lemmyvore

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 21 hours ago

This should be built-in on every modern distro.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

But it was my fault, for generating an initramfs without free space in /tmp, which caused it to fail.

I really don't think that was your fault. A critical build process that's not checking for resources and not failing gracefully and leaving the machine unbootable is not the user's fault.

A build+install can fail for many reasons. It's actually annoying how many critical system updates on Linux don't use a staging process and a sudden power-off at the wrong time can leave the machine completely crippled.

Some distros have taken to doing a BTRFS snapshot before they start the upgrade but (a) they're far and few in between and (b) that still doesn't fix the upgrade process, it's just sweeping the problem under the carpet.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 9 points 21 hours ago

It's not slower.

proprietary

Only the extension pack, the app itself is GPL.

not even as easy to install

How do you mean? You simply install virtualbox (and virtual-guest-iso if you want). All the relevant packages are available from official repos, at least on Manjaro, including a linux-virtualbox-host-modules-meta package that maintains the required linux*-virtualbox-host-modules as needed automatically.

Also, I prefer virtualbox because it makes a lot of stuff easy to do.

File sharing with the host for example, it's a matter of simply pointing at a dir in settings, as opposed to having to set up Samba on the host (which I don't have and don't want) and deal with wierd networking issues, or deal with virtiofs.

Don't even get me started on selecting locations for the vm files. Whatever you think it should work like, virt-manager's way ain't it.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Manjaro has also shown how an Arch distro can achieve this as well, by releasing tested sets of updates slower.

But OP is correct in that's not the point of vanilla Arch and people who use vanilla should assume the risks.

What's annoying is people who use vanilla and tell everybody "oh don't worry nothing ever breaks". Something always breaks. You have a couple thousand packages installed on the average desktop system, dozens are updated to bleeding edge every day, something will break.

Manjaro maintains a crowd-sourced list of the most egregious defects (+ their fixes) that crop up in popular packages, suffice to say it's never empty.

Many of them are not system-breaking and may not impact everyone, which is where I'm guessing the "nothing ever breaks" dissonance is coming from.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Active AUR malicious packages incident (the AUR is locked)

🤭 heh

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 10 points 23 hours ago

Try following it with something scathing about Trump.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago

The immediate problem with legal system is not even persuation, it's the burden of untangling the facts.

Experts who should be using their knowledge are tempted to use AI to make their arguments to save time and effort. AI will happily comply even if it has to make up laws and precedents, and most individuals and small businesses would not have the savvy and resources to figure it out. Even if they do, it ends up as a challenge in court, which acts a straightforward amplification attack against an already overburdened legal system.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago

Oops. Sorry i dropped my airpods at your feet.

Oops, sorry I stepped on it...

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Eh, pods are easier to knock down than glasses.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

True but they can't rely on the US alone. They have to do business elsewhere. Funding Firefox is a ridiculously cheap way of making sure they can operate with impunity everywhere. It's brilliant, really.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

In the future it will probably come out there was a massive backroom deal. Neither this nor dropping Windows Phone have made any sense.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

It also opens the possibility of a manifest v4 which restricts even further what ad blockers can do. But if they do in small steps they hope people will just accept it. They're basically trying to boil the frog.

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