cmeerw

joined 1 year ago
 

Anyone got any experience with running Linux on a Chuwi Freebook N100 yet?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Also the location of known Wifi networks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Embracing the GC

I never actually liked the GC in D as it didn't seem to fit in with the general direction of the language, and Walter Bright in D at 20: Hits and Misses says:

Miss: Emphasis on GC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There is also lowendspirit, but in both cases you have to be very careful what you buy - not everything that is advertised there will work as advertised or will work long-term

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

where they will double your monthly data limit for free when you comment your order number.

where they use you to spam the forum thread (for giving away something rarely anyone has any use for)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So they actually rewrote The Hurd in Rust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

There is no reason to “hate” Ubuntu but there are better choices.

What are those better choices then (for those who currently use the non-LTS Ubuntu releases and don't want to move to rolling releases or LTS-only releases)?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)

Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Only issue is they’re stored in my server as belonging to the server user (I assume everything in those directories should belong to root and I can just use chown?) But I also don’t know if they retain the same permissions when backed up.

Not everything will be owned by root, and some of the binaries will be setuid or setgid, some might even have extended attributes (e.g. ping will usually have a security.capability attribute). /var will also have a lot of different owners.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago (5 children)

"secure alternative"? Others are not secure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

replaced it myself - it's not actually that difficult to do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually replaced the display twice already (got a replacement from Aliexpress for around $16) - first time because the touchscreen failed and second time because I smashed it.

 

Not sure what others are doing to use Ubuntu (23.04) without snaps, but this is what I am doing:

  • for Firefox I found a guide here
  • for chromium I am actually using the Linux Mint packages (which work absolutely fine), and I have just set up a small repository I can add to apt:
deb [arch=amd64 allow-insecure=yes] http://snapless.cmeerw.net victoria upstream
  • this just syncs from Linux Mint and only republishes chromium in the Packages file (with downloads redirected to a Linux Mint mirror). BTW, I am not signing these...

What are others doing?

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