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

  1. A big project should never have only one owner, though. GH is really good about managing repo rights, where there's a really good slope from "trusted contributor" all the way to "admin."
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  2. The thing is that Valve, moreso than even Canonical, benefit the most from widescale adoption—every copy of Steam running on a system is a built-in revenue stream, even from people like me who mostly plays flatpak games on his Steam Deck—and minimizing their dependence on Microsol's stack is a huge mitigation of an existential risk.
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  3. Yeah, and that choice should just be Mint. Don't think, don't argue—Mint should be Baby's First Linux for everyone coming from Windows.
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  4. I gotta say—making it your life's work to 🦆 with Canonical... while it wouldn't be my choice, I can think of worse windmills to tilt at.
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  5. Except that this vulnerability is older than a quarter of the people watching this video.
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  6. That's why Proton was a gamechanger—it flipped the script! Notoriously for Unity games, I find the Windows versions run better than the native Linux builds these days.
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  7. It's kinda hilarious how he originally had no intention of releasing it, which just made a whole bunch of people harass him and beg him to publish it.
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  8. Yeah, that's frustratingly irresponsible. No matter how much of an Arch fanboi someone is, there should be a consensus that recommendations for Baby's First Linux should be something: - stable - with batteries included - with a large userbase - with a "try-before-you-buy" LiveCD
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  9. Which version, though? The Linux kernel is v2, and as I understand it this sort of shenanigans is exactly why v3 was written.
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  10. I look forward to the upcoming LTC lunar local time, which factors in general relativity to account for the extra 56μs / Earth day.
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  11. A theme I've found—really since Alpha 1—is that each new COSMIC release is less stable, with more serious issues, while being more "feature complete." Glad to know it's not just me. Also: the new problems in Alpha 5 are just strange: - Minecraft (and only Minecraft?) will minimize itself when in full-screen and I move the cursor to my second display (to, say, start OBS). - Steam fully seizes my computer in that "not-a-Kernel Panic" state that Brodie covered a few Alphas ago.
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  12. I'm glad they finally pulled the plug. And I'm glad you're doing a video on it so I don't have to do my own research into which of the many forks, rewrites and alternatives to switch to.
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  13. I'd go a step further: unless you're a security dev, you shouldn't be writing parsers for user inputs, you should be installing a battle-hardened library to do it for you. Many languages even have this sort of stuff built-in, like Python's os.getpass() and urllib.parse(). Because (again, unless you do this for a living) there is an approximately 0⃣% chance that your code is going to do a better job at protecting you from attacks you haven't even thought of than something that hackers of all hats are devoting their careers to trying to exploit.
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  14. Garbage docs (and the fact that they seem to change their recommended CLI twice a year) is the reason I hesitate to recommend nix, even as a package manager, even though it's opened up so much for me on the Steam Deck.
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  15. Luckily, unlike Canonical's snap store, you're welcome to stand up your own repo and play by your own rules.
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  16. You post on an Alphabet-owned platform... Not calling you out for hypocrisy, it's just that Google going down will take a lot with it (which is why I wish [competitors]¹ all the best) ¹recently any time I include the name of any other streaming platform—and I mean ANY—in my YT comments, YT puts my account in timeout for a day for "spam."
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  17.  @helloimatapir  I think we're talking past each other—I'm also saying Mint is great for an out-of-the-box experience and that neckbeards will learn to distrohop on their own
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  18. God, I struggle enough compiling linux-vfio from the AUR on a 24-thread Ryzen¹. I can't imagine doing that for most packages every time I did an update. ¹TBF CPU utilization during the pkg-build is minimum, so it's quite possible that it's not using a parallelized build script 🤷‍♂️
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  19. Counterpoint: Wikipedia
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  20. My hottest "change my mind" take: the Windows 11 desktop environment is a blatant ripoff of Ubuntu 16.10 / Unity 8 + Mir.
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  21. This is full chaotic evil.
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  22. I think I posted this the last time Brodie covered Bottles, but a Hot Potato License is actually a pretty good idea: "The last person to edit this codebase takes full ownership and responsibility for the code. The new owner must remove the trademark and all bug reporting links and point them to their own trackers."
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  23.  @AlucardNoir  Sure, but since when is the truth an impediment to meming in the background (the joke is 9/10/11/12).
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  24. GJ mentioned. Inb4 this video gets delisted. 😂
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  25. This is what made Debian a nonstarter for me for a decade. But nowadays with flatpak, Nix and distrobox, you really can have a host system that is rock stable while running the latest & greatest on top. That said, Hyprland >0.32 installed via Nix on top of SteamOS isn't working on my system, seemingly due to mismatches between the compiled and present versions of MESA, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
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  26. This. When I got a Windows laptop for work, I spent more time in the terminal tweaking things and getting software running than I did outside. And it took me far more time and frustration than to set up my next work computer—a completely blank Framework that I loaded with elementaryOS.
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  27. I'd say this must be a copypasta, but from my experience y'all are allergic to having any reference material written down.
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  28. If nothing else, it's proper semver to save your breaking changes for the major version bump. If they want to throw up a bunch of deprecation warnings now, fine—never too early to give people a head's up.
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  29.  @kazzxtrismus  idk, every time I hear about a new feature being adding to macOS or Windows I'm always shocked like, "Wait what? That's been standard in most Linux distros for decades." The two most jarring ones I can remember are Windows adding tabs to file explorer and macOS adding better support for tiling.
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  30. ​ @ivanv754  Well but back then it was just "ARPA" (the added "D" stands for "Defense").
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  31. You sure this is a kernel issue and that you didn't just import antigravity in your Python REPL? Edit: saw the thing about "dead languages," but that's literally just FORTRAN, which is still actively used in numpy.
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  32. ​ @thingsiplay Hate to break it to you, but Magical Catgirl Adventure Society is probably going to be delayed to 2025. (please let this not be a real title)
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  33. ​ @zaneearldufour Bingo. Jeff Geerling has announced that he will no longer support RedHat in his purely volunteer open source projects because the number of installs you get with a free developer account isn't quite enough to be useful for contributing to Ansible
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  34. I love how, as Brodie states, there are only ten NixOS users, and they're all in this comments section. 😂 On a serious note—I really am thinking about switching as soon as your API stabilizes and your docs are updated.
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  35. I think about this issue constantly in every project I author—what is the risk/reward in adding another dependency? How difficult would it be to swap out or remove that dependency entirely? If it's the most efficient implementation of a mature compression protocol, I'm going to copy a static version of the source into my tree or advocate for it to get added to the stdlib. If it's one of the billion single-purpose libraries designed to wrap a simple API request, I'd rather rewrite it myself and know how it works. The only time I add an unpinned dependency is when the project has an exciting roadmap and a solid team behind it, and even then, you better bet I'm opening bug reports and writing PRs.
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  36. Haha yeah, Ubuntu literally did exactly this in 2012. Which makes a lot of sense, because Windows 11 has always felt like the Unity DE to me.
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  37. Terminal emulator slander would be fun. - kitty: Your GPU can't even run CS:GO smoothly, but you're darn well getting 240fps running fastfetch - xterm: your system has 256GB of RAM and 2TB of swap, and you need every last kibibyte - konsole / GNOME terminal: you just need some place to paste that command you found on reddit - powershell: you didn't understand the prompt
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  38. I can't think of a single decision Ubuntu has been on the right side of in the last decade (and I'm being charitable). They threw a lot of money into making Linux accessible to the mainstream—and they deserve credit for it—and their "our way or the highway" attitude is certainly less bad than the "Infinite bikeshedding" we've seen across Linux generally, but... they're kinda like the Tesla Cybertruck: 1. Generated a lot of hype about workhorse EVs 2. Made some godawful design decisions that everyone who had been around longer would have told them not to do 3. Constantly getting stuck in ditches (and forced to get a tow from Ford—Debian in this analogy) 4. Even with all the failures, still gets waay more attention than it should
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  39. ​​ @NeftisIsHere The more pressing issue with PolyMC (and what distinguishes it from Hyprland and Fabric, IMO) was that the lead dev hijacked the project and was threatening (or joking) to use the project to load malicious code. One of the booted developers had the app's MSA keys (and had them revoked), so the project was dead anyway until the new Poly team got their own.
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  40. Didn't you see? It allows you to set a blocklist—just make sure to be specific about which particular fetish sites it should know not to record, and it will happily comply... at least until the next Windows update.
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  41. Git is pretty intimidating, sure, but there are some excellent "for dummies" wrappers like gitless and gsb.
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  42. NPUs are hugely cool. They're either tensor cores capable of multiplying big matrices very quickly, or they're FPGAs—chips that can literally be reconfigured on the fly to optimize for a specific task or to match a given architecture (that's why you see them a ton in low-volume "emulation" boxes—because they're not actually emulating anything, they're running the original instruction set). It's the software that's the scam, not the hardware.
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  43. Obligatory shout-out for how incredible the Hyprland experience is on the Steam Deck (as a "non-Steam game" installed via Nix). Eager to see what customizations are now at my disposal via built-in plugin management.
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  44.  @The_Wandering_Nerd  The funny thing is that that's a myth—frogs on a pot of slowly boiling water will jump out!
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  45. Ah, Compiz memories...
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  46. ​ @Mwrp86 What you're describing is exactly what Apple did with the Game Porting Toolkit, sherlocking all the open source work CodeWeavers have been doing for Vulkan-to-Metal translation. If Valve was going to do similar, they would have done it by now. Instead, they've been shoveling money at CodeWeavers to continue their FOSS development efforts.
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  47. Every fresh system install, I sit on the gparted selector and ask, "Should I try something new?" and then end up selecting ext4 and moving on with my life. Btrfs snapshots sound interesting... but I actually understand how timeshift works over rsync.
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  48. That's the Arch advantage for you. The Gentoo person would have beat you, but today's the day she's rebuilding the kernel.
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  49. Yeah, local transformers are pretty fun to play with—if you have an AMD GPU, ROCm is entirely open source and enables you to spread your compute across CPU and GPU. I think everyone should try running an LLM or text-to-image model on their local computers, at least once, namely because it'll show people just how dumb these "intelligences" are. Don't get me wrong—I've gotten some absolutely trippy pictures out of SDXL, and Mistral is way more capable than I would expect a mere "7B" model to be... but these things aren't ready to take anyone's jobs any time soon.
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  50. To clarify, I discovered Brodie from his video "You Can Run a Full X11 Session in Wayland???" last year I've been a subscriber for about six months, lol.
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