Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
Wayland might be the future,
but today we’re still living in the present…
I was a fan, and tried Wayland,
but it took less then 24hrs before I switched back to X.
Just too many random bugs remain in Wayland rn…
E.g:
Never give up,
each eye you poke out is one less they can use for data collection.
It’s a slow process and they’ll grow more eyes,
but the less they have on you,
the more private you’ll be.
Don’t meddle with “stable-coins”.
They are pointless since they:
If you want a “stable-coin”,
just use fiat…
Only crypto you should still care about these days is Monero.
Correct me if I’m wrong,
but I have been disliking Ubuntu because they use:
CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies),
basically FIAT 2.0,
but now with even less rights and privacy over your money.
I went with Manjaro due to the way they do their package releases.
Arch is bleeding edge,
a double edged sword if you ask me,
all the latest versions,
and all the bugs that come along with them.
I’m looking for stability in my daily driver though.
Manjaro keeps releases a few weeks back on their stable branch.
And tests the releases first on their unstable and testing branches.
Resulting in near bleeding edge with enhanced stability on the stable branch.
For me the experience has been:
Which imo makes it a good distro,
idiots would not make a good distro…
Sure the people behind it made some doubtful decisions in the past, but that doesn’t change the fact that using it has been a bliss.
Additionally, it’s all open source,
so if they would ever turn anti-consumer,
it can be forked into another distro.
As I mentioned earlier, stop the distro hate.
I’m not throwing acquisitions against other distros, instead I let people enjoy whatever flavor of Linux they desire…
By now I helped a fair amount of Arch and other distro users through Lemmy / AUR / Issues, and I also learned a fair amount of Arch / Manjaro and other distro users.
Linux is not the enemy here,
not a single flavor…
Why?
It has been my main distro for years now,
and I have only enjoyed the experience.
2 points you’ll likely mention which do not make it a bad distro:
Stop the distro hate,
it divides the Linux community…
Instead we should unify against M$/iFruit,
and let people use whatever distro they like.
Well I’m not against No-Log VPNs,
I use them on the daily myself.
However using a VPN of a spy-ware company kinda defeats the purpose.
Why would one trust a VPN of a spy-ware company?
WASM = WebAssembly,
this has nothing to do with Java,
but with JS (JavaScript).
JS works with JIT (Just In Time) compilation, meaning every user that requests a web page, will request the JS and your browser will compile that JS on the fly as you request it.
WASM on the other hand is pre-compiled once, by the developer, when he/she is making the code. So when a user requests a WASM binary, they don’t have to wait for JIT compilation, since it was already pre-compiled by the developer.
They only have to wait for a tiny piece of JS,
which is still JIT compiled,
a tiny piece of JS to load in the WASM binary.
This saves the user from waiting on JIT compilation and thus speeds up requesting web pages.
WASM also increases security,
since binaries are harder to reverse engineer then plain text JS.
Due to those reasons,
I believe WASM will be the future for Web development.
No clue why people are hating on WASM,
but I guess they just don’t grasp all of the above yet.
Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.
Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.
Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.
Ewww, not M$…
Everything they touch goes to sh*t… :c
Any way you see fit does not have to mean downloaded from official services.
I won’t post links here,
but there are other means of getting the content you rightfully own.
It’s not stealing if you already own a copy.
If you buy a copy of something,
then no one should be allowed to steal your copy away from you.
As long as you have the receipt to show that you own a copy of the game,
you should be allowed to play it any way you see fit.
Never said it was easy,
although this guide claims it is:
https://rentry.org/SwitchHackingIsEasy
Also, if you paid for Games/DLC,
then you’re in your right to re-claim those games any way you see fit if Nintendo dares to take them away from you.
Joycons suck, badly.
Apart from the drift and poor battery life,
they feel bad in your hands.
Here’s what I did/do:
The DS4 controllers play much better,
and have been surviving for much longer as well.
I hate that nowadays everything comes with pre-installed spyware and that they charge you for it makes it even worse…
Ffs I just want devices that I own to not spy on me, and I can’t even buy them anymore…
Each of them require flashing a custom privacy respecting OS onto it,
and that’s a real problem…
*Nintendont
The lawsuit company which makes games on the side strikes again.