That’s new. Always good to see them add more ways to customize it.

Does Steam Deck not have rpm-ostree (or an arch equivalent since RPM is fedora-specific)?

Steam Deck has a custom solution involving an A/B partition scheme of immutable btrfs filesystems and overlayfs for layering changes on top of that.

Also, what about distrobox?

If there’s a way to install containerization software with Flatpak, maybe. Docker isn’t available out of the box, though.

I haven’t really tried to do anything package manager-related on my Deck, so I’m going on what I know from Bazzite, but there are several ways to install non-flatpak software on it. In fact, I even installed yay on an Arch distrobox, and I can install things from the AUR (as well as the official repositories).

You can use pacman, but it’s volatile and requires making intentional changes to restore its functionality.

The first option is to disable the read-only flag on the root filesystem, then set pacman back up so it can pull packages. Whenever the root filesystem image is updated, you’ll lose the changes, though.

The second option is to add an overlayfs to persist the changes in a different partition or inside a disk image on the writable storage. There was a tool called “rwfus” that did this, and it worked well enough if you were careful. If you ended up upgrading a package that came installed on the base image, though, it would end up breaking the install when the next update came around.

With all the caveats, when Valve made /nix available as a persistent overlay a couple of years ago, I just bit the bullet and learned how to use Nix to install packages with nix-env -i.

Don’t forget the Mach heritage! Darwin is the mutt of kernels.

Fun fact: if you have a Steam Deck, Nix (the package manager) is pretty much the only vendor-approved way to safely install extra packages that aren’t otherwise available as a flatpak.

Trying to screw with overlayfs to make pacman usable is/was a thing, and it was a very good way to break the OS install despite it having atomic updates.

Somehow I feel like mentioning Nix and NixOS is the new ‘I use arch btw’.

“I use Nix btw”

Rolls off the tongue in the same way. And, honestly, “I use Arch btw” just isn’t the same hipster know-it-all contrarian meme that it used to be. It has a graphical installer now, and a popular retail device (the Steam Deck) comes with a user-friendly derivative of it installed out of the box.

Meanwhile, NixOS has a huge learning curve that’s off-putting to most non-technical users and even Linux hobbiests. I mean, really—having to configure everything through a functional programming language masquerading as a configuration file format? That’s just the kind of thing that would attract masochists and pedants!

I use Nix btw.

Oh, absolutely.

I would understand paying for online news as an alternative to ads, and only if the news organization does actual reporting free from political or billionaire interference.

Off the top of my head, I can think of exactly one news website that seems to meet that criteria at a surface level.

For everything else, fuck 'em— archive.is :)

Who’s going to win?

SELinux+Seccomp+Containers…
Or the sysadmin with sudo and chmod.

Neither! It’s whichever script kiddie gets lucky first.

yq can do both JSON and YAML :)

It’s not as useful, sadly. Nohup disconnects standard input, output, and error. With screen or tmux, you can reattach them later.

Knowing how useless the cops are when it comes to doing anything that involves them having to voluntarily fill out paperwork, I imagine the legal avenue won’t do much until after OP has been assaulted. Violence is bad, but it’s hard to argue against results…

Yeah, don’t do this… If the guy is a Nice Guy™, offering up fake nudes is just going to feed into their delusion as confirmation of their approach and make them feel even more entitled. And if the nudes end up being a dick pic, they usually end up getting violent and threatening instead of backing off.

As another commenter said: control the data flow to make it impossible for the guy to tell if you ever received his message and document everything. DIY cyber vigilantism doesn’t do anything to deter crazy fucks like him.

No idea, but I can tell you where they will be after President Elmo is done with them: defanged, and run by a one-man skeleton crew whose only job is to sweep the floor every Friday night.

that’s more of a Blu-Ray DRM problem

Fixed that for you, and fuck DRM.

I still think he got the word “absolutist” mixed up with “abolitionist”.

It’s a movie with 95% dialogue, and he decided to put loud droning music under every conversation so you can barely hear the people talking.

The audio mixing in his movies is genuinely terrible. If you aren’t watching them with subtitles, you’re probably missing half the plot because of background noise.

I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence as anything other than a anti-consumer cashgrab, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.

As of last year, they were doing it with Windows 10. Either they stopped pushing it for Windows 10, or the article just doesn’t bother listing the older Windows version. If you’re willing to believe a fellow Lemmy user who said it hit them on Windows 10 this year, it’s probably the latter.

They also auto-install their malware software update delivery software automatically on both Windows 10 and 11.

If you are a new user of a ROG, ROG Strix, TUF Gaming or Prime motherboard and using Windows 10 (Creators Update/ 1903 or later) or Windows 11, you will see a pop-up dialog that invites you to install Armoury Crate during the initial boot of your PC. To install, simply click ‘OK’ and the software will be automatically downloaded and installed.

There’s plenty of reasons to hate Windows 11, but this Christmas banner debacle isn’t one of them unless you’re also willing to concede that Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 are also all garbage for including the same mechanism which allows vendors to provide run-on-boot executables that bypass clean reinstalls.

For what it’s worth mentioning, I’m in the camp where any operating system that allows system integrators to automatically inject their own shitty software into a fresh install of the operating system without my consent is bad.

I’m not sure which part of that guys comment suggests anything other other than “fuck epic,” but here’s a short and sweet list:

• Designing a service for their customers instead of relying on paid exclusivity to encourage social pressure or FOMO
• Halfway decent customer support
• Unreal Engine 5’s performance
• Keeping their old of games accessible
• Not scamming kids out of virtual money

The approved competitor to a monopoly is… *checks notes* a wannabe monopoly that’s trying to buy their way into the position by providing less for the customer and instead bribing the publishers for exclusivity?

No, thanks. I would rather stick with the existing monopoly than reward Epic’s anticompetitive and anti-consumer bullshit.