chayleaf

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[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Please educate yourself on formal logic.

Support for Hamas does imply support for Palestine.

However, what the original commenter said is that supporting Palestine doesn't imply supporting Hamas, which is true, but that in turn implies an eclectic worldview in which you support a people against a genocide, but not their only means for resisting said genocide, and ignore facts (for example, by reading the 1988 Hamas charter, which is heavily cited by Western media, instead of the 2017 Hamas charter, which is much harder to find because it's inconvenient for the West)

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

the Russia-Ukraine war of course

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Okay Ubuntu is bad but it doesn't have anything to do with Oracle... Did you confuse them with Canonical?

But yes, this hasn't been an official Canonical project for a long time... afaik

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Most phones have no mainline Linux support, and require something like ubports, which can use an unholy hack to run Linux userspace based on Android drivers and kernel. I think this one can be installed to just about any Android phone (worst case you can use the generic GSI image, which should work but be slow). Personally, I've never once bricked a phone by flashing it, and I've been doing it since ~2015 (don't remember the year, but it was a Lenovo S660).

OnePlus 6 is a 5 year old phone with a SoC that has comparatively high development velocity (SDM845), which is why it's finally getting close to full mainline support for basic features like calls/SMS/camera/sensors (still not fully there, and yes sensors are needed, they make stuff like autorotate and turning touchscreen off when you put your phone to your ear during a call work). If you want to tinker with Linux, I recommend a Pinephone; though Mobian did mention how frustrating its ecosystem is in their blog. Maybe Pinephone Pro or Librem are better, but they're way way way more expensive. If you want a daily driver, I recommend a OnePlus 6/6T as explained in the article, or some other SDM845 phone, and maybe don't DIY if you don't have the basic experience in working with ARM SBCs and Android ROMs like me lol.

postmarketOS is probably the smoothest experience you'll get on a wide range of devices, and I highly recommend it. Most other mobile Linux distros are often more or less piggy backing off their work (though of course other distros create cool stuff too).

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

strictly speaking, NixOS doesn't have repositories.

NixOS has "derivations" (rules are written in the Nix language to generate a script that builds a package, which is called a derivation - yes, everything is built from source to the extent possible/reasonable) and "platforms" (the system that builds the derivation OR the system the derivation is built for). A "platform" is e.g. the CPU architecture, the libc used, the target kernel (there's most support for Linux and Darwin, which is the macOS kernel, but e.g. FreeBSD is supported to some extent too). The derivation code may well be shared across platforms, though often platform-specific workarounds are required.

Of course, different platforms have different support. Some platforms have derivations from nixpkgs (the NixOS git repo) regularly built for them and put into the official binary cache (which stores the derivation outputs, i.e. ready-built packages for a certain set of inputs, which generally match what you would've built from source because Nix strives for reproducibility, you're still free to override a package's inputs and build it from source). linux-aarch64 is one of such platforms. Other platforms may only have a small set of core packages like gcc built for them, or simply require building absolutely everything from source.

The reason nixpkgs is not a repository (though I guess you could call it one) is because it only provides rules to build a package, but not the package itself. Some derivations (e.g. for Gog games) even require you to add some non-redistributable files to the Nix store manually. The derivations may or may not build correctly for each platform they're supposed to work on.

The reason the binary cache is not a repository is because it's just a cache for nixpkgs - it stores every derivation's output (if the build doesn't fail), even if that derivation is one that downloads a package's source code (yes, that's a derivation too), even if the derivation is from many years ago (which has historical value, as you can revert nixpkgs to an old version and still be able to download prebuilt versions of packages).

Together, they form something like a repository, but it's still way too different. For example, unlike on Arch, I can stay on the same nixpkgs version for a long time without updating, which I really prefer because I have to build 3 kernels on each update, since I'm syncing the nixpkgs version of my 4 NixOS devices, only 1 of which doesn't require a custom kernel config. Or I can always revert back to an older version of nixpkgs if a new one breaks something and it will still work. Or I can fork nixpkgs and change some stuff, and the stuff with changed inputs will have to be rebuilt locally, with stuff that didn't change still available from the binary cache.

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

can confirm, I've recently had my btrfs partition on NixOS go permanently read-only because it ran out of metadata space (which you can't extend without write access, even though btrfs does reserve 0.5GB of metadata space) so I've switched to bcachefs

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"80% of the world is against Israel, which is backed by my country, but among them there are countries that are bad and oppose my country for some reason, so I'll support what my country is backing instead"

Israel is much more successful in massacring people than any of the countries you could think of. And please, don't talk shit about other countries when you aren't ready to fight against your country's ruling class. That never ended well. This is literally the reason some Russian "communists" support the war.

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what do you even mean "don't support encryption"? Do you mean FDE? In that case PostmarketOS supports it, and you can get any other distro to use FDE if you tinker hard enough

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's legal in a technical way because when Putin rewrote the constitution it also resetted his term limits

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

in Russian режим can also mean "sleep schedule" (short for режим сна), so maybe she wanted them to have a better sleep schedule

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

do I have good news for you!

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You're right in thinking law is moral, because morals have a historical character, and a class character, much like laws, and are shaped by the ruling class. However, because you ignore class, you can't properly analyze what "law is moral" means. For example, copyright is moral in capitalism, because it "protects artists' rights" and "copying is stealing" and whatnot. Lobbying is moral, because the entire parliamentary system is set up with the goal of letting the rich "invest" into the political "marketplace of ideas".

However, the fact law is moral under capitalism doesn't mean the law is "eternally" moral. Capitalism is harming humanity, so it must go, alongside its morals. You are right that in the future, copyright won't exist. However, for such a change in the political superstructure, according economical changes are required. Until capitalism is gone, there are no reasons for copyright to magically disappear, and a billion reasons for it to keep existing.

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