As much as some people deride it Javascript is one of the most used languages on the planet.

This is basically the same as people thinking windows is less secure because it’s more often targeted.

JavaScript does have a bit of a problem with dependencies but it isn’t much different than other languages with built in package managers like rust. It’s just a bigger juicer target.

Oh yeah youre right, I was squinting real hard to try and read that on on a phone and was only looking at the bottom

Might be a single computer that’s just the primary display.

Nothing in that boot sequence is a deal breaker it’s just missing an Internet connection I think.

I use Selectric Linux btw

End to end encryption is meaningless when they control both ends…

K3S sorta makes sense in an enterprise environment but for the small one box use case it’s overkill and a pain to work with for little extra gain.

It has a tendency to break my USB audio after updating the kernel. I just have to remember the incantation to restart it though and it seems to fix it.

Mozilla exec compensation aside (relative to other tech CEOs it is pretty low) the reason they do this is because they are trying to make money in some way that isn’t the Google search box.

The other thing to consider is that even though a lot of people around here and AI skeptics loads is the general public are not and use it everyday and don’t think twice.

I swear the Firefox users have no perspective whenever this stuff comes up.

It’s always “why don’t they just work on the browser” or " I would pay for just the browser" ( they won’t, and even if they did most won’t and it won’t be enough)

Web browsers don’t make money. It’s why only chrome basically exists and that’s a cost center to support Google’s Internet ad hegemony and they spend billions a year on it.

I am watching ladybird and hoping they manage to coalesce the required amount of support to get something off the ground and keep it there.

I mean that’s just your choice of software installer at this point.

Endeavoros just has a GUI and installs KDE for me.

The end result for us is nearly the same thing.

It’s been yay on endeavours for its entire existence I think.

Install arch the arch way once or twice. After that use endeavouros because I don’t need to spend the time.

I mean I’ve been running an arch derivative for nearly ten years and the last time I got got was an Nvidia driver bug in 2020.

As much as arch talks about it it doesn’t happen that often.

Why the hell would I want snap?

Mint is Debian based but isn’t Debian.

Same with Ubuntu.

The reason people recommend mint is it’s easy to install and has a familiar DE.

I do? I don’t love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.

I would like a less smart tv but I don’t want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.

So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV

For all the fear mongering about rolling release distros I’ve only been burned once like 5 years ago by some Nvidia driver bug.

I still do the same thing though.

If you can’t install something like EndeavourOS or tumble weed then you likely were not going to be able to reload an os anyway.

Installing vanilla arch is a very useful activity to do at least once so you know how the system works but don’t have to use vanilla Arch and can use any of the derivatives so long as it has the latest kernel / drivers for your hardware.

On new hardware it’s generally easier to use a rolling release distro in my experience.

You’re more likely to have a newer kernel and drivers that support things like wifi cards.

There are already anti cheat options on Linux. They just don’t put any dev time into them because it’s a small market currently.

Yeah, it’s a bit of a black mark on valve however I imagine it prints a lot of money and they seem reticent to put an end to it.

Torvald’s behavior has improved a lot recently but the shit he used to send in the past is definitely not conducive to actually getting shit done.