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  • I think affiliate links should be banned or restricted from this instance

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  • Yeah I am not against people making money. In this case if just felt distasteful and not properly disclosed.

    Most people will probably know that that affiliate link benefits the mod of that community, but many won't. People might just think "Oh wow that's cool, thanks for sending me in the right direction you charitable mod".

    The problem is the lack of disclosure and the overall disingenuous feeling, not that someone is making cash.

  • I think affiliate links should be banned or restricted from this instance

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  • Yeah I am okay leaving it to mods. But I think in this particular case if the mods themselves are posting affiliate links with no indication they are getting money for each use, that seems like misaligned incentives.

    There were some subreddits that would have stickied posts or something that allowed affiliate links, but that aggregates it all into one place and also lays it out clearly for whoever visits.

    My main concern is not that someone is making money, we all gotta eat, its just when people aren't aware they are potentially being manipulated for someones benefit.

  • Advice for a middle-age, moderately pc knowledgeable person to finally switch to or become proficient with Linux?

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  • Check out LibreOffice instead, it’s more modern and actively maintained.

  • Advice for a middle-age, moderately pc knowledgeable person to finally switch to or become proficient with Linux?

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  • I would go from the bottom up instead of top down.

    Make a list of software and tools you use, and search for functional Linux native equivalents. Then find the distro that supports up to date versions of that software (through flatpak or the package manager).

    You can honestly do 100% of this without even touching the command line if you choose something user friendly like Mint, Pop OS, Ubuntu, or Fedora. Don’t fall into the rabbit hole of finding the perfect distro. Go from what you need to what supports it.

    keep the windows partition around for a while until you are 100% confident you can fully make the switch.

  • Advice for a middle-age, moderately pc knowledgeable person to finally switch to or become proficient with Linux?

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  • Also it’s good to get into the habit of using man or - -help instead of or in combination with searching on the internet. Makes you less reliant on searches and also ensures that your are using commands that correspond to the version of the software you are using

    IE: man rm | grep recursive

  • I think affiliate links should be banned or restricted from this instance

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  • Sneaky as in the wording doesn’t convey that they are getting a benefit (which they are). And it’s also written to intentionally confuse using wording like “use our affiliate link”. Who is “our”? It’s just one person who is trying to make some cash?

    It’s just so out of place on the platform and shouldn’t be allowed IMO. Especially added by a mod in the sidebar of a community. Better approach would be a stickied post with affiliate links posted by users or something similar.

    “If you’re interested in joining Wealthsimple, you can take advantage of our referral link. By using it, you’ll receive up to $3,000 in cash to trade stocks or crypto when you fund a DIY trading or Managed Investing account. Use code XXXXX or the link below to sign up.”

  • What are your most used selfhosted services?

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  • Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.

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    [Discussion] What are your definitive (or alternative) accessories, controllers, etc for the Steam Deck?

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  • Yeah my dock is a glorified charging station. Might just sell it to be honest. I thought of using it for the TV for some party games, but even still the experience is just a bit too buggy TBH.

    I think docked mode is more useful if someone wants to use their deck for occasional productivity/browsing on a monitor.

  • Give it to me straight. How worried are you for Fedora's future after Red Hats recent anti user decisions?

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  • Yeah I am a bit salty about all of the whole "Opt-out" telemetry thing. I know its just a proposal but just feels a bit slimy.

    Fedora is upstream of RHEL which is supposed to result in a mutually beneficial arrangement where Fedora users are essentially testers / bug reporters of code that will eventually make its way into RHEL. Its just part of the collaborative, fast, and "open" nature of FOSS. Adding sneaky/opt-out telemetry just feels like a slap in the face.

    super small ex. I am a big Podman user these days, and have submitted a few bug reports so the Podman github repos which has been fixed by RedHat staff. This makes it faster for them to test and release stable code to their paying customers. Just a small example but it adds up across all users to make RHEL a better product for them to sell. Just look into the Fedora discussion forum, there is so much bug reporting and fixing going on that will make its way to RHEL eventually.

    Making and arguing for "Opt-out only" telemetry is just so tone deaf to the Linux community as a whole, but I think they got the memo after the shit storm that ensued over the past few days.

    But HEY one of the biggest benefits of Linux is that I can pretty painlessly distro hop. I've done it before and can do it again. All my actual data is on my home server so no sweat off my back. openSUSE is looking pretty good, maybe I will give it a try.

  • Give it to me straight. How worried are you for Fedora's future after Red Hats recent anti user decisions?

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  • I'm conflicted on this. I 100% think CLI applications should remain as packages but Flatpak IMO is superior for GUI. It just has a lot of "step in the right direction" sorts of things that address some of Linux's faults.

    The big two positives for me are:

    1. Makes it easier for developers to publish their own software and reach many distros at once. This has really helped with software availability and updates.
    2. Sandboxing (although not perfect and Flatseal is kind of essential here, I hope this gets rolled into software centers or something).

    I am on Fedora Silverblue and the concept of a base OS + Flatpaks just feels right for workstations. OCI containers (podman/docker/distrobox) as a bonus for development environments without borking your host.

    But with this recent Fedora news (I know nothing has changed YET but I am just sussed out tbh), I am considering switching to OpenSUSE Aeon/Kalpa.

  • Some apps are just blank and unusable

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  • Ahhh I see. Might be an issue with the Nvidia drivers and Wayland.

    I would try the following in order and see if any of them fixes it:

    1. Update your system "rpm-ostree update" and reboot

    2. Make sure you are on a Wayland session. This also provides instructions to see what apps are in X11 mode (which I suspect Firefox and Software Center are in your case).

    • 2.1 If you are already on Wayland (its the default in Fedora 37): Install Flatseal and force Wayland for Firefox (toggle off X11 and 'Fallback to X11')

    • 2.2 If you are on X11, logout and switch to Wayland in the login screen and follow 2.1 to force Firefox to Wayland.

    1. If that doesn't work I would follow these specific steps to install Nvidia on silverblue. RPM Fusion also has some specific guides for Silverblue that you should check to see if you missed a step.

    2. I would also consider upgrading to Fedora 38, and bump up your RPM fusion major version to track Fedora 38.

  • What hostname do you use for server? home.box or home.local?

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  • I bought a .com for like $10 CAD from Cloudflare that uses a URL not linked to me.

    Maybe overly paranoid, but it also makes it easy to get SSL certificates for my lab.

  • Some apps are just blank and unusable

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  • Bad bot, that’s not a Lemmy link just happens to contain “/c/“

  • Some apps are just blank and unusable

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  • Can you run an rpm-ostree status and paste the results here?

    Might also be good to post in ask fedora if you haven’t already.

    The people who maintain silverblue are often there to help out.

  • My Steam library tells a story

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  • Yeah and I have thousands of hours in League of Legends, but have probably enjoyed only about 10 minutes

  • This feels a bit like older internet!

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  • Agreed! Been here for a week and am way more active with likes, comments, etc. here.

    Feel way less "gross" spending some time on here vs. Reddit, Twitter, etc.

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

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  • In a way, but chroot only isolates file systems (process only has access to an isolated "root" which isn't the actual host's root). Rootless Podman/Docker goes a few steps beyond and utilizes cgroups, and user namespaces to isolate not only file systems, but also processes and networking.

    Here is a high level overview.

    And another one from Dan Walsh.

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

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  • From a user perspective, Distrobox is a tool that lets you "spin up any distro inside your terminal".

    You can basically create a mini Linux environment of any distro that you can access through the terminal. You can set it to share your home folder, our create a new home folder just for that mini environment.

    Behind the scenes Distrobox is creating and managing containers through Podman or Docker. You could technically achieve the same thing by manually setting up Podman containers, Distrobox just makes it very easy to create and maintain those containers with the correct permissions. It also has useful tools where you could install an app in a Distrobox container, but then add that app to your host OS app list.

    This makes it especially useful for immutable OSs. Instead of adding packages to your base OS, which should be kept as minimal as possible, you can just install them in a Distrobox, so your host's root filesystem is unaffected.

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

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  • Silverblue + ZFS would be a match made in heaven, unfortunately Fedora makes it really hard to do ZFS reliably, too many kernel updates that break ZFS. This would be an even bigger nightmare on Silverblue given the distribution model.

    If only ZFS was part of the Linux kernel 😑. maybe one day