I understand that BSD see closed source as something cool
‘You understand’? Where did you get that idea?
The argument is not, and was never, that closed source is cool. The argument is that strong copyleft, while based on a noble goal, ends up hindering development: Here’s OpenBSD’s take on it. (CTRL+F for GPL).
I know at least two people who have been using Ubuntu as a daily driver for years and have never (as in, ever) touched the terminal.
I used nsupdate for years and it worked just fine. I remember it being down, one time only, for like five minutes. For a project that depends entirely on donations, the service and availability they provide are just awesome.
Too lazy.
Exactly. I always joke, even at work, that if I was a dictator, I would be a pretty eccentric one. Jailing political opponents? What a waste of time and energy. Repressing minorities? Couldn’t care less. Curtailing women’s rights? Nope. Centralising the economy and giving friends and family juicy government-backed contracts? Nah, that’s not me. But I WOULD make EVERYONE work from the command line lest they’re willing to die at the stake.
A command line is WAY faster than using the mouse, provided you can type fast enough. A thing I’d like to add is that, to me, all those shiny pointy-clicky interfaces are little more than a distraction: they literally slow me down and prevent me from doing real work. Of course, this last bit is a very personal opinion and YMMV.
Funny, just a couple of nights ago, I was wondering if this distro still exists. I tried it some 5 years ago and I found it sleek, but its reliance on systemd made me migrate.
NetBSD. This box seems to have a vanilla x86 processor and it has plenty of resources (for NetBSD, that is). You can’t use this as a daily driver, but it should be good enough to learn UNIX and/or self-host some stuff.
Reminds me of the most traumatising conversation I’ve had in a good while, which included the following (abridged) exchange:
Me: You do know that, if payment for your yearly M365 fees fails for some reason, or you simply don’t want or don’t care about it anymore and let your subscription expire, you will get read-only access to your OWN data, which is stored in YOUR computer, and unable to create new files in Office ?
Him: So what? If you have a newspaper subscription and you stop paying, you won’t get the newspaper anymore, that’s just how subscriptions work.
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I am not talking about a 10 year old. This is a 50+ year old dude who does entrepreneur’s consulting for a living.
I wasn’t a big fan of GNU initiatives, and even less of ‘viral licenses’, until I encountered Public Money, Public Code. The more you think about it, the more fucked up it appears to you that governments pay for Windows/365/AWS licenses, using your tax money, because decision makers haven’t got the slightest clue about FLOSS, and if they do, they mostly don’t have the nutsack to implement the sweeping changes that would be necessary to migrate.
I used to have a mid-2012 MBP and its broadcom WiFi card was either not working at all (all BSDs and some Linuces) or working, but at ridiculous speeds and providing a very flaky connection (Red Hat derivatives). I settled for a USB wi-fi adapter. I found the Netgear ones to be more reliable. If you live in Europe, Technoethical (no relationship) has one adapter that uses the pretty generic Atheros driver.
Atril and xpdf don’t have any markup capabilities, but Okular has. You can install Okular regardless of what desktop environment you are using.
This, coupled with the fact that firewalls are protocol-agnostic. You can, for instance, use ‘port https’ in your Packet Filter config instead of ‘port 443’, but that simply means that PF will block/pass traffic to whatever service is bound to that particular port, and NOT https connections in general.
It seems to me like you didn’t do your homework before posting, since what you write is patently untrue. Guix is actually, primarily, a (very much functional/declarative) package manager which you can also install on top of other Linuces, even RHEL. Then there’s the Guix operating system, which is very much useful for many tasks other than developing free software.
Never tried! But I’m assuming it’s a pain indeed. Not even Signal Desktop works out-of-the-box (or maybe at all, haven’t tried either) because of Electron.
I’ve been saying this for years: Just switch to Guix.
Even command line video downloaders such as yt-dlp & co. have an option for proxying the request over SOCKS, and the Tor daemon provides one. IIRC you’d do something like $command --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9050 $url.
Prosody (XMPP server). Setup takes an hour at most even if you have never worked with Lua. Easy to interact with (it has a built-in shell), easy on system resources, and easy-to-understand config. Support for groups, E2EE, attachments including videos and voice recordings, among others.