GravelPieceOfSword

@GravelPieceOfSword@lemmy.ca

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

GravelPieceOfSword,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0932fd72-beac-4911-b6ad-eb91a3d54f61.jpeg

This is the caveat for me for now.

To run locally a powerful graphics card with at least 6 GB VRAM is recommended. Otherwise generating images will take very long!

I’ve got decent RAM on an I9, but my graphics card, which is what matters here, isn’t up to par.

GravelPieceOfSword, (edited )

Linux Mint Debian Edition would be a pretty solid, pre-customized distribution.

I’ve had great experiences with Linux on Lenovo over the years: would be my first recommendation.

I currently use a Dell Inspiron, while it’s works great, I had to do some extra work occasionally. I love that I can get fingerprint login with it on Linux though.

GravelPieceOfSword,

I second endless os. Parental controls, locked down system, comes prepackaged with many educational apps.

GravelPieceOfSword,

Linux mint Debian edition or Opensuse tumbleweed.

Slow Internet/less updates, older, more tested software, slightly wider package availability: LMDE.

Faster Internet, more updates, very new (but well tested) software, needs slightly more technical knowledge sometimes: Opensuse tumbleweed.

I personally use Opensuse Slowroll, which is a slower rolling release experimental version of Opensuse tumbleweed.

GravelPieceOfSword,

The article states reasons which aren’t limited to what happened. I understand and agree with your sentiment about the supply chain issue being something that could happen anywhere - those were my initial thoughts too.

The reasons for shifting are related to speed, other mainstream software already having made that switch years ago (pre incident), and unfortunately… More robustness in terms of maintainers.

Open source funding and resilience should be mainstream discussions. Open source verification and security reliability should be mainstream discussions: here’s a recent mastodon thread I found interesting:

ruby.social/

However, people switching from x to z (I did see what you did there) is something that is going to happen considering the other factors listed in the article that I summarized above.

GravelPieceOfSword,

As with all definitions, there is a gray area where people will have different boundaries on exact meanings. To you - a supplier relationship needs an explicit payment, which is a fair definition.

However, the more widely used definition that most people, including me, refer to, is not necessarily focused on the supplier, but on the supply - what we use in our toolchains is a supply - regardless of how it was obtained.

When there is an issue in a trusted supply, even if it was not a commercial relationship (a prerequisite by your definition), it is a supply-chain attack by the more widely used definition.

GravelPieceOfSword,

They do. They did. What do you do when a ‘good guy’ is really a bad guy? Happens outside of software too. Someone inserts themselves into an organization while secretly working against its interests.

Here’s a good summary. However, you should read a few articles - plenty have been going around, including on Lemmy.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/ff7ab46a-d36b-4581-9b39-e28dd7ce1749.jpeg

GravelPieceOfSword,

If it’s just Internet access, would you want to use something more locked down like Fedora kiosk?

GravelPieceOfSword, (edited )

Sorry, good catch.

It had been a while since I had played briefly with kiosk mode in a VM: I misremembered the project (the one I played with was still available)

I had found it interesting, and had set it up… Probably been around a year or so.

The project I used was Gnome kiosk, not Fedora kiosk.

GravelPieceOfSword,

Nobody cares about the $135000, I told you!

GravelPieceOfSword,

KDE on Wayland

KDE Plasma 5 on Wayland, Opensuse Slowroll. Big Sur theme with latte dock. 4 virtual desktops in a 2x2 grid (not visible in screenshot)

Different docks for different kinds of apps… Slightly ugly, but very convenient.

GravelPieceOfSword,

To be honest, I’ve never owned an apple device: only Android phones and windows (with Linux immediately installed) laptops. However, I kind of like the icon aesthetic the most out of all the ones I’ve tried.

The theme also grew on me during my Gnome days, so yup, these days I pretend my device is an apple from a cosmetic sense 😂

GravelPieceOfSword,

Ditto 😀

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • fightinggames
  • All magazines
    •