Richard Brown - @[email protected]

Your decision to use Free/Open Source software doesn’t give you any moral superiority over others who make different choices. Conversely, you have no right to feel attacked when circumstances require you to use closed software. The real world is not for idealolgical hardliners

@robertsirc @warhammer I had an epic case of insomnia a few years ago The Super Bowl knocked me right out right after the first quarter

@sysrich @warhammer Curious the last time you watched American football 🙂

The new Kill Team box set has been announced and I am excited for its release. @warhammer

@robertsirc @warhammer “Navy should never win” sounds like a good rule for both Kill Team and American Football

@sysrich @warhammer I believe they should unless you are playing Navy Breachers then you will lose.

@ibuildthecloud I’ve noticed this too.. and I actually liked it enough to sliiightly boost the default font sizes in @AeonDesktop as a result

I'm always amazed at the default size of things on a laptop these days. Things are huge. Both macOS and Windows default to like old people mode.

@ValknutDoc @chaz_6 No community includes everyone “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common” Anyone who doesn’t share that characteristic is by definition not part of a community Folk really have warped perspectives and expectations in this area

@sysrich @chaz_6 So don't call it a community, because certainly the term includes everyone. Not everyone is a maintainer is helped in many ways. It is good to know to stop helping a closed group of users

The whole “Rust in the Linux kernel” drama should be a lesson to all in Open Source The technology doesn’t matter Working with other people does Doesn’t matter if Rust is a gift from God, God doesn’t control what gets in the Kernel, maintainers do Technical arguments are moot

@ValknutDoc @chaz_6 I think it’s often overlooked how the “community of maintainers” may have needs & interests that differ from the “community of users” And given the former is doing the work, often their needs do, and probably should, trump the latter FOSD doesn’t mean users get to rule devs

@chaz_6 @sysrich "Community," in this case they are only personal interests they do not care about the community.

Hi! In case you missed, my #FOSDEM talk about creating a #rootless #container manager from scratch is available! We'll talk about the basic principles to build your own container manager, using #lilipod as an example: fosdem.org/2025/schedule/… #opensource #linux #distrobox

@BrodieOnLinux Perhaps that’s a good argument for not rushing to adopt everything R4L throw around then, is it. Stuff in the kernel has a typical lifespan of decades No maintainer should be comfortable accepting ANYTHING from R4L until there is a reasonable expectation it might last a while

@sysrich There's no issue with different subsystems making calls on what they want to use, but R4L is still so early in being upstreamed that it's not even at the point where they can make a call on what they want to do. It's still being blocked in the very earliest of stages.

I'll be doing a video on the Rust linux stuff, but the short story is Linus needs to put his foot down and decide what's happening with Rust, the way things are going can't be allowed to keep happening.

@DaveAirlie @BrodieOnLinux Exactly - Linus is a federated/feudal project; Maintainers are Lords of their own domain and Rust4Linux need to accept that not all maintainers want, or can, accept their code It’s a long road, and Rusters can’t quit at the first hurdle. There will be more

@BrodieOnLinux Who is this everyone you speak for? I don't think anyone involved in rust4linux or Linux considers resolving these problems a waste of time. Linus is more of a veto/override ruler than an issuing decrees ruler. R4L has said they will work with maintainers and this is that.

@jxmnop patents.google.com/patent/US87760… patents.google.com/patent/US11893… And many many more Hard to recreate CUDA when NVIDIA have so much of it patented

my understanding is that both AMD and qualcomm make chips that have ~equivalent performance to nvidia but neither can write the software tooling that N provides, like CUDA i get that it's complicated, but which part of the stack could possibly be so hard to replicate? are nvidia's low-level engineers really that much better?

@BrodieOnLinux While I appreciate your intent to protect fellow rollers I trust in @openQA to find these issues and block 6.13.1 from hitting @AeonDesktop so I’ll just keep on rolling :)

If you're on Arch or other rolling release distros DO NOT UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM RIGHT NOW There are a lot of reports of 6.13.1 being very cooked, wait a bit before updating gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/pack…

@GergelyOrosz SDD - Spite Driven Development is probably the number 1 unsung hero of trillions of economic development in the past 50 years

Unpopular opinion: Developers are some of the most demanding customers to please with developer tools, and are one of the hardest business to make a profit in. When we feel something is a ripoff... we'll build ourselves/migrate/adopt a new tool. Often out of spite!

And there are chefs who don’t use Hamburger Helper

@mattfarina -vvvvvvvvvvvv :)

When writing a CLI is better to do logging level with numbers or names...

Hi All! New release of #distrobox is on the way! 1.8.1 brings lots of improvements and refinements all over the place, in pkg manager handling, nvidia integration and in performance department! 💪 Also many many new contributors! 🎉 Check it out! github.com/89luca89/distr…

@ibuildthecloud US bans TikTok Europe bans unattached bottle caps I can’t help but think there may be bigger issues that need more urgent attention

I'm curious to hear opinions that think the tiktok ban is bad. Like the wrong thing for the US to do? I don't really use tiktok, so personally I don't care. I also have teenage kids so that means I'd love it if all social media dies.

@mattfarina Sure.. but I’m not trying to take over the world with Aeon As long as it’s good enough for me, I’m happy enough The fact that good enough for me is also better for SUSE IT is also a nice bonus too ;)

@sysrich I get the hard part. This is where what users want is at odds with security. At least easily. And, it's why a bunch of people get Macs and Windows machines. Literally, this one thing has driven numerous people I know to Mac and Windows.

Which Linux distro is best for laptops when considering battery life, lid handling, different types of sleep, etc? Why? I realize this is an entirely loaded and color of the bike shed topic.

@mattfarina Or at least not easy while still being secure And given I use Aeon for work, I gotta keep it secure And I’m pretty proud of how usable AND secure we’ve made Aeon out of the box Losing Hibernation is one of very few compromises we needed to accept

@mattfarina As soon that swap is populated your encryption keys will be happily sitting there decrypted in swap for someone to steal and undermine FDE Not to mention that the swap could be modified offline and then that would also undermine Aeons boot chain validation.. So.. yeah, not easy