Youtube hearted comments of Gilad Barlev (@GSBarlev).

  1. Louis talks too slowly. We all watched the video at 15x speed.
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  2. This is why I'm actually strongly in favor of the Hot Potato License: you may do whatever you wish with this software, so long as you update the contact information if you make any changes.
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  3. For those that, like me, didn't know, NVD is the US National Vulnerabilities Database and is part of our National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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  4. Honestly, one-way covenants are pretty goated—"if you submit a PR or a bug report to us, you can expect us to treat you in this way, and we expect zero reciprocity" is refreshingly mature.
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  5. I love how y'all consistently structure the "cool animal facts" in these videos using a hypothesis-evidence-rebuttal-better-hypothesis dialog, rather than just saying, "bulldog bats are afraid of the moon" or even jumping straight to, "the best hunting is when the fish are attracted to artificial lights." It's such a cool way of getting your audience to engage and showing how scientists think and how our understanding of these bizarre beasts has evolved! 🦇
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  6. You gained a lot of cred from me today by using an LLM correctly. Everyone and their parakeet focused on their generative applications (to pump out schlock) when these models are best used for information extraction (best done with guardrails in place such as asking them to cite the line of the TOS instead of produce its own summary).
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  7. As a federal employee, this was your hardest troll I've ever clicked on.
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  8. That Black Mirror episode (its title trips YT's automod) is one of the all-time best. Mulling over the message of that ep is my "Roman Empire."
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  9. I think I have an explanation for why "RF Burns" asks this question once per year and doesn't respond to questions—it's those rascally students keeping the meme alive as a class prank and rite of passage.
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  10. Can confirm you are the only person talking about XWayland rootfull. It is literally how I discovered this channel.
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  11. He hated it so much he had to violently purge his system.
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  12. Sounds like your "outage" was a net positive, in that it surfaced gaps more than actually causing problems, so hopefully you'll be golden for the next storm. Thanks for taking us along on your learnings!
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  13. Fwiw, Brodie, I do find COSMIC daily-driveable and am finding fewer and fewer reasons I need to hop over to my X11 fallback. I happen to really like the design language and find COSMIC's UX to be extremely intuitive (as someone who never found a good multi-monitor tiling flow with sway or Hyprland). Anyway, I should hope Vaxry isn't madly in love with COSMIC—if he were, what would motivate him to continue to work on Hyprland?—but writing a whole blog post to 💩 on the project is just weird. At the end of the day, it's a free internet, and the Wayland ecosystem is net-net better off with Vaxry doing his own thing in his own corner, so I wish him the best.
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  14. In our defense, we developed a strong passion for bicycles and bicycle storage.
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  15. EVE Online players: "Wanna compare Excel macros?"
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  16. Just finished my systems audit. As expected, half (Debian, elementary and SteamOS) were using an old xz (5.2), and the other half are Arch, which don't build from source tars. Looks like very few real-world systems were actually compromised, thanks to how quickly this was caught. Thanks for covering this, Brodie!
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  17. Fun fact: AMD's XDNA "NPUs" are (most likely) Xilinx FPGAs, which, if we ever get a Linux SDK, will make those chips incredible for retro console gaming.
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  18. "Imagine if Microsoft shipped you a entire extra processor just to run Excel" reminds me that while you can now use Python (alongside VBA) in Excel, that code has to execute on Azure. 🤦‍♂️ Anyway, happy V-Day! V stands for Veronica in my book!
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  19. First Reiser, next the Decade of 2.6. Brodie is taking me—and, I suspect, a large portion of his subscribers—on one heck of a trip down memory lane.
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  20. As I understand it, "fairly good" in Aussie is "incredible" in Amercian English. That is, a step above "not bad" and just a shade below "Vegemite-grade."
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  21. This video inspired me to check my backup script and learn how to monitor my cron logs. Thank you for continuing to be a paragon of good and practical backup hygeine.
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  22. Fun fact: your original video on rootfull XWayland is what brought me to your channel (not many resources on the subject). I was trying to run Pantheon (Gala) on the Steam Deck in Gaming Mode. Never got it working (ended up settling for sway), but it was quite a brainfudge trying to make sense of the stack, and your video helped me more than any other resource.
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  23. Eh. The migration system could be a script that users run exactly once. I'm usually against breaking backwards compatibility, especially without a deprecation window, but when your design is this bad, it's fine (and it's even fine by semver if you save the change for a major release).
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  24. Good to see you mention Decky as an essential. CryoUtilities is the other one. I'm also hoping that you do a video exploring Nix on the Steam Deck. I have Hyprland as a non-Steam game, and Steam Input + Tiling WM = OP
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  25. When I clicked and when you said Intel, I thought this was going to be about Pathfinder, Intel's RISC-V project that only ever existed inside their "Simics" simulator (is that somehow distinct from an emulator?)
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  26. Pat "80386" Gelsinger recently made some noise about how CUDA's proprietary API needed to die. My hope is that Intel starts contributing to ROCm and HIP and picking up AMD's slack when it comes to documentation and compatibility. Throwing some developers at ZLUDA wouldn't hurt, either.
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  27. As much as the headline is HDR, it's still wild to me that they made the Deck's APU more efficient given that the OG Deck is still the performance-per-Watt champion under 10W PPT.
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  28. Except that this vulnerability is older than a quarter of the people watching this video.
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  29. Counterpoint: Wikipedia
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  30. But how well does it work as a fidget spinner? Too soon?
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  31. GJ mentioned. Inb4 this video gets delisted. 😂
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  32. Git is pretty intimidating, sure, but there are some excellent "for dummies" wrappers like gitless and gsb.
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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. Without the hybrid tiling I probably wouldn't bother with COSMIC and would have continued to wait for elementaryOS 8. But whereas I never could get the hang of Hyprland on the desktop (it's OP on the Steam Deck), COSMIC's UX is really easy to pick up.
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  36. I actually applaud Canonical* for aiming for a default installation that targets providing 90% of users with 90% of the software they need. IMO, the default suite should contain, beyond the base "server" installation of systemd, apt, snap—fine, because we're Canonical—etc - That flavor's desktop environment with its preferred settings configurator - Graphical "software store" - File browser - Terminal emulator - bash, Python, curl, wget, git, nano and vi[m] - graphical plaintext editor (gedit/kate) - Web browser - PDF reader and CUPS printer / scanner suite - Image viewer (*not* a photo "manager") - Simple music / video player - Font manager - LibreOffice because since the majority of people still don't export documents and slide decks to PDF, users still need a way to view (if not edit) those files without uploading them to GSuite. But that's probably it. No IDE for sure, no GIMP, no Shotwell, no iTunes clone, no Steam, WINE or Lutris, and no email client, because who the heck uses an email client in 2023?! *wow, I don't say that every day
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  37. Oh shoot! This exact same thing happened to me last week (COSMIC-on-Arch). Seemed like a KP, but I could ssh in. I Syu'd, and the issue didn't happen again. 🤷 As you say, Alpha problems.
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  38. I started getting recommended them when I started following SciShow, and I thought, "Ew, no! This channel is clearly ripping off Hank!" It wasn't until months later that I saw Hank in a thumbnail and realized Bizarre Beasts was a sister channel. How embarrassing for me.😅
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  39. Good information to have re: cable fragility. The Pironman case looks fun, but if I ever find a way to justify grabbing a Pi 5, it's getting the (3D printed) Fractal Design North chassis (I even still have some good wood filament).
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  40. Regarding the whiteboard: having gotten into programming long before I got into gaming or internet culture, I just assumed for years that git gud referred to some Graphical User Daemon for source control. 🤷‍♂️
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  41. I think it ships with a 30W charger, which is, frankly, the lowest wattage you'll see in a PD charger these days. Since it uses PD, it will slowly recharge even connected to a 5V/1A brick. But I would recommend a 45W charger (more is good if it has multiple ports, but the Deck won't draw more than 45W from the wall).
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  42. It's called poisoning the well, duh. 🙃
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  43. First off: I very much appreciate you writing this up on a blog... but just FYI, the link is giving an "Access Denied" at the time I'm typing this. Secondly: do you have a recommended guide (or would you care to make a follow-up video 🥺) for creating a centralized / web dashboard for monitoring perf (and explicitly temps) across multiple machines in a homelab?
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  44. Thanks for the tutorial! I'm embarrassed that I've been Team 🐧 for 17 years without learning this command. Aside: even with the obvious "I barely know 'er" bait, I'd argue that pronouncing it "fuse-er" is definitely preferable to the extremely rude sounding "eff user."
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  45. I've heard the argument that most people who want fractional scaling are best served upping the system font size. And I've definitely had that work well for me on single-display systems. It does fall apart when you have screens that have considerably different DPIs, though.
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  46. With everything going on, I'm glad to see that, when Bush comes to shove, you're able to put food on your family. 🐟
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  47. Yes. By default the apps are fully isolated. You can reuse shared dependencies if you ask nicely, though. I personally use conda, which works like flatpak, storing each dependency in a shared repo and then building the full virtual environment from symlinks. The pro is that you don't have 52 identical copies of the numpy stack on your system. The con is that if you don't periodically run conda clean, you end up with a TON of unused dependencies cluttering your system.
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  48. Anti-glare on the old top-tier Deck was pretty nice for gaming while touching grass, but you might want to see if anyone's done a side-by-side with the new OLED panels. 512GB + a 1TB microSD is more than enough storage for the same price as the 1TB model. That said, if it were me today I'd be buying the 512GB deck and swap out the SSD for a 2TB 2230 NVME.
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  49.  @Level2Jeff  Well in that case, it's a good thing I'm subscribed so I can find out when you figure it out!
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  50. Definitely seen this before on some OS (was it Windows?). It would bring up a list of processes that were locking the drive and give you the option to kill them.
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  51. Ah, okay. Stallman actually has a valid point here, though I don't even think he realizes it. He's saying that Debian, Fedora and Arch play a vital role as gatekeepers who audit the software that's included, even in their nonfree repos. The reason PPAs and the AUR exist is that the distro maintainers (leaders in the free software movement) don't deem that software as an essential part of their experience. Stallman's concern is that the rise of Flatpaks means that people won't be installing the "Debian-approved" build of Blender or Firefox, but the developer-approved bundles, and that this will encourage bad habits. Audacity is a good example. They're FOSS, but they threw in telemetry on a whim, and there was little stopping the Flatpak version from immediately going out to users. To be clear: while I would agree with this stance if distros had all the staffing and funding in the world, they don't, and the amount of time and the effort spent reviewing and repackaging software across a dozen distros is squandering precious resources. I also think Flatpak's sandboxing-by-default and dependency isolation features more than outweigh this lack of review. Especially because, ultimately, these are our systems, we're going to install the software we want, and having to apt-add a PPA has never deterred me in the past.
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  52. She didn't even say "less secure" she said "often less secure," a qualification which, while probably more accurate, is not one I've ever heard across any of the cryptography guides I've read, which all uniformly advise avoiding RSA.
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  53. It's really great. Gorgeous, incredibly intuitive. Best time I've had tiling since Windows 3.1. That said, it's got a ton of "Alpha problems." For example: if I want screen capture (screenshots, OBS, whatever), I have to log in, log out, then log back in. And that's honestly the least of my issues atm. Even so, it's my daily driver, but I'd be lying if I said that the chaos wasn't part of the appeal. 🙃
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  54. They're not placing any conditions or restrictions on what he says. It's paid consideration but not sponsorship, and Brodie disclosed it properly. This is exactly how Jeff Geerling handles all the ARM prototyoes he's sent.
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  55. You do you, 🐧 pal! I love GTK, but I haven't enjoyed the GNOME DE since the early 2010s. Still better than KDE though 🤢
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  56. Maybe don't uninstall the old kernel until you've rebooted with the new one? That way you can still boot using the old kernel via GRUB. With Debian-based systems, it always keeps the old kernel around (and the old kernels in the GRUB menu) unless you run autoremove.
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  57. CoreCtrl? IIRC that was a one-hoop affair on my 6800U and worked OOTB with my 5900X+6700XT setup.
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  58. Excuse me, I use Linux for fun and I actively dislike Windows and macOS¹ Also, nothing makes my day quite like seeing a public terminal with a stack trace on a TTY or GRUB boot screen instead of a BSOD. It's still the minority, but it's definitely not as much of a rarity as it was 20 years ago. ¹OSX was 🔥 though² ²I use Pantheon, btw
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  59. Remind me: do you have a video (or blag post) on how to set up a homelab VPN? That's probably the main thing my home network is lacking at this point.
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  60. Way to bury the lede, Jeff! And bury it on your second third channel! Congratulations. I've got my fingers crossed for a smooth and easy delivery.
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  61. I haven't even gotten fractional scaling looking good on X11, and I gave up even trying—much better has been going into my WM/DE configs and theme settings and just upping the default font size across the board.
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  62. My favorite fox story: back when people got newspapers delivered, a Falls Church, VA paperboy got in serious trouble as a bunch of residents of one neighborhood kept calling to complain that they weren't getting their copy of the Washington Post. The paperboy insisted he was delivering the papers and thought that someone must be stalking his route and stealing them for some reason. Well, I'm sure you can see where this is going, the thief was eventually found out: it was a father fox who was taking the papers back to his den so his pups could practice pouncing.
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  63. Interesting. I just used example configs, taken from project GitHubs, AwesomeHyprland and various galleries, and my setup was more than usable within maybe an hour. I'm not a particularly opinionated tiling user, though, so that could explain the difference if you have specific preferences.
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  64. 5:37 Ooh! I have a suggestion! The GPD Win 4: - Is smaller than a netbook, being explicitly handheld, and is considered pocketable (though your pockets may vary) - Has a physical keyboard behind a Sidekick-style slide-out keyboard - Runs Linux smoothly (according to The Phawx) - Can be had with an LTE module - Runs a full fat AMD Zen3+ / RDNA2 APU - Is easy to take apart and repair - Costs maybe 1.5x the iPad
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