#linux

Okay you are ready to take a stand for freedom! You are going to use an OS that isn’t going to bend the knee and comply with age verification laws. I solute you, comrade! Here are the likely consequences of your choice: The Feds aren’t coming after you. You aren’t going to be out on a watch list. What will likely happen is that if you try to log into your Facebook account you will get a message that says “Your Operating System is not currently supported. Your user experience will be limited to Groups labeled “Everyone”.” That’s basically it. Your personal user experience will be limited to “kid friendly” areas of the Internet. (Same with apps and games.) That’s the real driver of these laws. Facebook and other app producers know that the days where they can just shrug off child predators using their products is coming to and end. Regardless of your opinion on age verification is as a solution, child predators are a real world problem and it’s not just the parents fault. The platforms have some responsibility too. Which is exactly what Facebook and the others specifically don’t want -responsibility for their own platforms. That’s why they are pushing for these laws that off load their responsibility onto the OS makers. Then they can just say “Oh, we don’t have any responsibility for this child being abused in our platform. We asked the OS what the user’s age was and the OS reported 18+. What else could we have done?” So, that’s the consequence if you choose to use an OS that refuses to comply. You’ll just be relegated to the kid friendly version of website, games, and applications. (On the other hand, if your OS chooses to falsely report to a website or an app an age for a child that is abused, then the OS should also be held responsible. But at that point you can go ahead and blame the parents too for letting their child use an OS that isn’t safe for them to use.)

Does this even make sense to you? I acknowledge I am not an experienced Linux user yet, but this seems most weird to me; why would KDE Plasma offer me to update GNOME? For context, I am using Debian 13 Stable, which I installed just with KDE Plasma - so I’m not running more than one DE, nor did I install more than this.

Has anyone tried this? I’m looking to switch to Void and this looks peachy. Has everything I want from a distro: as barebones as possible, so I can customize it myself.

I’m trying to connect my Linux laptop to the network at my workplace so I can share files with colleagues, but it’s not clear how to do it. I can plug in the Ethernet cable and get a connection to public internet but cannot see any storage drives on the local network. What should I do? Debian 13, GNOME 43.

i have only one internal ssd and no external drives are connected

Inkscape downgraded to system version and refuses to launch the flatapak. I’ve tried anything , fixed updates , upgraded the shit out of it (my desktop is fire :p) . I downloaded 3 different app managers , extensions , even installed it from the terminal and tried to run it. I give up thinking to format and reinstall FEDORA . It all started 2 days ago by disabling system fonts and reinstalling them after messing up my whole system . Also playing with the bleach app :p At my last attempt a notification said that this version won’t run in my laptop because my screen is too big -_-

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/44781501 GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Hi, there! Newbie question here: basically, the title. Perhaps what I’m asking is pretty obvious, but I’d like to double-check with the community on this. I use Discover on my Debian KDE Plasma set-up, with Flatpaks enabled (but not Snaps). Sometimes, I come across apps (I did just yesterday, searching for translation apps to replace DeepL), that have according to its page, an unknown author and, sometimes, even an unkown licence, but which do require access permission to the whole system (this latter requirement applying specifically to Deb packages, from what I’ve seen). Under these circumstances, is it safe to assume that such apps will still be safe because of the fact that they appear listed on Discover (in other words, is Discover a guarantee of safety for the apps it shows, as in, some type of checked or proved content), or should I still be wary of potentially malicious software included on it? Thank you very much in advance :)

for those who dont know. in the piracy communties there are new cracks for denuvo that use hypervisor. they often crack it day one now. so i suspect denuvo will become a hypervisor itself to stop piracy,as a result it will need windows driver that proton wont be able to translate. thus making any denuvo game with these new protections not run on linux. what do you think?

Example sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop installs all KDE apps

They’re basically minimum-viable products that by design can be used to violate the law in California when the Act goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

Not that it matters much, ultimately it’s about becoming familiar with where stuff is put, even if it’s in a weird grab bag of /usr, /var, /etc/etc/etc. Still, I can’t help but check out Gobolinux from time to time.

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/44815211 Two-way file sync, no remote agent needed Today Synchi is finally public! It’s designed for syncing files between two locations (local or over SSH). It detects conflicts, and lets you decide what to do. Why not rsync/Unison/Syncthing? rsync has no memory between runs and is one-way Unison needs to be installed on both sides Syncthing requires always-on daemons Synchi runs on demand, works over SSH, and only transfers what actually changed. GitHub: https://github.com/jakobkreft/synchi Docs: https://jakobkreft.github.io/synchi/ I use it daily for syncing a shared folder between my machines and an android phone. Works great in combination with Tailscale/WireGuard so that you can sync files remotely.

Per the very first reply on their thread discussing it in their forums, which I linked directly to for the post title: We’ll NEVER require any verification or identification from the user. However, what’s gonna happen should the attempts to age-gate the XDG portal screw over alt-init distros like Artix too? My guess is maybe they start blocking regions which force age gating like Arch Linux 32 is doing.

Windows File Explorer is the best in terms of features, most Linux File managers lack basic functionality. If someone dares to point that on redit they get “Then go use windows” (Linux is not a religion). or it’s opensource go do it yourself. Is there a File Manager project that would like to implement features, there are many projects that allow feature request but don’t act on it. I got many ideas.

Not strictly Linux… But after reading about SystemD I realised that TempleOS would fall under the laws but there’s no way in hell that’s getting updated. There’s gotta be some amazing way to troll the lawmakers with this.