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on Jolla Phone 2 & Sailfish OS: A Real Third Option · c/linuxphones · 2 pts · 38d

Not necessarily for Smartphones and Tablets. There is an exception:

manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives may provide the battery or batteries referred to in point (i)(a) only to professional repairers if manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives ensure that the following requirements are met:

(a) after 500 full charge cycles the battery has, in a fully charged state, a remaining capacity of at least 83 % of the rated capacity;

(b) the battery endurance in cycles achieves a minimum of 1 000 full charge cycles and after 1 000 full charge cycles the battery has, in a fully charged state, a remaining capacity of at least 80 % of the rated capacity;

See: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1670

So If this requirements are met it does not need to be easily replacable by the End-User. Don't know If they can achieve that.

on Jolla Phone 2 & Sailfish OS: A Real Third Option · c/linuxphones · 7 pts · 38d

Thema advertising it as a Linux Phone is misleading imho. They should focus on advertising it as an alternative to Android/iOS with optional Android App support.

But from a Hardware point of view you are right. It is not a flagship device. In regards to repairability at least the battery can be replaced.

on GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything · c/linux · 4 pts · 52d

That sounds very interesting.

I wanted to use the latest "GNOME parental Control" but my distro does not package it because it has some security design flaws.

With this sysext option i could at least try it and see If it works without "altering" my System. Sure I could use e.g. a BTRFS snapshot. But this would also revert all other changes made after. With this sysext option I would be able to just revert the changes regarding parental control. Which is nice!

on Official Linux position on LLM usage in kernel development · c/linux · 13 pts · 52d

Thanks fir directly linking the mailinglist response from Torvalds instead of linking to an article referencing it! Always better to point to the source of truth.

Overall I agree with Torvalds standpoint: If you do Not want to use AI -> that's fine. If you want to use it and you are producing good results -> also fine If you want to use it and produce Bad results (e.g. do not review/Check theory output) -> Not good and your contribution will be rejected

It is a tool. Use it as such.

Of course this does not cover the economics of AI and If these huge Investments will pay for themself in the Future .

on Is they're an easy way to make my Jellyfin accessible outside of my home network for free? · c/selfhosted · 33 pts · 62d

I would also propose going with Tailscale instead If a VPN + DynDNS solution. Imho it is a lot easier to Setup compared to VPN + DynDNS If you are a beginner and just starting out.

If at some point you need more and then is available in the free Tier of Tailscale and you do not want to pay for it (and you have built up some knowledge!) you can switch to something like Headscale or Netbird.

on Have an AMD GPU? You can build your own SteamOS Steam Machine · c/gaming · 1 pts · 71d

Thanks for the information! Please post here when you tried it out and its working!

I would definetely buy the same device to replace my HP Elitedesk 800 G4 Mini for LibreElec to get rid of my extra remote. Should definetely work also 4k UHD/HDR streams.

on What WM or DE are you using now? · c/linux · 2 pts · 90d

I would almost agree to this response. But there is one single Extension that I think is crucial: Appindicator. Without this things like Nextcloud or Synology Drive cannot be used propperly.

I was leaning to also include copyous. But it is not absolutely mandatory.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/linux · 5 pts · 90d

For me the Cons are:

  • No support to enable Full-Disk Encryption after the System install: This is something baked into Windows Bitlocker. You might say "But you can set it up during installation by just checking th checkbox!". Yes, you are right. But why can't I check this checkbox after installation? I know why a lot of people will say "this is not necessary or possible". In the end the only real reason is "nobody bothered implementing this propperly yet". But that's the problem.
  • Secure Boot support is still rough arround the edges: I don't know if LVFS is now able to update the keys for booting shim. But this would help improve the situation. Users should not be bothered with "checking this on their own". Nobody is talking about "Will my Windows machine be able to boot after this?". Everyone is just expecting it to work out just fine. Which it proppably will. I would expect it to be the same on Linux.
  • Proprietary Software for managing/configuring hardware: I am looking at PC-Peripheral Manufacturers like Logitech, Corsair (Keyboards), etc. Why do I need to use your Software to change Key-Bindings? I know there is VIA/QMK. But not everyone supports it and it is very bothersome to check for everything "Will I be able to use their Software for the product I bought?". And especially fingerprint readers and IR cameras.... Why do they need to be soooo complicated....
  • No easy way to synchronize account settings between machines: Say about MacOS what you want..but switching between one machine and another is pretty easy if you are willig to use iCloud. And it is baked into a lot of applications like Safari. There doe snot exist something on Linux that has the same level of integration and is as polished as iCloud.
  • NVidia Drivers: Situation has improved. But if you want to still use and old but working Card (1060 for example) on a new Kernel it will get problematic to find the right package to install to get the correct driver. This took my a whole day on OpenSuse Tumbleweed... A lot easier on the AMD side, but they have problems too.
  • AMD Hardware acceleration: Whose idea was it to not include the VCE drivers in the open source driver? Shame on you! Why do I need to install the proprietary driver (which will replace the opensource driver) to use this? But then this proprietary driver has its own limitations. So I can't use my device to the fullest. This situation does not exist on Windows. Are you kidding me?
  • Propper systemwide logging for all Apps: Nobody system has this solved. But I would like it so much! It would be so easy when helping people to say "Go to the Logging system, hit clear, do the thing that is broken on your system and send me the logs afterwards". This could help so much if you are helping multiple people using different systems with different applications. Why no SysLog integration everywhere?

But on the other hand why I am using Linux:

It still best fits my needs. It does what I want when I want. I don't need to navigate through 3 Menus and multiple selection to store MY FILES on MY SYSTEM. You shall be damned OneDrive! A system update happens when I say so, and no sooner. You can download everything in the background, I am cool with that. But if you dare to restart my system during my workday...then you are part of the problem(s), not the solution!