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what i mean by production is "not randomly breaking because it's feature freeze time and now i have to reinstall everything". i assure you it's not a high bar

sorry if i sound a little annoying about this, it's just that i've seen so many people recommending debian testing as if it's just a different flavor of debian for people who want a more up-to-date system and are willing to deal with a little instability, but it is not that. debian testing is made exclusively for testing debian. it is not made for daily driving. i've had so many issues with debian systems in my lab which i later found out were caused by someone "upgrading" the system to testing bc they heard debian testing is the daily driving version and debian stable is just for servers that need 99.9% uptime

honestly, you'd be better off using sid rather than testing, since it's rolling release

as for gimp, they can just use pinning to upgrade gimp exclusively. they can also use backports. no need to upgrade the whole system

When Do Debian Packages Receive Updates? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

never run debian testing for production use

never run debian testing for production use

debian testing is not fit for production use

When Do Debian Packages Receive Updates? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

it usually updates most packages when a new patch version is released (eg 2.3.1 -> 2.3.2). besides that, they will not update packages to new releases that add features

there are some special cases where it might choose to update more often. debian uses firefox esr by default, but it will update to a newer esr version no matter what, for security reasons. the same must be true for thunderbird.

linux-capable tablets for $100-$200 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

thanks for the review

honestly that wouldn't be reliable enough for me to daily drive at work, but i'm definitely getting one to play with once i have a little money to throw away

linux-capable tablets for $100-$200 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

ty they look pretty nice and the shipping price is fine

Welcome to #Fediverse in FOSSCOMM2024 at University Of Macedonia 🇬🇷🇪🇺 in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

most helpful l.w mod

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linux-capable tablets for $100-$200 (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i'm seriously considering permanently abandoning laptops in favor of tablets. i spent a day working on my wife's tablet today and it was fine enough for when you're on the go that the small screen isn't too much of an issue. plus, you get an extended battery life, no noise, more comfort carrying it around, and the best of all, for much less money

the biggest downside is that, since tablets are technically embedded devices, they're much more locked up and you basically have no access to the system with the stock rom

so im looking for a cheap tablet ($100-$200), around 10 inches, that i can easily (or at least reliably) install linux to. any recommendations?

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for those worried about the impact of sanctions on linux, is any of the bsds a better alternative? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(this post obviously assumes the recent removal of russian devs due to sanctions is bad; no need to comment if you disagree)

a lot of people i know are considering jumping ship to some bsd after the recent MAINTAINERS debacle, but i'm skeptical it would make any difference. afaik, they're just as us-centric as linux if not more (it's the berkeley software distribution, after all). also, my biggest gripe about the bsds and the main reason i've never had any interest in them is their permissive licensing. permissive licenses suck

would there be any difference wrt sanctions in the bsds or moving away from linux to *bsd bc of that would be pointless?

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encontro emacs brasil? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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será que não temos pessoas suficientes aqui pra marcar um encontro emacs no brasil? acho que não precisaria nem ser na mesma cidade que todo mundo mora, eu mesmo moro no rio e estaria disposto a ir pra são paulo ou bh, já que são umas 8h de viagem e uns 200 reais ida e volta.

(edit: mods, i'm posting this bc i couldn't find any rules restricting the posts to english only, but i'll remove this post if you're not comfortable with a non-english post)