Voytrekk

I have been waiting for the network fix so I could play Warcraft 3 again. Seems like a lot of other great fixes are in as well

Linux is as safe as you configure it to be. There are plenty of tools to help lock down your system, just many distros do not enable them by default because of the trade offs.

Helium already exists that seems to do mostly the same thing. What are you looking to do differently?

Selinux

Its not the future of Linux, most likely a fad. The most it will be is a cult OS used by people on the far right.

The only thing good I can say about it is that it has interested some people into Linux because of how all of the components are unique compared to Mac and Windows. Cosmic could be the main stream option for those users once it becomes more stable.

It was all just a bunch of rich tech bros that made that $8M investment, with $1M from DHH himself.

Its not the standard investment from another company where they do some due diligence. This was just a “we think this is the future of Linux” vibe investment.

Reasonable. I would most vibe coders are just on GitHub because they don’t understand git in general.

His distros is just arch with some packages and dotfiles on top. Why does he think anyone would base their distro off his?

Docker compose definitely works for most people, so I would feel pressured to swap.

There is one instance where Quadlets would have fixed an issue we ran into at work. We had a Kafka instance whose container died and went away because we ran out of space on the server. Compose doesn’t recreate containers on failure, so I was called in to fix the issue. Quadlets treats containers as disposable, so it would have recreated it as soon as it went away. The root of the issue was a bad logging config that we fixed on the next business day.

I migrated from docker containers on Unraid to using quadlets on RockyLinux. The Podlet utility helped a bit with taking an existing docker container and converting it to a quadlet. Also did thorough testing in a VM before swapping my server.

It does have a larger file size compared to compose, sure. The big advantage of quadlets is that systemd will handle things in the event of a failure. It makes it a great option for production environments where you will not need to update your config files as much. It also allows you to have more control over when each application starts, if they rely on a specific disk mount or service running on the system. I’m sure someone else can provide more benefits who use them in a production environment.

There is a tool named Podlet that can help translate to quadlets. I was able to fully translate my unraid and compose setups to quadlets.

It also can integrate with Systemd via Quadlets. Let’s you control containers as a sytemd service. I personally use them for my home server and have been happy with it.

Every single search provider mentioned includes AI as an option. Fortunately, they all gave an option to just turn it off. It’s annoying, but if they find that users want these AI summaries, they need to add them as an option to compete.

I thought it was tl;dw for watch.

Copium

To address some of the author’s points.

1. MacOS vs OSX: to my understanding, safari reports the OS as OSX still, likely for compatibility reasons. 3rd party browsers such as chrome changed their agent to macOS, which explains the split. macOS users are more likely to use Safari in general.
2. Bots: Does the author really believe these sites aren’t capable of detecting bots? I’m sure some slip through, but if not traffic were included in general, then Linux would be at a 90% share or higher. They just consume way more page traffic than a human ever could.
3. Data corrections: Sure, the data may get corrected a bit to bring Linux numbers back down, but there is a clear trend that Linux numbers are rising. It also happens that Windows is where people are migrating from the most.
4. Official numbers from Microsoft: lol

Proton offers downloading config files as well, at least for paid customers. I do agree that providers that do not provide these are at least somewhat shady in their business practices.

At best, having a separate VPN client can offer some extra features over the standard openvpn/wireguard config files. They can allow quickly changing settings and detect the fastest server.

Venues should not be allowed to have this level of surveillance for public events. The way the owner of MSG has uesd it is proof enough, banning people for unrelated reasons because the owner is a massive piece of shit.

If you want LTS, you would pick something like RockyLinux. They offer support for 10 years per release.

Its unstable as a target platform for development. You never know when it will break API/ABI compatibility. It’s why most containers target Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, and UBI. The versions can be locked and you can be assured that your software won’t randomly break one day after and update.

For some reason people have taken that as being unstable to use as a system, which hasn’t been the case for me either.