yeah i’m on 3060ti and wayfire, it’s been good for quite a while now.

poco f1

second this

and it is usually one time, unless you plan to add or remove features

you don’t update your system? this is what turned me away from gentoo. i setup my system just the way i wanted but everytime you upgrade you re-compile everything again and again. and some of those updates require some tinkering.

the frustration is awfully familiar, i must say.

the thing about gimp and krita is: gimp is an image manipulation software and krita is a drawing software, and as far as i can see from my so’s work, photoshop is a somewhat mixture of those two. from the jump, we’re not comparing apples to apples, unfortunately.

but you already answered your own question, i think.

see, foss programs aren’t there to be a drop-in replacment for their closed sourced alternatives. they emerge from a need from the community. what is more, usually you will have multiple programs encompassing a single workflow of their closed sourced counterparts; meaning they are modular.

so even if there was some other program apart from these, it would have a learning curve, unless adobe open sources photoshop. so there is a viable alternative (which i know from experience) but there is a learning curve, albeit a steep one for someone coming from photoshop.

you shouldn’t limit yourself, but it would immensely improve your understanding of the software if you try to recreate simple pieces of your workflow using gimp, once in a while.

yeah, with wi-fi. i didn’t have any issues using wifi. like i said earlier, some applications don’t have freebsd versions and manually compiling and keeping them update is a lot of hassle. other than that highly reliable system.

been using it for almost a year now.

it’s been 18 years full time linux/bsd for me and it went knoppix -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch linux -> gentoo -> freebsd -> void

arch linux in 2008 was really good, and lasted for a couple of years. gentoo was a chore, because it’s fully source based. freebsd is rock solid, amazing amazing system, i would be still using it if it weren’t for aec applications and games. still using it on my homeserver.

void is blazing fast, highly reliable rolling release package system, amazingly simple init system. i have a 3060ti and it’s working surprisingly good on wayland. it’s just hassle-free for me, i love it.

nice article.

“In the end, this dependency on the global agencies creates a striking similarity in international reporting: from Vienna to Washington, our media often report the same topics, using many of the same phrases – a phenomenon that would otherwise rather be associated with »controlled media« in authoritarian states.”

this probably sums up the article.

i am intrigued, can you give an example of a vulnerability as a result of no microcode updates?

I might sound like an old fart but here’s my 2 cents.

I was exactly in the same situation in 2005. I was heavily invested in commercial products but I wanted to switch to an all open source workflow. My advice would be to start small. First dual boot with windows. Get your DAW working at a basic level. Then get your hardware setup the way you are fully comfortable. Then try to get your visual instruments to work.

Keep in mind that it will be a somewhat different workflow. Linux is highly modular. You can definitely achieve the same results but sometimes with more tools. Jack is an amazing sound system which is now seamlessly integrated into the system with Pipewire. It makes routing your audio stupidly simple and opens up a whole different universe of possibilities.

All this is coming from someone that’s using an all open source approach for almost 20 years now.

And if it does’t work, it doesn’t. No need to swim against the current.

and as if like there will be one monarch to rule them all! all by himself, waiting by the dock, preparing for a duel.

just because we don’t officially call it monarchy, people think that it’s a whole new system. every critique you have against monarchy is valid for the billionaires and vice versa.

jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won’t be willing to overthrow a “literal” monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it’s not real, a fantasy. but you’re willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

if it’s a really old laptop, Ubuntu might be overkill, spec-wise. In that case i would suggest Alpine Linux, it’s super lightweight and a really good distro for server use.

i think codeberg.org would be the flagship instance, since they’re the ones that has been supporting the development most as far as i can see.

to be fair, scientifically that is true for all buildings.

quantity doesn’t always mean quality and when the subject is aur, i wouldn’t count that as a metric. there are lots of orphaned packages, packages that have their source / binary / git versions, older libraries etc.

it USED TO be a nice repository, i don’t why. but it’s one of the main reasons i’m keeping away from arch because i cannot trust those packages anymore.

if you’re planning on changing distros you most probably will redo most of the stuff. you are right to think that backing up your home and /etc folders would be the first thing you should do. you can also get a list of your installed packages so you can reinstall your applications with a sort of checklist. i’m not familiar with popos so i can’t help you with that process, but it shouldn’t be that complicated.

i think you have it the other way around. usually windows is more prone to/attacks than linux. for a program to be installed system-wise, or a program to make system changes it has to have sudo privileges, and you would definitely be prompted for a password then.

but if you want people you share your files to be protected, you can by all means use an antivirus.

“dark web” is what mass media calls what is not in the “clearnet”. there are already protocols in place like tor, i2p, gemini, gopher etc.

this is the exact same thing i’ve been wondering for a while now.

we used to have dynamic ip’s. we could update our a little longer tld’s to our everchanging dynamic ip’s and that was that. i could even host a mail server this way. i had a script that updated my mx and a records and i was good to go.

now most isp’s give you shared dynamic ip’s that you have no way of exposing your local machine to your tld.

i now have my local server serve my nextcloud instance over tor. it’s a little slower but i don’t need a governing body to setup my tld, which was my end goal.

there exists a script called fedproxy but i haven’t had time to investigate. it would be cool if it worked.

that is just pure admiarchy in display.