#linux

[tardigrade-gaming]

real, rb if you're a d&d enthusiast or sex pervert (or both like a True Linux User)

[aldmerisorcery]

Why I'm always thinking of going back to a "dumb" feature phone since they still sell newer models without the "smart" shite on Android or ios. There's always the option of rooting your phone and flashing a custom ROM. What's needed is something to come along for smart phones and do what linux has done for desktop computers. There are linux phones but they're not always compatible with your sim, camera might not always work etc. I wouldn't mind installing Graphene but fuck buying from Google to do it (the irony).

Also, most of the public will complain about this on modern phones and desktops then blame capitalism, corporations etc. Which is valid, but they'll also forget their own complicity in this. This situation where we have giga-corporations with God-like power stuffing spyware and AI slop into everything, this is what you get when hordes of normies aggressively supported those corporations throughout the 2010's. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't buy into corporate convenience culture, stubbornly refuse to change any services you use, even after enshittification, then complain about the consequences.

One of the most frustrating things is listening to normies whinging about the consequences of their decadence, stuck to their phones constantly, using apps to pay for absolutely everything etc then complain when Google et al have complete control over their digital life plus AI everywhere. Yet when you try and suggest an alternative they roll their eyes and treat you like a tin foil hat wearing fruitcake or just lose interest. Switching to Linux? Changing what browser or search engine you use? Paying in cash/ in person? Not relying on social media to form your opinions for you? Actually taking steps to protect your privacy and prevent your data being scraped by AI companies? "Oh no, too much bother. I'm going to whinge like fuck and still stubbornly refuse to stop using services from the likes of Google as much as possible".

God I hate how normalized not being in control of your own devices has become. My phone updates in the middle of the night without asking me shit or getting my consent for anything and its like "Oh hi I'm your new AI, please enjoy this forced overlay that you can't exit out of until you go through my tutorial"

"Great fuck you, I would like to uninstall you" "Oh I'm sorry you can't uninstall me! I'm a core system application and if you uninstall me your phone won't function correctly despite the fact that I did not exist yesterday and your phone worked fine" "....." "You can disable parts of my functionality but I will always be here and I will pop up notifications asking you to re-enable me unless you figure out how to disable those too! Then I will still show up in a different color at the top of your settings application telling you that you need to 'fix" a 'problem' with your phone, that problem being that I am disabled. Does that help?"

Like, you know what I can do on my desktop? "sudo pacman -Rdd linux" , this will just fucking remove the entire linux kernel. Fundamentally breaking my computer until I boot up a live disk and chroot in and reinstall it or whatever, and the computer will go "Are you sure (y/n)" or whatever and i'm like "y" and it will just go "Ok you got it boss"

But its mine, I get to do what I want with it. I control the computer, the computer does not control me. I refuse to cede control to my phone or anything else. The thing is a lot of people will joke that like "Oh I love just letting the machine tell me what to do, I don't know what I'm doing, it knows best" or whatever but the thing you have to realize is that when you say that you are abstracting away that "the phone" or whatever is not some value neutral logic driven robot like from sci-fi, it is a collection of the the capitalistic and fascistic desires of the tech oligarch fuckwits that are burning the world to the ground right now. You aren't submitting to the phone, you are submitting to Musk, Bezos, Nadella, Pichai, Cook and all those other evil bastards.

Fuck them, fuck their little AI toys, and fuck this.

[abbiistabbii]

Come to Linux! We have...

Mascot: official Version

Mascot: Unofficial Transgender Furry Fox Version

More Desktop options than you can imagine

More Distribution options than you can Imagine.

More people willing to fight God for Half a Bagel over their preferred combination of Distribution and Desktop you can imagine.

The most uwu transfemmes and femboys you can imagine, all of them wearing Thigh Highs.

Mad Computer Scientists who could be dangerous if given access to a traffic light.

Everyone's favourite Fennoswedish Dad.

The Homeless guy who insists on using ONLY free software and defending Jeffery Epstein, and he's just done compiling the latest builds.

Pewdiepie for some fucking reason.

Arch Users.

Arch Users who insist on telling newbies to use Arch as their first Distro.

Sane people telling said newbies not to do that and just try Linux Mint first.

Men who look like the comic book guy.

People in developing countries doing absolutely great things with low spec tech.

People who skin their desktops to look like the OS they used when they were a child.

Tiling Window Manager users with anime wallpapers who post of /r/unixporn

Fans of Federated Social Media.

People who insist on using the Terminal for everything.

Ubuntu users who insist it's "still good".

Debian users will defend the release schedule with their dying breath.

People think the Cosmic Desktop is the Second Coming.

KDE Plasma Users.

Gnome Users.

People who think the government is watching them.

People who know the government is watching them.

The Majority of Webservers.

Literal Hackers.

People who really love conferences.

[eightglass]

What laptop manufacturers think people want:

What people actually want:

Seriously!

Like, what happened to 4:3? Websites and word processors work with VERTICAL SCROLLING. That means we want more VERTICAL SPACE.

What happened to buttons on the trackpad? The smooth square is bullshit. Bring back buttons. Also there should be a scroll wheel beside the trackpad.

Why are laptops so thin nowadays? Where's the sturdiness? Where's the space to put things?

What happened to the io? I WANT MORE USB. I should not have to buy an adapter to have enough USB ports.

Disc drives! SD card readers! Why did they leave?? Put them back.

And easily removable batteries!! That should be common again!! If the battery stops carrying enough charge, anyone should be able to replace it easily.

Also, like, why are laptop speakers consistently so ass? Make them good!

Keyboards should have more buttons! Un-merge the function keys and the, like, volume and brightness control keys. More buttons more better.

Why is there usually only a power button? Put a sleep button next to it!!

[fabricdragondesigns]

[lumpyflakycum]

A master and their faithful apprentices

their polyamorous swag

[ctrldoll]

YESSSSSSS!!!!! FINALLY!

I finally customised Linux Mint! I switched from MATE to Cimmamon due to the increased and less complicated customisation! I love it so much!!! (Also, spot the cute black ball of fluff on the side!!! <3) 🩷🩷🩷

[kde-plasma-official]

hey, privacy concerned folks,

DON'T USE BALENA ETCHER TO USB YOUR ISOs

As @tailsos-official stated in their blog post, it displays ads which is weird for a simple disk imaging tool and more important:

It shares your IP address, the file name of the image the model of the USB stick and a bunch of other things with the Balena company and third parties.

On Windows, use Rufus instead. It's pretty neat.

On Mac, use the Raspberry Pi Imager. It does its job. Or if you don't mind the terminal, use dd. It's built-in.

On Linux you can use dd, or whatever comes with your DE. Or whatever else you prefer. We got options.

You can also use Ventoy and just chuck all your ISOs on it. No need to reformat your usb drives again just for a new boot stick. One USB to rule them all.

sources under the cut

[atlaslovesedm]

quick doodle of linux's old mascot

[subzerocatalyst]

this... this is PEAK‼️‼️‼️‼️

The gremlins in my mind want to own a lil mini computer like this as if I we're some strange sci-fi novel character. To you beautiful humans who make stuff like this and know how to use raspberry pies, I love you. My fantasy to be a cyberpunk/lainecore/space girl is fuled by your mastery of this lil goobers

[virtualgirladvance]

i am a tboy and i started using ubuntu (my first linux experience ever) like 3 months ago and i just realized using linux is exactly like being transgender

like some things get difficult cos most people arent using linux but everything that's harder about using linux is completely trumped by how pleasant it is to not use windows

This is poetry to me, thank you anonymous Ubuntu tboy I will think about this forever

[btrfs-unofficial]

it turns out sharing audio devices through LAN with pipewire-pulse is really fucking easy but every single tutorial on how to do it sucks?? i spent hours on something that can be done in 5 minutes

lil guide in case anyone wants to do this:

on all devices:

open udp port 5353

install avahi and enable avahi-daemon

on the device receiving audio:

run:

pactl load-module module-native-protocol-tcp listen=<your local ip address> auth-anonymous=true

pactl load-module module-zeroconf-publish

on the devices sending audio:

run:

pactl load-module module-zeroconf-discover

now the audio output devices from one device will be available on the other devices and you can select them as output with whatever you want. you do need to the pactl commands every time you wanna set it up tho, and the receiving device must be set up first. i just set up some scripts to do it faster

[babaint]

shit man, this operating system is fucked. i think i heard a girl type some shit in and say "i hate stable distros" and every ubuntu user nearby vanished. the camera didnt even go over to her, thats how normal this shit is. my ass is still out here installing mint. i think i heard "power command: :():{:|&:};:" 2 groups over, i gotta get outta here

[subzerocatalyst]

this goes hard as fuck

Maximum Linux - October 1999 Penguin Got Game

[arch-official]

LFS the year later attempt

Im assuming most of yall know that a little over a year ago now I attempted LFS, and failed. After 5 attempts (I think it was 5 idk I'm not checking) I couldn't get anything to boot. After a year of learning I'm going to try this again, with a few changes

During Christmas I got a new computer and I haven't really found anything I want to install on it. I've over done Arch, Debian would be nice and stable but eh idk, I'm not drawn to it. I really considered Nixos, buy that would take a lot of time to get used to and I'm really having issues understanding parts of it 😓

So we're installing LFS and looking at BLFS to set up as my main install let's go