Yeah, pretty sure rote translations of the same logic into a different language is considered a derivative work. This is why companies making their own version of copyrighted software often take a “clean room” approach to cover their asses where different people study the existing software and write the spec than the people implementing the spec.
“Top 10 most popular Linux distro” type articles I’ve seen usually list Mint near the top.
So the criteria is something running the Linux kernel with no concern for what the user space is and ChromeOS is fine? Kind of reminds me of the movie Uncle Buck when he said he quit smoking and switched to cigars.
I used to run Gitea and switched to Forgejo mainly because I prefer a community project over one run by a for-profit company. I never had any substantive complaints against Gitea during my time with it to be honest, but thought I’d get off of it before investing too much further in case it went in a bad direction.
Self-hosted Forgejo works well for my own use. My employer is moving to GitHub Enterprise where it’s a separate instance per company with certain infra shared. Should be a slight improvement, I guess, though probably not a bad idea to make sure internal tooling is built with the git forge being configurable. 😉
Cool, but I’ll stick with Sunshine and Moonlight.
I use a Reolink NVR instead of my own server, along with SD cards in the cameras themselves as a backup. My switch has VLAN capabilities, but I haven’t configured my cameras to use it, mainly because I have Wi-Fi cameras outdoors (2 solar-powered and 1 doorbell camera connected to doorbell power). It’s a proprietary local setup that “just works”. I understand not trusting proprietary and wanting self-hosted open source all the way because I certainly don’t trust them to not collect my data and don’t allow Reolink devices to have internet access.
I use Reolink cameras and recently got a Reolink NVR. I do block all Reolink devices from the internet in my OpenWRT firewall. I didn’t want to host a NVR on my server that’s already hosting a bunch of other stuff and further increase the blast radius of my server as a single point of failure. Reolink is all proprietary, but at least it’s local and works without internet access.
I wouldn’t trust them enough to run anything important.
I’m also surprised they compare themselves to Steam/Epic when DRM-free is GoGs whole thing
I get the feeling that a lot of the motivation for developing something like this is to play “DRM-free” games that weren’t originally that way. 😉
I’ve had this happen when plugging the laptop into HDMI and not switching back to speakers before unplugging. Plugging back in the HDMI and switching to speakers has fixed it for me in the past. I’ve also had a cold boot fix my audio in the past.
I always come back to Mint. Far from just a “beginner distro”, it’s a practical and solid choice for anyone devoted to something other than tweaking, perfecting, and personalizing an OS. Not that there’s anything wrong with that if it’s your passion and you have the time. Personally, I wouldn’t mind making my perfect Arch or NixOS setup, but my free time is limited and there is always something I’m interested in working on more.
I don’t generally take issue LLMs used as a tool, but I do have a huge problem with lazy slop slingers. I also don’t like that the frontier models are closed source and rent-seeking, especially when they were trained on copyleft code and by all rights should themselves be open source if they were respecting the licenses. I’d think Linus would have something to say about that.
IMO, a decent philosophy is that LLMs can be useful tools, but if anyone can tell you used a LLM, you failed. People should have a healthy fear of being ridiculed for outsourcing their critical thinking. Anyone using a ton of tokens shouldn’t be commended; instead, the quality of their work should be called into question because they’re likely using LLMs as a crutch instead of a tool. Commits by Claude probably mean the person didn’t review the diff to clean up the slop, and also probably didn’t understand the changes well enough to write a clear commit message themselves. I wouldn’t want to see any commits crediting Claude in the Linux kernel.
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I’d also think that if Linus likes LLMs and wants to see quality tech democratized, he’d be advocating for FOSS LLMs under the Linux foundation where all code and training data are open source. What we have now with Anthropic and “OpenAI” is the equivalent of cloud-hosted Windows, and open weight models like Qwen are more like Windows XP in that they can be run locally, but they’re still proprietary and can’t be inspected, modified, or built upon. We need the Linux of LLMs.
I’d been using Linux at work for many years, then self-hosting on Linux. I wasn’t too keen on desktop Linux because popular distros default to Gnome, which I thought was pretty meh, and it wasn’t until I tried Mint that I was compelled to make it a daily driver. I’ve distro hopped a lot and always come back to Mint.
AFAIK, Rockstar usually releases for PC a year or more after consoles. I believe GTA 5 will run on Linux with story mode, but not online mode due to the anti-cheat rootkit . Is there an indication that 6 will be different?
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I run k3s on a single node and it’s not really that much more overhead than Docker Compose if you understand k8s. I mostly have a deployment.yaml, service.yaml, ingress.yaml, and network-policy.yaml for each service that I’ve copy / pasted and updated. Here are some of the benefits over Docker Compose for my setup:
Has a built-in Traefik reverse proxy / ingress controller so I can access my services by domain name instead of by port, like http://jellyfin.lan/, http://forgejo.lan/ (using local dns on my OpenWRT router)
I use the Calico CNI so I can have network policies for each service to allow them to access only what they need. If a service doesn’t need internet access, it doesn’t get it.
I use Bitnami Sealed Secrets to store my secrets in YAML files that can be safely stored in git
ConfigMaps make it easy to manage configuration files
Easier to have separate YAML files for each service while sharing a network between them. Services connect to each other like http://forgejo.forgejo.svc.cluster.local/
Of course, if you’re looking to load balance across multiple machines, k3s makes even more sense.
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k8s is the clear industry standard for container orchestration at this point, so if you want something beyond Compose, a lightweight k8s distribution like k3s is an obvious choice.
Pardon me, what dangerous company’s IPO were you trying to get everyone to “avoid” again?