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ChrisG

@ ChrisG @lemmy.world

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  • CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major

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  • I'm always interested in Micheal's comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli 'fixing' things seems a poor bargain to me.

  • Using My Fucking Brain

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  • Completely ceding software development to automation. Repeat across all fields of knowledge.

    As data centers recycle and churn through past human input this will be the death of human progress.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Exactly. systemd has a glaring security hole that had to be kludged. As the OP I posted the article to warn non technical users of the danger but systemd defenders league are predictably blind to any possible flaw in their golden calf and cannot resist the temptation to rush to battle. yawn

  • Are you using systemd or an alternative, what do you recommend?

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  • If you want the convenient features of systemd without the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland then dinit is recommended. OpenRC is a mature choice. Server folk seem to recommend S6 but I dont have enough personal use of it to verify.

    • expect every response trying to provide useful info here to be drowned out by systemd brigading

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Read the bug in the systemd repo. meanwhile the systemd cultists will defend it to the death. Look, if you value the positive aspects of systemd but dislike the cancerous assimilation of the entire userland, dinit is a perfectly good option.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Read

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Stop using it.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Any errant application can expose this glaring systemd flaw

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • That has not been my experience. I wonder what magical source of information you possess to accomplish all that in ten minutes lol

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Switch to Devuan and have a peaceful life I guess.

    Cheers!

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • If you think about it for even a minute this is still a glaring cve in systemd, exposed in this case, by misbehaving snapd. systemd still needed to be patched and so did snapd.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Yet another critical vulnerability in the much vaunted systemd has been exposed by a misbehaving app - in this case snapd.

    Both need patching.

  • Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

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  • Yes, thank you for the extra info!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Timing Flaw in systemd Cleanup Enables Root Privilege Escalation

    cybersecurity88.com /news/ubuntu-cve-2026-3888-timing-flaw-in-systemd-cleanup-enables-root-privilege-escalation/

  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • Post age-attestation distro migration | Artix vs Void vs endeavorOS vs ???

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  • I've recently spent a lot of time doing bare metal installs of a large number of non-systemd operating systems.

    GhostBSD - Its BSD, so its stable and avoids the problems of Linux but supports less hardware especially 3D GPU's.

    FreeBSD - as above but more effort to install & configure initially because its server oriented but makes a fine workstation nevertheless.

    Alpine - Highly performant Linux oriented to container hosting but can be made into a workstation with effort. Forget using nvidia except in nouveau driver.

    Void - highly performant. more packages than Alpine. can be made into a workstation with effort. Forget using anything but newest nvidia GPU's and even then strange unsolvable glitches.

    Artix - look this is Arch with a non-systemd init (your choice of 3). Being Arch it inherits the repo's of bleeding edge packages but also inherits the heavy maintenance burden of Arch (if you know, you know). I'm just too bloody busy to baby sit an Arch install with all its nonsense.

    Endeavour et al - wait for other OS's to implement work arounds to systemd's cancerous kowtowing to corporate America imposed surveillance laws.

    Devuan - a drop in replacement for Debian. Inherits Debian's stability and ease of maintenance but with proven mature implementation of OpenRC init system.

    The is the one I use for a calm happy life. To save time you can get a distro called 'Vendefoul Wolf Linux' which is Spanish in origin. Its a spin of Devuan but with a choice of GUI desktops and a GUI Calamares installer (the Devuan text mode TUI installer is fine, but whatever).

    My daily driver is Vendefoul Wolf (Spanish for 'vengenance') LxQT desktop. Light, fast simple, stable. tip: download the 'weekly' iso's not the old 2025 ones.

  • Laptop fan starts to spin super loud and FPS drops from 100 to 60 ~ 70. Is this a proprietary nvidia driver problem?

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  • Simplest first suggestion is open the machine and checking the air vents on the laptop for excessive dust contamination thoroughly, not just 'blow air in' - this may be easy or hard depending on laptop manufacturer.

    Then try downgrading the nvidia driver to conservative 580 series. 595 is pretty bleeding edge.

    Get back to us after that.

  • Artix Linux Installer

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  • The inexorable assimilation of large parts of Linux userland by a huge binary constructed by a corporate sponsored developer. The rush by the lead dev to embrace surveillance law infrastructure. But yeah, no big deal right?

    "The tragedy of systemd"

    https://archive.org/details/lca2019-The_Tragedy_of_systemd

  • Phone + linux distro with working VoLTE?

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  • Motorola have announced a partnership with Graphene OS, a Canadian company. If the models Moto ships are semi affordable I would jump at that.

  • Guards at Alligator Alcatraz are now wearing Grim Reaper patches: report

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  • Behind the orange curtain in Trumpghanistan the regime inch toward a final solution.

    And still no nation wide general strike ...

  • politics @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    The State of the Union is an Oligarchs’ Paradise

    classautonomy.info /the-state-of-the-union-is-an-oligarchs-paradise/
  • Bazzite @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Evaluation question

  • Apple @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world
    iOS

    Can't change notifications email

  • Apple @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    File Manger for iPhone/iPad?

  • iOS @lemmy.world
    ChrisG @lemmy.world

    Recommend a File Manager app for iOs