I’ll take a program that isn’t getting updates anymore or simply wasnt working in my modified environment using slightly more ram and storage over it not working at all.

I have firsthand experience with videogames made for one flavor of Linux not working on my machine due to dependency hell.

This is a good reason for static linking. All the dependencies are built into the binary, meaning it is more portable and future proof.

We don’t need flatpak for this!

Yes. Using kexec.

Though this is irrelevant for majority of users: I’ve never seen it as the default.

That +

WARNING: Use with caution! Kernel crashes, spontaneous reboots, and data loss may occur!

gives me the idea that its likely safer to just do a proper reboot, if your alternative is kernel patching or loading a completely different kernel.

Plus, its likely that not every single bit of firmware running on your devices support live patching. Thus you will be rebooting eventually, unless you are fine with avoiding the updates.

I’m excited for my cursor to not get trapped in a window anymore.

On Wayland at least, u can completely disable pointer constraints. Thus, a game window freezes, it doesn’t lock your cursor in it.

With X11, the only solutions I found were basically recompiling the X11 code. Thus, I deal with one game window making my cursor disappear and frozen inside itself, affecting all other Xwayland windows.

Annoying and ridiculous. Hopefully not long before wine-wayland matures enough to fix this.

Generally no. There are some parts of your system that you will have to reboot for (like the kernel). But apps? Installing a new service?

No.

Most systems you just install the app you want, and run it.

There are some immutable distros the require things that are installed as part of the base system to only be available after a reboot, but they provide ways to install things without making it a part of the base system. Thus no reboot required.

Is what necessary?

I had to update a Chromebook-like machine that was running Windows not to long ago. It was excruciating. The restart progress bar on one update after reboot took ~30 minutes to reach 3%.

Keep in mind that the computer is unusable during this time, and all it takes is one poweroff to brick the machine. Ask me how I know :) . I had to leave it plugged in overnight to finish.

If this comment is referring to Windows reboots after update, I will call it confidently incorrect.

Discord servers are just groups. Lemmy “instances” are actual separate instances of Lemmy communicating.

Or communicate that you aren’t listening. I would want to know, as the speaker, that my words are going in one ear and out the other.

They have also had this issue open for 20 years.

And this amounts to just allowing the user to specify a different directory for Firefox on Linux (~/.mozilla is terrible).

Frankly unacceptable.

We can use dinit, s6, runit, and openrc.

There are more, but these are all top contenders.

I switched to dinit recently, it uses declarative service management (like systemd unit files). Very clean, fast, lightweight, and portable.

Linus already has a backup. Its Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Yes. ~/.mozilla. Its annoying.

You can fix it with a hack by putting a shell script in your path (before the original firefox) that consist of:

#!/bin/sh

HOME='/home/engywuck/.local/share/firefox' /usr/bin/firefox

Call that instead of the original firefox from now on. it will create the “librewolf” folder in ~/.local/share and chuck its junk in there.

Edit: This bug has been open for TWENTY YEARS.

Honestly ridiculous.

Blanket statements of a group are harmful.

Blanket, emotional statements are harmful.

you have to respect everyone’s pronouns, even if you think they are trolling, because its not up for debate and you don’t get to set conditions before you start calling someone by the right […].

The issue is, they are up to debate. You cannot have your pronoun be a 1000 character long word, or a slur, and expect other people to respect it, even though they can, few probably will.

The existence of these obvious scenarios means that you shouldn’t claim to respect everyone’s pronouns, when there are times where you wouldn’t.

Respect of pronouns is not binary. It is a gradient. An instance or community can choose rules somewhere on the gradient, but if you choose to allow all, then you will suffer similar issues to those who who claim to “tolerate all” types of behavior on their instance.

Just don’t choose an absolute stance, and then these issues won’t arise.

The data collected sounds like a nothing-burger. Of course they collect the data you upload, and of course they store data (like messages) that need to continue to be networked to clients.

How they use the data does sound like corporate trash though.