exdor

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[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

To be honest they also kinda suck for not promoting coreboot at all.

They gave some coreboot devs a few laptops, didnt like the result and gave up. Meanwhile people are still working on that in their free time, apparently it isnt even that complicated and kinda just works?

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would generally not recommend running official google apps at all. MicroG works quite well for the things you actually need. I would research on how to flash microG with adb and add the correct elevated privileges.

Or if you need to flash gapps, use this file to only flash the needed apps like playstore and play services and nothing else.

Then afaik you can still disable them on the main profile and only use them in work profile (shelter, island), which would be a big privacy advantage

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

uBlue also has other variants like Aurora or Bluefin

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This was an about:config before, didnt actually need a patch

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes but what the hell is going on in that linux install window

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Somehow remove edge

I am in the EU and the removal doesnt do anything. WinUtil and BulkCrapUninstaller both fail too

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Yes I am also a fan of atomic desktops for mass deployments of tailored systems

I just dont like the main ublue images or Fedoras main ones. I used kinoite-main from ublue for 2 years or so, and added a bunch of changes as overlays. It was kinda bad but also kinda good. Things like no longterm kernel being available at all for example.

NixOS is waay harder to use, also less secure for example from the perspective of a non-wheel user, like they have no polkit rules. You have snapshots, automatic updates etc though. And I just replaced my kernel with a longterm cachyos build which also works!

Fedora atomic desktops are fantastic, I really like ostree (which they get rid of, well...) but as soon as you need to change something, you have problems.

I have 3 machines and all have different configs so not even there could I use the same image really.

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Well, I tried installing MicroG before and that doesnt just work. You need to flash it as privileged module and put an xml file somewhere to give it elevated permissions.

I found this issue, there seems to be a hole in the docs. The same user also opened another ignored issue that does seem to match my impression of very lacking docs and a low focus on security for microG too...

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah that would be the "cloud native" way XD

I have used Gitea actions and container registry before, it is okay.

[–] exdor@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It is the fastest, nothing more

No transparent compression is important too, you will need more storage than when using BTRFS with zstd compression

Also no deduplication, so again more storage

[–] exdor@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago

Hello from the fediverse!

[–] exdor@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Your specific NixOS problem it not unique

They do check some packages but not all, only the critical ones. And there is a tool to check if there a hydra build failures before updating.

But yeah it is problematic that NixOS is primarily source-based, most importantly as hydra builds everything and if a binary is not there, that is like always a build failure. Requesting those infos from hydra all the time also makes no sense, so this should really be solved on the branch/channel level

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