I play Shareware

On desktop, yeah. Unity > GNOME, upstart > systems, snap. I don’t fuck with snap, I just use it as intended, I don’t try to remove it. I think I started actively using it in 2016. As a software developer I understand that only the happy path is reasonably tested so I try not to go too far out of it. 😂

I typically wait for the LTS point release before upgrading. I check the release notes. I check if anything is broken after the upgrade, fix as needed. I’m sure I’ve done some stuff when the migration to GNOME happened. But that’s to be expected when a major component change occurs. If you had some non-default config or workflow, it might require rework. E.g. some custom PulseAudio config broke on my laptop with the migration to Pipewire in 24.04. But on that legendary desktop install, the only unexpected breakage was during an upgrade when the power went out. Luckily upgrades are just apt operations so I was able to recover and finish the upgrade manually.

I think a friend is running a 2012 or 2010 install. 🥲

And I’ve also swapped multiple hardware platforms on this install. 😂 Went AMD > Intel > AMD > more AMD. Swapped SSDs, went single to mirror, increased in size.

I mean… once you kick the Windows-brain reinstall habit and you learn enough, the automatic instinct upon something unexpected becomes to investigate and fix it. Reinstall is just so much more laborious on a customized machine.

Interesting. We use it for work since 2016 (high hundreds of workstations) and I’ve used it since 2005 on variety of machines and use cases without significant issues. We’ve also used it to operate a couple of datacenters (OpenStack private clouds) with good results. That said I’ve been using LTS exclusively since 2014 and don’t use PPAs since 2018-20 and it’s been solid. My main machine hasn’t been reinstalled since the initial install in 2014.

Good move doing a public victory lap among friends while ignoring the orange thumb.

Just a thought, perhaps instead of considering the mental and educational state of the people without power to significantly affect this state, we should focus on the people who have power.

For example, why don’t LLM providers explicitly and loudly state, or require acknowledgement, that their products are just imitating human thought and make significant mistakes regularly, and therefore should be used with plenty of caution?

It’s a rhetorical question, we know why, and I think we should focus on that, not on its effects. It’s also much cheaper and easier to do than refill years of quality education in individuals heads.

Right but think about it. Any ports open on the host are opened by processes running on the host. If a process on the host wants to open 443, the host OS would ask for root. Now think about the VM from the point of view of the host. It’s just another running process. If it tries to open 443 - it’s gotta have root or it will fail. It doesn’t matter what permissions the process inside the VM has. In fact the host doesn’t even know about that process. To the host, the VM process wants to open protected port.

When the dirty commies do the reforms we all know we need in our countries…

We’re so fucked. ⚰️

It doesn’t matter whether this is used against dissidents or not. Their speech is censured either way. It shouldn’t affect the much larger positive effect this will have on the majority of people.

Debian stable. It’s been here for 30 years, it’s the largest community OS, it’ll likely be here in 30 years (or until we destroy ourselves). Any derivative is subject to higher probability of additional issues, stoppage of development in the long run, etc.

If you’re extra lazy, Ubuntu LTS with Ubuntu Pro (free) enabled. You could use that for 10 years (or until Canonical cancels it) before you need to upgrade. Ubuntu is the least risky alternative for boring operation since it’s used in the enterprise and Canonical is profitable. The risk there is Canonical doing an IPO and Ubuntu going the way of tightening access like Red Hat did.

I didn’t try because I assume I can’t. 😂 Cause that would require root on Android, or special capability.

E: Yeah it doesn’t seem to work.

Just tried, and yes you can.

Docker works as expected:

Sure but according to the AnLinux project docs you can’t really run everything Debian can. For example it says it can’t run some DEs. For me this isn’t about whether Termux can do things a Debian VM can. I know it can. It’s about can Termux do everything a Debian VM can and as far as I know, it cannot.

And then there’s the work the Termux team has to do to get programs to work on Android. With a Debian VM, there’s no additional work needed. Whatever the Debian team packages would just work.

Sure but this can do things that Termux can’t. E.g. running a desktop, Docker or whatever else a full Debian OS can run. Plus you can do tabs in Byobu or whatever.

It’s part of AOSP so whoever ships Android probably could expose it to the user.

No benchmarks. It works, not very fast in the guy but usable.

RDPing from Android into the VM after installing a desktop environment:

Which feature?

It’s a real VM, not a container. Chances are you can run containers on top of the VM. Haven’t tried.

For things that don’t work on Termux. The only advantage of Termux is that it starts way faster and it consumes significantly less resources. Other than that, the VM would be superior. So if I had to connect via SSH to a machine, I’d probably use Termux.