I’m suddenly seeing a lot of posts about kernel 7.0…

There is nothing more special about 7.0 vs 6.19 or 6.18

Going from 6.x to 7.x doesnt mean new features or anything special

i’ve always been a “organize everything at the file system level, and just play folders on demand in winamp” type guy… so when i couldn’t find a good winamp replacement after switching to linux, i ended up on quod libet and got used to organizing everything via tagging

quod libet was a bit overwhelming at first and forced me to fix a lot of broken tags, but totally worth it.

everyone around here talking about the CIA and nation states as part of their threat model…

bro… you’re worried about the CIA and mossad, and you think spinning up your own chat servers (simplex, matrix, etc.) as an amateur sysadmin is going to be MORE secure?

One is run by an advertising company that has been proven in court to be a bad actor and a strong motive to log and track anything they can

The other is a non-profit without any real motive to sell you out, or any history of doing so

Thats good enough for me and most others unless you’re an extreme “trust no one” level of paranoia

One thing i noticed windows does better is managing multiple screens.

90% of the time when i undock/dock my laptop, the windows go back to the screens they were previously on

https://github.com/endurain-project/endurain

Pair with a foss gpx tracks app

Just a reminder, going from 6.x to 7.x does not mean there are more new features than usual. The numbering is totally arbitrary and Linus once joked about running out of fingers and toes to count

Debian

But i installed pw a long time ago, so back then, they worked side by side… i guess none of the major upgrades auto removed it, so i just left it. I just assumed that if it has become a full replacement, the debian package manager would just drop it at some point

When will PW become a total replacement for pulse?

it bothers my OCD that i still have both installed and PW seems to be dependent on pulse

Edit: i’m on debian, and even though pw has replaced pulse, there are still a bunch of pulseaudio packages and programs floating around on my system

The bitter sarcasm of a veteran who saw this coming by virtue of having caused it?

a bit of this. Although in my defense, I wasnt working in advertising at the time (my company didnt even have an advertising division)

also, i dont work for one of the big tech companies that have their claws in your digital life. But i can see how it contributes at some level, however minor.

Getting out of the grasp of big tech.

Been self hosting for over 10 years before anyone coined the term enshittification. When i started, i could never imagine things getting THIS BAD with tech companies. I am happier and happier with my decision to self host things every day

I work in advertising

Some of the things in my house were set up so long ago, and running so smoothly, i havent looked at them in years (other than auto updates) now i’m afraid i’ve accidentally left some security hole without realizing it

For example, i set up cerbot 10 years ago and back then there was no DNS challenge, so i had to open my webserver to port 80 to renew… well since everything was running from https/443, i decided to block port 80

so i edited the systemctl unit for certbot to temporarily open port 80 for the renewal, and close it right after…

It was only 5 years later i realized i made a mistake and port 80 had been open for 5 years to the open internet

Probably no harm since its a public server anyway… defense in depth is the key

Yes ( relatively…)

Everyone suggesting forks like librewolf or whatever are missing the most important point… all these forks are downstream… so if you kill firefox, you kill all the downstream forks (unless someone willing to do the heavy lifting and work full time on one of the forks)

If people are willing to kill firefox over some stupid features the can be opt-out, then you are cutting your nose to spite your face (and hand it over to google/chrome)

firefox is literally the only thing stopping/slowing google/chrome total control of internet standards