Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1. ​ @cameronbosch1213 Oh, 💯. I hope their share prices collapse and some nonprofit or coalition can afford to buy out RedHat from under them.
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  2. OBS fed into a local multi-modal llama? If you have the hardware and the storage, I can think of worse experiments.
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  3. Agreed. I'm a Stan of famously duck-typed Python, but I use type hints and mypy for everything I write (including notebooks). It's notable that one of the most well known developers of mypy is Guido himself.
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  4. Isn't the solution just to gamescope all the things? I just figured out why Steam performance is pants on COSMIC for me—something is going horribly wrong, and the games think they're running on an 8k display (it's 1440p)—so I expect that once I get SteamTinkerLauncher set up, that'll be the last nail in the coffin for my X11 fallback.
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  5. Point of fact: a not-insignificant number of Brodie viewers literally did not have brains—or eyes or limbs—20 years ago.
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  6.  @MarquisDeSang  I'm saying that 20 years ago these kids hadn't even been born.
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  7. So Linux should never be used for single-user systems? 😕
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  8. Hardware incompatibility is much less of a thing these days, with every webcam and mic I've seen being recognized OOTB with standard drivers. In terms of specialty hardware, if it's got a large community, somone will have made a package to use it in Linux (I was surprised to learn today this includes the Elgato Stream Deck!). The only things I've had issues with in recent years are fingerprint sensors (as ​ @manitoba-op4jx  said) and extremely niche RGB (OpenRGB works for the rest).
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  9. Yeah, (we) Arch users are all about bragging that we climbed Everest (even though it's essentially a tourist trap these days and K2—aka Gentoo—is the actual challenge), while Nix folk are more like door-to-door proselytizers, trying to spread the Good News about their cult.
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  10. Haha, same.
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  11. Eugh, Lord save me from photo and music "library" apps. I have an organizational system, it's called file folders Sorry for the salt, but when I click an mp3, I just want it to play—I do not want iTunes or its Linux clones to spoil up, import the file and append it to a playlist.
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  12. More importantly its ad-blocking extensions work on mobile. Sometimes I'll open a webpage in some app, and it'll render in Chrome, and it's shocking how much worse the experience is than if I click the "open in Firefox" dooblie.
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  13. If Graphene adds a way to install flatpaks, I'll switch to it today.
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  14. A lot of people used Linux for the first time when they bought a 2010-era netbook that came preloaded with Ubuntu Remix. For them, Linux = sluggish performance and a computer whose hard drive fills up within a week of use. It set back the Linux adoption cause by a literal decade and a half.
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  15. Common Manjaro F? Or was this just because 2018 was the middle of the Gaming on Linux dark ages?
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  16. I'd be curious to know how that could be enforced without giving anti-cheat really scary kernel-level access. That is, what's to stop me from spoofing my OS name?
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  17. Flatpak (runtime) of the various Javas would make sense so they could be shared across the dozen or so Minecraft launchers. As it stands, I think they each just include their own JREs inside the package.
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  18. I'm surprised hyprland doesn't announce itself in neofetch (the screenshot say "wlroots wm" which, tbf, hyprland is...)
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  19.  @flarebear5346  nah. Under the hood, neofetch runs some specific info calls that can absolutely be overwritten—citation: I recently learned how to get neofetch to show "HoloShed Linux" on my gaming-handheld-optimized Arch.
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  20. Not ready now. But probably ready in the next 18 months.
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  21. ​ @happygofishing lol, that's a new one. I really wish Jews had half the power y'all antisemites like to think we do. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for my shift manning the space laser.
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  22. b) "A few seconds" per image of your processor maxing out can chew through a laptop battery pretty quick c) The image-to-text encoders are trained on CC datasets. GPT-2 is trained on CommonCrawl, which contains copyrighted works. Don't get me wrong—I'm mostly in favor of this feature being available. But I'm glad it's off by default, and, subject to accessibility workflows, it should only process images the user explicitly requests.
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  23. FWIW, looks like their Instinct line of dedicated AI accelerators do have drivers for RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE. Completely different use-case, I know. But I also fully expect these "AI cores" to go the way of PhysX co-processors in 3-5 years, at least where consumers are concerned.
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  24. If you're worried about backdoors in black box software blobs... shouldn't you be singing the praises for the level of sandboxing built into Flatpaks by default?
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  25. Can we have a good natured laugh for a second about how it took the suyu team 23 commits to update their README? I get it—GitLab Markdown is hard, and not everyone knows about squash.
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  26. Suggestion: put your /home and /data folders on separate partitions from your root. Then double, triple or quadruple boot—your data can be accessible from each OS, and with flatpaks or, better, AppImages, you can even share your applications to some extent so you can easily wake up one day and decide you're feeling Manjarish, and then halfway through the day decide to hop over to LMDE.
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  27. I feel like a complete idiot—I've been commenting that kitty is "famously chromeless" in response to ghostty's lack of server-side decoration support. Only this morning I sat down to my machine, launched kitty under COSMIC... and 💯 it's got a title bar. 🤦 Common kitty win, common me fail.
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  28. I'm forking your license and creating the Aggressive Tolerance license—this software may only be used by individuals who have nothing but love and respect for all their fellow humans. This explicitly bars racists and white supremacists—I hate those people! 😡 (because Internet, this is a joke. It's inspired by ripping off the introduction to the Tom Lehrer song "National Brotherhood Week")
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  29.  @that_guy1211  ah, that makes sense!
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  30. They squandered a great opportunity to call the Wayland version peuoW
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  31. Have you considered Timeshift? Makes rollbacks a cinch. When I had a catastrophic upgrade, I grabbed my rescue ISO, chrooted into my system to grab the pacman log (to see what I installed last), then once I found the culprit, I restored my last backup and then excluded the bad package from my yay -Syu.
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  32. These videos are only going to become more common over the next year as that Oct 14, 2025 Win10 EOL approaches. People really hate Windows 11 to a degree I haven't seen since Vista (which was when we had the first "year(s) of the Linux Desktop"), and Microsol is doing all they can to make sure that even people who'd be willing to bite the bullet can't upgrade their old machines.
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  33. It was actually invented by the Germans in WWI.
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  34.  @commander3494  Nice!!! Are you doing it through Nix as well or did you just disable the read-only filesystem?
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  35.  @commander3494  Nice!! How did you get it installed? Nix or by making the file system mutable?
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  36. ​ @cameronbosch1213 I'm a happy Kdenlive user. My needs are low—and I'm happy to bust open Tenacity and GIMP rather than insist that my compositor does everything perfectly—so Kdenlive qualities as "feature complete" for me. I ask myself sometimes if I should try Resolve given how people rave about it, but FOSS is actually a really big selling point for me to ensure that if the developers turn evil, I'll be able to continue on a fork (see: Tenacity).
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  37. Yeah, at this point they should have just skipped GTK+-3 and gone straight to 4.
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  38. Brodie, Brodie! I just found someone else discussing XWayland rootful! Vinegar, the Roblox launcher for Linux has an RFC open for using rootful XWayland to help with issues they're facing regarding cursor-grabbing!
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  39.  @terminalvelocity4858  PKGBUILD scripts are still how Arch packages get built.
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  40. AppImage is a godsend—even more so than flatpak. Works everywhere, requires zero coordination with dependencies.
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  41. ​ @thingsiplay which reminds me that I've been meaning to check out PyShell for literally a decade, lol
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  42.  @nobodyimportant7804  Have you tried tldr?
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  43. If by "out of the box" you mean, after careful coordination of alsa/pulse/pipewire with OBS." And the current experience is worlds better than it was back in my creator heyday of 2010-15. I haven't tried multi-window recording on Wayland yet, but saying that Xorg "just works" belies the amount of software development needed for shims, workarounds and general hacks that went into getting the screen capture experience as smooth as it is in 2024.
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  44. Literally looking up what MX Linux is rn.
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  45. I'm really excited because I'm at an inflection point in my life where I'm looking at changing out my entire stack. Hyprland tricked me into trying kitty, and it's probably going to get me to switch from elementary terminal. tofi took almost no work to make it look absolutely gorgeous. I'm also liking ironbar so far. If I can't figure out how to set session-specific themes on Thunar or nemo, I might give up and learn nnn like a real nerd. If people have any suggestions for a Wayland-compatible hotkey daemon / key-remapper that works with X-input, please let me know—I'm looking to upgrade past input-remapper. Vanilla vim with a minimal vimrc is a philosophical choice (and my hedge for the real possibility of needing to work on airgapped systems). And then the biggest change for me is that, outside of active development, I've been able to ditch conda (mamba) for pipx, so thanks, Brodie, for promoting that a few months back.
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  46. 19:12 So elementaryOS now automatically updates all flatapks on your system nightly¹, since these will never require a restart. I know elementary is a polarizing distro for a bunch of reasons, but I have to ask: why isn't every distro doing that? ¹you're actually given the choice on first startup whether or not to enable this, along with whether to delete files older than 30 days from your downloads and trash
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  47. If you've never had the chance to do a force-push before... that is exactly what it feels like. Even better when you're bypassing branch protections because you're the repo administrator.
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  48. So it was 2007 not 1998 but my final project for Electronics 201 was an automated tea brewer controlled via LabView. I got an A-, with the professor noting that due to my failure to ground a wire, my application posed an enormous fire hazard. Good thing I was on the track for theoretical physics...
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  49. You're thinking of su. Principle of least privilege is that a sudoer should not know the root password (because if they did they would have logged in as the root user). Remember also that sudoers can be configured to give really granular access to what an individual user can and cannot do.
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  50. The best "best practices" are ones that end up saving the developer time and effort. - autoformatters (like black for Python) - pre-commit - build automation (yes, like slsa, but more like any of the billion one-line actions in GitHub Marketplace) - cookie-cutter project templates that set up your project with all these tools for you
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