon posts in Lemmy are weird.
Toots don’t have titles so it just duplicates the content, and then you have a mess of @ and # tags that don’t make sense in Lemmy.
Cross-ecosystem federation is cool but also leaves a lot to be desired.
I use Wayland now but there are still apps I run in X mode. Notably mpv and Firefox, because I cannot for the life of me configure them sensibly in Wayland, and I don’t want to write arcane KWin scripts just to get widow sizing/positioning to stay the way I want them on launch. I tried; it was extremely frustrating and still not quite functional.
Perhaps there are other window managers that would make my life easier. I haven’t tried many, but in principle, there is no way for the widow manager to know the correct size and location of new windows for arbitrary applications, so I doubt it. I consider this a user-hostile design choice in Wayland and I pray it will change in the future.
It’s been a while since I ran a full-fat VM. What’s the go-to these days?
I think all it does is install the virt-manager Flatpak and then set a bunch of kernel arguments with rpm-ostree kargs ... depending on various hardware detections.
Gotcha. Yeah, that’s been a pain point for me on previous distros. On Bazzite they make it easy with ujust setup-virtualization. I’m not sure if that’s a one-size-fits-all solution but it suits my needs, at least.
I’m running Bazzite on my “everything” PC. Do you feel like Aurora has notable advantages? Seems to me that “gaming” distros like Bazzite are just ordinary distros with correct GPU drivers and a couple other niceties. I don’t see anything that detracts from productivity.
I actually did this a lot on classic Mac OS. Intentionally.
The reason was that you could put a carriage return as the first character of a file, and it would sort above everything else by name while otherwise being invisible. You just had to copy the carriage return from a text editor and then paste it into the rename field in the Finder.
Since OS X / macOS can still read classic Mac HFS+ volumes, you can indeed still have carriage returns in file names on modern Macs. I don’t think you can create them on modern macOS, though. At least not in the Finder or with common Terminal commands.
Apple owns the entire 17.0.0.0/8 block (they made out like bandits on that one back in the 80s!).
Amazon publishes the IP ranges of AWS here: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json . That doesn’t include other Amazon services or inactive IPs, though.
This Github tracks Amazon’s IP blocks: https://gist.github.com/atoonk/0ee3f5bebcea874f6032215f16c3c30a . Not sure how up to date or accurate it is. Interestingly, they say Amazon owns the entire 3.0.0.0/8 block, which is news to me. If true, someone should update Wikipedia’s List of assigned /8 IPv4 address blocks.
Not sure about the others. There are some well-maintained block lists for Google and Meta/Facebook domains, and I suppose you could dig through those like /u/Dataprolet@discuss.tchncs.de suggested. e.g. for Google, there’s this one: https://github.com/nickspaargaren/no-google. This will be difficult since domains are rapidly moving targets. They can come and go at a moment’s notice, and the IPs can be reassigned just as easily. IP addresses are also moving targets but since there’s a limited supply there’s less turnover.
Just wail til they become AI-generated-JavaScript-only shops. They’re gonna be vibing like the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
It’s a real post on Reddit. I don’t know what combination of screenshotting/uploading tools leads to this kind of mangling, but I’ve seen it in screenshots from Android, too. The artifacts seem to run down in straight vertical lines, so maybe slight scaling with a nearest-neighbor algorithm (in 2025?!?) plus a couple levels of JPEG compression? It looks really weird.
I’m curious. If anyone knows, please enlighten me!
It would be like taking your compiled machine code and editing it by hand because your compiler sucks.
Just use the right tool from the start.
Yeah, I don’t understand the fixation on BTRFS in the article. Nobody’s going to have BTRFS problems unless they’re doing advanced things that the documentation clearly says are experimental and unsupported. Nobody’s going to accidentally set up a RAID5 array, or accidentally create a swap file on a non-swap-friendly volume. The average user won’t see any difference between BTRFS and EXT4, except that BTRFS snapshots might save their butt in an emergency.
BTRFS is a perfectly reasonable choice as a default filesystem. Probably the best choice in general. Last year I thought bcachefs was the future, but now that’s getting dropped from the Linux kernel so nope, guess I’ll stick with BTRFS.
Yeah, it’s weird to talk about OpenSuse MicroOS and Fedora Atomic when they are not even the flagship desktop distros of their respective families. I guess the author drank the atomic kool-aid and thinks that’s a killer feature for a consumer OS.
That said, Ubuntu is not really aimed at beginners anymore. Canonical has shifted hard to enterprise offerings over the past 5 years or so. Take a look at their web site — they barely spare a word for desktop Linux anymore. This is what you’ll see on the main page:
“The complete guide to RAG”
“Modern enterprise open source”
A “Products” dropdown with thirteen items, maybe one of which is comprehensible to a beginner.
For all the hate Snaps get (and rightfully so), they make a lot more sense in the context of enterprise deployment. It’s like Flatpak but for headless servers and with professional support. It took me a long time to understand Canonical’s game there, because I couldn’t shake the idea of Ubuntu as a beginner’s distro.
I guess it would be cool to have an atomic OS designed for beginners, since the current crop are more complex than traditional distros, not less. But I don’t think atomicity itself really matters, especially if you’re talking about systems that are mostly locked down to begin with.
Cool, sounds promising!
I wonder how much power Valve even has here. I mean, we’re talking about Windows compatibility. How many Windows games can run properly in a 64-bit WINE environment?
Dropping 32-bit support has to happen eventually, but there’s bound to be collateral damage. It wasn’t a painless change even on macOS, which is generally a more tightly controlled “adapt or die” platform.
The concept is real. I mean, anyone who thought “vibe coding” would be a viable career path for long enough to actually have a career was just not paying attention to reality.
Right now it legitimately takes some expertise to get good results from AI coding. (Most people doing it now get, at best, convincingly passable results.) But the job of a “vibe coder” is much simpler than the job of a conventional programmer, and it will become increasingly simple to automate out the human’s role. It’s not like progress is going to suddenly stop. The fruit is hanging so low that it might as well be on the ground.
Unga bunga.