sovietknuckles [they/them]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: July 26th, 2020
  • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rulesEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can’t pay them to default to their search engine.

    Yahoo was Firefox’s default search engine between 2014 and 2017. It would have lasted longer, but Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo prompted Mozilla to terminate it. They can sign a deal with another search engine if the deal with Google falls through. In China, Baidu is the default search engine, and in Russia, Yandex is.

    Certainly Google will be more careful after this ruling, but nothing will actually go into effect at least for several years, if it ever does, because Google is appealing.

    That’s a large chunk of their funding.

    That’s true. When Mozilla resumed their search deal with Google in 2017, Google provided 91% of their revenue. But the percent of Mozilla’s revenue derived from Google has decreased every year since then, most recently at 81% as of 2022.

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam appEnglish
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    3 months ago

    IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

    In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Debian or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

    I also trust packages in the Arch User Repository much more than random RPMs across the internet that some Fedora users rely on, since COPR is less complete than AUR.

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?English
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    3 months ago

    Am I missing something? How can I make using Arch Linux my personality when once it’s set up it’s just like any other computer?

    IMO there’s nothing about Arch, or any other distro, that makes it worth using, beyond whatever goals you have. If Arch helps you accomplish that goals, great. If not, pick a different distro that does.

    In my case, I want to use the latest version of software and use my own configs without inadvertently breaking stuff, based on some arbitrary set of assumptions that distros like Ubuntu or Fedora have made about how their own distro should be used, and Arch has been the easiest way to do that for me.

    Also, as others have said, AUR and PKGBUILDs

  • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.nettoLinux@lemmy.ml•RPM to APT distros correspondenceEnglish
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    4 months ago

    In the Ubuntu world we would go to an LTS release but on the RPM/Dnf world is there any other distro apart from CentOS Stream?

    CentOS Stream is not a distro, it’s the carcass of the distro that Red Hat killed, CentOS. Stream is a beta testing program for RHEL, no more, no less. CentOS wasn’t even a Red Hat project originally, but Red Hat hired the maintainers of CentOS and gained control over it.

    When Red Hat killed CentOS, going revising CentOS 8’s previous end of life from the end of May 2029 to the end of December 2021, one of the original founders of CentOS, Gregory Kurtzer, started Rocky Linux as a replacement for what CentOS was supposed to be, an open source, binary-compatible version of RHEL. Rocky Linux works well for this purpose. I’ve heard that Alma Linux does, as well, but I have never tried it.

    I know that CentOS stream is more kind of a rolling release but… feels like an LTS distro in practice… or it is just me?

    CentOS Stream should not be used for anything beyond hobby projects. It is, by nature, buggier than Rocky Linux or RHEL, and it was never intended to be stable. And there’s no reason to use it: If you want more stable versions than Fedora, Rocky Linux works just fine.