Corporate affecting the direction of Linux, directly or indirectly is simply a fact.
Go read the bios of the Linux Foundation Execs and Board of Directors. Ai is often the first thing they mention. Take the CEO or the Chair. BOD includes Microsoft, Oracle and lots of direct Ai stakeholders.
$$$ says Linux kernal serves Ai now. Thats the politics of FOSS non-profits.
Linus has been critical of Gplv3. I dont think he would use Gplv2 again if he could start over.
I wouldn’t even disagree with considering it. Look at how corporately independent the BSDs are… and they are just as capable in most fields as Linux.
I’m unsure which license is the best path anymore. That said the outcome would likely be the same eitherway.
Linux Foundation has financial backers. He’s gotta give them lip service to keep them excited and happy. Anthropic is now a Gold Member. Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon are all Platinum Members.
FOSS has always been subject to corporate meddling in their governance. There’s a reason we call it Linux and not GNU-Linux. GNU gets no money so GNU goes nowhere.
Linus gives a headline using agents, Linux gets millions to continue doing real work. That’s the game they are playing, for better or worse.
It isnt even written in the same language. It won’t be a bug for bug copy. Just slop.
I don’t need to buy the Temu knockoff to know it’ll be s shitty knockoff that looks good on the storefront.
I don’t understand why anyone is interested in using these. They simply look like the real thing. There is nothing indicating they work remotely the same under the hood.
If you were to generate a bug for bug copy that would be one thing, this is just a doppelganger.
Were it made with Ai or not, its just not something that has any real value.
I was starting to think it should be called SI, but short for Simulated Intelligence. Its a good description of these tools, which look intelligent but are not truely intelligent.
Then Trump came out with his bullshit.
Is it? Or is that application just not meant for this tool? You can just deliver the application as a debian package, flatpak or appimage?
You made it seem like all snaps take 1 minute to cold start and thats why they are bad. Stuff like Firefox, Slack, Discord, Proton stuff, boot marginally slower. Steam takes a little bit (10s for me) but steam always takes a while to boot anywhere.
Most of these are also persistent. They can’t autoupdate unless they are closed, so that scenario wouldn’t be common.
Snaps are also really desirable for critical things like Docker or Tailscale. I want my images to roll back if the update fails. How long server apps take to boot kinda doesn’t matter.
Like they are not a bad tool because they don’t excel in a specific use case which happens to be yours.
I wouldn’t want to package say the Unreal Engine as a snap, because 1. its huge and would take forever to open and 2. I never want it to update. It would be a bad tool for that job.
15-60 seconds, are you running it on a disk drive?
Its just dishonest to say its that bad. Its at most 1-2 seconds longer than a regular package in most scenarios. And only the first boot.
Snaps nor anything going into the Ubuntu Desktop is targeted for the average home user. It doesn’t make sense to say any of it is “losing” when Ubuntu Server has such a huge market share.
Snaps really shine in server deployments and support things Flatpaks cannot, like CLI applications or drivers. Really far from a mistake.
I think by extension though, this has made Ubuntu Desktop the best it ever has. You get debian package support, snaps and flatpaks, rust utils and first class support from third party software providers. And all of that is easily transferable to any server deployment.
It’s just 5% of his wealth. Most people give anything from 20% to 50% of their annual income to taxes and will pay income taxes on all their retirement savings when they pull it.
“He admitted to the abuse at a sentencing hearing, though he was never convicted of any sexual crimes.”
From his wiki page. Did he really admit to it and not get prosecuted???
Surprised they would hire a Canadian.
I plan to set one up with a little La Crosse weather station my parents gave me. Turns out it seems well supported and gives me accurate indoor and outdoor temperature as well as wind speed and other stuff like storm predictions. Gonna link my heat pump to it and have my NTFY ping me when I should start the fireplace instead.
We get a lot of small microclimates where I live so its more reliable than the forecast.
Thanks for pointing that out. I was actually looking for someone who managed to jailbreak these things and install a custom OS. Figure you cant at this point.
Made my own smart TV with KDE Neon Bigscreen in a Lenovo tiny. Gonna test run it when I replace the wifi.
Couldnt you just make daily snapshots on baremetal? Like most configs will support a ZFS pool.
All my stuff is just configs anyway, so my backup is a Git commit. Lighter than a full snapshot. My server can be restarted with like 50mbs of information.
Docker images are images so disposable. All my files and databases are on my NAS which is a ZFS pool mirrored and with a weekly backup to a secondary NAS also mirrored. Plus I have an offsite cloud backup of everything. There isnt really anything on my server that matters other than some configs, scripts and ymls. Which by commiting to my Gitea, are all on my NAS with the rest of my data.
I still feel like Proxmox just invites you to tinker and fiddle with stuff that should be set and forget. Or overcomplexify your setup with too many moving parts.
For public stuff I just use a VPS. Better internet connection than at home, high availability and DDOS protection. Otherwise, an LXC with good firewall rules and a well configured reverse proxy should be sufficient.
Have you seen his new heterosexual look?
Why? Its a phone that supports Graphene where Google isn’t trying to kill it?
“GrapheneOS has supported Pixels because Google’s Tensor chips provide the necessary security features, but not all Qualcomm chips offer the same capabilities. Only Qualcomm’s most expensive 8-series processors are comparable from a security standpoint, and those only go in expensive flagship smartphones.”
The price has to do with cpu types. As long as those particular chips remain expensive and top shelf, it won’t reach more budget devices. Its not a malicious choice.
In normal democracies donations are capped to like $100 a year.
In Canada we have conspiracies about wealthy and powerful elites using lots of individuals to max out donations… and even that would only get them 5 figure or low 6 figure donations. lol