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[–] 63 points 3 months ago

Sick! We need more Linux stickers.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I.mean, I love Linux but I do need to reboot often.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't need to reboot, I can leave it on however long I want. I just don't want to figure out which services need restarting, so they all get restarted.

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    [–] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Excellent. Where can I get these stickers?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Officially, I'm not sure.

    But Linux is open source, so you can just print out the image above and slap some double sided tape on it...

    Bonus points if you straighten out the mild trapezoid distortion and maybe apply a little contrast on it using GIMP. 🐧

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    The fact that the Linux source code license is open doesn't give permission to another work about Linux.

    An analogy would be a park - you can use it, go running, etc with no issues. But if you setup your easel and make a painting of the park, that painting is an original creative work, and it is protected under copyright laws.

    The same for that sticker. Even with the image of Tux being made "free" (attribution) by its creator, this stylized combination of drawing and text is still copyrighted, so we'd have to ask their permission for the stickers.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    I can't find the original image but here's a decent one someone posted somewhere else lol:

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Cool, but to be fair Linux is made to not make you root.

    In most cases a sysadmin somewhere is root, and you may only pledge to him by email and wait weeks for when he decides you waited long enough for a reply.

    User permissions are quite strict in Linux.

    I'm still pissed there is no way for a user to decide to open a shared folder to other users which enforces base permissions without root doing that.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm still pissed there is no way for a user to decide to open a shared folder to other users which enforces base permissions without root doing that.

    can't you?

    you can assign a preexisting group to a folder as a secondary owner. or you can do it per-user with ACLs

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Tried ACL, it kind of works. However users first respect the creation umask, which is generally 022. Which means they can create files in my directory but I can not delete them.

    You can force everyone working with you to set their umask to 000, which clearly is not a really nice solution. However, even this does not solve the problem, since if they copy anything over which does not have 666 permissions then you can not edit it or delete it.

    Then you're stuck with a bunch of files by someone else who left you their things that you can not delete.

    I still have 1 TB of stuff somewhere from a user which has long been deleted from the system, I have no other way to delete that stuff than contact the system administrator.

    You can assign a group and then set permissions to 660 and do some ACL magic which hopefully works to enforce a umask of 0 on group; however you can not create a group without being root, which does not really solve the problem.

    To be fair, I would appreciate if users were allowed to create their own groups.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Yea, it's a completely different security model, due to coming from Unix (a multi-user system) while Windows started as a single-user system.

    Windows is user-centric security, Linux is file/process-centric.

    Linux is arguably better, but it also requires more management.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't understand people who don't turn off the computers. Like why does it need to be on when you're not using it. Linux boots up almost instantly nowadays. And you can save your session so everything is exactly where you left it if that's what you're worried about

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    I read this in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Your toilet has a door? Mine uses a lid

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is this a dig at the current minor Gnome 50 drama with the Log-Out button..?

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    The TL;DR I remember is that over a decade ago, someone who works on Gnome has decided that a machine with only a single user and a single DE does not need to have a "Log Out" button by default - when people mentioned that logging out of a user is still useful to reload settings, the response was that "just rebooting is fine in that case". Thing is, no one actually noticed those changes until now, because with the X11/Wayland switch, every environment was technically running two DEs and had the logout button. But now with Gnome 50, the switch was completed and the Logout button disappeared for many people (as technically intended, but that feature was implemented so long ago that even a lot of current Gnome devs were confused by it)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ironic. Most Linux desktop distros now don't set up a root password, and they make you reboot after many updates.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Make you reboot? More like "suggest a reboot", and not after "many updates" bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment. Typically, the latter can also be handled on the command line, and the reboot suggestion is for less tech savvy users

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Make you reboot? More like β€œsuggest a reboot”

    They tell the user to reboot, and they don't phrase it like it is optional. It's been a while since I've used Ubuntu, for example, but my memory is that they say that a reboot is required, or something along those lines. There is nothing wrong with my using the phrase "make you reboot" for those cases.

    not after β€œmany updates” bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment.

    When I was using Ubuntu, I'd get a reboot request like once every couple of weeks to a month. Maybe you don't think that's "many updates", but the point of the sticker was obviously to compare to other operating systems, and in that regard, it was similar to Windows, probably more frequent.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Would you prefer a long winded explanation of which services need to be restart and what it means that your kernel version was updated along with a description of kexec and when/how to use it? I think it makes more sense to recommend a reboot and let people who know those lower level details do as they please.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    How legit is this site? Considering the purchase. Lol

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    there was a bot pandemic on reddit several years ago. where when people commented "I want this on a shirt" and similar phrase, bots will reply with random links selling shirts with somehow that exact design appear on the reddit post.

    nowadays it still gives me redflag vibes when someone ask such question about design & t-shirt and replied with a link πŸ’€

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Not a bot, I swear.

    I was looking for the sticker for myself, and only found the redbubble shirts. Strangely, the "designer" only put it on shirts - typically redbubble people will slap their shit on everything - mousepads, mugs, shirts, sweaters, you name it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Meh? Redbubble is very adequate for things like this. The shirts aren't super great quality - but if you really want the shirt badly, they have shipped shirts and mugs to me in the past.

    Just be real careful washing (cold, delicate, and inside out) and for the love of God hang to dry.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you use a TV as a monitor, you will reboot often.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It most likely a known issue. If I walk away for some amount of time, sometimes a few hours, sometimes overnight, I come back to a blank screen and totally unresponsive machine. It's something to do with the power and sleep mode signals confused between the TV and the graphics card.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Power button sends shutdown/startup signal through HDMI.

    I just started unplugging it when I turn it off.

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